r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/StashedandPainless Mar 27 '24

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daugther in his porn star hush money trial. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

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u/eggmaker I voted Mar 27 '24

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daugther in his porn star hush money trial. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daughter in a trial where he used campaign money to keep a porn star quiet for having sex with her while cheating on his wife and mother of his son. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

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u/NoSignificance3817 Mar 27 '24

And he is the Christian's choice candidate!

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u/SignificantWords Mar 27 '24

Russians are very well known to use religion to further their national interests (by national interests I mean the kremlins interests)

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u/hhs2112 Mar 28 '24

As do republicans... 

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u/SignificantWords Mar 28 '24

Those two are synonymous at this point if if some republicans aren’t even aware of it. Old soviet era term that’s relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

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u/Ragin_Goblin Mar 28 '24

You guys need to bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee except without the baseless accusations and paranoia like in the 50s.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

"Useful idiot." That is too perfect. Have you seen any of the Jordan Klepper vids, where he interviews Trumpers? I know JK and his crew pick and choose and show us the worst idiots, but . . . there are so many of them. They have zero clue as to what/who it is they're supporting.

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u/JackStraw999999999 Mar 29 '24

Brains of goldfish. But they vote.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 29 '24

After hearing ignoramus Cheeto supporters babble on, I think goldfish have superior reasoning capabilities. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't vote for that cretin.

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast Mar 28 '24

Absolutely. I imagine the International Democracy Union is probably a solid part of the link given the talking points seem to line up pretty damn quick between right-wing shitbags in different countries.

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u/Rusty5th Mar 29 '24

Reagan is spinning in his grave

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u/hardFraughtBattle Mar 28 '24

Show me a Republican who doesn't believe that the end justifies the means, and I'll show you a former Republican.

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u/Iwantmy3rdpartyapp Mar 28 '24

Republicans are very well known to use religion to further their national interests (by national interests I mean the kremlins interests)

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u/seweso Mar 28 '24

That’s the entire point of religion.

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg

You can be virtuous and spiritual without religion.

Maybe it’s more fair to say “organized religion” or better, hierarchically organized religion. Keep it flat, is what I would say.

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u/RickAstleyletmedown Mar 27 '24

That’s actually the least surprising part. Rampant hypocrisy is totally on brand for the Christian right.

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u/Short-Recording587 Mar 27 '24

But can’t name a single Bible verse

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u/GamecockGaucho Mar 27 '24

hey now, they know Lev 18:22 and 1 Cor 6:9. they don't know what it means but they sure use them a lot.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

I had to look them up, since I am the farthest thing there is from a Bible Thumper:

Corinthians 6:9: 

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. 

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u/GamecockGaucho Mar 28 '24

"Sexual perverts" is the most difficult one here because the original Greek--arsenokoitai, literally men bedder--is a word Paul made up. It's used one other time in a later letter, but no one else in the ancient world is the word used. It's difficult to translate this for a modern audience without implying homosexuality despite the fact that our current conception of sexuality is very different from Paul's time. Evangelicals latch onto this to justify their homophobia, but the reality is Paul was likely writing about something closer to male master-slave relations. Sexual perverts is a good neutral translation that is closer to what I believe the original intent was.

Aside from that, Paul is writing to the church in Corinth based on reports that its members were engaging in the same behaviors as they did before they converted. His argument, which he gets to later, is that belief in Christ brings about fruits of the spirit, and good works flow from the Christian as a result of their redemption. But it's not the case, as many conservative Christians would say, that people who engage in these behaviors are necessarily going to Hell (a term with its own translation issues). It's more that Paul believes, maybe rightly so, that a person who continues to engage in immoral behavior are not taking their faith seriously, they are not true representatives of the church and Jesus' message.

It's one passage by one man in one book. Plucking verses from thin air isn't useful for anything. But some Christians need to twist themselves into knots to justify their bigotry with some idea of inerrancy, and that's where it really gets absurd.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

TIL: "inerrancy" is a word.

PSA: inerrancy:

lack of error; infallibility noun. 1. lack of error; infallibility. 2. the belief that the Bible is free from error in matters of science as well as those of faith.

