Trump knew people were not thrilled with his changing from Mexico paying for the wall to American taxpayers doing that. He also saw that removing DACA protections from the DREAMers and then using them as surrogates for Mexico was not working all that well either since most have lived their whole lives as Americans not Mexicans. And he had to be reasonably sure that Congress would not put money for building Trump’s wall in the federal budget it was about to pass.
So he employed a favorite tactic—money laundering.
Presenting himself as an uber-patriot to those who feel the true sign of patriotism is to be overly pro-military, forgetting the Preamble states the purpose of the Constitution is to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense while conveniently ignoring everything but “common defense”, Trump emphasized the need to “rebuild” the military, proclaiming it was in tatters and that previous administrations hated what he so loves, and stressed the need to increase the military budget.
Not giving much to fund the wall, Congress upped the military budget, and, while condemning the budget as unacceptable before signing it, Trump spent his television time on the day he signed it stressing the military budget aspect of it and why it was, for him, its only redeeming quality.
He looked heroically patriotic, and his supporters swooned.
Trump now, after crowing how great his support of our military is has decided that since the military has all this money, and since a lot of it is extra, he can use the extra money to build his wall.
He has tweeted,
“Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!”
In simple terms, money laundering is getting money from a purposely mislabeled source when you are not allowed to get from an established one.
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The purpose of the military is to defend the country, and the military budget is to make that possible. And since the wall’s purpose is to make this country safe and is a form of defense, well……….the money is laundered.
The money that was not earmarked for the wall because such funding would be unacceptable to most Americans, was placed in another account that would be acceptable so that it would be available and can be spent, not on where it was and why it was claimed it was there, but on something else.
Trump had wanted $25 billion for the border wall, but only got $1.6 billion for building new sections of wall and replacing older sections. The rest was hidden in the military budget.
If the money the GOP in Congress knew would not be allowed to be given to the wall in the budget was, therefore, hidden in the military budget with their knowledge of its true reason for being hidden there, they lied to the American people, relying on our desire to support the troops and the Pentagon to distract us, which means we were deceived.
If Trump decided to ignore the will of Congress which allowed those funds for the military and had no other purpose in mind, then Trump has become a dictator who puts his own desires over the will of the people and the actions of Congress.
Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal (hidden) activities and into ostensibly “legitimate” (known) assets without raising suspicion.
This is what Trump intends to do.
He has been surviving on this sort of deception throughout his business career.