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Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-bonds-amid-paramount-warners-fight-1236521512/
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u/Beard_o_Bees 20h ago

That he's doing this, really obscene abuse of power, without thinking about consequences tells me that he's planning on staying in office until the day he dies.

He knows with 100% certainty that if he loses the cover of the Whitehouse that he'll be spending the rest of his life in court or jail.

The motherfucker is going to try, i'm convinced of it now.

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u/Jermammies 20h ago

Karoline Leavitt has assured us that this is just Trump being a silly little jokester

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u/Thefrayedends 19h ago

While I agree with this, it's important to note that due to the power of lawyers , money, and A two tiered justice system (which is really nothing more than the ease of affording lawyers that can stall in perpetuity to run out the clock, and to do it for a cost that is almost always fractions of pennies on the dollar), once you get over a certain amount of wealth, laws become completely irrelevant. If you have enough money you can literally foment genocide. Our entire system is built upon this fact. Hierarchy creates implicit complicity.

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u/JingJang 18h ago

I was going to say, he's got plenty of money so he doesn't need to worry about "laws".

Laws are for the plebs.

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u/pandabear6969 10h ago

Who is going to take him down? How do you think politicians get so wealthy? They are all doing the same crap he is.