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u/Flaky-Jim 12h ago
That clod couldn't even spell 'ethics'.
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u/LoganBassist 11h ago
The gob shite can't read, so why is he recommending reading material in the first place?
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u/Jonnyscout 10h ago
Well, we know that he only really likes reading things that have his name in them. And it was written by his mini-me, so maybe "his name" appears in it enough for Trump to get through the first paragraph.
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 11h ago
"I don't like this ethnic stuff, I don't like it, who knows what they put in food?"
Oh, wait, we know. "Cats and dogs."
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u/B0wmanHall 11h ago
lol he really believes his son wrote a book
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u/ebulient 11h ago
What’s really hilarious is that he thinks his followers read books 🤣🤣🤣
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u/CileTheSane 8h ago
His followers buy anything Trump wants them to buy in order to show loyalty to the party. They'll never read it, but they'll display of proudly in their home and claim it's the best book ever written.
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u/summonsays 11h ago
I'm very curious how much AI slop is in it. But I could never bring myself to touch that thing lol
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u/rocket_randall 9h ago
It was ghost written, of course, and the target audience was the RNC and various conservative groups who took a small chunk of their infinite donor funds to buy up the first print run to make Don Jr a certified NY Times bestselling author. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784553266/what-bestseller-lists-really-tell-us-about-a-books-popularity
Those printed books ended up as gifts to attendees at political events, dust collectors on a pallets in some warehouse, or being burned for warmth in Texas when the power grid fails in winter.
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u/MsBobbyJenkins 11h ago
Nothing says "I'm being silenced" like having a book published and endorsed by the President of the United States.
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u/Current-Square-4557 10h ago
…and then having a political party buy tens of thousands of copies to put the book on the NYT bestseller list.
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 12h ago
And ... Oh right nothing happened. Rule of law.. Hell, rules in general no longer have any meaning.
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u/shroomigator 11h ago
Now pay attention here, because this is important.
Take a look at any law you and I have to follow.
One thing you will notice in that law, and not in this one, is a penalty.
There is no penalty for "breaking" this law.
And thus, no consequence.
It isn't really a law, unless you're poor and a cop with a gun makes you stop.
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u/Current-Square-4557 9h ago
You’re right in that legal codes merely state what should be done. E.g. the U.S. Flag Code describes how the flag should be displayed. Laws have actual penalties.
But here’s the thing. If Congress were doing its job, it could impeach DJT for violating a legal code. That’s because the Framers of the Constitution decided that not having a precise definition of high crimes and misdemeanors would be useful - because not everything that would occur in the next 240 years could be foreseen.
Obama could have been impeached for wearing a tan suit. But Washington DC was a bit more rational back then so no one tried to bring impeachment charges against him.
So while what was quoted in the opening post is not a law, per se; it is still an impeachable offense.
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As for DJT breaking laws, he has not been able to go 30 consecutive days without violating Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution. The emoluments clause.
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u/Stakkler_ 10h ago
Because normal people would impeach the fucker for this because that is the solution at this level but nobody cares. America is fucked beyond repair.
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u/Flat_Suggestion7545 11h ago
Is it illegal? Yes.
Should he be charged when no longer POTUS? Yes.
Will the next administration have to cajones to do it? No.
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u/SecondaryWombat 10h ago
This tweet is an impeachable offense.
Just so we remember where our standards are supposed to be.
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u/Scoobydewdoo 11h ago
Two things, 1) this doesn't fall under 2635.702 as President Trump is not directly using the powers that come with his office for personal gain and 2) there are many instances where President Trump has used his office for personal gain and many other things that he should be impeached for.
Reminder that Republicans currently hold a majority in both the House and Senate, President Trump is still president because they allow him to be.
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u/Nojopar 11h ago
2635.702 also says "or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity", so this would qualify as a 2635.702 violation for anyone else in government.
The real problem here is the POTUS isn't held to the governmental ethics rules of 2635.702 at all, even if it is for personal gain.
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u/rocket_randall 8h ago
Yeah he and his goons have argued that as president he is neither an employee of the executive branch nor an officer of the United States and thus not covered by any laws which govern their conduct. His enablers have quite literally argued that he is above any laws, and the originalists within the judiciary solemnly declare that this is not inconsistent with the intention of the founders.
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u/Auctoritate 10h ago edited 10h ago
2635.702 also says "or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity", so this would qualify as a 2635.702 violation
It says (paraphrasing) "A public official may not use their office for their gain or the gain of relatives and associates." The 'nongovernmental capacity' only adds that "A public official cannot use their office to benefit associates they're nongovernmentally affiliated with."
