Trump Promises $5,000 Payment to US Adults if GOP Wins Midterms

[u/GetDeepSignal]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/trump-promises-5-000-payment-to-us-adults-if-gop-wins-midterms-mtuwhlfj

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[u/Jd051888LA]

Since becoming president again, we've been promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued

[u/Caymonki → u/Jd051888LA]

Gas is over $4 a gallon and new work requirements just dropped for healthcare. Jobs are scarce and wages are dropping while literally everything is more expensive. Housing is a pipe dream for most.

McConnell has been missing for months and still gets Taxpayer funded healthcare and his paychecks are still cashing. The deficit is at a record height along with our ocean temperature. We’re at war with our allies and praising our enemies while abusing our military.

No checks or balances are coming but we will get Project 2025 part 2.

[u/Real-Extension-1357 → u/Caymonki]

From NYT at Trump's august rally:

"I would pay $10 for a gallon of gas to know that there won’t be a nuclear weapon,” she added. “I’d just work extra shifts. The problem with society is nobody wants to work anymore."

Sic

She reasoned that Mr. Trump must have “more information than I do, and there’s other allies that we’re still trying to appease, to make it be more peaceful and hope for a better ending, and he doesn’t want to kill people.”

Gas prices hurt, she said, “but I’m willing to pay the price.”

“It’s hurting us, but it takes a president that’s going to have the guts to do that, even though it’s hurting him and his political party, because it’s the right thing to do,” said David Lachance, a 59-year-old retired cop from Myrtle Beach.

[u/ManiaGamine → u/Real-Extension-1357]

That actually sums up MAGA perfectly. "I would happily pay $10/gal to know that something won't happen that was never likely to happen under the deal that Trump ripped up but is now a distinct possibility if not inevitability because of Trump ripping up said deal".

At this point Trump could walk up to their house, demolish it then demand that they pay him to rebuild a replacement in a subdivision of the land they previously owned at 4x the value and they'd praise him for his masterful building skills and the moment he got that praise he'd move the fuck on, get a shoddy crew to build a shoddy shack and then sell off the rest of the land that he stole from them. By the end of it all they'd be left with a pitiful shack, a fraction of the land they previously owned AND the builders would have been paid by them rather than by Trump.

[u/keytiri → u/ManiaGamine]

But they certainly weren’t willing to extend the same “grace” to Obama’s deal or recovery during Biden due Trump’s botched pandemic response; the only standards maga got are double standards.

[u/cybertonto72 → u/keytiri]

Trump should of been done the moment he took the piss out of the disabled journalist. I will never understand how he still didn't get cancelled for that.

[u/PabloPicasshooole → u/keytiri]

Hmmm. I wonder if there was something different about President Obama? Is it because he's a Democrat? Or is it possibly something else? I get the feeling it was something else, but I just can't put my finger on what it was

[u/emergencyexit → u/ManiaGamine]

Don't forget after all that they will call him up and tongue his orange arsehole

[u/JoeGibbon → u/ManiaGamine]

They'll just go along with any fantasy because die hard Trumpians pathologically cannot admit they were wrong. They'd rather starve to death, broke, in a ditch, rotting from the inside from some preventable disease, their children crippled from polio, pretending they're having the best time of their life, than admit they were wrong to support Donald Trump.

[u/apathy420 → u/ManiaGamine]

I’m getting North Korean vibes with MAGA

[u/Striking-Sundae- → u/Real-Extension-1357]

Retired cop - gets a pension funded by taxpayers. Sucking at the government tit. Of course it won't hurt to pay $10/gallon of gas.

[u/OkRead585 → u/Striking-Sundae-]

Dude that lives near me has a two-story house on a corner lot with a wrap around porch, new truck, boat, huge camper trailer. And a Gadsden flag flying under his US flag.

Dude is retired from the FD. Made a career and a retirement of my tax dollars. Who is treading on him???

[u/michelle032499 → u/Real-Extension-1357]

RETIRED COP. Does the irony of the push against socialism just fly right by these guys? Jesus, where tf do they think their salaries and pensions come from....

[u/EkbatDeSabat → u/michelle032499]

Yes, because republicans literally wake up and eat "Fuck you I got mine" cereal for breakfast every single day.

[u/potatosquire → u/Real-Extension-1357]

She reasoned that Mr. Trump must have “more information than I do,

The sad reality is that though the average Trump supporter is woefully ill informed, Trump still manages to know less than they do.

