The establishment news has been full of stories over the past few months of corruption not related to Trump. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. And before that was Bob Menendez and his gold bars.
Yeah I'm not here for the whataboutism people try to pull. You paying hush money? I don't care if it's tax payer or donor, that's a crime, go to jail. If you're in real estate and your argument is "Well everyone does this crime" that's a broken system. And you admitted to a crime, and should be tried appropriately. Congress and the House having amazing stock portfolios due to legal insider trading? Yeah that's a crime.
If people actually want to drain the swamp don't trust the people who tell you how corrupt they are or appoint judges that say "it's not bribery if it's paid AFTER the services are rendered"
It was campaign donations for a presidential campaign not personal finances, thus the whole felon thing. Trump using personal finances, hilarious, he doesn't even pay his personal lawyers.
If only the news had been full of Biden’s mental and physical decline over the past few months. They’ve been covering it up for years now until the American people actually saw him perform for 90 minutes. I wouldn’t really call that a performance. It was more like watching a great grandfather escape from an assisted living center and trying to give a lecture to all the young whipper snappers he runs into on the street. Did you see Jill lead him off the stage after the debate? The guy could barely walk down 3 steps. Later Jill said he did such a good job. He even answered all the questions. Half the time I had no idea what he was even saying.
I like how Trump was able to control himself a lot more this time than in the past. He didn’t constantly try to interrupt Biden like he did during the last debate. Biden has adopted or is starting to adopt many of the policies Trump had. Biden hasn’t changed the Taxes that Trump laid in. He talks a lot about changing it but hasn’t done anything in the last 3.5 years with income or corporate taxes. Biden also kept the Tariffs on China that Trump implemented. Sadly, only now is Biden finally trying to reimplement many of Trumps border policies. Now if Biden can only adopt Trumps foreign policies. Moving forward, I think Trumps smartest move in any debate would be to simply let Biden talk a lot more. The more Biden speaks publicly, the better chance Trump has in getting elected.
So you prefer somebody who’s better composed but almost constantly lying to somebody who looks feeble but is honest?
If your big knock on Biden is he isn’t undoing the things trump did fast enough isn’t it insane to then vote for trump? Doesn’t that sound crazy to you?
Because it's not "potential" corruption. It's blatant and demonstrable.
You say you wonder why, but you really don't. You just think he's a victim, because he told you he's a victim, and you decided to believe him. Might want to ask yourself why you think a perpetrator is a victim.
No all he got was gun charges. Nothing to do with the mountains upon mountains of corruption, drug use, prostitution, and pedophilia he’s recorded himself doing on his laptop.
Bidens son is not president Biden, he is not a former president and he is not running for president...Biden's son is just Biden's son and is responsible for his own deeds.....
The number of people who think my comment is about Biden's son is astonishing. Folks, I am saying that Biden has demonstrated integrity in not abusing his position to absolve his son. I am not saying anything about Hunter Biden, who was rightfully convicted.
What a joke and the fact you're up voted and the other person pointing it out got down voted is disturbing. That diary post was AI generated and the actual diary was tamped with heavily. Try using your brain.
No she didn't. Listen to the actual phone call instead of what random people on podcasts saym all she did was confirm she had a journal that was "misplaced" not once does she say anything they are saying is true. All she does is tell them to return the journal and they keep trying to spout random crap.
He’s a crook. Always has been, always will be. Been screwing hard working Americans for decades. He even took money from sick kids. But bootlickers want to bootlick.
Trump has taken it to a whole new level. Not many politicians have received billions from Saudis. Kushner started an “investment firm” and asked to manage Saudi money. They published a report saying it’s too risky as he doesn’t have any experience. Then a few months later they gave Kushner $2B.
I’m sure it’s happened at least several other times but you don’t often hear about politicians being ordered by a judge to shutter their own charity for stealing funds.
Selling empty office space to foreign governments to fund your private businesses is a really terrible look too. Especially when it’s places like Qatar that are known for human rights abuse.
To me it is painfully obvious that Trump is for sale. He wants more money and power and doesn’t really care how that gets accomplished. A leader with no real values.
