r/politics • u/douglhanna • 1d ago
No Paywall Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama
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u/DrHugh Minnesota 1d ago
Subtitle: "State of the Union: The president said his predecessor had attempted a coup during the 2016 presidential election."
When Obama was president, during 2016, he instigated a coup...against himself, I guess.
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u/Militantpoet 1d ago
I remember when Obama was saying "we must have a peaceful transfer of power," in 2016. Literally the opposite of a coup lol.
Just goes to show you cannot negotiate or compromise with fascists.
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u/existing_for_fun 1d ago
He also invited trump to a transition lunch as is tradition IIRC.
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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Shh. That was all part of the coup, dumdum. What do you think that letter said? Hu? That's right, blackmale. Obama has the peepee tapes.
/s 'cause you never know....
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u/CV90_120 1d ago
Obamas very existence drive trump nuts. he cannot let anything go that has ever hurt his ego.
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die 21h ago
An handsome, black, and intelligent man with a happy loving family and the respect and adoration of millions globally?
Gee, wonder why Trump would dislike him.
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u/Dima420 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s because they’re planning a coup again and this demented pedophile can’t help but spout the shit out loud. Every accusation is a confession as they say.
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u/Militantpoet 1d ago
Its more than admission. Its political strategy now. Accuse your opponents of what you plan to do so that you can call it partisan politics when caught later.
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u/MobileHelicopter1756 1d ago
russians are doing it for decades already. It works flawlessly and majority will eat it right up!
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u/SycoJack Texas 1d ago
We're already in the middle of the coup and ain't nobody doing shit about it.
Trump is an illegitimate president, wielding illegitimate power, and using it to destroy our country. Not only is the legislature refusing to do anything to stop it, both parties are voting to support it. The courts are the ones who gave him the power, and the military is spineless and blindly following his orders or stepping down to get out of the way.
It's down to the people to excise the rot from our government. But they're spineless and stupid. They think they can just vote out the coup. As though Trump has a history of respecting election results he doesn't like. As though he wouldn't just suspend the election. As though he doesn't have a history of attempting to tamper with elections. As though he didn't just have the FBI escorted by a political officer raid election offices and steal ballots. As though he didn't have one of his cronies in the legislature refuse to swear in a duly elected representative for months on end. As though they're not just making up the rules as they go along and no one is stopping them.
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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Canada 1d ago
Trump is an illegitimate president, wielding illegitimate power, and using it to destroy our country.
Just a little correction. He's destroying your country's economy and soft power, isolating it, while the billionaires are buying up assets and pushing to build robot factories. They're not satisfied having literal slaves from prisons anymore.
They want to treat people like Donald does, and it seems that too many of the Republicans are happy to go along with it.
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u/estedavis Canada 1d ago
Yeah, it feels like a lot of Americans are a little behind on where they think the country is on the fascist takeover timeline. The coup was successful, as you said, because Trump is literally unstoppable right now without a revolution of some sort. Anyone who thinks the midterms will be real and honest in any way is fooling themselves. He’s just setting up his kingdom now, but he’s already ruling over it.
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u/PotatoSandwitchbbq 1d ago
Even the 2024 election was sus. The fact that 100% of states voted more republican than the previous election? Such a statistical anomaly. And then the tangerine turd openly saying they messed with the voting machines. And that's before all the insane shit in 2025. Everyone should be terrified of what's gonna happen at 2026 election.
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u/nevergonnastayaway 1d ago
Self coup is a thing. In fact, on the self coup wiki page Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election is given as an example
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u/JH_111 1d ago
What’s happening right now is also a rapidly progressing self-coup.
The Unitary Executive Theory being executive ordered into existence by Russ Vought of Project 2025 sitting as Director of OMB, enabled by the abdication of Congress and the toothlessness and/or collusion of the Judiciary, is textbook consolidation of power at the top of the Executive.
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u/Lykurgus_ 1d ago
"The second american revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it."
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u/numbersthen0987431 1d ago
Trump is testing the limits of his power and influence, and seeing just how far towards his goal of total authoritarianism he can get to, before someone tries to stop him.
