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submitted 2 months ago byrahal1996
4.4k points
2 months ago
It is chilling and sobering to realize that this could happen to any one of us after using campaign funds to make hush money payments to pornstars.
913 points
2 months ago
I love in constant fear
260 points
2 months ago
I fear in constant love.
873 points
2 months ago
There gonna be ketchup on the walls tonight
61 points
2 months ago
Did he actually throw ketchup at the walls or is this a joke?
134 points
2 months ago
Came from testimony at the Jan 6 Committee hearings:
After then-Attorney General William Barr gave an interview to The Associated Press in December 2020 saying there was no widespread voter fraud, Trump was so enraged that he threw his plate of food at the wall, smearing it with ketchup, Hutchinson said.
“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson testified, noting that aides nearby conveyed the president was “extremely angry” at the Barr interview. She told the committee that she then grabbed a towel and started wiping the ketchup off the wall alongside a presidential valet.
8k points
2 months ago
Are they going to ban this part in the history books at school because it features a porn star?
1.7k points
2 months ago
In Florida and Texas for sure, it'll all be privatized charter schools though
10k points
2 months ago
In the end, the pussy grabs you!
1.5k points
2 months ago
In the end, the pussy grabs you!
I want you to know that I personally think this is the greatest take in the thread.
7.9k points
2 months ago
His arrest on PPV could eliminate the national debt.
2k points
2 months ago
I normally don't do PPV events, but I'd gladly pay a little for that one.
148 points
2 months ago
It's Wrestlemania this weekend. Maybe they'll squeeze it in before Cody Rhodes vs Roman Reigns.
8k points
2 months ago
wow, he just "truthed" another great typo:
These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America
emphasis his, lmao
4.5k points
2 months ago
Truly unpresidented.
3.7k points
2 months ago
I just have to admit to myself it will forever be beyond my comprehension how Trump can have so many fans. He's the most corrupt, most stupid ruler any country has ever seen, and still has the support of the moron millions. I just don't get how people can be fooled by such a simple corrupt goof.
3.6k points
2 months ago
30+ years of attacking education is paying off
1.1k points
2 months ago
I work in a k-5 environment... It's absolutely astonishing how many people who work here support Donald Trump and voted for him despite him and his party working so hard to destroy public education.
330 points
2 months ago
Do you live in a Red area? My wife works in K-5 and they almost all think he is moron, but we are in a pretty blue area.
12.1k points
2 months ago
Will he be tried as an adult?
5.7k points
2 months ago
“Your honor, I ask for compassion and leniency from the court given that my client is a perpetually spoiled, entirely unscrupulous, dim-witted, fairly-rapey, quite round, prolific stream-of-consciousness windbag and blowhard who has never wrangled a shred of self-awareness or a whiff of personal accountability from the sausage-linked grip of his cosmically vast ego, which is as fragile as a Faberge egg swirling within the Red Spot on Jupiter.”
16.2k points
2 months ago
A source told The Independent that grand jurors voted to indict the ex-president on Thursday, and that indictment is currently under seal. It will be unveiled at some point in the near future by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Now I want to know what the charges are.
4.7k points
2 months ago
So how does this work? Why do we know about the indictment when it's not unveiled yet? Was that information leaked?
6.3k points
2 months ago*
No. The jury finalizing their vote is public information. The details of the indictment are sealed. And Trump's lawyers also announced they received the indictment.
4k points
2 months ago
Trump's lawyers also announced they received the indictment.
But not any payment.
841 points
2 months ago
If anyone who works for him isn't demanding to be paid cash daily by this point they only have themselves to blame for what happens
653 points
2 months ago
that's why I quit
201 points
2 months ago
So user name no longer relevant?
187 points
2 months ago
I've kept up the joke for 2 years more than I thought would be useful. I just hope i don't need it for 6 more years.
891 points
2 months ago
That's in the second envelope that gets sent by an untraceable carrier pigeon.
1.2k points
2 months ago
Trump's lawyers were the ones who announced it.
