All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

I can’t even pretend to know what will happen anymore, still I can’t help thinking his death will help Republicans more than us.

[Tero]

Ron Tipton:
I was born in 1941. I grew up believing that America was the best country in the world from what I was taught in school and saw in the movies. I believed the bad guy always lost in the end. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I may die knowing that Trump got away with his lifetime of crime and destroying America’s reputation. No wonder my blood pressure is up after having normal blood pressure all my life. I hope I am alive when Trump is gone because that day will come.

My post with my reply:
https://www.threads.com/@tero55gervais/ ... Fnd&slof=1

[Sean Hayden]

Imagine how historians feel, dealing with Trump, and all us lunatics running around like we’ve been living under a rock!

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's horrible what the US does to swindling grifters who've been caught and convicted. At least the felon in chief understands this.

'Convicted Fraudster Trump, 79, Frees Man Convicted of $1.6B Fraud'

President Donald Trump sprung a fellow convicted fraudster from prison this week after the man had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme.

David Gentile first reported to prison on Nov. 14 following his sentencing in May for using funds controlled by his company GPB Capital to scam around 10,000 investors over a period of several years, the New York Times reports.

He was freed Wednesday, after just 12 days behind bars.

In securing Gentile’s conviction last August, prosecutors had cited victim statements from more than 1,000 “hardworking, everyday people”—among them veterans, farmers, teachers and nurses—who’d lost money as a result of his crimes.

“I lost my whole life savings,” one person claimed, adding they’d now found themselves “living from check to check.”

[Svartalf]

dammit, I hope that once out of white house, the guy gets sentenced to serve all the sentences he pardoned that were deserved... won't even serve a year of them because he'll be transferred to a hospital to serve his last days, but it's a matter of principle.

[Tero]

Author Tom Nickols writing in "The Atlantic" says it's time for Hegseth to go! The title on his article reads "Pete Hegseth Needs To Go -- Now."

"Presidents have always sent people to lead the Pentagon who respect the institutions and personnel of the armed forces, not least because Americans tend to bristle at any sign that an administration does not unreservedly support the men and women of the U.S. military."

"But this time, the president found a perfect instrument of destruction to send across the Potomac: Pete Hegseth, a Trump sycophant who served in the military, topped out at the mid-level rank of major, and left full of bitterness and resentment toward a military establishment that clearly didn’t value his brilliance and fortitude."

"When Hegseth pulled more than 800 senior officers into an auditorium to give them a long and pointless harangue, it was not only disrespectful; it was cringe-inducing, like watching the angriest kid in your high school coming back 20 years later as the principal and unloading his adolescent gripes on all the teachers in the staff lounge."

"Now, however, Hegseth is in new and far more dangerous territory. The Washington Post reported last Friday that, back in September, Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors of the first strike against what the administration says are terrorist-controlled drug boats. If this report is accurate, it means that Hegseth issued what is called a “no quarter” order, a crime in both American and international law."

"Today, the White House admitted that the second strike did in fact take place, but on the orders of the Special Operations Command chief, Admiral Frank Bradley, which seems to be setting Bradley up as a scapegoat."

"If either Hegseth or Bradley gave such an order—or if Hegseth issued the order and Bradley carried it out—both could be guilty of murder and war crimes. The United States, after World War II, prosecuted German and Japanese officers for similar offenses. (Yesterday, in fact, was the 80th anniversary of the execution by firing squad of Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, a Nazi U-Boat commander who sank a civilian steamer and then killed the survivors.)"

"Perhaps Hegseth thinks that sinking boats on the high seas is funny. Maybe he just wanted to own the libs and all that. Or maybe he thought he could disrupt the gathering war-crimes narrative, like the school delinquent pulling a fire alarm during an exam. Or maybe he just has poor judgment and even worse impulse control (which would explain a lot of things about Pete Hegseth). No matter the reason, his choice to trivialize the use of American military force reveals both the shallowness of the man’s character and the depth of his contempt for the military as an institution."

"Enough of this. Trump is president and has the right to stay in office for his term, even if he thinks fallen warriors are “losers” and “suckers” who have no purpose beyond serving his needs as props and pawns."

"Pete Hegseth, however, was elected by no one. He is an unprofessional—and sometimes unstable—appointee who does not seem to comprehend the seriousness of the office he occupies, does not respect the senior officers who serve this country, and does not seem to care at all about the people of the U.S. military, except that he’s worried that too many of them are fat—or women. Hegseth is unqualified, incompetent, and should have been fired months ago.

"The secretary is unlikely to resign, but Trump has a record of throwing people under the bus when they are no longer of use to him, and Republicans should increase the pressure on him to fire the most unqualified secretary of defense in U.S. history. Let them and all Americans say to Hegseth what the British politician Leo Amery said to Neville Chamberlain as Europe began to crumble under the Nazi offensive in 1940: “Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.” Channeling Oliver Cromwell from centuries earlier, Amery added: “In the name of God, go.”

"In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/ ... se/685098/

[Tero]

Somehow, Obama will be reinstated as some sort of military man, he was commander in chief after all. Then the military tribunal and prison. Maybe execution for treason.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump

When the Director of National Intelligence tells the public, Obama committed TREASON and President Trump is your President, you can 100% know we will see his MILITARY TRIBUNAL.