The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.
“…according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign.”
The same group that said 6’3" 215, right?
STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)
Ummm isn’t trump the “group” that said he was 6’3" 215. How the fuck is politico suppose to take the heat for trump being vain as fuck?
Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.
I didn’t know that.
Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.
He bankrupted two casinos, let’s hope he destroys the GOP
He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump ™ voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative
I had hoped that the split would have come much sooner. I want to see an unbeatable Dem majority in 2024.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How the fuck do people still think this guy is what we need. Such a cult
Because they’ve compromised their morals so much to get to where they are that they feel like there’s no turning back.
Yep. The biggest con of all is making the marks think they’re in on the con.
Because until recently, we didn’t teach kids that making a mistake or changing one’s mind is ok and a sign of learning and growth. You know, that same social-emotional learning that became a conservative boogeyman.
So a bunch of people grew up to be assholes who feel less masculine or powerful if they admit they were wrong or consider new information. Sprinkle in the narcissists, and behold, the cognitive dissonance olympics.
We punish kids for every little mistake they make. Instead of learning that we all make mistakes and that’s okay, they learn that if you make a mistake you’ll get in trouble, so you’re better off sweeping it under the rug, lying about it, and pretending it never happened.
He says he’ll hurt the people they don’t like.
He talks like they do on Facebook (just like me fr fr) and was first white guy elected after Obama.
He is the Avatar of their impotent rage that we elevated a half black guy to highest office. It could have been Jeb or any other white Republican if they were just a tad more racist.
Because they’re totally telling the truth right? Even if they are…. Who fucking cares? That ain’t gonna sway the judge or jury
I wonder if Italians or Germans said the same before WWII. Are Americans so uniquely deranged? I feel crazy, too. I wonder how long before my brain is feeble enough to fall for fascist dogma.
There’s a great book about that… “They thought they were free” by Milton Mayer
I feel the exact same as you do. I’m an American and none of what is happening makes sense.
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This is the definition of “failing up”
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No he didn’t.
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The biggest thing I’ve got from the mugshot is that Crybaby Trump must never again have any nuclear launch codes.
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Biden ended a war and started no wars, so he has the better record. And Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump tried his best to start a war with Iran, and got dozens of our servicemen killed or injured in their retaliation.
Why does Crybaby Trump’s mugshot look like a pouting and crying 5 year old? It is hilarious. He looks like he has been totally owned by the libs.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe792f17-6e1f-494f-bc6b-a9e740f16bf7.jpeg
Hell no I don’t want this deranged maniac’s finger on The Button. Absolutely no sane person does.
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Eh, let’s be honest. You’re giving him too much credit. He wasn’t allowed to start a war because the smarter people in the room wouldn’t let him. That’s still not saying that much since his cabinet was comprised of sycophants and yes men… but even the dumbest of them were still had the presence of mind to distract him with some coloring books or something when he started talking about international policy
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I wonder if he asked Putin personally not to invade Ukraine.
IDK about most iconic. Raising flag over Iwo Jima photo? 9/11 photos? JFK portrait photo? Just off the top of my head.
Trump doing a mini fundraiser over the whole “look how mad I am for the true Americans” B.S. expression he put on. Dems basically just saying “look at this dumbass” and ready to forget it within a week.
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This is also a historical event, Trump getting arrested. A little less interesting of one, for that matter, since COVID didn’t exactly match up to WWII in terms of national impact, nor did the public really care about a president in the last 30 years as much as they did about JFK.
Can you actually imagine someone running for president as Dem in 2073 using that picture? 2033, even? I’d be surprised (and disappointed) if the current system of government is still in place in 50 years.
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When I was a bit younger, during the Bush era, I bought into people saying everything was historical and this was going to be the catalyst for some huge change in politics. The reality is more depressing, there’s just a constant stream of this kind of thing, and they just fades away and gets replaced in a couple weeks by the next thing. Since this is literally a mug shot of a president, yeah it’s a bit of a historic pic, but don’t get drawn into thinking it’s like The Symbolic Image That Will Define This Generation Of Politics. Although maybe 2016-2022 of U.S. politics to be fair, like if the news 30 years from now is going to show a montage of what happened in politics around now.
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How much of that is just laundering Russian money?
Can we see the donor list, please?
Russia has any money left?
Grifters gonna grift.
If he’s convicted, does this count as proceeds gained via criminal activity, which he would then forfeit?
Nah, it’s specifically not a crime to be arrested, that’d be an infinite jail glitch.
He’ll waste it all on lawyers whose job will be to disprove hard evidence though, since he’s very guilty, so it’ll be fine.
But he could misuse funds or commit other fraud with them.
Sure, but getting arrested still isn’t a crime.
