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Patton Debby's avatar

The entire Trump Family should be sent packing!

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LaVonneK's avatar

… along with his ENTIRE CABINET.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

definitelyy

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Heather.B's avatar

Rosie O’Donnell never attempted a coup. ✔️

Rosie O’Donnell never stole top national security documents. ✔️

Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t try to take away the citizenship of her political opponents. ✔️

As far as I am concerned, Rosie O’ Donnell is a FAR better American than Donald Trump ever could or would be.

This is fascism in full bloom—thin-skinned, lawless, and foaming with petty vengeance. He’s not joking. He’s plotting.

The Trump administration is very serious about using this situation it created to normalize aspects of authoritarian rule like weaponizing citizenship... 🤦‍♀️

How about wearing this reminder in front of bigots and fascists? 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/products/34623946-we-the-people-means-everyone-t-shirt

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MRC's avatar

Non of Trumps children are natural citizens. Their mother’s weren’t citizens when any them were born.Including boo boo Baron!

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Heather.B's avatar

I hope Rosie told Trump if he takes her citizenship then we will take his wife citizenship, JD Vance wife, etc. If he can dish it out so can we!

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Ellen CW's avatar

Spot on correct!

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Teri Simonds's avatar

If the kids were born in the US (they were), they are citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendments. I think that if one parent is a citizen and they were born outside the US, they would also be citizens.

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Terry's avatar

That didn't work for the Black guy born on a US army base to an American soldier in Germany - they sent him off to Jamaica and now he has no citizenship anywhere...

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Ed Garland's avatar

Precisely right! Heck yeah. Didn't work for a bunch of nonwhite folks who fought and served honorably during WW1 and WW2, and came "home" to be treated like they didn't matter. Guess the proverbial shoe is on the other foot nowadays.

The irony is that the person we thought was going to be "the end of us" (the black guy) was for the good of all of us. This orange stinkin' POS walking turd is for none of us--regardless of what we look like.

Just a cryin' shame we let him fool us--twice.

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DS Yohalem's avatar

No one has ever claimed that Obama's mother was not from Kansas. His place of birth not withstanding, he would still have birthright citizenship.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand, was born in Canada to a naturalized citizen (involved, according to Agent Orange, in the JFK assassination.) Yet, he's run for president.

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MRC's avatar

Donald is changing those laws our founding fathers wrote that REALLY made America great.

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MRC's avatar

That is what Trump wants to change! He wants both parents to be citizens and live in USA. Look up Natural citizenship. Ted Cruz is not a natural citizen. And Vivek who is running for governor of Ohio parents had overstayed their visa when he was born.One of his parents still is not a citizen .

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DS Yohalem's avatar

Tiffany? Her mom is an American by birth. Her dad isn't human.

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Nina Tatlock's avatar

I think Tiffany and her Mom Marla Maples are citizens, since Marla was born in GA.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Excellent! And we know the "baby" wouldn't be possible without Dumpty's use of a turkey baster and a tilt table. Bwahahahahahaha! 🫢

⬆️(This one courtesy of Mrs. Ed! 🤣)

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Quizzically Bemused's avatar

Nicely stated.

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Nina Tatlock's avatar

My hair has been on fire since SCOTUS stole the election from Al Gore. I’m glad you are part of the hair on fire group now too Michael Cohen. Thank you for speaking truth.

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Don Druin's avatar

Me 2. That event is when I realized that the cowardly and inept Democrats were finished and would never again fight for Americans. I predicted this fascist takeover in 2004, and we promptly moved to Canada. I knew the Dems had sold out to big business, and their candidates were either morons like Biden, who could have stopped this entire catastrophe, but was too cowardly to do a damn thing, or unelectable. With no opposition, the GOP bulldozed every election in sight, took control of Congress, and America is now a fascist state. I wish Americans would wake up and realize that the feckless Democrats are the real reason America is burning to the ground. They only know how to lose.

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DS Yohalem's avatar

Almost, but not quite. Where do you live? Alberta?

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Terry's avatar

Guillotines my friends guillotines!

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Ed Garland's avatar

Great suggestion. I've always leaned toward bringing back firing squads.

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Keith Olson's avatar

Along with his Goon Squad.

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lindaloubird@gmail.com's avatar

If this is permitted, which is unconceivable of course, the next USA citizen to have his citizenship rejected must be Trump himself as no greater immediate internal threat to the USA currently exists.

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Roberta Houle's avatar

Could someone please report this new scammer? He responded to another comment below.

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Ed Garland's avatar

@ Roberta ... Block him. One n' done!

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Roberta Houle's avatar

Thanks. But then I’m the only one who can’t see it. It’s still there in everyone else’s view.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Precisely!

Each of us has the option to reply, scroll past, report, or block. Take the action that resolves *your* issue. Others will do likewise.

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Roberta Houle's avatar

I will always make note of the scammers. It’s a security issue. Its a hack that will infiltrate anyone who responds. It’s not only “my issue.” Think about it.