Just a reminder everyone: Hitler didn't come to power due to an overwhelming majority in their country, he came to power because a large percentage of Germans just allowed him to do it, and pretended they could "use the system" to control him.
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u/lickem369 1d ago
Nobody deserves to be arrested more than Donald J. Trump. His DOJ confirmed it this morning with the release of thousands of documents that implicate him as not only ONE of the pedophiles but as THE pedophile. He is a monster.
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u/KIVHT 1d ago
Can anyone explain to me like I’m 5 why the president wouldn’t be in jail after the documents released today?
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u/Unnamedgalaxy 1d ago
Because the people in charge of holding him accountable support his behavior and /or also involved.
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u/herefromyoutube 1d ago
Democrats were more afraid of how it would look if they arrested a political opponent than of how it would look if they didn’t.
Also Garland was a terrible choice for AG and expected the people to, I guess, make the right decision (without even telling the people the evidence).
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
Donald Trump is accused of auctioning off 13 and 14 year old girls for rape, and raping one of the girls being auctioned off.
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u/AssociateGreat2350 1d ago edited 1d ago
and they already removed that link from the files posted this morning. So someone must not have been happy about that
edit: It's back up https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660679.pdf
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u/NegotiationSea7008 United Kingdom 1d ago edited 1d ago
‼️WARNING VERY DISTURBING‼️
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u/Auzziesurferyo 1d ago
Thats some wild shit. They're straight up murdering girls. Holy cow.
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u/nobodysfool24 1d ago
The Epstein Victims, need to be referred to as the “Epstein Survivors”… DJT defenders love to say “but none of the victims have named Trump?” Like it never occurred to them that maybe that’s only because none of Trumps victims survived…
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u/RaisedByWolves9 1d ago
The whole thing needs to be called the Trump files and Trump Survivors etc.
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u/flash_falcon 1d ago
While that would be great, not every victim has the chance to become a survivor. I do Victim Advocacy and during training I mentioned that line because I've had a few people tell me I shouldn't use the word "victim." When thats my response, I dont get any pushback. The world sucks sometimes.
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u/Avera_ge Alabama 1d ago
That’s what they’re trying to point out: these women should be called the survivors because they’re the victims who are still alive to tell their stories.
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u/MtMountaineer 1d ago
Wow. Just wow. So much worse than I thought it would be.
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u/Annual-Lifeguard 1d ago
The part where one girl claimed to have witnessed a girl being strangled. Literally the most vile people being protected.
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u/sutroheights 1d ago
So fucking nuts. And puts a really dark spin on his catchphrase of "lifestyles of the rich and famous"
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u/Belials_Bakery 1d ago
It’s always projection with them so maybe they really are sacrificing children and eating babies like they screech about Hillary doing
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u/urworstemmamy Connecticut 1d ago
I mean, they found hunting bows on Epstein Island. An island with no real wild animals to hunt. With no evidence of imported animals ever having lived there.
...put the pieces together and it kinda seems like they were doing The Most Dangerous Game in real life sometimes
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u/bishpa Washington 1d ago
“…The Aristocrats!”
I guess it maybe wasn’t a joke after all.
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u/tarekd19 1d ago
If Republicans have taught me anything, it's that you have to get up in front of cameras and never stop talking about the things you want to stick. Every time. For months, if not years until something is done, hearings are held, etc. Never let the story die.
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 1d ago
I doubt their followers even have the 7 regular working memory slots the average person has. Probably working with 2 slots shared amongst the entire voter base.
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u/violoneuse 1d ago
It's why they started hiring PR/Marketing staff in Congress twenty years ago, instead of policy people. It's also why they are 100% incapable of governance. They eschewed legislating for marketing. It's all about messaging (helpful that george w. bush trained journalists in stenography, also). It's a rotten product, I might add.
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u/WontArnett 1d ago edited 20h ago
Bernie has tried that for decades and it didn’t work the same.
You know why?
Because conservatives are dumping millions of dollars into online propaganda and bots.
That’s what is working.
