The eagle — encrusted in gold and seemingly headless — launches into flight, away from us.
Let's see what the particular example of corruption this is — this, the worst example ever. There's never even ever been anything like this. Do you know what example this one is? There have been reactions of horror to so many things Trump has done, but "corruption" is a key hint, suggesting a money grab, and yes, you guessed right, didn't you?
President Trump’s Justice Department is using taxpayer money to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund. Ostensibly set up to compensate those who the department claims have “suffered weaponization and lawfare,” it will in fact reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on behalf of the president.
The fund’s existence is a story of political self-dealing. It is nominally the product of a flimsy personal lawsuit that Mr. Trump filed this year against the Internal Revenue Service, which he oversees, over the leaking of his tax returns during his first term. That lawsuit led to an absurd negotiation, in which the lawyers on one side worked for Mr. Trump the citizen and those on the other side worked for Mr. Trump the president.
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That's quite a take: victims of government abuse should have no recourse if they are right wing.
Yes we guessed correctly. Irony alert though, because this is the first time The Narrative has admitted a thing like "sue & settle" exists. Yet it's been in use by the NGO-Left for decades. One of their favorite tools to extract government dollars for their pet causes, which are of course led by their friends who donate a substantial chunk back to the DNC or Arabella or whomever.
It's never been called (by corporate media) a kickback scheme, although that's what it was for the DNC. Let's see if the people who file claims also turn around and donate back to the RNC the way the other side did it. Because on its face it appears to be just what it is billed: a fund for people unfairly prosecuted to be made whole and get their legal debts paid.
A slush fund is always the Dems first thought. They have turned the kick backs they arrange into eternal slush funds for friends and family.
One could walk around to the other side of that sculpture and see the eagle flying towards them. Or read in the NYT on the stock trades made by Ro Kanna's wife and ask just how did that family amass half a billion or so....
Those done wrong by the IRS should be compensated. Up until now, I am not aware of such a case.
Imagine what they'd have said if Trump settled his lawsuit with compensation to himself.
…btw this is not sue and settle these are real people who are victims of a corrupt government that needed political cover for election corruption- and there has never been an example of election fraud like this…
A Trump win-win-win: if the arrangement is allowed to stand, some of his followers get made a bit close to whole. If the Dems fight it, get ready to see some J6 ropeline grandmas vilified for wanting a couple bucks. That can only help MAGA. If the Dems fight it and win, it weakens or completely destroys sue and settle. CC, JSM
I think I read that James Comey is making a claim. This should work out great.
Just asking - does the NYT Editorial Board ever write an opinion piece that is 100%, or close to 100% pro Trump? I presume "No".
Until that happens, I have other worries in my life to keep me busy.
Back to work I go.
I’m just worn out in general with the hysterical hyperbole of social media discourse. When are people going to get fed up with this shit?
How many trillions in benefits fraud are going to the slush fund benefiting the Democrats right now? Still going on that one is…
….by size, there has never been a government anywhere as corrupt as this one…
On a completely objective level, it’s an interesting legal question. Does a pardon (I assume most of the applicants will be pardonees) make the preceding legal process wrong? How do you show that a conviction or guilty plea qualifies as weaponized?
Closest thing I can think of is the Innocence Project, which, as messed up and political as it usually is, at least is based on a concept of actual innocence, ie didn’t do it at all, wasn’t even there, someone else confessed. Very few of the weaponization victims fit into that box. CC, JSM
Reminder: The J6 impeachment was a scenario where the victims, the congresspeople, were able to basically prosecute and judge the defendant, President Trump.
Cmon Marcus. It is Trump v. Internal Revenue Service and you could easily look it up. But it's so much better to sit and say, "I'm not aware of...."
Sue and settle was the watchword of the Obama/Biden regime. Trump is just giving the taxpayers something to think about. I really admire the agreement that the IRS won't audit him.
…you don’t want them to get the money you shouldn’t have stolen the election and then run the op for political cover to squelch any investigation…
There is a J6 class-action in process. Too bad we don't have decent media companies interested in telling the whole story. Pretty much SOP for the leftist lying media though.
The propaganda continues.