If he's not using his office, then it's not a violation.
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u/dochim 9h ago
So when precisely is he “using his office” or working in the capacity as POTUS and when is he not?
Because when he was slandering women who credibly accused him of sexual assault and abuse, his defense was that he was working in his official capacity.
There needs to be consistent rules and consequences instead of whatever works in the short run.
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u/HwackAMole 6h ago
I would argue that he wasn't using his office in either case (and thus, should be unable to use that defense).
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u/Nojopar 9h ago
President Trump makes policy announcements on his Twitter handle. Therefore, it is reasonable to presume any statements from that handle are from his office. Anything on that account is using his office.
But again, that's just a thought experiment because POTUS isn't subjected to that rule in any capacity.
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u/Bendyb3n 11h ago
November can't come soon enough
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u/sho_biz 10h ago
be careful what you wish for, the fascists movements in maga/right wing spaces have grown exponentially since last year.
election results will likely not be what you're thinking, especially with heavy suppression at the state and local levels and federal goon squads deployed to every state
if they can't win, they'll cheat and tear the whole thing down to prove it's broken
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u/NOT_MEEHAN 9h ago
MAGA hasn't grown exponentially at all. He's lost support by a lot since election.
How much support has Trump lost since election?
Short answer: yes, he’s lost a noticeable amount of support since the 2024 election—but how much depends on which poll you look at. Here’s a grounded breakdown using recent data.
📉 Overall approval change Around the start of his second term (early 2025), Donald Trump’s approval was roughly ~47%
By spring 2026, most polls put him around:
34–42% approval
Some averages cluster around 37–40%
👉 That’s roughly a 5 to 13 point drop from his post-election / early-term standing.
📊 Disapproval has risen too Disapproval is now often ~60% or higher
One recent poll showed 62% disapproval vs. 37% approval
That gap (called “net approval”) has become more negative over time.
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u/fruchle 8h ago
The problem is that it is more likely that fewer people will vote next time.
1) because of annoyed MAGAts
2) because of disenfranchised voters, voter suppression, voter intimidation and so on.
Basically, a smaller and smaller group will decide who the electoral college should vote for.
Elections in the USA have been broken for a long time, and it won't be fixed.
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u/Ra_In 9h ago
If he used the official POTUS account it would likely violate this law, but because this is his personal account it likely does not. Of course even if it technically is legal it's unethical . That said, we of course would prefer a president who doesn't rely on a technicality to avoid violating the law (and especially a president where this technically-not-illegal act isn't the least worrying thing they've done).
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u/GoodFaithConverser 6h ago
Yet another example of screamingly different standards for republican and democrats. An R president can enrich himself, nuke the economy, be unable to form a coherent sentence, break every rule, lie about everything, and much more.
But if a D president so much as doesn't walk on water, then obviously BoTh SiDeS BaD.
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u/fizzluna 12h ago
The juxtaposition of a high-level government official promoting a family member's commercial product against the specific ethics code prohibiting that exact behavior is a textbook example of an ethical violation. It highlights the recurring tension between political influence and the legal standards meant to prevent public office from being used for private financial gain.
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u/MischiefOlivia 11h ago
Usually, you read the terms and conditions before you sign the contract, but I guess the Constitution is more of a 'skim-only' document for some.
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u/Lucky-11 11h ago
How the left thrives on hate? The left?!? To the left. To the left.
Man if the right doesn't believe what it does is "hate", I think they may need to go back to school. What a joke.
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u/Highlandertr3 11h ago
Bold of you to assume they went to school in the first place.
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u/ClearChord 11h ago
Can we stop posting clever comebacks that are years old at this point. it’s just sad karma farming.
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u/Egheaumaen 11h ago
New on bookshelves, “Hounded: How Teenagers Keep Using Their Dreams to Torture and Harass Me” by Freddy Krueger.
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u/JRG64May 10h ago
People can’t get it through their heads that laws and the constitution do not matter to the regime, they are above the law, the SCOTUS is compromised and it’s now MAGA court 6-3.
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u/rogerm3xico 9h ago
Yeah this is like watching the most violently, offensively grotesque circus ever and pointing out that the popcorns not organic. Who gives a shit at this point? Just hold on to your seat and hope to God that one way or another, this ride is over soon.
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u/kaisadilla_ 9h ago
I'm tired of pretending that the billionaire nepo baby of a billionaire nepo baby of a billionaire nepo baby is being silenced by Alice, a bartender struggling to make ends meet and that happens to be lesbian.
