President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
Anyone still trying to pretend the epstein files wouldn't sink the entire administration?
What a joke.
Blanche said, “There’s a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to make sure that when we do produce the materials we are producing, that we are protecting every single victim.”
As if we don't know who he means when he states victim.
If I were a reporter, I'd be gaslighting him big time.
'Mr President, you say the BBC are using AI to put words in your mouth, adding words you never said. However, it's come to light your legal team have in no way used this as part of the lawsuit. Shouldn't they be using what you have stated to ensure you win the case? Do you have full confidence in your team?'
He wouldn't be able to follow the argument and he'd just say something bizarre on 'Quiet, piggy' lines to cover his confusion.
I thought the Epstein Files was a hoax and they didn't exist?
Now there are too many to release them all at the same time today
Smh
Trump’s ‘Warrior Dividend’ for troops is housing money approved by Congress
Federal News Network - Helping feds meet their mission.
"President Donald Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” bonus for service members, which he suggested would be funded by tariff revenue, is actually a one-time basic allowance for housing stipend already approved by Congress, according to a senior administration official."
Yup, he finessed the troops. The housing stipend would have been tax free but now the government gets a 30+% rebate
Files released! But only some and heavily, heavily redacted.
So you wanted to read it? ? They have to pass a new law for that silly... they said they would just release "it".
Aren't we all just really victims? Isn't everyone?
😉
From Robert Reich's substack today:
Today, after almost a year of Trump’s second regime, I want to talk about the challenge Trump and his regime pose to America’s moral purpose. The best way into the subject is, I think, to ask a few questions about what’s been happening, and then offer an answer to all of them.
Questions:
— Why does Trump’s latest National Security Strategy, released this month, make no distinction between despotism and democracy?
— Why is Trump abandoning Europe and siding with Putin over Ukraine?
— Why is Trump also solicitous of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince MBS, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, and Benjamin Netanyahu?
— Why is the Trump regime so intent on detaining or deporting undocumented people in the United States who have not committed any crimes and have been productive members of their communities for years?
— Why is the Trump regime barring people from even entering the United States whose home countries are predominantly Muslim or whose inhabitants have mostly black or brown skin?
— Why has the Trump regime allowed Andrew and Tristan Tate — arrested in Romania in 2023 on charges of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women — to come to the United States?
— Why is the Trump regime admitting into the U.S. white South Africans as refugees, but not Black or brown people who are in grave danger around the world?
— Why has the Trump regime cracked down on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in universities, the public sector, and the private sector?
— Why has Trump targeted for prosecution or intimidation so many women of color who are now in, or have recently occupied, positions of power in the United States?
Answer to all of the above:
Trump and the people around him are not interested in protecting America’s democratic ideals from the global enemies of those ideals. They reject the progress America and the rest of what used to be called the “free world” have achieved in advancing democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and human rights.
The world they seek is one of white supremacy, male dominance, the superiority of the Judeo-Christian tradition over all other creeds, and America-first nationalism.
White male Christian nationalism is about power. It seeks to give white Christian men power over Black and brown people, over women, over people who are not Judeo-Christians, over people born outside the United States, and over anyone who does not fit neatly into the structure and roles of a traditional family.
White male Christian nationalism has more in common with Vladimir Putin, who condemns LGBTQ+ people and scoffs at human rights; with Saudi Arabia, which confines women to second-class status and murders critics of the regime; and with Viktor Orban, who views Muslim immigrants as direct threats to Europe’s Christian values, than it does with America’s traditional allies.
So, when Trump and his regime refer to America’s “national security,” they are not talking about security against authoritarian regimes that eschew democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. Their view of “national security” is security against forces — both inside America as well as abroad — that advocate democracy, the rule of law, and human rights (which they describe derisively as “woke” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion”😉 rather than white male Christian nationalism.
White male Christian nationalism is a throwback to the world before the enlightenment of the 18th century took root in the West; before the core ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights provided a beacon to America and the world; before Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man.
America has not always lived up to these core enlightenment ideals, but it has at least striven to face its shortcomings and overcome its moral hypocrisies. It fought a horrendous civil war that ended the scourge slavery. It extended voting rights to women. It enacted the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Acts to guarantee equal political rights to Black and brown people. It committed itself to equal marriage rights.
Our system of rights has rested on a civic culture that demands mutual respect, adherence to the egalitarian principles enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, rejection of bigotry and hatred, dedication to freedom and justice, and deep suspicion of centralized power whether in government or in the economy.
After almost a year of Trump’s second term — even more violent and extreme than his first — the moral challenge he and his regime pose to the soul of this nation has become clear: the loss of our core ideals, the deterioration of our founding principles, and the abdication of America’s moral authority in the world.
I've seen a number of photos of Clinton in very suspect scenarios and they're not even leaping on that which says a lot.
Trump forcing Rush Hour 4 when nobody has given a flying **** about this for a decade makes so much more sense now
Smh
Trump’s ‘Warrior Dividend’ for troops is housing money approved by Congress
Federal News Network - Helping feds meet their mission."President Donald Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” bonus for service members, which he suggested would be funded by tariff revenue, is actually a one-time basic allowance for housing stipend already approved by Congress, according to a senior administration official."
Nah man, Daddy totally did this himself out of the goodness of his heart
Hilarious that people said they would release hundreds of completely black pages as an over-the-top joke, and they go and do exactly that. Redditors working in the White House.
Whoops... someone is getting fired for missing this one:
17. During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing the 14-year-old Doe to Donald J. Trump, epstein elbowed Trump playfully asking him, referring to Doe, "This is a good one, right?" Trump smiled and nodded in agreement. They both chuckled and Doe felt uncomfortable, but, at the time, was too young to understand why.
Exactly.... boys will be boys.
You want some more of that clever style banter, just check out this part of the doc dump:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Da...
I guess Bill wasn't in those pages, but obv some other locker room guy.
Focus on Bill Clinton in Epstein Files raises questions about how curated the documents were:
So, we're bombing Syria, eh? But it's not a declaration of war, says the no war president. It's a "declaration of vengeance". The "vengeance president" fits quite well.
Hopefully we can finally stop pretending Donny isn't part of the pedo club. Probably not though.
So, we're bombing Syria, eh? But it's not a declaration of war, says the no war president. It's a "declaration of vengeance". The "vengeance president" fits quite well.
Surprised the Epstein distraction wasn't bigger than dropping a few bombs on Syria. Don't think Americans care enough about a few bombs.
Anyone still trying to pretend the epstein files wouldn't sink the entire administration
What a joke.
Is there some Streisand effect in this, or would they simply have been that damning if they just released them ages ago (in a less redacted form)
