Trump's Demolition Derby

17 pointsposted 3 months ago
by pcaharrier
(lawfaremedia.org)

18 Comments

pcaharrier

3 months ago

>This may, then, be an example of technically permissible pay-to-play—in line with the technically permissible destruction of the East Wing, and the technically permissible payment mechanism for the project. None of these seem like they should be allowed in a representative democracy made up of three coequal branches. And yet, somehow, they probably are.

It's in the second to last paragraph, but I thought this seemed like a pretty significant and interesting concession.

barbazoo

3 months ago

I don’t get quite yet how this benefits the president personally. Are his businesses involved in construction somehow?

k310

3 months ago

Bombing ships, Demolishing the White House, Shutting down government, all to distract from the Epstein scandal, which has already taken down a prince.

The shutdown began with the recesses of the house, in order to avoid seating a duly elected representative, whose vote could trigger release of the "Epstein Papers" and has only gotten worse since then. She remains unseated by Speaker Johnson. opinion.

krapp

3 months ago

Trump was caught on tape bragging about how his wealth made it easy for him to sexually assault women when he was running the first time and it didn't harm him a bit.

Obviously Trump and the Republicans are pushing to suppress the Epstein files now that the narrative of a widespread and exclusively Democratic pedophile cult has broken down and the Epstein affair isn't as useful as propaganda, but the premise that literally everything Trump has done is an attempt to distract from Epstein is ludicrous. It just isn't that important.

It's obvious that even the worst case scenario wouldn't negatively affect Trump in any meaningful way. He won't lose his political or business contacts - all of those bastards were part of it too. He won't get impeached (again.) He can't take another term (legally.) His own base has already either stopped caring or else decided to toe the party line.

And how has it "taken down" a prince? Prince Andrew is still a prince. He's still rich. He still has connections. Trump would be no different. None of these people can actually be held accountable in any meaningful way within the bounds of the law.

throwawayqqq11

3 months ago

Imagine the next POTUS uses the same executive overreach against trump and his goons. In bet they are very afraid of that possibility, considering the POTUS still has "royal" immunity. This is a all-or-nothing game now and it will all be decided how much military and law enforcement is under trumps control.

AnimalMuppet

3 months ago

> it will all be decided how much military and law enforcement is under trumps control.

We aren't quite there yet. Trump is still respecting Federal court decisions against him (though appealing them). If he starts blatantly ignoring those, then yes, we will be where you say.

krapp

3 months ago

Never mind... apparently Andrew's no longer a prince[0]. King Sausage Fingers is demoting him to regular rich pedophile and kicking him out.

So I guess consequences are possible. I don't know if this is meaningful.

And I don't know if anything's going to happen to Trump. Andrew was a prince, who's going to punish the king?

Sorry - CEO of America. We don't have kings here.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/30/prince-andre...

dragonwriter

3 months ago

> Never mind... apparently Andrew's no longer a prince. King Sausage Fingers is demoting him to regular rich pedophile and kicking him out.

A pretty good deal for being “kicked out” though. [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnveqgj957dt?post=asset%3A6300...

krapp

3 months ago

Ok I just Googled Sandringham Estate and it looks bigger than the place he's getting kicked out of.

They should have had a purge day for all of the royals after the Queen died.

dragonwriter

3 months ago

I expect he’ll have something on the Estate (or an apartment in the House), not the whole of Sandringham;I doubt it will be a step up from his lease on the Royal Lodge.

But, like I said, still quite a good deal for getting “kicked out”, especially being paid for it of the pocket of the person who felt the need to do the kicking...

krapp

3 months ago

Yeah, it's definitely not a prison cell, is it?

johng

3 months ago

Biden was caught on tape bragging about forcing the firing the Ukrainian prosecutor because he was investigating the company paying his son millions of dollars for protection.... nothing happened. Threatening to withhold billions in aid purely to benefit his family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jyT1rnW9fA

krapp

3 months ago

So what? Trump does that kind of corrupt shit all the time, and you couldn't care less.

Whataboutism doesn't work when your guy is categorically worse.

tstrimple

3 months ago

Blatant lie. Thoroughly disproven. You should update your disinformation.

deeg

3 months ago

Unfortunately I agree. I've been telling people to put no hope into the Epstein files hurting Trump. Everybody knows he's in it or pretending he's not (like Musk). Trumpers will just call it fake news and support him even more.

What absolutely galls me is people like Mike Johnson claiming to be Christian and then covering up for this pedophile.

k310

3 months ago

Speculation is that Trump is not IN the files, but has inherited the blackmail business from Epstein after his "demise." If so, Trump stands to lose a fortune in worldwide blackmail money, and his hold on the blackmail victims, who may include heads of state, extremely wealthy people and legislators and judges.

In other words, everything; his world and all around it collapse in a heap.

The conspiracy theory, so massively promoted, that Epstein's clientele consisted mostly, or entirely, of Democrats has enormously backfired. The distractions from it are now on a worldwide scale, including destruction of "The People's House".

Mike Johnson has frozen the House of Representatives and illegally refused to seat an elected representative who could tip a vote on disclosure.

Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein, said: [0]

> key documents in the Epstein case are being “deliberately, willfully suppressed” to protect certain individuals. He claimed to know both the names and the officials suppressing the information.

> Pressed by Spicer on whether those individuals were politicians or business leaders, Dershowitz replied, “They’re everything.”

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dershowitz-claims-he-sa...

krapp

3 months ago

>Speculation is that Trump is not IN the files, but has inherited the blackmail business from Epstein after his "demise."

I don't think that's how that works, but regardless, Trump's "birthday message" for Epstein along with his history of allegations has me convinced he's absolutely in the files. No one has ever been more in the files than Donald Trump.