Trump giving money away to potential voters in PA.

[u/MarshalLawTalkingGuy]

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[u/grrangry]

I mean, it's one vote, Michael. What could it cost? $10?

[u/Socalwarrior485 → u/grrangry]

All of his former (unpaid) attorneys are like:

[u/KinksAreForKeds → u/Socalwarrior485]

Don't worry, it's marked "MOTION PICTURE PURPOSES" on it.

[u/DummyDumDragon → u/KinksAreForKeds]

Shoulda fucking printed that on him and been done with it.

[u/alicefreak47 → u/DummyDumDragon]

If we would have done it to Reagan, we may not be in this mess now.

[u/cmo29 → u/alicefreak47]

Ye apparently hiring celebrities as political puppets doesn't work well. How did the war on drugs go? Are the drugs all dead yet?

[u/BrokenEyebrow → u/cmo29]

Didnt you hear, we already had the end of war celebration, drugs won

[u/Voodoo700 → u/BrokenEyebrow]

Yay, drugs!

[u/DigitalUnlimited → u/BrokenEyebrow]

I was on the drugs side. It's my fault.

[u/hamish1963 → u/alicefreak47]

Truth!!

[u/TransportationTrick9 → u/KinksAreForKeds]

Are you sure it doesn't have his face on it?

[u/Brave-Common-2979 → u/KinksAreForKeds]

Are we sure they don't have his face on them? I seem to remember him talking about putting himself on our money but he says so much bullshit I can't figure out if I'm making it up.

[u/Beautiful_Speech7689 → u/Socalwarrior485]

Dude still owes the casino workers.

“I’m gonna be a businessman like you’ve never seen before, I’m gonna lose as the house!”

[u/Smooth-Reason-6616 → u/Beautiful_Speech7689]

“Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me, The money I took out of there was incredible...."

Donald Trump

“Trump crawled his way to the top on the back of little guys, one of them being my father, When he went bankrupt, he not only cost bondholders money, but he hurt a lot of small businesses that helped him construct the Taj Mahal. He had no regard for the thousands of men and women who worked on those projects for their livelihoods. He says he’ll make America great again, but his past shows the complete opposite of that".

Beth Rosser, whose fathers company Triad Building Specialties nearly collapsed when Trump took the Taj into bankruptcy

[u/kalyco → u/Smooth-Reason-6616]

There’s a long line of folks screwed by him in AC, this guy included. https://theweek.com/speedreads/651801/music-store-owner-sold-trump-100000-worth-pianos-trump-refused-pay

[u/BerkPick → u/kalyco]

My favorite was the time he ripped off actual little girls who danced for him and literally sang his praises. I don't understand how anyone is dumb enough to like him and think he'd treat them any different than the people he screws over for a buck or throws under the bus the second there's the slightest hint of trouble.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/usa-freedom-kids-lawsuit-trump/index.html

[u/turbo-hater → u/BerkPick]

I don’t understand how anyone is dumb enough to like him.

Trying to find the logic in someone’s opinion that didn’t use logic to form said opinion is basically impossibly.

The simplest answer is often the correct one and I think you already figured it out: they’re just dumb.

[u/Nena902 → u/Beautiful_Speech7689]

Casino workers and lawyers- get in line! He stiffed his construction workers in the 60's and 70's.

[u/No-Breakfast5812 → u/Beautiful_Speech7689]

Don’t forget the charities he’s stolen from. He should really be giving that money E. Jean Carroll or Letitia James.

[u/Smooth-Reason-6616 → u/No-Breakfast5812]

Judge Saliann Scarpulla said Mr Trump had "breached his fiduciary duty" by allowing funds raised for US veterans to be used for the Iowa primary election in 2016.

The money was raised in a televised fundraiser during a Republican primary debate that Mr Trump skipped.

"I direct Mr Trump to pay the $2,000,000, which would have gone to the Foundation if it were still in existence,"

[u/Lesterqwert → u/No-Breakfast5812]

Not to mention the American people, because we will never know how much he stole from us during his reign.

[u/Masterchiefy10 → u/Socalwarrior485]

Lawyers??

Try like 98% of the people who’s ever rendered a service for him…

The one time he pays (a porn-istute) he did it all wrong and should’ve been held criminally liable instead his gimp went to jail for him.

