Apparently Trump has a price — because for the cost of a weapons system the GQP could have had the pleasure of Ron DeSantis as the 2024 Standard Bearer. The Russians wouldn’t spring for this, but there is an identifiably high price tag for the Presidency. Using Trumpian math, the actual assessed value of POTUS is likely $1.6 billion. Did the deal fall through only because Sam Bankman-Fried lost his money when FTX blew up. "His team had somehow created a back channel into the Trump operation and returned with the not terribly Earth-shattering news that Donald Trump might indeed have his price: $5 billion.

Source: Washington Post October 03, 2023 07:01 UTC