Trump is running for president again

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82gradDLSdad
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Unit2Sucks said:

Bad news my fellow DJT fanboys - truth social is about to go broke.

Yes, much to everyone's chagrin, they have gone woke. It should have been obvious when they made a DEI hire for their CEO - Devin Nunes (not sure what kind of brown he is, but his last name isn't a strong non-DEI name like Miller, Stone or, perhaps, Strong). The signs have been piling up since the. Declining user base, low revenue growth, accelerating losses are all signs of going broke due to woke. From the standpoint of wokeness, it appears to be a very woke place.

They recently confirmed all of this pay posting their DEI manifesto.

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The Board is committed to creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion. The Company will be better able to grow and improve with a diverse Board, management, and team of employees. Such commitment is and will be a factor in identifying and nominating director candidates at both the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Board levels.

Additionally, the Board believes in and supports equal opportunity in employment to all persons and strongly encourages management to embrace the unique contributions an employee or candidate can bring to the Company and its culture in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, color, religion, veteran's status, disability and other life experiences. The Company does not tolerate sexual or other unlawful harassment or discrimination by any employee, volunteer, vendor, contractor, consultant, customer or visitor.
I'm not a wokeologist, so I don't know whether this will lead to them going broke in a week, a month or a year, but we can all agree that this deep and committed approach to woke is going to be DJT's downfall. I'm also starting to wonder if Trump's commitment to opposing Woke is that strong if he can't even stop it at a company he is the majority owner of.

It's been a fun ride but it's all downhill from here.


"Additionally, the Board believes in and supports equal opportunity in employment to all persons and strongly encourages management to embrace the unique contributions an employee or candidate can bring to the Company and its culture in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, color, religion, veteran's status, disability and other life experiences. The Company does not tolerate sexual or other unlawful harassment or discrimination by any employee, volunteer, vendor, contractor, consultant, customer or visitor."

That seems like a good policy. I agree that they will likely go bankrupt, but it won't be because they went "woke.". Very clever though.


These virtue signaling company policies remind me of the messages now appearing on freeway digital signs when there is no construction or traffic information to alert drivers with, eg: "Watch for pedestrians"...ON A FREEWAY!? Yah, true and important and who could possibly disagree but...
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Is Scott Adams wrong?
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82gradDLSdad said:

oski003 said:

Unit2Sucks said:

Bad news my fellow DJT fanboys - truth social is about to go broke.

Yes, much to everyone's chagrin, they have gone woke. It should have been obvious when they made a DEI hire for their CEO - Devin Nunes (not sure what kind of brown he is, but his last name isn't a strong non-DEI name like Miller, Stone or, perhaps, Strong). The signs have been piling up since the. Declining user base, low revenue growth, accelerating losses are all signs of going broke due to woke. From the standpoint of wokeness, it appears to be a very woke place.

They recently confirmed all of this pay posting their DEI manifesto.

Quote:

The Board is committed to creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion. The Company will be better able to grow and improve with a diverse Board, management, and team of employees. Such commitment is and will be a factor in identifying and nominating director candidates at both the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Board levels.

Additionally, the Board believes in and supports equal opportunity in employment to all persons and strongly encourages management to embrace the unique contributions an employee or candidate can bring to the Company and its culture in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, color, religion, veteran's status, disability and other life experiences. The Company does not tolerate sexual or other unlawful harassment or discrimination by any employee, volunteer, vendor, contractor, consultant, customer or visitor.
I'm not a wokeologist, so I don't know whether this will lead to them going broke in a week, a month or a year, but we can all agree that this deep and committed approach to woke is going to be DJT's downfall. I'm also starting to wonder if Trump's commitment to opposing Woke is that strong if he can't even stop it at a company he is the majority owner of.

It's been a fun ride but it's all downhill from here.