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Michele K Danzis's avatar

I don't think this is really about Rosie O'Donnell but another push to see just how far the Robert's court is will to ignore the Constitution in the first place.

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Quizzically Bemused's avatar

They are the addicts enablers.

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Deb's avatar

Love that "Robert's Court" and those HATE TACO still CAN'T See 👀 the BIG PICTURE

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Thomas Moore's avatar

When reporters ask questions Trump doesn't like he calls them "evil" and "nasty." He has said in public that he hates Democrats because, he claims, Democrats hate America.

You know who is evil and full of hate? Of course you do. It isn't us.

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Ed Garland's avatar

He, and his master are one in the same. We know them as ... "The accusers of the brethren ..." 😉

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MK Butler's avatar

I am so sick and tired of the lunacy of this administration. I need them all to charged with crimes against humanity soon. I’m not sure how much longer our country will survive!

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Ed Garland's avatar

Don't lose heart. There is ample opportunity for him and them to continue to implode. It's so out of control now, there's no stopping the damage already done. When it suited him he spoke highly of Epstein. Today, he calls him a creep. I am convinced he calls No.3 a c**t behind closed doors--as he has nicknames for everyone.

The orange idiot has cooked his own goose. When Bongino blew his stack and walked out, that was a defining moment! Any other person would have been subject to "search and seizure," but Dumpty must've been so stunned he didn't know what to do. Do what? Order his detail to "go after" Bondino before he hits the street? Next, I'm looking for one of his security to SNAP and refuse an order. There's a storm brewing. Folks are burning his red hats! Waiting to see what Musk is going to do (should be fun to watch).

But, Don hatted up announcing he was "taking the day off!" Walk out on the PINO? Why, who woulda' thunk it? 🤣 Bondino made the mistake of a lifetime, latching his wagon to Dumpty's trailer. Patel, along with others, is poised to flip their wigs once they realize Doofus the Dummy is going to blame each of them for "failing" him! Watch. Don't blink.

TS has HTF. No such thing as unringing a bell. This Epstein crap has got to be sweet revenge from the grave! Maybe Epstein does have the last say, after all.

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MK Butler's avatar

Epstein should have been in a jail cell years ago but got a sweetheart deal by trump’s last agriculture doofus. Hindsight it may have kept trump from getting as far as he has!

Thanks for your input.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Couldn't 👍 agree more.

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patti smith's avatar

None of us is...

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pat.margulies@gmail.com's avatar

EXCELLENT ARTICLE, Mr. Cohen.... just on-point all the way thru. Thank you.

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Dan's avatar

How on God’s green earth was the Trump family allowed to procreate!!!

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Barf.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Inbreeding.

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Ada Fuller's avatar

If I’m lucky, I’ll be sent back to England where my undocumented ancestors came from in 1620. However the way trump is treating people, I’d be sent to some dark hole in Africa or South America, never to be heard from again. His mother was an immigrant, two of his wives were immigrants, do we even know if he has a birth certificate?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

he does or he wouldn't be the president. He at least had a thorough vetting before he took office in 2016 even if his brand of government is to throw out all the laws and everything standing in his way.

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Kamm's avatar

Well, birth certificate be damned. It didn't stop "Him" from alleging Obama and Harris weren't US citizens.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

and it was all talk and no walk and did not stop either one of them from becoming who they became or doing their jobs or representing the American people. He is an eejit and his words mean zilch.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Perfect!

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Quizzically Bemused's avatar

A big strong man came up to me and said “sir I don’t care if you’re not a US citizen, you’d still be my president.”

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DS Yohalem's avatar

Said it with tears in his eyes.

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Pat M's avatar

Everything trump does is a show!! Trump is unfit for office

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Bluesmurf's avatar

I disagree with you on the point that this is not about Rosie O'Donnell. It is about Rosie O'Donnell and threatening to revoke her citizenship is just a dart. He hates Rosie. He has hated her and threw her name out there constantly out of nowhere for nearly 20 years now - all over his narcissistic injury in 2006.

Narcissists get even, Michael, and he was getting even with you when he kept you in prison in solitary during the pandemic. You turned on him. That's unforgivable to him. Where Rosie is concerned, her moving to Ireland is not payback enough. She has to be publicly and largely humiliated on a grand scale or he won't feel vindicated, and even then he will continue to taunt and bully her because he can and he has an audience. My narcissist chased me everywhere I went to get away from her and the threat only stopped when she died last year.

He knows he cannot revoke Rosie's citizenship and so does she, but he will keep saying it to get headlines and attention and she will keep responding because she cannot help herself. He wants to be able to revoke people's citizenship, that I agree with you on - but the real test is on someone like musk or Zohran Mamdani who are naturalized citizens. Otherwise, he's just blowing smoke trying to create a "fear factor" not testing the waters.

Testing the waters would be actually filing the paperwork to revoke an actual citizen's birthright and he is not going to start with someone who has the money and means to fight him. He will take on someone who can't defend themselves and it will be over a parking ticket. That would be his test case.