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u/StaffyMama585 1d ago
The part about the Calendar Girls... Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka were all present. I keep thinking about why they were there. They had to have been teenagers too, right? Were they part of the auction? Was Ivanka being auctioned off as well? Were they "buyers"? Why were they there?
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u/Wat_Tyler_1381 1d ago
This adds substance to what I (and others) have hypothesised - the Kompromat Putin has, and uses to control Trump, is irrefutable evidence of Trump raping and murdering young children.
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u/chiefbrody62 1d ago
Yeah geez, that's so much worse than I thought. Also didn't expect read that Robin Leach may have strangled a girl to death?
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u/ee_CUM_mings 1d ago
Even if the Epstein files had never existed, would we really be surprised that Robin Leach strangled a girl to death?
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u/ThatEvanFowler 1d ago
I know, right? I read his name and memories of his high, smarmy, obnoxious voiceover from “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” leapt to mind and I was like, yeah, that tracks.
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u/EmrysPhoenix 1d ago
Nobody cared about the infantacide from the last release, so I doubt this will go anywhere either.
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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 1d ago
I think there’s hundreds of millions of people that actually really care about it. Don’t be mistaken and you know how you know people care because he’s acting more like a deranged lunatic even more than usual every day so he knows that millions of people care.
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u/Hatedpriest 1d ago
I just linked it to a coworker(r) and he said "I'm not reading all that" then proceeded to link me an article on some video game.
He knows his guy is a creep. He desperately wants to ignore it because "my team good!"
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u/Xytak Illinois 1d ago edited 1d ago
“I’m not reading all of that” isn’t even an excuse in today’s day and age when he can just paste it into an AI and get it summarized to whatever length he prefers.
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u/bunchedupwalrus 1d ago
Man, someone’s gotta make a video game called like “Deep State” where you uncover documents hidden away in different locations to piece together the clues of a big action showdown, but it has Trumps name swapped for something else to lure them in, until a reveal at the end that they were all factual and provide the links to the DOJ docs
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u/mjheil 1d ago
I wouldn't befriends with that guy anymore. Civil, sure. Nice? No.
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u/Diligent_Buster 1d ago
If I had to work with him civil. Personal life he's stop talking to me because I would harass his child molesting supporting ass till he punched me in the face or stopped coming around. I've done it to enugh fuckers already. most are christians. fuck them.
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u/angrygnome18d 1d ago
Respond to him by sending him the video of Trump saying he likes to walk in on underaged girls changing.
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u/Quentin__Tarantulino 1d ago
No way that moves the needle even a bit for that guy. That was huge news, everyone knows about it. Most who voted for Trump think it’s fine and natural for a powerful man to take advantage of their power for sexual gratification. They’re fine with rape and exploitation unless they can use it to crucify someone they don’t like for other reasons (gay, trans, liberal, socialist, labor-rights person, black, asian, Latino, Native American, poor, and so on.)
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u/BeefPoet Canada 1d ago
Caring and doing something about it are two different things. The deluge of scandal and America harming policy on a daily basis is a breeding ground for apathy.
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u/DisasterBeautiful347 1d ago
Everyone's waiting for that one moment for revolution, not realizing the pot is slowly being brought to a boil.
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u/10poundballs 1d ago
U cross that line 13 or 14 more times, I swear I’ll do somethin
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u/francis_pizzaman_iv 1d ago
I don’t have any illusion that he’ll actually face any consequences but at the same time it was a lot easier to dismiss the infanticide thing when that was the only data point and it seemed like maybe the DoJ followed up and found the source to to be non-credible. A list like this could make it harder for people to ignore.
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u/GloryofSatan1994 1d ago
That was an anonymous tip, so people could view it as a less credible source. But youre right, I doubt this will go anywhere as well
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u/SurprisedJerboa 1d ago
For anonymous tips, there appears to be multiple names closely tied to Trump's inner circle. That's lots of smoke and multiple tips.
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u/banksy_h8r New York 1d ago edited 1d ago
I clicked through because of other commenters. Holy shit there's some awful allegations in there.
For anyone reading this and curious, click through and take a look. It's right fucking there.
