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Julio Perez's avatar

Whatever happened to checks and balances? Where's Congress? The president cannot pay insurrectionists because the U.S. Constitution forbids it! Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says no elected official can hold office if they provide aid and comfort, which is exactly what this slush fund is! Plus, the president cannot write checks! That's Congress's prerogative!

When are we finally getting rid of this national nightmare?

NANCY Jambor's avatar

Best question ever

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

It's why it's crucial there is a massive blue wave in November. People who don't vote are voting for Trump.

paulahik's avatar

And they should make every insurrectionist to pay back a million bucks. I mean, since there's no record, we just have to assume, right? Besides, bank records aren't that hard for law enforcement to access. Whatever the insurrectionists received, get it back with interest and then charge trump for the rest. With interest. To come out of his personal accounts, not taxpayer money. Better yet, impeach him, try him for treason since he has broken his oath many times, imprison him, and strip him of all his assets. He wants the good part of being a dictator, so let's give him the bad part of it, too. The part where the deposed dictator loses EVERYTHING.

Jenn C's avatar

I said this in 2024 and got called all kinds of nasty names.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

You should now go back to those people and sneer, "I told you so."

Jenn C's avatar

Nah they're not worth it.

paulahik's avatar

All by magats, so you should feel proud.

Jenn C's avatar

Not all. A lot of self proclaimed leftists as well.

Jenn C's avatar

Not all. A lot of self proclaimed leftists as well.

Joseph Dougherty's avatar

Sure he can, as long as the hyperpartisan republican congress and the hyperpartisan 6-3 majority on the court let him. Constitutionality and law do not matter. Under those conditions he can do whatever he wants, including declare war on a whim.

Maria Pickworth's avatar

You should include this world nightmare.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

These so-called patriots he's awarding are sex pests and thieves. It's unbelievable that this is happening in our country. The majority of these people have already been charged with something else. It's disgraceful!

Peter Meyer's avatar

An absurd level of corruption. But it's even more sinister than that. Beneath this move: rewarding insurrectionists sends a message to future election insurrectionists. Take up arms against an election result we don't like, and you will be pardoned and payed. He's already planning to blow up 2026 and 2028 elections and this is his recruitment strategy.

Julio Perez's avatar

That's exciting what this is. He's laying the groundwork to incite another insurrection if the midterms or/and the 2028 presidential election doesn't go in the Republicons favor!

We need to get out there and vote like never before to oust these ghouls from the halls of power!! Hungary did it!! So can we!!

Joy Reynolds's avatar

The problem is that Repubs own the voting machine companies, and have been doing some shady things for decades.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/

Peter Meyer's avatar

That and other cheating schemes are what worries us all the most. Were it not for for what you pointed out, plus gerrymandering, plus Supreme Court gutting voting rights, plus insurrectionist election deniers in places of power in the process, we’d be confident of a dem blowout in Nov.

paulahik's avatar

So be ready for it.

Rhonda's avatar

He will always say it's rigged if it doesn't go his way. He have his followers believing the same Lie. Whenever they loose, it has to be due to cheating, when he's the one that's a big sore looser that throws tantrums.

Paul McElveen's avatar

Donald J. Trump APPEARS ONE MILLION TIMES in THE Jeff Epstein FILES!

Susan's avatar

I think we can assume that this is a big part of the plan. Once again trump will try to keep himself in office any way he can.

paulahik's avatar

Then if rethugs win again, we can take up arms, depose them, install Dems and get paid a million bucks to do so, right? We will have to raise the taxes on red states so they can be the ones to pay that million to each of us.

Rhonda's avatar

He made deals with some devils and now they want him to pay up. Him giving them pardons, wasn't enough because that didn't pay their legal fees and their bills and finances that fell behind while they were serving time, lost their jobs or on house arrest. They had no idea that they all would be tracked down and detained. Here it is, the USA has been drug into a war, American citizens drowning with inflation, American allies no longer trust America, Russia could be teaming up with China or Iran to take us all out, and he's concerned about paying some criminals, Really?

Joy Reynolds's avatar

Enforce the 14th Amendment!!! Section 3 says aid and comfort to insurrectionists disqualifies someone from office. That should remove Trump, Vance, Blanche, and everyone else supporting this domestic emolument (which is also illegal).

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

The problem is who does the enforcing. This DOJ won't do it. And when Colorado tried to do it in 2024, the Supreme Court said it was up to Congress, which currently exists in name only.

Joy Reynolds's avatar

Well, sort of... The Colorado case was about "name on ballot", which is not mentioned in the Constitution. SCOTUS slithered away from that one.

Congress definitely should not have certified a win from an insurrectionist, especially without auditing the results. But it seems that the audit was suppressed: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/update-ex-cia-whistleblowerthe-nsa

There are US Marshals -- don't they work for the court?

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Same amendment, different section. :)

GrizzSn's avatar

We are currently experiencing a deficit of spinal fortitude that, sadly, render the above set of laudable plans DOA.

Would that it were not so, but the great unwashed have grunted.

Murray Smart's avatar

NEVER in American History - EVER! $1.776 BILLION (notice the symbolism 1776 to further RUB IT IN THE FACE OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS) THEFT of AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY! With NO OVERSIGHT except Trump, to use however HE sees fit, to GIVE to whomever HE wants, with NO STRINGS ATTACHED, and NEVER CAN AMERICANS EVER KNOW WHERE IT WENT, Who got it, and On top of ALL that NO ONE EVER can follow-up and investigate the Trump family or others........ The Financial RAPE of America courtesy of the Donald Trump Extortion Racket Crime Family! Solution - Throw it all out, and prosecute ALL of them. You do NOT LET Criminals (and that's who they are ) decide their own fate. Trump OWES America BIG TIME and America is going to come to collect - from him!