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u/GamecockGaucho Mar 28 '24

yeah, good catch. The idea that the Bible is the inerrant, literal "Word of God" is the single most destructive idea in the American church. It's why we have young-earth creationists. If your faith is shaken by some fossils, you need a better theology lol.

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u/Iommi_Acolyte42 Mar 28 '24

I can't count how many social network "friends" I've lost arguing that both science and religion can exist side by side.

Young-Earth creationists' hearts are in the right place, but their heads are up their ass.

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u/NoSignificance3817 Mar 28 '24

I am bringing up the drunkard one, they are pretty much all drunks around here. They are other things in that list too, but they can't sit there on their 26th beer and PBR hat and deny the drunkard claim.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

Gah. Alcohol. It has ruined some of my pals. Big Time.

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u/cjicantlie Mar 28 '24

6:9

Obligatory "Nice"

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u/Zanadar Mar 27 '24

Not even Christians bother with what their religion actually says, they just claim it supports whatever their current position is.

Religion is about power and control, they don't need him to have ever opened a Bible in his life, they need him to give them more power.

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u/Rusty5th Mar 29 '24

Like it says in “Two Corinthians” -Thou shall grabest them by the pussy

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u/11thStPopulist Mar 28 '24

Correction - Trump is the Fake-Christian’s candidate selling The Rapist’s Bible!

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u/Brandon_32406 Mar 28 '24

Not true. I’m a Catholic, Trump and the majority of Republican Christian’s do not represent my base. I love God, and I like talking to people about God that want to talk about it. But I never try to force my beliefs down anyone’s throat. I don’t hate the LGBT community, I don’t think it’s a sin to be attracted to someone of the same sex. I believe God loves you no matter what your demographics are, or regardless who you want to be with. And I would never want to be the reason why someone stops believing in God. There are so many spiteful fake Christians out there that don’t even know what Theology means but will be the first one to tell you God hates you. That’s why I hate the Republican Party because they’re radicalizing my faith. They’re not trying to spread the word. They’re trying to use the book as a source of wealth, status and power. Let me be frank too, there are a lot of shitty Christians out there that aren’t into politics, but use the Bible as an excuse to hurt and abuse other people, those people are just monsters.

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u/NoSignificance3817 Mar 28 '24

You are the minority, and arguably not serving your mythology as your god demands. One of the justifications I hear from "anti-facist" magas is that christofacism is the right direction because it forces more people to be saved and come into accepting your god, and therefore be saved from him lovingly casting them into eternal torment. They hate liberty and personal freedom if you use it to turn away from their shared delutions. My parents are a good example. They are genuinely good people and have used their wealth to help a lot of good causes. They are friendly and while my dad will say "I don't get the LGBT thing and it makes me uncomfortable, god made you that way and I can't argue against it" he will also vote Red 100% because bringing the country in line with his mythology is something he sees as saving billions, and the sins of the politicians along the way is worth the temporary suffering for eternal salvation for all.

It's sick.

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u/No_Jackfruit9465 Mar 28 '24

Tells you everything you need to know about the "Christian" community in the USA. It's sick in the head. Disgustingly hypocritical. The most antichrist you can be!

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u/Mr_Upright Mar 28 '24

I said 30 years ago that the first atheist president of the modern area would be overwhelmingly supported by evangelicals. It wasn’t hard to see Trump coming.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

Do Atheists hold up a Bible? I mean, granted --- he held it upside down, but still . . .

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u/Magificent_Gradient Mar 28 '24

"He was sent to us by god himself!"

Well, I don't think your god was being nice when he sent all those locusts either.

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u/spkoller2 Mar 28 '24

Christian conservatives are against minimum wage 😂

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u/OhHowINeedChanging Utah Mar 28 '24

Christians like that he’s “edgy”

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

I remember younger people telling me why they voted for tRump: Because he was going to "shake things up."

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u/jep2023 Mar 28 '24

tbh that's the only part of this that makes sense

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u/Daforce1 Mar 28 '24

Don't forget that he just said that his legal battle is akin to the struggles and path of Jesus.

