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Senator demands answers after Trump accepted Rolex and gold bar before slashing tariffs on Switzerland
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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This is one of the less bad things he's done. And yet its still corrupt as fuck.
In a sane world, this would've been enough to impeach. Today, it's just another thing to throw in the pile. Checks and balances don't work when one side owns all the scales and inspectors.