American Hustle 2.0: Melania, Amazon, and Political Payoffs

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Melania and American hustle. Now, I’m to be upfront, honest, and if anybody actually thinks that Amazon got involved with the Melania movie to make money, I want to know what you’re smoking. OK, I really do. I’m here just to level with you in the facts. We had nothing to do, nothing to do about making money. OK.

Melania got money from got paid a significant chunk of change licensing. It was close to 30 million dollars just to feature in her own movie. Right, right, right. Sure. What happens? And this is the way the world works at this point in time. And I don’t like it. I’ve liked it for a long time. Again, you can talk about and we can point fingers. But but but but Biden.

But this one, but that one, it’s not good if anyone does it. I call it American Hustle. Well, it was a great movie, American Hustle, Christian Bale, probably one of the best actors going. Basically, it was back in the day and it was a true story where the FBI was doing a sting operation where they were basically trying to entrap politicians taking money. And this one involved the mayor of Camden.

New Jersey, I think it was like $50,000. It was called ab scam where they were trying to use

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Arab money, pretending it was Arab money coming in, was going to make an investment in, you know, Camden, New Jersey and do all these things. It was actually also part of Donnie Brasco as well. If you do remember, he Donnie Brasco actually use the boat that they were using, the feds were using to impersonate the Arabs. Whole big thing. Neither here nor there. I was back in the day, back in the day, you pass a suitcase full of cash. politicians, they wisen up.

to this and they moved on. They moved on. There’s other ways. There’s other ways of enriching your favorite politician. We’ve talked about many of them here on the program. Jobs. Jobs being one. Landing spots on various different companies. Basically no show jobs, if you will. Boeing is a favorite because they got a of defense contracts, defense contract, a lot of big Wall Street firms.

as well. Colleges and universities, that’s one as well. That’s another good landing spot. end up being a president of college or university somewhere. Fake positions as professors. mean, Biden. Mine was a professor at University of Pennsylvania, never taught a class. Remember that whole scam that they’re running? Got paid a nice chunk of change too. Anyway, myriad of different ways. speeches. That’s another big one.

Do you honestly think that anybody that’s going to let’s say a Wall Street financial conference, you think they really want to sit down for 45 minutes and listen to Hillary Clinton? No, no, but again, it’s way of scratching Hillary Clinton’s back paying back favors. Hey, yeah, we’ll make you a speaker give a speech and we’ll pay you an absolutely ridiculous sum of money.

Lately, it’s even delving into businesses and investing heavily and being partners and having your families hooked up at various different business. I actually what did take place was the whole Roger Clinton thing as well. mean, various different times, talk about, you know, Biden and everything that took place with.

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Ukraine and Burisma and, you know, Hunter Biden being on this board and being involved with this. Yeah, it’s crooked. Hi, hell. It is. It was actually funny. He actually had one of the the Trump commentators on CNN. Actually, that was his excuses. Well, you I’m paraphrasing, but he was basically, well, you know, at least they’re out front with this and they’re they’re they’re completely transparent about what they’re doing.

You don’t have to look around on some sort of shady laptop. I hear you, man. You’re right. You’re right. But it still doesn’t make it right. Ken Griffin from Citadel. Big, big fun guy trading guy moved from Chicago down to Palm Beach was speaking at a conference Wall Street Journal conference yesterday and

Again, this is a big Republican donor, big Republican donor. And actually just recently at Davos, gave kudos to the Trump administration in regards to getting rid of ridiculous burdensome regulations that were hurting companies. Went after him, Biden, on that and commended the Trump administration. Again, he wasn’t a contributor to Trump when he was running this time. He did give to his inaugural campaign, full disclosure here.

he basically kind of ripped into Trump talking about the missteps that they’re making and The investments and the way that the kids are being handled and I quote that calls into question is the public interest being served Trump’s eldest sons you got Don jr. And Eric have benefited mightily from

various different policies put forward in particular some of the crypto stuff that’s taken place, gotten various different big business deals since their father won reelection. They all know there’s a big wall here between their money making and their father’s position.

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Okay, stop. Again, I’ve been in business for a long time.

Let’s just say Wall Street and the general public, don’t, they’re not a very good, don’t have a very good reputation. Let’s just leave it at that. It’s the same thing with his son-in-law. His son-in-law who, again, after his way out the door after first term got magically over a billion dollars of Saudi money.

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How’d that happen? How’d that happen? Again, was failed in all of his business endeavors. His family defaulted on the top of the sixes building there in Manhattan. But anyway, neither here nor there. Recently, the most recent news, and I’m sorry, this is not good, okay? This is something you shouldn’t do. Sorry, don’t try to defend this.

Days before Trump’s inauguration, a member of the Emirati Royal Family was behind a $500 million investment into the cryptocurrency company that the Trumps have, World Liberty Financial. This should bother people. And Griffin actually came out and said most of the chief executives that

He’s friends with find it incredibly distasteful when the US government starts to engage in corporate America in a way that tastes of favoritism. Most CEOs just don’t want to find themselves in the business of having to in some case suck up to one administration after another to succeed in running their business. He did again gave Trump some more compliments on closing the border and the Kevin Warsh pick at the Fed.

It’s not supposed to be this way and how these various different things are being handled. You know, we go back to the Melania movie. I mean, crying out loud, Amazon’s laying people off left and right. They financed this movie. They just laid off what? One third of the staff at the Washington Post. Yet you think that they thought, you know, it was gonna be a great investment to invest in this documentary?

And you know, cut it with the Oh my god, look at how much it did $7 million just passed. get all right. Maybe it did. But a lot of it was a fugazi. Not to mention the fact you think it’s great that the White House. What is it? Advisor faith advisor there that that, you know, Paula, Pastor Paula White Canes, she’s from Tampa here. She’s another grifter. You know, sending out mass emails to people telling them to order bulk tickets.

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and go? Do you think that Amazon’s gonna come close to breaking even? Do you think Amazon’s in the business of losing money?

Now, this movie was a cost of doing business. It was a cost of doing business in some way, shape, matter, or form. Whether it’s gonna be helping them with regulations, I don’t know. Okay, but call it what it is. And this is something that has been getting worse. It’s getting worse and worse since I’ve gotten older. It’s not getting better.

And, you know, they’ve always talked about money and politics. I remember there was there was a whole. What’s it called? They were trying to McCain find gold. Remember that they were trying to cut down on money and politics and all of these different things. They’ve turned it into a quite the business model. We have an economy that is that large where, again, these politicians are again.

Don Finucci, that thing, they’re wet in their beak again and again and again. And it’s not just the president of the United States, it’s not just the elephants, it’s not just the donkeys, it’s all of them.

It’s all of them, and quite honestly.

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Yeah, for me, for me, it’s not necessary for all the especially members of Congress. They don’t have to be in session all year. I think it should be kind of like a weekend warrior type of a job. Quite honestly. Yeah, it’s kind of like National Guard. You know, if you get elected, you work it out with whatever company you have or your boss here, it’s almost like jury duty. It’s something that you have to go do. And then you go back home and that’s it.

That’s it. The longer they stay there, you know, around that power, the more they’re going to try to grab. yeah, granted, you know, Trump’s transparent with all of this stuff, but it doesn’t strike you as being a little messed up.

little screwy. Now, know, those Arab, they’ve got money coming out of faucets over there. But don’t don’t tell me. Don’t tell me they weren’t looking for access. Come on. Again, it’s American Hustle, part two. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.