[u/Beautiful_Speech7689 → u/Socalwarrior485]

Alina, I launched your only fans, all the best people are saying you should just be happy with that. By the way, do you know any bankruptcy lawyers? I’m asking for a friend. Have you ever been to Atlantic City? I had a helicopter there once. New Yorkers just do t get me. Trust me, latisha has the values wrong, Vladimir told me many many times those figures aren’t right. And look at vlad, the control he has. Pee tapes, what pee tapes? 6 year old donkeys? That was Epstein, and that was just for the freak off. I’d hate to see people hurt. No the Russian people don’t count, they’re all murderers and rapists. The fine people are all here, why’d the cyber truck sto working. Anyway I need 90 million by Tuesday or I ship your grandmother to the moon

[u/redditorial_comment → u/Beautiful_Speech7689]

Sounds like a direct quote.

[u/NoelsCrinklyBottom → u/redditorial_comment]

The only mistake is the cybertruck, since he called it an Elon.

[u/TurdFergusonIII → u/grrangry]

Here, go see a Star War

[u/GeoWoose → u/grrangry]

Even if he may have committed some light treason…

[u/maliciousmeower → u/GeoWoose]

[u/_blacktriangle_ → u/grrangry]

I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it.

[u/wholesome_pineapple → u/grrangry]

Truly one of the best comedies of all time. Fucking RIP Jessica Walter. She was so insanely talented and hot. All the way to the end. ✊

[u/MashedPotatoesDick]

Same energy.

[u/CharlestonChewChewie → u/MashedPotatoesDick]

He gave $100 for a family of 5 for groceries and Fox is reporting that he is Jesus

[u/Good_Boye_Scientist → u/CharlestonChewChewie]

The funny thing is that if he gets elected he'll turn around and pass tax breaks for the rich and increase taxes for middle class and families, effectively nullifying the money he gave them and then some.

[u/Fuzzy_Ad8717 → u/Good_Boye_Scientist]

Don’t even need to elect him again for that to happen. His 2017 tax plan is still fucking us over as we speak.

[u/BirdjaminFranklin → u/Fuzzy_Ad8717]

Don't forget those breaks for us plebs expire in a few years while the 1% who took 90% of a 1.8 trillion dollar tax cut get to keep it permanently.

[u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep → u/BirdjaminFranklin]

Plus PPP loans that were used for enrichment and not salaries that were entirely forgiven.

[u/TechnicoloMonochrome → u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep]

The place I worked at laid people off as soon as they got a sniff of the incoming pandemic, then took the PPP loans and used them to buy equipment they were already going to buy. They'd already cut the work force by like 40% so they never needed the loans to actually keep anyone around. Around the time the loans were forgiven they said "we had to buy this equipment this year so unfortunately we can't give you even a half decent raise. Here's 40 cents."

It was just shady all the way around. Once I found out about the forgiven loans and the way the handled the raises for people who were struggling I got the fuck out of there. I'd already been planning on it because their retirement plan was trash but that pushed me right out the door. It's sad too because 20 years ago it was an amazing place to work. GOOD weekly prodcution bonuses. Profit sharing annually that could get you 10k added to your retirement account (which may as well be a quarter million after interest if you're young) One of the co-owners died and it started going downhill quickly.

I hated it too because I really liked the work. I'm not gonna spend my life staring at a dead end though.

[u/TheRiteGuy → u/[deleted]]

Does it matter? There are no consequences for him doing illegal things.

[u/sdf_cardinal → u/[deleted]]

What are they going to do? Indict him for more felonies he’ll never be held accountable for…

[u/somefunmaths → u/sdf_cardinal]

Remember when the announcement of an FBI investigation into Clinton was an earth-shattering “October surprise”?

Meanwhile, eight years later, the convicted felon who beat her in 2016 is posing for photos while committing more felonies, and none of us are even batting an eye because something so minor as felony campaign finance violations seem pedestrian compared to the felonies of which he has already been convicted and more with which he’s credibly accused.

I’m fucking tired, boss.

[u/PseudonymMan12 → u/somefunmaths]

Don't forget, support among his base went UP because of those. Made him a hero, a martyr, a rebel against the corrupt establishment. Man I am so tired too.

[u/CuddyFox → u/PseudonymMan12]

Trump can not win the election with only his base. He been driving Independents away.

[u/Green1up → u/CuddyFox]

He's not trying to win. He's trying to rig.

[u/rksd → u/[deleted]]

I'd gleefully take his cash and still vote against him.

