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Staff deleted my reply and told me to start a thread instead, so fine I will.
Trump loves pointing the finger and relentlessly blames bad things happening on someone else and posters here are just as quick to highlight Democrat scandals, so I thought it'd be appropriate to make this post regarding the current President and his laundry list of scandals, controversies, and criticisms.
Trump Scandals:
Trump is an adjudicated sexual assailant in a court of civil law (Google: E Jean Carrol).
Trump is a self admitted abuser in recorded audio leak (Google: Billy Bush Trump Audio).
Trump is a multi convicted felon in state court (Matter of legal record: Trump falsified business records to pay hush money to a porn star he had sex with 4 months after his wife gives birth).
Trump settled a discrimination lawsuit with the DOJ for refusing to rent to people of color (Matter of legal record).
Trump pressured state officials to fabricate election results (Google: TrumpRaffensperger phone call).
Trump pressured his vice president to over turn election results by refusing to certify election results (On December 23, Trump re-tweeted the Ivan Raiklin "Operation Pence Card" memo while stating "America @VP @Mike_Pence MUST do this, tomorrow To defend our Constitution from our enemies ... Let him know!").
Trump denied the election results and then incites a riot in which a mob intended to hang the VP and prevent peaceful transfer of power (Matter of public record).
Made fun of POWs and Gold Star families. (July 18, 2015, Trump appeared at The Family Leadership Summit in Iowa where he said the following: "He's not a war hero.... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you.")
Former owner of Miss Teen USA and long time documented friend of child trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. During a 2005 radio interview, Trump bragged to Stern about using his status as pageant owner to enter the dressing room while under age contestants were changing. Trump said, "I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it," and added, "I sort of get away with things like that".
Trump continues to abuse his position of power to grift his supporters and personally enrich himself:
Trump bibles (Made in China)
Trump crypto scheme (deposit account for bribes)
Trump sneakers
Trump trading cards
Trump watches
Trump is not only enriching himself through blatant corruption of this Meme coin and WLFI venture, but is also removing any regulatory oversight of these crypto scams, AND he helped bail out 1 of his largest investors (Justin Sun).
Trump $1 Coin - On one hand, this is just petty grandstanding similar to the proposal to put Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore. Ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things and just trying to virtue signal/provoke a reaction (if its even legal - seeing a lot of conflicting opinions on that). On the other hand, it's pretty telling that they're pushing for the celebration of America's 250th birthday to be all about Trump. It's pretty disgusting how almost every branch and agency in government is going out of their way to kowtow to the sitting president.
Deemed fascistic, dangerous, or incompetent by closest advisers:
"The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States." Mike Pence (former VP - appointed by Trump)
"His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice." - Gen. Mattis (former US secretary of Defense - appointed by Trump)
"I think he's unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well." Mark Esper (former US secretary of Defense - appointed by Trump)
Donald Trump is "fascist to the core" and "The most dangerous person to this country." - General Mark Milley (former Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff- appointed by Trump)
"This will be a retribution presidency. And it will not be just against extreme left wingers, it will be against people who are Republicans and conservatives who stood against Trump. And it will be against people in the military, like Mark Milley." John Bolton (former National Security Advisor- Appointed by Trump)
"Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office." Bill Barr (former US Attorney Gen - appointed by Trump)
"The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he's culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace." Tom Bossert (former Homeland Security Adviser - appointed by Trump)
"He has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself. In fact, as history well shows from his divisive lies, as well as from his unrestrained contempt for the rule of law and his related crimes, his conduct and mere existence have hastened the demise of democracy and of the nation." Ty Cobb (Trumps former White House lawyer, not the oldYankee Tiger/Athletics* player)
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?" -- JD Vance (Current VP - appointed by Trump)
Staff deleted my reply and told me to start a thread instead, so fine I will.
Trump loves pointing the finger and relentlessly blames bad things happening on someone else and posters here are just as quick to highlight Democrat scandals, so I thought it'd be appropriate to make this post regarding the current President and his laundry list of scandals, controversies, and criticisms.
Trump Scandals:
Trump is an adjudicated sexual assailant in a court of civil law (Google: E Jean Carrol).
Trump is a self admitted abuser in recorded audio leak (Google: Billy Bush Trump Audio).
Trump is a multi convicted felon in state court (Matter of legal record: Trump falsified business records to pay hush money to a porn star he had sex with 4 months after his wife gives birth).
Trump settled a discrimination lawsuit with the DOJ for refusing to rent to people of color (Matter of legal record).
Trump pressured state officials to fabricate election results (Google: TrumpRaffensperger phone call).
Trump pressured his vice president to over turn election results by refusing to certify election results (On December 23, Trump re-tweeted the Ivan Raiklin "Operation Pence Card" memo while stating "America @VP @Mike_Pence MUST do this, tomorrow To defend our Constitution from our enemies ... Let him know!").
Trump denied the election results and then incites a riot in which a mob intended to hang the VP and prevent peaceful transfer of power (Matter of public record).
Made fun of POWs and Gold Star families. (July 18, 2015, Trump appeared at The Family Leadership Summit in Iowa where he said the following: "He's not a war hero.... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you.")
Former owner of Miss Teen USA and long time documented friend of child trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. During a 2005 radio interview, Trump bragged to Stern about using his status as pageant owner to enter the dressing room while under age contestants were changing. Trump said, "I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it," and added, "I sort of get away with things like that".
Trump continues to abuse his position of power to grift his supporters and personally enrich himself:
Trump bibles (Made in China)
Trump crypto scheme (deposit account for bribes)
Trump sneakers
Trump trading cards
Trump watches
Trump is not only enriching himself through blatant corruption of this Meme coin and WLFI venture, but is also removing any regulatory oversight of these crypto scams, AND he helped bail out 1 of his largest investors (Justin Sun).
Trump $1 Coin - On one hand, this is just petty grandstanding similar to the proposal to put Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore. Ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things and just trying to virtue signal/provoke a reaction (if its even legal - seeing a lot of conflicting opinions on that). On the other hand, it's pretty telling that they're pushing for the celebration of America's 250th birthday to be all about Trump. It's pretty disgusting how almost every branch and agency in government is going out of their way to kowtow to the sitting president.
Deemed fascistic, dangerous, or incompetent by closest advisers:
"The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States." Mike Pence (former VP - appointed by Trump)
"His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice." - Gen. Mattis (former US secretary of Defense - appointed by Trump)
"I think he's unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well." Mark Esper (former US secretary of Defense - appointed by Trump)
Donald Trump is "fascist to the core" and "The most dangerous person to this country." - General Mark Milley (former Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff- appointed by Trump)
"This will be a retribution presidency. And it will not be just against extreme left wingers, it will be against people who are Republicans and conservatives who stood against Trump. And it will be against people in the military, like Mark Milley." John Bolton (former National Security Advisor- Appointed by Trump)
"Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office." Bill Barr (former US Attorney Gen - appointed by Trump)
"The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he's culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace." Tom Bossert (former Homeland Security Adviser - appointed by Trump)
"He has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself. In fact, as history well shows from his divisive lies, as well as from his unrestrained contempt for the rule of law and his related crimes, his conduct and mere existence have hastened the demise of democracy and of the nation." Ty Cobb (Trumps former White House lawyer, not the old
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?" -- JD Vance (Current VP - appointed by Trump)