I know you are going to say that I am underestimating him, that you know him better (which you do), but he's an aging narcissist, something that I am all too familiar with and have 64 years of experience as a narcissist's target who wanted me to be absolutely stomped into the ground and crawling sick and dying in the gutter (that never happened), and drumpf is performing like an aging narcissist who wants to settle all the scores before his time runs out. Threatening Rosie that he will revoke a citizenship that he has no power to revoke is just bloviating hot air with both of them knowing he won't succeed. The point is to get the headlines off the epstein files. It is not working.

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Susan Blank's avatar

Psychotherapist here, Trump meets all criteria for malignant narcissism - so add psychopathy (antisocial personality disorder) and Paranoia (Paranoid personality disorder) to the list. Erich Fromm, the psychologist who coined the term from his studies of the Nazis, called a malignant narcissist “the quintessence of evil”.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

And their first and foremost goal is to get even -- not test out some policy theory that is really someone else's big gripe (like miller)... He may or may not know at this point that he is declining, but he is and he will focus on any hatred that he can remember and thinks or knows he has not be able to vindicate as yet.

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PlasticFish's avatar

I agree, but in fact we have people like Miller pulling the strings, so we must not discount the threat of denaturalisation and other ways to disappear those whom this administration considers enemies.

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PlasticFish's avatar

That being said...

*#EPSTEINFILES*

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DS Yohalem's avatar

Denaturalization can only be accomplished if there was a fault in the original documentation. Like Werner von Braun saying he was never a Nazi. Penemunde!

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EaB's avatar

Here’s the question of the day.

What is he using Rosie as a distraction for today? This bs always rears its big ugly head when he’s covering something up. Hmmmm, the scandal of the day is most likely the Epstein list because it keeps snowballing with his MAGA faithful now!

She’s just the most recent target on his daily distraction dartboard.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Well, it could be epstein - though I don't think Rosie is a big enough story. It could be something to do with the tariffs, though we are all tired of his TACO in that arena. It could be that the Dems started their ad campaign against the Big Ugly Bill to disrupt the August recess for the "R's" - but his picking on Rosie won't help. It could be the ICE raids, but a judge in So. Cal just put a TRO on those over the latest fiasco that saw a man die.

It could be that he awoke from a nap and remembered that he hates Rosie and he blathered on about it. Remember the side trip in the cabinet meeting where he talked about the paint color for the crown molding?

It could be to cover up that the killings in Gaza haven't stopped and there is no cease fire or agreement there... or Ukraine... or bondi, hegseth, noem, miller, or any of a dozen reasons... unfortunately he's a looney who is in decline and following him around trying to figure it out can make you crazy. Whatever it is, it isn't working because all of those things are still in the news.

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Jo Anne Mahedy's avatar

Didn’t Rosie post a picture of Trump and Epstein last week? I think that’s what set him off on her.

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Terry's avatar

Rosie calls the felon rapist on his BS - she has more bravery in her left pinky finger that all the retrumpians in the congress, senate and judiciary in this country. I applaud her for speaking out - she's my new hero!

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Roberta Houle's avatar

I’m really impressed with Rosie too. Rock on Rosie. 💪🇨🇦

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Ed Garland's avatar

100% on point.

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Stephen ONeill's avatar

Trump's attacks...on anyone and anything...finds support in the dark "underbelly" of American racism, misogyny and ignorance that has been allowed to "bubble up", encouraged, in fact, by the man himself, and the people surrounding him. Has there ever been such a dispicable, hateful group of cabinet members in history? There certainly were one or two, occasionally, but never ALL of them. Over the last twenty years, in particular, we have seen the "embers" of the worst side of the American character fanned into flames by "hate radio" personalities, right-wing politicians like Newt Gingrich and Republican political operatives intent on splintering the common bond of the commonweal. The goal they share is "power"...and with it, the power to ignore the rule of law and constitutional government. So, yes, his attack on Rosie O'Donnell is a "testing of the water" and one we've seen before...

"First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me"

Martin Niemöller

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Ed Garland's avatar

BOOM!

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Dan's avatar

Her citizenship cannot be revoked.

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Janice Chapman's avatar

For now. We can't rely on SCOTUS sbymore. They were the one thing I thought I could always count on to keep our rights intact. Yet, here we are seriously worrying about this possibility.

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Hendrik Gideonse's avatar

Listen to Popok and Ben M in their conversation today. It should be clear from that DOJ will go to any lengths to not just skirt the truth but lie their way right through it.

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Scott Gilliom's avatar

FDT, and this whole administration, the Republicans in congress and the Supreme Court are tearing up our constitution and burning it they all need to face the consequences of their actions.

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Emily's avatar

When the media starts speaking up to trumpy at his press conferences and getting him all agitated like NBC is doing, then we will continue the pressure.

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Tina Bielka's avatar

Please everyone we need to stand up and speak out!!

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PlasticFish's avatar

You'll have much better luck spamming one of the MAGA substacks.

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DS Yohalem's avatar

Are there really such things?

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Nancy Frasch's avatar

You go Rosie

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