r/law • u/PixeledPathogen • 8h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Trump faces impeachment calls after massive TikTok deal fee revealed
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-faces-impeachment-calls-after-massive-tiktok-deal-fee-revealed/ar-AA1YzYZl6.2k
u/merRedditor 8h ago
This will have to get in the impeachable offense line.
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u/seejordan3 8h ago
Around the block, down the street, across the river, through the woods.. where's the end?
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u/haruuuuuu1234 7h ago
I think the big question is, why is he so obsessed with the amount of $10 billion? Maybe that's the amount he needs to get Israel not to release the rape tapes....
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u/I_Cut_Shows 7h ago
3 reasons:
If he steals 10 billion 3 times a year he has legitimately stolen all of the money pulled out of the ACA/Medicare.
It’s a round number and Scaramucci (remeber him?) has said that trumps goal is to make 50 billion a year.
It’s not enough to make him the richest person in the world in one deal, but if he can do it a few times a quarter he’ll have a trillion dollars before he leaves office.
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u/PlanetaryPickleParty 6h ago
He's stealing as much money as he can while he can because he isn't long for this world and in a just world the tanks would have already rolled up to the Whitehouse.
While I don't think he cares much about leaving anything to his kids for their sake, he wants to permanently fuck over the United States and leave as many irreversible reminders so we remember forever how he fucked us over.
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u/meowmeowcatman 5h ago
But isn't the USA tool old for him to wanna fuck?
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u/InevitableTension699 2h ago
thats in human ages, in country ages USA is very young compare to the other ones
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 1h ago
Id go so far as to say as far as countries go it's barely a teenager. It all makes sense. My God. He's a metaphysical pedophile. He fucks young concepts.
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u/IrascibleOcelot 3h ago
And this just proves that the larger numbers are simply too big for most people to grasp. A trillion is a thousand billion. He would have to steal 10 billion dollars 100 times in the next three years, or roughly 33 times a year, to hit a trillion. It is a truly obscene amount of money for one person to want, much less have.
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u/musicalfarm 7h ago
The dementia addled mind prefers easy, round numbers.
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u/GloomyCardiologist16 7h ago
How much can a $10 billion cost, anyway?
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u/CertainWish358 7h ago
One banana
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u/Radiant_Maize2315 7h ago
One ticket to a Star War
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u/roncadillacisfrickin 7h ago
there’s always money in the Epstein files…
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u/PrestigiousCut8235 6h ago
It should now almost be called the Epstein wars. Stupid times we live in
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u/starke_reaver 6h ago
This is hilarious, and I’m surprised it’s the first time I’m reading it, so thanks!
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u/slippery_disc 7h ago
The money is IN the banana stand
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u/PhysicalStorm7275 7h ago
Control over the us military is priceless. He’s never getting those tapes.
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u/govunah 7h ago
If we were to start the proceedings today, it would take until midterms to just to read off each legitimate offense. Presenting the evidence we currently have would take the rest of this term and all of the next. It's like he's applying the Cars Sheriff Hudson Hornet drift lesson to impeachment
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u/Royal_9119 7h ago
The child rapes and illegal war didnt get him
But this Tiktok deal? THIS is the line they wont cross!
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u/VioletFaust 6h ago
The child rapes, the adult rapes, the illegal war(s), the giving away national secrets, possibly selling national secrets, lackeying for Putin, lackeying for Netanyahu, the bribes, the grifts, the cons, the selling of influence, the shaking down of companies, universities, and entire countries…
…oh and starting a coup, and all the fascist overreach.
Did I get the main ones?
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u/Concurrency_Bugs 6h ago
Spoiler: Tiktok thing also won't see any accountability for Trump. He's King of America.
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u/Suck_My_Thick 4h ago
Whenever you see a headline like this it's just clickbait. Look for 'calls' or 'calls for' in a headline, and it's just bullshit.
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u/PlutoJones42 7h ago
Being a pedophile should have had him removed immediately. He was literally involved in raping teens with other billionaires
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u/sweepernosweeping 7h ago
Surely it's get 10 Impeachment stamps on your card, you get a free imprisonment.
Only Trump keeps pinching a new card when he gets up to 9 offenses.
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u/swadx001 7h ago
If raping amd women, manipulating the stockmarket, accepting bribes and lying from dawn to dusk cannot aggitate Americans and demand that laws are upheld, then why should this?
