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[–] 300 points 2 years ago (66 children)

The president accused Bolton of publishing sensitive information and said the book's publication "created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed."

This classified material?

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  • [–] 97 points 2 years ago* (64 children)

    Is… is this the real picture? Of the classified material that was shared by trump? Holy fuck lmfao. I thought it was like one letter or something, secretly hidden under the rug; this looks hilarious I’m sorry.

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    Yes that's one of the actual pictures from the indictment they brought against him. He apparently had like 300 different documents of varying levels of classified status. There's a couple more iirc of different places like a bedroom and a ballroom stage too. Basically it seems like he had his goons just hide anything he could get his hands on in random boxes of what were supposed to be just irrelevant personal effects

    He was only indicted specifically for like 30 of them but my understanding is they specifically chose ones they were willing to have potentially entirely exposed.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago* (20 children)

    I‘m having a hard time grasping the whole thing. It’s actually insane that THIS happened. I feel like I am having a fever dream lol.

    Talk about boldness. This is just ridiculous haha. Man should be in El Salvador right now. Not the White House.

    Also, that bathroom looks fucking ugly. How can you have infinite money and then use it to make a room like this…

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Yep, even crazier, half of the American people thought it was ok and re elected him.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Not really. A large portion didn’t even vote at all, which is even worse in my book.

    „Here is Kamala Harris. She’s not perfect, but she values democracy and loves her country.

    Here is Donald Trump. He is senile, deranged, corrupted and shares classified information with the USA‘s mortal enemy. Also he hates the poors and gays and wants to take their rights away.“

    „Idk. They are kinda the same. I opted not to vote.“ 🥴🫠

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    In my eyes, if you didn’t vote against him, you voted for him.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Exactly. These non voters are complicit. But I’m just saying… how idiotic can a person be? Like seriously.

    How can you not vote when you have options like Kamala vs Trump?

    Fucking brainless idiots. And now they probably cry about their non existent healthcare to get taken away completely. And losing their jobs. And somehow it’s the Lib‘s fault.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I absolutely believe that the Both Sides Are The Same idea is really, really stupid. How dumb do you have to be to believe that HitlerPig was going to be better at anything than Harris, or any other Democrat for that matter. Or even any other human. He is literally the most prolific traitor in American history, a definitive pyschopath, and hopelessly ignorant in the most basic things.

    The problem was that when it came to the Gaza issue, they both WERE kind of the same. Whichever one you voted for might pay some lip service to the genocide, but they were both going to continue to send weapons, bombs, and money to Israel to continue it. Under HitlerPig, it won't end until the Gaza Strip is cleared out, and Kushner is building luxury resorts, hotels, and condos.

    Under Harris, there would be a lot more scolding, but it wouldn't have slowed the flow of weapons one bit. In the end, Gaza would still be emptied, and Kushner would still be creating the Jewish Dubai.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    "half" is not really correct; I know that's not the point though.

    The American people collectively had the power to prevent this, and collectively chose not to. Fortunately for me (an American), collective punishment is a war crime, for now.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (40 children)

    That’s not even the worst of it. Several rooms full of documents were found at his property and, though everyone seems to focus on the toilet one, IMO the worst is the one of a storage room full of classified documents plus a scanner/printer.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (29 children)

    I feel like I’m being trolled right now. This cannot possibly be real.

    And this guy is actually the president. Fuck America. How could this happen.

    I fucking had less boxes when I moved into my new apartment lmfao.

    The printer is a nice little touch. Love the black accent between all these white boxes.

    I mean this honestly: You would tell me if this was fake, right? This is actually real?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago*

    Remember, they played an audio recording of him claiming to show classified documents that weren't declassified to his workers who don't have clearences.
    https://youtu.be/inVJF0Dr8mo

    He outright admits that the documents aren't declassified, while knowing he was being recorded, and reads them to people not classified for the documents he's showing them supposedly. (About 1:20 if want to skip is where he starts admitting to a criminal offense)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I feel like I’m being trolled right now. This cannot possibly be real.

    It's real. The US is on an extreme downward spiral and MAGA plays violin whilst the country burns.