[u/BadHombreSinNombre → u/[deleted]]

Only if it’s an Official Act (TM)

[u/Plothunter → u/[deleted]]

No. Very no.

[u/exqueezemenow]

I can guarantee you it's not his own money.

[u/zzzzzz_zz → u/exqueezemenow]

That’s the only way his voters will ever get their donation money back

[u/GoodGoodGoody → u/zzzzzz_zz]

Seriously: Why would any voters get their donations back?

[u/somefunmaths → u/GoodGoodGoody]

The joke is that these people give money to grifters under false pretenses or because they’re gullible, and they never get a cent back, and that Trump is broke so this money isn’t his own but is surely donated money from the campaign coffers.

So, Trump is a broke grifter who is actually, for once, offering a chance for the people taken in by his bullshit to get their money back.

[u/DstinctNstincts → u/somefunmaths]

This guy grifts

[u/SqBlkRndHole → u/exqueezemenow]

Never was. He loaned his campaign 10 million in 2016, right after Egypt guaranteed him 10 million in cash. The back door cash has been flooding in ever since. But hey, we need to focus on Hunter's laptop /s

[u/MonteBurns → u/SqBlkRndHole]

$2 billion to Kushner!

[u/SmegmaSupplier → u/SqBlkRndHole]

He’s literally never had his own money. He’s just moved his dad’s money around poorly.

[u/Ted-Chips → u/SmegmaSupplier]

He's the financial equivalent of a child sitting on a basement floor playing with a toy steering wheel saying I'm a race car driver!

[u/hilwil → u/Ted-Chips]

He’s like a child cupping their hands into the ocean for water then slowly losing said water on the sand, gleefully approaching their parents saying, “look I have the ocean!” despite their hands now being totally empty and have effectively lost it all in the short walk.

[u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy → u/exqueezemenow]

Not even sure it’s real money. Most likely one of the fake bills that talk about Jesus on the back but these just advertise sneakers.

[u/MountiansAndBaking → u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy]

I had the same thought. I’ve seen a fake hundred with him on it saying Vote for Trump. That bill looks like a hundred but, it looks off to me for some reason. Could just be the lighting.

[u/surugg → u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy]

Maybe its the same fake money Trumps former aide, John Mcentee gives to homeless people as a prank.

[u/Lifesalchemy]

Look at that bronzer line. Dudes a clown

[u/Specialist-Fly-9446 → u/Lifesalchemy]

This will never not be funny

[u/istrx13 → u/Specialist-Fly-9446]

Man the contrast between the bronzer and his regular skin is like the contrast between my dad being sober and being drunk

[u/LoligoTX → u/istrx13]

His bronzer has jumper cables?

[u/Dream--Brother → u/LoligoTX]

Damn, that's deep old school reddit lore. Wonder what happened to that guy

[u/pull-a-fast-one → u/Specialist-Fly-9446]

mirror: https://i.imgur.com/tdfCrlN.png

fuck twitter.

[u/ImprovisedLeaflet → u/Specialist-Fly-9446]

American Kim Jong Un

[u/discussatron → u/Lifesalchemy]

Caked in makeup, wearing heels, and screaming about drag queens.

[u/mikerichh → u/Lifesalchemy]

I like trump because he normalized heavy makeup use for men 💅💅💅

[u/Steelforge → u/mikerichh]

You should see JD Vance in drag.

[u/Ashley-Rx]

Is…is that allowed?

[u/colordodge → u/Ashley-Rx]

What are they gonna do? Convict him of a felony?

[u/MrTrismegistus → u/colordodge]

They might. They just might.

[u/threehundredthousand → u/MrTrismegistus]

It's #3,451,908 in the queue. It should come up on the docket around 2058.

[u/rainshifter → u/threehundredthousand]

Ah, so the trick is to have enough big ticket items toward the front of the line so that the misdemeanors virtually never get processed.

[u/Helltothenotothenono → u/threehundredthousand]

When Trump gets out of prison in 2066 he plans on running for president in the next election

[u/donbee28 → u/Helltothenotothenono]

Won’t he be too old to run for president?

[u/Throwaway8789473 → u/donbee28]

While it's true that Trump will be 120 years old in 2066, it's important to remember that Joe Biden will be 124 and thus 120 is okay.

[u/AssPennies → u/Throwaway8789473]

Probably thinks age is like an odometer and is going to rollover.