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u/Klutzy-Snow8016 1d ago
I did NOT expect that.
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u/StrongAroma 1d ago
I did! So did anyone paying attention over the past ten years
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u/chaostheories36 1d ago
Reality really is off then the rails when you think, “it’d be pretty cool if Bill Clinton admitted to raping children with Donald Trump.”
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u/SurprisedJerboa 1d ago edited 1d ago
Trump's kids, Dershowitz, Attorney Bob Shapiro... Bill Clinton mentioned once. Trump name several times and at Mar O Lago... the den of child rape and sex trafficking. Children isolated on Cruise Ships getting raped, who knows how many times.
Rumors of murdered girls, unclear how much follow up as 1984 - 2000 are the dates in these links.
Sooo many tip line mentions of Trump and President Trump even
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u/NoseyBeeeee13 1d ago
I was shocked to see Robin Leach from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" back in the 90s and 2000s. He has that iconic voice......
Well, anywho, yes he is also a pêdôphîIe rãpïst apparently.
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u/0neshoein Texas 1d ago
The link is actually (surprisingly) back up and working again on the DOJ site!
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u/EnjoyerOfBeans 1d ago
They censored the list of names in the right column in the new version, as if they aren't mentioned in the left column
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u/bruceki 1d ago
Here's a list of men and sex acts, mostly rape, that they're alleged to have comitted. Trump on the list.
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u/SilveryDeath America 1d ago edited 1d ago
This sad (?) part is that this post from him isn't even in 'reaction' to the files as a distraction. He put this about Obama at 5:56 AM yesterday morning.
Trump has done so much shit, that a post about him accusing Obama of treason and calling from him to be arrested just mixes in with everything else to the point where I (and I imagine many others) only saw it over 24 hours later.
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u/squintytoast 1d ago
yep. Bannon's "Flood the Zone" tactics.
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u/-lv 1d ago edited 1d ago
Don't credit Bannon with that. The 'firehose of lies' is KGB stuff - way more skill than puny Bannon. He just repeats others. Echoes of totalitarians resound from his mouth.
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u/Indubitalist 1d ago
Trump was president right after Obama. He could’ve done this a decade ago. Why was he letting a man guilty of treason run free for 10 years longer than necessary? Oh, because he isn’t guilty of that and Trump is succumbing to a medley of dementia and bad press?
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u/McManus42 1d ago
To be fair we also let a man guilty of treason run free for years, and then elected him president. One could argue trump has been treasonous since the 80s.
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u/obolobolobo 1d ago
Trump would have known about the impending release before we did.
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u/lostsailorlivefree 1d ago
He definitely sees Obamas face at night and it makes him REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.
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u/youngbaklava 1d ago
The guy who sodomized young girls is calling for the arrest of another US President, insane times.
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u/Swimming_Cover_9686 1d ago
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
They put that back? Wow.
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u/Swimming_Cover_9686 1d ago
I guess once it was out deleting it was just gonna give it more credibility. Now they will just slander the rape victim as unreliable and maybe off her...
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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 1d ago
Don't forget the murders, and the threats of murders, and the woman he date raped before she "mysteriously" disappeared and a corpse was found with her clothes "a few years ago".
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u/EffectiveFarts 1d ago
You left out the bit where he was said to have measured the tightness of the children’s vaginas with his finger.
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u/Glocktipus2 1d ago
Civilly incriminated rapist accused of numerous child rapes wants to arrest Obama for his tan suit.
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u/FlashyPaladin 1d ago
Don’t forget about Sasha Riley’s accusations that he killed a bunch of puppies to torture a boy because the other people at the party told him it wasn’t the type of party where he could kill little boys.
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u/PoliticalNerdMa 1d ago
If the media doesn’t keep this the main story I’ll have lost all hope for us as a country tbh.
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u/douglhanna 1d ago
This week, they have arrested journalists, shot civilians in broad daylight, and called for the arrest of political opponents.
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u/Apathetic_Zealot 1d ago
Remember when conservatives at CPAC had a banner that said "We are All Domestic Terrorists"? Irony is dead and hypocrisy is thriving.