For instance, perhaps an enterprising reporter could compare J6 with a random date during the months-long "mostly peaceful" riots of 2020, say August 25 for example. Simply tally how many fatalities, injuries and property damage from that date with J6 another singular date. And let's see which one was more violent and costly.
How does 8/25/2020 compare to 1/6/2021? Then given the factual differences (there must be some) let's see how the two dates in history have been covered by the professional reporting class. What narrative emerges out of that comparison?
When every day is january 6th well of course the grift must continue
victims of government abuse should have no recourse if they are right wing.
You are missing the point of the outrage. Althouse probably understands the anger but for some reason apparently thinks this is fine. This is a slush fund controlled by the DOJ (which is headed by Trump's former personal attorney).
No one is saying that those legitimately harmed by the government's actions shouldn't have recourse. The objection to this fund is the money is not appropriated by Congress, that the commission will be beholden to the President. The commissioners will serve at the pleasure of the president (and the Attorney General? That is not clear). Other than claiming that you were targeted by the Biden Administration, there are apparently no restrictions on who or why someone can apply for compensation.
There is also the small matter of the additional agreement that the Trump family or businesses are no longer subject to audit by the IRS.
Trump was suing himself.
Keepseagle v.Vilsack.
Precedent.
Guess which administration.
How about j20 2017 when limousines were left burning on connecticut avenue all charges were expunged
Remember what happened to the former NYT editorial page editor James Bennet after he published an op-ed piece by Sen. Tom Cotton? How about Israeli "dog rape" columnist Kristof? And today's column by NYT Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman who remains seriously TDS delusional: "I would not at all rule out their [Trump supporters] pushing for a third Trump term. We are going to a very bad place." https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times/20260521/282183657698040/textview
Trump’s taxes were illegally leaked. The settlement for this was the creation of a fund. Which unlike Keepseagle, isn't taxpayer funds, it's funded by a settlement Trump could have kept for his own use.
There is legal precedent for such a Fund, most notably the “Keepseagle” case where the Obama Administration created a $760 million fund to redress various claims alleging racism against the federal government over a period of decades.
In Keepseagle, hundreds of millions of dollars remaining in the fund were distributed to non-profits and NGOs that never made claims, whereas any money remaining in The Anti-Weaponization Fund will revert to the federal government.
The Obama DOJ settled by putting $680 million from the judgment fund into a bank account for a single claims administrator to dole out. In Keepseagle the remaining money—which ended up being over $300 million—was distributed to the entities that had not even submitted claims.
Btw, that fund is not limited to J6 cases. Anyone who believes they were victimized by the Feds can apply for restitution. Case by case review and resolution. I’m not clear who/how that happens.
The real capitol hill bomber susan rosenberg sprung after 17 years to seed antifa and blm
Never? Never?
We know that in the state of MN alone, $9b was swiped. Who knows how much was stolen in CA.
Where was the NYT when Somalis were flying millions in cash out of the MPLS airport?
The edmund dantes like charge against the leader of the proud boys who wasnt even in the city
There are so many injustices done by political operatives in government that there needs to be something like this to apply counter pressure. Jennifer-Ruth Green Ran for congress in Indiana in 2022 and a government employee leaked her usaf file on how she was sexually assaulted to a Democrat opponent research firm. There has been no resolution or punishment in this. Lois Lerner of the irs went after the tea party. And now the 26 fbi informants at j6.
All these cases are just said to be minor indiscretions by low level people, procedure manuals are modified, and nothing happens for lawbreaking. So unless there is some repercussions for the government bureaucracy it will continue.
Freder Frederson said...No one is saying that those legitimately harmed by the government's actions shouldn't have recourse.
Typical. "Nobody is saying [exactly what they are saying]."
"Slush fund" is not part of the name, however much you want to pretend otherwise. Corrupt dishonest leftists are calling it a slush fund because that's what it would be if they were the ones running it.
A thief thinks everyone is a thief. A liar thinks everyone is a liar. Leftists think everyone is corrupt.
My niece worked for the Obama Agricultural Department handing out millions based on a flimsy pretext. It was a whole industry.
Of course the Times celebrated Camp Matanzas graduate bill ayers
Third Trump term? Jumping the shark doesn’t begin to describe that stupidity.