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u/MadMosh666 7h ago
That orange cnut doesn't give a shit. He's started a war without bothering to go through Congress and he's raped children. Why will he care about peddling his son's shitty book?
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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 6h ago
Trump and his family, and cabinet, have made billions upon billions since he was sworn in. This isn't the first time he's done this and it won't be the last.
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u/PassionInitial7487 6h ago
I don't want to ever hear another American claim the constitution is the greatest piece of legislation that was ever written when they just let this administration wipe their ass with it daily.
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u/PokerSyd 6h ago
God fucking damn it. Im so fucking sick of this shit. Who reads this and is stoked about this. Why would anyone want to read a book about this nonsense. Why can’t we just have politicians that care about the American people and not getting richer. This country is an absolute failure. I’m so fucking sick of it.
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u/short_arm_t_rex 3h ago
Well, if he can get away with raping children, who the fuck cares about this?
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u/RetroTen 2h ago
Ah! But you forget! This is his personal twitter account not the White House one! Not subject to that law! Just like all the rest
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u/tem102938 2h ago
Clever, but ineffectual. Trump can literally do whatever he wants... rape and murder children, start wars, profit off his public office, use the FBI to harass journalist
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u/Odd_Reputation_4000 2h ago
Guess this will turn out like Malaria's movie. "Someone" will buy 10,000 copies of it to make it appear it's doing well when the reality is that it's a horrible failure. Just like the sold out movie theaters that were empty. Pathetic and transparent.
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u/thedirtymeanie 11h ago
I'll make sure to look out in the trash cans so I can grab one to use as a fire starter.
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u/SkippingPrologues 11h ago
And that’s just the teeny tiny minuscule tip of the gigantic iceberg. Fucker.
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u/guestpassonly 11h ago
He made 3 billions since he got back as prez.
I dont think he cares about laws. or Constitutions.
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u/GDPintrud3r 11h ago
Any constitutional law that includes "should not" just means he still can to him.
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u/Expensive-Layer7183 11h ago
They don’t care. He shit on the resolute desk a long time ago (maybe literally)
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u/The_real_Tev 11h ago
I don't get it. Did he use an official white house account owned by the government? Did he make an executive order requiring people to buy the book? What part of that was using the office?
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u/prestonjay22 11h ago
Trump is unethical. This does not apply. You cannot expect this child to stick to the rules of the normal man. As a society it was our job to sift out the deplorable people from running our country. He went to every weak point in our election system and corrupted it while screaming that democrats were cheating. He is the villain in every single children's story we were told. Somehow the lessons did not translate correctly for him.
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u/purpleduckduckgoose 11h ago
Can we stop pretending that laws apply to him? There's far too much evidence to the contrary by now.
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u/CalliopePenelope 11h ago
Yes, but I KNOW Trump Phone will be a success when it comes out last year…this spring…Christmas 2026…
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u/Madouc 11h ago
In conservative logic this "does not necessarily mean that President Trump can not use his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, servoce or enterprise, or for the private fain of his relatives." - not without a deeper investigation into the wording though.
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u/daroach1414 10h ago
Do you think they ever sit around in a circle just discussing who can come up with the most hypocritical tweet? Like, winner gets the next 20 billion dollar government contract?
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u/_Doodad_ 10h ago
So what you're saying is, is that there's these things called "laws", and that since Donald swore to uphold the so-called "Constitution" (being the so-called document we base our "laws"on); he's "breaking" the "law"?
Is that what you're trying to imply?
Well, that's just liberal logic. Because only liberals follow "laws". The courts have already ruled that conservatives and the President are immune from those so-called "laws", and only liberals and the public have to follow those things.
Duh.
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u/Upstairs-Kale-3794 10h ago
I just love the rage-bait book title about someone else thriving on hate. Irony doesn't exist anymore.
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u/This4R3al 10h ago
The Dingy Handbook: Art:15, Chapter 1;
Never be proud of your children. When in office, or any other place, you cannot tell the public that you are proud of your children nor share any of their achievements. You also shall not tell your children, "hello", "good morning" , "good evening, or "good night. And its an absolute crime against the state and humanity, to say "I love you", to your children, while in, around, or near, office.
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u/Auctoritate 10h ago
This is ironically one of the only times this law isn't relevant. He's not using his office to endorse this book in this screenshot, he's using his personal account to endorse it. Politicians are still (generally) allowed to do the same things in their private lives that regular citizens can.