[u/the2belo → u/AssPennies]

Trump: Look, it's real simple. Whatever mileage we put on, we'll take off.

Vance: How?

Trump: We'll walk to Washington backwards.

[u/Greatgrandma2023 → u/Throwaway8789473]

I'll vote for Head in a Jar Biden ^TM

[u/kounterfett → u/donbee28]

There currently is a lower age limit but no upper age limit for president (but there should be)

[u/jsquared8387 → u/kounterfett]

Modern medicine is a bitch.

[u/youlltellme2kilmyslf → u/donbee28]

But then he'll play the victim card. Oh, wait..

[u/mortalcoil1 → u/donbee28]

At this point, as the heritage foundation and Republicans in general keep putting up more and more extreme completely for sale populist nominees, I think a dead person would be perfect for the Republican nom.

A dead person wouldn't required to be paid off like Trump and it's not like they are going to have any issues with draconian policies. They are dead.

[u/Emergency_Ad1203 → u/MrTrismegistus]

nah, clarence thomas and company stand ready to drop any case against their owner.

[u/MarilynMonroesLibido → u/Emergency_Ad1203]

Against a fellow lackey of their collective owners!

[u/Mpm_277 → u/colordodge]

Just imagine. Just imagine if they actually did. Imagine how differently things would be right now. He’d be in jail. We’d finally never hear about him anymore.

.. r… right?

jumps back into reality

Oh. Welp.

[u/Rocinante1988 → u/Mpm_277]

Your optimism is inspiring.

[u/SpiritOne → u/colordodge]

<sigh> I really fucking want to jump to a different timeline.

[u/K7Sniper → u/Ashley-Rx]

Nope. Actually quite blatantly illegal. But as per usual, nothing will be done about it.

Gotta be nice being able to just blatantly break laws and commit felonies while knowing nothing will be done.

[u/southern_OH_hillican → u/K7Sniper]

"When you're rich, they let you do it"

[u/questhere → u/southern_OH_hillican]

I imagine when you can "grab 'em by the pussy" and still become president, it's easy to feel bullet proof.

[u/Zanain → u/southern_OH_hillican]

These are sadly the truest words Trump has ever spoken.

[u/absentmindedjwc → u/Ashley-Rx]

No. It violates federal law (18 U.S.C. § 597) and state law (25 P.S. § 3539).

The federal crime is a misdemeanor, but the state crime is a felony of the third degree. So here's motherfucker committing felonies on camera and nobody in any position of power likely gives a shit.

[u/t00oldforthisshit → u/absentmindedjwc]

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

25 P.S. § 3539

[u/PoopingDogEyeContact → u/t00oldforthisshit]

Is it real money or trump bucks? If he claims trump bucks are more valuable than real money , does it make the crime even worse??

[u/GoldFisherman → u/PoopingDogEyeContact]

Trump bucks certainly aren't more valuable than Stanley nickels.

[u/Greendale7HumanBeing → u/GoldFisherman]

Three of those violations and he's looking at a full disadulation.

[u/Wakkit1988 → u/GoldFisherman]

I doubt they're worth more than COVID TP.

[u/larowin → u/Wakkit1988]

Man that was a wild time

[u/FatherD00m → u/Wakkit1988]

The “white gold” standard if you will.

[u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch → u/absentmindedjwc]

Let's not forget he's a convicted felon who also is out on bail with his bail terms stating he gets to stay out of jail as long as he doesn't commit anymore crimes.

[u/SeanBlader → u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch]

I feel a staggering sense of wishful thinking.

[u/pants_full_of_pants → u/Ashley-Rx]

Has that question ever stopped him before?

[u/Dick_Dickalo → u/Ashley-Rx]

I bet it was the vote Trump $100 people give as tips.

[u/douche-baggins → u/Dick_Dickalo]

Goddamn I got one of those as a tip on a DoorDash delivery. I went from elated to pissed to amused in the span of 30 seconds.

[u/Mega_Rayqaza → u/douche-baggins]

Just drop it in your local church's collection basket ;P

[u/jst4wrk7617 → u/Dick_Dickalo]

Former server- this would make me see red. That’s even worse than the religious ones. God I’d be so pissed.

[u/ritpdx → u/jst4wrk7617]

Right? And now that we’re talking about those religious ones, I just right now realized that the money they cost to manufacture and distribute probably came from tithes that some true believers thought would go to helping the poor or some shit. And now I’m seeing red again.