Imagine what they'd have said if Trump settled his lawsuit with compensation to himself.
Just because you can think of a more corrupt conclusion to the fiasco of Trump suing himself, doesn't mean the proposed solution is not also outright corruption. What is your point?
Also, even though Trump and his family cannot directly benefit from the fund, it is silent on whether entities controlled by Trump (LLCs, S corps, etc.) can make claims.
Oh, and btw, how many people here have gotten their Trump phones. Kind of disappointing, aren't they? Can't even get the number of stripes on the flag right.
Just an observation but the same old tribal discussion shift is blaring, going from:
“Is this settlement proper?”
to
“Democrats did it first,” “stolen election,” “media lies,” “DNC kickbacks,” “government most corrupt ever.”
Spit and polish until it shines.
“The objection to this fund is the money is not appropriated by Congress, that the commission will be beholden to the President. “
Does Congress have to appropriate funds that are the result of a specific legal settlement? Is there some set aside fund already for these situations?
My niece worked for the Obama Agricultural Department handing out millions based on a flimsy pretext. It was a whole industry.
And said fund was appropriated and approved by congress. Obama did not have control of who got the money.
How dumb: Trump was suing himself.
According to Reuters, "The alleged damages to Donald Trump from the IRS occurred between 2018 and 2020, when former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn stole and leaked Trump's confidential tax return data to media outlets like The New York Times and ProPublica"
So Trump had no assurance he would be the President again when the damages occurred. He is allowed recourse like any other wronged party. Now compare this sue and settle with all the prior occurrences which did not attract your ire.
My Eighth Circuit case may reframe the “special trust obligation” between the Tribes and the federal government. It is based on the racist pupilage notion from the 1800’s that Native Americans were inferior to whites. Justice Kavanaugh has called it dicta.
Does Congress have to appropriate funds that are the result of a specific legal settlement?
Did a judge sign off on this "settlement", that is the test of whether it is a "legal settlement". There is no legal settlement in this case.
The Narrative has admitted a thing like "sue & settle" exists. Yet it's been in use by the NGO-Left for decades.
Bingo
Trump is compensating the victims of Obama's fascist persecution of his political opponents.
Seriously fuck these people.
If you support Barrack Obama and the persecution of Republicans get fucked. We are not going to stop. We are going to vote for whoever treats you like you have treated us for the last 40 years.
Yes RJW Trump is doing some of the same things democrats have done. The difference is YOUR reaction to it, not ours. Oh and the fact Trump is not enriching himself, which is what every democrat scam does. The circular USG > NGO > DNC pipeline is something that simply does not exist on the Right.
Not even on the Far Right, wherever that might be.
In my 8th Circuit oral argument I told the judges that SCOTUS was fed up with racial discrimination and that we can’t survive as a multiracial republic if different races are pitted against each other in a spoils system contest.
I cited and discussed a book by Victor Davis Hanson. Also, a Creighton Law Review article.
It is based on the racist pupilage notion from the 1800’s that Native Americans were inferior to whites.
I don't think you are using the term "pupilage" correctly. Are you implying that Native Americans were not considered inferior to whites in the 1800's? That is a very dubious (actually it is a ridiculous) assertion.
You cant hate reuters more, i really try though
Any black robed hack like boasberg or contreras
Wondering if Ann Althouse will think the Eighth Circuit’s decision in my case will be bloggable. If I win, then yes!
Freder Frederson said...
Imagine what they'd have said if Trump settled his lawsuit with compensation to himself.
Just because you can think of a more corrupt conclusion to the fiasco of Trump suing himself, doesn't mean the proposed solution is not also outright corruption. What is your point?
Our point is you are corrupt fascist shitheads and nobody cares about your crocodile tears.
Democrats are still stealing trillions of dollars for bullshit learing centers and trains to nowhere and paying themselves millions of dollars to let homeless people take over our cities.
Your gerrymandering is going to be ended. Voter ID is going to happen at some point because 80% of Americans want it.
You are evil dishonest scum and nobody is going to care about what you want after voter ID laws and mail in voting is ended and you can't cheat in elections.
Yes RJW Trump is doing some of the same things democrats have done.