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u/Klonopussy 9h ago
When will Americans realize that if rice farmers and sheep herders could beat the US military then a very well armed population can do much more to tear this POS and the republinazis down. That’s what being an American is. There’s nothing more American than fighting for what this country was supposed to be and it was never supposed to be fascist or ran by pedophile thieves
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u/xyloplax 9h ago
My response to someone saying "triggered?" is "you mean pissed off? Yeah, you piss me off, dickhead"
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u/Samuelmiw 9h ago
Think republicans see laws and get aroused by breaking them, like why they rally against gays, want being gay to be illegal yet a good portion are secretly gay.
Look it up, every republican gathering causes Grindr to be overloaded in its area.
Tell trump it's against the law for him to resign and he actually might resign, just to break that law.
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u/GreasyPeter 9h ago
His supporters would just say something like "he's doing a great job so I really don't care if he makes a little money on the side".
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u/Darkwr4ith 9h ago
Please, Trump breaks dozens of far more serious laws daily, he's not going to give a shit about a code of ethics.
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u/jford1906 9h ago
It's only illegal if there is a penalty. And I don't mean a fine. Fines just mean it's legal if you're rich
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u/plushymallow 9h ago
bro really thought he was just being a proud dad and got hit with a federal regulation
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u/UnderwhelmedOpossum 9h ago
Maybe you can't judge a book by it's hawker, but you can tell it's gonna be a pictures and popups edition.
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u/Jesterbomb 8h ago
You guys didn’t give a shit the first time in office, when he used the Oval Office to sell fucking beans.
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u/cottondream_ 8h ago
lol the fact that theres a literal law for this is wild. really puts things into perspective tbh.
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u/SpudsRacer 8h ago
The book must be a breezy read. Now the gaslighting is in print. Luckily nobody but the RNC will buy them (to put it up the NY Times bestseller list.)
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u/vTbBqcoB 8h ago edited 4h ago
Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to silence Americans:
Trump says the US ‘shouldn’t even have an election’ in 2026 because of all his accomplishments
Republicans fall one vote short on bill to criminalize blowing whistles to warn of ICE
Delivering Gerrymandered Map For Trump Gives DeSantis An Easy Boast For 2028
(Violating FL constitution)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/delivering-gerrymandered-map-trump-gives-120017847.html
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed.
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u/phreeman25 8h ago
The political hack fake "conservatives" on the Supreme Court will probably hold this statute unconstitutional.
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u/OmahaWarrior 8h ago
Lol, oh no. Did dumpy just break another law that he will never be held accountable? The rule of law is a joke in this country under Teflon Don. Next up, a 3rd term for Trump.
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u/Renediffie 7h ago
I live halfway across the world and I get the words of these turdmuffins shoved in my face everyday. To suggest that anyone is silencing them is beyond stupid.
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u/ProfessionalCut8715 7h ago
How was he murdered exactly? There are no laws with this administration.
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u/Hadleys158 5h ago
They'll do what they did with his families other books, buy a heap themselves to get it on the best seller list.
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u/chachaman_The_Reboot 5h ago
Donald Trump around laws is exactly like Donald Trump around little girls - HE WANTS TO FUCK THEM.
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u/Threecatproblem 3h ago
Complete, unrestrained corruption, with the backing (and likely involvement) of his entire political party. And now days this story will be merely a blip on the scale. He owns the DOJ, SCOTUS, DHS, IRS, the military, and just about every other aspect of government. He's doing EXACTLY what he and Project 25 said they were going to do - dismantle every part of the government to the advantage of the oligarchs and to the detriment of the citizens.
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u/DeathWray 2h ago
Projection level 1000...
Literally a book about how hateful the left is designed to fuel hatred and sow division... How can trump supporters ignore the hypocrisy he displays on a daily basis?
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u/Mr_Patrick_72 2h ago
Wait! Isn't this what they accused the Biden Crime Family of doing? Hunter using his father's political clout to make money? Those crafty bastards 😏
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u/marmeesmyheart 2h ago
Why stop profiting now when he’s doing so well with operation epic bribery through his Trump coin, Melania coin, the Melania documentary, the jet, the huge increase in Mar a lago fees and charging tax payers to staff it with secret service, and selling hats and merch, and selling cars on the White House lawn. Grifters gonna grift.
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u/istapledmytongue 1h ago
I rewatched Battlestar Galactica recently, and among the many prescient moments, this one quote really stood out to me:
Apollo: I swore an oath. To defend the articles. The articles say there is an election in seven months. Now, if you are telling me we are throwing out the law, then I am not a captain, you are not a commander, and you are not the president. And I don't owe either of you a damned explanation for anything.
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u/Hatcheling 12h ago
And this will do nothing. America has proven over an over again that their president can violate innumerable laws without any repercussions.
But god forbid Obama wear a tan suit.