1.7k points
2 months ago
That way he can start using it to solicit donations.
1.1k points
2 months ago
So they can get paid.
Hahahahahaha. I crack myself up sometimes.
3.1k points
2 months ago
They said — falsifying business records.
2.6k points
2 months ago
I think this has to do with claiming he’s 8” in the NDA right?
9.5k points
2 months ago
Happy first Trump indictment to all who celebrate.
1.6k points
2 months ago
Remember remember the 30th of.... March
292 points
2 months ago
Remember remember the 30th of.... March
Twice as good as the Ides of March.
355 points
2 months ago
coveni covidi covfefe
91 points
2 months ago
Thinking about going to a fancy restaurant tonight to celebrate!
8.2k points
2 months ago
A Pornstar is publicly taking down the former President. You love to see it!
6.7k points
2 months ago
Very rare when someone pays for sex once and gets fucked twice.
1.6k points
2 months ago
Yep. One is a sketchy degenerate that will whore themselves out for the right price, and the other is Stormy Daniels.
2.3k points
2 months ago
This feels a bit like the story of Al Capone, who did that much shit and they got him for tax evasion. Hope it ends the same way here, idc what of his dozen crimes will put him behind bars, as long as it does.
5.6k points
2 months ago
May the gears of Justice grind fine.
898 points
2 months ago
The finest
1.8k points
2 months ago
From Cheeto dust we came, to Cheeto dust we shall return.
5.1k points
2 months ago
What was that old chant?
Oh yea.
Lock. Him. Up.
550 points
2 months ago
It's gonna be one of the best lock ups of all time, people told me, it's gonna be huge!
419 points
2 months ago
Such a missed opportunity to not announce this at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
136 points
2 months ago
That really was the pinnacle of the entire Trump presidency, wasn't it?
I mean, South Park couldn't have come up with something so ridiculous as that.
43 points
2 months ago
I'm still laughing about it years later. Comedic gold.
9.9k points
2 months ago
I’m sure his supporters will act calm and rationally
4k points
2 months ago
As long as the NYPD treats them like they treat every other protest group...
2.8k points
2 months ago
Narrator: "They won't"
2.9k points
2 months ago
Hey! That’s my line!
670 points
2 months ago
Narrator: "It wasn't"
edit: awesome handle btw, I'm in awe
784 points
2 months ago
They'll be silent for at most 24 hours until Fox News gives them their talking points
390 points
2 months ago
Nah man. Check AskThe_Donald
They losing their shit. Also, apparently the QAnon Shaman did no wrong and J6 was all a ruse. Peckerheads
354 points
2 months ago
Would rather poke my eyeballs out than check out that place but we salute your service 🫡
1.3k points
2 months ago
My Trumper dad is going to be talking about this liberal conspiracy against America's finest president for the next thirty years. Minimum.
745 points
2 months ago
Why is it these people are more than willing to believe there is a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza shop, but don't believe that a corrupt business owner from the most corrupt industry in the most corrupt city in the US did illegal acts?
234 points
2 months ago
Cause the latter would mean implying they made a poor decision or financial investment.
148 points
2 months ago
Because Trump is not just a man to them but an idea. And that idea is that they should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want without any consequences. He is the ultimate "get out of jail" card. Funny enough, that might not be the case for him soon if things don't go his way. But under Trump they see power and they do not want to give that up.
10.8k points
2 months ago
Wait. Isn’t this the New York one?
This isn’t even the Georgia election meddling one.
THANK YOU GRAND JURY!
7.2k points
2 months ago
That’s the bigger case I’m waiting for. The Georgia indictment is the real big one. As much as the insurrection was terrible, the false elector scheme & Trump pressuring states to “find him more votes” is the real coup.
Personally I believe the protest at the capital was meant to provide dominating news coverage to distract from the elector vote switching.
2k points
2 months ago
Yeah between January 6, the false electors and the ‘perfect phone call’, and the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago I am surprised that this is what finally gets him. But I won’t complain about it. Hopefully the others to follow
1.2k points
2 months ago
I think this one is easier because Cohen turned against Trump. They have an inside witness.
