Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?
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Only if we let him and so far we have, and this is an embarrassment beyond description. In my 7th decade and you guys have screwed the pooch. America has gone Nazi and it's your apathy that will kill us
I suggest get a single spokesman that can organize feet on the street nationally. These Nazis have to see you in the streets of the capital. Sitting behind a pc or phone, whining, is why America is getting it's as kicked..
Well it's not really a bribe, as a bribe would require he give something in return, the famous "quid pro quo". It's probably more helpful if you think of it as extortion, rather than a bribe.
I’m saying there isn’t a need to grease the palms of hundreds of people when you can dump it all in the kingpin’s hands and he’ll lean on them for you.
They're not "willing" to do it. Every million they spend on Trump is a million they can't spend on shareholders, but it's preferable to ending up where Tiktok is right now. Which is the threat used to extort them.
Wonder if it's possible to immediately sue for counter-damages and then insist the lawsuit should be set aside since the POTUS is 'too busy' to deal with suits.
Per the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump can do literally anything he wants, anytime he wants, as often as he wants, for any reason, or for no reason, without consequences of any kind.
Yes. It's actually brilliant. Perfectly legal bribery where both sides benefit and are required to sign an NDA that hides details of the settlement/bribe from the public.
Yes! The Republicans are letting him do whatever he wants to do because the republicans are getting everything they want. Just look at what they're doing to the American people. Satan trump is an empty vessel that is being driven and controlled by the republican party.
He hasn't already? The only thing he's good at is grift. Too bad all Republican senators are so good at fellating the baby carrot or we wouldn't be in this mess.
💯👍 I read pukin owns him.
After dude borrowed money from him in the 80's to bail him out from bankruptcy! His 5th or 6th one, I am not sure. HUMPTY is BEHOLDEN and COMPREMISED in my opinion. And should be watched very closely. But sure put him back in office.
Ridiculous!
The floors rented out to the Saudis, Russians and Chinese are used as luxury maternity hotels, so high-ranking dignitaries can have dual-citizen children.
Similar to 47's MO: I worked in a building with a small stream running under it. During a surprise down pour kids were playing in the swelling river. One got swept away & stuck under the bldg. The parents sued our company. The owner sued them back for negligence of a child and won.
My point is, your story is completely fictional.
The owner could not possibly have sued the parents. He would not have had any legal standing to do so.
I'm telling you what he told me. I do think that I'm wrong about one thing. This was long ago and I'm old.
I think that he threatened to sue them for child negligence.
Seems so. We have no integrity left in the GOP it appears. All those that had integrity Trump has separated out now. I would say Lisa Murkowski from time to time but other than that, good luck. The GOP has accepted Trump as their king, anything he does is amazing to them.
The Pulitzer Prize people used his own argument against him. They said his suit against Pulitzer should be delayed until he is out of office. Hope the judge agrees.
Apparently there are two sets of rules one for the Clean up Administration and one for the destruction administration so it just depends on if you live the country or if you hate the country. That’s all
Justice is Coming!
FB was complicit in fixing the 2016 election through propaganda w Cambridge Analytica. Hence why Trump is embracing AI. A more powerful propaganda weapon
Well, there are easier faster ways to just bribe through back-channels/businesses for voluntary bribing. What you are talking about is more accurately called “extorting emoluments”, no? Anyway, he can do it as long as courts play along presumably. Not guaranteed.
The SC has lost all credibility, for helping this FELON fleece the UNITED STATES.
They have to answer for this, but knowing full well KARMA has been taking notes on everything, all the CRUELTY and CORRUPTION.
Won't go over well in the end! Never forget we all will be held accountable, eventually
He's got the most crooked supreme court behind him ... He's got his GOP goons that lie for him .... And he's got his cult base that believes anything he says .... So I'm going to say ...
It is as if Mr. Chump thinks that now SCOTUS has granted his Blanket Immunity, he can do absolutely anything while in office with impunity. And, like a toddler, he will test that theory many times a day.
With every Executive Order which directly affects funding, we need to watch/follow the money.
Did you whine this much when Joe Biden signed executive orders that allowed 11 million illegals into the country, or the EO designating his authority over the Nat'l Defense Stockpile giving him permission to deplete our strategic oil reserves for his own domestic political purposes?
