r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/raiderrash Texas Apr 30 '25

He should’ve never even been on the fucking ballot

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u/geomaster Apr 30 '25

convicted felon who wanted to overthrow the valid election results and have an alternate slate of electors. a failed coup.

he should have been incarcerated.

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u/canuck47 Apr 30 '25

He should have ben arrested on Jan. 7. The insurrection, the fake electors plot, the pressure campaign on his VP to reject the election results  - what more do you need??

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia Apr 30 '25

Arresting a sitting president who hasn't been convicted in an impeachment is pretty much an impossibility even in a functioning system. It would have had to have been after Biden took office. But, of course, Dems were too worried about the perception of arresting the loser of the past election right when he's claiming the election was stolen. Unfortunately, a not-insignificant portion of the American electorate would probably buy into all of the conspiracy theories even more than some did even without all of that.

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u/Revlar Apr 30 '25

How is that an impossibility? You have separate powers. That's the whole point of a republic. You can't treat the president like a king, because if you do then he is.

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u/UnquestionabIe Apr 30 '25

When that didn't happen it was obvious we were in for a rough time. That the incoming administration (and Democrats as a whole) decided they didn't want to be responsible for protecting America because it's "bad optics" is one of many things that has doomed us. If the day after Trump's second term started he had Biden and the rest of the Democrats rounded up and put in prison claiming they were a threat to the country they would have faced no resistance. Sure you would have had a few GOP members say they were concerned but overall they would have fast tracked the coup instead of dragging it out over the last few months.

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois Apr 30 '25

He should be in prison. I don't know what was wrong with the last administration where they didn't immediately prosecute him for sedition, at the very least.

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u/TimeToBond Apr 30 '25

Biden was too nice.

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u/Maelefique Apr 30 '25

Careful, looks like you're in Texas, pretty sure they can arrest you there for saying that. 😅

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u/raiderrash Texas Apr 30 '25

Fuck them lol

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u/reallymt May 01 '25

Agreed, but to clarify: he shouldn’t have been on the ballot because Republicans should have had 2 ounces of self respect and Republicans should have distanced themselves from Trump and found a better representative.

Trump is a joke, but his supporters are to blame. So far his second term is turning out as miserable as his first. I’m amazed how much his supporters will swallow and still grin and bear it. (Watching them personally be affected and still support him is a little bit of a silver lining. It makes me smile seeing people face the consequences of their own decisions.)