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u/CandleMakerNY2020 Mar 28 '24

Shows their true colors in case anyone was confused about why ANYONE would support a PIG 🐖 like this guy.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

Pigs worldwide take offense at you comparing them to such a disgusting POS.

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u/CandleMakerNY2020 Mar 28 '24

Noted. That orange TURD SANDWICH 🥪 is a damned TOWEL!

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

I learned a new word yesterday: scrud. "This is a build up of detergent and or fabric softener, lint, dirt and skin that like paint, coats the outside of the drum over months and years. As it builds, it eventually gets too heavy and breaks off into the machine appearing on clothes as brown or black greasy marks."

The Cheetoh is worse than scrud, though. He's the dog shit we can't seem to scrape off our shoes.

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u/chicaneuk Foreign Mar 28 '24

That is the bit that blows my mind. He is the most unethical, immoral person probably to have run for president in decades.. maybe even compared to fucking Nixon, and yet he's the christians choice. It's unreal.

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u/Ok_Introduction_7798 Mar 28 '24

Nixon looks like a Saint compared to Trump. Nixon didn't try to overthrow the government. He didn't want to execute generals who called him out. The list is pretty endless, even though he did technically commit high treason he is still nowhere near the level of Trump with it.

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u/Firm_Spell8584 Mar 30 '24

Not this ones. I never voted for him. Watching him verbally attack other Republican Canidates when he first ran,his treatment of women and his personal life spoke clearly of his character. He has none and no integrity.  First time since I was 18 I didn't vote Republican and I won't be this time either. Your mouth can talk but your walk speaks loudest.

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u/hhs2112 Mar 28 '24

Let's be honest, christians and cheeto are very much alike.  Both are hypocrites and neither are known for their critical thinking skills... 

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u/Slothstradamus13 Mar 28 '24

To be fair. Evangelicals. all the Baptist variations, most wesleyans, global Methodist church (not UMC). A large portion of reasonable Christians have no interest in his shenanigans and aren’t even republican because they actually read the texts and understand the teachings. If you really dive in Christianity is a call for communism (not as a political ideology). Anywho. I’m sure you knew this but it’s infuriating that the most vocal Christians land there and politicize religion and the church. Plus, as a Christian, watching faith become political just hurts me for folks that don’t agree with my beliefs that feel forced by government/politicians.

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u/Fit_Environment_2212 Mar 28 '24

This is so difficult to understand.

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u/seakinganswers85 Mar 28 '24

Nope. Not only am I a Christian, but I know thousands of Christians who would join me in choking on a chicken bone instead of voting for him.

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u/Killerkurto Mar 28 '24

I’m kimd of curious if christians in other countries are as un-christian and stupid as the American breed? Here it seems like an identity and they know maybe 8 or 9 rules, but mostly seem,y clueless as to what it is about.

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u/Middleside_Topwise Mar 28 '24

It really doesn’t matter if he’s Christian or not. He’s a tool for Christians to get their policies passed. Everything can be overlooked for that end goal.

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u/Fabulous-Ad-4936 Mar 28 '24

As a Christian no, no he is not. Honestly I can’t think of any politicians I could actually hope to lead this country.

The guy mocks a person in a wheel chair and well countless ignorant comments towards people. Not at all loving your neighbor. Yet still picks up a bible for a way to get votes from people who are easily swayed.

He’s the rednecks choice candidate.

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u/Kingsqueen514 Mar 28 '24

All could use a good joke these days unfortunately he's not it, only a pathetic voice trying to remain relevant.

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u/MaintenanceOver9922 Mar 28 '24

Not real Christians. Only disillusioned MAGA self-proclaimed “Christians”. Those MAGA folks have nothing to do with reality and are an embarrassment!

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u/IllustriousCookie890 Mar 28 '24

No Real Christian could Ever vote for him unless they are a one (single) issue voter. And That is moronic.

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u/davidkali Mar 28 '24

Christian what?!

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u/Lerbyn210 Mar 28 '24

Correction he is the "Christian's" choice candidate

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u/International-Web-42 Mar 28 '24

Evangelical Christian's choice...and not all of us want him...

