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Laree Brown's avatar

He’s been a Russian operative since the 1980’s

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Yeh Tung's avatar

I had read that too but where is there definitive proof?

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Jessie's avatar

You need to READ!

READ Craig Unger's book(s) available from your public library:

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery Hardcover – January 26, 2021

by Craig Unger (Author)

This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump.

Based on exclusive interviews with intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB, thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine.

The book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?

The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, supporting that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first “spotted” Trump as a potential asset, how it cultivated him, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points.

Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time that:

• According to former KGB major Yuri Shvets, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet émigré, triggering protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, launching a decades-long “relationship” of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power.

• Trump’s 1987 invitation to Moscow was billed as a scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for "deep development."

• Before Trump’s first Moscow trip, he met with Natalia Dubinin, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives.

• In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a “special unofficial contact” for the KGB.

In addition to exploring Trump’s ties to the KGB, American Kompromat also reveals:

• How Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years. Epstein became a millionaire in part with the help of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father—media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly served as a spy and likely gave Epstein a sum between $10 and $20 million before his death in 1991.

• How the Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat.

• How the Epstein-Maxwell ring helped enable young women with possible ties to Russian intelligence to gain access to the highest levels of Silicon Valley and the worlds of artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and the internet. This, at a time when Vladimir Putin has asserted, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world.”

• How John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago’s Palm Beach County, says he acquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, fled to Moscow, became only the fourth American to win asylum in Russia, and immediately gained access to Putin’s inner circle, showing the ongoing power that comes from kompromat and how its value is highest before it is “used.”

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Tricia's avatar

Thank you for this. Yes, people need to read. Listen to independent journalists. Discover information that exists instead of waiting for something to be delivered.

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Jessie's avatar

The INFORMATION is in BOOKS, not internet SOUND BYTES!

Read JANE MAYER'S book DARK MONEY about how KOCH united the WEALTHY to DESTROY DEMOCRACY. NOTE all of the ANONYMOUS DARK MONEY disinformation sites.

KOCH subsequently STALKED her.

Make sure you read CRAIG UNGER'S book about JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

JPMORGAN CHASE knew what he was doing, just as they knew about BERNIE MADOFF & failed to REPORT as required. JPMORGAN CHASE maintains a gaggle of lawyers to protect their actions.

There will be no accounting about JEFFREY EPSTEIN without JPMORGAN CHASE documents - where did his $$$ come from? WHY? WHO? There was also action taken by the Virgin Islands.

RUSSIA has those VIDEOS...do you smell EXTORTION? BLACKMAIL?

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Tricia's avatar

Please don’t yell at me. I know of all you cite here. I’m adding that the current independent journalists are bringing alot to light and it’s not sound bytes.

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Vel Santic's avatar

yep!!

And where was DOJ from 2021-2024 i.e. Merrick Garland on this?? hiding behind the .... what?? Why wasn't Merrick Garland's DOJ doing its job re: this??

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Jessie's avatar

MERRICK GARLAND may have been a qualified nominee for a judicial appointment...he SUCKED as an administrator for the DOJ & was clearly unqualified to run the agency.

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Angela Shipman's avatar

that time has passed, and we'll not know for sure what happened with MG...until much later...in the mean time, if this comes to surface, I don't want to hear from him..."my life was in danger, BS" he had the power to stop this, and he didn't use it when he should've...he is spineless

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Angela Shipman's avatar

I just ordered this book...none of what I'm going to read is going to surprise me, I'm sure. Thank you for the suggested reading...

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Jessie's avatar

WE never order from AMAZON - they just post a synopsis. I hope you ordered it from a USED BOOK SELLER.

Craig Unger's books are those that inspire DOG EARING PAGES, UNDERLINING, writing in the margins....lots of information.

Add JANE MAYER's book DARK MONEY to your list!

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Angela Shipman's avatar

thank you for that information, I get it...and I'll be looking into Jane Mayer's book Dark Money...

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Jessie's avatar

Look at the books CRAIG UNGER has written! The connections of MAXWELL & JEFFREY EPSTEIN was stunning!

Information is not all on the internet.

Did you want to know where EPSTEIN's tapes were?