But a simpleton of a chef can. America is weird
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u/Xyrus2000 7h ago
Line? There are so many offenses that there may as well be a stadium at this point.
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u/Balgat1968 4h ago
His list of impeachable offenses are as creative and devious as they are abundant. It really is a “no other person in history” kind of thing. But for every one of these stories that are so important to bring to light, there is a constant stream of stories about his impending dementia and many more about a bruise on his hand.
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u/brianlangauthor 7h ago
Right? It’s like yawn at this point. The list of impeachable offenses is like Santa’s naughty list ffs.
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u/Brokenandburnt 7h ago
When the scales of justice has already bottomed out the novelty and excitement of adding more weight kinda loses its luster. ⚖️
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u/Spidey5292 8h ago
Crazy, the same amount he’s both suing his own government for and stealing for his model UN.
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u/DrLophophora 7h ago
Nice round number
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u/Dr_A_Mephesto 7h ago
As high as he can count
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u/TheLastGunslingerCA 6h ago
MFer is like Dr. Evil, but with less charisma
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u/prof0ak 6h ago
Zero charisma?
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u/SphericalCow531 4h ago
Charisma is in the eye of the beholder. Trump is apparently extremely charismatic to MAGA. Don't ask me how, but I can't deny what I observe.
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u/OzymandiasKoK 6h ago
He can't count that high, but he can remember the number reliably, which is good enough for him.
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u/Adventurous_Light_85 6h ago
It’s like the Dr. Evil line, “one MILLION dollars….mmmmwwwaaaahhhhaaaahhhaaa!”
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u/ForensicPathology 5h ago
He did that for his Big Tech loyalty test at the beginning of his term too. It was so blatant that he demanded the money when every single one gave exactly one million.
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u/ToasterBathTester 7h ago
And the same amount he is also giving his Board of Peace. Fucker has robbed us for like 50 billion in 13 months
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u/Parfait_Prestigious 6h ago
And what does he even need it for? Even he’s said that he won’t be around much longer. Just reaching for the high score while he’s got a combo going?
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u/hiddencamela 2h ago
It's hard to even imagine the rich people's greed disease. Most of us never get to the point that money just becomes a play number for them to ego swing.
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u/williewoodwhale 7h ago
Ain't this president a geopolitical oddity? Ten Billion dollars away from everything!
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u/Collarbones33 6h ago
He’s a dapper don man.
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u/AceSuperhero 5h ago
He is not now, now will he ever be, either bona fide or the goddamn pater familias.
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u/Sr_H0n4c3 4h ago
Well now he happens to be a member of a coitan secret society... I don't think I oughta name names. Is we is, or is we ain't his constitchency?!
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u/PixeledPathogen 8h ago
The Trump administration is reportedly about to pocket a whopping $10 billion from the president's TikTok deal, cashing in big time as investors take control of the app's U.S. operations from Chinese parent ByteDance.
Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX are leading the charge, having already forked over $2.5 billion to the Treasury when the deal closed in January, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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u/paigeguy 7h ago
I'm sure that he will put it into his library fund.
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u/MonsieurRuffles 7h ago
$10 billion will buy a lot of picture books and remaindered copies of The Art of the Deal.
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u/Successful-Ad-9634 7h ago
Meanwhile Oracle is laying off thousands of employees.
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u/Chumbag_love 7h ago
That must be why Netsuite keeps glitches out on me at work.
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u/Clit420Eastwood 6h ago
Had to use that at a past job and I thank my lucky stars every day I don’t anymore
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u/govunah 7h ago
Can someone clarify exactly where this money is going? Is it to the treasury or white house accounts or a campaign fund? Not like it matters, just want to know where to watch as he embezzles it
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u/SnidelyWhiplash1 6h ago
This is the key question that is not entirely clear. If it gets paid to the general Treasury, it might be a political policy that many people oppose, but not sure it justifies impeachment. If it either goes into accounts outside the appropriation power of Congress, or worse, into his own pocket (or an organization he controls like his stupid Board of Peace or his Presidential Library Foundation), then it is more than justifies impeachment and imprisonment.
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u/Familiar_Text_6913 6h ago
It's going into his new AIcrypto launching at summer. US backed via this and more, and eventually a rug pull like the others. Mark my words
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u/SnidelyWhiplash1 4h ago
Notice how no one is talking about Trump’s $500m deal to sell a stake in World Liberty Financial to the UAE these days with the Iran War dominating the headlines?
