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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust so we're clear: When the Republicans begin their defense of Trump
based on the assumption that he did not commit a crime because he did not realize it was a crime, they are defending him based on the Affluenza defense. Or, as we all know it, White Republican privilege.
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Just so we're clear: When the Republicans begin their defense of Trump (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Nov 2019
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. The GOP also insists that it is not a crime.
Baitball Blogger
(46,777 posts)2. Well, there you go.
bdamomma
(63,962 posts)3. I just hope there are some protestors
in the hearings tomorrow to say Jim Jordan should resign. The repigs will make a fucking joke out of this widespread corruption.
Assholes, no one is above the law. Period.
LakeArenal
(28,883 posts)4. I have to miss the show as I'm in a foreign country.
Hope you give us a great re-cap as you have in the past. Looking forward to it
Botany
(70,645 posts)5. Trump admitted to being a crook when he paid $2,000,000 for his scam charity too.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212668463
The judge in the civil trial all but told Trump that by his paying the penalty was an admission of guilt.
Trump used his scam charity to:
* help run a phony help the vets fund raiser and kept the money for himself
* bribe Pam Bondi, A.G. Florida, $25,000 so she would go after his scam charity
* pay $20,000 for a painting of Trump to hang in his golf course.
The judge in the civil trial all but told Trump that by his paying the penalty was an admission of guilt.
Trump used his scam charity to:
* help run a phony help the vets fund raiser and kept the money for himself
* bribe Pam Bondi, A.G. Florida, $25,000 so she would go after his scam charity
* pay $20,000 for a painting of Trump to hang in his golf course.
world wide wally
(21,760 posts)6. Then he shouldn't be Presidentin'