You are claiming this without providing a single example. Provide one instance of such blatant corruption by the democrats.
Of course the settlements in minneapolis kenosha and other self dealing to further the blm narrative
The Times does follow the Lillian hellman where everything is alie
Mike @ 7:33, not quite what you’re talking about of my comment at 7:26. I made no reaction to the settlement at all but rather the Gullibles following the same playbook of defending it, or turd polishing.
Trump could shoot someone dead on 5th Avenue and Democrats have murdered people too so there!
Michael caputo is the first candidate he was swept into the comey mueller dragnet andwas detained while he was receiving cancer treatment
FF:
Yes, it is a ridiculous notion today but Native Americans still benefit from it.
Lance Morgan is a Nebraska Native American and Harvard Law grad who has made millions on Indian gaming and contracts set asides for minority companies.. His company is Ho Chunk Industries. Look it up.
One of his new casinos, War Horse, is about two miles from my office. Innumerate White degenerate loser gamblers pack the place daily. Revenge of the Red Man!
For what offense he had business in Russia like nearly every corporation in thd country
the Obama Agricultural Department handing out millions based on a flimsy pretext. It was a whole industry.
And said fund was appropriated and approved by congress. Obama did not have control of who got the money.
I know; don't poke the troll. But this is hilarious, because troll is reduced to arguing their preferred President never did such things because the President didn't control the Department of Agriculture. LOL
Carter page a decorated navy veteran whi actually helped root oug two Russian spies he was deemed an enemy agent in the danchenko dossier
LOL Provide one instance of such blatant corruption by the democrats.
1. Others already did upthread.
2. Perhaps you overlooked the many times "Sue and settle" were mentioned and have no access to Google.
3. Do your own homework.
In case anyone is wondering about the timing ….
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
🚨 This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents.
Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.
Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment. …
When the news is bad for Democrats then bury it with TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP
Pretext to survey every trump official for a year and a half
George papadopoulis who the bureau had the time and resources to go after him with a lady agent
He waa in the oil business
Why is RJW always putting words in others' mouths?
Of course every who read the Times in the last 9 years are dummer for it
Recall that cotemporaneous with the court case in FL on this blog I repeatedly commented that it would fail, that Trump had the absolute right to any documents and that Jack Smith was illegally appointed.
All of which were true. Now you see his prosecutor underlings were just as corrupt and stupid as Jack Smith. Again, he is the only US Attorney that has had TWO convictions reversed UNANIMOUSLY by SCOTUS.
Source, please.
“Did a judge sign off on this "settlement", that is the test of whether it is a "legal settlement". There is no legal settlement in this case.“
NYT is NYT and their quality fell sharply with TDS. Not news.
A realistic metric would compare (1) wealth prior to becoming President, (2) the percentage gain/decline 5 years after leaving office. Trump's assets were slammed with the T45 term; he had to sell his DC hotel for security and to attract guests; people didn't want to live in "Trump Tower" apartments, etc.
Clinton? BIG gains.
Obama? BIG gains; $8.1M house in the guarded ultra wealthy DC Kalorama neighborhood near Embassy Row; funding for the $850M "space turd" library in Chicago.
Biden's a special case, as he was a greased palm pay-to-play senator for years. So, compare his "Corn Pop" wealth prior to joining the senate and then after leaving it.
Boatbuolder beat me to it.
Coffee & Covid had a good discussion of the almost identical Keepseagle v Vilsac yesterday
But that was Obama and Holder so different. Or "different"
John Henry
I spared 5 seconds for our ignorant man:
Center for Biological Diversity (CBD): Known for filing deadline lawsuits to force federal agencies (like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) to list endangered species and designate critical habitats.
WildEarth Guardians: Frequently uses citizen suits to compel federal agencies to review air quality standards, enforce pollution limits, and protect threatened ecosystems.Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Uses litigation to mandate that the EPA issue overdue environmental regulations, often resolving in settlements that dictate rulemaking timelines.
Sierra Club: Actively files lawsuits against federal agencies for missing regulatory deadlines regarding emissions standards, frequently settling these cases to enforce mandatory pollution controls.
