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“Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates, about 2400 years ago.

This reads as if the offer came from the other side.

"To avoid legal repercussions, you can offer the US president a bribe."

So basically extortion or protection money.