[u/trouzy → u/Ashley-Rx]

I’ve been told by an ex friend that there’s thousands of stories of Trump paying off medical debt, utility bills and just straight giving poor people money to help them out. THOUSANDS of stories.

I mean, she couldn’t provide 1 source like not even a Newsmaxx bit, but it has to be true

[u/myassholealt → u/trouzy]

In the 2016 election there was an ask Reddit thread where the question was why do you support trump. And I'll never forget reading one answer that said he worked for trump and when he didn't get paid initially trump went out of his way to write a personal check to pay the guy and that honest and standup action is why he supported him.

If nothing else convinced me that thread was pure astroturfing, that comment did. Because trump is as known in the nyc construction industry for stiffing contractors as Epstein was known in the world of leaders and power brokers for being a source if you're looking for children to sexually assault.

Anyone who comes with a story suggesting otherwise is talking out their ass and we all know it.

[u/DadJokeBadJoke → u/myassholealt]

He used one of his "charities" to pay for one of his kid's Cub Scout dues of like $7

[u/Zuwxiv → u/DadJokeBadJoke]

I love that story, because think of the time it took. Like, Trump had to tell someone to pay it, and they had to find the charity's financials and payment methods, and document the payment fraudulently. There could have been like 3 or more people involved here. All to commit fraud over $7.

There's no way the time involved was worth it. Surely he could have written a check then and there, but that just wouldn't do.

It was about the principle of the thing. Trump had all of this happen purely because of his absolute dedication to defrauding charities. He's a first-ballot hall-of-fame asshole. The other piece-of-shit all-stars couldn't even imagine the moves he's making.

[u/Kilkono → u/myassholealt]

He is very much known for stiffing contractors. Why do so many people believe the lies he says with such vigor?

[u/Sniffy4 → u/myassholealt]

"I support Trump because he eventually paid the money he owed me after I personally begged him to"

[u/lord_dentaku → u/trouzy]

And then there is his nephew who has a mentally disabled son that has been cared for using a trust funded with Trump family assets and the last time it ran out Trump said maybe his nephew should "just let him die..."

[u/Electrical-Wish-519 → u/lord_dentaku]

And he dropped them from the Trump Org insurance so the kid wasn’t even covered

[u/mandy009 → u/Ashley-Rx]

He should log the campaign expenditure at least for transparency instead of secretly hiding it on the books for his business legal fees, because laundering through business activity is a felony. Trump would know. Because he's been convicted for it recently.

[u/echo_7 → u/Ashley-Rx]

Dude could put a fucking bullet in someone and he’d still be walking around running for president. Dude probably did fuck children and tried to kill the Vice President while enacting an insurrection against the “most powerful nation in the world” and still is. He can do anything. I’m convinced he was the benefactor of any Epstein tapes.

[u/algy888 → u/echo_7]

Although, recently Donald Trump Jr. did call out the government for possibly being involved in the Epstein prison suicide.

Completely forgetting of course that his daddy was (supposedly) in charge when it happened.

Oops.

[u/MonteBurns → u/algy888]

My favorite was a tweet I saw saying anyone associated with P Diddy should be investigated, responded to with a bunch of pics of Trump and p diddy together 

[u/andrew_kirfman]

It’s crazy to me that 15 years ago, this alone would 100% kill someone’s election chances and probably get them in real legal hot water.

With Trump, it’s just 1 in 100 crazy things that have happened in the last 2 weeks.

[u/DJayLeno → u/andrew_kirfman]

Hell, you don't even need to go back 15 years, just to 2016. Trump's money was a big talking point in that election; he promised to fully divest from his businesses, he said he would refuse a salary as president, he said he would never take donations since he had such vast personal wealth... I'm sure if he was photographed bribing voters in 2016 the media would have made a huge deal about it.

[u/cytherian → u/DJayLeno]

Donald Trump made so many promises that he didn't keep... then one big slogan for 2020 was "Promises Made, Promises Kept." WTAF? Are they that stupid?

The biggest thing was the tax returns. Every candidate submits them. He didn't. He lied, saying the IRS audits were keeping him from doing it. As soon as they're done, he said he'd release them. The IRS? "He's not under audit." And did the MSM hold him to the fire for that? No. He steamrolled right over them with distractions.

And no, he didn't divest from his businesses. He let his sons take over the management, but Trump kept his hand in it, as well as access to the money coming in. He did not donate his salary as he'd promised.