To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.
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It depends on the caption, if there is one
The Trump campaign doesn’t own it, so Trump shouldn’t profit from it unless you buy directly from their merch shop. Best thing to do is sell T shirts and donate the profits
That’ll buy a lot of soap and toothpaste from the prison commissary!
He is going to buy ramen and use the flavor packets as spray tan.
It’s going straight to his lawyers.
Trump don’t pay lawyers. So not going there.
Nah he’s paid out a ton of PAC money.
He doesn’t spend his OWN money on lawyers.
None of his lawyers been paid period. They get told fame is the payment. Plus few sued him and he didn’t even pay lawyers who defended against that.
The one guy from Atlanta got $3M up front.
His PAC admits they spent something like $20M on lawyers so far this year.
Some have gotten paid. The ones who demanded it up front. Giuliani got hosed.
Ramen noodles
Might be enough for a Gameboy Color and a 10 minute chat with Don Jr.
This confirms the narrative his machine has been pushing. It can’t help but mobilize his base.
Morally and legally it’s the right thing to do. Politically, I’m not sure - I don’t know what would be better, but this will likely help him in the short/medium term.
Before I write this, I want one thing to be clear. I find Trump to an absolutely repugnant person, and elevating him to the Presidency has debased the office. I found him unfit for office in 2016, and I don’t believe he should be eligible for 2024.
For better or worse, however, there are a couple of truths about this whole mess as it currently stands. A former President is being prosecuted by the Justice Department of a political rival’s administration. It’s the right thing to do, but it does create a certain precedent that could be disastrous for our democracy. I think Biden saw that, and I think that’s why the Justice Department has waited this long to do anything about it. If his polling numbers were garbage, and he was unlikely to get the Republican nomination, I doubt he’d be getting prosecuted to avoid the appearance of political persecution.
Luckily though, I don’t think Trump is popular enough among independent voters to win the office. Until more polling comes out to tell me otherwise, I don’t think he can beat Biden. He’ll take the Republican primaries in a landslide, but once he needs the independent vote, I doubt he’ll perform nearly as well.
It’ll be a real mess if he catches a conviction too. The man is a walking constitutional crisis.
the absence of prosecution is very much as political as the prosecution. Not prosecuting what is, in reality, a failed attempt at a coup… is what would be disastrous for our democracy. not that there’s a lot of that left, given the sheer number of dumb-asses that think it was “justified”.
Absolutely concur. I hate that they waited this long to bring charges. I really do think that Biden instructed Garland to avoid prosecution as long as possible to avoid the appearance of this being politically motivated.
The best scenario would have been for Congress to have convicted him during one of his impeachment trials. We wouldn’t be dealing with this bullshit at this point.
Biden was reported to be irritated at Garland’s laziness/cowardice.
I think he expected Garland to, I don’t know, value the survival of the Republic over his future invitations to FedSoc junkets, but we know how that worked out.
I’d love to see a source on this.
No sweat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/us/politics/merrick-garland-biden-trump.html
The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.
Awesome, thanks. I’ll read this. I’ve been under the impression to this point that Biden wanted to avoid the appearance of prosecuting Trump based upon political grounds, so he wanted to avoid it if possible. I based that on a NYT article I read a week or two ago and I’ll see if I can’t dig it up.
We can’t not prosecute him.
We can’t set the precedent. Yes he’s the first. I hope he’s the only.
I’m going to leave the above statements here. If you object, down vote. So be it.
If you support the rule of law and don’t agree that he needs a fair trial, tell us here.
He should have been convicted in his at least one of his impeachment trials… then we wouldn’t be in this mess…
While I agree, impeachment is political.
Well, regardless of that, it’s a process to remove someone from office and make them ineligible for office ever again…
I hate that you feel that you have to preface this with a disclaimer so people don’t dogpile you.
I think Brazil is a nice little preview of what will happen next here in America. Bolsonaro used the Justice system to imprison a political rival, Lula. Lula of course was corrupt, but the fact of whether he’s guilty or not doesn’t matter. He was prosecuted because he was polling well.
He ended up going to jail but then shortly after was released. What happened next? Lula is now president of Brazil and now his administration is trying to prosecute Bolsonaro and throw him in jail.
No matter how you slice it, this prosecution of Trump is bad news. We are in for a rough time and an unclear future. They may ultimately only be helping Trump take over the country.
What happens if he wins the primary, and then is convicted and ineligible for the office? Does the RNC just pick the runner up or what?
They change the eligibility with their majority supreme court.
Pretty much. The parties have vacancy committees. So if Trump got convicted and can’t serve, the vacancy committee will pick his replacement. Probably his running mate, or the second-place candidate.
