The Best Government Money Can Buy.

We all know this, it is nothing that we already didn't know already but now it is so bold that it is not even being hidden. The corruption is out in the open. Taking campaign donations to pardon criminals... money talks and everyone gets a "Get Out of Jail" card. But it is not free, there is a price tag that comes with it.

The House Democrats released a statement back in June on the pardons,

Since his second term began, Donald Trump has pardoned or granted clemency to nearly 1,600 criminal offenders. Using publicly available court documents and reviewing the Office of  the Pardon Attorney’s website, the House Judiciary Committee’s Democratic staff estimates that President Trump’s pardons could deprive the pardoned offenders’ victims (and other survivors) of approximately $1.3 billion in restitution and fines owed to them and American taxpayers.1 President Trump’s corrupt pardons also risk depleting funding for the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants through the Crime Victims Fund as well as other victims’ compensation programs. 

Not only has President Trump issued an unprecedented number of pardons in his second term, he has used his clemency powers to take an estimated $1.3 billion away from victims and survivors of crime, allowing perpetrators to keep profiting from their crimes—a sharp break with established practice. The traditional standards used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in evaluating clemency petitions require that the individual seeking a pardon “has accepted responsibility for his or her criminal conduct and made restitution to its victims” (emphasis added). A 2021 statistical analysis of 287 clemency petitions submitted to the Office of the Pardon Attorney found that none of the petitioners who still had outstanding restitution obligations received a pardon. Furthermore, a president always has the option of issuing a conditional pardon that requires the pardon applicant to pay all restitution in order to receive the full benefits of the pardon.

Trump is using not only pardons as his piggy bank but also,

As Trump’s power has risen, so has his wealth – all in plain sight

The Christian Science Monitor

By Linda Feldmann

Nov. 25, 2025

When President Donald Trump pardoned billionaire Changpeng Zhao on Oct. 21, controversy surrounding the cryptocurrency mogul’s ties with the Trump family had already been swirling for months.

Mr. Zhao, founder and former chief executive of Binance – the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – had served four months in prison in 2024, after pleading guilty to violating U.S. regulations against money laundering. The Binance platform had “accommodated criminals across the world,” according to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.

After serving his time, Mr. Zhao would still benefit from a pardon, because of ongoing legal constraints on his business activities.

“No felon would mind a pardon,” he said in a March post on X, while also saying, “I have had no discussions of a Binance US deal” for a pardon.

But that same month, a different deal did happen: A sovereign wealth fund from the United Arab Emirates invested $2 billion in Binance, transferring the invested money in the form of a digital coin called USD1. It’s a product created and sold by the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial.

Cha-Ching! $$$$

On May 5, after the $2 billion Emirati investment deal occurred, two Democratic U.S. senators posted a letter to the acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, Jamieson Greer, outlining what they called a matter with “urgent ethics and national security implications,” involving “a crypto firm whose founder needs a pardon.”

But it is falling on deaf ears.

The Wall Street Journal wrote,

Almost six months after receiving a pardon from President Trump, the 26-year-old rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again is on track to gross $70 million on a sold-out, cross-country tour.

Kind of makes you wonder...

Meanwhile Trump's cash machine is cranking out the money;

Trump Again Funneling Money From Political Committees He Runs Into His Own Pocket

Of the $1.1 million his hotels and country clubs have collected from Republican candidates and committees this year, 80% is from entities Trump controls.

HuffPost

By S.V. Date

Nov 29, 2025

 Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls.

In the 10 months since he retook office, the Republican National Committee has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC, has spent $60,733, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

The figures are based on filings to date, with some committees providing updates only twice a year. The total number for 2025 will not be disclosed until the end of January 2026.

The combined $857,246 represents just under four-fifths of the $1.1 million that the Republican candidate and committees spent at his properties.

The RNC, for example, spent $193,145.70 on March 5 to hold an event at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s country club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Two months later, on May 2, the committee spent $307,202.49 for an event at his golf resort in Doral, near Miami’s airport.

And it is all perfectly legal... even though he charges exorbitant rates to rent his properties!

In all, 73 different GOP candidates and committees sent money Trump’s way, from $45.20 from Wyoming congresswoman Harriett Hageman’s campaign to $1,461.13 by the Massachusetts Republican Party to the five- and six-figure sums spent by MAGA Inc. and the RNC.

Directing committees that he controlled, and encouraging Republican candidates he did not, to spend at his properties — thereby putting all profits into his own pockets — was a strategy he also used in his first term in office.

Trump is raking in the dough!