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by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:08 am
Yeah, Sarah Cooper's Trump is a definite improvement on the original.
I was going to throw this in the 'Long Reads" thread, but thought better of it. While it has elements of a fever dream, the author makes some good observations along the way.
'The De-Trumpification of America'
As soon as he is no longer president, federal prosecutors should label Donald Trump and his top associates an ongoing criminal organization and begin the process of bringing them to justice under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. For years, after all, the president has been acting like a mafia godfather, demanding loyalty, bullying competitors, and scorning “rats.” Last year, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee laid out in graphic detail ways in which the president and his gang were guilty of racketeering: bribery, fraud, obstruction of justice, and the like.
The House of Representatives impeached the president, but with the help of his Republican enablers, he managed to avoid removal from office. Getting read the RICO Act, on the other hand, could leave him facing years in prison and the Trump Organization would be liable for treble damages as compensation for victims. As Forbes contributor Steve Denning concluded during the impeachment proceedings:
“While impeachment would obviously be a severe personal sanction for Donald Trump, convicting the Trump Organization as a RICO enterprise could be far worse. If Trump is ‘only’ impeached, he could always go back to his family business, sadder but perhaps wiser. But if the Trump Organization were to be convicted as a criminal enterprise under the RICO Act, there might be no business for Trump to go back to.”
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by Brian Peacock » Sat Jul 11, 2020 7:43 am
That would go down well with Republican supporters wouldn't it?
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by Scot Dutchy » Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:33 pm
Talk about gang members.
Trump commutes sentence of Roger Stone, longtime friend and adviser
Move means Stone, due to serve more than three years for crimes related to Russia investigation, will not set foot in prison
Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser who was to spend three years and four months in jail for crimes related to the Russia investigation.
In a statement released on Friday evening, the White House denounced the prosecution of Stone on charges stemming from “the Russia Hoax” investigation. “Roger Stone has already suffered greatly,” the statement reads. “He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a free man!”
Talk about a dictator.
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by Svartalf » Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:38 pm
You mean a tinpot negro king?
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by Tero » Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:15 pm
Why is he doing this? This does not add any votes to him. His base will just ignore it but still vote for him. No Biden voter will switch to Trump for this.
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by Tero » Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:45 pm
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by Seabass » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:27 pm
He looks ridiculous. Only gays and Democrats wear masks.
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by Sean Hayden » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:30 pm
It makes me hate him even more.
The latest fad is a poverty social. Every woman must wear calico,
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he or she does not have a patch on his or her clothing. If these
parties become a regular thing, says an exchange, won't there be
a good chance for newspaper men to shine?
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by Joe » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:58 am
What? No MAGA logo?
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by Tero » Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:25 am
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by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:41 am
Trump's commutation of ally Roger Stone's sentence sparks outrage
Mitt Romney calls move ‘unprecedented, historic corruption’
Analyst: ‘It’s a disgraceful, dark day for American democracy’
American democracy never existed. There has always been corruption but never quite so blatant in modern times as Trump does it.
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by Tero » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:06 pm
Well, it's slightly different from deep state and crooked Hillary:
CNN
"Now Joe Biden and the radical left are trying to impose this same system, socialism plus in America. Biden is a puppet of Bernie Sanders, (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the militant left, the people who want to rip down statues and monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin," Trump said, adding: "They want to rip down statues to Jesus."
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/10/poli ... index.html
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by Svartalf » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:10 pm
Yeah, they are all crooked folk today, what you need is a real honest man, like Buchanan...
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by Joe » Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:06 pm
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by Tero » Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:22 pm
Aftet Trump?
Er...President Tucker C? No way, presidents are not named Tucker.
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