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Corruption and Unqualified Trump Loyalists

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by deb4rockets, Mar 17, 2025.

  1. deb4rockets

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    Law enforcement will never be the same. Right wing podcasters, and election denying Trump butt loyalists head the now Partisan FBI. It's now Trump's corrupt way of determining who gets the investigated and who gets prosecuted. Corruption at its finest.

    With Arrival of Bongino, Trump Loyalists Take Command of the F.B.I.


    From his wildly popular podcast to the No. 2 post at the F.B.I., Dan Bongino joins Kash Patel, President Trump’s former election surrogate, to lead the agency at a turning point.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/bongino-patel-fbi-trump.html
     
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    The Grift

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    According to his cousin, Jack Schlossberg, JFK' grandson,


    Trump “is obsessed with my grandfather — but not in his life or what he achieved in it.”

    just like @robertfkennedyjr @realdonaldtrump is only interested in JFK’s carcass
    “These men are stealing history from present and future generations — by appropriating the past for
    their criminal agenda, they normalize themselves in the minds of those without living memory.”


    JFK drafted the civil rights act — Trump made DEI illegal. JFK stared down Russia and did not blink —
    Trump is Russia’s closest ally,” Schlossberg said Wednesday on X. “JFK sent a man to the moon —
    Trump gave Elon [Musk] the keys to Air Force One. JFK created USAID — Trump eliminated it.”​
     
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    Bondi to Welch During Senate Confirmation Hearing: “No one will be prosecuted, investigated because they are a political opponent.”

    https://www.welch.senate.gov/bondi-...igated-because-they-are-a-political-opponent/

    At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies. The count excludes foreign individuals, institutions and governments, as well as federal employees dismissed as part of force reductions.

    The analysis revealed two broad groups of people and organizations targeted for retaliation.

    Members of the first group – at least 247 individuals and entities – were singled out by name, either publicly by Trump and his appointees or later in government memos, legal filings or other records. To qualify, acts had to be aimed at specific individuals or entities, with evidence of intent to punish. Reuters reporters interviewed or corresponded with more than 150 of them.

    Another 224 people were caught up in broader retribution efforts – not named individually but ensnared in crackdowns on groups of perceived opponents. Nearly 100 of them were prosecutors and FBI agents fired or forced to retire for working on cases tied to Trump or his allies, or because they were deemed “woke.” This includes 16 FBI agents who kneeled at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. The rest were civil servants, most of them suspended for publicly opposing administration policies or resisting directives on health, environmental and science issues.

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribution-tracker/
     
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    Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.

    As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.

    When six Democratic lawmakers issued a video last month telling members of the military that they must refuse unlawful orders, President Trump said they had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

    But Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said the same thing as the lawmakers last year in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court as a lawyer for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that represented three former military leaders.

    “Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders,” she wrote.

    She elaborated: “The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members are required not to do so.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/military-unlawful-orders-pam-
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    They've done a remarkable job and should be applauded!
     
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    Of course.

    Was it unlawful when the Biden Regime used the Border Patrol to remove border barriers so that millions of foreigners could illegally enter the U.S.?
     
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    Hey deb, do you agree with Illhan that Somali fraud in Minnesota is Kash Patel's fault?

     
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    @deb4rockets the entire admin only goal is to enrich themselves to the max. They know their low iq supporters @K9Texan @Salvy dont care
     
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    Difference between you and I is that I actually accept every politician is in it for money and power... Every politician... You think Democrats aren't corrupt lol... The reason I support conservative politicians over woke leftists extremists is because conservatives still represent my values even if they don't necessarily live them. That and woke people are dumb as hell....
     
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    What are your values?
     
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    The difference between us and them is that we judge Reed Shepherd on his skill not his skin color or sexuality
     
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    I'm not sure what you're referencing, but what would be unlawful about that order?
     
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    I don’t know if they are dumb as hell
    That’s insulting the Devil and the Devil ain’t stupid

    woke people are comparable to amoebas or bacteria
     
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    There's brainwashed cult mentality average middle class Americans who will say this is what they voted for. LOL

    The real winners are the wealthiest of them all, as long as they they invest in Trump businesses, or give Trump lots of money for favors, government contracts, or pardons in return. They are the real winners. Just think, if you have 295 million to give Trump you can make a couple hundred billion in return. Musk’s net worth at the end of 2025 at $726bn or some $200bn more than he was worth when Trump took office; last year too, Musk’s SpaceX notched billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts including for the Golden Dome missile defense satellite system.

    Trump’s ‘pay-to-play’ politics fuel a ‘new gilded age’, experts say

    Experts say some of the Trump administration’s policies, coupled with the influence of giant donors, have echoes of the gilded age in the late 1800s, when industrialists and financiers amassed great fortunes with monopolies in railroads, oil and banks, earning them the moniker of robber barons; the era became notorious for graft and bribes of government officials at many levels, and sparked reforms and regulations.

    Trump has at times mocked concerns about affordability as a “hoax” or “con job”, even though millions of Americans have faced rising costs for electricity, healthcare and food.

    Over the past year, Trump’s herculean fundraising with its “pay-to-play” approach has reached “unprecedented” levels, say experts and scholars.

    Those who contribute enough have reason to expect they will get a large return on their investment, whether it’s the end of a government investigation or the government’s approval of a business deal. Trump appears to be happy making a mockery of the basic principle that the leader of our democracy should be making decisions free from real and apparent conflict of interests.”

    Noble added: “Like the post-civil war gilded age, there appears to be a sharp rise in what, in any sane time, we would treat as outright government corruption. For example, many of the administration’s policies and actions appear to be influenced by individuals, corporations and foreign actors helping increase the wealth of the president and his family or contributing to his political war chest.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/trumps-politics-gilded-age
     
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