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Well, that oughta tip the scales against the lying coward rapist pedophile treasonous traitor demented racist bigoted convicted felon, I'm sure.
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Trump is the rock bottom drilling champion 🏆
Well he sure ain't the porn star drilling champion, if her testimony is to be believed.
That's still too big.
Champion? Look, I am no porn star, but I think that I could have given her a better time, just saying. Actually her testimony kind of put him in the "unremarkable" category ...
Are we being serious? Trump sold state secrets to enemy governments. He made favorable trade deals in order to secure contracts for his family members. Conflict of interest? The man has exactly one interest, personal gain.
Well, trump owes my town $200,000... Circle of life
Do you accept Taliban bonds?
They probably pay more reliably than Drumpf
In that case Drumpf won't pay you off with them.
For a building in the USA that the government of Afghanistan was renting.
As others has commented as well, this is just ripples. Trump is so thoroughly corrupt and bought this doesn't even register. If you're a strong man dictator, you don't even have to buy him, he's free to play. I think what the money is starting to realize is that he won't reliably stay bought and is unpredictable because of it. Even Putin had to brake the spy manual rules and very visibly have the handlers meet him much more frequently and openly for such a high visibility asset. But as this is Trump, the rules do not apply.
As for the money, they aren't really used to this way of operating and since it is literally impossible to keep Trump on script they get very nervous about what he'll say if they get on his bad side or even by accident through his less than coherent ramblings. It is not easy dealing with a petulant, half senile old crook with the demeanor and attention span of a coked up five year old that always gets his way. Everyone with half a brain that have spent time with him knows this. The look on that reporters' face when he was handed that crayon painting tells the whole story. I guess the people that voted for him get that look all the time and believe it is something positive? They mistake a tired "sure, buddy, whatever you say" as actual agreement?
What is positive is that the money seem to have gotten the message by now and they are slowly edging away from Trump. Without being too obvious, of course, bets needs to be hedged. The number of news pieces without unabashedly obvious Trump/Republican spin has slowly increased lately. This has nothing to do with any reporters suddenly growing a brain of course, it is all mandated from above. The money got the message that Trump is bad for business and they are acting on it.
That's my take and I'm not known for having a positive outlook on current events. Still very much not a fan of what the atrocity helpers of the dems are doing. It is arguably even worse when you consider that they aren't halfwits like Trump and presumably actually know what they are doing and still aid an actual fucking genocide that wouldn't even be possible without US help. Despicable.
Fun fact. Everyone in the pic above has denounced trump and left his administration.
He's too crazy for mad dog Mattis?
Weird.