ex-President 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 low-info Boomers like my religions aunts. I have two questions:
a) Is anyone here who supports Trump bothered by lies like this?
b) Does anyone know what he's even talking about here? Like is there some grain of truth that he's embellishing on bigly?
Nope. Only in certain special circumstances.
Nice try, but all of that is about state national guard units, and the US Capitol is not in a state.
The DC national guard is under direct control of the president.
https://dc.ng.mil/About-Us/#:~:text=This....
"This authority to activate the D.C. National Guard has been delegated, by the President, to the Secretary of Defense and further delegated to the Secretary of the Army. The D.C. National Guard is the only National Guard unit, out of all of the 54 states and territories, which reports only to the President."
If the Secretary of Defense denied the request of the president, he should have been impeached. If the secretary of the Army denied his request, I assume court-martial would be appropriate.
But I have not heard of Trump attempting to activate the DC national guard that day. Do you know otherwise, or who dropped the ball?
Imagine paying $60 for a donald trump Bible and/or $300 for Donald trump sneakers and/or $75 for shares of DJT and/or being willing to sacrifice your personal relationships and/or life because you think Trump was anointed by god or something
And thinking we’re the ones with TDS
I can do one better: can you imagine anyone that is advising him on a campaign to retake the white house recommending he sell bibles or sneakers.
You know the reason he is doing these grifts is Trump looked at the real books showing his actual wealth and his pile of liabilities and he alone decides it's worth it to hawk this crap.
No, for the attempted prevention of Congress doing its constitutional duties.
The selfies are just the damning evidence (wow, they really were stupid, huh?).
Commit the crime, take the video evidence and then post it on your social media page. These clowns make BJ look like, dare I say, John Nash.
No one cares. That's incidental to the topic - your Mickey Mouse belief that Trump wanted to preempt something they'd premeditated in detail.
Peace offering
Trump posts bond for the civil fraud case in NYS
Shame. Would have been fun to watch his **** getting repo'ed.
Why would a bond company be willing to put up this much but not the 450 million or whatever they asked for at first?
Why would a bond company be willing to put up this much but not the 450 million or whatever they asked for at first?
because he might have been able to produce enough high quality (highly liquid ) collateral for this bond size and not for the previous bigger one.
keep in mind they wouldn't accept real estate usually, and anyway most Trump real estate assets have a mortgage on them so they won't be accepted as collateral because of that anyway, normally.
you can have several property worth (say) 100 each, with 20-40 of mortgage on each, so plenty of net worth, but all of that wouldn't work for bond collateral
Speaking of possible conflicts of interest, the judge of the classified document case, Aileen Cannon, has been nominated by Trump (????) to that seat, it's truly incredible to think that American rules allow her to judge Trump himself.
Judge Merchan expands Trump's N.Y. gag order
He has violated every single gag order and no one has done anything about it.
When is a judge going to get some balls and put him in pre trial detention?
An innocent man does not:
1-threaten the court and its officers
2-threaten the prosecution
3-threaten witnesses and jurors
4-threaten innocent people
5-delay proceedings
6-file frivolous lawsuits
7-spend gazillions of dollars in lawyers
8-try to discredit the court
9-play the victim and cry witch hunt
10-incite violence
I can’t understand the literal audacity of saying setting a fire in front of a Walgreens or something (still not good) is the same as literally storming Congress for the expressed purpose of keeping your God King in power by way of subversion of the electoral process and the undermining of tens of millions of votes through intimidation, violence, and if necessary *checks notes* executing the sitting vice president of the United States
I never said setting one fire outside of Walgreens is just as bad as breaking into the capital. I completely understand why you think I’m a bad person - your reading comprehension is so poor that you have trouble keeping up with what is actually said.
However, I did say that setting fire to a bunch of buildings/stores, government buildings, cars, other personal property along with killing a bunch of people and hurting a lot more is worse than breaking into the capital to say you don’t think the election was not fair.
I know this may blow your mind, but if 1,000 people whose only goal is to overthrow the most powerful country in the history of the world they would have the same odds of succeeding if they broke into the US capital or a random Walgreens in a random city.
how close was the fire to the walgreens?
I know this may blow your mind, but if 1,000 people whose only goal is to overthrow the most powerful country in the history of the world they would have the same odds of succeeding if they broke into the US capital or a random Walgreens in a random city.
I understand the point you're trying to make but this is a really dumb way to try to make it and flat out wrong
just say they were incompetent and unorganized nincompoops and the majority were just along for the ride - don't act like we should just accept people storming the capitol as a benign event - that's insane
I understand the point you're trying to make but this is a really dumb way to try to make it and flat out wrong
just say they were incompetent and unorganized nincompoops and the majority were just along for the ride - don't act like we should just accept people storming the capitol as a benign event - that's insane
People attempting to storm the Capitol is a bad event but the actual storming is very simple to avoid (at least in this case), just start shooting.
How many police with full auto guns do you need to have them stop? 5? 10 max?
Do you think vegan qanon shamans , or keyboard lions 40 pounds overweight wouldn't retreat after 50 comrades are killed in front of them?
The event should have been a 3 minute bloodbath followed by a lot of arrests ("drop on the ground now, if you move you are dead" kind of scenario) the instant the crowd moved violently to enter a SACRED PLACE for the country like the building that hosts congress ffs.
Instead police in some cases escorted them inside the building (??????).
According to official proceedings in the following months, at least 140 officers were assaulted.
How can that not translate in at least 140 people shot dead right there on the spot, or at the very least officers trying to achieve that while the perpetrators flee or something?
And we are talking about america where police rules of engagement are even smoother than in most other countries, but basically everywhere in the west if you violently assault a police officer you get shot by him or a colleague (unless you are so weak of a threat they can neutralize you quickly otherwise, not the case of Jan 6 riots).
The lack of any reasonable police reactions to the events is far more sinister than the events themselves, because political riots are to be expected in a very polarized society with a cult of violence like American society, while the last thing you would expect is for police to not use lethal force against a crowd attempting actual insurrection with members of Congress lives at risk.
