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GuysJustWannaFish
So much for power of the purse
raberscoob
You should have stormed the castle along time ago.
XaoJet
We missing something? He really in that much of a rush to cash out already? I figured they wouldn't get this wild till it looked real bad. I wonder if this is part of them selling all the warehouses they had been leasing for all that cash, they grabbin that bag and making a run for it maybe?
Swinesight
I thought congress was in charge of appropriations?
iBoulderDash
Boy, when's DOGE around when you need them? /s
Bgone
Congress should probably maybe possibly I don’t know do something?
Niagaran
Real countries would have been rioting in the streets over a year ago
Mattnader
Why can't he just be impeached already
Blackfinity
How does this work with budgets and appropriations etc? How can he just "transfer" billions into his pet project?
DukeDarkwood
ScotUS "determined that presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presumptively extends to all of a president's 'official acts' - with absolute immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate such as the pardon, command of the military, execution of laws, or control of the executive branch" on July 1st, 2024.
And the Narcissist-in-Chief believes every decision he makes is an official act, and the will of the country. So, here we are.
mrthewhitee
The secret ingredient is collusion.
Rules and laws are just words if everyone involved just agrees to ignore them.
Kittenman15
Good grief.
TripleDane
for some reasone all the conservative " we dont like big goverment spendings" are totally fine with it
FukcTedCruz
Yeah but Hunter Biden sold some paintings that he actually painted for like 50k!
ZeroVektor
Zodiac Killer will help, I'm sure, eh?!
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Trump considers the US’s wealth is his wealth
TrilithonStone
Stealing is a favorite of his, but destroying the United States is the primary objective. Per Russia's instructions.
stegdoza
This should be reason enough for people to burn the fucking white house down.
CaldariBob
As long as Johnson is still Speaker, he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Including attacking Iran for Israel.
xj4low
And the House (power of the purse) will do nothing. They can't even agree on ICE funding by making ICE just follow laws.
RetrogradeLlama
Johnson can’t attack Iran. However, he can likely block a congressional war powers resolution from advancing, as that would be the only way to stop Trump.
CaldariBob
Dangling participle - I meant to say Trump can attack Iran. Johnson won't make an issue of it.
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Wondering if there isn't a betting office in London with that kind of options.
RetrogradeLlama
There are places where you can bet on most anything.
MyPseudoIsAlduinSkyrimStoleItFromMe
At some point the US credit score is going to take a hit and that debt is going sky rocket
PolitiCat
For fucks sake. Stop him. You have an amendment designed to topple tyrants. Fucking use it. Not resisting the tyranny is allowing it to happen and thus being part of the problem.
troy1984
He's fucking the US raw with no condom.
KosmsLabyrinth
My laptop broke today. I cant work without it. Prices for electronics are skyrocketing, and the cheapest one i can find that will do what I need is $500. I wonder if Ill be dead this time next year. And the president steals 10 billion. What a fun world Im leaving behind.
beaubrent
pOwEr Of tHe PuRsE.... Congress, do something!!
kittyfajitas
Not saying he wouldn't try, but turmp is not a valid source. As far as I understand it, he literally fell asleep at his little Bored of Peas meeting, so who even knows how conscious he was when this particular claim oozed out of his gorge.
Thetiredmechanic
Good thing we still got representation. Otherwise people might get upset over this taxation /s
DukeDarkwood
Is this because nobody paid his buy-in fee of $1B for a seat on that board, because every other nation in existence realized it was a scam in the first place?
Gee, who would have thought that, when people didn't give him what he wanted, he'd just steal it? I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!
#notthatshocked
yakboy
And don't forget, he is suing the the I. R. S. for 10 billion as well.
jamiedBreaker
We should not pay into this anymore. I mean, the IRS is already so understaffed....
DrenLithear
Next admin needs to claw it all back, even if it takes seizing ask hi is families assets and auctioning them. Jared got 2bil from the saudis.
mrthewhitee
They have no authority to claw it back. The board of peace is a private organization where Trump is president for life
Best they can do is stop any future payments and maybe sue the board and Trump.
idontreallydomucharoundhere
They'll probably go the civil forfeiture route and start seizing assets.