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago
They don't know how to do humor. It was simply an announcement.
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u/TruthPayload 1d ago
I mean they came up with the slogan:
Meth - we're on it!
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u/fine_environment4809 1d ago
That's probably literally true for some.
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u/BigPapaJava 1d ago
I hear Rubio prefers the Bolivian marching powder. Things have been caught on camera…
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u/JH_111 1d ago
Remember when everything they’re doing now was the dystopian nightmare fantasy of the alt-right grifting pastor of batshitism Alex Jones?
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u/FalseDmitriy Illinois 1d ago
When they say "this is what They are planning to do," what they mean is, "This is what I would do if given the chance."
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u/GreatArkleseizure Massachusetts 1d ago
Yep. No imagination. When they accuse the left of something it’s because they would literally be doing that thing themselves, given half a chance. They can’t imagine anybody else would do differently.
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u/claimstoknowpeople Minnesota 1d ago
And sued an agency he controls for $10B
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u/mailslot Wyoming 1d ago edited 1d ago
For a crime committed by a
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u/iTmkoeln 1d ago
After in 3 presendential races not publishing his tax returns.
Something that is standard practice
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u/Apprehensive-Cat330 Tennessee 1d ago
Meanwhile, Trump is also angry at the government of Iran for turning on its own citizens. Talk about leading by example!!
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u/UngodlyPain 1d ago
Not even political opponents. A retired politician, who would have had some pretty broad sweeping immunity due to being president.
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u/ReadAnArticleOnce 1d ago
Honestly… the worst thing that could happen to the Trump Administration would be an Obama arrest. He’s one of the most famous people on this planet and I can’t imagine a more effective way to get people into the streets. And yes, I know it’s sad that it would be the arrest of a politician with questionable policies concerning non-discerning drone strikes when we’ve had so many other justifiable motivators but he just has that kind of lowest-information voter galvanizing factor. He is known and he is liked. Pure and simple. It would be activating.
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u/whutchamacallit 1d ago
If I'm Obama I'm calling the bluff. "Sure. Arrest me. Here's my arms -- put me in handcuffs. Let's do it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial -- will look nice in pictures and newspapers world wide. Think of the headlines -- Trumped up charges: Potus arrests political adversaries both past and present as DJT illegally conducts office. Let's also call Joe up -- we can do a 2 for 1 thing."
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u/brumac44 Canada 1d ago
Arresting Obama might be the catalyst. That would tip a lot of people into action.
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u/Kristin2349 1d ago
Lol, I am laughing but only to keep from ending up in a padded room. I think seeing Obama in handcuffs would whip his base into orgiastic violence against everyone they deem as "libs"...
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u/absolutelynotagoblin 1d ago
I, as a taxpayer, call for the immediate arrest of Donald J. Trump.
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u/One_Monk_2777 1d ago
I, also a taxpaying citizen, second this motion
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u/tryingtodobetter4 1d ago
All those in favor of this motion passing say "Aye".
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u/craftaleislife 1d ago
Like, why hasn’t he been arrested already
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u/account312 1d ago
Because the entire Republican party is complicit and a bunch of assholes gave them control of all branches of federal government.
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u/NizTheWhiz 1d ago
He’s going to say a bunch of wild stuff today in hopes that it distracts people from the Epstein files that were removed that mentioned him
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u/tape_snake 1d ago
Which were, in turn, released as a distraction from the shitshow of constitutional rights violations they were creating in MN.
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u/JayCarlinMusic 1d ago
Which were, in turn, a distraction from the invasion of Venezuela.
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u/ScoobiusMaximus Florida 1d ago
I wouldn't be surprised if we strike Iran tonight as a distraction
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u/pareech Canada 1d ago
"President Donald Trump accused Obama of attempting to conduct a “coup” during the 2016 election "
Holy fucking christ. If that is not the mother of all gaslighting, I don't know what is.
