Kenneth P. Vogel and David Yaffe-Bellany,  Reporters  -  Thew New York TimesStephan: All fascist governments are corrupt; it's not be accident, it is a deliberate part of fascism. I remember talking with academics in the Soviet Union, abut how they did their research, and how they got funding and they would tell me you have to be careful. The government is for sale, and you don't want to offend anyone because even if they are not in the government, they can buy someone to come after you. The Trump MAGAT Republican fascist coup that we are living through is doing exactly the same thing, and what really stands out for me about what is happening is how closely it parallels not the Soviet Union, but Hitler's Germany. Investors in President Trump’s memecoin took a White House tour the day after an exclusive dinner with Mr. Trump at his golf course in Virginia in May. Credit: Jason Andrew / The New York Times When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews [...]

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