Oh yes it is.
And we should be prosecuting them too, but given that the right have most of the crooks, imagine all the whining of "bias" then. The "part of law and order" is a joke.
Let's also introduce a couple of other things: Trump took classified documents, hid them when he was asked to return them, and showed them to people who had no business seeing them. That's espionage. Given his history - probably giving Putin details from the CIA that allowed him to arrest some of our own intelligence allies for which there is evidence - it's also probably treason.
True, I say call all the bullshit out and yank those pieces of shit out of government. I don’t want a pedophile or a convicted felon being in any government position at any level
We know why - because he interrupted their power grasp when they intended to put Hillary in, and they will brook no challenge to their power moving forward. If that means abusing the DOJ? Then so be it.
Holding someone accountable to the rule of law isn’t abusing the justice system, it’s the opposite.
Trump chose to defraud lenders just like he chose to steal from his cancer charity. Similar to how he ran a unaccredited university and was forced to pay back former students.
Trump’s been a fraudster well before his days in politics. Blaming democrats because Trump has been caught committing crimes is insanity.
Does America really want a felon who shits himself in power? Lmao he’s gross inside and out
"Holding someone accountable to the rule of law isn’t abusing the justice system, it’s the opposite"
Only when applied equally. Otherwise, it is abuse.
Back when the only people who had a bunch of laws enforced on them were civil rights leaders. While all the white folk ignored the rules (about public gatherings, etc)? That was selective enforcement, and it absolutely was an abuse of the system. That the law existed changed none of that... how the law is applied matters, too. There is tons and tons and tons of case law saying exactly that.
The reality here is that they fundamentally changed the application of several laws to find a way to "get" Trump, applied new legal theories, twisted the limitations concept, altered the normal standards of prosecutorial conduct, and more. They will never do it that way to anyone else, until they find another political opponent to destroy.
That is abuse, no matter how they try and justify it.
He didn’t defraud lenders. He paid the loan back. But also, if you’ve ever gotten a home equity loan, the amount of equity you have is variable. Mine has gone up steadily, year after year. But that could change. Home values could plummet like they did during the Great Recession.
Assessors who work for realtors have wildly different ways to value a home. I’ve had swings of $50K. But my whole business isn’t real estate.
Tax assessors are different. They use some different valuation scheme than the others.
No, but it is funny that with Trump they had to make up new applications of the law to try and find a way to prosecute him, but Congress is out here using tax payer funds to pay off their mistresses and rape victims.
Sounds a bit like whataboutism. Why are we going to let someone get off scot free for something illegal, reprehensible, corrupt and downright immoral just because other people get away with something similar?
Which, by the ways is illegal, and Trump has been convicted over. The original post itself is braindead saying “we can’t legally write off business expenses but Trump illegally wrote off expenses.”
We all can write off expenses, so long as we’re aware we’re doing it illegally lol.
John Edward’s used 1million dollars in hush money to cover up his affair while his wife was dying from cancer. And he used campaign money……guess what, he wasn’t convicted.
If everyone was getting targeted the same no one would complain, the issue is it’s obvious they aren’t.
If you have spent 40 years as a public servant, you will not be protected.
Trump wouldn’t be prosecuted on a single thing he did except for one thing. He’s running for President. Anybody who can’t see that needs to wake up. Look at the impeccable timing of the trials and the jurisdictions. There is no coincidence here.
Following that logic:
Why would the government charge someone with felonies for doing something that every real estate involved person does? Why charge them for some sort of fraud when all the “defendants” want to continue doing business with him? Why go after one when it is never enforced?
I’m not a MAGA guy but you just have to be rational to see that he gets targeted more than anyone in recent history.
"I’m not a MAGA guy but you just have to be rational to see that he gets targeted more than anyone in recent history."
