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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat May 19, 2018, 11:48 AM May 2018

Trump did it & he's going down for a host of crimes, & some of them have nothing to do with Russia


What more do you need to know about Trump?

Trump did it and he’s going down for a host of crimes, and some of them have nothing to do with Russia

LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
MAY 19, 2018 12:00PM (UTC)

I’ve been “covering” the Trump story for over a year now, and I’m sick and tired of stacking up the details of his treachery day after day, week after week. What more do you need to know? He’s a lying, thieving, incompetent, ignorant traitor who conspired with the Russian government to steal the election of 2016 and illegally defeat a candidate who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots. His presidency is illegitimate, and his occupation of the White House is a stain on our nation’s honor and a threat to our democracy. History will cast him into the same sewer in which float the putrid remains of Benedict Arnold, Jefferson Davis and Richard Nixon. Impeachment would be too kind an end for him. He belongs behind bars, broken, bankrupt and disgraced.

Every day the front pages of the newspapers and the headlines of the cable news shows are filled with evidence of Trump’s lies and thievery. Look at what happened this week alone.

Trump started out denying that he even knew Stormy Daniels, then he denied having a sexual relationship with her, then he said he didn’t know about any payoffs to her. Monday, he filed his required federal financial disclosure form in which he effectively admitted making the $130,000 payment to shut her up just before the election in 2016.

He did an about-face on trade restrictions on China, announcing that he would seek to help the Chinese communications giant ZTE, which paid a $1.2 billion fine last year for violating sanctions against trade with North Korea and Iran. Three days previously, China had issued a half-billion dollar loan to a development project in Singapore that includes Trump-branded hotels, golf courses and condos.

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Trump did it & he's going down for a host of crimes, & some of them have nothing to do with Russia (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
I will settle for broke, bankrupt, and disgraced. gordianot May 2018 #1
I feel sorry for Barron. He looks sensitive and so caught up in the Trump web. My RKP5637 May 2018 #2
His youngest daughter does not seem too bad. Blue_true May 2018 #11
I'll settle for his so-called good health to remain, yonder May 2018 #4
I'll settle for six feet under. smirkymonkey May 2018 #10
No, the bastard need to be punished much more. Blue_true May 2018 #12
He's not crazy, he is legally competent, but Hortensis May 2018 #14
Enough with the psychological jargon. Eyeball_Kid May 2018 #21
I'm oriented to a fact-based world, Kid,and that includes science. Hortensis May 2018 #25
And see his criminal children and SIL locked up too nt. Pluvious May 2018 #22
Re: I will settle for broke, bankrupt, and... Wile E. Coli May 2018 #16
After seeing the disturbing interview of Katie Johnson, who says Trump raped her when she was 13, OMGWTF May 2018 #19
Not to mention. Snackshack May 2018 #3
Yep! rock May 2018 #5
Guilty and forcing him out... lame54 May 2018 #6
Great article. I'm thinking of sending a link to it to my friends so that we all Sophia4 May 2018 #7
K&R from Florida... BlueJac May 2018 #8
Broke, disgraced and... N_E_1 for Tennis May 2018 #9
Flint is ok. Send his ass to live the rest of his days in a rural area if a blood red state. nt Blue_true May 2018 #13
Or, force him to live on the border to Mexico and use some of his Stonepounder May 2018 #18
That's a great idea. N_E_1 for Tennis May 2018 #26
Treason is treason and firing squads is firing squads. gibraltar72 May 2018 #15
What the hell is wrong with his wife?? Oppaloopa May 2018 #17
"law don't go down 'round here, Lawdog..." kentuck May 2018 #20
May I call him Lucian? saidsimplesimon May 2018 #23
Are Americans being blinded by the light? world wide wally May 2018 #24
But he ain't leaving... lame54 May 2018 #27
That Could Well Be colsohlibgal May 2018 #28

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
1. I will settle for broke, bankrupt, and disgraced.
Sat May 19, 2018, 11:58 AM
May 2018

The same goes for his adult children. My sympathy is for his youngest children and Grandchildren whom I hope overcome the horrid family crimes.

There will be a day of reckoning.

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)
2. I feel sorry for Barron. He looks sensitive and so caught up in the Trump web. My
Sat May 19, 2018, 12:03 PM
May 2018

guess is that Melania does her best to look out for him.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
11. His youngest daughter does not seem too bad.
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:12 PM
May 2018

She seems to do a lot to avoid spending a lot of time with him.

yonder

(9,664 posts)
4. I'll settle for his so-called good health to remain,
Sat May 19, 2018, 12:19 PM
May 2018

while permanently behind bars, long after that broke, bankrupt day of reckoning.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
12. No, the bastard need to be punished much more.
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:17 PM
May 2018

Bankrupt, disgraced and forced to live in a deep red state with no right to visit any other place.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. He's not crazy, he is legally competent, but
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:29 PM
May 2018

he is mentally disordered. There's a limit to how much I can pile on a man who has no ability to appreciate, and little to understand, morality or what principles mean, and who has about as much insight into himself as our cat.

