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    “I think there has been a lot of inequality in that only certain people can get financing […] so this notion of decentralized finance is obviously very appealing to guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said in the interview on Locals.

    Ha. “I’m toxic to banks so we are going to try and grift our idiot followers” is fun.

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    “… guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said

    I had to look up “debanked”. Admitting to it has to be the financial equivalent of telling people you are a registered sex offender.

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      What he means is he’s trying to funnel his wealth into assets that aren’t regulated and may be difficult to seize.

      You know, to hide his money from the victims that he owes hundreds of millions to for his criminal behavior.

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      No no no, he didn’t say “debanked” he said “Deutsch Banked.” As in, “I’m such a liability that the only financial institution that will work with me is shady Russian money laundering Deutsch Bank.”

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    We all know how this is going to end, right?

    He’ll get his fans to buy his shitty token, and maybe even keep custody on his platform. Then if he loses the election, he’s gonna flee to Russia via Venezuela, while pulling the rug out from under all those “investors” and taking it all. Then he will publically state that Harris must have directed the NSA to hack his site. He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile.

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      He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile

      Yep. Except that’s only until he runs his mouth and has a tragic fall from a window.

      If I where to place a bet, I would say 3 months, tops.

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    “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”

    Do people actually believe for a fraction of a second that Donald Trump of all people is on the side of the average American? And that the way to “take a stand” is with a crypto pump and dump scheme?

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    Goddamn it would be so fucking easy to scam maga shitheads if I didn’t have morals

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    Next test of the cult… are you fucking people actually about to line up to trust your financial future to dumb dumb eric trump and sniff sniff don Jr?

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    There’s likely some outright criminals who can’t easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps “solve” that.

    I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:

    • overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
    • disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
    • failure to stop at various “don’t do this or we will get caught” lines

    If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.

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    Up next, an innovative new sales technique. Get this, it is called Multi-level Marketing. Brand new, never been done before!

    I bet the same morons that got his NFTs fall for this…the SAME PEOPLE (the ones that still have money left).