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DT has been compromised by the Russians since the late 1970's. Moscow has succeeded at igniting an American Civil War while the Murdochs and Breitbarts, Bannons etc have raked in millions fanning the flames. We're forever divided into our camps. Our Tea Party friends do not comprehend their role in this disintigration of society.

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I think he should move to an actual third world country and see what it's really like. And I'd like for all these idiots yelling about the raid on Mar-a-Blahblah being Gestapo tactics to be subjected to what an actual Gestapo raid was like. Their hyperbole is stupid AND offensive.

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My nicknames for the Trumps since 2016:

DJT is Putin's Bitch

Jr is Uday

Eric is Qusay

Ivanka is the Silicone Princess

Jared is Tilda Swinton Kushner

Melania is the sex worker

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How can we purge this family? How can we erase them from our lives? Just go…to a high rise, a gated enclave, anywhere. Please. What a fantastical irony that their surname is literary onomatopoeia for a blast, a warning, an omen, a harbinger.

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I wish the DOJ would just arrest him already. This country is exhausted from Trump and all his goons.

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Stephen King: Trump is a sociopath who tried to overturn the American democracy"!

Stephen King put the horror of Donald Trump into that one profound sentence.

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That is a hilarious image of Ivanka (as Vanna White) spinning the gaudy wheel. It continues to be frightening and unimaginable how popular Trump remains and what a successful grifter he continues to be bilking his followers. I don't know what it will take for his minions to see him as the deranged narcissist he clearly is and begin to sour on him. I continue to hope and remain patient and optimistic as is my nature.

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Lock them all up. Enough of the Trumps!

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The Trumps have certainly perfected their grifting machinery. Must be easier for them to lie and steal than do any real work. It makes me feel sorry (sorta) for the millions of working class people who send their $17 to help Trump “save America”. Meanwhile, the Trumps, America’s preferred family of chiselers, continue to flaunt their lack of accountability. Infuriating beyond belief! Will there ever be a reckoning? I can only hope so.

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If the criteria for putridness are greed and lack of morals and conscience, then yes, the Murdochs, Sacklers and Trumps are all on par. If the criteria are the amount of damage they have wreaked in this country, the Trump family wins, followed closely by Murdochs. As much pain, death and destruction as the Sackler family has wrought on individuals, families and entire communities by their greed, corruption, and depravity, they have not put the entire country on the brink of civil war. They have not tried to destroy our entire government. They have not put the ability of the U.S. and other countries to defend themselves in peril. They have not tried to upend the entire world order while authoritarian regimes wait in the wings to seize power. A pretty low bar for not being the worst of the absolute worst.

Ivanka may think she can disassociate herself to some degree from the power hungry madness of the Trumpist movement. She cannot. She is part and parcel of it. She is a poster child.

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When the boys were grown they realized they had to kiss the ring of their deranged father if they were going to be on his payroll. He requires each of them to play out a role designed to cheat banks, city councils & to schmooze with government officials in all countries for profit & greed. Hiring lawyers & Weisselberg to protect his ill-gotten gains has been a very effective strategy for Trump until Merrick Garland has finally decided enough is enough. Let's hope the AG can finally give the Trumps accountability that is LONG OVERDUE

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Trumps are all grifters…and that’s how kids

Learned to carry their dads lies & thievery!

Jared Kushner well he could be the person to turn and give up the goods he’d sell his soul to ANYONE he married Trumps favorite!

Republicans wake up & denounce this mess

We NEED Everyone voting for democrats it’s

Only hope to Not be an Autocracy Please

I was born in St. Louis ..”the show me state”

Told by parents it’s not what you say you’ll

Do ..IT’S WHAT YOU DO ..Stand Up VOTE

Save our Democracy ❤️Marsha

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They’re counting on P.T. Barnum having been right about a sucker being born every minute. Unfortunately, many of them have guns.

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Ah! Things are starting to snap into focus now. Ivanka at the putrid wheel is one more clue toward the root of the GOP's irritable vowel syndrome.

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God made man with a body, a mind, and a soul. The difference between man and animal is the soul.

The trump's have no soul. They have no regulator of right and wrong, moral and amoral, good and evil.

They live to satisfy their fleshly desires at the expense of anyone and anything.

To get what they want - to satiate their animal desires - they will lie, cheat, steal, even kill.

What allows you to recognize that is your soul. If you have one you understand why it's wrong to use children with cancer to grift a buck.

We are living through a period of ugly and evil and soullessness.

We must do as you are Steve.