[u/deaglebingo → u/Jd051888LA]

criminals always offer to pay you later. next week. two weeks.

[u/GooglephonicStereo → u/deaglebingo]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

[u/Game_Knight_DnD → u/GooglephonicStereo]

Yeah but Wimpy was still a good person, Trump is so horrible it is hard to express in words.

[u/a_glorious_bass-turd → u/Game_Knight_DnD]

Trump isn't Wimpy...but he is wimpy

[u/Wasabi_Joe → u/a_glorious_bass-turd]

Oh god... Hamberders!

[u/arocknerd → u/Game_Knight_DnD]

Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley Donald Trump, the president, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane Mar-A-Lago with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

[u/synchronicityii → u/Game_Knight_DnD]

Actually no. The creator once explained he was actually a deadbeat. Wimpy was never to be found on Tuesday.

[u/AppointmentCool6915 → u/GooglephonicStereo]

*hamberder

[u/YourMothersLeftovers → u/deaglebingo]

And Trump has been doing that for decades. He’s notorious for not paying workers.

[u/illogical_mindset → u/deaglebingo]

Same with deadbeats.

[u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster → u/illogical_mindset]

Same with people who owe to the russian mob and embezzle from charities and political funds and eventually from their entire country like the traitorous, raping, actual literal child fuckers they are.

But yes, also deadbeats. Trumps are NOT Lannisters. Trumps always pass their debts to someone else

[u/rumpghost → u/illogical_mindset]

The difference between your dad's friend with cirrhosis of the liver and a deadbeat real estate mogul is the your dad's friend probably legitimately intended to pay you back.

And at least at point in his life had a real job.

[u/Underdog424 → u/Jd051888LA]

Biden had a subsidy for cheap internet. I signed up for a two year contract with Comcast because of it. Trump cancelled that immediately, and my bill skyrocketed. But you best bet I was still stuck in that contract.

That was my dividend.

[u/POEness → u/Underdog424]

Biden capped student loan interest payments

Republicans immediately torpedoed that and fucked millions of Americans

[u/unctuous_homunculus → u/POEness]

My monthly payment on SAVE was $46. My wife's was $110. On Trump's new plan I was about to default into it would have jumped to $1100, and my wife's was going to be $760. We had to get an accountant that specializes in navigating student loans and separate out the way we do taxes and it cost us a bunch of money and hassle, but now her payment is $0, and mine is $490, and we both have to file separately with itemized tax forms now, which is even more hassle. And we had to jump through so many hoops for that, and none of their online calculators were accurate or helpful getting there.

I don't see how that shit was helpful to ANYBODY. It was just spiteful anti-intellectualism. Punishing people for trying to get an education.

[u/RoarOfTheWorlds → u/unctuous_homunculus]

Not enough people are angry that SAVE is gone. That plan was nothing short of life changing for so many americans.

[u/asomebodyelse → u/RoarOfTheWorlds]

You know the reasoning given for shutting it down? They said the President can't just declare an emergency whenever he wants to issue an executive order. How many fake emergencies have we had under Trump? Unfortunately, it's only the people who were on SAVE who are angry. And then they named that "stripping away your voting rights act" the SAVE act, as if people wouldn't realize it wasn't the same thing.

[u/lube4saleNoRefunds → u/unctuous_homunculus]

I don't see how that shit was helpful to ANYBODY.

Well there are companies that make their profit on your interest woes, so it's helpful to SOMEBODY.

[u/dreamsofaninsomniac → u/Underdog424]

Those telecom companies also already stole taxpayer money before that. They received federal funds to expand broadband internet access. They just pocketed the money and didn't do shit. The Internet is important enough to be classified as a public utility now, but there are too many people making too much money by not having it that way.

[u/atrich → u/dreamsofaninsomniac]

They used the money to gobble up smaller competitors' infrastructure, which apparently counted as expanding their own. The government PAID them to monopolize.

[u/Dickies138 → u/Jd051888LA]

The checks have been issued to the billionaire pedos

[u/Noctaem → u/Jd051888LA]

FFS there's no way that some Americans still believe he's going to actually give them anything is there?!

