Or how much money the FBI director was paid by Doha.
  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    I had never heard of this dude before Trump made him FBI director but seriously, does a picture of him exist where he doesn’t have the “oh my god, I have no idea what the fuck is going on,” deer in headlights face thing happening?

    I mean, I think my assessment is probably correct but it’s just incredibly improbable that in every picture he looks like he showed up to class, realized that he forgot to write the book report and the teacher is asking for people with last names starting with “P” to present to the class.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      25·
      2 days ago

      Susan Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, worked for a lobbying firm that represented Qatar. Attorney General Pam Bondi lobbied for the Qataris. Mike Huckabee, now US Ambassador to Israel, was paid $50,000 to visit Qatar in 2018. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, also has pocketed money from Qatar. In 2023, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund bought the Park Lane Hotel from Witkoff’s company in a $623 million deal. The Trump Organization itself recently struck a deal to develop a luxury golf resort in Qatar. And now Qatar is considering handing as a gift to Trump a jumbo airliner worth about $400 million for Trump to use as Air Force One.

      If I didn’t know the Republicans were such fine, upstanding, morally sound people, I’d start to suspect fuckery.

  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    1 day ago

    I wonder … does a Kash Patel ever stop and wonder whether the downward spiral into racist fascism he’s enabling will eat him or “his kin”. Does he ever look at his senior yearbook quote “Racism is man’s gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason” (by Abraham Joshua Heschel), take a look around and think: what the fuck am I doing here?

    I wonder …