Recognize evil.

Condemn it publicly.

Do whatever we can to protect ourselves, our loved ones and communities from the evil.

Sadly we can't save those who refused to be saved. However we must save our institutions from their corrupt motives.

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell.

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The tRump family business model has always been crime and corruption. They hit the jackpot when Putin installed tRump into the White House. Thanks to the GQP, their crimes went unchecked and they pillaged the U.S. Treasury.

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Queen Mary spoke of Wallis Simpson as, "Lowest of the low." The man who employed me for the last 22 years of my working career simply described an uncouth man as, "Low life." Both terms are appropriate for the former president and his ilk.

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Go to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $2 B.

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You're the best. Keep it coming.

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Since acknowledging they’re living in a 3d world country, a name change is in order: Trump Shithole Country Club (& LIV Golf).

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Trump and the Republican Party found each other at a very critical moment in time and developed a special symbiotic relationship which, to date, seems to benefit both of them. However, Trump is, in reality, a parasite and will not be content until he eventually destroys his host and himself in the process. That would be the best outcome. I don't want to think about the alternative.

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Spot on. I guess if you've never had to work for and earn anything in your privileged life, dismantling a great country while enjoying its benefits is just another game. And it must be fun to dupe the vast numbers of morons that believe every word spoken by the orange god king. Can't wait for the day when they all wear orange jump suits! @DrRandallWJones

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Interesting how Vanky never "signs" the letter. Or Melania.

Whether it's Junior or Eric may depend upon whether Junior is lucid following the previous evening's bender. I'm fully convinced that Junior would sign, say, or do ANYTHING if he could hear his daddy telling him just once, "I love you". He'd sign, say, or do anything TWICE if he could hear his daddy also say, "...and you're my favorite."

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Hey Boogs!! Ya know at least 2 Russian entities hacked into the Democratic Legislative Re-election committee whatever? The Dems had a file listing oppo on their own selves in the event the GOP used any of the items in the election. The Russians disseminated this info in the Dem's districts using social media and other means. Russian interference went (and goes) a lot deeper than $50k Facebook spend.

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I think it’s criminal what the trumps do they are nothing more than a crime syndicate. If he’s so rich why can’t he pay for shit himself. The whole family is disgusting the women look plastic and awful and the men are liars

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Along with their projection of everyone and everything, the Trumps and their ilk, will live as if we do live in a third-world country. Those countries keep all the power at the top, and those with power keep learning how to not let go.

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Hot. It's appalling. I'm more distressed by his supporters who aren't bothered by it.

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You are spot on. His followers don’t realize he laughs at them behind their backs for being suckers! They are the least informed and don’t see the truth if it hit them over the head, which it dies daily!

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Hot hot 🔥

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Between their stochastic terrorism and the typos...we are truly at another inflection point. These MFs were found raising off of Ivana's death too. ( Natch )

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Some things you can ignore and they just go away. I wish this were so of this stain on America. Once they have your email, good luck with the unsubscribing, hasn’t worked for me so far. Oh, texts too..😳🤦🏼‍♀️🤮

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If the Trump family truly believes they live in a third world country and are being unfairly prosecuted in the USA, they are eligible to seek asylum in another country more to their liking and temperament. North Korea? Russia? Hungry? Turkey?

I think most Americans think they “have gotten away with murder” in the USA!

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Not sure what that money is for other than line his pockets.from what I have read the RNC is paying his lawyers till he announces he would run for President again.

Always has been cheat, liar, bully , out for number one and there is no number two as he is only one who counts in his book. To answer your question they pick names out of a MAGA hat.

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Ivanka always dresses like a fascist Vanna White- it’s all part of the Cult of 45. She’s a shiny object to lure in the gullible. The other spawn of 45 are merely space fillers for Dear Leader and as such interchangeable.

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The tragedy is that while these pieces of excrement continue to pollute and exhaust the national conversation critical issues that deserve focus and resolution are ignored by the media and unaddressed by the public.

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Mount St. Helens Hot!

I'm truly amazed how people follow such a person, to what end.

I'm also truly amazed they send their hard earned money to them. Americans wake up, to many young men, and woman have bleed, fought, and died for what's being given away, at will.

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Hot 🔥 ~ or maybe its Melania, have always suspected she is KGB ~ just speculation of course

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Love the Vanna White comparison.