Was he this concerned about Joe Biden's family receiving millions of $ from foreign governments? So much so he had to pardon his whole family. Get over that.
They're a hotel BUSINESS. They received $ for providing a temporary domicile. What business were the Bidens in? I'll tell you. The business of providing political influence. Further, you support a party that hid from the ppl a man who was deemed incompetent to stand trial nevermind run the free wrld
2024 SCOTUS decision in Snyder v. United States criminalized bribes made before an official act, but accepting gratuities after the fact is very legal and very cool.
Why do that when he can just fire inspector generals and get kickbacks for not ICE raiding certain work places or any other type of favor he wants to bestow, oh heck, its probably ALL those moves and more that our noncriminal minds just can’t keep up with.
Yes apparently. And he can also sell things, take bribes through his family all with impunity. No one stopped him before. They should have. Congress is worthless.
Yeah clearly. Law suits to get bribes seem like too much work when they can just buy a dozen next time he is selling $100,000 watches or just buy a bunch of his shitcoin. Lawsuits aren't for bribes, they are for punishing people who stood up to you. Perhaps by demanding you pay what you owe.
If, separately but en masse, we filed small claims suits- in which defendants represent self as lawyers not allowed - against Trump, insurers, agencies etc it would cost them time & resources. A mediator decides. My cost in wa? 50$
It is the Viktor Orbán way of dealing with one's political opponents and to frighten others not to defy you. Make them pay financially into submission. Trump has never had an original idea.
He can’t be sued for *official* actions. I don’t know anything about his Meta suit, so no idea if it’s related to personal or official actions but he isn’t king yet, so let’s not hand him privileges he doesn’t have by preemptively accepting he has absolutely no restrictions on his behavior.
The official action will be dismissing the FTC's antitrust litigation against Meta -- just wait, it's coming. And the fact that he was bribed to due this, under SCOTUS's logic, will not matter.
The president is immune, takint a bribe is an official act. Obviously the president could do that convoluted shit when they can also just directly accept bribes.
The president is above the law, as the supreme court said.
Can't some Nazi or whatever sue for getting kicked off Facebook and say they did the same thing to me or make him show discovery for why trump gets 25 million but Lara Looney gets nothing?
Yes.
On another subject, concentration camps will keep us distracted while he does it.
Can the @aclu.org stop it, or are we doomed to watch another Auschwitz, this time in our own country? We knew it would get too expensive to deport them (just like the Jews) so....
He wants to be able to hold 30,000 prisoners in Gitmo. That’s a very expensive place to have a prison, especially a very large one operating. And that won’t be a prison, it will be a concentration camp.
A major part of Trump’s failings is that he believes America is a corporation and he’s the CEO.
I don’t know enough about USA constitutional law to be 100% certain, but I’m pretty sure money the government gains isn’t supposed to become the President’s personal property.
This isn't a bully!
THIS IS PATHETIC!!
Never use any photos that might show him in a good light.
He is a weak drooling incontinent OLD WIMP.
Use the photo of him looking like a petulant child in front of Angela Merkel. Plaster his weakness on TV screens, newspapers and billboards.
I believe Trump is not running the show. The Heritage Foundation has placed its people in administrative positions and fed him everything, and Musk is next door to fund it. This has been a setup from day one, including JD Vance.
They want a far-right extremist regime/corporate government
I agree that the zealots are running the show. Trump...diet coke, a little golf, watch tv, and sometimes you gotta come out for a public appearance. Project 2025 folks, they're in the war room everyday.
Biden didn't pardon Russell vought, Tom Holman, and Brendan Carr now? Just a few key contributors to Project 2025, and there are many more in trumps administration.
btw. i agree that Trump don't run a show. He is personaly ideologicaly neutral. So all this ideologicaly motivated executive orders come from puppet masters.
But i belive thats always case with american presidents.
iam not american so iam not familiar about details, only "bigger picture" what can be seen from distance.
It seem to me that Trump trying to dismantle old deep state ( or old establishment, or whatever people call it ) ..with new one. That is what he wanted to do in his first turn, but failed.
He has zero interest in actually governing. As long as they fluff his ego and tell him how great and smart he is along with him being able to act like an important man in front of cameras he's happy letting them run the show.
I believe you're right and not enough people are thinking and talking about this. The MAGA cult is absolutely incapable of grasping this terrifying reality.