"Additionally, the Board believes in and supports equal opportunity in employment to all persons and strongly encourages management to embrace the unique contributions an employee or candidate can bring to the Company and its culture in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, color, religion, veteran's status, disability and other life experiences. The Company does not tolerate sexual or other unlawful harassment or discrimination by any employee, volunteer, vendor, contractor, consultant, customer or visitor."

That seems like a good policy. I agree that they will likely go bankrupt, but it won't be because they went "woke.". Very clever though.


These virtue signaling company policies remind me of the messages now appearing on freeway digital signs when there is no construction or traffic information to alert drivers with, eg: "Watch for pedestrians"...ON A FREEWAY!? Yah, true and important and who could possibly disagree but...


It is very courageous of companies to take a position that they won't violate the law in their hiring practices. I know it was hard to stick their neck out and I know it annoys the far right but you need bravery to lead.

By the way, I am tired of bigots who mock Nunes. When did it become OK to be a blantant specist?
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Devin Nunes, pictured here 30 seconds after he took the oath in a videotaped deposition and before the first question is asked.

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bearister said:

Devin Nunes, pictured here 30 seconds after he took the oath in a videotaped deposition and before the first question is asked.


It's almost as if you think it's OK to discriminate against subhumans like Nunes.

Someone should remind you that it's 2024. Not everyone has to conform to your outdated establishment and conservative view of ethical and integrity good and pandering and unethical bad. I know he was originally elected as an ethical committee member but that's not how he felt or really how he identified himself. You are still shaming him for him coming out and self-identifying as unethical. Sorry he doesn't fit into your binary, fixed identity requirements.
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Even Donald Trump impersonator, Alec Baldwin, isn't immune from the harassment.
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If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.
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concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.


You summed up how he is being politically targeted. Fantastic.
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oski003 said:

concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.


You summed up how he is being politically targeted. Fantastic.


Exactly.

Running for office...prosecute
Not running for office...no prosecution

ConcordTom, what are you doing?
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concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?
Hard to answer counter-factual claims but we know a few things. First - powerful, wealthy people are undeniably privileged under our criminal justice system. Thanks to his access to "fixers" like Michael Cohen, he was able to evade responsibility for his actions for decades, although he occasionally got nailed. Like he did for housing discrimination in the 70's, Trump U fraud, Trump foundation, etc.

Obviously he could have EASILY avoided prosecution for stealing government property after his embarrassing loss in 2020 had he not ... stolen government property and refused to give it back even after being requested numerous times and threatened with prosecution. He had every opportunity to avoid punishment, but being the criminal traitor he is, he doubled down, illegally moved the unsecured documents from his seaside resort to a different golf resort, promised to pardon one of his criminal co-conspirators, etc.

Anyone pretending like the attacks on Trump for crimes he committed are purely political are avoiding reality. Billionaires escape justice all of the time, and Trump will likely to so here as well. He will never serve a day in jail, even if he's successful in using his brand of stochastic terrorism to have a judge or juror killed by one of his crazed fans. That's the nature of our two-tiered justice system. Crooks like Trump try to convince the rubes that it's unfair to people like him when in reality he's the biggest beneficiary of the tiered justice system.
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All of this worse than anything that happened in Trump's term


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82gradDLSdad said:

oski003 said:

concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.


You summed up how he is being politically targeted. Fantastic.


Exactly.

Running for office...prosecute
Not running for office...no prosecution

ConcordTom, what are you doing?


Either way, he's guilty.

Funny. I knew you guys would jump all over that. You're equating the possibility of leaving it alone with innocence. Because that's what you want.
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Unit2Sucks said:

concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?
Hard to answer counter-factual claims but we know a few things. First - powerful, wealthy people are undeniably privileged under our criminal justice system. Thanks to his access to "fixers" like Michael Cohen, he was able to evade responsibility for his actions for decades, although he occasionally got nailed. Like he did for housing discrimination in the 70's, Trump U fraud, Trump foundation, etc.

