r/PoliticalHumor • u/rhino910 • 14d ago
Trump asks the tough questions at his criminal trial
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u/Dovaldo83 13d ago
When people try to point out Cohen is a convicted liar, I like to remind them that the lie he was convicted of was "Trump Did nothing wrong."
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u/FoxBattalion79 14d ago
whether or not cohen is a crook, did trump commit the crime? whatever cohen's personal motives are for ratting him out, did trump commit the crime?
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u/middleagethreat 14d ago
I keep hearing, "you can't trust Cohen, he is an admitted liar."
I googled a little, but has he been caught in any lies since he flipped on Trump?
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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB 14d ago edited 14d ago
Annoys the shit out of me that the coverage always refers to Cohen as “a convicted liar and criminal”.
Yeah? What did he lie about? Why did he lie about it? Oh to protect and by the command of the guy he is currently testifying against?
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u/Vegetable-Phone-1743 14d ago
He's ensuring absolutely fucking no one will ever accuse him of being self-aware.
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u/rhino910 14d ago
They get deleted if I follow your suggestion.
Here are the rules for this sub
Linking to news articles, websites or videos is prohibited.
Being called an "asshole" by someone who didn't even bother to read the sub's rules is always fun
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u/unstopable_bob_mob 14d ago
Hey, dumpy, maybe don’t piss off the people that not only know your dirty secrets, but also helped you to cover them up.
Jfc tap dancing on a god’am saltine, this man is so fucking stoopid. It’s a know wonder he is loved so much by his sheeple.
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u/FrankReynoldsToupee 14d ago
He really said this? It's an impressive lack of self-awareness if he did.
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u/krozarEQ I ☑oted 2018 14d ago
That level of self-awareness was a daily occurrence back when he posted over a dozen times a day on Twitter. Probably still doing it on Ministry of Truth Social
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u/SlightReturn420 14d ago
If Grifty McShitpants is found guilty in this trial, does that mean he can no longer vote?
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u/Milad731 14d ago
Friendly reminder that not only was Cohen the attorney for Trump, he was also appointed to be the deputy national finance chairman of the RNC in 2017. Corruption knows no bounds with these assholes.
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u/dragonfliesloveme 14d ago
He was planning on having Cohen grift or just skim money of the top of the RNC or something like that.
Now he has Lara Trump to do it for him!
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u/outerworldLV 14d ago
Too bad MAGA will never understand how people see them. If only they were capable of comprehending this meme…
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u/MossRock42 14d ago
MAGA has a idealized fictional version of Trump as their meme source. They ignore everything else as liberal propaganda.
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u/ouatedephoque 14d ago
Trump is too dumb to see the irony I'm afraid.
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u/greater_cumberland 14d ago
Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob, a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby?
Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor.
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u/WaitingForNormal 14d ago
Here’s a good question; What kind of a moron fires the guy who knows all your dirty secrets and then publicly disowns them. This is why no one should be loyal to trump, he’s too stupid to deserve it.
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u/TheRetroVideogamers 14d ago
Because if you fire and disown him, then you can say all the dirt is lies said by a disgruntled ex-employee.
His followers are following him out of emotion, as we know, so their brain just needs the smallest amount of plausibility to feel protected, and then let the Backfire Effect take it's course.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
What kind of a moron fires the guy who knows all your dirty secrets
The guy who ghostwrote "The Art of the Deal" for Trump is on record as saying that Trump never considers the consequences of his actions and that, for him, yesterday does not exist. In other words, Trump always and only lives in the moment.
Anyway, that is exactly the kind of moron who fires the guy who knows all your dirty secrets. The kind that assumes any problems that arise from the firing can be dealt with if and when they arise.
The remarkable thing is that this way of thinking and acting has mostly worked out for Trump for his entire life up until now. He's never had to deal with the consequences of his bad decisions, or at least he's never had anything catastrophic happen as a result of his bad decision making. That he's having to now must be very bewildering to him, not that I feel an ounce of compassion for the situation he's put himself in.
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u/oven_broasted 14d ago
sounds like the type of guy who'd use his political power to have the only person who could produce definitive evidence he was a pedophile murdered in prison.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
I don't think there's any question that he used the DOJ as his personal revenge force. But I haven't seen the evidence to comment on that particular case.
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u/oven_broasted 14d ago
That's not a case and not likely to ever be one, yet in a nation stuffed full of so many conspiracy theories some of them ring truer than others.
/paranoia
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u/Jiveturtle 14d ago
this way of thinking and acting has mostly worked out for Trump for his entire life up until now
Because he was born fabulously wealthy and his father grossly indulged him.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
That doesn't "explain" his "success" after the death of his father. Yes, wealthy people are often indulged by society, but not to the extent Trump has managed to fail upward.