Now, I have real malice toward the people who elected this depraved fraction of a human being. They knew the kind of things he was doing and had been doing for years when they elected him. If I could I'd sentence them all to have him move into their homes, a life sentence while he lived. Since they wanted him, they should have him.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
21. Enough with the psychological jargon.
Sat May 19, 2018, 02:07 PM
May 2018

IMO, I don't want to read of or hear it anymore. And I know the jargon. I've no reason to attribute to Trumpy anything connoting him being victimized by his childhood, his biochemical imbalance, his creeping Alzheimer's, or his latest engorgement of cheeseburgers. He's just a fucking evil human being with no excuse. He practices evil. His behavior is evil because his soul is evil. Everything else has no more meaning.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
25. I'm oriented to a fact-based world, Kid,and that includes science.
Sat May 19, 2018, 03:25 PM
May 2018

Lots of forums here, though. There may well be another one that draws people who prefer to go straight to punishment, unimpeded by the frustrating limitations of expert diagnoses and rules of law. If not, you should find some like minds over on DI, Conservative Cave for sure.

 

Wile E. Coli

(11 posts)
16. Re: I will settle for broke, bankrupt, and...
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:33 PM
May 2018

For the sake of alliteration, butt-fucked by his big house bunkmate, Bull.

(And yes, I know that rape of any kind should not be considered humorous, but in Spanky's case, I'm willing to make an exception.)

OMGWTF

(3,955 posts)
19. After seeing the disturbing interview of Katie Johnson, who says Trump raped her when she was 13,
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:53 PM
May 2018

if that were to happen to Trump while he's in prison, it'd be called karma --

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
3. Not to mention.
Sat May 19, 2018, 12:03 PM
May 2018

The apparent blatant extortion of Qatar to bail out Kushner. Maybe it is in the article, I have not read it yet.

TRMS did a couple of segments this week on this and still republicans are silent. Hopefully when trump is held accountable for what he has done the rest of the republican party goes down with him. After their complicity in what trump has done the Republican Party simply cannot remain to be viewed as a legitimate political group that is competent and trustworthy to lead the nation.

 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
7. Great article. I'm thinking of sending a link to it to my friends so that we all
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:00 PM
May 2018

remember what the "Russia" investigation is about.

I think that calling it the "Russia" investigation is a bit misleading.

It has to do with Russia in a sense, but it is very simply an old-fashioned "corruption" investigation. Certain Russians may be a part of it. The corruption may have involved Russians, but the reality is that the investigation is about corruption of the certain Americans involved in Trump's campaign and Trump himself.

Corrupt Russians are a problem for Russians.

Our problem is not that the Russians are corrupt but that our president may be seriously involved in corruption with not just the Russians but with people from other countries like maybe Qatar and China. We won't know for sure whether anyone will be convicted unless and until there are trials, but there seems to be enough evidence to put people on trial.

The whole thing really makes me feel sad because I care about people even the Trumps, even if they don't care about anyone else, and I don't want even Trump to be guilty of corruption.

Facts are facts. And they sure point toward the need to at least obtain confessions or trials. It's a very bitter, very shameful situation. I don't see how Trump could find the nerve to run for president when he knew what we now know about his life. We shall see what happens.

But we can't just dismiss the facts we know.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,722 posts)
9. Broke, disgraced and...
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:05 PM
May 2018

given a house in Flint to live out his end days. (Sorry, Flint you really don’t deserve to be his prison.) Not allowed to leave the city limits. Forced to do his own shopping with, of course, no money, forced to do his own laundry wait(!)the water is not that bad. Sarcasm for those that missed it. Forced to have to figure out just how to feed himself, Big Macs will be out of his price range. No one would be allowed to give him any money, he’d be forced to apply for Welfare.
No health insurance, no doctors willing to lie to him about his health. No Medicare, no Social Security.
Force him to live as the poorest of the poor live.
Take away his phone he couldn’t afford it anyway.

Prison is too good for that ass, let him suffer.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
18. Or, force him to live on the border to Mexico and use some of his
Sat May 19, 2018, 01:52 PM
May 2018

seized assets to pay for replumbing all of Flint and pay restitution to its residents.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
23. May I call him Lucian?
Sat May 19, 2018, 02:41 PM
May 2018

LKTIV, how precious, no sarcasm, we are not in the minority. We just need to roll up our sleeves and whip tail this election cycle. imo as always

lame54

(35,287 posts)
27. But he ain't leaving...
Sat May 19, 2018, 04:30 PM
May 2018

This constant denial is going to catch a lot of people off guard when the time comes
We won't know what to do because it is not a scenario that is being discussed

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
28. That Could Well Be
Sun May 20, 2018, 09:50 AM
May 2018

Bill Maher’s ending bit went there this week, what if he pulls rank and refuses to go? We are in uncharted waters with a total megalomaniac in office.

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