This is what pay for play looks like.

[Independent thinker]

Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages​

In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare more than $10 billion last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/health/medicare-skin-substitutes-prices.html

Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations​

Oliver Burckhardt came prepared for the dinner that President Trump hosted for a small group of major donors at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida on March 1.

A week earlier, one of Mr. Burckhardt’s biotech companies had donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump political committee, that paved the way for him to attend the event.

At the dinner, Mr. Burckhardt got a chance to speak briefly to the president and other guests about himself and the work of his company, Extremity Care, which makes pricey medical products including paper-thin bandages made of dried bits of placenta, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private event. He also brought copies of a flier urging the Trump administration to reverse a plan to restrict Medicare reimbursement for the bandages and criticizing former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for having “rammed through a policy that would create more suffering and death for diabetic patients on Medicare.”

The next morning, Mr. Trump posted the flier on his social media site.

It was not just symbolic.

About one month later, the Trump administration announced it would delay until next year the Biden administration plan to limit Medicare’s coverage of the bandages, known as skin substitutes, saying that it was reviewing its policies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-medicare-bandages-donors.html

What's he going to use that PAC money for? After all, we the taxpayers are already paying hundreds of millions of dollars for his new plane to be refurbished.

PAC Donors are Paying Trump's Personal Bills​

PAC Donors are Paying Trump's Personal Bills

Abuse of leadership PACs as personal slush funds is common and well documented. But former President Donald Trump’s misuse of Save America funds is particularly striking due to the sheer volume of money in play.

campaignlegal.org

It looks an awful lot like the Clinton Foundation whose well dried up after Hillary's loss and it also looks a lot like Hunter Biden selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars like he was Rembrandt and now they aren't worth a plug nickel.

 

[Winston]

It looks an awful lot like the Clinton Foundation whose well dried up after Hillary's loss and it also looks a lot like Hunter Biden selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars like he was Rembrandt and now they aren't worth a plug nickel.

The Clinton Foundation took in two million dollars in donations in 2023, last year we can see. How much money did Trump's charitable foundation raise. Oh wait, he doesn't have on. In fact, I think he might be banned from having one.

Clinton Foundation

www.charitywatch.org

 

[Billiejeens]

The Clinton Foundation took in two million dollars in donations in 2023, last year we can see. How much money did Trump's charitable foundation raise. Oh wait, he doesn't have on. In fact, I think he might be banned from having one.

Clinton Foundation

www.charitywatch.org

Did you enjoy Hillary's presidency?

 

[berg80]

It looks an awful lot like the Clinton Foundation whose well dried up after Hillary's loss and it also looks a lot like Hunter Biden selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars like he was Rembrandt and now they aren't worth a plug nickel.

How Big Tech is paying its way out of Trump’s tariffs​

Top tech executives are at the forefront of a recent swathe of unprecedented deals with U.S. President Donald Trump.

In just the last few days, the White House confirmed that two U.S. chipmakers, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, would be allowed to sell advanced chips to China in exchange for the U.S. government receiving a 15% cut of their revenues in the Asian country.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, meanwhile, recently announced plans to increase the firm’s U.S. investment commitment to $600 billion over the next four years. The move was widely seen as a bid to get the tech giant out of Trump’s crosshairs on tariffs — and appears to have worked for now.

Altogether, analysts say the deals show just how important it is for the world’s largest companies to find some tariff relief.

“The flurry of deal-making is an effort to secure lighter treatment from tariffs,” Paolo Pescatore, technology analyst at PP Foresight, told CNBC by email.

“In some shape or form, all of the big tech companies have been negatively impacted by tariffs. They can ill afford to fork out on millions of dollars in additional fees that will further dent profits as underlined by recent quarterly earnings,” Pescatore said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/13/nvidia-amd-and-apple-big-tech-is-paying-its-way-out-of-trump-tariffs.html

Acceding to the demands of a wannabe dictator is never a good idea.