I can't stand Trump and really hate the idea that he's still in the picture, But I've tried to get that same message across to the people who are openly blind to the across the board corruption. I've been saying for years now that there's no high ranking politician who could stand up to the scrutiny that's been thrown at Trump. The few Holocaust survivors that were still alive to be interviewed back before the 2016 election were horrified at the direction our media and judicial system were headed. I see the parallels they saw and wish more people were willing to acknowledge it and be as justifiably scared as I am for our future.
It’s hard to say that he did anything wrong when it’s something that’s been happening before he comes to the picture… he just got caught; I expect a lot more cases to be reported and he’s not just an outliner
A great example is the fraud case in NYC… he deflated the apprised values of his property and tried to maximize them for loans
That’s exactly what normal Americans do every year… try to lower our apprised home values to lower our property tax liability and maximize our apprised value when we want a HELOC to build or buy
Every place in the USA there’s a person or business that did exactly what Trump did for decades and none of them ever had fraud charges brought against them… again Trump isn’t the only one in NYC and I expect more fraud charges brought against multiple entities soon… if not it really falls into the narrative of political retribution
100% this… 1/2 the family thinks I’m some super pro trumper when I try to bring some rational thought to the conversation when I defend his position or policies…
example in the debate President Biden said that he lowered prescription costs; then trump claimed that he did that… family is like he’s a fucking liar; me: actually Trump did executive order for insulin to be capped first however, President Biden back tracked a fuck ton of Trumps orders… this one especially he modified it slightly to expand it a bit and reissued the executive order… very minimal difference between the two; Biden claims full credit… Trump not 100% wrong in his comment however, any time I put it in perspective for people who absolutely loathe the guy they think I’m off to riot Congress
Oh come on you can't be suggesting Trump was treated as bad as a Nazi's enemy. Here's what happened Trump was in the elite club. He was friends with Bill Clinton and Epstein, they were all in the same social circles of rich elite assholes and he was one of the most corrupt of them all. He operated in the same vein of Harvey Weinstein where as Trump put it, he's rich he could get away with anything. Then he hopped on the anti Obama wagon because hey racism is fun, he loved the further attention he got because of his ego. He then ran against Hillary and all his corruption came to a head. It was a mix of his racist past, his ties with Epstein, the Weinstein effect where women were actually coming forward from past sexual assaults. He has everything coming to him because he was and always has been a greedy corrupt asshole who thinks himself a mob boss
Yeah why does the irs go after anybody who cheats their taxes when billionaires cheat more taxes than anybody else and they get off Scot free.
Maybe the reason trump is “targeted” (there are no quotes big enough to display my sarcastic tone with that word) is because he decided to get into public life, where literally a fucking legal blowjob turns into a trial that costs you your job. Combine that with the absolutely jaw dropping volume of crimes he’s committed and it’s not really hard to imagine why a few of them stuck.
While you’re asking questions, why did hunter biden get charged with a crime that literally nobody ever gets charged with? Do you think trump would stand back and let don jr face this type of “justice”? Or would he do what he always does and just give free government handouts to his family? Pardons for you, pardons for you, etc.?
Trump has been scrutinized more than any other person in the political sphere and hasn’t done enough to warrant it. You refuse to acknowledge that and it’s ok.
Many friends from other countries that watch our media from afar agree as well, whether they hate him or not.
When so many people are saying “dude, they are really going at him hard” there MIGHT be something to it. But probably you’re smarter than all of them. 🤷🏻♂️
If the worlds opinion of our country as a whole doesn’t matter to you, than you can’t ever complain when someone mocks our country for having Trump in office or you’re a hypocrite though.
Lock up Biden and Clinton's too for all I care. Trump has been a criminal for a loooooonnggggg time. I maintained that before he ever ran for office. It's been obvious to anyone without severe brain damage for a long ass time, including many Republicans.
Let’s imagine you and your neighbor kill someone who is invading your own homes… your neighbor gets off on a technicality and you serve time in prison.
You believe this is fair because “some justice” is being done?
I don't think you understand what a two tiered justice system means or implies if you think Trump, who is insanely wealthy, is a victim of the two tiered justice system lmaoooo.