DrenLithear
Pretty sure it wasn't set up under any legal authority, but I'm sure there's a mechanism to seize his assets. And he's president for the rest of his life. They can shut that down as a fraud org.
mrthewhitee
It's an international org. US can't shut it but they definitely can make life miserable for its members and the president.
DrenLithear
I mean surely some of them, mostly related to trump, have assets in the US we can seize, if we can take russian oligarch's things we can take american ones too.
mrthewhitee
That's what I mean by making life miserable.
lordyhalvey
The Democrats will issue a scathing letter. Maybe.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Might even put a stamp on it.
wario37
Nah, they’ll say they approve it as long as it is presented in big check form and not just a wire transfer, which would be too hidden.
Hawkgirl203
And a republican will say that she’s sure Trump has learned his lesson.
NotSomoneElse68
Attached to funding for Israel.
UltraLincoln
They're complicit, doing the absolute bare minimum.
Meanwhile the king of England is putting his brother on trial because he was in the trumpstein files.
secretdpp
Flashbacks to Hans Blix threatening Sadam and Kim Jong Il with stern letters
Jonson71
Yes, yes, read this story of a criminal committing a crime and immediately think about how the opposition to him sucks! Thanks!! - Committee to Keep Robbing You
TheWombatStrikesAgain
"Scathing"? Typical for the left, immediately going for the violent response. /s
Emjayen
Walz will send in the National Guard to protect the slush fund.
mjperk
Hey now. They might silently hold up paper plates glued to popsicle sticks with words of disapproval written on them during the State of the Union address too. While simultaneously voting to censure anyone who actually has the small enouhh spine to even just stand up and speak out. Or ya know, shake a cane at Orange Shitler.
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
accompanied by a strong finger wag from Chuck Schumer.
RaekinTheBored
Look how low his glasses are on his nose! He’s cooking up a truly fierce opposition after he votes “Yes” on another $5 billion to Israel.
dohcohv
They can right now draw up articles of impeachment, which because they don't control the house means it won't even get a vote, which just makes it a strongly worded letter.
But I guess it's their fault that they don't have the majority.
RetrogradeLlama
Half these posters are just Putin plants that are here to cause internal disagreements between Democrats.
dohcohv
I've noticed you can sometimes catch them by posting the number of casualties Russia has taken in the war in Ukraine. Then they just repeat Russian propaganda verbatim.
MirroredImage
Correct that there's not a lot they can legally do when they need Literally The Nazis to work alongside them to arrest..themselves. Not going to happen. Never going to happen
But seeing them inch further to the right, always caving just when it seems they may get somewhere if they hold out, and then looking at the landslide Mamdani won. Yes it is partially their fault. Ours for allowing them office. Theirs for clinging to this mortal coil. The issue they have with gestapo is a lack of bodycams
Jarjarthejedi
Oh yeah, they've gone so far to the right. That's why they've blocked bills restricting trans rights. And blocked ICE funding. And raised corporate taxes when they had the chance under Biden. And the dozens of other things R's have been trying hard to reverse. Because "bOtH sIdeS sAMe!". Ya'll are so trivial to propagandize it's just sad :(
mardukkur
The democrats have been moving steadily to the left since at least 2006, if not a lot longer.
mardukkur
When Obama was in office he had to deal with half a dozen Democratic senators in his majority well to the right of Joe Manchin.
mardukkur
The high water mark for centrism in the Democratic party was at some point when Clinton was in office, after Hillary's push for universal healthcare got derailed.
Firestar002
Hmmmm. Wonder if there’s any way to preemptively file for impeachment or expulsion or whatever…. Like, you get the ball rolling and you time it to happen after midterms, so the paperwork is all in place and such…
And it targets the various republicans. Like… sand in the gears.
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
I believe after midterms, it’s considered a new Congress so anything that’s “in progress” is killed and has to be started over.
swedeonamoose
And somehow this is not blatant corruption according to US law or some bs.