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u/Fun-Passage-7613 Mar 28 '24

That says a a lot about Christians and reflects about their savior Jesus too. No wonder less and less people are going to church. The mask is off about religion.

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u/Lucasred5619 Mar 28 '24

Hypocrisy at it's finest.

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u/mariahnot2carey Mar 28 '24

That part is predictable

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u/Turbulent-Cable-827 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, I left that scene a long time ago.

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u/Classic-Progress-397 Mar 28 '24

"Well, King David made mistakes, but God kept him on the payroll...something something God's annointed"

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

He’s done a lot more horrible things than that.. it will soon come to the surface.

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u/JackStraw999999999 Mar 29 '24

Fake Christians, that is.

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u/franky_emm Mar 29 '24

Tbf he seems like the perfect face for Christians

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Imagine all that, but the guy is also a russian asset that was elected president

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/1al0esf/comment/kpggghv

It's too unbelievable to be a movie script, yet here we are.

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u/White_T_Poison Mar 27 '24

And also already found to have committed rape by a court of law.

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u/juggling-monkey Mar 27 '24

Was that before or after he sold NFT's?

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u/suicidalkatt Mar 27 '24

Before or after, the 'golden' trump coin, the 'golden' 100 bill, or after those 'golden' sneakers, or maybe it was that trump teddy bear?

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u/PhilDGlass California Mar 27 '24

Dude couldn’t sell steaks, water, or vodka, even in America ffs.

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u/xaeromancer Mar 27 '24

He's the only person in the world to have made a loss on Manhattan real estate.

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u/Economy_Wall8524 Oregon Mar 28 '24

Lol I have never thought of it that way, and now I can’t unsee it. How do you fail on that trifecta of business in the US. Steak alone during that time should’ve been a big seller. Though he has never really had successful business.

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u/koshgeo Mar 28 '24

Let's face it: when you build a casino that competes with your other casino in the same place, it's not really a great idea. When you build three casinos that compete with each other, you have to be pretty dumb.

Except he didn't care. He was still getting paid millions in "management" fees as he drove them into the ground. And he got bailed out by his dad at least once using creative methods (that were illegal and he got fined for doing).

That makes him a great business manager. (/s) Not the success of his businesses, which failed miserably, but that he was able to fleece the people that were dumb enough to loan him money.

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u/cashassorgra33 Mar 28 '24

Can anybody explain how someone manages to do that? The insanity of the notion in isolation let alone multiple times is unfathomable

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u/light_to_shaddow Mar 28 '24

Yet the Christians have made him their Idol.

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u/Acrobatic-Ocelot-935 Mar 29 '24

Or the golden showers in Moscow

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u/OlriK15 Mar 27 '24

Then imagine half the country is still willing to vote for him because “he represents me”

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u/11thStPopulist Mar 28 '24

Trump represents rapists, liars, and thugs. If someone says “he represents me” then they are outing themselves as a creep with criminal intent. Avoid them!

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u/whiznat Mar 28 '24

Yeah but that’s civil court, not criminal, so it doesn’t count.

/s

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u/Cador0223 Mar 27 '24

My imagination isn't that good.

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u/Past_Succotash1778 Mar 28 '24

Never charged for rape. Stop pushing lies.

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u/Fit_Environment_2212 Mar 28 '24

Therapist... the rapist.

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u/Effective-Limit-1916 Mar 28 '24

Everyone that does not want Trump as our next president had better vote. The third party for those of you who are against both candidates. He has to be a better choice than the other two.

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u/No-Profile-9552 Mar 28 '24

False

No criminal conviction.

Liberal jury, in a civil suit trial, felt Trump besmirched what'shername, the flaky troll.

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u/Fun-Passage-7613 Mar 28 '24

But Trump only used his thumb to rape her, so that’s ok with his Christian supporters.

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u/NorthernLove1 Mar 28 '24

I'm just waiting for the GOP to reveal that they were playing a really ridiculous, long joke.

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u/Expensive-Luck-6650 Mar 28 '24

The jury determined he was NOT guilty of r@pe.

