This administrations brand is to sell government work (or non work) for personal favours and there literally accepting “exposure” as payment to signal how normalised they made it.
If you are a big enough name they don’t care how petty the bribe is. As long as it shows the world that they are open for this kind off business.
Every bribe, no matter how small is pure profit if you never owned what you’re selling.
So FIFA got rid of the bribery charge from this administration by bribing this administration with a pointless award. Cool, cool.
The charge was ‘You didn’t bribe me’ and obviously now that they have, the charge has been dropped.
FIFA, IOC, and probably most of the sports associations are corrupt as fuck, especially with the ME countries sportswashing them too.
FIFA bribery charges dropped after Trump given bribe under scrutiny
Fixed the headline
They aren’t even trying to hide the corruption at this point.
Why bother hiding it? It’s not like Americans are doing anything about it.
It’s going to get much worse.
Consider, now that a number of high profile individuals and corporations have paid Trump off - those same people are going to be hawkish about others paying that price, since they’ll feel it isn’t fair they ‘had’ to but others don’t.
Now it’s not just a deal under the table, the players want to see the bribe happening, to ensure “fairness”.
We’re in for a hell of a ride.
My brain cannot handle this headline. What is “under scrutiny” modifying here?
The second paragraph of the article answers this. The headline could have been better, yes.
The news has prompted scrutiny online, though there is no evidence of any connection between the award and prosecutors’ move to dismiss the charges.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
These prosecutions are not consistent with the current prosecutorial priorities of the United States, which direct the Department of Justice’s resources into Making America Safe Again.
So charges are dropped not because he seems innocent, but because of political direction of justice now which must be focused on deporting innocent immigrants and building Reich 4.0
How corrupt can the get before just saying “we’re corrupt, deal with it?”
It would have been one good thing for FIFA leaders to get charged with bribery.
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