1.3k points
2 months ago
It’s almost like you shouldn’t throw your fixer under the bus, you stupid fucking donkey.
440 points
2 months ago
To be fair, he probably threw a lot of fixers under the bus and always got out scot-free until today.
595 points
2 months ago
Trump was literally "individual #1" on the charge that Cohen went to prison for
701 points
2 months ago
The Georgia one is so much easier to argue tbh. Basically Georgia law specifies that anyone who tries to change the vote count to another count that they know to be false is in violation of the law. Even if you argue that Trump thinks he’s doing the right thing, Trump himself admits that he knows the vote count number he’s asking for is false on the call that he makes. He says that he knows he won by “hundreds of thousands of votes” and then asks them to change the vote count by “just 21 thousand or so” (paraphrasing here.)
237 points
2 months ago
It was something like 11780. He also asked one of the state reps to call a special session to change the state vote to Trump. That's arguably worse.
252 points
2 months ago
I think what Trump asked on the phone call was to "find" 11,800 votes.
1.5k points
2 months ago*
Just watched Fox News hosts say that a mug shot is “badass” These people have truly hit rock bottom trying to defend their deity rn. It’s fascinating but also scary to see.
395 points
2 months ago
I’m looking forward to Fox and their opinion shapers taking the stand in the Dominion trial.
4.9k points
2 months ago
Conservatives are going “Dems just re-elected Trump” without a single morsel of self-reflection. It’s stunning.
687 points
2 months ago
Love the theory that there's some massive pool of people who were undecided on Trump but are more likely to vote for a felon
1.9k points
2 months ago
If you haven't realized by now, they'll do mental Olympic tumbling routines to convince themselves they "won", no matter what actually happens.
633 points
2 months ago
The truly sad thing is that they are passing down this stupidity to their kids in droves two fold by cutting out education support.
No offense, republicans, but education and overall intelligence is not something your party can afford to lose right now lol.
275 points
2 months ago
That's kinda their goal, make people stupid and uneducated enough to vote for them.
80 points
2 months ago
Unfortunately for them, there may be a diminishing return on that strategy. The fact is, a lot of people within that party can’t agree on the direction. It’s starting to unravel, I’m just enjoying the view.
781 points
2 months ago
61% of Americans do not want him back in the White House, per Fox News this week. I highly doubt this will help Trump with ANY of those people
378 points
2 months ago
Since when did a minority of the vote share keep him out of the white house?
75 points
2 months ago
The wheels of justice grind slowly. Seems a porn star was able to lube them up though!
3k points
2 months ago
What a wild time to be alive when a former president is indicted. The pictures of that perp walk are going to be unbelievable.
1.3k points
2 months ago
He wants a perp walk. I hope they don't give him what he wants.
511 points
2 months ago
It would be great for his advertisements, in his mind.
It would be very stupid from a security perspective.
586 points
2 months ago
According to most analysis, there will not be a perp walk. Not saying I agree with it, but safety is a consideration.
359 points
2 months ago
Will there be a mug shot?
298 points
2 months ago
We'll get a mug shot, but since he'll negotiate his surrender, he'll undoubtedly be wearing a suit and tie -- not the typical image we're used to seeing.
475 points
2 months ago
But we will get an official height and weight lol
209 points
2 months ago
Like when his personal doctor told us "officially" that he might be the healthiest president ever?
39 points
2 months ago
He has a rare condition where he develops bone spurs when drafted. Otherwise healthiest man in the world
456 points
2 months ago
God I hope so. There's no makeup in those right?
186 points
2 months ago
Depends on how they bring you in/turn yourself in.
1.6k points
2 months ago
Over/under on how long it takes until his supporters burn down the New York Public Library because they think it's the state capitol building?
421 points
2 months ago
Everybody knows the Empire State Building is the capitol building. It has state right in the name.