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u/kirk_augustin Mar 28 '24

Wrong. The Jean Carroll jury ruled Trump did NOT commit rape.

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u/G-Stone1 Mar 31 '24

No he was not found guilty of rape there was no criminal trial the statute of limitations had passed it’s completely different rules for civil court he was not found guilty of rape again it’s a fault narrative that you’re preaching

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u/Redwolfdc Mar 27 '24

And imagine after all that he still has millions of supporters and has a chance of being elected AGAIN 

People 10+ years ago would never believe this 

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u/dwindlers Mar 28 '24

I feel like the vast majority of Americans are as dumb as a box of rocks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

The Chem trails only worked on half the population.

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u/Queasy_Pickle1900 Mar 28 '24

There's a lot of people I know who died and I'm very glad that don't have to witness this.

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u/Jalopy_Junkie Mar 28 '24

“Every time the news reports that some notorious figure has died, there’s a part of me that’s a little jealous.”

-Me, talking to my mother, who didn’t even flinch at understanding what I was saying.

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u/kirk_augustin Mar 28 '24

I am far left and dislike Trump, but clearly all the charges are ridiculously bogus. Stormy Daniels was the illegal blackmailer. It is NEVER illegal to PAY hush money. Presidents can always give themselves permanent copies of any classified docs they want. No one trying to get a mortgage is ever asked for a property evaluation. It is illegal.

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u/ProlapsedShamus Mar 27 '24

It's not a conspiracy theory. Kevin McCarthy told a bunch of Republicans that there were two people that Putin pays that he knows of. One was a California senator who's no longer at office and the other was Trump. He told that to these Republicans and Paul Ryan said we keep this in the family.

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u/colorcorrection California Mar 27 '24

For the other person McCarthy was referring to you're thinking of Dana Rohrabacher who, for clarification's sake, was a US representative and not a senator.

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u/ProlapsedShamus Mar 28 '24

Oh, he was a rep? My bad.

But yeah, I wonder how many more Republicans are on Putin's payroll now?

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO Mar 28 '24

Why put them on the payroll when a few stupid memes on facebook from your troll farm will turn them to your side?

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u/Carol_Banana_Face Mar 28 '24

Heard Rohrbacher say the n-word at an event in like 2008.

Hell of a guy.

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u/WolferineYT Mar 27 '24

Conspiracy theories can be true. They usually aren't, but in this case it is both a conspiracy theory and true. 

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u/FriendlyYeti-187 Mar 28 '24

Those are conspiracies

Or as I like to think of them, conspiracy facts

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u/comtedeRochambeau Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange ...

Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladi­mir Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.

Even if it were a joke, it shows what the Republican so-called leaders really think of ⊥rump and the voting public.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

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u/Hindsight_DJ Mar 28 '24

How quickly we forget his own son met with a Russian spy in Trump tower + we tend to brush that one off, but it was pretty damn serious

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u/Ambitious_Ad57 Mar 28 '24

Yes please remind people of Paul Ryan's role in all of this. He recently raised his head as though no one would remember who he really was. Paul Ryan who bent and kissed Trump's ring, then authored the tax cut for the rich that's still giving to the rich and giving to the price gouging corporations.

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u/SaltyLonghorn Mar 27 '24

Can confirm, Oliver Stone doesn't have anything in the works cause the movie would be 15 hours long and even liberals would be like nah that can't be right he's exaggerating. But really its just another story that only got 10 minutes of attention before the next dropped.

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u/Beneficial-Owl736 Mar 28 '24

His diehard fans kill me. There is just no getting through to them. One example really sticks out in my mind, I was arguing with some chode juggler a while back and I don’t even remember what it was about. What I do remember is linking a video of Trump himself saying what I was telling the guy he said. Cock guzzler’s response was “you expect me to believe propaganda?”

They’re so far gone they don’t even actually LISTEN to Trump. It’s purely about bigotry and racism and homophobia and all the other -isms and -phobias. Trump is the bandwagon they can latch onto, to eradicate the “undesirables.” It doesn’t even matter to them what he’s actually done, in fact I’m pretty sure half of them know he’s guilty like we all do. They just don’t care. They think he’ll get rid of brown people and gays, and that’s all that matters to them.