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u/StrangeContest4 6h ago
It's an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in a Super PAC, wrapped in a shell game, wrapped in a ponzi scheme, wrapped in a protection racket, wrapped in piracy, wrapped in Qatari bank accounts, wrapped in a Russian nesting doll... it's turtles all the way down.
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u/donut_koharski 7h ago
Why must a company pay the government to buy a product?
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u/8JHF8 6h ago
Because the whole thing was always a bipartisan shakedown of Bytedance. They forced them to sell to American companies in which they are all likely investors.
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u/i_love_pencils 7h ago
The Trump administration is reportedly about to pocket a whopping $10 billion
That’s good! I’m sure they’ll use the money to pay down the debt!
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u/InsertCleverNickHere 7h ago
Or pay for a couple days of the "excursion" in Iran.
Winning, everybody!
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u/ro536ud 7h ago
Remember when we had to watch years of oversight meetings bc Biden got paid $5million for a deal when he wasn’t even In office?
Literal Pennie’s in comparison yet republicans are suddenly blind
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u/AbsolutGuacaholic 7h ago
Not even close to a single penny in comparison. 5 million is 0.05% of 10 billion. It's one twentieth of a penny on the dollar. 2000x smaller.
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u/Illustrious-Ad3974 6h ago
Literal pocket change
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u/MarthAlaitoc 4h ago
I think its more like lint-equivalent, but I'm not sure how the pocket-lint market is doing right now. Everything got increased recently for some reason lol.
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u/rileyjw90 4h ago
I sure wouldn’t mind having $5m in pocket change… that’s life changing for most American families. So it makes $10b seem even more exorbitant and ridiculous for any one person to need.
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u/spolio 6h ago
The gop saw hunter receive 50k for a job and that screaming lasted years.. kushner was gifted 2 billion and no one gave it a second look.
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u/metengrinwi 5h ago edited 1h ago
Well, you see, that’s technically different because Joe Biden’s a Democrat.
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u/DoingCharleyWork 3h ago
And Joe Biden's son fucks adults not kids and they really aren't fans of that.
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u/Sizanllikew 5h ago
And the motherfucker in the GOP that took a 50k bribe in a corruption sting, and not only was let off the hook after he was proven to be taking bribes, but also kept the 50k
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u/voodoodahl 3h ago
By the end they were trying to impeach Biden for loaning Hunter 4500 dollars for a down payment on a pickup truck. That was after Burisma was found to be fabricated by Russian intelligence.
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u/Beard_o_Bees 3h ago
kushner was gifted 2 billion
For 666 5th Avenue, no less.
Surely the biblical 'End of Days' crowd noticed that?
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u/IrritableGourmet 3h ago
The gop saw hunter receive 50k for a job and that screaming lasted years
To be fair, they're unfamiliar with the concept of the children of politicians having marketable skills instead of grifting. /s
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u/that_one_time 7h ago
Maybe that's why they stopped making the penny. Now they're rounding up Trump's crimes to the nearest $10 million.
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u/bloodklat 6h ago
It’s pretty obvious that the real enemy of american democracy are republican politicians and the people who keep voting them in, all of them. They don’t want americans to thrive. They see american lives as disposables, willing to sacrifice anyone to line their own pockets.
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u/Outside-Falcon2450 5h ago
Hillary got raked over the coals for accepting a -speaking fee- for an invited lecture, because obviously that means she’s a greedy hag.
Raping kids starting wars and openly stealing our money? Nah that’s fine, both sides are just as bad after all!
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u/Silly_Rub_6304 6h ago
Pennie's
pennies?
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u/adamdoesmusic 6h ago
Apple has this thing where it thinks you MUST be talking possessive about a little old lady with a name from the 1920s rather than an extremely common coin. I have to correct it every goddamn time.
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u/rmeierdirks 7h ago
Yeah, not a penny of that is going to the federal Treasury.
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u/vogel927 7h ago
It will end up in the same bank account in Qatar that the Venezuelan oil money was sent to.