172493's avatar

Even Capone wasn’t this brazen!

Joy Reynolds's avatar

Were you this upset when he gave his military bonus ($1776) from a troop housing fund (that they will have to pay taxes on instead of using it for housing), and now they need more money for the military?

Or the billion he stole for his illegal "Board of Peace"?

Or the billion he stole for retrofitting his "library gift" Qatari jet?

Slush comes in many flavors.

Murray Smart's avatar

And he is the champion of theft from America and Americans.......and it just keeps coming........

NANCY Jambor's avatar

Are people gonna wake up and vote?!? 40% of eligible to vote citizens are washing their hair instead?? So I’ve heard

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Keep watching the gas prices. Every fill up is a campaign ad against the MAGAts.

NANCY Jambor's avatar

Waj/left hook & Allison/breakdown had a thorough discussion of this corruption on their Substack podcast. Alas, conclusion is DJT escapes again. They posited this group of miscreants are “stand back and stand by” for November 2026 & December 2028…. When the slush fund sunsets…. Convenient as hell

LEJ's avatar

We ALL need to apply for a million from his slush fund based on the pain and suffering this criminal has caused us for the last decade. It is beyond outrageous. He is building a private militia to take over and squash the midterms.

He was installed in the presidency and is being paid to destroy the country and he is delivering bigly.

Joy Reynolds's avatar

Everyone CAN and should identify the office holder who injured you, and file a claim on their surety bond. They are required to have a bond, but they don't want people to know about it.

https://bondsforthewin.com/ talks about it in terms of the pandemic.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/al-schmidt-failed-to-protect-the talks about it in terms of the 2024 election.

Thomas Perkins's avatar

Looks like more gasoline to increase the gaslighting to me, stay calm, meditate we will get through this 🧘‍♀️

The more you show fear and frustration the stronger evil gets 🙏

Pete Lister's avatar

Staying calm and meditating won’t cut it, Tom. The electorate MUST engage and stay aggressively active to counter Trump’s moves to consolidate all power in his own hands, without oversight or pushback. The GOP can’t win on its ideas; they can only win by preventing the other side voting.

Joy Reynolds's avatar

They have also won by cheating. See the latest:

"Elon Musk’s Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election Using Technology"

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/elon-musks-ex-ashley-st-clair-confirms

Thomas Perkins's avatar

I think I should have added stay focused 🤔

My main emphasis is staying calm so we can focus on ideas to solve the problem on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

GrizzSn's avatar

Um. That is / was congress' job. Earthworms have more spine by comparison.

Joy Reynolds's avatar

So the acting AG is Todd "Carte" Blanche now...

He is also tRump's personal lawyer, and so everything he does as AG is a conflict of interest, since he has attorney-client privilege for life, regardless of his current employment.

Alma Ayers's avatar

He can't die soon enough.........

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Be very careful about posting something that could be taken as a threat. Despite the stupid case against Comey, threatening the president IS against the law.

chris lemon's avatar

The grim reaper has immunity from legal proceedings. Trump can try and give him a nasty nickname, but it all ends the same.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Yes, but actual human beings do not. A word to the wise.

Rhonda's avatar

While hard working everyday citizens are drowning in inflation, his entire family and close circle of friends are making off like bandits. He and his family are even ripping off their own supporters. People still waiting on their Trump phones they made $100 deposits for, which he recently made non refundable by the way..smh

He's being a Sleepy Joe more and more each day.

He needs to stop doing everyone's job, stay off social media and TV, trying to see and hear everything going on in the Big USA do he can seek revenge or to sue of course. He's trying to run his personal and family businesses all while he suppose to be doing POTUS duties. He doesn't let his department heads or cabinet members do their jobs. He wants to make all the decisions whether he knows best or not. If he doesn't trust his people to do their jobs, he shouldn't have hired them.

He stays in court for cases all the time, either for revenge, fighting personal charges, trying to sue over freedom of speech, or for all the lies he tells to support his actions and narrative. Only a person that's always plotting never sleeps. They're always going to and frow seeking who they can devour. People who goes about sewing good seeds and deeds, with no underlying motives, can sleep just fine.

He's only burning his own candle at both ends, which surely burns down the candle much faster. Not to mention the stress it has to be putting on his already senior body and organs. It's no wonder his health is Rapidly declining. He gives new meaning to self destruction.

Susan Lee's avatar

So much for "A country of laws, not of individuals." We now have just whatever whim strikes The Demented One, and the spineless MAGA members of congress break every oath they ever swore every few minutes.

Sally's avatar

It seems as though two capital policemen are suing over this corrupt move by trump and Blanche. Let's hope it causes trump and Blanche stealing even more from taxpayers to be overturned.

On the doj giving trump carte blanche with no investigations into his, his companies, or his families personal and companies tax information should speak very loudly that the trump family is absolutely corrupt. Why would anyone not care to be audited (especially if attorneys and CPA's are handling their money) unless they are hiding what they are doing with their money?

33RR's avatar

trumpworld doesn’t care. Their false orange idol has shown them they can violently attack the United States in his name and receive a pardon and a million dollars for their efforts.

Paul McElveen's avatar

THAT DAMN "Dumpy Trumpy" Donald J. Trump APPEARS ONE MILLION TIMES in THE Jeff Epstein FILES!