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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)
  1. Rich people and organizations want to give money to trump, but dont want it to be publically available that the money was given
  2. Trump puts out garbage books, nfts, shoes, whatever merch
  3. Interested parties buy them all as an easy way of him doing "legitimate business" that looks innocuous
[–] chiliedogg 6 points 4 days ago

More importantly in this case, it allows otherwise-illegal foreign contributions to Trump.

Nobody is paying Trump for providing classified information. They just like sneakers.

[–] Takumidesh 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also you can record cash sales of the shoes for thousands of dollars but you never actually sold it, just burned it or never even made the shoe, but now you have a legitimate transaction for your dirty money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

After Some More News went on the recent silly tangent about Trump guitars, I fine the theory that none of these products even exist extremely believable.

  1. Take picture of existing luxury object (Gibson guitars, high end sneakers, fabrige eggs)
  2. Barf some hideous Trump branding all over it in Photoshop.
  3. ~~Profit~~ Laundering!
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In step three, do the shady backers actually buy the shoes? I thought they gave the money illegally, and then trump and co laundered it by saying they sold all those shoes. Been awhile since I watched Sopranoes or Ozark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Any product actually changing hands is entirely optional

[–] Tyfud 3 points 5 days ago