Earthjustice: Acts as the legal powerhouse representing multiple environmental and public health coalitions, successfully settling cases that force the EPA to finalize protective rules for toxic substances
Every single one of these NGOs also contribute to DNC.
Often it is USA $ > USAID fund > NGO run by leftists > DNC
It all starts with our tax dollars and ends in the DNC coffers or in their allies account to campaign on their behalf, you know like every "non-partisan" voter rights group that happens to only register democrats. Those are big business in CA but haven't seen any prowling here in FL.
The NYT’s predictable rant somehow overlooks 10% for the “big guy.”
SPLC also worked that way. Tides Foundation got USA$ > donates to SPLC > donates to Nazis > sparks fundraising to "fight nazis" and a predicate for Joe B to run. He just had to after that totally organic Unite the Right rally!
"boatbuilder said... Keepseagle v.Vilsack."
Yeah, that's the first thing Grok gave me when I showed it the NYT column and asked: "What other examples of presidential corruption are there? Where has a big pot of money been created to be reached into by the President's favorites?"
Somehow the word "Pigford" sprang to mind.
Althouse--yes, Pigford. Although I think Congress did have some involvement in that--but I'm subject to correction.
They swooned every one of clinton perjurious brood
I’ve got a treasure the Yew Nork Times Mooks can nibble on right heyah (grabs crotch)!
They memorized scalias dissent in morison v olson
Yes there are some choice words
Biden paid settlements to the FBI lovers, Strzok and Page, among others, so the precedent has been set.
If alyssa farah had any soul she would sue for what muellers agents did to her father, joe farah but she doesnt
The Trump shitcoin alone is a scale of public fraud we have never seen in America. I was outraged about the stupid Hunter Biden paintings and Clinton renting out the Lincoln Bedroom. Hosting pay-for-access dinners for LOT'S and LOT'S of foreigners who buy his worthless shitcoin makes Democrat fraud looks like babygames. Trump is truly the greatest ever.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/trump-meme-coin-dinner.html
The Bidens stole millions. The Trumps are stealing billions and brag about and their retarded followers defend it.
The Times keeps its printing presses because of one mexican oligarch largesse
Who are the Kushners and what have they been convicted of? And now what has Trump put them in charge of?
Yes. It is 100% that this is the most corrupt administration ever. Far more corrupt that even the Biden administration (which previously held the record). Trump is the Babe Ruth of fraud. Always has been going back to his National Enquirer days.
So says the commie drone
Mike @ 7:51, you’re making very little sense today, even by your standards.
I’m not putting words into anyone’s mouth. I’m simply pointing out a consistent lipstick on a pig application. In this case, the shift goes from;
“Is this fund appropriate and constitutional?”
to
“NGO corruption,” “stolen election,” “media lies,” “Democrats did it,” etc.
That doesn’t answer the original issue. I’m neither reacting to the settlement or planting words. I’m simply saying that prior misconduct of others doesn’t clear the current conduct, even if they remotely compared.
About a 1/3 of the budget is fraud or grifts that serve no good purpose
I’m not going to accept the ‘focus only on this’ defense while simultaneously using the ‘everybody does it’ defense. Trump was wronged and claim conflict all you like but there’s a test for conflict of interest- would the action, in this case remedy, fit in the absence of conflict. Given the offense, and the magnitude, yes. Because the settlement undermines lefties raison detre for their entire j6 effort got nuthin to do with it…
About a 1/3 of the budget is fraud or grifts that serve no good purpose
…that was true in the early 90s when I studied it. Elon says it’s now more like half…
Pigford is the case my niece worked on at the Ag. Dept.
Some were truly riotous, others were just rowdy, and none were insurrectionists. The prison sentences for all were unduly harsh and especially so when compared to the sentences meted out to those involved in the George Floyd riots. If the left hadn't fucked up the J/6 proceedings so blatantly and maliciously this wouldn't be an issue.
Then we can go to paul manafort whi was jailed for routine fara violations that greg craig and vin weber were not subject to .much less the podestas
You are claiming this without providing a single example. Provide one instance of such blatant corruption by the democrats.
Been happening for decades when Dumbocrats in office negotiate super lucrative collective bargaining agreements with public employee unions that turn around and become their street soldiers in the next campaign. That’s the best argument for getting rid of them…and by “them” I mean Dumbocrats and public employee unions.