[u/laxvolley → u/Noctaem]

can't wait to hear GOP congressmen say they're ok with spending more than a TRILLION DOLLARS on something so blatantly illegal

[u/demoliahedd → u/laxvolley]

Heaven forbid people get food stamps or free childcare or healthcare. But free money to vote Republican is cool.

[u/Bonghead13 → u/demoliahedd]

Raising minimum wage by $0.25/hr would cause massive inflation, but giving $5000 to everyone is cool

[u/Yes-its-really-me → u/Noctaem]

Although I find much of the Americans on Reddit to be literate, intelligent and worldly wise, it seems much of America is full of morons.

So yes. Many will believe whatever Chump says. Even though we all know he'll blame Biden for not being actually able to post the checks. And Barack Hussein (possibly related to Saddam, we don't know hes not) Obama who went to the post office and took all the checks and kept them himself.

[u/Real-Extension-1357 → u/Noctaem]

There is a will and therefore a way for americans to still be stupid enough to believe theyll get $5k. Nevermind the fact their vote can be sold for such a pittance is disgraceful. Democracy is a joke to these neanderthals

[u/Odd-Wave247 → u/Jd051888LA]

Remember when Biden’s $1400 covid checks - when unemployment was 15%- was the cause of inflation according to republicans?

The $5,000 dividend is over 250% bigger.

Any Republicans care to explain this to me?

[u/BeefEater81 → u/Jd051888LA]

Notice how each of those numbers has a minus sign (-) before it?

That's because that's how much this admin costs everyone in each case.

[u/ProgressiveSnark2 → u/Jd051888LA]

Why is the media still reporting the shit Trump says as if he isn’t lying? It’s frickin annoying.

[u/Talentagentfriend]

There’s no way thats legal. Right Elon?

[u/Arcade_109 → u/Talentagentfriend]

It's very illegal. But to be fair, he has zero intention of actually paying people.

[u/AtomicShart9000 → u/Arcade_109]

And he knows he will have zero consequences no matter how illegal it is

[u/winklesnad31 → u/AtomicShart9000]

The supreme court already ruled that whatever he does in office is presumed legal. I still can't believe how batshitt insane that ruling is.

[u/StatisticianLivid710 → u/winklesnad31]

I want a dnc president willing to abuse that to arrest and detain trumps MAGA judges and replace them with progressives.

[u/xclame → u/StatisticianLivid710]

That would actually be crazy ironic. Oh, everything the president does is legal while he's president? Well alright then, officers arrest the Supreme Court Justices.

The judges will immediately realize that they don't have any arrest powers and that they rely on executive to enforce their decisions.

[u/yarnk → u/xclame]

I’m sure Trump is leveraging that the U.S. Marshals Service is an executive branch function to push justices, just like he withheld Secret Service protection from John Bolton and other people he’s mad at. Many members of the protectorate want it moved to DOJ.

[u/MaddyKet → u/xclame]

No they will just rule that whatever a democrat does is outside the scope. I’m pretty sure they had something in the ruling about they can determine if it’s official or not.

[u/ManiaGamine → u/StatisticianLivid710]

Unless they are arresting SCOTUS first I can guarantee you that this SCOTUS would rule it illegal. If a Republican or even just Trump did it though, perfectly legal and totally cool.

[u/DangerousLoner → u/winklesnad31]

But only for him, or another Republican President or VP or Speaker of the House, but not a Democrat or Independent from the Left, maybe a Right leaning Libertarian…

[u/Arcade_109 → u/AtomicShart9000]

Bingo!

[u/aijoe → u/AtomicShart9000]

This. He has tested how corrupt he can be many times now with no consequences.

[u/Canyousourcethatplz → u/Arcade_109]

It’s strange he’s had the same grift all his life and people keep falling for it

[u/Thrustmaster537 → u/Canyousourcethatplz]

The people that believe it are dumber than him, if you can imagine that

[u/Grindhoss → u/Canyousourcethatplz]

A sucker is born every minute

[u/GalumphingWithGlee → u/Arcade_109]

Promising money in exchange for your vote is still illegal, regardless of whether you actually pay out, or ever intended to. But this would barely scratch the top 100 of his illegal actions in office, and he hasn't been held accountable yet, so I'm not holding my breath.

[u/thelexpeia → u/GalumphingWithGlee]

Well I’m not sure. Is it a separate count for every voter that he offers money too? That’s quite a few felonies.