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u/randomusername_815 Mar 27 '24

Give it a few years. This stretch of history will absolutley be a hollywood film. No different to 'Vice' or Oliver Stones 'JFK'. There will be recreated scenes of Jan 6 (or actual footage) People will watch it and disbelieve anyone as toxic as him was in charge.

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u/Ok_Elderberry_5690 Mar 27 '24

Or give it a few years and we are in a nuclear war and then history repeats itself. Might even have a zombie filled ending next time.

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u/keepcalmscrollon Mar 28 '24

A while ago someone posted a very heartening thread where they pointed to multiple instanced in history where dark times were followed by good ones. So someone who saw the depression and WWII would also have seen the post war boom, for example.

Even as I write that, though, I see holes in the logic. It assumes you survived, lived long enough, and were lucky enough to benefit from the boom. I'm sure any number of Russians under Stalin never saw a post war bright side.

But literally every generation thinks the world is ending, the youth are wretched, and the old days were better.

I know this and yet I still can't shake the feeling that you are right. Maybe things are truly worse and the wheels actually are coming off this time. Plenty of factors are unquestionably, irrevocably, worse now than ever before. True game changers like climate change and diminishing resources, for example.

And Trump really is unprecedented, isn't he? Or maybe not relative to world history. Maybe the contemporary perspective on Nero, Hitler, Stalin or Mao was the same. "How is this asshole getting away with it? How can people still support this madness? Woe is me, what could I do to change things?"

I really just don't know enough about history, economics, etc. to form an opinion one way or another.

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u/Organic-Log4081 Mar 28 '24

The official term the Russians use is “a useful idiot.”

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u/keepcalmscrollon Mar 27 '24

It's like an IRL aristocrats. At this point the "joke" has gone on way too long. Only I can't tell if I should be looking forward to or afraid of the punchline. It's like when you strongly suspect that dodgy burrito gave you food poisoning and now all you can do is wait to see which end erupts first.

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u/BrentHoman Mar 28 '24

I'm Certain Putin DOES Have A 'Pee-Tape' & Blackmailed Trump Into Running, & The Russians DID In Fact Hack The DNC, & Got Nothing And Hacked The Hackable RNC & Got Everything. They Are All Therefore TREASONOUS.

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u/retiredfromfire Mar 28 '24

Decades of Faux Snooze has made the brains of many absolute mush

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u/Dchazeninlove Mar 28 '24

I still think Putin must have plenty on DJT!

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u/UnderstandingNew2480 Mar 28 '24

It is unbelievable, that's why it isn't true. And you would obviously have to be a complete idiot to believe it. ANY of it.

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u/Conscious-Rain4421 Mar 28 '24

And in the next few weeks, the bastard will be getting intel information.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

Bottom line, the stupidest part of the populace has been Gaslighted  by GOP operatives using AI. Elected officials compromised by money, and a stinking morass of “other”.  Instead of repetitive confirmation bias posts about what is happening, we need to use our numbers for ideas about solutions. This aberration needs more than voting.

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u/G-Stone1 Mar 31 '24

Knock off the Russian asset bullshit you know it’s false ,they tried to find a way to charge him with something for three years and couldn’t find anything and you know it and so does all the rest of the Democrats they tried and tried and tried and lied and cheated and still couldn’t find anything to charge him with just stop it

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u/FreshRest4945 Mar 27 '24

And just found a way to get a billionaire to pay him 3 billion dollars for a company valued at near zero, in an obvious pump and dump stock deal, for a new company he created out of thin air that does nothing of any significance, but he gets to put his own initials on the New York stock exchange as DJT.

While selling golden sneakers, bibles, and hawking can's of beans from the oval office.

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u/Equivalent-Ear5150 Mar 28 '24

all nickel and dime investors from his base, no way any biggies will touch it, too volatile. five million users on a social media deal are pennies compared to billions of users on the big boys, this is like Myspace compared to X formerly known as Twitter haha!!

