Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[CoffeeHorse]

Whenever he offers me a free trip to Mar-a-Lago, "trip" refers specifically to the transportation and nothing else. The Mar-a-Lago part isn't free.

 

[Pocket]

I think he has the money they know how to use in the campaign accounts and especially if he is going to lose, he doesn't want another dollar in that account if it could be in his own account instead.

I'd also question whether anyone connected to his campaign could possibly find a way to turn additional funding into more votes anyway. It's not like he doesn't get all the attention he needs for free from the media; he's just incapable of saying or doing anything on camera that doesn't make him look even worse.

 

[Paladin]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/20/nebraska-electoral-college-trump-omaha/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

don't need to campaign when you can cheat.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Unless it has changed, the secret service have to buy memberships at Mar-a-Lago so the they can protect him there.

It has not: the secret service has been badly in the red since they had to start securing trumps body.

 

[KidTDragon]

The solution seems simple enough: Force Trump to waive the membership requirement for Secret Service agents, and withhold S.S. protection at Mar-A-Lago if he refuses.

 

[wonko the sane?]

It's a solution, certainly.

No one will do it. Trump won't willingly give up a source of income OR free bodyguards. Republicans in general will fight any legislation attempting to do this act, and democrats won't bring any such legislation forward because of how badly republicans will spin it to make democrats look bad.

There might be traction for a lessened security presence after trump gets sentenced in november, but no one will ever suggest removing it entirely, it's way too easy to make it look like the democrats are trying to kill trump.

 

[Rhinox]

There really needs to be legislation that individuals getting secret service protection cannot charge the agency membership fees, rent, or anything that would personally enrich/benefit the protectee.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Eh, let the campaigns or the individuals pay for security: otherwise your taxes pay for cops and 911 services.

 

[Axaday]

There certainly can't be any legislation or policy change right now that decreases Trump's protection in any way. Only two attempts in this century and they are both him this summer.

I was trying to think what you'd write when there IS a climate to do and I think Rhinox is on the right track. The secret service has to use space that is owned or paid for by the protected, not rent or buy adjacent space. In almost every case it is moot. Presidents and former Presidents generally live in single family homes.

Trump is in a weird spot on this last one, because it as at a business that he owns that generally would be considered responsible for handling some level of security for its patrons. Not so sure I'd want to golf there if I was any other rich guy with enemies and found out someone snuck a military style rifle in there and hid all day waiting to shoot someone.

 

[NovaSaber]

They're a match made in hell.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories/index.html

Trump’s inflammatory assertion about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, whom he baselessly accused at the September presidential debate of eating people’s dogs and cats, has received the most attention. But Trump’s lower-profile recent public appearances, like rallies and interviews, have also featured wholly imaginary tales.


Here are 11 additional examples from the past month alone.

A Guide to J.D. Vance’s Most Unhinged Public Statements

Our future Vice President has a strange and paranoid worldview, and he has very few qualms about sharing it out loud.

www.thecut.com

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Is... is he still running for president?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1837549569481285792

I thought maybe this was some fundraising thing but the fine print at the bottom of the page says



and I can't find anything that says any of the money goes to a campaign or even a PAC.

Wait, so it's designed by him, but "not manufactured, distributed, or sold by" him?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Trump has been licensing his likeness since the 80's. He never does any of the work, he lets others do that, and he takes his piece right off the top. No effort required on his part, just income and he's not responsible for stuff like infrastructure, taxes, returns or customer service.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Trump has been licensing his likeness since the 80's. He never does any of the work, he lets others do that, and he takes his piece right off the top. No effort required on his part, just income and he's not responsible for stuff like infrastructure, taxes, returns or customer service.

In other words, he lied when he said he designed it.

Color me shocked.

 

[Axaday]

In other words, he lied when he said he designed it.

Color me shocked.

Designed is a slushy word. If he said he should be looking sideways and the words should be there, he could say he designed it.

 

[Axaday]

Dump says it is too late for another debate because people have already started doing early ballots.

I wish somebody would challenge his logic in person. Whatever reason that having a debate after people have started voting is surely a reason not to have rallies.

 

[Teufel]

I feel bad for RFK Jr. He's just trying to live his best life with his partially worm-eaten brain and then this jezebel of a reporter Olivia Nuzzi latches on and keeps tricking him into seeing her sexy photos & videos. Over and over!

Link

According to Jessica Read Kraus, an “independent” journalist and self-described friend of Kennedy, the self proclaimed “Make America Healthy Again” candidate first cut contact with Nuzzi after she allegedly made a flirtatious remark two weeks after her November 2023 feature on him was published in New York.

“A few weeks later, Nuzzi emailed him, asking to be unblocked, claiming she had urgent information about a hit piece being prepared against him,” Kraus alleged in a Substack newsletter to her nearly 400,000 subscribers. “He unblocked her for that conversation, but later that night, she sent him a provocative picture, prompting him to block her again.”

Kraus said that for eight months, Kennedy kept Nuzzi blocked, except for when she would allegedly contact him from different email addresses and phone numbers, “insisting” they speak about “an imminent hit piece.”

“Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist,” she continued.

Friends who Kraus spoke with said they believed Nuzzi “set him up.”

I hope the trust and respect of women RFK Jr had that led him to unblock her only to be bamboozled with a boob pic every single time made it out of this ordeal intact.

 

[Axaday]

Other people's lives are weird.

 

[KidTDragon]

Haitian nonprofit files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance over Springfield statements

The nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, for the chaos that ensued from a conspiracy theory.

www.news5cleveland.com

Godspeed, Haitian Bridge Alliance. May you succeed where so many others have failed.

 

[Paladin]

Donald Trump demands NBC bring back Johnny Carson - who died in 2005

Donald Trump demanded NBC bring back Johnny Carlson, who has been dead for nearly 20 years. The former US President claimed the Late Night Shows hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are “all dying”, during a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday (23 September). Trump said: “When I...

www.independent.co.uk

The problem with this argument is that a 19 year dead Johnny Carson is still funnier than Jimmy Fallon.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Maybe his good pal Hannibal Lecter can help find him.