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u/NegotiationTall4300 4h ago
Same with his “charity” fund that’s mysteriously disappeared with all that money from law firms he sued
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u/Amonamission 7h ago
I bet it’ll be used for his lawsuit against the IRS, since y’know he says he’s suing it for $10 billion 🙄
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u/Thrice_Greaty_Great 7h ago
He needs to go to jail and have his and his family’s assets forfeited and disbursed to all Americans citizens. This has gone way too far already
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u/thegoodrichard 7h ago
Nearly the whole Trump crime family should have been in jail in 2016. While disbursing, don't forget to rebuild Puerto Rico too.
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u/FruitByTheKey 5h ago
Whatever man, they got their paper towels already. I want my cut! /s
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u/LadyPo 6h ago
That’s why he started moving his money abroad. He already wants to make sure America can’t claw back what he stole.
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u/EdinMiami 5h ago
Any country aiding and abetting should be sanctioned to the gills.
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u/CoffeeIsSoGood 4h ago
should be
sanctionedto the gills.Invaded. Fixed it.
Sanctions? LMAO. So us, the taxpayers, can pay for it? No.
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u/WhiteWinterRains 4h ago
Him, his cabinet, and the entire republican party.
Hell toss the top 5 worst democrats in after them, we have better younger replacements ready to go.
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u/CDN-Ctzn 4h ago
Could you imagine? Social Security and other programs could be fully funded for a generation. We can all dream…
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u/Existing_Dingo_58008 6h ago
It would be super cool if, idk, the gop in congress would do anything about it.
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u/Sex_Offender_4697 5h ago
his family should be subject to more than jail, these people need a French style reminder of consequences
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u/Confusedmage 1h ago
I wouldn’t mind totally stripping everything he’s built and those who helped him down to the ground and giving it to the public. We can make it a holiday as well
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u/Trigonometry_Fletch 7h ago
“just the latest example of the administration's expanding business portfolio”
JFC
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u/thepottsy 7h ago
JFC is right. Can you imagine the uproar from the MAGAts, if a democrat administration could have that claim laid against them?
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u/Stringdaddy27 7h ago
Why imagine? Hunter Biden got paid what $15M from Burisma? They spent years in a frenzy over it. Something where he worked as an advisor lobbying the president. Something ironically completely legal (albeit i would like it to be illegal).
Silent as a church when its daddy getting a $10B pay off for directly using government sanctions to profit personally. Something that is wildly illegal btw.
I feel like hypocrisy is too light of a word to use here.
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u/Frank_Zahon 8h ago
Faces impeachment is doing some heavy lifting
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u/Dazzling_Bluebird_42 7h ago
It does say impeachment calls at least. Not faces impeachment.
Gonna go absolutely nowhere like the 100 other calls for it
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u/andhausen 7h ago
“Hello 9-1-1, I’d like to report an impeachable offense
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Yes, the president of the United States
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Oh, nothings gonna happen? Okay thank you for your time”
-me calling for impeachment
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u/TylerHyena 6h ago
I’m in agreement. It’s nice (not really) that he’s doing yet another thing that is an impeachable offense but until I see an actual procedure and trial date, I’m keeping my optimism in the hangar.
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u/SocranX 6h ago
Calls from random people on social media. And if you're counting them, there's way more than 100 of those.
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u/UAreTheHippopotamus 7h ago
Susan Collins will furrow her brow but vote against while Fetterman's brain damage will also make opposition "bipartisan"
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u/MostlyRightSometimes 7h ago
"We heard someone use the term in casual conversation while walking down the hallway."
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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 7h ago
If there’s any justice, after he bites the big McDonald’s quarter pounder in the pits of hell, his family should be straight audited into oblivion. A whole new irs branch made solely for clawing back any money trump gouged, or atleast making sure his conman family has an audit everytime they make or spend a dollar.
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u/TellTaleTimeLord 6h ago
"Trump saved TikTok from the ban"
You mean...the ban that was Trump's idea?
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u/Big_Knife_SK 4h ago
Forbes journalist Kieran Meadows wrote on Bluesky, "Anyone remember when there was this little thing called a law that banned TikTok in the U.S.? It was passed by Congress and signed by the President so it was indeed a law. Like if that means nothing, does anything mean anything anymore?"
So it's still banned anyway? They never rescinded the law banning it?
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u/CAM6913 7h ago
Every single day trump comments impeachable offense including war crimes, this will be old news by tomorrow. I’m not holding my breath till he’s held accountable
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u/carson63000 5h ago
Did the Democrats suddenly get a 2/3 majority in the Senate when I wasn’t paying attention? No? Then you’re right, he will not be held accountable.
