(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Had we $5 billion on hand we could have kept Previous Guy out of the 2024 election [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 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. Then there’s that 2016 logic where Trump is the weakest contender because he’s only in it for the money... x One indicted fraudster tried to pay off another. Perhaps they'll get a chance to room together. Donald Trump wanted $5 billion from Bankman-Fried not to run for US president https://t.co/nxBJdPQjMZ — Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) October 2, 2023 Jailed former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying former US President Donald Trump to not run for re-election in 2020, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book published on Sunday. In the excerpt published in the Washington Post, Michael Lewis, the author of "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon," said Bankman-Fried at the time was planning to give $15 million to $30 million to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to defeat the "Trumpier" candidates in the Senate races. "On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president," Lewis wrote. "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. Or so Sam was told by his team." The excerpt did not discuss why Bankman-Fried did not press ahead with the plans. www.jpost.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/2/2196888/-Had-we-5-billion-on-hand-we-could-have-been-free-of-Previous-Guy-in-2024 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/