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        It’s a very transparent corruption tool. When Trump was elected, he and his ghouls went around with the hat to get “donations” from all of the large companies. Especially the ones in big tech donated huge amounts for what turned out to be a very sad inauguration ceremony. After Trump gifted all of them huge tax benefits and removing restrictions and regulations, the time had come for the hat to go around again. But you can’t just donate directly to the president, then even the dumbest of the dumb would cry foul. So like the shitty landlord Trump has always been he destroyed part of the White House and announced plans for a huge new construction project. This allowed all of the assholes to once again “donate” to this project. A project that has caused a lot of damage to a monument in order to “own the libs” and has raked in millions in donations, but has done little else. All of this money is being pocketed by Trump and his goons.

        As with many terrible things, it’s all out in the open and yet America does nothing. Checks and balances indeed.

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          It’s called “Money Laundering” and the Real Estate Developer version of it is one of the few things that Trump is actually an expert at. Because at his core, he’s a criminal.

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            And what’s crazy is that he has crypto schemes that are even easier to use, but his Alzheimer’s addled brain can’t remember a time when he wasn’t swindling with real estate. So that’s what he’s fixating on.

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    what about him watching as the newborn child of a 13 year old r*** victim was thrown into the water from a boat

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      AFAIK that’s an unsubstantiated claim by one person unrelated to the victim or anyone, and it doesn’t make sense logistically. You’re not going to let a 12-13 year old walk around pregnant for 9 months just so you can throw their child in a lake. You just have it aborted.

      The child rapes and abuses he is confirmed to have done are bad enough. No point in muddying the waters by instead focusing on more spectacular unsubstantiated claims. Unless you care more about spectacle than bringing child rapists to justice.

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    Literal victims being victimized doing more to punish Epstein associates than the US Govt.

    I was relieved to see she was interviewed as an adult in 2019. Brave as a girl, brave as a woman.

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    As much as I’m sure that child (now woman) never wants to be known publicly, I nevertheless want to give her the keys to whatever city she chooses. And free therapy for life.

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      It’s wild to me that the allegations are about what happened after the bite, when in order for it to happen there must have been coercion and sexual/assault leading to it.

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    Journalists need to bring back the good old art of monstering.

    Do you have bite scars on your penis, Mr. President!?

    Show us your penis, Mr. President!

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    Question:
    How can a person who has these type of documents and accusations about them ever be allowed to run for any type of political position? Let alone become the president of a country (twice)?

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      Wasn’t it something like:

      • 1/3 voted in favor of him
      • 1/3 voted against him
      • 1/3 couldn’t be bothered
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        I prefer a third voted against. A third voted for. And a third enabled it to happen, either by protest or ignorance.

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          My FIL is a Die Hard Conservative. He refused to vote for Trump… and Harris. He didn’t vote for either to “send” a message. I told him a bigger message would be to vote Democratic but he “could not” bc they are forcing kids to be transgender. I told him to prove that and he could not but he saw it on Faux New or News Min and it had to be true.

          I asked him if he knew Faux News was settled on a 750 million dollar defamation case for the lies spread about Dominion voting sustems. He did not and said the 2020 election was a fraud… you can’t get through to these people

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      Because he told the worst people in the country that he would hurt the people they don’t like.

      Honestly that’s it, that the whole thing. There’s nothing deeper than that.

      Trump told racists, bigots, evil people that he was going to hurt their enemies, so they voted for him.

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      Good portion of people don’t give a shit.

      I’ve spend the past three years trying to get people to investigate the sexual and physical abuse of children in Oklahoma, including some child trafficking. No one cares or wants to do anything about it. More people than we want to admit are okay with children being raped and abused as long as they are a certain type of child (foster kids usually.)

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        You’re absolutely correct. From one of the kids in Oklahoma who you were talking about, who was failed hardcore by law enforcement, the courts, the Church, supposed family, fuckin’ everyone… Thank you for recognizing it, believing it, and trying to get shit done about it. I genuinely mean it with all my heart. I’m sending a big internet hug your way. <3

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              She never gave birth how could she know what its like to be a mother and love children? Vote for the rapist male.

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                Exactly if you’re ever voting and on won hand yoy have let’s say a know rapist felon who wants word war 3 and simps yo anyone who hand him something shiny like some sort of braindamaged crow… and the other hand you have a women. Yuk, gross, they have more bodily fluids than I do and I flat out don’t trust it.

                Who knows what a woman would do with power!

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        Come on. That lady didn’t believe exactly everything I believed. How could I vote for someone who is not only a female, but someone who didn’t believe exactly what I believed!?!?

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          She supported everything you support, especially genocide. Which is why you’re belittling anyone who had a problem with genocide like this.

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            I will belittle anyone that put Donald Trump in office. And if you didn’t vote for Kamala Harris, you helped put Donald Trump in office. I and a lot of people on this platform knew exactly what we were in for with Donald Trump 2.0. But millions of people let perfect be the enemy of the good.

            It’s a choice of survival. I’m never going to say the DNC is perfect. Frankly, I think the DNC is worse than the RNC. I’m a Bernie bro from 2016. But when you see a fuckin train coming down the tracks, step off the rails.

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              But millions of people let perfect be the enemy of the good.

              Genocide. Is. NOT. The. Good.

              No matter how much you love it.

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      A considerable amount of the American general public is criminally ignorant, willfully terrible, or both.

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      It’s because legally, having a criminal record doesn’t disqualify you from running. There isnt anything preventing this. Most likely its to help prevent a minor mishap from long ago condemning your future abilities (otherwise, you’d have all sorts of small charges against every politician to destroy their career. It would make the worst blackmail material).

      Now, morally why did enough people vote for him anyway is a whole different issue that I don’t have an answer for.

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        It’s also so that someone can’t weaponize law enforcement on their political opponents. So let’s say you’re president. You come after me on a bogus charge. I’ve now got a record. I can no longer run against you.

        Morally, I agree entirely.

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        I know loads of adults with no “minor mishaps.” It’s not just normal to have a criminal record, they had no reason to do that. They just assumed no one was dumb enough to vote for criminals

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          I know plenty of people with records. Few of them are white. Fewer still are white, cis, straight, and ablebodied.

          If you look a certain way or dress a certain way, law enforcement tends to look for opportunities to harass or arrest you. So no, I don’t think it should be illegal to hold office as a felon. (I’m also against felons having their voting rights taken from them.)

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    Wow! What a piece of absolute shit. I always knew he was garbage, but this … wow.

    Also, good for her. I hope she drew blood from that little pecker. And I hope she’s still alive and doing well. The world needs more people like her.

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      I always knew he was garbage, but this … wow.

      dude…it’s going to get worse, so hang on. Girls were murdered.

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        I’ve heard the rumors, but I’m holding out until there’s more evidence. Wouldn’t surprise me though.

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      Some time after the Orange Jackass is in the ground because nobody in power has the fucking balls to so much as slow him down.

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    Page 10: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 12/EFTA02858481.pdf

    EPSTEIN talked about blackmailing people in front of [redacted]. [redacted] was confident TRUMP knew EPSTEIN blackmailed people because she heard EPSTEIN and TRUMP talking about it. [redacted] stated she knew TRUMP had illegal building permits. She heard him (TRUMP) talking about washing money through casinos.

    I wonder if this is true, about Trump washing money.