Obviously he could have EASILY avoided prosecution for stealing government property after his embarrassing loss in 2020 had he not ... stolen government property and refused to give it back even after being requested numerous times and threatened with prosecution. He had every opportunity to avoid punishment, but being the criminal traitor he is, he doubled down, illegally moved the unsecured documents from his seaside resort to a different golf resort, promised to pardon one of his criminal co-conspirators, etc.

Anyone pretending like the attacks on Trump for crimes he committed are purely political are avoiding reality. Billionaires escape justice all of the time, and Trump will likely to so here as well. He will never serve a day in jail, even if he's successful in using his brand of stochastic terrorism to have a judge or juror killed by one of his crazed fans. That's the nature of our two-tiered justice system. Crooks like Trump try to convince the rubes that it's unfair to people like him when in reality he's the biggest beneficiary of the tiered justice system.


Well said.
I would like to see him publicly executed via guillotine. That would maybe reset this two tiered justice system you speak of. Or create a third tier - by reinstalling the traditional punishment high crimes and misdemeanors.
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concordtom said:

82gradDLSdad said:

oski003 said:

concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.


You summed up how he is being politically targeted. Fantastic.


Exactly.

Running for office...prosecute
Not running for office...no prosecution

ConcordTom, what are you doing?


Either way, he's guilty.

Funny. I knew you guys would jump all over that. You're equating the possibility of leaving it alone with innocence. Because that's what you want.


I couldn't care less if Trump is put in prison. I'd like to see both candidates be unable to run for president, ideally for the same reason I won't mention. Don't want the FBI/CIA/SS showing up at my door. Now if they send AOC then...
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Palestinian Chicken said:

All of this worse than anything that happened in Trump's term



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are a threat to our Democracy.
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oski003 said:

concordtom said:

If Trump had disappeared from the political scene and been real quiet, would he be facing all the charges he is?

Or, could it be that, knowing what a GD disaster and threat he was/is, when he announced he was running again the prosecutors stepped up their game?

In other words, he brings it ALL on himself. He creates his own chaos, he deserves his own chaos.


You summed up how he is being politically targeted. Fantastic.

12 minutes in, the panel is asked the same question.

If he had retired into the sunset would he be prosecuted?

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Joe Biden's handlers could not control Biden's mouth when interviewed by Howard Stern. I'm actually surprised they allowed him to do this but I'm sure Stern was given strict instructions about the type of questions he was allowed to ask.

Anytime, anyplace. How about a debate between Biden and Trump in a courtroom?
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"I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme.

Because Trump is clumsy at his alleged crimes, surrounding himself with flagrant thugs, telling obvious lies, leaving prolific trails of damning evidence, offering ridiculous defenses for indefensible conduct, I had long concluded that he is incompetent at crookery along with his other manifest failings. That's true as far as it goes. But for all his mad greed and compulsive lawlessness, for all his sleaze and stupidity, crime is ultimately not Trump's game. Trump is nothing like a master criminal. But he is a master of something far more sinister and complex: corruption.

Crime is a largely private endeavor. Corruption is public. It seeps into the muscle and sinew of democratic society and institutions; it devours from within. The Supreme Court, drunk on arrogated power, cut loose from rudimentary ethics, has been eaten alive by it. But the court is just one plot of a vast terrain that Trump has conquered not with crime, but corruption.

Crime is when you launch a violent attempt to overthrow the republic. Corruption is when you convince an entire political party to pretend they didn't watch it live on television, or cower from it inside the Capitol while dozens of police officers were being bludgeoned by the mob.

Crime is when you make off with top-secret documents. Corruption is when a MAGA judge can't find time to schedule your trial, or process the mountainous evidence of your guilt.

Crime is when a U.S. resident is murdered and dismembered by Saudi hit men. Corruption is when the all but acknowledged killer invests $2 billion in your talentless son-in-law's fund, which other investors shun.

