The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

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According to the court documents lodged in Miami, Florida, in May, the BBC had asked for financial papers on the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust, which holds the president’s business interests and assets.

Lawyers had asked for records that would show its income, assets and properties held. It also listed hundreds of companies that fall under the trust’s remit.

In response, Trump’s Florida-based lawyers Brito PLLC said the request was “disproportionate” and “encompasses individuals and entities that have no connection to the issues in dispute”.

They added it amounted to “tens of thousands of documents” within 30 days, adding the timeframe was “unreasonable … and improper”.

It accused the BBC of a “textbook fishing expedition”.

Filings in May showed Trump’s legal team had made 503 requests for documents, and the BBC had turned over 45,000 pages in return. Trump had produced none.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...ation-case

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A Department of Justice lawyer has told a federal appeals court that Trump could, if he so decided, demolish the Statue of Liberty with no consequences.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...8179&ei=18

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"The difference between you and I, this doesn't bother me." Patrick Bet David admits that Trump's racist policies don't bother him.

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"The difference between you and I, this doesn't bother me."  Patrick Bet David admits that Trump's racist policies don't bother him.

He’s not alone. Trump’s racist immigration/refugee policies don’t bother a great many people. White South Africans, for example, think it’s just dandy.

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"The difference between you and I, this doesn't bother me."  Patrick Bet David admits that Trump's racist policies don't bother him.

He’s not alone. Trump’s racist immigration/refugee policies don’t bother a great many people. White South Africans, for example, think it’s just dandy.

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Including, but not limited to, one specific white South African named Elon Musk.

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Sargent: Is there a way for Trump to get a better deal, extract a better deal from Iran than Obama got? It seems to me that it’s fundamental to the situation that it actually isn’t possible. And what I really question is whether he is capable of grasping that fundamental aspect of the situation or not. What do you think?

Horne: So I think two things. One, I think it is highly unlikely, if not probably impossible, that he would get a better deal than the JCPOA, because the situation is so much more complicated now than it was in 2015 or 2018, whatever endpoint you want to assign to when the JCPOA was concluded. The knowledge that the Iranians have about how to use the Strait of Hormuz for leverage is something that they can’t unlearn.

And The New York Times piece that you mentioned earlier pointed out that in 2011, when Obama communicated privately to the Iranian regime that the Strait of Hormuz was a red line for him, the understanding that the regime had was that they would be in existential risk—that essentially the Obama administration would take out the regime were Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz the way that it is essentially doing now. The problem is that Trump did take out the Iranian regime.

And so when you remove that particular leverage point and you do the bad thing anyway, it’s logical for the Iranians to think, well, OK, the worst has already happened. We know this is existential for us as the next generation of IRGC and new leaders of Iran. So why would we gamble away what leverage we have right now?

People operate logically within the situations and frameworks in which they find themselves. That is a logical position for the regime to take at this stage. And it is hard to imagine how Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are going to get them to trade away that leverage that is now squarely in their court, especially at a moment where, again, I cannot stress enough, this war is spectacularly unpopular and a real political albatross around Trump’s neck.

https://newrepublic.com/article/211404/t...utdid-iran

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Sargent: Is there a way for Trump to get a better deal, extract a better deal from Iran than Obama got? It seems to me that it’s fundamental to the situation that it actually isn’t possible. And what I really question is whether he is capable of grasping that fundamental aspect of the situation or not. What do you think?

Horne: So I think two things. One, I think it is highly unlikely, if not probably impossible, that he would get a better deal than the JCPOA, because the situation is so much more complicated now than it was in 2015 or 2018, whatever endpoint you want to assign to when the JCPOA was concluded. The knowledge that the Iranians have about how to use the Strait of Hormuz for leverage is something that they can’t unlearn.

And The New York Times piece that you mentioned earlier pointed out that in 2011, when Obama communicated privately to the Iranian regime that the Strait of Hormuz was a red line for him, the understanding that the regime had was that they would be in existential risk—that essentially the Obama administration would take out the regime were Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz the way that it is essentially doing now. The problem is that Trump did take out the Iranian regime.

And so when you remove that particular leverage point and you do the bad thing anyway, it’s logical for the Iranians to think, well, OK, the worst has already happened. We know this is existential for us as the next generation of IRGC and new leaders of Iran. So why would we gamble away what leverage we have right now?

People operate logically within the situations and frameworks in which they find themselves. That is a logical position for the regime to take at this stage. And it is hard to imagine how Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are going to get them to trade away that leverage that is now squarely in their court, especially at a moment where, again, I cannot stress enough, this war is spectacularly unpopular and a real political albatross around Trump’s neck.

https://newrepublic.com/article/211404/t...utdid-iran

‘The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.’ - Paul Muad’Dib

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