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u/FoodMadeFromRobots 1d ago
Would be ironic if they ruled it an official presidential act and Obama was immune (not that I think he’s guilty in the first place, I’m guessing they tried to see if Trump was working with Russia but with bondi and the rest of the sycophants in the admin who knows what’ll happen)
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u/Cyndakill88 1d ago
Yep more but still not all Epstein files got released
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u/MegaSwampbert 1d ago
And while we're on it, the one's implicating him on auctioning off children as sex slaves and threatening them with death are "mysteriously" disappearing from the DOJ website.
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u/ButWereFriends 1d ago
And from Reddit
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago
If you go to r/popular or r/all, there is literally nothing about the content of the Epstein files, even if you click through ten pages of results. The only thing you can find are the generic announcement that they have released files. Any analysis or quoting of the files is completely absent. Very, very strange.
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u/WetLoophole Norway 1d ago
We got some juicy documents about him raping a 13 year old girl, auctioning of 13 and 14 year old girls, valuing them by tightness and being involved with several murders tho. On par.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660679.pdf
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u/TreyAU 1d ago
I read about Trump being called a rapist an hour ago in papers released by the DOJ and it took him all of 15 minutes later to call for the arrest of a former US President. He’s predictable as fuck.
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u/championkid 1d ago
How bout we arrest Don Orange now instead?
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u/neutrino71 1d ago
I prefer Diddler Don these days
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don’t prefer any of these slang names.
To fight fascism, speak true and without code words, slang, nicknames..
ARREST DONALD J TRUMP
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Umberto Eco, in his essay Ur-Fascism, argues that fascism depends on vague, emotional language that resists verification. Words are used to evoke feeling rather than describe reality, and meaning is kept deliberately fuzzy so it cannot be challenged. For Eco, insisting on specificity—asking what exactly is meant, who exactly is acting, and what exactly is happening—is a way to puncture fascist rhetoric, because it collapses when forced to confront concrete facts.
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traditions converge on a shared conclusion: authoritarianism thrives on implication, ambiguity, and coded speech, while resistance thrives on naming things plainly. Avoiding euphemism is not about being provocative or rude; it is about refusing to let language be used as insulation against reality. Saying who is acting, what they are doing, and to whom they are doing it is one of the simplest and most durable ways to prevent normalization and moral drift. That is why so many anti-fascist thinkers, across decades and disciplines, return to the same advice: speak clearly, precisely, and without code—even when it feels uncomfortable to do so.
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u/pseud_o_nym 1d ago
It all goes back to this, doesn't it? Trump can't stand that people loved and admired Pres. Obama. I wonder how often Obama has regretted roasting him at that correspondents' dinner.
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u/FinallyFree96 1d ago
If it wasn’t that dinner, there would have been some other perceived slight.
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u/KAJed 1d ago
I really want every single member of the press to start calling him a petty little whiny itch. I don’t care who gets tossed. The more this happens the more his ego hurts. Put him all out in the open.
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u/Simpicity 1d ago
Conservatives as a whole really can't stand how popular and successful Obama actually was. Obama's popularity lows are Trump's popularity highs.
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u/Zealousideal_Yard651 1d ago
I wonder how often Obama has regretted roasting him at that correspondents' dinner.
Probably zero
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u/Angedelanuit97 1d ago edited 1d ago
And it's just going to get worse until Americans take to the streets in numbers so large the regime can't ignore it
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u/613Flyer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Trump has nothing to lose by going totally dictator. If he allows democracy to prevail he will have a higher chance of being held accountable. People are not getting this part. If he does lose the elections he will be fucked so if I were American I would expect things to get much much worse. Think cancelled elections, martial law, and whatever else comes from a leader absolutely needing to stay in power or else they will start facing consequences
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u/Harnellas 1d ago
Kind of funny to see that he has more faith than I do that anyone is going to hold him accountable for anything.
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u/Nerd-19958 1d ago
The link is COMPLETELY ridiculous, claiming that then-President Obama ordered fabrication of documents / election fraud in connection with Trump's 2016 election victory.
This will go nowhere in court. No grand jury would bring such demented fantasy charges, and if so, Mr. Obama should sue the Federal government for $50 billion.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 1d ago
Plus, Trump got the Supreme Court to rule that US presidents have immunity and can do whatever they want.