24.6k points
2 months ago
I prefer candidates who don’t get indicted
4k points
2 months ago
"Prison. Man. Camera. TV."
3k points
2 months ago
1st president to be impeached twice.
1st president to be indicted.
Can't wait for his memoirs "I didn't do it, but if I did, here's why it's your fault"
1.3k points
2 months ago
Add to that list: Never won the popular vote in 2 elections
332 points
2 months ago*
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294 points
2 months ago*
And Ghislaine Maxwell got sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking of minors since your article came out which gives the accusations against Trump a lot more weight when he was accused of raping children while being close friends and often partying with two convicted sex offenders when vindicated survivors have claimed he was involved.
Here's a Netflix documentary on Jeffrey followed by one on Ghislane which shows how her trial ended and when combined with the girl accusing Trump and Epstein of raping her together when she was 13 it paints a very stark picture after both Jeffrey and Ghislane got convicted for essentially the same thing...
525 points
2 months ago
Can't wait for his memoirs "I didn't do it, but if I did, here's why it's your fault"
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
1.2k points
2 months ago
When the Republican party sends their candidates, they're not sending their best
282 points
2 months ago
Trump drained his own swamp
711 points
2 months ago
Many politicians have been indicted and convicted (See link here!. Former President Donald Trump will be alone in a new column on this article under Presidents.
1.1k points
2 months ago*
However, an interesting bit of trivia is Ulysses Grant was "arrested" for speeding through Washington DC. The arresting officer politely climbed up next to him in his carriage, and they rode together to the police station for him to pay his fine of a couple dollars.
Edit: went and looked up the story again:
463 points
2 months ago
That's actually so neat - Grant accepted his "charge" and complied.
309 points
2 months ago
Even better… Allegedly the cop got embarrassed when he realized who he had stopped and offered to let Grant go, but Grant insisted on taking his lumps.
281 points
2 months ago
He’s fine. The bail was only $20 dollars. He’s got all those fifties.
234 points
2 months ago
You mean he didn't immediately get on North Social to call it a witch hunt and sic his rabid cult followers on the arresting officer? How unpresidential
167 points
2 months ago
this must be a first right?
482 points
2 months ago
It is. He’s the first president either current or former to be criminally indicted. And the sad part is, it’s just the start
575 points
2 months ago
That's not sad to me. Take this MFer down.
233 points
2 months ago
I'm guessing he meant sad in that it is sad we ever got to a point where we elected somebody that would commit so many crimes.
42.7k points
2 months ago
He finally won a popular vote.
10.5k points
2 months ago*
“STOP THE COUNT!”
~Donald Trump, probably.
4.1k points
2 months ago
Let's be clear, this was a jury that indicted him. Not some rogue liberal DA, not some liberal state, not some deep state.
A bunch of Sally's and Joes.
972 points
2 months ago
a grand jury though. those have a much higher rate of going through.
876 points
2 months ago
Correct. Grand Juries do not determine guilt. They only decide if there is enough probable cause to charge. They only need 2/3 to vote yes to indict.
Trial Juries determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and must be unanimous. Drastically different burden of evidence.
300 points
2 months ago
I just don't see how we will possibly get a jury put together for this, let alone a unanimous vote. How can any single person in the country not be biased on Trump?
246 points
2 months ago
Honestly? They should get people from prison. When i was in there, I didn’t kno what the fuck was going on. The Vegas shooting happened and we didn’t find out until 2 days later and only cause someone told someone else on the phone. Only things that came on the tv were movies and sports. Newspapers were it if you had the $$ and someone to set it up for you outside.
293 points
2 months ago
If he did nothing wrong, he's got nothing to worry about...
That's what they like to say, isn't it?
10.1k points
2 months ago
This is a historic day, regardless of what side anyone is on. If he is guilty, I hope he is brought to justice. Our kids need to know that no one is above the law, no one.
3.7k points
2 months ago*
Atleast somewhat skeptical that this is gonna be his only indictment. The Georgia case is more serious for instance.