How John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago’s Palm Beach County, says he acquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, fled to Moscow, became only the fourth American to win asylum in Russia, and immediately gained access to Putin’s inner circle, showing the ongoing power that comes from kompromat and how its value is highest before it is “used.”

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

Robert Maxwell stole the pension fund from thousands of British employees who worked for him. He ‘fell off’ his yacht The Lady Ghislaine no one was sure if it was an accident or if he ended his own existence. There could be another option. Was he pushed?

Many Russian people with connections seem to fall out of high buildings (usually a hospital) with unusual regularity.

Could Maxwell have been pushed?

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Jessie's avatar

MAXWELL threatened the wrong people.

Russians do tend to fall out of high building or ingest POISON, but a Russian set to testify the following day was determined to have committed SUICIDE even though his body was severely bruised/or accident....apparently they couldn't toss him out of a window.

Death Of Former Putin Aide In D.C. Now Ruled To Be An Accident

October 28, 2016

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/28/499750029/u-s-attorney-s-office-mikhail-lesins-death-was-an-accident

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Debbie Holbrook's avatar

Thanks for the book info. I have one on hold now at the library!!! Word is getting out.

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Jessie's avatar

Some of these books deserve to be purchased USED. As you'll see when you start to READ, they're the kind of books you want to DOG EAR, underline & make comments in the margins.

Don't buy from AMAZON!

Look around for USED BOOK sellers.

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Angela Shipman's avatar

wow...I'm excited to listen to this book...thank you

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

Somewhere in the archives. He is looking for them. Why else would he be obsessed with the Deep State? CIA FBI. He wants to destroy them completely. No evidence.

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Angela Shipman's avatar

the proof is in the book, not speculation

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Angela Shipman's avatar

TRUTH is in the WORDS

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

Robert Maxwell Born

Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch

10 June 1923

Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine)

Died

5 November 1991 (aged 68)

Sea around the Canary Islands, Spain

Resting place

Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel

Citizenship

Czechoslovak

British (1946–1991)

Political party Labour

I didn’t know he was a Czechoslovaks!!!!

That was a surprise. Very close to Russia.

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Kendra Olson-Fisher's avatar

Actually I was watching a documentary, I thought 80s too, I forget which one 😖 but it’s been since the late 70s and he was literally invited by the KGB 😳 I suspect that Putin was KGB then, but haven’t fact checked yet.

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jambo's avatar

He is actively overturning the constitution. Why is it not treason?

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Anna Bolique's avatar

It's sedition, not treason, but yes, it should be treated as such.

OTOH, his blatant capitulation to Putin is certainly treason. He's clearly a Russian asset and has been for decades.

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

Agreed. On his first term he had a meeting with Putin just those two absolutely no one else present.

My theory is trump knows that CIA FBI have files on Trump and his association with Russia. Trump is obsessed with The Deep State. He is gutting the files. He’s trying to destroy evidence god only knows what? Why would you want all those boxes 📦 in your bathroom?

I’m a quite sure an 80 year old lazy golf lover wouldn’t be doing this because he cares deeply about the country. It’s either self preservation, Money such as developing Gaza or blackmail.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

or 5.). all of the above.

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

He is looking for the information that the Deep State has on him. That’s why he is tearing things down.

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Angela Shipman's avatar

appears to be an act of desperation and a LOT of deflection...there's no way he's going to be able to dispose of all the information about him...it will be found...in the meantime, appears the wheels of propaganda will keep turning...just to keep the stupid ones in check and "his" GOP on a tight leash

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Cliff Bergman's avatar

Go away, SPAMMER.

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Jessie's avatar

REPORT HER & she'll be banned!

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Vel Santic's avatar

I keep reporting them and blocking them for months but Substack keeps shoving them back on us.

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C Giza's avatar

That is because the name keeps changing. I don't think it is a "her" I think it is an "It". It's likely done by computer, just as it is done when one receives phone calls from spammers.

I wonder if it could be blocked by the sentence that the spammer keeps sending, rather than the fake name(s)...

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Leah Baum's avatar

I reported and blocked.

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Iron_Pitt2's avatar

They need to grow a backbone and issue a contempt order! This will just keep bouncing back & forth like every other court case against trump!