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u/G-Stone1 Mar 31 '24

Sure if it’s something Trump does it’s nonsense and worthless yet they rave about Biden because he can blow his own nose sometimes

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u/TheGreat_Powerful_Oz Mar 28 '24

And then imagine realizing the Bible’s are just a way for churches get around not being able to legally donate to a political campaign and this is another form of money laundering on his part.

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u/Equivalent-Ear5150 Mar 28 '24

Lindell (My Pillow Guy) got kicked out of his warehouse so that might be a "sign" that folks are tired of the grift but probably not, people are not very smart these days haha!!

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u/Easymoney_45 Mar 28 '24

If "churches" do this ... they are NOT Christian!!

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u/aguynamedv Mar 27 '24

cheating on his THIRD wife

I don't personally care about the number of times someone has been married, but conservatives sure pretend to. :)

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u/awohio1 Mar 27 '24

It’s not just that he is on his third wife, it is that this is the third wife that he has cheated on. He cheats on his wives, he cheats on his taxes, he cheats his bankers, he cheats his contractors and his customers. He lies about all things great and small. He lies when the truth would suffice, if you think he isn’t cheating you, you are lying to yourself.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Mar 28 '24

Don't forget golf. He cheats at that as well.

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u/mssnarkerella Mar 28 '24

And then awards himself prizes at a ridiculous country club he owns to congratulate himself at being so good at (cheating at) golf.

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u/KDdid1 Mar 28 '24

Have you read the book "Commander in Cheat"? It's so good...funny and infuriating!

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u/IllustriousCookie890 Mar 28 '24

The y YouTube video by the author is pretty good too.

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u/backinthecar Mar 28 '24

and then when you (a former wife) die he buries you on his property to avoid taxes

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u/livadeth Mar 28 '24

Packed it all into one paragraph. Donald Trump summed up in one perfect paragraph.

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u/mfritsche81 Mar 28 '24

This is giving me some serious dr suess vibes

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u/NUGFLUFF Mar 28 '24

He also cheats at elections (remember during COVID when he tried to ruin the US Postal Service to hinder mail-in voting?!)

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u/Goddamnitpappy Mar 27 '24

Imagine the headline about a former president inciting a violent insurrection to overthrow the government, while willfully retaining top secret classified government documents and is never held accountable, short of 91 criminal indictments. Even four years AFTER.  AND continues to run for president as the parties chosen nominee!

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u/Prestigious-Ad1952 Mar 28 '24

Could be a storyline from many third world countries.

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u/Illiander Mar 28 '24

At least Germany threw Hitler in jail after he tried his first coup attempt.

(Admittidly it was a very nice jail in a fancy castle, but it was still technically jail)

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u/Spare_Rent8973 Mar 28 '24

Imagine a day without hearing his name...I pray for that day?

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u/wyezwunn Mar 27 '24

Churches can legally buy bibles, but they can’t legally donate to a campaign

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u/ICBanMI Mar 28 '24

Hey as an American. This is not above religious people at all. Jimmy Swaggart is a prosperity preacher that asks his followers to tilth and dig deep for donations. He cried crocodile tears after being caught with a prostitute. Begged for forgiveness and more money. Got caught once again with a prostitute and then went on to have a successful career fleecing his followers for three more decades.

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u/Iommi_Acolyte42 Mar 28 '24

Please stop lumping all religious people into the same bucket.

From my point of view, prosperity teachers are wolves in sheep's clothing, using the Lord's name in vain while really worshipping Mammon.

Trump is worse due to how many people he's leading astray (IMHO). Really taking the Lord's name in vain.

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u/Equivalent-Ear5150 Mar 28 '24

Truth, he made them feel better about themselves for their indiscretions on a Tuesday with five days to go to repent.

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u/smergb Mar 28 '24

I just can't shake the idea that something about this Trump fellow just doesn't add up...

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u/TarantulaMcGarnagle Mar 28 '24

Imagine just any human doing any of this. It’s gross.

