Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

According to documents filed in federal court in California, $22 million of the settlement will be contributed to the Trust for the National Mall to help pay for the construction of the White House State Ballroom. The rest will go to other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union.

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    It’s a way to secure bribes for the president. He files frivolous lawsuits and then shakes them down for settlements.

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      Even tech oligarchs allied to the regime do this, as we see here. It’s not just the shakedown, it’s also just a much easier way to pay him. Easier to explain than briefcases of cash or the very obvious money laundering that he tries to pretend is a real estate business.