Donald Trump issues 'straight, thumping bribe' to US public in a move 'demeaning President's office'

Donald Trump issues 'straight, thumping bribe' to US public in a move 'demeaning President's office' The stunning payout to nearly 270 million US adults could cost the government $1.3trillion - exceeding the country's national defence budget of around $1 trillion Donald Trump issued a "straight, thumping real McCoy bribe" when vowing to give a $5,000 bung to voters if Republicans maintained power following the November elections, an expert has told the Mirror. The US President did away with any semblance of Republican fiscal responsibility when he pledged to offer the equivalent of £3,689 to each US adult should the party retain control of the House and Senate in the crunch Midterms. Many pollsters say Democrats are heavily favoured to win back the House and are tipped to possibly take the Senate, as Americans struggle with the cost of living and disapprove of Trump's handling of foreign and domestic issues, such as the Iran War and the release of the Epstein files. In a bid to reverse the negative trend, Trump announced the policy during an unprecedented party convention in Dallas, Texas, ahead of the Midterms. "If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," Trump told the crowd. The stunning payout to nearly 270 million US adults could cost the government $1.3trillion - exceeding the country's national defence budget of around $1 trillion. The legality of the pledge also remains unclear as the US bans offering cash for votes. Buckingham University political analyst Anthony Glees told the Mirror: "Frankly it's an outrageous election bribe which demeans the president and the once great Republican Party. Make no mistake, it is a bribe because he's offered the self-same sum to every American, irrespective of their income. "It's not a tax cut, for example, or a benefit to some group or other, like the employed. It's a straight, thumping real McCoy bribe. It's the kind of thing we'd expect from the sheikh of Kuwait, not the supposed leader of the free world. "[Former Emperor of Ethiopia] Haile Selasse did much the same thing before he ousted years ago (I will recall him in the back of his RollsRoyce handing out cash to his subjects). It did him no good. "Did Trump make the bribe because he fears losing the Mid-terms 'bigly'? Or because he truly is away with the fairies? I suspect both. It's on a par with the 'Gulf of Trump', 'Gulf of America' etc etc. He's gone loco on wanting to grab things that he doesn't own. "He was always a showman now he's global laughing stock." Democrats accused the Republicans of holding a "bizarre dog-and-pony show" in a bid to boost their flagging chances of holding both the House and Senate. Polls have put the Democrats as comfortably taking back the House and within reach of winning the Senate; an unthinkable prospect one year ago. Holding both, or even one chamber of Congress, would severely impact Trump's legislative agenda - leaving him as a lame duck president. The President attempted to rally supporters by asking them to "pretend" he was on the ballot. But Trump remains unpopular with the American electorate with polling aggregators putting his favourability rating at around 58 per cent disapproval.