 

[Independent thinker]

How Big Tech is paying its way out of Trump’s tariffs​

Top tech executives are at the forefront of a recent swathe of unprecedented deals with U.S. President Donald Trump.

In just the last few days, the White House confirmed that two U.S. chipmakers, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, would be allowed to sell advanced chips to China in exchange for the U.S. government receiving a 15% cut of their revenues in the Asian country.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, meanwhile, recently announced plans to increase the firm’s U.S. investment commitment to $600 billion over the next four years. The move was widely seen as a bid to get the tech giant out of Trump’s crosshairs on tariffs — and appears to have worked for now.

Altogether, analysts say the deals show just how important it is for the world’s largest companies to find some tariff relief.

“The flurry of deal-making is an effort to secure lighter treatment from tariffs,” Paolo Pescatore, technology analyst at PP Foresight, told CNBC by email.

“In some shape or form, all of the big tech companies have been negatively impacted by tariffs. They can ill afford to fork out on millions of dollars in additional fees that will further dent profits as underlined by recent quarterly earnings,” Pescatore said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/13/nvidia-amd-and-apple-big-tech-is-paying-its-way-out-of-trump-tariffs.html

Acceding to the demands of a wannabe dictator is never a good idea.

It looks an awful lot like the Clinton Foundation whose well dried up after Hillary's loss and it also looks a lot like Hunter Biden selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars like he was Rembrandt and now they aren't worth a plug nickel.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages​

In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare more than $10 billion last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/health/medicare-skin-substitutes-prices.html

Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations​

Oliver Burckhardt came prepared for the dinner that President Trump hosted for a small group of major donors at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida on March 1.

A week earlier, one of Mr. Burckhardt’s biotech companies had donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump political committee, that paved the way for him to attend the event.

At the dinner, Mr. Burckhardt got a chance to speak briefly to the president and other guests about himself and the work of his company, Extremity Care, which makes pricey medical products including paper-thin bandages made of dried bits of placenta, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private event. He also brought copies of a flier urging the Trump administration to reverse a plan to restrict Medicare reimbursement for the bandages and criticizing former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for having “rammed through a policy that would create more suffering and death for diabetic patients on Medicare.”

The next morning, Mr. Trump posted the flier on his social media site.

It was not just symbolic.

About one month later, the Trump administration announced it would delay until next year the Biden administration plan to limit Medicare’s coverage of the bandages, known as skin substitutes, saying that it was reviewing its policies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-medicare-bandages-donors.html

What's he going to use that PAC money for? After all, we the taxpayers are already paying hundreds of millions of dollars for his new plane to be refurbished.

PAC Donors are Paying Trump's Personal Bills​

PAC Donors are Paying Trump's Personal Bills

Abuse of leadership PACs as personal slush funds is common and well documented. But former President Donald Trump’s misuse of Save America funds is particularly striking due to the sheer volume of money in play.

campaignlegal.org

TRANSLATION: "Look what trump is trying to do...thinks he can distract us from the ballroom...he will have to do a whole lot better than this if he wants to distract us and head off impeachment for that crime".

 

[Seymour Flops]

Nope.

This is play for pay:



I'm surprised the Casino didn't kick him out for counting cards, as they usually do when someone is winning.

 

[Lesh]

TRANSLATION: "Look what trump is trying to do...thinks he can distract us from the ballroom...he will have to do a whole lot better than this if he wants to distract us and head off impeachment for that crime".

The most corrupt administration in modern times

 

[Frankeneinstein]

The most corrupt administration in modern times

TRANSLATION: "NOTHING SAYS CORRUPTION LIKE BALLROOM DANCING"

 

[Frankeneinstein]

This is what pay for play looks like.​

Wait till ya see what payback looks like.

 

[Lesh]

Hey… throw Trump a couple thousand he’ll appointment t you to his cabinet

Throw a couple mil at him and you get favorable regulation

Nothing corrupt about that