Post-match: The Post Presidency :: Trump Faces The Music Thread

The DOJ action seems to confirm they don’t have probable cause for further warrants

seems bizarre to me but according to previous comment from preet I get why

 

I don't think this falls under "no emoluments" since that's specifically about foreign influence on the government, but we need a general "no corruption" law that says you can't direct government resources to businesses you or your family control. For example, if your family foundation runs golf courses and hotel properties, you can't charge the secret service money to stay at your hotel while you go golfing at your golf course on taxpayer money.

 

i mean this one is so obvious it is hard to believe it is not illegal under the existing law

there is no way Mango should have been staying at his own properties or holding events

that was an easy way for foreign and domestic actors to bribe him

 

The attention whore has noticed that people are talking more about Elon Musk than him. His big announcement is that he's going to return to Twitter.

 

And they're the only ones who will show him with abs like that, which he's never had. Dude can't even see his dick because of his massive front butt.

 

I assumed he's the one who painted that image.

 

Jon McNaughton is the painter who does the old style oil paintings showing Trump with the founding fathers and bullshit like that. Ben Garrison is the political cartoonist who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "subtle". That image doesn't look like either of their work - not cartoony enough for Garrison, and not McNaughton's style. It looks more like a 4chan meme to me.

 

So I don't want to denigrate the fine analysts at Pod Save America - do you have an episode name or something like that so I can listen in? Because it doesn't seem to me like this is any different than every other fraud this guy has done. There were legal reasons not to defraud people with Trump University, but he did it anyways. There were legal reasons not to stiff contractors on a regular basis, but he made that part of his business model when he was a property developer.

So if he throws Truth Social under the bus, what's the worst case for him? The other owners sue him? That's like his natural habitat, and if/when he loses, it's just money, he'll send out more fundraising emails saying what a big victim he is, and pay off the plaintiffs with donor money.

It just doesn't seem to me like this is somehow the line he won't cross. He's a grifter, he needs attention to keep bringing donations in, and he's losing "market share" (i.e. free rent in liberals' heads) to Elom Nusk. Truth Social is a loser compared to Twitter. His return to Twitter would get him back in front of the "news" cycle. Again, no disrespect to Pod Save America - if they have analyzed this and identified something, I dunno, SEC-related that stops him from going back to Twitter, that may be different, but Trump hasn't let little things like "laws" stop him before.

 

Anyways, here's a headline saying his "major announcement" is that he's selling digital trading cards featuring him as a superhero.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ouncement-digital-trading-cards-b2246035.html

*cough* 99 dollars? They're NFTs. Crossover with the Bitcoin thread! Jesus, I don't know what else to say. ********ing weak ass "major announcement", ********ing scam NFTs, ******** ******** ********.

 

So i heard the same episode, but i can't remember which one it is

Apparently he has to put his content on truth social first, and is allowed to put his content on other networks a certain number of hours later. But the main reason he uses TS is because he is one of the main shareholders, so if they manage to get the SPAC public, he makes a lot of money.

I agree he will just go back to twitter if the SPAC fails, or he needs to for his campaign.

But essentially if he were to go back on twittter, that would be the death of the SPAC, as Trump is really the only asset TS has.