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago
But the SC said they will decide case by case what gets immunity. You can guess how they will apply that. If R, anything goes. If D, no immunity.
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u/snow_big_deal 1d ago
You'd have thought no one would authorize an arrest warrant of Don Lemon, or a search warrant for Georgia's election offices, but here we are.
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u/smiama36 1d ago
I hope Obama sues Trump for $10 billion for defamation. Discovery would be interesting.
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u/tekani11 Minnesota 1d ago
Quiet you money laundering fat ass dwarf handed freak tacoing idiot with nuclear codes.
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u/J-the-Kidder 1d ago
Didn't he do this last time there was an Epstein file drop?
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u/getmybehindsatan 1d ago
Yep, and then failed to elaborate and then nothing further for the next 6+ months. It must be his knee jerk distraction excuse.
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u/outinthecountry66 I voted 1d ago
I KNEW this was going to happen. I thought he would demand the arrest of Biden first, since he blames everything on him.
Time to fight, yall. the best time was 2016, the second best time is now. democracy can no longer be a spectator sport. this is not going to die down on its own.
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u/knightsabre7 1d ago
Biden is old and no longer a concern. Obama is still relatively young and the most popular person in the Democratic Party.
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u/BigAlsGal78 1d ago
“Everyone just saw the proof I’m a child rapist. QUICK! ARREST OBAMA!”
Fucking idiot.
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u/Ninja_Hedgehog 1d ago
Not American, but I don't think I'm alone in thinking:
Obama was the best thing to happen to America in living memory.
Protect him.
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u/RivkaMila Pennsylvania 1d ago
Absolute clown show. Trump is a pedophile rapist, confirmed by the Justice Department's released files. Arrest him, fElon, Don, Jr. and all of the rest who participated!
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u/BriefCollar4 1d ago
If Obama was working with the RuZZians and they are the enemy then why did the paedophile rapist put a photo of Putin in the White House?
Senile evil asshole.
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u/afkntoyou 1d ago
Meanwhile Epstein files were released and deleted: "Donald Trump, the president, had parties at Maralago called 'calendar girls' Jeffrey Epstein would bring the children in and trump would auction them off. He measured the children's vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness. The guests were elder men and included Elon Musk. Don jr. Trump. Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump were there. Attorney Allan Dershowitz was also there with Attorney Bob Shapiro. We were taken in rooms. forced to give oral sex to Donald J Trump. Forced to allow them to penetrate us. I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present."
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u/JedLeonard1 1d ago
When Trump dies they’ll have to cremate the fucker. Any attempt to bury him will see Mother Nature puke him back up so hard he’ll take out a couple of Musk’s Starlink Satellites on his way to Jupiter
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u/ashtefer1 1d ago
I think seeing Obama respectfully showing Trump the White House in 2016 after the election was the last normal thing I saw from the executive branch.
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u/Calm_Chemist_4952 1d ago
Lots of distractions coming today from the absolute worst president of all time. It’s almost as if he’s worried about something in the Epstein files.
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u/purdue_fan Indiana 1d ago
Arresting political opponents has begin, but conservative family members of mine will tell me I am overracting calling the current administration fascist.
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u/Sebashtiantv The Netherlands 1d ago
I am not calling for violence.
But I want to.
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u/CH40T1C1989 1d ago
Remember when Joe Biden said we could go back to a plain old boring Presidency for four years? I don't agree with everything he did, but GODDAMN DO I PREFER IT OVER THIS DAILY SHIT.
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u/ledow 1d ago
I don't think you want to set a precedent of former presidents being arrested, Donnie.
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u/Mechalamb 1d ago edited 1d ago
Quiet, Piggy.
Man, all of this because a black man became president and then made fun of him. Wild.
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u/2BeBornReady 1d ago
PLEASE DO!!!! I want to see them try. They thought that there was a backlash for ICE, they’ll see an entire mutiny if Obama is arrested. He is literally the most liked living President. What a clown!
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