And yeah... handing out money like this is just outright bribery. If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris did this? FOX News would be running BREAKING NEWS pieces 24/7 for weeks, making up other things financially related about them to fill time, to keep the heat on "that infamous video clip, showing them bribing voters!" 🤪

[u/FullMetalBiscuit → u/cytherian]

Are they that stupid?

Yes

[u/Dat_Basshole → u/FullMetalBiscuit]

A Very Strong Case Why MAGA Voters Are Stupid

[u/Half_Cent → u/FullMetalBiscuit]

Saying all his followers are stupid gives them a pass. For many of them at best it's willful ignorance, at worst it's people who are fine with pushing down others for relative self worth.

[u/ProfMcGonaGirl → u/Half_Cent]

Some are stupid. Some evil. Some are both.

Willful ignorance on this subject IS stupid at this point.

[u/CarolynGombellsGhost → u/cytherian]

He did not donate his salary as he'd promised.

Now this one was actually pretty funny. He did donate his salary. Every quarter, he’d hold a press conference to show that he had donated the money to something in the government. The first donation he made was to the National Parks department. He had someone from the department (the head, maybe?) speak at the press conference, and I’ll never forget the guy saying (and I’m paraphrasing), “This is great and all, but what would have been better is if he hadn’t proposed a budget cut to the department."

[u/wwj → u/CarolynGombellsGhost]

Did we actually get evidence that he followed through? I remember the big cardboard check and the press conference, but did he actually make the donation? He pulled the same charity con multiple times before in his life, so why would he change? Also, I don't remember him doing this after the first year of his term, did he continue?

[u/CarolynGombellsGhost → u/wwj]

I looked it up, and it seems like he did follow through on it the whole time. I feel like this was a gimme for him. He’d give up about $320,000/yr to get a feel good press meeting every three months. He knew that he’d be making more than that just in the money that his resorts would charge the secret service when they had to stay there to protect him.

[u/onthenerdyside → u/CarolynGombellsGhost]

Charging the Secret Service to stay in his resorts while they protect him was SUCH a grift. Records show that the agency often paid five times the government rate at Trump properties.

[u/ScyllaOfTheDepths → u/CarolynGombellsGhost]

He donated to a bunch of government agencies (no real charities) then cut their budgets by millions of dollars.

[u/amumumyspiritanimal → u/DJayLeno]

The same media that recycled Obama's tan suit for weeks gave up real quick when he talked about sexually assaulting women on tape

[u/TwiggysDanceClub → u/amumumyspiritanimal]

That was just "locker room talk"

Every guy has been in the locker room and spoken for hours on end about how they love to sexually assault women. Wait...what do you mean normal people don't do that????

[u/amumumyspiritanimal → u/TwiggysDanceClub]

As someone who spent a considerable amount of time in locker rooms, most of the topics range from the weather to the game we had or maybe if we're racy, weekend plans. He must've meant the locker room on Epstein island.

[u/SwineHerald → u/DJayLeno]

He did turn down the salary... He just ended up charging the government more than his salary to rent golf carts and rooms at his resorts where he spent a quarter of his term, as well as a full floor in Trump Tower for the first year.  Did you know that the cost to fly Air Force One down to Mar a Lago and back once is equal to an entire term worth of the Presidential salary? He did it like 40 times, so he could fleece the government on golf cart fees.

[u/porkknocker47 → u/DJayLeno]

2016 was 48 years ago

[u/AKpigeon → u/andrew_kirfman]

Why hide behind one single atrocity when you can hide behind a thousand?

[u/AdKlutzy5253 → u/andrew_kirfman]

It's happening across the pond too.

A lot of countries have had their long standing political norms challenged. Turns out if you just ignore them and then refuse to resign, the system is really perplexed with how to deal with you. 

[u/youcantkillanidea → u/andrew_kirfman]

It's a noise strategy right from riding that escalator, a never-ending chain of distractions

[u/REDNOOK]

Remember when he was convicted and the sentencing just didn't happen?

[u/1spook → u/REDNOOK]

They conveniently moved the sentence to be after the election, funny how that works!

[u/Apprehensive_Cash656 → u/1spook]

I mean this is just absurd. We get caught committing a crime and then we mostly have to do what we are told and when. People of influence get all these free passes or this whole annoying ass later date situation. You broke the law and get to wait for punishment? We all know it’s because no one wants it to impede the election but in fact it’s incredibly important to address these things DURING.