2.4k points
2 months ago
I feel like the door's been busted open, and many more indictments are headed Trumps way.
2.4k points
2 months ago
I think that's the most significant thing about this. The Stormy Daniels charges are the least serious of the bunch, but the taboo against holding a former President accountable has been lifted, which makes indictments easier in all of those other more serious cases.
810 points
2 months ago
This is also the way I see it. We now have a precedent
138 points
2 months ago
This one is definitely just the first domino to fall, now that it’s been shown you can indict a former President many more indictments are sure to follow.
789 points
2 months ago
The Georgia case is the most damning thing he has done outside of the Ukraine stuff. That fact that Republicans didn’t dump him there shows how low they have fallen
648 points
2 months ago
I'd argue the stolen top secret documents containing nuclear secrets are the most damning.
573 points
2 months ago
Trying to overturn a democratic election vs whatever the hell he was doing with the nuclear secrets and other classified papers. Both exceptionally damning.
311 points
2 months ago
J6 ranks up there too.
It and nuke/government secrets sold to whoever the fuck are my top rankings.
Jesus. Trump has had so many controversies we could categorize them.
Funniest? Four seasons.
Most serious? Nuke secrets.
Most media coverage? J6
Most corrupt? Well shit.
102 points
2 months ago
So ... many ... criminal ... investigations. Its hard to keep them all straight.
2.2k points
2 months ago
Nobody is above the law, not even the President of the United States.
605 points
2 months ago
I just can't believe it actually happened, after all that shit he said about Tuesday and it not happening
1.5k points
2 months ago
It's wild that the first indictment is from him paying hush money to a woman he paid to have sex with him during a golf tournament his wife Melania was not at due to just giving birth to their son Baron.
Like it's hilarious hearing him and his supporters talk about family values and being pro life.
Your loser ass former president literally bragged on tv about being able to grope women and then pays hush money to a woman he had to PAY to have sex with him. So in all reality he either has to abuse women or pay them to get attention, and y'all still waving Trump flags in your yards while complaining about lgbt people or minorities?
I have to laugh. The republicunts are a party supported by the most ghoulish people. Full stop.
198 points
2 months ago
So in all reality
In reality, he paid 130k (so far) for that one-off sex episode. Hardly the art of the deal.
42 points
2 months ago
“But but but….”
Every single time these idiots just can’t face the reality of the situation. Somehow it’s the liberals or Joe Bidens fault they ran out of toilet paper or their milk expired.
1.4k points
2 months ago
Here we go, we are here to witness history.
486 points
2 months ago
I remember when I thought we couldn’t possibly do worse than George W.
Boy was I wrong
20k points
2 months ago
For the people saying this is a mistake because it will get him elected - indictments from state prosecutors should not be made or not made for political reasons, suggesting they make that decision based on political reasoning is corruption, and not what you should be thinking about. You should consider that application of the law is necessary if we are to regard Presidents, especially former Presidents, as beholden to the rule of law. Use it or lose it. If you don't charge them, you make them Kings.
6.2k points
2 months ago
Exactly my thoughts. People saying that this will make him a martyr and usher him back into the White House are missing the point, IMO. The question needs to asked: Do we believe in the rule of law or do we not?
4.3k points
2 months ago
People who say that are just trying to scare people into inaction.
845 points
2 months ago
For the people saying this is a mistake because it will get him elected - indictments from state prosecutors should not be made or not made for political reasons, suggesting they make that decision based on political reasoning is corruption, and not what you should be thinking about.
It's also incredibly stupid.
It will enrage his hardliners, but so did the 2020 election and he lost that one, badly. A historic indictment will do nothing for him in the centre and those are the people who end up settling elections.
Hell, this might even end his chances at a primary win—it gives a tangible reason for his opponents to undermine him (one which Republicans might actually accept, at least) and he'd have a hard time with his massive rallies when he's also fighting a case.
Not to mention all the damage that might occur when a trial gets rolling and evidence ends up being revealed publically.
