Trump

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He's trying to walk back his claims about bringing down prices now.

 

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[Mr. Tea]

He's trying to walk back his claims about bringing down prices now.

You have to wonder what's going on in the minds of people who voted for him and are disappointed about this.

 

[0bleak]

"at least he's entertaining!"

 

[IdleRich]

Acctually Gaetz but I didn't know where else to put it.
Seems the ethics committee investigation might come out after all..

The Gaetz legal team is fighting hard to keep the report from seeing the light of day, arguing in a new lawsuit on Monday morning: “If publicly released, would significantly damage plaintiff’s standing and reputation in the community.” It “would be immediate, severe and irreversible”. Gaetz has long maintained his innocence.

Yes I can see that it would seeing as it

found “substantial evidence” that he engaged in sex trafficking and paid for sex with a minor, among other serious violations of state law and congressional rules.

The investigation concludes that Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for attorney general, made payments totalling tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex and drugs across at least 20 separate occasions. The report also states that in 2017 Gaetz paid a 17-year-old girl for sex when he was 35 years old, which would constitute statutory rape under Florida law.

“The committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the Republican-led panel wrote in the investigation.
found “substantial evidence” that he engaged in sex trafficking and paid for sex with a minor, among other serious violations of state law and congressional rules.

The committee determined that Gaetz regularly used illegal drugs including cocaine and ecstasy between 2017-2020, and appears to have set up a pseudonymous email account from his House office to purchase marijuana, violating both state laws and House ethics rules.

The committee believes that Gaetz “knowingly and willfully” attempted to obstruct the investigation, including failing to comply with subpoenas, withholding evidence, providing misleading responses, and making false public statements about “voluminous documentary evidence” that he never actually produced.

Investigators also highlighted a 2018 trip to the Bahamas where Gaetz allegedly “engaged in sexual activity” with multiple women. One woman told the committee that the trip itself served as “payment” for sexual services. The same witness reported that Gaetz took ecstasy during the Bahamas visit, which investigators determined violated House gift rules.

But if their best argument is "don't tell anyone cos it will make him look bad" then he's in trouble. Isn't it basically like murdering someone and then saying "don't arrest me cos it will be bad for me"?

 

[Mr. Tea]

It's entirely fitting that a sex trafficker and teenage prostitute enjoyer is Trump's pick for Attorney General, seeing as the men who will soon be in charge of public finances and public health are, respectively, a trust-fund baby and a heroin enthusiast who wants to bring back polio.

I have every confidence that Trump can find a leading member of the Flat Earth community to be the next head of NASA.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Jimmy Carter has just carked it, presumably on purpose so as not to be expected to attend the ludicrous cunt's second inauguration.

 

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If it's true they had enough to convict then this whole Jan. 6 business is just surreal. The rules really don't apply to him.

 

[IdleRich]

BREAKING: Jack Smith just dropped the report Trump didn’t want you to read. From scheming to overturn the 2020 election to stashing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago like a wannabe Bond villain, this investigation pulls no punches. Smith dismantles Trump’s “witch hunt” cries with cold, hard facts and serves up a reality check: justice doesn’t bend to power, politics, or the cult of personality. Dive into the report that proves no one—not even Trump—is above the law.

Great example of, I duuno, double-think or something.

A document which (they claim) demonstrates conclusively that they had the evidence to convict Trump of a felony but chose not to proceed because as president he was immune - and that's proof that no-one is above the law?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Great example of, I duuno, double-think or something.

A document which (they claim) demonstrates conclusively that they had the evidence to convict Trump of a felony but chose not to proceed because as president he was immune - and that's proof that no-one is above the law?

Oh but he's been punished in the court of public opinion, hasn't he.

(And then gone on to win another election.)

 

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[Clinamenic]

Reading Don Quixote has made me realize that the Don himself is something of a quixotic figure, or, rather, that he very effectively puts on a quixotic performance.

 

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WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration will take place inside the U.S. Capitol on Monday rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in 40 years that U.S. presidential inaugural ceremonies will be moved indoors... The last time an inauguration was moved indoors because of the bitter cold was in 1985 for former Republican President Ronald Reagan's second swearing-in...

 

[IdleRich]

A lot of pissed off people who spent thousands getting there from bumfuck nowhere clutching now worthless tickets.

But shouldn't they be more angry about this?

The $Trump memecoin REAL.. Trump has allegedly tripled his net worth in just hours. This comes two days before inauguration while he and his inner circle reportedly control 80% of a $20 BILLION COIN. Meanwhile, the rest of the crypto market is tanking because of this launch, and those who got insider knowledge last night cashed out MILLIONS. If this isn’t peak grift and cronyism, I don’t know what is.

 

[wg-]

The game is the game

 

[Corpsey]

Astounding levels of fuckery already

The bitcoin thing and the blatant TikTok shenanigans

If it was just a TV show you'd tune in

You tune in anyway

 

[Corpsey]

I'm a complete eediot about politics/the world but I'm wondering if anyone here has an opinion on

What happens after trump? Will he be seen as a blip in terms of being so openly corrupt and after he dies it'll return to the sort of quiet(ISH) corruption of before, or does whoever comes after have to BE a trump figure?

Or maybe in other words, did Trump invent the conditions of his own election, and if trump didn't exist we'd be seeing the republicans fielding a mitt Romney type?

Complicated question ofc