Trumps Presidency 2025

[LaceyLou]

They're deliberately outing the victims as a way to shame them, and to let others know that it's dangerous to come forward when you're the victim of CSA. 

[CMRivdogs]

The senior Senator (R) from Mississippi checks in 

 

[ewsieg]

4 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

And yet the hit piece you last posted by LeDuff, he actually used a 2020 election denier who was at the capitol on January 6th as his expert for the article. That’s why no one around here likes LeDuff. 

Yes, I do remember you refusing to acknowledge what the real story was and instead focused on smearing Leduff.  

LeDuff pursued an allegation. You would pursue an allegation from Putin if it was against Trump. 

If the guy was completely wrong and made up the allegation, I would have guessed no one would have heard about it, instead LeDuff reached out and found a Michigan based person listed in state and federal filings that he could confirm if she did in fact contribute 80k+ over 8k transactions and when asked about it, said she didn't do that.  So in the end, someone is lying.  Pointing that out seems responsible, not malfeasant.  If he was focused on some of the tactics the GOP is doing to suck the money out of older people, my guess is you wouldn't care you gave him the information on that lead.

[LaceyLou]

Sounds like a NIMBY. 

Though I guess it doesn't matter as long as it's not built. 

[CMRivdogs]

They broke ground here a couple weeks back for a company to build guided missiles and some people went berserk. Didn't matter that the missiles were not armed and there is a big Navy weapons depot about 15 miles down the road...

Until I asked if they preferred an ICE holding facility 

[Motown Bombers]

6 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

Yes, I do remember you refusing to acknowledge what the real story was and instead focused on smearing Leduff.  

LeDuff pursued an allegation. You would pursue an allegation from Putin if it was against Trump. 

If the guy was completely wrong and made up the allegation, I would have guessed no one would have heard about it, instead LeDuff reached out and found a Michigan based person listed in state and federal filings that he could confirm if she did in fact contribute 80k+ over 8k transactions and when asked about it, said she didn't do that.  So in the end, someone is lying.  Pointing that out seems responsible, not malfeasant.  If he was focused on some of the tactics the GOP is doing to suck the money out of older people, my guess is you wouldn't care you gave him the information on that lead.

He never produced proof. His expert was a 2020 election denier who believed the Kraken was going to prove the election was stolen. That’s his source for this major fraud that Benson is allegedly involved with and no other source is reporting it. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[ewsieg]

18 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

He never produced proof. His expert was a 2020 election denier who believed the Kraken was going to prove the election was stolen. That’s his source for this major fraud that Benson is allegedly involved with and no other source is reporting it. 

Here is the story.  A major election denier, tinfoil hat, weirdo (I never dug into it like you, but you're probably right with that characterization) pointed out that they found something fishy and pointed out to a ton of small, but continuous donations.  

Is that fishy?  Honestly I don't know.  You know how you would go about trying to confirm if it's all bull****, go to the state and federal files that detail campaign donations and then see if those people 1) exist and 2) can confirm they authorized the payments.  Leduff found a (fairly) local person and 1) confirmed they existed and 2) confirmed that she didn't give that much money, at least knowingly.  

Is ActBlue money laundering?  Is ActBlue performing acts to scam supporters out of money?  Did this women authorize 80k to be taken from her and simply didn't notice it?  IDK.

Also to note, even Democrats are concerned about ActBlue and unlike the GOP, they are trying to ensure ActBlue is being on the up and up to protect democratic donors.

https://campaignsandelections.com/industry-news/actblue-taking-heat-from-practitioners-as-campaign-fundraising-faces-greater-scrutiny/

[CMRivdogs]

 

[oblong]

Why won't Repubs do that?

 

[romad1]

The UK press appears to have latched onto the Epstein story because of the Prince Andrew and the Lord Mandelson (he was the ambassador to the US) having all those ties to Epstein.   It might help accelerate matters to have that bunch of piranhas on the hunt.   UK Premier Starmer has apologized for having chosen Mandelson for the job.  

Mandelson appears to have tried to get Epstein a Russian passport !