- Krumhorn
This photo looks really good with the sunrise photos below. Variations on a theme.
Yes, everyone, let's all conform to our sacred obligation to limit our assessment of the Trump settlement to whether it is "appropriate" by the standards of our lying serial killer fabulist.
LOL!
Anyone tired of winning?
Has anyone ever read a sympathetic article in the NYT or anywhere in the liberal press about somebody whose life got damaged by these prosecutions?......I have read that between Venezuela and Cuba several thousand political prisoners have been released in those respective countries. Has anyone seen an article about tearful reunions with their families or any kind of positive coverage of the fallout from the Maduro capture?.....I'm sure that people on the right have their prejudices, but for unexamined, unapologetic bigotry, the left is impossible to beat.
I hate the NYT. Lying liars who lie
William = right? no - the chi com Mao NYT is not interested in any of that.
Thats the fate they want for us, we have proferred myriac examples and they will push any lie to make it fit
In this case, the shift goes from;
“Is this fund appropriate and constitutional?”
to
“NGO corruption,” “stolen election,” “media lies,” “Democrats did it,” etc.
Since the headline of the article in question says "There has never been an example...," citing examples by Democrats is directly on point.
where is the NYT on the billions of stolen tax payer money in CA and MN?
@Meade and Althouse, now if you want something truly super-bloggable, go to The Volokh Conspiracy and read “Plaintiff Was Enticed by an Attractive, Busty Jewess, and Wet His Mouth with a Drink of Partially Unknown Provenance.”
the ACLU wants to defund Immigration agents - and force tax payers to pay for 20 million illegal entrant court cases.
They are in favor of the fraud
The corrupt Biden Regime used every method to harm us citizens who did not obey them. Very Mao.
Freder Frederson said...
Yes RJW Trump is doing some of the same things democrats have done.
You are claiming this without providing a single example. Provide one instance of such blatant corruption by the democrats.
Uranium One.
Clinton Foundation.
Barrack Obama’s billion dollar library.
The homeless industry in every major Democrat controlled city.
Barrack obamas Netflix deal.
Ilhan Omar the multimillionaire.
Nancy Pelosi insider trading.
Facebook handing over millions of people’s personal data and information to democrats in 2012 and 2016.
USAID
SPLC
Solyndra
The California high speed train
The entire university system
The entire public education system
The angela davis endorsement should have been a clue
I didn’t even get into the entire Biden Administration being 10% for the big guy.
And no that wasn’t Joe.
Democrats only move is to pretend they don’t understand obvious things.
They are just evil people.
Grifts to kazahstan china ukraine romania
But the Congressional slush fund to shut up their sexual harassment is still going strong after Congress voted to keep it private and secure!!! Hypocrites.
Was your flagpole damaged while beating a law enforcement officer? You may be entitled to compensation.
The ingenuity of the corruption seems to have no end. You can only be grateful that Congress isn’t alive to see it.
Trump (and his DOJ) settled the lawsuit primarily to avoid judicial scrutiny that was likely to dismiss or severely limit the case, while achieving key policy and protective goals through the settlement terms.
My initial impression on hearing this news a couple days ago was that this was part of some budget legislation.
However, the fact that this is being done as a unilateral move by the Trump DOJ makes the whole arrangement seem even more absurd and illegal. Congress is supposed to control the "purse" and the nation's finances. This is also being done by an acting attorney general, who was not even confirmed for his current position. It seems like there are dozens of different ways to invalidate this through litigation.
Democrats should also be nailing the Republicans on a daily basis over Trump's illegal slush fund, which I imagine will have added resonance given the current rate of inflation.
The fact that Trump needed to create this slush fund, really speaks to the weakness of the claims that he has against the previous administration.
This just shows how smart the Liberal/Left is. The hate the idea of Trump doing what they always do - using Public money to help their friends. So they have to clothe the objection in "We're concerned about public corruption!". Of course, X number of rubes and boobs will buy it. They always do.
We can recite counter examples till the cows get turned to burgers
Whats astounding about trump is how ethically clean he is. They've been attacking him, investigating him, and practicing Lawfare against him for 10 years, and have come up with nothing significant.