[u/GalumphingWithGlee → u/thelexpeia]

Yes. I'm pretty sure that was how it was framed when we saw this with Musk.

Edit: also, it's like this with every crime. If you kill 10 people, you get 10 murder charges, 10 convictions, 10 jail sentences (though, if they add up to more than the remaining years of your life, sometimes that's just a technicality.)

[u/jefedezorros → u/Arcade_109]

And Supreme Court has told him he can’t do anything illegal so he’s running with it

[u/GalumphingWithGlee → u/jefedezorros]

Right, as long as it's an "official action" as President. 🙄

[u/scriptfoo → u/GalumphingWithGlee]

He's appealing a ruling against his argument that a hush money payment is an official act.

Because of course he is.

[u/Memerandom_ → u/Arcade_109]

I don't think Elon ever paid out either.

[u/Buster_Brown_513 → u/Memerandom_]

Have you gotten those DOGE or Tariff checks yet?

[u/Jazzlike_Citron5875 → u/Memerandom_]

The actual legal defense was:

“No no no we weren’t bribing people to vote. The person we bribed was in on it too!”

[u/Maremdeo → u/Arcade_109]

He could shoot someone in the street and get away with it. He can do whatever he wants. Epstein's Island might as well be legal now - at least if you're very wealthy.

[u/Faultylogic83 → u/Arcade_109]

That doesn't sound like him at all! /s

[u/clovisx → u/Talentagentfriend]

It will be deemed an official act after a mild “tut tut” from the Supreme Court.

[u/CelestialFury → u/clovisx]

They’ll say, “This isn’t legal but it was an effort to help Republicans so we give it a pass but if a future Dem does this, you’re going to prison.”

[u/ZyklonCraw-X → u/Talentagentfriend]

It Obama had said this it would be illegal and we'd have neverending news coverage and congressional investigations.

[u/GB715 → u/ZyklonCraw-X]

Obama didn’t need to buy votes.

[u/FuckingHippies → u/GB715]

I miss having a president that was genuinely likable.

[u/Choice-Tiger3047 → u/GB715]

That's true but it's also beside the point; Republicans would have never let him get away with anything of that nature.

[u/Grey_0ne → u/Talentagentfriend]

Didn't he already promise this before the 2024 election?

[u/backpackwayne]

When fear and hate don't work, try bribery.

[u/Brilliant-Advisor958 → u/backpackwayne]

Only 1.25 trillion!

[u/backpackwayne → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

It's like when you know you are going to declare bankruptcy you max out the credit cards.

[u/Maxamillion-X72 → u/backpackwayne]

This is probably closer to the truth than people can accept. The US is reaching it's debt limit. 6 years of Trump's wild spending and poor economic polices are going to make borrowing harder and harder until they just can't anymore. You can't just destroy your worldwide soft power and alienate all your allies and expect countries to trust that you'll pay the loans when it comes due.

When the US is no longer be able to borrow money the economy will turn to dust. It'll make the inflation of the pandemic look like small potatoes. They are getting seriously panicked and throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

The $6B bond buyback was a dismal failure, bond rates are at all time high since just before the 2008 crash. The interest on that $40T debt is climbing and climbing fast. There's a very good reason it failed; the US is currently trying to borrow $10B a day to fewer and fewer buyers. A $6B bond buyback is like firing a BB gun at a charging bear; It's still going to eat you, but you just might have pissed it off even more. The bond market laughed at their pitiful attempt and raised rates even more.

Japan needed cash to be able to buy their own currency to keep it from falling further. The US was forced to buy a bunch of Japanese Yen just so Japan wouldn't start selling off their massive stake of US bonds to fill that need. The end result is the US ended up selling some of their Euro, a currency that holds it's value pretty consistently, to buy up Yen that wildly unstable as of late. The Yen buyback managed to keep the Yen's value stable for the month of August and then it fell off a cliff again. It's a net loss for the US but it keeps the wolves from the door for a little while.

[u/karmahorse1 → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

Do you want inflation? Because this is how we get inflation.

[u/Infinite_Music2059 → u/karmahorse1]

It's really incredible how it simulataneously makes both inflation worse and the deficit bigger at the exact moment American debt is becoming a major problem. It's just throwing fuel on the fire.

If there was any logic, this would be a Liz Truss moment where the bond market breaks his presidency.