Crime is when you fake business expenses to cover up a payoff to an adult film actress who wants to cash in on your campaign for president. Corruption is when the head of the nation's greasiest tabloid, a perpetual fount of lies and nonsense, expresses concern that your deeds are too sleazy for him.

Crime is when your lawyers tell the Senate not to convict you in an impeachment trial because you can be charged in court. Corruption is when your lawyers inform the Supreme Court that you are immune from criminal courts and only the Senate can judge you but, alas, the senators have missed their window.

Trump has already succeeded at corrupting much of what's corruptible. Government. Elections. Foreign policy. Democracy. Religion. Above all, people, and mostly men. Truckloads, boatloads, tiki-torch-parade-loads, courtloads of weak men all standing in the shadow that Trump casts.

The Republican Party has been corrupted absolutely. House Republicans have combined McCarthyism with Larry, Moe and Curlyism to twist Congress to comically corrupt ends all to serve the greater degeneracy of Trump. In the Senate, the young hyenas, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), study Trump's demagogy and lick their chops, hoping for a turn at democracy's carcass.

The establishment has utterly caved. Former Atty. Gen. William Barr's endorsement of Trump this week, after having called Trump unfit, a psychologically damaged incompetent who cares only about himself, was barely newsworthy. What is Barr but another in the long line of weak men, one more debased Republican offering fealty to the grease king? Trump thanked Barr by humiliating him again.

But it was the Republican Supreme Court mostly men again that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy's back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump's argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar's mash. But Larry, Moe and Curly aren't just chairing committees in Congress. They wear robes and furrowed brows now, too. And they seem eager to pretend that crimes are just constitutional exercises of power, and that one ex-president is a king.

Richard Nixon, a self-made, and self-corrupted, man who studied geopolitics and government assiduously, never achieved such a broad subjugation of American values and institutions. Trump, the ignorant, n'er-do-well heir to his father's crooked fortune, has achieved so much more. Trump hasn't just captured the trenches of conservative America, he has taken the commanding heights. He owns all of it, from the most racist backwater saloon to the Federalist Society clubhouse. They are his corrupted subjects. He is their corrupt and demented king. If he can somehow get through the next few perilous months, he may yet render corruption sacred, and the republic irredeemable."

Francis Wilkinson is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. @fdwilkinson

Opinion: The Supreme Court just showed us that Trump is not incompetent. He's a master of corruption (yahoo.com)


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Leonard Leo is the architect of the current SCOTUS.



Billy Barr was on his I'm Really a Good and Ethical Guy Tour last year. I guess insufficient ticket sales made him return to playing his Greatest Hits.
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Shoutout to bearister and myself who in 2016 were vocally saying Trump was a threat to the republic
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dajo9 said:

Shoutout to bearister and myself who in 2016 were vocally saying Trump was a threat to the republic

Shoutout to the Epoch Times for their reporting on Obama's DOJ spying on the Trump campaign in 2016.
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dajo9 said:

Shoutout to bearister and myself who in 2016 were vocally saying Trump was a threat to the republic
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dajo9 said:

Shoutout to bearister and myself who in 2016 were vocally saying Trump was a threat to the republic

Please add me to the group.
Perhaps I did not consider him a "threat", but when I heard he had announced I laughed incredulously and said "that's a joke, a publicity stunt."

Never in my wildest dreams did I think he could be elected, or turn into the politically relevant person he has. Could anyone have truly imagined it?
Unfathomable that America would allow him to advance.
We need laws to keep idiots far away. Pass a test showing you have a clue about how government works at the very least. He'd have failed right from the get go.

Anyways, I want in on any opposition from the start list. I've always hated this Mother Flocker!! It's only the hatred passion level that's grown.
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bearister said:



Billy Barr was on his I'm Really a Good and Ethical Guy Tour last year. I guess insufficient ticket sales made him return to playing his Greatest Hits.

