The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Thumpalumpacus]

Outsourcing his hit-list to Iran:

President Trump has sparked fresh controversy in his first week back in office with his decision to remove security details from several prominent people with whom he has fallen out.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook all had their government-provided security teams taken away this week.

[...]

The bottom line is that Trump’s move has stoked suspicions that he is acting out of a desire for retribution.

Those fears are magnified by the president’s shoulder-shrugging response to the potential consequences of his decision.

Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he would not feel a sense of responsibility if any of the people from whom he had pulled security came to harm.

[...]

Last year, the FBI’s field office in Miami issued an alert for an Iranian man, Majid Dastjani Farahani, whom the bureau alleged was an intelligence officer for Tehran and who was wanted for questioning “in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States, to include lethal targeting of current and former United States Government officials.”

[...]

The FBI contended that the Iranian regime wanted such an operation carried out in revenge for the 2020 killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike during Trump’s first term.

At the time the FBI issued its alert, it was widely reported that Pompeo — serving as secretary of State at the time — was one of the people the Iranians wanted to kill.

As for Bolton, an Iranian man was charged in absentia in 2022 for purportedly attempting to arrange his murder.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...on-pompeo/

[Fake Messiah]

Seems like Trump will be begging Mexico, Canada and EU to send some food.

Farms already seeing 'massive drop off' in workers as mass deportations begin

The country’s agricultural sector is in full-blown panic mode as President Donald Trump’s long-promised mass deportations are starting to become a reality in farming communities across the United States.

And the ripple effect could soon hit supermarkets, as the chaos surrounding Trump’s strict immigration policies – which already include stepped-up ICE raids – is already threatening to send food prices soaring before long, according to a report in The New Republic.

“Bakersfield, California saw a massive drop off in the number of field workers showing up for work Tuesday while ICE agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers,” the outlet reported.

The roundup resulted in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2670966821/

[AFTT47]

Sure didn't take long, did it? He's been in office for 5 days and the food crises and economic collapse is already underway. Not to mention government spooks invading work places and schools without warrants.

[h4ym4n]

This is what the majority of the American people voted for, an end to the DEI and woke garbage that has infected our country.

Does it bother you that Cash Patel was hired into a DEI internship?

[Fake Messiah]

Well, it's just coffee.

'Trump taxes Americans to retaliate': Outrage as President makes Americans 'pay even more'

Trump said he was imposing "emergency" tariffs and other measures on Colombia after the country turned away at least two deportation flights. It was reported by CNN that Colombia "caught Trump officials by surprise when they abruptly rejected two military flights bound for the country carrying migrants."

Justin Wolfers, a noted economist, said, "Trump taxes Americans to retaliate at Colombia."

Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "To 'punish' Colombia, Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee."

"Remember: *WE* pay the tariffs, not Colombia," she added. "Trump is all about making inflation WORSE for working class Americans, not better. He’s lining the pockets of himself and the billionaire class."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-makes-ame...-pay-more/

[Sheldon]

the majority of the members here seem to be practicing the religion of politics given how personal they seem to be taking this subject.


Biden is, was, and will always be a corrupt piece of human excrement.

Hmm....

[Thumpalumpacus]

And to emphasize just how corrupt Biden's legacy will be remembered as, he issues preemptive pardons to 5 more members of his own family, Fauci, General Milley, and everyone on the Jan. 6th criminal committee, with only 22 minutes left before his term in office officially ended. This has NEVER happened in US history, and might not even be legal. The SCOTUS will probably end up ruling on this.
Biden is, was, and will always be a corrupt piece of human excrement.

To be fair, we've never had a President-elect who campaigned in part on vowing revenge upon those who held him to legal standards. I don't like Biden's pardons, and I wish Cheney, Thompson and the others had refused them for not having committed crimes.

But stifling Trump in his more vicious moments is not a bad thing, in the larger picture. You know, the picture you refuse to see.