[u/rundmz8668 → u/backpackwayne]

I mean that was literally the lesson of our torture program in Guantanamo. After abusing people for years we concluded what we always knew, bribery is more effective than torture.

[u/CryptographerNew3609]

Sure, it's coming right after middle east peace, and $2 gas, etc.

[u/CarlosHDanger → u/CryptographerNew3609]

And infrastructure week.

[u/piercednun → u/CarlosHDanger]

And tariff checks

[u/ididshave → u/piercednun]

And concepts of a healthcare plan.

[u/GoldTrade11 → u/ididshave]

I can't believe he won the election saying this.

[u/swish301 → u/GoldTrade11]

I’m still in the camp that he didn’t “win” the election, it was given to him.

But yes, it’s crazy that people voted for someone who had no real plan for the American people.

[u/nihilistiq → u/CryptographerNew3609]

DOGE rebate check, tariff rebate check, and now a midterm check. With all this free money being given to us, it's no wonder inflation is through the roof.

[u/sfled → u/nihilistiq]

And it will be paid for by all the big, beautiful growth that's going to eliminate the $40,000,000,000,000 deficit. That's 13 zeros for those of you playing at home.

Personally, I'm looking forward to my meds costing 600% less, and $2 gal. gas.

[u/Ok_Emu1270]

30 percent of the country (based on his last approval numbers) is stupid and hopeless.

[u/StickaFORKinMyEye → u/Ok_Emu1270]

I'm sure that will happen after he ends the war in Ukraine on Day 1, and doesn't start any new wars.

Still waiting on my $5k DOGE payment and my $5k tarriff bonus.

And for gas price to drop down to $3/gallon.

And for the Iran excursion to end in two weeks .

And...

[u/0utlaw-t0rn → u/StickaFORKinMyEye]

It was supposed to drop to $2/gal. It was at $3/gal when he took office.

[u/StickaFORKinMyEye → u/0utlaw-t0rn]

I stand corrected. It's difficult to keep track of all of his lies.

[u/IsReadingIt → u/StickaFORKinMyEye]

There's a database for that! Unfortunately, I think it stopped after his first term, with 30,573 false or misleading claims...aka LIES.

Yes, that's an average of 20.94 lies per day, every single fucking day, for 4 years straight. And those are just the ones made on the record.

[u/around_the_clock → u/StickaFORKinMyEye]

He just said it will be below 2 after the midterms

[u/Archer1407 → u/around_the_clock]

And his idiotic child raping supporters will buy into it. They think he's amazing in everything he does, whether it's lying of diddling kids, all of it is fantastic.

[u/SeldomSerenity → u/StickaFORKinMyEye]

At least we'll have a plan for health care in two weeks

[u/Ok_Perspective_8361 → u/SeldomSerenity]

Along with infrastructure week.

[u/SanchoPandas → u/Ok_Perspective_8361]

And a beautiful new reflecting pool.

[u/Excelius → u/StickaFORKinMyEye]

He was just promising that the war with Iran will end and gas prices will come down... right after the midterms.

[u/maikuxblade → u/[deleted]]

He ain’t my grandpa, dude straight up sucks

[u/Scuterius_Floridae → u/Ok_Emu1270]

the conservative subreddit is actually looking super pissed and losing it on him. Though that doesnt mean the GOP will go back to normal

[u/IcyTransportation961 → u/Scuterius_Floridae]

No they aren't.  A few people are.  The talking points get rolled out and they fall in line, every single time

The 3rd of the country that backs him are hopeless and will never change,  they've always been this way

[u/keelhaulrose → u/IcyTransportation961]

"Fall in line" also means "anything not kissing Trump's ass gets deleted by the mods."

I recently saw a post that had 100+ comments... of which 2 were visible.

[u/Vaaaaaaaaaaaii → u/IcyTransportation961]

That sub is literally populated by actual bots and mods come in and sweep up threads after a few hours to make it look like everyone falls in line. Like literally there is verifable data a large chunk of posts come from a few accounts in other countries. Like this place its pretty much astroterfed propaganda.

[u/IcyTransportation961 → u/Vaaaaaaaaaaaii]

Yes. But they only need a few bots to be effective, they elevate the talking points and the idiots go along with it

You need to accept how many of our neighbors are complete morons,  we wouldn't be going through this for a second time if the problem was just bots.

Bots work on real people

[u/60Hertz]

That’s a text book crime.