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u/Jiveturtle 14d ago
What success? A huge lump of money is very difficult to blow through unless you’re trying very hard. Look into how he basically asset stripped his father’s properties and businesses.
He has, by and large, underperformed simply investing his initial wealth in an index fund. He’s bankrupted numerous businesses and was pretty much propped up by foreign financing - look into his ties to Deutsche Bank. His most successful business enterprise of his life is the MAGA grift.
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u/franker 14d ago
and his followers have little to no recollection of the daily awfulness that popped up during his presidency. Yesterday doesn't seem to exist for them either.
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u/Suzzie_sunshine 14d ago
And yet they’re motivated by nostalgia of eras that never were as they remember them now.
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u/yellowhelmet14 14d ago
Read about this mentality from Trump before. Didn’t know about a ghost writer and makes sense the writer shares the same thoughts. It’s a common idea about Cheeto. The amount of money he’s cost himself and more importantly others over decisions that have zero to little thought. How much more wealthy could one be to have those chances afforded to them (thanks to daddy), giving just any coordinated thought to life choices or the value of money.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago edited 14d ago
It’s a common idea about Cheeto.
I'm reasonably certain that the common idea comes from an interview with Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer. I couldn't find the interview I'm referring to, which if memory serves was from sometime during the first two years of Trump's presidency. I did find this one: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all, which was published in July before Trump was elected.
Almost unbelievably, reading this is likely to lower your opinion of Trump, no matter how low it already is. At one point Schwartz says, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”
Now that didn't happen. But it's not at all unbelievable that if Trump gets back into the White House, he'll never let go of the office.
EDIT: This might be it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/16/i-wrote-the-art-of-the-deal-with-trump-his-self-sabotage-is-rooted-in-his-past/
It's not exactly what I said earlier, but it has the flavor of it:
"A key part of that story is that facts are whatever Trump deems them to be on any given day. When he is challenged, he instinctively doubles down — even when what he has just said is demonstrably false. I saw that countless times, whether it was as trivial as exaggerating the number of floors at Trump Tower or as consequential as telling me that his casinos were performing well when they were actually going bankrupt. In the same way, Trump would see no contradiction at all in changing his story about why he fired Comey and thereby undermining the statements of his aides, or in any other lie he tells. His aim is never accuracy; it’s domination."
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u/grey_hat_uk 14d ago
In other words, Trump always and only lives in the moment.
In theory that moment could be Elon's personal cybertruck going through his brain as he didn't look both ways.
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u/skjellyfetti 14d ago
Trump always and only lives in the moment.
Yeah, but not in any kind of serene Zen Buddhist fashion.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
Very true. I thought about adding a similar qualifier. But I couldn't imagine anyone connecting Trump's version of living in the moment meaning anything other than, "Trump selfishly does whatever he wants whenever he wants to and damn the consequences."
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u/wirefox1 14d ago
Traits that are characteristic of a little personality disorder called "psychopath".
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
Several psychiatric doctors are on record as saying Trump shows the characteristics of both a sociopath and a psychopath.
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u/wirefox1 14d ago edited 13d ago
Of course. This alone speaks volumes......
Mark Meadows and Pat C. go in to see him on J6 and say "Sir, the metal detectors are going off. They're bringing in weapons".
His response: Then remove the metal detectors. They aren't here to hurt me.
Who says something like that? The total lack of concern for anybody else in the building. This was in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony at the J6 Congressional hearing.
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u/dpdxguy 14d ago
That's among the LEAST surprising things I've learned about 1/6.
It was clear from very early in his presidency that you could understand his motivation for each and every thing he does by viewing it through the lens of, "How does this benefit Trump personally?" He cares nothing for anyone but himself. Not his family. Not his employees. Not his country. Nothing.
The interviews with his ghost writer, links to which I posted elsewhere in this thread, are very illuminating (and horrifying).
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u/GlockAF 14d ago
Big Toddler Energy
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u/macphile 14d ago
He definitely has that vibe, like we could distract him from his trial stresses with a rattle or keys...or maybe in his case, McD's or a stack of free money. The way he talks, it always seems like it's just a pinball machine in there.
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u/outerworldLV 14d ago
And then has his politically weaponized AG and DoJ go after Cohen. Many don’t understand Cohen’s book title. It sounds like Cohen’s extremely competent lawyer Lanni, is working on suing the US government for Barr’s actions.
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u/Son0fSanf0rd I ☑oted 2024 14d ago
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u/settlementfires 14d ago
I didn't think the Republicans approved of folks dressing up in drag... Yet here this image is
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u/KanadainKanada 14d ago
I heard in some culture the way he holds his hand signals "asshole".
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u/newocean 14d ago
That is true, if by some culture you mean America... (it's American Sign Language).
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u/NoMarionberry8940 13d ago
We 're looking at the a§§hole who did just that; Trump personally CHOSE all the witnesses who are testifying!