Those are all public record by-the-book government contracts with all the requisite paperwork and bureaucracy and there has never been a whiff if impropriety about any of it. What did Tesla bride Obama with? What did Obama get? Has the investment in Tesla not been shown to be quite wise? Hell the Commercial Crew program was done under Obama and that's one of the best recent examples of the power of public/private partnerships. Look at what SpaceX has become since then.

I feel like all you're showing here is that Obama and Biden were both far, far, far more effective leaders of legislation and stewards of governance than Trump could ever be.

Do we have public record of every WLFI coin buyer?

There's really no denying that Elon (and his teams) can deliver technology, but regarding him, personally, and his ego ... quoting from [1]Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender [wikipedia.org]:

> Morty: When you're an asshole, it doesn't matter how right you are, nobody wants to give you the satisfaction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindicators_3:_The_Return_of_Worldender

> Obama:

Is no longer president and I stopped reading.

> It only costs $1 million for a pardon. Proof. [1]https://thehill.com/homenews/a... [thehill.com]

I don't think there's a price sheet. The amount will depend on what you can afford and on how much heat Trump will take for granting it. That second part is a weak consideration, though, as evidenced by the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted for doing exactly what Nicolas Maduro is alleged to have done (though Maduro probably didn't, not nearly to the same degree, though he was a bad guy in a lot of ways).

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5319932-trump-pardon-paul-walczak/

I particularly love that we are currently in a war of literal negotiation right now, where the exact traits of the Art-of-the-Deal Master Negotiator himself, the reason we just had to have him in foreign policy because he just such the dealmaker is not only flopping at dealmaking when there's real actual stakes on the line, he doesn't appear to be leading the negotiations. The whole madman schtick was already played out his first term.

Also do we notice now how he always sends the same two numbskulls *to every negotiation*. Witkoff and Kushner, they do it all. Should you get a seasoned ambassador who knows the culture, has established relationships, maybe even speaks Arabic? Hell no, just throw fucking Witkoff and Kushner in there. We don't have a deep bench here.

It's not even if Trump isn't great at being a businessman it's the charade that he actually actively sucks shit at business and everything around it. The one thing an executive is supposed to have going for them is knowing who to hire and it might the thing he's the worst at.

Up until the grifting kicked into high gear (and making the IRS pay him a $10 billion settlement) it was proven he would have been more rich had he let his initial inheritance ride in the S&P 500 [1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/d... [forbes.com]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/11/its-official-trump-would-be-richer-if-he-had-just-invested-his-inheritance-into-the-sp500/

OK, fair, but he should at least have to give a good explanation as to why he's not a willing accessory or be forced to serve as DJT's diaper genie.

> Even more than that. Someone goes into alt-coin crypto with DONALD TRUMP and expects not to get screwed?

I don't know, some people made money of off Trump High Top sneakers. :-)

I suspect it's more hubris than outright stupidity: he's capricious; but Trump sometimes permits others to feast on the little people as well, when it suits him. I suspect that our gentleman here had no expectation that the dealings would be honest; but was hoping that they would be partners in crime against people who don't matter.

It will be morbidly interesting to see how his 'attempt to seek justice through the courts against someone whose lawlessness he has bene abetting' plan will work out for him.