[u/bwsmith201 → u/60Hertz]

So is this whole administration. Assuming we ever find our laws again they’ll teach classes on the corruption in this era.

[u/Lost-Produce-1150]

buying votes it is!

[u/deaglebingo → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

money upfront motherfuckers. if you don't get the money upfront then they aren't gonna pay.

[u/Backwardspellcaster → u/deaglebingo]

Doesnt matter. People will believe that they will get money.

They were complaining for months that they didnt get "the stimulus check" after he got back into power, despite never saying he would give any out, just because he did the first round.

This here?

His typical 30% will lap it up, and the desperate, needy and stupid of the rest will also vote for him with lolling tongues now

[u/KrakenOmega112]

He's so scared. I just wish more journalists would call him on his fear in public. Something like "if you're so confident of your popularity, why all these measures?"

[u/AzDopefish → u/KrakenOmega112]

“It’s the American people’s money and I’m just giving it back to them”

Your framing would offer him a lay up for his supporters to go rabid over

[u/KrakenOmega112 → u/AzDopefish]

I'm talking about everything. The mid decade district changes, the explicit bribery, the attack on voting by mail - if he were so confident in his odds, whether he truly believed he was actually popular or if he believed his power was secure, he wouldn't be bitching so much.

But he is because he's afraid.

[u/AzDopefish → u/KrakenOmega112]

Of course, I’m just saying a journalist asking the question you initially posed wouldn’t get anywhere

If the democrats had any balls they’d be constantly calling it out making fun of him

Remember how effective Tim Walz calling the republicans weird was?

No idea why the democrats abandoned that method of making fun of republicans. They should be booking all the air time they can bringing up how sad and desperate it is and make fun of them for it.

But of course they don’t.

[u/EyeOfCLE → u/AzDopefish]

“Just like you did with the DOGE money and the tariff refunds?” I mean countering his arguments isn’t tough. To your point, his supporters won’t see that rebuttal and will go rabid for him regardless.

[u/PotaToss → u/KrakenOmega112]

If he just stopped being such a piece of shit and used his control over his party to pass popular legislation that helped normal people, he could be actually popular.

But he can't change who he is, and isn't competent enough to pass legislation that would be effective, so I guess never mind.

[u/Operation-FuturePuss]

18 U.S.C. § 597

[u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies → u/Operation-FuturePuss]

As long as he calls it an "official presidential act", John Roberts will just shrug and say there's nothing he can do.

[u/simplyunix → u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies]

Until there's a Democratic president. Then there will be loads of SC decisions curtailing his power. Hopefully that president (whoever that will be) is taking notes

[u/vladoportos → u/Operation-FuturePuss]

Dude, you should know by now, that laws are for you peasants not for the King

[u/sully213 → u/Operation-FuturePuss]

For the non-lawyers out there: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

[u/wowlock_taylan]

That is literally a crime. You cannot even offer water to voters.

But we live in times where 'laws' do not matter to this criminal fascist.

[u/Rynowash → u/wowlock_taylan]

It’s all made up and the laws don’t matter. Because SCOTUS is payed in full.

[u/East-Illustrator-709 → u/Rynowash]

Whose lie is it anyways?

[u/data-atreides → u/Rynowash]

If SCOTUS disregards the law, we should disregard SCOTUS and enforce the law on our own. If it's all made up, so is their authority

[u/GalumphingWithGlee → u/wowlock_taylan]

News flash: offering water to voters is legal again! But yeah, I'm with you on the rest of this.

Source: https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-deep-dive-into-line-warming-bans-as-federal-court-overturns-new-yorks-law/

[u/rabid_spidermonkey → u/wowlock_taylan]

Dems should respond that we'll all get $10,000 if they win.

[u/senorfresco → u/rabid_spidermonkey]

They will get charged with a crime. No one cares if Trump does it.

[u/FeelingPixely]

But his party has blamed Biden for the deficit because of granting the second round of stimulus checks that Trump promised.

Goldfish.

[u/AntiOriginalUsername]

I’m positive this one will hit shortly after the tariff check!

Edit: and the tariff one will hit after the doge one soon!!

[u/Arcade_109 → u/AntiOriginalUsername]

Not before the DOGE check! My partner's mom assured me it will be here any day now!

[u/jchasse → u/AntiOriginalUsername]

Two weeks!