We only found out about Epstein and corruption and Pedophilia because the Left thought they could get Trump with it.
"Are you implying.... That is a very dubious (actually it is a ridiculous) assertion."
First, you have to ask if there is an implication, then you are switching to calling an implication an assertion. There's obviously no assertion. That's why you had to ask if ther was an implication.
Your deviousness is on display for anyone who cares to look.
THe capitol hill police have already filed a lawsuit against the settlement and you can be sure that one of our 600 Kings and Queens in black robes will stop it. Trump cant even change the water in the Lincoln memorial fountain, or dig up the white house lawn, without a district judge saying its OK. but that's 'murica.
I surely do hate these "pot versus kettle" mud-throwing controversies. To be a politician these days (and probably ever before and ever after...), seems to REQUIRE unclean hands. It seems that the pol does not survive who does NOT sell his vote, who does NOT pander to special interests, who does NOT succumb to the temptations of greed, lust, and enjoying the "spoils" of public life.
It may not be strictly comparable, but..., yup, I thought I recalled reading something about a "secret" Congressional "slush fund" to pay cash settlements to hide sexual escapades (among other things, I suppose.)
It's been around (and quietly spoken of) for decades or more (IIRC), and members have resisted all efforts to compel public "transparency."
Here ya' go:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1554b5ba-85e2-4711-8c59-5ddb777a1703.html
Dang, I do hate to be so skeptical of our esteemed leadership, but c'mon, man.... Put the mud down, and let's focus on addressing the disputed economic and social issues facing our country.
"This is gold, sir. All my life I've been in love with its color, its brilliance, its divine heaviness" - Trumpy Goldfinger
Yeah they all committed fraud aquino dunn gonell et al
That doesn’t answer the original issue
Of course it does. Go away.
Freder put the lie in imply.
Calling someone or something "racist"is the mortal insult in 2026 'murica. That's why the liberal/left always do it.
Same old song. The trolls are out, as usual, if Trump is mentioned.
Reality is after 10 years, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, the left, and their sycophants on this blog, haven't laid a hand on Trump. They have cheered violence, death and imprisonment, and come up empty-again and again and again.
'don't feed the trolls' LOL. It is so satisfying to overlook their latest rants- knowing they are total failures at their jobs.
10 years-3650 days of outrage, lies, and rage, all to obey their masters commands. the entire media establishment, the most powerful in history, the unions, the state and federal workers-millions upon millions spent- and they have failed, every single time. Every time. Must be frustrating for them. To yell and scream and pray to Satan to eliminate DJT. and fail.
I enjoy watching the meltdowns.
Tucker, Candace, Massie, Kent, et al. destroyed themselves to ‘get Trump’.
What they can’t ever admit, is that Trump is the toughest President in American history, and NOTHING they do will ever change that.
Julie kelley molly hemingway john solomon paul sperry the only ones that told the truth well a few others
I see the Proud Boys and the Ho Chunk Indians have been mentioned. Of note: The founder of The Proud Boys (Gavin McInnes) is married to a Ho Chunk nation citizen and receives distributions from Ho Chunk enterprises.
Joe Biden and his son took millions from foreign nationals while Joe was in the Senate and as VP. By the time he was President, he didn't know he was President or he would have kept going. Corruption runs fully throughout Washington DC. These people and their breathlessness about Trump manage to miss Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ilhan Omar and so, so many others stealing in big chunks, right in front of our face.
Not excusing any of it by anyone. Just wishing for once their selective outrage would be more generalized.
"Your deviousness is on display for anyone who cares to look."
I looked once, then simply looked past FF since.
And so verbose!
I ain't got time for that... (scrolls) (and scrolls)
Ostensibly set up to compensate those who the department claims have “suffered weaponization and lawfare,” it will in fact reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on behalf of the president.
Well, thank goodness this is in the opinion section, at least.
I am nonplussed by the memecoin, but for whatever my reasons I'm trying to maintain my ignorance about crypto generally and don't think I know enough to opine. But it's fricking obvious and undeniable personal corruption when a member of Congress, cabinet secretary, or president enters office with $X in net worth and leaves with $100X.