ArdentNature
It is. It's just that the people in charge there hope for some crumbs and don't give a fuck about anything else.
awkungen42
No it is, we just have no fucking police force that will enforce the laws on billionaires and all the corrupt judges who wouldn't even attempt to convict.
livingonagiantfireball
You guys have an obvious criminal in charge with its own gesta and control of the justice governement, you have no way out of this, he will 100% not let democrat ever have control again, you will see. And nobody will fight back if nobody fought back so far.
johnathanrossshoulddie
the law doesn't matter, the GOP has successfully destroyed rule of law and we are now living in a full on fascist state that must be dismantled.
whereismymind86
It very much is, but his people are allowed to choose not to prosecute for some reason
livelongandprosper1970
Okay, serious question: is everyone paying taxes? Yes/no & why. Please.
DVSBSTrD
It's not blatant corruption because Republicans control the Supreme Court. And they will continue to do so for the next 20 years.
Randazzo
Unless the next President has some fucking balls and quits trying to play nice and fucking stacks the court. High ground is over. It's time for dirty tricks and knees to the balls.
nikkinikorasu
By what method will the next president stack the court? Trump has had a perfect opportunity with SCOTUS requirements lining up for him. The likelihood that the next president sees even one isn't a safe bet.
Sure, they can stack the lower courts, but without SCOTUS, much of it is moot.
Randazzo
Add more seats.
rfleming1080
No, it is. The politicians in charge just don't care and have actively allowed it to happen or refuse to do anything to stop it.
BananaForScaIe
Yeah it would be corruption in any other, even american, even republican, administration. Nevermind that he has no authority to spend ANY money, that's being ignored in favour of *waves hands*
stayingalive4life
The SCOTUS shares a giant part of the blame of this.
stayingalive4life
Thanks to the SCOTUS, it’s not corruption.
WhatisBug
If it's important for the President to do then it must be OK because they defer to the judgement of the President unless of course it's Biden or Obama
PlatypusLancer
It is, but the law is dead.
BloodLoveRhetoric
If there is no law, then he's not POTUS and nobody has to put up with his BS.
GuyWithDog
He fought the law and he won. He fought the law and he won.
astronomygeek7
The lawn is not dead. So many charges have been dropped that the Trump regime has tried to call out. The law is still in effect. And if you have any desire to uphold it, you need to respond by studying your candidates before voting, and actively showing up for this country in protests. Join a grassroots organization and do your best. Don’t give up in advance!
stayingalive4life
It’s more because the SCOTUS handed him a “Get Out of Jail Free” card on this.
Eyeetsass
No, it’s not. It’s Congress being complicit. They’re the board able to fire the executive. Our reps are cucks.
stayingalive4life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
Eyeetsass
That has nothing to do with impeachment, or removal. That’s criminal prosecution. If we can take Congress we can renovate scotus, upend that bullshit, and codify Roe.
blaghart
This is illegal. But the Republicans won't file articles of impeachment because they approve of it and the Democrats won't file articles of impeachment because they *checks notes* agree with it. Maybe AOC will be willing to stir some shit up. Or perhaps Ilhan Omar.
dynamiteorangechicken
I'm guessing he had allot of dirt on the party.
blaghart
the dirt he has is that he's the figurehead and they know they'll lose all power to infighting the second he dies
Me1iss0
The democrats don’t have a majority so they cannot impeach. This is why every election used to be important- those seats in congress make all their difference when it come to what is left of the checks and balances within our government. Right now republicans control EVERY SINGLE BRANCH
blaghart
They don't need a majority to file articles of impeachment. The fact that they aren't filing them says they have given up even pretending they oppose fascism
Me1iss0
Several articles of impeachment have been filed in 2025, did you even google it? I can find at least two in April and December.
stayingalive4life
No, sadly, this isn’t illegal. At least it’s not thanks to the SCOTUS.
Madalchemist2018
Just not illegal for him. Still illegal.
blaghart
Which SCOTUS ruling prevents him from being impeached over this. I'll wait.
Rhythmaster
The classic "Trump V United States". Its a pretty important, and aptly named case...
stayingalive4life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
blaghart
that doesn't prevent impeachment. I said impeachment.