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With everything in context and bearing in mind they already control all branches of government, it's "We will withhold $5000 from you unless you vote for my party."

He tied it DIRECTLY to the GOP winning the house and senate. How is it not a quid pro quo. Can we please start calling things out for what they are!!!

It's still not quid pro quo because in the imaginary world in which GOP wins these elections and they pay off this pledge, they have no idea how you voted and you'd get the money.

Every journalist needs to ask him why they’re not doing it now, especially since Trump claims it doesn’t need congressional approval. But they won’t ask, because our mainstream journalists don’t care

It's also undercut by... every single other thing he's done in his miserable life.

Also that everything wrong will be magically fixed as soon as the election is over even though if he was able to do it he could right now.

Still waiting for a wall paid for by Mexico, a healthcare plan to replace Obamacare that I can't believe is so good, $2000 DOGE savings check, no new wars, the Epstein files and grocery prices to come down.

it’s a stunt for when the democrats succeed that repubs will despise the democrats even more for denying them money(as if that was ever happening)

It is buying votes plain and simple. Bribes

There is no Money for it ! It“s a lie and illegal !

He doesn’t realize what day it is.

The Democrats should bring a bill for providing a $5000 check for voting Republican to the House and the Senate. Elected MAGA morons would be put in the crosshairs.

Gleichschaltung .... getting all switches on the same circuit allowing them all to be simultaneously activated with a master switch (by midterm election)

Exactly.

It’s the least they could do for profiting off destroying our roads and blowing shit up in our atmosphere

The fact is...it would be more effective if he did it now. Those $5,000 checks start showing up in a month and a lot of people who might not otherwise vote might suddenly find themselves motivated to do so. I'm SO glad Trump does everything the stupidest way possible.

Trump wants to pay Americans $5000 using money that came from Americans.

It'll be another one of those "in two weeks" items, if anything.

Also, I don’t think even republicans in congress would pass this idiocy.

Ya think?

Of course it’s a bribe …lol. That’s how he conducts business; he’s a gangster 🤷‍♂️

I also think that it would be *more effective* at gaining votes if the checks show up before the election. The fact this isn't the plan seems like an indication that it is not a real plan even if they do win. (As if we needed more than "Trump is saying it" to know it's a lie.)

God damn him to the lowest circle of hell for yanking the Overton window so far over that we are all even discussing this manifestly corrupt “proposal”, in which we would all be “paid” with our own appropriated tax dollars. No peace till this vicious scoundrel is buried in a lead lined coffin.

Exactly!

Or its an illegal bribe. And.. if you promise to pay someone and theres no intention to pay them, illegal or not... thats fraud. And thats ignoring the whole fucking kids thing.

It's also undercut by: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate" He made the offer. Nothing else really matters.

Rabid animals are put down.

Promised the moon in 2024 to avoid legal consequences of his actions. Trying to do it again bc he’s terrified that impeachment would mean facing those consequences again.

I’m surprised his defense wasn’t he previously lied about Dodge checks, tariff refunds, etc.

I want A PONY!

Call his bluff.

What would I even do with that kind of money? I'm still trying to use up my COVID checks (and driving inflation)

Yes. I know of no genuine dividends that are contingent on voting for a certain political party.

He said it was a "reward for people putting up with Biden," which doesn't have anything to do w/ election outcome. Says he can do it w/o Congress... so why not do it now, Mr. President? Because it's a lie. Straight to your face.

It's also undercut by his history of lying about tariff rebates and DOGE checks, among other things.

Also undercut by it being a claim made by a liar. So there’s that.

If you think he’s going to pay $5k to each American for delivering Rape-publican control of the Senate/House for another two years, I’ve got some oceanfront property in Death Valley that I’d like to sell you…

Totally. I’m so excited to see how the party that is currently in power is going to improve our lives after the midterm elections If they win. Perhaps lower grocery costs on day one? End the russsia-Ukraine war within 24 hours? all easy stuff.

Yet another impeachable and indictable crime committed by Trump live on TV.

Can we start a class action suit for all of the promised funds?

Unfortunately, not wrong.

Is it really a quid pro quo? Every adult citizen would get the money, not just people who voted for the GOP. It’s bullshit & a transparent lie, but I don’t think it’s quid pro quo because people will allegedly get the quid without being required to give the quo.