I agree w/ much of your belief but I don't think that Vance has the personality to be the leader of the maga cult, even w/ Musk & Thiel's money propping him up.
Even if they further advantage maga b4 the next election (voter suppression etc), Vance would still need a decent number of voters to win.
Vance is in on it because Peter Theil paid a lot of money to get Vance where he is. Musk can't run for the presidency. He wasn't born here unless Trump changes that too, lol
Absolutely. Trump by himself is completely useless for doing anything governmentally. He has a vast network of intelligent vultures circling him who have the actual ideas and do the actual, awful work.
That wouldn't surprise me if it was true. If so, there must be people on the ground planning something fast in order to counter these maniacs and overwhelm them the same way they do, with chaos. Such as the hundreds of executive orders at once and hardly any time for people to process it. #MAGAtards
No and even if you are, I won't judge because I was one myself many years ago, but on our side. I think Trump and his supporters are conspiracy nut jobs and are the conspiracy.
Someone on TikTok said the same, and added to a theory that the 3rd term is for Vance, Trump will be the fall guy. Vance is push through the rest of the authoritarian agenda, with the intent of taking absolute power. Scary scary times.
I started reading a lot because we hadn't seen much of Vance. Where did he come from? With Vance's beliefs and admiration for Curtis Yarvin's proposal RAGE, which is happening now, he is way more dangerous. Elon Musk has quite a liking for Curtis Yarvin.
I agree with you. This is the result of a long thought plan. They let trump run the show because it was the only way to win elections and impose their agenda. For trump is indifferent because he’s there for the money and power
Imo “chRump” is there to stay free of prisons and poisons. Without the presidency he will soon be in the presence of one, the other, or both. He’s certainly not “innocent” by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course he’s not innocent. I didn’t mean that. At all. The THFoundation agenda is old and trump being all we know he is, is the perfect vehicle to implement these ideas.
They are using him as a pawn, and he's too stupid to see what's going under his nose. He will be out soon because I think Vance is their chosen one, and he could be much worse. Trump is literally white trash with money
Yes he wants to convince us that is possible to stay on the “podium”. Democrats must act, this is not only an American problem it’s on democrats around the world to fight back. He’s contagious.
One positive is their golden goose can’t last forever. He’s a once in a generation con-man. They’ve strutted out dozens of “the next right wing star” and they all flop.
I believe you’re making up conspiracy theories. Trump is clearly in control. And if anyone thinks otherwise and Trump hears of it, that person will immediately get the axe.
Sir, I mean no disrespect, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is not Trump. When making any of these decisions, he has a playbook called Project 2025, and no, this is not a conspiracy theory.
I AM AN AVID READER
Just keep in mind the real threat is Putin and Trump carving up the world’s natural resources with only the (fragmented) EU and China to stop them. Project 2025 is a nightmare, but a mild one compared the global international threat that’s taking shape.
I don’t think Trump cares about the details. He wants control of police and the military and he wants them to be loyal to him above anything else including the law. Everything else is just a means to an end. When Trump feels threatened, he will remove Project 25, or Vance, or even Musk.
Not a conspiracy guy either but I think you’re both right. He wants total control and someone convinced him that the blueprint to that control was project 2025. All he had to do was follow it.
I don’t think Trump cares about abortion or Christianity or Project 2025. So yes, Trump is not driving those things, but he is in the driver’s seat. He will axe Project 2025 if it becomes an impediment to his goals. In short, MAGA will follow Trump and let go of project 2025 if forced to choose.
If so, and we survive their tyrannical destruction, we need to add concrete protections that will ensure democracy continues for our future generations. For its the younger generation we fail if we remain complacent and complicit!
True that try a few of these:
felon in chief
Bully in chief
LIAR in chief
Grifter in chief
SA'er in chief
Grapest in chief
.... any more anyone else would like to add?
#notmypresident that's actually my favorite! 🥴🤦♀️🤨
Yes, please!
Orange slab of Imitation bacon.
Adjudicated rapists
Chief Cheeto
The Orange Savior
The Golden Turd.
Daddy dumpy pants
MAGAt Miser
Cheeto Mussolini
I got tons more but it’s someone else’s turn!!
1/ Yes, but it is far worse than that. Due to the July 1, 2024 ruling by the christofascist SCOTUS super majority the Constitution is nullified except for tyrannical power for the executive branch. The POTUS, no matter party, can eliminate political opposition, dissolve “coequal branches.”
