The king's "favorite", botoxed Laura Loomer has declared the installation of King Donald the Dumb on the American throne as in inevitability. Without an absolute (-ly moronic) Monarch, the white supremacist inbred hillbillies and rednecks of backwoods America face extinction.
Medieval-thinking Swiss sycophants and court jesters had to stop humping their sheep on their Alpine slopes, rush down from their backward mountains and yodel at the American King's feet while offering him golden gifts in exchange for favors, such as avoiding or lifting such inconveniences as tariffs that the King placed on their products.
What this whole saga of corporations, banks, newspapers and media bending the knee and kissing the ring of the imbecile dictator is telling us, is the abolute lack of ethics and self-respect by the world of greedy capitalist corporations. They have no shame first surrendering their dignity, then buying it again from a hallucinating deranged and senile moron. Remember this, people: You are feeding the monsters by buying their stuff.
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Trump’s Giant Gold Gifts Trigger Demand for Urgent Bribery Probe
Swiss lawmakers have urged prosecutors to assess whether gold gifts received by Donald Trump broke the country’s anti-bribery laws.
Parliamentarians Raphaël Mahaim and Greta Gysin have asked the nation’s Office of the Attorney General to examine whether presents reportedly given to the U.S President by Swiss business leaders—among them a Rolex watch and a gold bar—breached the criminal code on offering an “undue advantage” to a foreign public official, according to Reuters.
The request follows a U.S.–Swiss framework deal this month, lowering Trump’s 39 percent tariff on Swiss goods to 15 percent. This deal was announced 10 days after the Oval Office meeting where the gifts were given, the outlet reports.
The Swiss Green Party politicians wrote that “the end does not justify all means,” asking prosecutors to decide if criminal proceedings are warranted under articles that carry penalties of up to five years’ prison—or a fine, Reuters said.
Executives from MSC, Rolex, Partners Group, Mercuria, Richemont and MKS PAMP were listed as attendees to the meeting. Rolex declined to comment when approached by the Daily Beast, and the White House didn’t immediately respond.
Alfred Gantner, a Partners Group co-founder who attended the Oval Office session, told Reuters the collaboration helped resolve the dispute. A company spokesman declined to make any further comment to the Beast, as did MKS PAMP.
A person close to the group who visited the Oval Office told the Beast: “The gifts were presented to the Presidential Library, on behalf of the Group who attended the meeting, in full compliance with both U.S. and Swiss law, and were cleared with the White House ethics counsel.”
After the meeting, a Rolex Submariner desk clock, which retails for five figures, could be seen in the Oval Office, alongside the gilded accents and signage that now fills the room. A similar model—although made of stainless steel rather than gold—costs around $10,000. Axios reported the one-kilogram bar was valued at around $130,000.
Swiss outlets and European media have dubbed the saga “gold bar diplomacy,” with criticism across Switzerland’s Green and Social Democrat ranks and a formal probe request now on the table. The government has defended the public-private push while denying any quid pro quo.
Under Swiss procedure, anyone can report an alleged offense, and prosecutors then decide whether to open a case, Reuters said.
A spokesperson for the Federal Prosecutor’s Office told the Daily Beast that the department generally does not comment on media reports, but confirmed it had received three criminal complaints “against persons unknown” in connection with the meeting between the Swiss delegation and the U.S. President.
“The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is reviewing these complaints as usual. It is important to note that the receipt of a criminal complaint does not automatically mean that a criminal investigation has been opened,” the spokesperson added. “No further information is currently available.”
The Daily Beast has also contacted Mahaim, Gysin, MSC, Rolex, Mercuria, and Richemont for comment.
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Two lawmakers from Swiss Green Party have formally asked Switzerland’s public prosecutor to investigate whether luxury gifts including a gold bar and a Rolex watch offered to President Trump by Swiss business leaders violated the country’s anti-bribery laws.
The gifts came during a November delegation to Washington by executives from firms including MSC, Rolex, Richemont and MKS PAMP, among others. Ten days later, the U.S. and Switzerland agreed to a framework deal that slashes U.S. tariffs on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%. Critics in Bern are now calling the timing and the gifts themselves deeply suspect.
In their letter to prosecutors, the two lawmakers argued that the gifts may have constituted an “undue advantage” under Switzerland’s criminal code. Under that statute, offering or giving a foreign public official an advantage in return for favorable treatment can trigger criminal charges, potentially carrying prison time or fines.
Representatives for the businesses involved say the gifts were legitimate diplomatic gestures, and sources close to the delegation maintain the visitors cleared the presents with White House ethics counsel, claiming the items were handed over to the Presidential Library rather than kept personally by Trump.
For now, the probe remains in its earliest stage: prosecutors have received the complaint, but have not yet opened formal proceedings. Meanwhile, political critics in Switzerland are framing the episode as a glaring example of elite influence-peddling and a warning sign for global trade-diplomacy norms.
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