[u/WanderingFlumph → u/Apprehensive_Cash656]

It's crazy to me that it's even legal for someone convicted of a federal crime awaiting sentencing for said federal crime is allowed to run for the office of head of enforcing federal crimes.

[u/RIP_Brain → u/WanderingFlumph]

That's what I've been saying! If he was incarcerated for his FELONIES he wouldn't even be allowed to vote.

[u/38ren → u/REDNOOK]

pepperidge farm remembers 😞

[u/BigAlsGal78]

You should watch the video. He doesn’t even hand it to her. He holds it that far and then just tosses it her way. Like he couldn’t even put it in her hand.

[u/darhox → u/BigAlsGal78]

I had a boss who would do that with our paychecks. He was such an asshole

[u/love_hertz_me → u/darhox]

Same. My old boss would walk around at 5:55pm on Fridays and slowly toss out paychecks onto peoples desk and wait until they said “thank you” before moving on. Worst place I ever worked at. 

[u/profkrowl → u/love_hertz_me]

I worked on the family farm growing up. Got my first paycheck, and my dad told me to tell my grandpa thank you. Grandpa was always insistent about being thanked for money he gave people. But that day, when I went over and thanked him, he looked me straight in the eyes and said "Never thank someone for your paycheck. That is money you earned and that is owed to you. The boss should be thanking you for doing the work." Sure miss Grandpa now, he taught me a lot of good things.

[u/hbomberman → u/love_hertz_me]

Good bosses are the ones who thank you for your hard work

[u/h4wkeyepierce → u/BigAlsGal78]

What??? And get touched by a poor??

[u/HangryWolf → u/BigAlsGal78]

Sounds pretty on flavor with Trump.

[u/Pirateboy85 → u/BigAlsGal78]

It’s because he doesn’t know how the whole process works. He’s probably never grocery shopped in his life.

[u/Wishihadagirl → u/BigAlsGal78]

Strip club reflex kicked in

[u/Brianocracy]

I'd take the money and vote for harris

[u/marsemsbro → u/Brianocracy]

I took Doug Burgum's free gift card and donated it to Planned Parenthood.

[u/Brianocracy → u/marsemsbro]

[u/UpsetPhrase5334 → u/Brianocracy]

My grandmother would have liked you. She very much would always keep a smile while stabbing them in the back.

[u/Canuckleball → u/UpsetPhrase5334]

I'm not an American, but my grandmother had a similar attitude. Every year, the Conservative party would call, and she'd say yes, I would love to vote, but I just can't get to the polls. They'd happily send a volunteer to drive her to the elections office every year, where she'd vote NDP (democratic socialist) every time. When asked, she'd just say the Conservatives have too much money, and she'd much rather waste their time and resources than the NDP's.

[u/McPostyFace → u/Brianocracy]

I'd take the money and donate it to the Harris campaign

[u/Naroyto]

Cashier: LMAO WTF is Trump bucks?

[u/glassesandnails → u/Naroyto]

What's the conversion of Trump bucks to Stanley nickels?

[u/basedgod001 → u/glassesandnails]

Same as the ratio between unicorns and leprechauns

[u/The_Jolly_Dog]

Holy hell his tiny hands make that dollar bill look big

[u/Major_Burnside → u/The_Jolly_Dog]

Looks like he’s refilling the printer paper.

[u/ModestHercules]

Watch the video showing how he doesn't hand it to her, rather tosses it like she is somehow unworthy.

[u/township_rebel → u/ModestHercules]

Also hard to tell where it came from. Does he not carry a wallet?

Someone gave him the bill to give to her on his way out he nearly forgot.

Hard to make out what he says about “the white house ok”?

[u/ThatGuyGetsIt → u/township_rebel]

He just had it loose in his pocket. The woman who ended up with it told reporters it was damp and smelled like a mixture of urine, cheetos, and bengay.

[u/brmarcum]

So he’s buying votes?

Cool. Totally normal.

[u/absentmindedjwc → u/brmarcum]

A felony of the third degree in Pennsylvania (25 P.S. § 3539)

[u/mandy009 → u/absentmindedjwc]

IANAL, but I also found 18 P.S. § 4701 https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=18&div=0&chpt=47&sctn=1&subsctn=0 for some reason I have trouble searching the case law for the other one

[u/sonik13 → u/brmarcum]

This is the same guy who insisted on having his name on the pandemic stimulus cheques during an election year.

