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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 241 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Remember when Trump raped a 13 year old girl and then settled out of court, then a few years later he said that people who settle out of court are obviously guilty?

[–] SpezBroughtMeHere@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. Is there a site that has all of his convictions and settlements listed? This would be great in reasoning why he shouldn't run for office if you have a link to all that.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This isn't exactly that, but helpful...

He's demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just got more loser-y folks... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

  • 0 re-elections won
  • 1 term president
  • 2 times impeached
  • 3 marriages
  • 4 inch lifts in his shoes
  • 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
  • 6 bankruptcies
  • 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
  • 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
  • 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
  • 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
  • 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
  • 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
  • 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
  • 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
  • 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to kill years later.
  • 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
  • 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
  • 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
  • 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
  • 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
  • 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
  • 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
  • 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
  • 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
  • 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
[–] SpezBroughtMeHere@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Do you have a list that omits speculation and personal opinion? Got anything with facts and sources listed?

[–] asqapro@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That list feels like a classic Reddit comment, packed with smugness. No one is going to convince their “aunt Karen in Missouri” that Trump is bad using a Facebook-tier list like that.

To answer your question, PoppinKREAM on Reddit often posted detailed comments with sources. Sort by “Top” on his Reddit profile and his fifth comment (as of today) has a much better list.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It would be good to remove silly things like the lifts in his shoes. Removes credibility from the list for anyone not already against Trump.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything Trump says has a little asterisk above it which is "*except when I do it" - except he probably doesn't know about asterisks. They're pretty complicated.

[–] Raz@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sftu loser! He's got great asteriskses, the best in fact! Nobodies got asteriskses like him, in the world!

^(/s, but not really necessary I hope)

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 11 months ago

One time an asterisk came up to Trump, big asterisk, strong asterisk, tears streaming down its typeface and it said "Mr Trump, no president has ever been treated as poorly as you*".

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 24 points 11 months ago

Every accusation he makes is a confession. Always.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 117 points 11 months ago (2 children)

yeah... I'm not going to blame nobody for not wanting to read that article...

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's rare, a triple negative. So, who are you going to blame for not wanting to read the article?

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

2020 - S05E08 - Don and Jeff’s Excellent Adventure

Graphic details about Donald Trump’s alleged “sexual proclivities” have emerged in the latest round of court documents containing details of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. The new documents contain “incendiary claims” about the former president, including accusations that he had sexual relations with “many girls”, made by one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Sarah Ransome. Mr Trump’s name has appeared a handful of times previously in the documents and, while not accusing him of wrongdoing, appears to illustrate the good relationship he had with the disgraced financier. In the newly unsealed documents, Ms Ransome testified that her unnamed friend “was one of the many girls that had sexual relations with Donald Trump” – including at Epstein’s New York townhouse. - TV-MA, 61 mins

SD, SHD, UHD, Dolby Vision; Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Atmos

[–] oce@jlai.lu 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Mmh I'm pretty sure having sex with many girls will just be seen as a cool thing for the kind of people who vote for him.

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would clarify that the victims were trafficked and often children, but his supporters are notorious for cherry-picking, and their favorite book (allegedly) is full of that and more, anyhow. So, yeah, you're probably right. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ransome was another imperfect witness. In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Her name is Ransome and she lies about celebrities?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The writing has been utterly awful these past few seasons.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I mean look how he died himself. She wasn’t far off-base I think.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not really, it's been well known he's fucked kids for almost 30 years.

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[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Surprised? We've already had corroborating depositions for years that he violently raped preteens at Epstein's.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

they're demonstrating again that nobody actually cares about this sort of thing

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Speak for yourself

If I was in a room with Trump and a hammer...

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 13 points 11 months ago

They mean anybody that supports the guy isn't going to care about this. It's why people like him accuse his opponents of something he's guilty of doing so that when his scandal comes out, people think it's either old news or "a Dem witch hunt"

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Now, let's tie him to Epstein's "suicide"...

I think if he got charged with murder, I might just dissolve into a puddle of happiness.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Meidas Touch found and produced a contemporaneous news article a few days back that Trump was "dating" one of Epstein's victims, Anouska De Georgiou in 1997. Seems more than a small coincidence.

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[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If something like that happened he was probably tricked into being filmed cheering on hookers defiling a bed the Obamas slept in. Very common KGB tactic to hire hookers to lead on powerful people until they do something they don't want public. Doubt he actually has a pee fetish.

There's a lot more evidence he wanted to or actually did have sex with underage girls.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And his daughter, if you listen to his words or Stormy Daniels.

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[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, that's a CIA tactic too, at least if we learn anything from history

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[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Still a lot of so called Christians out there say he's God man with a straight face....

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[–] SCB@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I don't care if he likes to be peed on or whatever, but seriously try to imagine saying this to someone

she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples’,” she testified.

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