[u/SoundSageWisdom]

Isn’t this shit against the goddamn Law? I am so sick and tired of this efffing guy and who’s paying, certainly not him with his billions of dollars he has financially raped out of all of us. That’s what he’s doing. He is financially raping us.

[u/Dowew → u/SoundSageWisdom]

He has no intentions of actually paying these bribes.

[u/Waltercation]

You have to be the dumbest, most gullible person alive to believe this

[u/jimkurth81 → u/Waltercation]

Have you seen his base???

[u/Waltercation → u/jimkurth81]

No, I understand, but still… these people are brain dead.

[u/Accomplished-Watch50]

Well, that's probably against the law. It sounds like bribery to me.

[u/Chambanasfinest → u/Accomplished-Watch50]

But it’s not actually against the law when the Supreme Court gives you absolute immunity from any state or federal prosecution…

[u/angrypooka]

Along with the DOGE checks, tariff refunds, the $9000 stay at home credit.

[u/Angreek]

I would pay $5k for him to not win.

[u/andrewbrocklesby]

And where it is the $1.2T dollars coming from?

That, apart from being illegal, is absolutely batshit insane.

[u/RociBuldidi]

Can you fucking imagine if Obama had come out and said “I’m gonna force the treasury to send a $5,000 check to every adult only if you vote for me”?

Hahah…Republicans would have burned the White House down with him in it the next day

[u/DiamondDot → u/RociBuldidi]

Imagine if Obama had done one thing out of the thousands of awful things trump has done. Imagine if Obama said grab her by the p

[u/Tzokal]

Ahh yes…just like the $5k Doge checks and the $2k tariff checks and $1776 liberation day checks we never received..

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

U.S. Code
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; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

[u/Dedpoolpicachew → u/Tzokal]

Another impeachable offense. Add it to the pile. I’ll still be surprised if he’s ever held accountable. I mean, it could happen, but I’ll be surprised if it does.

[u/Babsee → u/Tzokal]

As if our flaccid Congress would ever hold this malcontent accountable!

[u/Impressive_Play_2599]

Jezuz 🇺🇸is cooked. 

Pedo running the country and funnelling money to his family.

Speaker of the house running a protection racket for the PEDO.

A clown turning 🇺🇸military into a terrorist organization for PEDO.

A tv station where the CEO stated those within are lying to 🇺🇸 protecting the PEDO.

An ENTIRE political party that has doubled down on standing behind and propping up a PEDO. 

BILLIONAIRES raping and pillaging the country while standing up for their fellow PEDO.

A upcoming mid-term election where ICE will be standing at the door intimidating the voters and Musk inside the machines altering the votes.

Now the head PEDO is trying to buy votes from the same people that KNOW they’ll never see a penny.

What the hell is happening?

[u/drzoltar → u/Impressive_Play_2599]

The pres is a Russian asset. He's purposefully weakening the US in order to help Putin. Or at least to not put up resistance against whatever Putin does.

[u/MASSiVELYHungPeacock → u/Impressive_Play_2599]

I don't know nor am I at all comprehending why Americans simply don't shut the country down until Trump resigns, or impeached and jailed soon after.

[u/def_indiff]

Fine, as long as we don’t let the socialists win. Those socialists just want to give people free money.

[u/Mimir_the_Younger → u/[deleted]]

They do not

[u/doduotrainer]

You guys remember when these turds were crying that student loan forgiveness was a bribe?

[u/NexusNickel]

Oh fuck off.

Did you ever get your DOGE Check?

Did you ever get your Tariff rebate check?

People can't be this stupid to believe this shit.

[u/mikeg040]

Lies

[u/value_meal_papi]

Who’s dumb enough to believe him

[u/Stinja808 → u/value_meal_papi]

We know who

[u/snower88]

Since when is it ok for President to commit crime in the USA?

[u/Itchy_Tiger_8774 → u/snower88]

Since January 20, 2017.

[u/MrFrankyHanky]

Wait.. isn’t this illegal?

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

[u/Greenpoint1975]

Hold your breath MAGATs. 😂

[u/Farther_Dm53]

AH like our tariff checks? Our relief checks? Our trump checks? Yeah fuck off trump no one believes this except those who drank the koolaid

[u/0098six]

Thats a trillion $ we dont have. Well done, Donny. National debt is now $41T.