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Janet  Woodworth's avatar

4547 has made Congress totally irrelevant. When they realize they have given away all their power to the Executive Branch it will be too late. Typical. Republicans never think their actions will have consequences until it's too late.

Resist! ✊🏼

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F Moreira's avatar

I just laugh when I see legal wrath. Like when they say he is collapsing. We all know there is no such thing as legal wrath for him.

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Scooter's avatar

Or the joke about Musk "under oath". Who in their right mind would believe anything Muskrat says? tRump took an oath, too, and what good did that do us?

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

He didn’t dare put his hand on the Bible. He is superstitious. and probably thought he could be struck down with a lightning ⚡️ bolt.

Seriously wouldn’t surprise me at all.

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Janet  Woodworth's avatar

It's not the pain that's the point, it's the pleasure.

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

And the power over people, to destroy all those lives.

Curious how Trump constantly disparaged the military and soldiers one of his first acts was to remove any support for anyone injured. He wants to make people suffer. He has targeted the military. He is a vile traitor.

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jambo's avatar

When do Trump's actions supporting our enemies, like Putin, cross over and become treason?

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Jeff Ruvolo's avatar

We’re long past that point, guaranteed by his role in January 6th events.

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Jean Conley's avatar

They already have. The Pukes just won't stand up to him. They kiss his butt. Putin is laughing at The Dictator Criminal Orange Buffoon Psycho--The Orange Buffoon is a puppet on Putin's puppeteer strings.

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Jacki's avatar

It’s long overdue for this family to be held accountable c

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Sandra Etheridge's avatar

Trump is facing all these legal issues but he is NOT FOLLOWING ANYTHING the judge(s) have instructed him to do. He has and is violating every order. Why? Because all courts have failed to hold him accountable. They have all allowed him to what he wants to do.

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F Moreira's avatar

Exactly. We are WAAAY beyond lawyers. They will need guns, not lawyers.

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Steve Doll's avatar

However we do it, we need to instill FEAR in them, because that's the way they operate. Find out what they fear most and exploit it. The Tramp's greatest fear is that people will stop fearing or paying attention to him. That's what this is all about. Don't know what fears the muskrat has other than losing power because his money has been devalued to the point of worthlessness. What would he have left then? Dad's emerald mine? Let's devalue them as well.

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Joan  Boling's avatar

Needs vasectomy we don't need anymore nose picking muscrats

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Jessie's avatar

Funniest solution!

They both should be NEUTERED!

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Melissa Billups's avatar

Stock market collapse is the only thing that will hurt them at all

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Bust out a couple more Luigi Mangiones, and watch the slimy rats go to ground.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Elno and his (literal) boys sacking thousands, including vets, robbing them of their livelihood - goddam right we're moving toward "2nd-Amendment solutions" territory.

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The Paranormal Geek's avatar

Hoping they lock that MF up!

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Mmag-ical's avatar

BTW

The Doge was the head of state in the Republic of Venice from the 8th century to the 18th century (697–1797). The Doge served as the leader of an oligarchic government, where power was concentrated in the hands of the Venetian nobility. While the position was originally more democratic, over time, the Doge became increasingly controlled by the aristocratic Great Council and other governing bodies, ensuring that real power remained with the oligarchs.

Elon is mocking US.

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Anke Schneider's avatar

We in Germany recognized that and I'm sure the name is no coincidence

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Mmag-ical's avatar

No, no coincidence there at all. I’ve mentioned this fact many times and no one here has even heard of this fact. Doge is a noun.

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C Giza's avatar

I have also heard that "egod" has been used by the Silicon Valley Types to make a mockery of those who believe in God, i.e. they are the current gods because they hold the power of the computer. The theory is that Musk (anagram Skum) just turned the word around. The Doge History in Venice is also true.

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Carl Metcalf's avatar

I didn't know that. Thanks.

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Larry's avatar

About time he Supreme Court stood up for Americans!

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Jean Conley's avatar

don't count on it. Five out of the nine just adore and love the dump.

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Donna R.'s avatar

Contact your democratic legislators and tell them we the people suggest that you boycott trumps State of the Union Address.

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Jessie Anderson's avatar

I would love to do that except my House rep and both of my Senators are RepSCUMlicans (incorrect spelling deliberate).