    The weird thing is I think we all knew the USA was doomed but I personally didn't expect to see the downfall in my lifetime and not on a speedrun like it is now. Crazy times

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Now here's the really fun question: why are you only just now hearing about this?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Please tell me this is fake...

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Sadly, it is real.

    e: and in case anyone reading this doesn’t get the implication, notice where the only power outlet in this room is (the white cable leading across the ceiling and along the piping to the office printer, which is the whitish thing at the right of this photo).

    It’s basically the only thing besides boxes of documents in this storage room. It was plugged in and being used, not stored. This is so much worse than the toilet photo, yet everyone I show this to hasn’t seen it.

    e2: Oh, and don’t forget, this was the ‘holdout’ room, to which maintenance supposedly ‘lost’ the key the first couple of times the feds showed up, then right when they got their ‘no, really’ warrant, it was supposedly flooded by a faulty pool pump. That’s this room. Fuck, in all the insanity, I’d forgot that last bit.

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  • no the entire archival institute that had to dig up this shit (because it was missing) which he then lied about giving back, trump then got subpoenaed for lying about it.

    Yeah no this is literally a criminal conspiracy as far as the government is concerned.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Remember the old days, when the bathroom reading material was a stack of Reader's Digest on the back of the toilet?

    I hope he's in there one day tweeting his atrophied brains out on the toilet, and that chandelier drops on his head, and ends him. The only more fitting end would be him choking out during auto-erotic asphyxiation.

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  • [+] 109 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)
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    [–] 82 points 2 years ago (53 children)

    I play Skyrim. In that rpg video game you can be an assassin. After you kill Grelod the Kind, a child abuser, one of the children she tortured says:

    "Kill one person, and you can solve so many problems. I wonder at the possibilities." - Runa Fair-Shield.

    When does assassination become an acceptable political strategy? I can see how bumping off many crazy men (and right now I can only name male dictators but I guess women could be just as bad) would make the world safer - well, safer if we assume it would not trigger a backlash and WW3.

    Maybe we could assassinate Kim and North Korea would rejoice not set off nukes? Maybe we could assassinate MbS and the Saudis would just shrug and appoint a new Crown Prince with a less murderous tendancy towards journalists and dissidents? But could we assassinate Putin, Trump, Xi, or Modi and not release hell?

    If I had a red button to press and it would remove Putin, Trump, Musk, Thiel, Hamas, Netanyahu, or other bad guys, should I press the button? What do you think?

    Note: this is a thought experiment - outside Skyrim, I never killed anyone, never worked as an assassin for hire, and have no desire to change that fact. I just want to read your thoughts on this topic - I think we've all wondered if there is a shortcut back to normality in face of current events but are we fooling ourselves?

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Good people don’t become assassins, something bad people don’t have problems with.

    It’s never Hitler, Putin, Stalin or Trump who get assassinated. Always JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby, …

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Putin and Xi...I'm pretty sure that, if they were topped, there's enough institutional Authoritarianism that either there would be a "clean" and immediate change to someone with the next highest authority....or it would fall into civil war with just as much speed, rounds of assassinations back and forth until the power vacuum is filled by someone able to pull everyone left to heel....or the whole government falls apart....

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Chinese would certainly just appoint a new president, no problem. Xi might be in charge, but the Chinese communist party isn't some vestigial organ. Russia, however... Putin's been exclusively in charge for long enough and with no immediately clear successor that I'm almost certain that his death is going to result in a power struggle and civil war.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Then we would have eyeliner wearing Venereal Disease Vance and he’s just as worse!! It’s an “evil vs evil” situation and the only people who lose are the American people who tried to change the narrative! I legit feel like I am walking in real time through some “Idiocracy” film set watching for Luke Wilson to pop out and say JK, but NOPE… here we are! :/

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    What a fucking child.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    😆 I hope you're all legally armed and proficient.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    man trump and repubs cannot keep these people out of their heads can they?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At least the article calls it for what it is: A purge.

    Will the Americans ever wake up and look around?

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I promise you, he will execute the 3 former Democrat presidents, before he goes total-war against Canada.

    Biden, Obama, & Clinton, he will have executed.

    This is just a minor escalation in the way of his Purge, this ISN'T anywhere-near what it is going to be, in less than 3y.

    _ /\ _

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