[u/tendeuchen]

A Dem needs to come on and say, "If Dems win the House and Senate, our entire platform will be to impeach and remove the entire Trump administration, rename everything back to its true name, and send everyone $10k".

[u/Lazy_Pangolin7591]

Sure, Jan.

[u/No_Vaseline666]

another impeachable offense

[u/jarena009]

Also healthcare in two weeks, right?

[u/Ok_Monitor4492]

Look at that, his martyrdom betrays his intentions. Here it is folks, yet ANOTHER example proving he KNOWS we are suffering and instead of FIXING it, he intends to exploit our suffering with a little carrot. 

[u/dystopiam]

Since becoming president again, we've been promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued

[u/muFUtaco]

This 5000$ check will look great next to my 5000$ Doge check, my 2000$ tariff refund check, my 10,000$ air traffic controller bonus, the 1000$ kid's account (what is it with sexual perverts and kids, huh?), my 1776$ warrior dividend check...

Oh wait !!!

What he promises and what he delivers are not the same thing... he delivers nothing except OUR money into HIS pocket.

[u/CallmeMefford]

I’d rather have a functional democracy, thankyouverymuch.

[u/in9ram]

Now we are at open bribes for money.

[u/tenebre]

What's another trillion added to the national debt...

[u/Zelcron → u/tenebre]

$1.2 Trillion, actually. I'm not normally this pedantic but that last 0.2 represents $200,000,000,000 (Roughly 8 NASAs), so, y'know...

[u/lenswipe]

Bull.

Shit.

[u/Cactusfan86]

Man between my tariff dividends, third covid check, doge rebates and now this I am going to be ROLLING in it when they finally get here!!

[u/mad_titanz]

Isn’t bribing for votes in an election against the Constitution and a prison sentence for the crime?

[u/slobis]

Just another felony and utter abrogation of the US Constitution to go on the pile.

[u/FishGoldenLite]

Let’s pretend this isn’t blatantly illegal for a second.

He’s saying he’ll only do this if Republicans maintain the house and senate. They currently control both of them, so he could do this right now if he wanted to.

But instead of doing it right now, at a time Americans are struggling mightily, he’s going to hold it over heads until he gets something in return.

And Republicans will eat it up.

[u/ThatsTheFix]

About 260 million adults x 5,000 = 1.3 trillion dollars. So, he suddenly has that much of our money lying around? Also, isn't giving money to everyone a form of socialism?

[u/windwatcher01]

He'll throw in a complimentary Brooklyn Bridge if you're in the first hundred to sign up!

[u/Big-D-TX]

Wait the going rate for my vote is a $Million, Elon set the price

[u/OpinionPoop]

not only is he lying, but id rather not taint my soul and sellout our country for any amount of money. for american population size of 350,000,000, times 5k is 1.75 trillion. we have enough debt. this guy is a lunatic and is actively destroying the nation. no republican should be standing for this. these nut jobs are trying to destroy the united states in totality. hes going to leave the usa bankrupt and shove his money into foreign bank accounts along with all the other mega rich. we are doomed if we allow him to stay in power. we need to stop this. the trolling game is over, we need to stop this right god damn now.

[u/Romano16]

He already promised $7k in refunds from tariffs and the so called economic boom. Don’t Americans ever feel embarrassed to be regarded this stupid to fall for the same damn lie?

[u/falsifiable1]

I will humbly donate my $5,000 to Trump’s Premature Burial Fund.

[u/NeverDieKris]

So we’re at the point where a US president is openly trying to bride the American public.

[u/Inkstr0ke]

Isn’t this EXACTLY what they always accuse the Democrats of doing??

I swear to god dude this party is run by cartoon villains.

[u/Dancing_Cthulhu]

Let me guess - right after the tarrif checks and doge checks get sent, which will be 2 weeks after he announces his healthcare plan, which will be right after infrastructure week, which is down for 2 weeks after he gets serious with Putin if he doesn't end the war, which will be 2 weeks after...

Yep, right after that he's going to drop $1 trillion on checks to say thank you for voting Republican. Which is totally legal. Totally.

He really does think everyone is stupid, doesn't he?

[u/IamNICE124]

Socialism but not socialism…

[u/DEAZE]

Oh, so he’s basically just giving me back all the money I spent on extra gas, groceries, and tariffs without the interest.