Suit alleges subscription offer aims to sell privileged access to information generated in president’s official capacity

Donald Trump has been sued after a subscription service charging up to $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on his Truth Social platform sparked allegations of corruption.

The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the southern district of New York, was brought by the Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation against Trump, two of his aides and the executive office of the president.

It targets “Truth API”, a paid data feed launched on 1 August by the Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social. The complaint calls the arrangement “extraordinary, corrupt and unconstitutional”.

  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    “sparked allegations of corruption”? Motherfucker this is Tier 1 corrupt. I don’t know if there is a textbook definition of corruption but if not, this is it

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      7 hours ago

      I would say it’s not tier 1 corruption, but low brow corruption.

      Real tier 1 corruption, well, I don’t want to give them any ideas. They are in on that too, not their own ideas though, but those of the wall street sharks and parasitical businesses interests they are in league with.

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        6 hours ago

        Low brow? Try imagine any other country president doing this anywhere in the world… Unthinkable!