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

I am in the same boat here in Ohio.

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Donna R.'s avatar

Contact your Republican legislators and tell them that the 119th Congress and this administration will go down in history as the darkest time in American history. Their names will be etched in the annals of history for not stopping djt.

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Jessie's avatar

GET INVOLVED with WATCH DOG COALITION & blast REPUBLICANS!

Figure out when they're up for RE-ELECTION! Keep track of their comments & their VOTES. Share with others! MAGA GOP are proposing a $4.7 TRILLION TAX CUTS for the WEALTHY at OUR expense - slashing MEDICAID, MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY!

You can do a search on BALLOTPEDIA for their VOTES!

Massachusetts is BLESSED with a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION who are speaking out. Senator Elizabeth Warren created CFPB & SENATOR MARKEY has been supportive of the GREEN NEW DEAL & renewable energy.

As you surely know, Congressman Jim McGovern has been an outspoken critic.

There are others who need support like JASMINE CROCKETT & MAXWELL FROST! (Don't forget to send the HEROES $5 every once in a while.

There are SPECIAL ELECTIONS coming up - support DEMOCRATS please!

Others are not so fortunate!

Take a few minutes & research what your elected officials have proposed & supported.

TOGETHER WE CAN DO THIS!

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Robert Sandera for president's avatar

I Renamed it to Southern Bay of Obama Because it would make messiahs head explode

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Jean Conley's avatar

Love it! Can you imagine if Biden actually did that?

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Romelle Samantha Smith's avatar

Why is DJT still walking around? He has practically broken most of the laws the average citizen can break and has not spent one day behind bars. He is a menace. Doesn't matter who he is, he is a criminal! A gross criminal. A bloated, incoherent, toxic spewing blabber mouth fool.

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John E Theisen's avatar

Unfortunately, he’s not a fool. I think people need to stop calling him things like crazy or fool implying that he’s inept or out of his mind. He knows exactly what he’s doing and he’s quite brilliant at it. He has duped more than half of the country. I’ve said it before that there is no justice in America until he is behind bars. The laws do not stop him. He is above them. The courts cannot stop him because he can ignore them and stall the courts indefinitely. The people can’t stop him because he has fooled them into supporting him. Congress can’t stop him because Republicans want to ride his coattails of power. The only thing that can slow him down is actual leverage. Congress and the courts are no longer a check on him. He has the support of the people for the next four years. He is for all intense and purposes king. What actual leverage does anyone have over him? He only respects true power and leverage because is primary motivation is to attain power and win. And to be seen and honored as a winner. He hates losers. Losers are suckers. He likes winners.

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Chris's avatar

If the Supreme Court would get their sxit together and wake to see what is happening and grow some balls they could possibly turn things around . I said possibly. Maybe start calling out the Supreme Court, start calling, writing letters. I don't know. Somedays it seems like our hands are somewhat tied. Hate to see our country in shambles and feeling so helpless.

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Vel Santic's avatar

Have been saying that around this time last year when the so-called "scotus" violated the Constitutionally-founded Supreme Court of Colorado and other States Ruling of the unacceptability that the insurrection-abettor is on the presidential race ballot!! And last summer when the so-called "scotus" violated the Constitution ruling about so-called "presidential immunity".

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Romelle Samantha Smith's avatar

You sound so glib and proud to be a maga. I’m disappointed that you are not more pro-American. You do not belong in this country. DJT may be clever, but so was Jim Jones and Jack the Ripper and other violent criminals. Maybe you admire those as leaders, I don’t. I prefer decent human beings. I don’t know who you really are, and I don’t care to. I will never excuse evil. EVER!

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Dennis Tempel's avatar

Courts take too long. The damage will be irreparable as the legal system allows kicking the can down the road, potentially for years!

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M Gray's avatar

As citizens we can get out and protest join in the boycotts but beyond that, it is a very helpless feeling watching our democracy fall to be replaced by authoritarian oligarchs and christian fascists. It seems our congressional reps are yet again going to be a day late and a dollar short. The legal community seems to be the only group trying to hold the line. Can't the congress our representatives do more?

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Catlady's avatar

Throw all these RETRUMPLICON TRAITORS out. Send Elon back to Africa

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