Which of this week's Trump stories is worst?

[goaded]

These are just from the last week.

The Jack Smith deposition was in December, but only released on New Year's Eve, for obvious reasons.

Trump illegally attacks Venezuela, killing dozens

Under oath, Jack Smith says Trump was guilty in both federal cases

Department of Justice break the Epstein Files law, again

As Americans lose health insurance, Trump considers marble for his ballroom

Trump forces coal power stations to stay open, including one out of action for the last month

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Updates

6 mo

I forgot the pardon selling story.

"In Donald Trump’s Washington, freedom has a price tag. The presidential pardon, one of the most serious powers granted by the Constitution, now looks like a product on a shelf.” — Attorney Mitch Jackson

[MisterWack]

The fact the elites in charge of Epstein files magically found millions of documents and haven’t released them yet is the worst for Americans and the victims seeking justice, transparency, and above all else accountability against ALL Involved.

The worst is our President attacking, kidnapping, swindling, and missile attacking all in the name of Big Oil, not even trying to hide it. Flat out admitting.
And Congress isn’t doing anything when The President has to go through them for Declaration of War and didn’t even press politicians prior or after, literally admitted to the press he only kept Oil Companies informed before, during, after.

This is a broken ass system that has Trump benefiting personally from it.
What stops another administration (Democrat in the future) from doing the same thing?
It doesn’t, and this is the main thing Republicans now have 2 for 2 back to back things to this caliber (Iraq). War, fear mongering, hate, and BS excuses. Open our eyes, but sadly we won’t.

Not to mention, I was happy hearing in 2017 we wouldn’t do Democracy building in other countries would pull out of Afghanistan only for 2021 Biden to actually implement leaving. Donald J Trump now says USA runs Venezuela.
The flip flopping and regime change is on record and anyone can look it up.

This man is weak, insane, and corrupted.
He isn’t an average joe fighting the elite, he is the elite.

[goaded]

"What stops another administration (Democrat in the future) from doing the same thing? " A sense of honour, sadly lacking on the right. I expect a future Democratic administration to limit the pardon power, at least by allowing a congressional veto (who would support the pardons of fraudsters), and make it explicit that presidents are not above the law, just like for most of the last 250 years.

[MisterWack]

@goaded I view this as if you can’t be compassionate for humanity or your fellow citizen, then at least have the self awareness to believe that a future administration can do this and worst and justify it with whatever bs they can come up with, then get away with no accountability at all.
However I don’t think right leaning care too much, only see it in the short term for some reason….

And yes our politicians are our public services, which must follow the people not the people following them. We don’t serve them, it is them who need us. I expect future Democrats to impose anti corporate policies, reversing environmental damage caused by this administration and past ones, raise our wages, lower cost of living, healthcare reform and limit presidential powers so this may never happen again while expanding powers of Congress.

[Still-alive]

in my opinion Trump will do anything to avoid facing the consequences of the Epstein Files inculcating going to war it seems.

[Still-alive]

including*

[goaded]

He will. We already know that he sent young (teenage) women from Mar-a-Lago to Epstein to be sexually abused.

[NathanDavis]

the worst part is that... we might not know about it yet, and it is about to come...

because those E-files sure won't...

those 10 to 20 names have been redacted by very powerful mandates, mandates which are above the president, the congress, the FBI, and everyone else...

[AngryCarl2]

None of the above: It was actually Trump claiming that he's a better dancer than Maduro.

[goaded]

Seriously? He said that?

[AngryCarl2]

He held a full "briefing" and talked nonsense for over an hour.

[exitseven]

how about Tim Walz asking when "that guy in the White House" will be investigsted after he got himself in the middle of one of the biggest cases of fraud in history.

[goaded]

You do understand that the fraud, run by a white woman, has been under investigation for years and that Walz has absolutely nothing to do with it, unlike the guy in the White House who's selling pardons at $1-6 million a pop?

[exitseven]

Walz was either involved in it or else he is just so incompetent he allowed 9 billion dollars to disappear under his bulbous nose.

[goaded]

www.nytimes.com/.../...n-presidential-pardons.html

[exitseven]

Ay least President Trump signed all these pardons himself and knew who he was pardoning. What do expect the NY Times to say, that he was doing a good job?

[goaded]

"In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump dismissed any personal connection to Zhao. “I don’t know who he is,” he said, describing Zhao as “a respected guy” who had been “the victim of a Biden witch hunt.” When asked about his sons’ business ties, Trump said, “They’re running a business, they’re not in government.”"

("Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in October. In November 2023, Zhao, who founded the biggest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering violations".)
https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605128528

[exitseven]

what does this have to do with Tim Walz? This is exactly what Tim Walz is trying to do. Deflect from what is really going on.

[goaded]

It directly refutes your claim "[At] least President Trump signed all these pardons himself and knew who he was pardoning."

Unless you don't believe Trump when he said “I don’t know who he is”. I don't believe him, I think he knows every fraudster who's paid him for clemency, but he knows nobody supports letting them go to offend again.

[exitseven]

I imagine that he does not know every single person he pardons. His senior advisors can lobby toy get some of their friends pardoned. Every president pardons questionable people. Joe Biden pardoned his son who is a total dirt bag.

[goaded]

So Trump didn't know who he was pardoning. In normal times, people applying for pardons are vetted to see if they're repentant. Now, they just have to pay enough money.

[loveslongnails]

I'm going with "all of the above, and a few more". I love the Tulsi quote. She's even more despicable than Condi Rice was.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Trump's disgusting monuments to himself while millions of Yanks lose health care is reminiscent of the corrupt Roman dictator Nero's fiddling while his city burned to the ground.

[Spencer10]

When you lay them out like this it shocks even me.

[goaded]

It came out of another discussion. The US media only seems to be able to cope with one idea at a time.

[msc545]

I voted for Venezuela, but I could easily vote for healthcare too. They're both really shitty.

[goaded]

An excellent choice! It might take weeks for over-priced health insurance to kill 100 people, Trump did that in a couple of hours in Venezuela.

[Sal_Monella]

His lack of arrest and prosecution of Clapper and Brennan.

[888theGreat]

The murder of Good in Minn

[goaded]

Trump's defence of it, saying about the murderer who literally walked away unharmed: "it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.".