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The thing that is so vile about all this Top secret documents at Maralargo is you can expect Trump to act the way he does but the Republicans are defending him and he’s probably sold documents to our adversaries. talk about a traitor they all are and they should never be allowed to hold office again. Why would anyone vote for a Republican after this

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Playing off the title of Rick Wilson's book, Everything Trump Touches Dies and because Trump fancies himself such a prince of a fellow, I've dubbed him Lord of the Flies. Haven't gotten around to the rest of his spawn but you all have saved me the trouble.

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They hunt, in the savannah as well as the streets of America. The world is theirs to choose. They collect trophies, a leopard here, an endangered Argali sheep there, from Mongolia to the U.S.A., as the Trump Munsters say, The Third World Country. I wonder who they idolize, because I truly believe so many idolize them and reinforce their entitlement. Now, I get very concerned because these *&%^$$$s do not let go of power, unless someone stops them finally and makes them face the reality that others face all the time everywhere. The Trumps are con artists, with all the vices imaginable. And they get away with it. They inhabit, as you say, a putrid space. The consequences? They inflict, directly and indirectly, pain and harm and death, to animals and Covid-stricken Americans right through a deadly Insurrection. To steal is their livelihood, from bank loans to highly classified documents. Justice? This from the Southern District of Florida, July 20, 2022:

"Miami, Florida – Yesterday, a federal district judge in Miami, Florida sentenced Leonard Williams to 81 months’ imprisonment for bank robbery (57 months) and for violating his supervised release on a 2010 bank robbery case (24 months).

"On November 30, 2021, Williams began a three-year term of supervised release following a 151-month sentence for robbing banks. He left his residential reentry center to check in with his Probation Officer, but he never returned to the reentry center. Instead, two days later, Williams robbed two more banks. He entered Ocean Bank in downtown Miami and handed a bank teller a note demanding money, which read, 'This is a bank robbery give me all cash 100 50 20 10 list don’t make it a [illegible writing.]' The teller told Williams she did not have any money, and when she did not comply with his demand note, Williams pointed at the note, climbed over the bank teller’s counter into the teller area, and yelled that he wanted cash. Williams then took a small, Ocean Bank zippered deposit bag containing blank checks, parking validations tickets, and a USB thumb drive before climbing back over the counter and exiting the bank with the Ocean Bank zippered bag. About an hour later, Williams entered a Citibank—the same one he robbed in 2010—and used a demand note to rob $7,113 from two Citibank tellers."

No weapons used above. Peanuts for money (which would make Jared Kushner cackle like a goose!) Jail time, lots and lots of months. I was reading another story about a man in Miami who stole a pizza, took a bite, ran, got caught, got handcuffed and went straight to the slammer. He was armed, yes, but all he wanted was to bite that pizza. I do not want to imagine what the Trumps are biting tonight. Vampires!

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So I’m concerned that we are following trumps model by railing. Read a wash post or NYT article that purportedly summarized research saying that voters are not positively responsive to postcarding by elite liberals who write and spell well. I couldn’t tell, since there was scant review of methods whether it was straight research or plain old depressing oppo. Please help us with a protocol for evaluating the tsunami of bs headed our way. Ps I have postcards on the desk now. I did Georgia in Nov 20 for the Jan 5, and got my rocks off.

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I chuckled at the imagery of the great wheel of fortune. Donnie Jr has blocked me on Twitter (#winning) so I can't see what garbage he's spewing... does Eric come off as the more sane, vanilla version? His wife is doing a lot of stumping for the grifters, lately. They never miss the opportunity to get their army of ill-informed to finance their lifestyles.

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I have blocked all the trumps because I don’t want to receive any emails or other communication from any of them. I hear enough of their whining and lies as retweets.

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WOW, I agree with you Steve. It is so disgusting to be subjected to their ABUSE. They are aiming for people who have influence, compliment yourself. I heard one of the CNN people say they got a request for money from them too.

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Under the bus he will throw each and every one of them.

Relatives first, as he did when he stole dead daddy's fortune at the grave.

So evil as to have no clue.

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I believe that Eric Trump is truly the greatest disappointment to his family, furthermore, if push came to shove any of them would give him up to save themselves..he is an idiot, who thinks that he is entitled to the life that he a begrudgingly been given..Regarding how those choices are made you spoke of in your remarks, and I get why you put it forward, at the end of the day do we really give a shit?

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It is all to make money from the morons following this insane cult like movement. I still don’t understand how can he still be walking freely protected by the secret service

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Seems to me the most diabolically clever and evil is Trump's son-in-law Jared. Could he be the one writes the blurbs, and then whoever of the kids is most politically expedient and available signs it.

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