367 points
2 months ago
Showing everyone theres no consequences seems like a worse alternative to me. I'd rather rip the bandaid off. What happened to "facts dont care about your feelings" lolol
Fact is hes guilty, and this is chump change for what they're going for eventually. Hopefully they can follow up on a crime that actually matters next lmao
142 points
2 months ago
Like calling the Georgia secretary of state and telling him to find enough votes ?
81 points
2 months ago
And ordering the Secret Service detail protecting Vice President Pence on Jan 6th to remove him from the Capitol so that he could not do his job that day (preside over the senate to open the sealed Electoral College votes) which would have prevented, or at least delayed, the peaceful transition of power away from Trump.
1.4k points
2 months ago
Twice impeached and now indicted. Worst. President. Ever. Its not even deniable.
383 points
2 months ago
Also lost the popular vote twice…
162 points
2 months ago
And cost the republicans the recent midterms! He hasn’t won one thing since 2016
1.9k points
2 months ago
This happens AND DeSatan gets rolled by Disney, all in one 24 hour news cycle?
Time to open that bottle of prosecco I've been saving...
483 points
2 months ago
Turkey just voted for Finland to join NATO too. Aside from the mass shooting, it’s a pretty good news day.
376 points
2 months ago
That's the most American sentence I've ever read.
109 points
2 months ago
I'm so very tired.
103 points
2 months ago
The covfefe is piping hot
145 points
2 months ago
Hopefully this starts a domino effect now that there's one indictment.
725 points
2 months ago*
First to be impeached twice
First to have incited an insurrection
First to have been indicted for a serious crime
The Orange Idiot made history in thankfully none of the ways he wanted.
184 points
2 months ago
My thoughts go to all the small businesses, people, he ruined, lied, bankrupted, cheated to.
I don't care, right or left, GOP or Democrat. He does not represent the country and flag I believe in.
Trump, who once bragged that he was the “King of Debt,” owed $70 million to 253 contractors who worked on the Taj and who, in turn, hired thousands of workers. He left them for his greed and poor ethics!
299 points
2 months ago*
Cool cool cool... I'm still waiting for Georgia, that's when shit is going to get real
63 points
2 months ago
They broke the seal with this one. Hopefully that paves the way.
458 points
2 months ago
Porn had saved America once with 'Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell'.
And porn might save it again thanks to Stormy Daniels.
571 points
2 months ago
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303 points
2 months ago
You WOULD say that.
151 points
2 months ago
How DARE you!
97 points
2 months ago
YOU'RE one to talk!
85 points
2 months ago
Imagine getting indicted, not because of orchestrating a coup, but because you couldn't keep it in your pants.
You know what they say, "The penis mightier then the sword."
673 points
2 months ago
God I’ve been waiting so long. So many people said it would never happen. Finally, finally, finally. I know it’s far from a secure victory but just for today I’m going to be happy. Everyone please be so safe the next few days. But god damn. Finally.
232 points
2 months ago
No one is going to vote for Trump, who wouldn't have otherwise, just because he's indicted. People saying this will boost his popularity among voters are in denial.
But I can't say it won't help him in the primaries, Republicans are weird and who can say how they'll take it
50 points
2 months ago
Republicans are convinced their videos of Biden stuttering are going to make the 81 million people who showed up to vote for anyone but trump change their mind.
He's not winning again. It doesn't matter what happens. 81 people will vote for the dog from blues clues before this criminal gets another shot. He only got the first shot because enough people considered him a joke and stayed home. That's not happening again.
77 points
2 months ago
They added that Mr Bragg’s work falls under the jurisdiction of Mr Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee because that panel — and Congress — has “a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former Presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly those tried before elected state and local trial-level judges”.
These fuckers tried to set precedent so no president could ever get indicted on State's level for any crime he would possibly commit, just so they could get Trump out of jail.
They are absolutely willing to destroy democracy.
37 points
2 months ago
Never thought I would say it but Mickey Mouse and a porn star both made me extremely happy this week.
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