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u/WillingnessOwn6446 1h ago
They'd need more than 2/3 cause you know some of them would find a way to be gutless cowards about it
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u/ZPMQ38A 6h ago
It will never happen. Period. Dude could livestream child rape from the Oval Office and Republicans would line up to call it fake news and AI.
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u/Ok-Secretary455 5h ago
Thats an official act. Can't be prosecuted for it.
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u/ZPMQ38A 5h ago
Exactly. Some bullshit exactly like that. Same reason ICE can ditch people on the side of the road somewhere and when they die trying to walk home, apparently it’s not “actually” murder.
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u/_jump_yossarian 6h ago edited 4h ago
Please stop with the garbage impeachment articles. He sent his mob to overturn election results and put Congress in physical danger and the Senators were too cowardly to convict. It will never happen.
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u/DontGetUpGentlemen 5h ago
He’s already a convicted felon, they could impeach him any time for that. Why do they need something new?
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u/Bleezy79 5h ago
Cool, we'll just throw it on the huge growing pile of other crimes and shady dealings Trump has done with zero consequences.
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u/NewPresWhoDis 6h ago
He's been impeached twice, so unsure how folks expect "third times the charm" to play out with a GOP majority Senate.
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u/RobutNotRobot 2h ago
He extorted $10 billion to facilitate government approval of a business deal.
If this isn't illegal, nothing is.
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u/throwawaythepoopies 7h ago
Where does the article say who is calling for impeachment? I read it twice, but I’m also going on no sleep from a teething kiddo so did I just miss it or is this msn rage bait?
Fuck this admin but these websites fucking suck with their editorialized headlines not matching the article.
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u/SocranX 6h ago
It's in one of the random social media posts about it. Not from congress or anything like that, just some rando. Like, yeah, we're ALWAYS calling for his impeachment. You could add that to literally any headline.
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u/everydave42 7h ago
Law Dork's Chris Geidner wrote on Bluesky, "JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools."
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u/IRideMoreThanYou 6h ago
So, this clearly means he struck a deal with China to allow them to continue to monitor while pushing specific political agendas.
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u/RelativeAnxious9796 6h ago
HAHAHHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
how many times are we going to print THE SAME HEADLINES OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!?!!?
there are zero consequences coming for this man.
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u/Patriot009 40m ago
Administration officials say the massive fee is justified since Trump saved TikTok from the ban and navigated tricky negotiations with China while addressing lawmakers' security concerns about Americans' personal data.
Flagrantly ignorant statements like this make me physically ill and unbelievably angry.
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u/DougOsborne 2h ago
Please describe the current Congressional makeup by party, and the process to impeach a president, and how likely impeachment and conviction are now and in the near future.
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u/eric_b0x 2h ago
Now… they think Cheeto’s actions with the TikTok heist and blatantly ignoring bipartisan legislation that was overwhelming supported on both sides of Congress is impeachable? What about the bogus Truth Social merger with DWAC, so the largest US investors in TikTok could pump billions into Trumps net worth so he we could the platform up?
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u/YoungestDonkey 7h ago
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a rational stance. Those who don't have it at just not paying attention.
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 6h ago
I always thought it referred to the phenomenon of people just loving and believing Trump no matter what he does or how obvious it is that he’s completely crooked and evil.
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u/YoungestDonkey 6h ago
The opposite. The term was coined by Republicans to refer to the attitude where whatever trump does is immediately considered bad by their political opponents. If a Democrat complained about trump they would dismiss it as TDS.
Turns out, whatever trump does is either stupid, corrupt or criminal so TDS is the right stance to have.
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u/joineanuu 3h ago
TDS is a mental illness masked as a projection, used by by conservatives who have lost all sense of reality.
Anyone I’ve known who have used TDS non ironically have completely withdrawn from their communities and have lost contact with their loved ones.
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u/Kermit_the_hog 2h ago
Extracting illegal and unnecessary fees like this is at worst open corruption and at best an illegal tax, regardless of who the money is promised to. It’s not like the president’s office is self funded.
Does anybody actually think the executive motivated by extracting a “profit” off of its services by arbitrarily extorting cash whenever it gets involved (as in does it’s job at all), to be a good thing??
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u/WeirdnessWalking 2h ago
Ahhh they allowed a known threat to national security to remain as long as their own people took possession of it (and retain its original purpose) and paid a huge bribe, neat.
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