[u/-random-name-]

They're fake $3 bills with his face on one side and an oath of loyalty to their Great Leader on the other.

[u/w1987g → u/-random-name-]

Every Bison Dollar will be worth 5 British Pounds

[u/Oye_oye_oye → u/w1987g]

I'm gonna kick Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is going to feel it.

[u/guttengroot → u/-random-name-]

I .. can't tell if you're joking or anything f that's really what's going on. Fuck this timeline.

[u/iRedditAlreadyyy]

“She’s trying to buy votes”

-guy photographed at check out buying a vote.

[u/false_friends]

This kinda bullshit happens in 3rd world shitholes

[u/exitof99]

Bad makeup day. That pink to orange change is all I see.

[u/scsuhockey → u/exitof99]

And the absolute absence of hair follicles on the top of his head. It’s so easy to picture him bald without that ridiculous combover.

[u/bitemark01 → u/exitof99]

I feel like his makeup has been worse lately. Is it just me?

[u/ThatDandyFox]

Even if he loses the election that has no right being as close as it is, the damage he's done is forever. He's destroyed half the nation's faith in our elections with his lies of voter fraud, has shown laws don't apply to Republicans, he's shown the criminal justice system is a joke when felons can't vote but can run for the highest office, and he's shown you can tell absolutely fucking batshit crazy lies and still have support.

There's no coming back from this, he has changed democracy for the worse.

[u/Suspicious-Doctor296 → u/ThatDandyFox]

As a lawyer, the damage he has done to the rule of law and justice, which I naively believed was more or less true, is heartbreaking. There is no rule of law, the Supreme Court is just another group of people doing whatever they want. There is no justice if you have enough money and power. We are corrupt.

Trump has accelerated the demise of the American empire. All empires fall, but I didn't think it would start in my lifetime. I have no hope for the ultimate future of this country and I'm just hoping I die before the idiots, liars, and thieves completely destroy it. We may beat Trump, but it's inevitable someone smarter (literally anybody) will come along and finish what he started.

My hatred of Trump is beyond anything I've ever felt for another human being because he destroyed the country I knew and infected half the country with his insanity.

[u/DekoyDuck → u/Suspicious-Doctor296]

Let it radicalize you. Let the revelations remind you that all of these things are artificial and exist only because power and violence enable them to.

There is no reality to justice and order but that which we make, so it is only in making it collectively that we can stand up to those who use violence for personal gain

[u/Chippopotanuse → u/ThatDandyFox]

Especially with weak sauce Merrick Garland left in charge of prosecuting all of these traitors. It’s unbelievable that sitting congresspeople who continue to defraud democracy with stolen election lies are left untouched. Shame on Joe Biden for choosing him as an AG.

[u/im_just_thinking]

[u/ippa99]

Remember when he made sure to put his name all over a tacky letter and send it out to everyone pretending he, personally, was the reason the stimulus was being given out during covid?

A lot of morons I ran into in the following weeks thought he personally gave th that money.

[u/Revenga8]

So shortly after giving away this money, did he start gassing the crowd with his joker parade balloons?

[u/TheGravespawn → u/Revenga8]

What's that say about Trump that Prince would let the Joker use his music, but not Trump?

[u/National_Formal_3867]

Folks, you know how I do it—nobody gives money like Trump, believe me. We’re making giving money GREAT again in Pennsylvania! Kamala? She doesn’t have a clue how to help the people. But me? I’ve been making deals and giving back my whole life, and now we’re doing it for the people of Pennsylvania. Big, beautiful things are happening. Kamala’s all talk, no action—while I’m out here making sure you get what you deserve. Let’s make giving money great again!

[u/gr8hanz]

Check the huge hole in his ear!! That was a close call!!😂

[u/psychoacer]

You know he's desperate when he actually buys things for people instead of just saying he will and then runs out of the restaurant.

[u/Marrymechrispratt]

Isn't........isn't that illegal?

[u/HangryWolf → u/Marrymechrispratt]

For him? No. For any other politician which is associated to a Democratic party? Of course!!! Straight to jail! Law is very just! No way do we have a corrupt system what so ever.

[u/Carbon-Base → u/Marrymechrispratt]

Don't look now, but he's kinda notorious for doing illegal things... 34 times notorious to be exact.