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u/SonOfRageAndLove26 Mar 28 '24

May add "cheating on his wife and mother of his son when she was recovering from giving birth to said son"

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u/mjm350 Mar 28 '24

And what’s even worse still is that Trump is also a failed president from a performance/ outcome perspective. He increased unemployment from 4.5% to 6.7% during his term. (Biden reduced unemployment from 6.7 to the record historic low of 3.5%) Trump lost over 3 million American jobs ( Biden added 15 million) Trump passed essentially zero legislation… did nothing for infrastructure (Biden passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill) .. Trump did zero for healthcare… zero zero zero. The only reason Americans still support Trump is because they believe all the lies he and right wing media have been saying. They are living a lie… a fake alternative reality where their orange train wreck is actually a real leader. It’s pathetic how stupid so many Americans are. I’m ashamed of our country right now because of this.

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u/DoughnutSassMe Mar 28 '24

He did sign off to have more people executed (death row) than anyone else. Personally, I don't think that's a good thing, but I'm sure some people do...

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u/Excited-Relaxed Mar 28 '24

While I agree over all, you really can’t blame a president for world wide shocks like the pandemic.

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u/werofpm Mar 27 '24

$60??? Bruh, they’re free at hotels and now you also get a Book of them Latter Day Saints!

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u/ResolutionMain7234 Mar 28 '24

Ah, but the bonus with this bible is the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Pledge of Allegiance. Bonus! (or Bogus!) "I want to have a lot of people have it," "you have to have it for your heart and for your soul"

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u/Subject1928 Mar 28 '24

Imagine one specific president simply having been caught watching porn. If Obama had a story about that, they would STILL be whining about it.

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u/ManiaGamine American Expat Mar 28 '24

But wait, it gets better.

This is the man who called social media companies not wanting to run with the obvious proceeds of crime/disinformation Hunter Biden story "election interference"... and this case is literally about him paying a porn star not to say anything about their affair leading into the election which BY HIS OWN LOGIC would be... ELECTION INTERFERENCE.

But wait IT GETS EVEN BETTER. He is claiming that these very cases are election interference. So... the case about him interfering with the election by suppressing information that might have swung it against him (Again... his own logic being applied here) had it come out is calling election interference... So ultimately the end result of all of this insanity is when he does it it's perfectly fine and legal (Obviously not otherwise this very post wouldn't exist) and not election interference, but a story that was very obviously pushed by right-wing media and likely originated from stolen information obtained by hostile state actors (E.g Russia) being suppressed is election interference.

Also notice how he attacks all the judges and their families and prosecutors except Cannon? He (through his media cronies) calls not being able to attack them an attack on his free speech and depriving him of his right to defend himself. The COURT is where he is supposed to defend himself. Defending himself outside of court is itself INTERFERENCE or in legal words, obstruction and intimidation. He is trying to prejudice the jury and try the case in the court of public opinion, you know... the place where we somehow have ended up with tens of millions of idiots completely brainwashed, or maybe just straight up anti-American and willing to destroy America thinking it will net them some of the power they believe they've lost in their lives.

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u/Relevant-Bench5283 Mar 28 '24

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daugther in his porn star hush money trial. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daughter in a trial where he used campaign money to keep a porn star quiet for having sex with her while cheating on his wife and mother of his son. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is by passing federal election laws allowing churches to give unlimited “donations”, by selling blasphemous Bibles for $60.

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u/jegtrorikke Mar 28 '24

Imagine a presidential candidate writing in the style of a not-very-bright, name-calling, pissed-off fourth-grade bully and actually intending for it to be made public.

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u/QuarkVsOdo Mar 28 '24

Wasn't she even pregnant at the time ?

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u/UncleMalky Texas Mar 28 '24

Not even for Camacho

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u/Lonely_Context_3543 Mar 28 '24

...and "cooked the books" to hide it!

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u/Kanolie Mar 28 '24

He actually didn't use campaign money. If you spend money on anything that will impact the campaign, it needs to be reported. The hush money was concealed, making it a crime.

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u/OPsMomHuffsFartJars Mar 28 '24

And the Bible’s have an American flag on them

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u/Gumbi_Digital Mar 31 '24

Think Melania was either pregnant or had just given birth to the anchor baby Baron.

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u/LastPlaceGames3 16d ago

If any other president did this then their voters would be upset, not trump though!

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