Bill Barr is like an addict who relapsed.
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I don't think Unit2Sucks has posted this tweet by the New York Times Pitchbot yet.


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"Mom, where's Cricket?"
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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tRump had his non lawyer surrogate, Stephen Miller, write this:


tRump will have to eliminate the jury system when he wins a rigged election because although he can get corrupt prosecutors to bring unwarranted criminal charges against his enemies, he can't get juries to convict his enemies of fantasy crimes.

This humiliating moment was life defining for Mr. Miller. The boy in the photo disappeared that evening and his case went cold years ago.
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"Mom, where's Cricket?"
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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DiabloWags said:

"Mom, where's Cricket?"



With Pete and Repeat.
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The latest CNN poll shows Trump up 6 over Biden, 49/43. The number jumps to +9 when 3rd party candidates are included (T 42 / B 33%).

To the extent these polls are even reliable - which I'm very skeptical of - I think there is a real chance the Ds Lawfare strategy is completely backfiring. Ds are keeping Trump in the courtroom, and that's becoming his version of Biden and his basement in 2020. Trump is so polarizing but people are not being reminded that they dislike him by seeing his campaign activity.
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bearister said:

tRump had his non lawyer surrogate, Stephen Miller, write this:


tRump will have to eliminate the jury system when he wins a rigged election because although he can get corrupt prosecutors to bring unwarranted criminal charges against his enemies, he can't get juries to convict his enemies of fantasy crimes.

This humiliating moment was life defining for Mr. Miller. The boy in the photo disappeared that evening and his case went cold years ago.


Easy response:
The moment Official Acts Immunity is ruled, call seal team 6.

Problem solved.
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tequila4kapp said:

The latest CNN poll shows Trump up 6 over Biden, 49/43. The number jumps to +9 when 3rd party candidates are included (T 42 / B 33%).

To the extent these polls are even reliable - which I'm very skeptical of - I think there is a real chance the Ds Lawfare strategy is completely backfiring. Ds are keeping Trump in the courtroom, and that's becoming his version of Biden and his basement in 2020. Trump is so polarizing but people are not being reminded that they dislike him by seeing his campaign activity.
LOL lawfare strategy. Look on the bright side, if Trump is able to get the radical clerics to agree that POTUS's have absolute immunity, approval numbers and polls can become irrelevant. The POTUS term ends when he says it does.
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tequila4kapp said:

The latest CNN poll shows Trump up 6 over Biden, 49/43. The number jumps to +9 when 3rd party candidates are included (T 42 / B 33%).

Quote:

Biden's approval ratings for the economy (34%) and inflation (29%) remain starkly negative, as voters say economic concerns are more important to them when choosing a candidate than they were in each of the past two presidential contests. In the new poll, 65% of registered voters call the economy extremely important to their vote for president, compared with 40% who felt that way in early 2020 and 46% who said the same at roughly this point in 2016. Those voters who say the economy is deeply important break heavily for Trump in a matchup against Biden, 62% to 30%.
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A sizable 17% of registered voters say they have unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump, and in choosing between the two, they break for Trump, 43% to 31%, with 25% of that group saying they would vote for someone else, skip the contest entirely or just aren't sure who they would support.

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Unit2Sucks said:

tequila4kapp said:

The latest CNN poll shows Trump up 6 over Biden, 49/43. The number jumps to +9 when 3rd party candidates are included (T 42 / B 33%).

To the extent these polls are even reliable - which I'm very skeptical of - I think there is a real chance the Ds Lawfare strategy is completely backfiring. Ds are keeping Trump in the courtroom, and that's becoming his version of Biden and his basement in 2020. Trump is so polarizing but people are not being reminded that they dislike him by seeing his campaign activity.
LOL lawfare strategy. Look on the bright side, if Trump is able to get the radical clerics to agree that POTUS's have absolute immunity, approval numbers and polls can become irrelevant. The POTUS term ends when he says it does.
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