At Capitalist Catechism I was told: a dividend is a reward paid to the shareholders for their investment in a company, and it's usually paid out of the company's net profits. I don't see how paying tariffs is an investment.

said the same

MAGA's already "Make sure you only give it to people who voted for you!" I laughed. Then I remembered how much effort they've put into stealing voter data 😐

But hey - it can’t be a quid pro quo. He didn’t say he was going to give $5,000 to only Republican voters. Hmmm… maybe THAT’S why he wants those voter rolls? Just kidding - we all know he’s not giving us regular folks - Republican or Democrat - a dime.

Election interference.

tRump wants to give gang members of MS-13 a check for $5,000? roll with it

People need to stop treating it like it's an actual thing. 🙄

It’s his usual routine; ‘do something I want & I will give you $,’ but doesn’t. Ask the gazillion contractors he’s ripped off.

quick answer. Never happened, Corporations got it, it went up, that went up too, LOL, time machine back to 80's, Mitch took them w/him, still closed, they higher, 24hours long passed, we knew better than to believe him, they went to countries he threw tariffs at, they higher now, Obama's was better.

It should also clue everyone into the fact that there's a 0% chance it's going to happen. He's not doing it now when they desperately need the votes, but he's going to make it happen after the election when they don't need your vote? Lol!

But but but but … the radical left lunatics are being mean to me.

FEDUP formally known as MAGA.

I'll settle for my tariff refund, first.

He explained this. It's because "the Democrats can't do it."

Plus he said he doesnt need congress to do it

SCOTUS has after all ruled that gratuities are legal. Why do you hate our laws, Aaron?

Trump: The American people deserve it. It's *their* money. ... Unless Republicans lose in the 2026 elections. Then it's *my* money.

No leverage then. Why would they go vote for Republicans if they already have the money?

I keep screaming this. His fools are unreachable…and stupid

And yet the Supreme Court will call it a gratuity and not a bribe and allow it.

Great point!!!

Is it a policy if it is dependent on republicans maintaining legislative branch control? Seems bribe vibe to me.

So he’s betting with our money, then.

It is bad policy. It’s an empty promise that he can’t (legally or practically) deliver on. But what it’s not is illegally paying people for votes.

This says makes an offer to vote or to withhold a vote. Trump is proposing neither as his proposed payout would be to everyone regardless of whether they voted.

Also undercut by the fact he knows Repubs will likely not control Congress. Unless he's signaling a bribe to GOP members who fail to certify.

@democrats.org need to put this up right now

Fuck him and fuck them. This will not stand.

👍👍👍👍👍

Well yeah, obviously if we just had all this money from tariffs we could distribute it out now, when the Rs control all of government.

Sounds like the Republican adults in Congress, as few of them as there are, have told Trump to pound sand--they don't have the votes.

Can you all PLEASE stop wasting oxygen (and key strokes) on this nonsense. You keep falling into the same trap.

If he does it now, it's a bribe. If he waits, it's a gratuity! Just ask SCOTUS.

A simple bribe. It would've been better if the cheapest president in history said 10, 000 bucks. He's our little traitor.

Unless he gives those checks in OCTOBER with time to cash is d only way it’s true😉

NEVER TRUST TRUMP

Oh ffs, it's undercut by the actual thing he said on stage! "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000"

And his AG was there too.

The $5K disbursement is a tax/revenue/finance matter that is allowable under a reconciliation bill. A bill the GOP could push through right now because it is exempt from a Senate filibuster.

Exactly.

Americans only deserve this $5k of their own money if and only if they do what he wants first, and then, “2 weeks” just like his health care plan. Just ask all of the contractors who did the work and never got paid by Trump. It’s his MO. Don’t be fooled yet again by a lying conman.

Exactly. We’re so numb to his bullshit that this point SHOULD be what legacy media reporters are asking him.

FUCTUS would rule no pro quo for him. No crime for the special boy.

Perhaps...

I'll believe it when I receive one of his "perfect phone calls".

There’s also the fact that he’s never going to pay it out anyway

It don’t matter. He won’t cough that money up anyhow.

Sen. Bernie Moreno is actively drafting the legislation to formalize Trump's campaign promise to distribute $5,000 checks to every adult U.S. citizen, but only if the GOP wins. “I will get a bill ready so that we can get the Trump Dividend passed immediately after the November 3rd election”

trump is a liar, lying about the lies that he spews faster than a pressurized broken sewer pipe.

When it doesn't happen it will be Democrats fault.

Well, he has promised a tariff payoff for everyone for the last two years and the MAGA cult is too dumb falling for it every time. He knows how to play them.