Also if you have sex with a minor is illegal but if you are the President then it's OK.

That's the secret to Conservative power in America.

Step 1: Make everything illegal

Step 2: Accept bribes to overlook crimes of allies

Step 3: Punish the shit out of your opponents.

Congrats! America is now Russia, with better food and shittier fascists.

It's hilarious that everyone here is assuming he's not just straight up lying about giving that money to everyone and not just the people who vote Republican.

They are very interested in state voter information.

I hate the orange turd but your comparison is not 100% right. He'd gift 5000$ to everyone, not just who voted for him. I think that's still illegal tho

Step 1: Have money.

Step 2: Rape children (and adults).

Step 3: Put an "R" next to your name.

Congrats, you are now immune from consequences.

It's also legal to give someone money after the fact for a job well done, and it's definitely not a bribe.

Well he did make it so tha tnothing he does in office is illegal, even if it’s illegal.

They won't even let you stand outside a polling place and hand out water bottles to people waiting in line.

In many countries it is legal to promise a tax rebate when you are in office. Many cons (oops, I mean conservatives) use this as voting bait for people with no critical thinking skills, and then turn around and give their corporate masters and billionaires huge tax cuts that make those same voters loose critical services that makw them pay out of pocket.

In other words, "Heres $200 to vote for me so i can make your life way more expensive on a yearly basis through medical care, less regulation, less infrastructure repair".

This is the same grift, but more blatant and obviously something that would never get fulfilled, which is why the number is so big. Bigger numbers make critical thinking fail harder, especially when times are economically tough. It tends to get cons reelected even when they are not doing well in polls, speaking from the Canadian experience in this.

Law means nothing in a coup

The law only matters to us poor folks. It isn't applied to the rich.

If no one prosecuted you for it, it might as well be.

Technically, the equivalent would be you standing outside a polling place with a sign saying “I will give every adult in the area $500 if Candidate X wins”.

Ostensibly, you could just be lying (just like Trump) - and that would probably be covered under your 1st Amendment rights.

It’s stupid, but there is enough of a disconnect between action and reward that it might skirt past.

It's still illegal; it's just that nobody will enforce the law against the orange bastard. The motherfucker was literally convicted of 34 felonies and hasn't paid any fines or faced a minute of jail time, FFS.