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Jolene Benoir said:
What Trump likely "fell in love" with was the tinpot dictator caressing his endless need for praise.

Trump has to be completely amoral to justify his absolute ignoring Kim Jong-Un's bad acts such as lining his political enemies up to be shot a few hundred times, eaten by dogs, poisoning his potential rival on foreign land, the starvation of his own people, on and on.

It's either that he's amoral or uninformed, and all that matters to him is that he gets praise. When he meets the devil, and he will if there is a hell, he'd get along famously IF the devil sweetened him up. My hope is that his own personal hell is the exact opposite.
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He is an amoral and willfully ignorant misogynistic white privileged male. In other words he is the same as the rest of the repugs in that respect. They all believe they have such high and righteous morals yet they have zero compassion. That never works. There will always be those of us who see through their religious dogma bullshit.
 
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Matilda statue stands up to Mr Trump



Children's character Matilda has been portrayed as a statue standing up to US president Donald Trump to celebrate the book's 30th anniversary.

The figures at the Roald Dahl Museum in Buckinghamshire were created as part of a "reimagining" of the schoolgirl, three decades on.

Trump was the public's top choice for the heroine's modern-day nemesis, the Roald Dahl Story Company said.
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Heads up from the local news about potential tweets because the Stormy book comes out today.
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In a Wall Street Journal article today:

Trump Directed Legal Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement

President Trump personally directed an effort in February to stop Stormy Daniels from publicly describing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, people familiar with the events say. ..

Direct involvement of the president and his son in the effort to silence Ms. Clifford hasn’t previously been reported. The accounts of that effort recently provided to The Wall Street Journal suggest that the president’s ties to his company continued into this year and contradict public statements made at the time by the Trump Organization, the White House and Mr. Cohen.
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Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

Is anyone surprised by this news? Not me. There are some, as he so famously said during the debates, that consider him smart for avoiding taxes, all while they pay their own. There are two systems of taxation within this country, one for you and me, in which we pay or lose all we have including our homes, and that reserved for the ultra wealthy. Some idiots think they fall into the latter category, wish they did, or hope that someday they will, while they clearly do not. It's not unlike our unequal justice system. White, male and wealthy? Do what you want, get away with it. Otherwise? You're fucked.

President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.

These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.
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I pray that Trump makes the mistake of suing the Times about that article. There's a discovery process in such things that can be vastly revelatory.
 
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I pray that Trump makes the mistake of suing the Times about that article. There's a discovery process in such things that can be vastly revelatory.
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IMO, they should not have used the term "suspect* tax schemes, but *illegal* tax schemes. We let far too many of these guys off the hook by softening the language. It's not that dissimilar from using really lax terms for our traitor king in the press. The NY Times, while I respect them for Watergate reveals and much of what is currently going on have a problem naming a crime for what it is,and further they promote bothsideism which I consider extremely detrimental to our democracy.

It's fine when both sides argue in good faith. That isn't what we have. We have one side arguing in good faith and the other out in Lalaland and far more likely Liarsville. It would be nice to return to some fabled time in which we just disagreed on issues, but that is NOT this time.

There isn't an honest discussion or debate. I see no reason to give voice to those intent upon destroying our democracy and taking all they can for themselves.

IMO, much of the press is still living in the time when they had to give both sides of an issue fair time. It was known as the FCC Fairness Doctrine. That was overturned in 1987 and we have Fox News as a result, not coincidentally. Nor is it coincidence that with the rise of that, a fairly large portion of the public has been brainwashed by the result.

Seriously, track the rise of Fox News with that overturn, enough so that they could argue in court that they present entertainment not news, though they purport to do so to their viewers.
 
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Jolene Benoir said:
What Trump likely "fell in love" with was the tinpot dictator caressing his endless need for praise.

Trump has to be completely amoral to justify his absolute ignoring Kim Jong-Un's bad acts such as lining his political enemies up to be shot a few hundred times, eaten by dogs, poisoning his potential rival on foreign land, the starvation of his own people, on and on.

It's either that he's amoral or uninformed, and all that matters to him is that he gets praise. When he meets the devil, and he will if there is a hell, he'd get along famously IF the devil sweetened him up. My hope is that his own personal hell is the exact opposite.
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I've said it before and I said it again. Trump comes from the business world where ultimately you do what I tell you to do and if you don't you are gone. The world of politics has come as a complete shock to him because in a modern free world government, I don't have to do what the "Boss" tells me to do. And he very much thinks he was elected to be our "Boss". This has caused insane turnover in the Whitehouse where people are used to being able to "Go against the grain" in some ways (because ultimately give and take is what the entire political process is supposed to be about) because he can't handle dissent. In the other branches of government where he has next to no authority at all he's struggling like all hell. Good evidence of this is: There is no wall built. He has a solid enough majority in congress to make that happen, if Congress actually... y'know. Wanted it to happen.

He'd love to be in a situation where he could "Just get rid of" the people who don't do what he wants, and the governments like that are the one he's toadying up to and functionally felating in the press. He understands systems of "I'm the one who does the telling and you are the one who does what is told". He has no understanding at all of a system that requires compromise.
 
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