Trump received $2 million from South Korean firm amid trade probe

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

It wasn't a payment. It was a bribe. Convicted Felon Donald Trump is THE most corrupt person in the United States, possibly the world. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Who told him he could get a pardon for $600k? Trump was selling pardons at the end of his first term for $2m and if I recall, it was Rudy Giuliani who was brokering them. They're all crooks, but yes, this is indeed the most corrupt...by far. I don't remember ever being more bewildered...😔

So years ago, the government started investigating a Korean company for dumping aluminum in the U.S. at below-market prices. Then the company started cozying up to Trump. It inked wine deal with Trump. *It paid Trump $2M.* And poof, the investigation ended. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

President Convicted Felon pockets $2M paid to him by South Korean company facing federal investigation. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen with that investigation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u... h/t @carlhiaasen.com

Minefield?! Trump was paid $2M, while president, for a “nonrefundable development fee.” Trump maintains “financial ties with nearly 30 different business ventures with foreign counterparts worldwide.” It’s not a minefield, it’s corruption. It’s corruption.

📢 President Donald Trump’s holding company took a US$2 million ($3.4m) payment last year from a top investor in a South Korean aluminium firm as the company

This is called pay to play, and its a big fucking crime, especially for the president of the United States Paging Congress and the DOJ-the Times has given you probable cause, now pull that thread… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Coupang is an Amazon-like company throughout South Korea with offices in Seattle. It has tried to skirt South Korean laws by masquerading as a US company, paying off US politicians and the president himself to avoid government regulation.

“the financial ties between the president and the South Korean company illustrate the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with nearly 30 different business ventures with foreign counterparts worldwide — unlike any other president in modern American history.”

The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

This article on Trump's business relationship with a South Korean company underscores how his conflicts of interest as president span the entire globe. All in all, Trump's holding company took in $125 million in 2025 directly from non-US sources in at least a dozen countries. It should be illegal.

Lol. Everyone knows the that Trump pardons now start at $2M!

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump's holding company received a $2 million payment from a South Korean business that is under investigation by Trump's trade authorities. The report noted that the financial disclosure only offered a brief, "cryptic explanation" for the payment.

Most corrupt administration ever "lead investor in a SK aluminum company that has challenged Commerce Department penalties on certain exports from SKouth Korea to the US made a $2M payment...President Trump’s holding company" for “nonrefundable development fee” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...