As a result, the contract between the people & Fed & the states & Fed is void. Therefore, the Fed has no legal power to levy tax until the Constitution is restored. I invoke the original intent of the Declaration of Independence & refuse consent to absolute despotism.
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A few million to Trump is chump change in exchange to what they get in return.
#corruption
That's what makes it feel like bribery.
A grifter is going to grift!
But it's the obvious Russian bail-out coming down the road that is going to the real show-stopper.
https://reddit.com/comments/j6z8eh
After dude borrowed money from him in the 80's to bail him out from bankruptcy! His 5th or 6th one, I am not sure. HUMPTY is BEHOLDEN and COMPREMISED in my opinion. And should be watched very closely. But sure put him back in office.
Ridiculous!
What legal standing did the owner of the building have to bring a case against the parent?
The owner could not possibly have sued the parents. He would not have had any legal standing to do so.
I think that he threatened to sue them for child negligence.
https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/
Justice is Coming!
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64075067
https://www.ask.com/news/social-media-alternatives-to-facebook
Fuckin fool just got punked!
Trump used his millions he got from “political donations” to get out of charges and prison time while Sen Menendez heads to prison for 11 years.
Until we fix this, no Justice
Grifters gonna grift. Like crazy.
They have to answer for this, but knowing full well KARMA has been taking notes on everything, all the CRUELTY and CORRUPTION.
Won't go over well in the end! Never forget we all will be held accountable, eventually
Can the “president” continue to use the office to sell merchandise which violates established federal law?
https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/profiting-off-the-presidency-trumps-violations-of-the-emoluments-clauses/
WYA Cohen?
So yeah, in 2025, this will happen.
He's got the most crooked supreme court behind him ... He's got his GOP goons that lie for him .... And he's got his cult base that believes anything he says .... So I'm going to say ...
Yes, he can and he will!!
With every Executive Order which directly affects funding, we need to watch/follow the money.
2024 SCOTUS decision in Snyder v. United States criminalized bribes made before an official act, but accepting gratuities after the fact is very legal and very cool.
I wonder if SCOTUS had this in mind when they granted him immunity.
“Official Acts”.
The president is above the law, as the supreme court said.
On another subject, concentration camps will keep us distracted while he does it.
Can the @aclu.org stop it, or are we doomed to watch another Auschwitz, this time in our own country? We knew it would get too expensive to deport them (just like the Jews) so....
https://bsky.app/profile/nikkimcr.bsky.social/post/3lgvqniy6i22r
I don’t know enough about USA constitutional law to be 100% certain, but I’m pretty sure money the government gains isn’t supposed to become the President’s personal property.
But sole proprietorships….
THIS IS PATHETIC!!
Never use any photos that might show him in a good light.
He is a weak drooling incontinent OLD WIMP.
Use the photo of him looking like a petulant child in front of Angela Merkel. Plaster his weakness on TV screens, newspapers and billboards.
The old C×NT should be in PRISON not the White House!
😠🤦♀️🤔
They want a far-right extremist regime/corporate government
But i belive thats always case with american presidents.
It seem to me that Trump trying to dismantle old deep state ( or old establishment, or whatever people call it ) ..with new one. That is what he wanted to do in his first turn, but failed.
Even if they further advantage maga b4 the next election (voter suppression etc), Vance would still need a decent number of voters to win.
Here’s a pretty good Forbes timeline:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/07/16/jd-vance-and-peter-thiel-what-to-know-about-the-relationship-between-trumps-vp-pick-and-the-billionaire/
The American Hitler and a massive investor in Musk's businesses
Trash is trash.
I AM AN AVID READER
https://newrepublic.com/article/179776/heritage-foundation-viktor-orban-trump
And nobody has testicles to set him straight.
felon in chief
Bully in chief
LIAR in chief
Grifter in chief
SA'er in chief
Grapest in chief
.... any more anyone else would like to add?
#notmypresident that's actually my favorite! 🥴🤦♀️🤨
Orange slab of Imitation bacon.
Adjudicated rapists
Chief Cheeto
The Orange Savior
The Golden Turd.
Daddy dumpy pants
MAGAt Miser
Cheeto Mussolini
I got tons more but it’s someone else’s turn!!
No quit, no quarter, 24/7.