To say that "blatant" "corruption" (has any money even been disbursed from this fund yet? Can it be "corrupt" if it's just sitting there?) is worse than the kind that we're all supposed to wink at and assume is just good luck, smart investments, maybe a large inheritance from a generous but hitherto unknown uncle - I mean, it's typical Democrat deflection, but is it supportable? RJW seems to want to pretend that this piece sets the terms at "appropriate and constitutional," but in fact (from the headline!) it just dives straight into hair-on-fire "there has never been such corruption," without evidence, as they say.
I guess they couldn't use the norms-busting template, because they would've had to admit that there is a "normal" level and type of corruption that they're cool with.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
"Why is RJW always putting words in others' mouths?"
It's the only way his strawmen can breathe.
DD
Show us the level of Trumps corruption since he's been in office. Specifics please.
You won 't be surprised to learn (I wasn't) that the Capitol Police Officers Union has oppos ed any payments to any person involved in January 6. Not even a death benefit paid to the woman they shot and killed? Not a good look guys.
Freder Frederson said...
It is based on the racist pupilage notion from the 1800’s that Native Americans were inferior to whites.
I don't think you are using the term "pupilage" correctly. Are you implying that Native Americans were not considered inferior to whites in the 1800's? That is a very dubious (actually it is a ridiculous) assertion.
The only thing Freder can do is pretend to be a fucking idiot and not understand what is said then act like a dishonest fucking idiot and make something up.
Freder and every other democrat that still supports the democrat party is a traitor and a thief. Their only purpose is to steal from taxpayers and throw us in jail when we resist.
If its proceedings are open to the public, it should provide employment for many reporters, but they're too busy ignoring the rest of government's actions that don't make Trump look bad but are actually corrupt or harmful.
Trump is paying his J6 insurrection rioters compensation so that they will be incentivized to give him another insurrection And the what aboutism justification is social welfare fraud? That gives away the game. His fraudulency strikes again!
But it's fricking obvious and undeniable personal corruption when a member of Congress, cabinet secretary, or president enters office with $X in net worth and leaves with $100X.
Indeed. Dan Crenshaw's constituents noticed, and when they pointed it out, his response included:
"So sure, why not? Don't let us trade stocks. We'll just keep whipping ourselves. How about we don't make any money either? Let's just cut our paycheck. We haven't got a pay raise since 2008.
...
So, actually, this is a great idea. Let's make Congress a place where only the millionaires can afford to have a job. Let's keep doing that. Because it's always some member who senses the populist energy and then mirrors it, believing it will help them connect with the people.
All my problems will be solved if there's no stock trading; all my problems will be solved if there's term limits.' But if you think about these things for more than five whole minutes, you might come to a different conclusion."
Crenshaw happens to represent the area where King Street Patriots/True the Vote was founded, and I don't recall him doing anything as Trump accomplished in bringing Catherine Englebrecht the justice she deserved for the IRS abuses. Had he worked to solve that problem while enriching himself; he might have won his primary. Instead, while doing little there, he was also asked to help J6'ers, said no, and called them terrorists.
Just read an X post noting that 10 current GOP Senators will be leaving the Senate in 2017. Any other election cycle, this would be huge news buoying Democrat spirits. Instead, they will likely be replaced by candidates interested in doing what their constituents sent them to do. This is derogatively called "populism". Actually, it is democracy.
I’m sorry, where is my respect for the office. That should be His Fraudulency.
pupilage = not poop ala large
So these are the same folks who assured us at each sketchy step through the Biden years that the DOJ was completely separate from the Presidency and would never even think of acting politically. They were 100% legit and worthy of undisputed honor. But now, apparently, the DOJ is a direct extension of the President, ready to do his evil bidding at a moment’s notice.
Other than those needing their daily Trump outrage fix, it’s hard to imagine anyone taking stuff like this from the NYT seriously anymore.
We are not going to stop. We are going to vote for whoever treats you like you have treated us for the last 40 years.
Amen. Every tool and power we possess should be turned to the destruction of the Left. All the talk about "collegiality" and "norms" and "cherished bipartisan traditions" etc. is complete and utter horse shit.
Total war. Scorched earth. Let's fuck them up HARD before they do it to us.
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