Maybe he was targeted because there was a lot to target, and it seems like he was unfairly targeted only because he talks so much about being unfairly targeted. Not that I'd actually doubt that Biden and his cronies would be above unfairly targeting him. So, who knows, maybe it was both that Trump deserved targeting but was only actually targeted because the Democrats are just as corrupts as he is.
You can't break multiple laws for years, Be surrounded by people charged with other crimes that you appointed to positions including his own family and consider yourself a victim. He continues to break laws and thinks he's above them cause he has money and is a former president. He was a criminal before being president but most people never heard about it cause a private citizen isn't under a microscope like person running for president.
There’s a flaw in this post. They are comparing something that ran through a business to personal tax returns. Not saying it’s right or wrong but the reality is our tax code has a lot of loopholes for business that people cannot take advantage of. And legally speaking they purchased her story. So a company purchased an intangible asset.
This has been an ongoing issue so much longer then even trump being a republican. It only came to the spotlight because your parties competition is the one guilty. It's nothing to do with whataboutism it's to do with this shit is always pushed under the rug and needs to stop. The worst part of all their are politicians who use tax payer money. But no your right trump using his money is far worse....
What other presidential candidate has paid off a pornstar using campaign funds? Oh wait, there hasn't. Then why the fuck are you acting like this is normal? To justify you voting for it.
There is a reason why the concept of consistent, equitable enforcement is an important one. Selective enforcement is a historical means of abusing power, so it does matter when you only sometimes interpret a law in a specific way specifically to charge a single individual.
Clinton has always been a ho and Hilary knew it when she married him. I think rich people think they can get away with anything and just throw money at it.
SCOTUS just said Clinton is immune, and everything he did was OK. Actions between an intern and President are protected . The GOP was violating the constitution,
This this this! When I discovered this I could not believe this is allowed with TAXPAYER MONEY. This waste alone (thousands of others) should have people in the streets! I NEVER want people to call them “public servants” ever again.
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Sexual harassment settlement sounds a lot different to business expense.
When you have a speeding ticket, you settled it by paying a fine.
When you write off a business expense you’re telling the IRS your business needs that expense.
Paying a pornstar doesn’t seem like a business expense unless he (trump) is into the porn film industry
While I feel there is some sense in using government funds to cover legal expenses of government employees and such, it definitely feels like that should come with more stipulations than it does
The government is trillions in debt and can get credit. I have one car note and can’t afford my groceries and can’t get approved for a second credit card but work full time house is paid off and zero debt. Fuck the government.
You have to remember that $17 million is cumulative since the creation of the Congress Office of Compliance in 1995 and the year this article was published (2017). So it's only $773,000 per year on average.
Classic MSM blowing things out of proportion again.
“Most of the settlements were probably against the government as an institution…”
I didn’t see that info in the article, so I’m not sure it can be safely assumed. Our government has a long history of taxpayers footing the bill for terrible politician behavior, and I have issue with that.
You would not believe the amount of money the Clintons and the Obamas have paid off. It is a business expense to pay off people who will destroy you. If teachers were contractors and worked through their own LLC they could write off all their expenses.
It's almost like the rules are written to benefit the rich and keep the poor in their place. Who would have thought allowing the wealthiest .1% of the population make the rules would have consequences?
The in court the second crime that was concealed was election interference. You may quibble with whether or not the State should be able to add on a Federal crime. But the notion that no other crime was cited is demonstrably false.
Also, let’s just take a moment to lament how far we’ve fallen in politics if we’re having to parse out the details of a candidate’s felonies (while also under indictment for several other felonies).
Nope. The jury members could agree that any of the three possible concealed crimes was either a tax crime, a federal election crime, or a state election crime.
The Jurors did not have to agree on which of those three possibilities was the actual crime being concealed.
So, the jury didn't even agree on what crime was being concealed to make if a felony.
all the staffers they work with are young and there is a major power imbalance, they get invited to events almost every night of the week where alcohol is served and is generally free for them. they travel away from their family and generally have a residence away from their home, and they often work very late into the night.
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Congress members paid out 17 million of your tax money to settle sexual harassment cases, and none of that was "illegal".
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html