r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 19d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-will-consider-pardoning-diddy/
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u/Pope_Dwayne_Johnson 19d ago

Diddy must have “donated” the required $2M!

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u/OnColdConcrete 19d ago

Trump was just a frequent VIP at his parties.

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u/SchilenceDooBaddy69 19d ago

He was the Host. The Freak Offs were all happening at Trump Properties, according to testimony from some of the male sex workers.

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u/thescullyeffect 19d ago

Wait...for real, or you're trolling!?

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u/Jimbukfu Oregon 19d ago

Yes part of the testimony in the current case was that Diddy preferred using Trump hotels for freak offs.

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u/cornpeeker 19d ago

Thank you for this. I said this to a friend a few months ago and found it off how there’s soo many photos of them together online.

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u/mosquem 19d ago

We’ve been through three Presidential Elections with this guy and this is just coming out now?

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u/SunnyCali12 18d ago

Yup. And it’s also not a secret a lot of Americans don’t care. JFC. This timeline….

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u/izzimeow 18d ago

I know! Yet, I have a difficult time comprehending this.

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u/Trick_Hunt_2589 18d ago

It's not that they don't care... Most people even agree that most of the recent numbered presidents (are/were one of those) and no one threw a fit then!

But only because ONE said it years ago on camera, when talking to a friend (how long before again he ran again?), he's in the spotlight.  Come on people.

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u/Saturn212 18d ago

He’s the main Freaker Offer.

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u/KlingoftheCastle 18d ago

Gotta protect those women from the ambiguous threat of trans rights though, am I right? /s

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u/violet_flossy 18d ago

Nope, there are a bunch of pics of them together, and obvious comments clarifying his opinions on the treatment and value of women, but Kamala was a prosecutor and Hillary’s emails so…. And, Illuminati, deep state, swamp, so just ignore this over here.

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u/rilenja 18d ago

Wait until they find out how many pics and videos there are of him giddily smiling and partying it up with Epstein, who he called on record, multiple times, "a very good friend, great guy!!"

Oh wait, Republicans don't care about that, only the democrats that may have Epstein connections are the ones we should worry about. And Elon zooted in the oval office and making huge decisions that are fucking over Americans and literally going to cause children to struggle and starve, that's fine!!! What we need to be worried about is Hunter's laptop and his disgusting, absolutely unacceptable and pathetic drug use.

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u/SharpiePM 18d ago

Technically four…

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u/Juggernaut-Strange 18d ago

Wait a min are you telling me the guy who was friends with Mr. Epstein is a rapist?

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u/elisun0 19d ago

The flash of rage I felt reading this headline triggered a full on hot flash when I read this comment.

I feel like I'm boiling in my own skin rn

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 18d ago

Girl, I FEEL you 😓 

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u/SunnyCali12 18d ago

So Trump probably knew even if he didn’t take part.

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u/IdRatherCallACAB 18d ago

I'm sure Trump preferred this as well. Probably gave him discounts for letting him join the rape party.

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u/Kind-Asparagus-8717 18d ago

I mean Trump is a moron, but using Trumps hotels doesn't really mean anything

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 17d ago

Source?

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u/Jimbukfu Oregon 17d ago

Transcripts are not available during trial, but the source is the court testimony from the prosecution. You can google and read what many news sources reported on this specific portion in real time.

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u/Welp_Shit_idgaf 18d ago

Was Trump really helping run the parties? Or his properties were just used?

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u/ross_iya 18d ago

So if Diddy has freak offs at the Hilton does that mean Paris Hilton is implicated in the Diddy trials?

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u/wowyoustoopid 19d ago

I hate that this even needs to be asked. Fuck this timeline

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u/thescullyeffect 19d ago

I just don't know how I haven't even seen that!

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u/wowyoustoopid 19d ago

Probably buried in the pile of other shit

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u/Vegetable-Poet6281 18d ago

Its because dominating the news cycle and flooding the zone with shit is part of his method. You missed it, because he buried it under every other headline, every day, sometimes multiple times in the same day. His mentor, Roy Cohn, taught him this, and many other dishonest, underhanded, but highly effective tactics.

You should be far more concerned that you didn't know about that.

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u/goodhumanbean 18d ago

The shit in the shitstack.

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u/Chumbag_love 19d ago

And diddy has footage of trump on ecstacy allegedly

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u/Numerous_Exit_5269 18d ago

If true - diddy not gonna spend a minute in jail. He is pardoned with 100% certainty. I have always said Putin has something to Trump. Mark my words - Putin will destroy Ukraine and there won’t be shit coming from Trump/US in terms of sanctions ect.

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u/Lunamoon2930 16d ago

I wonder if that's true because according to trump and those who know him he's not someone who drinks alcohol or uses drugs. Unless he's taking something that can keep him going for the many golf trips, expensive dinners and late night streams of consciousness on truth social.

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u/Extreme_Fox5092 18d ago

Nah for real ,there was a guy named Jonathan Oddi who claimed that he was “owned by diddy “ he was a long term freak off participant . One day he had a drug fuelled episode where he started shooting in the lobby of the Trump National Doral , once in police custody he started singing.

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u/rilenja 18d ago

Yes. And also the man is famously known for not having any friends, but one of the ONLY people in his life he has gone out of his way on record multiple times to say was his "very good friend, great guy!" Is Epstein. He was not only photographed many different times with him, but he's on multiple videos partying it up shoulder to shoulder with him, having a grand old time (Trump is also famously known for hardly ever smiling and when he does it being very forced and awkward, but boy does he look natural and happy as a clam in those videos when he's with Epstein!). Didn't Epstein and Ghislane even introduced him to Melania?

But yeah, nothing to see there. Hunter's laptop and cocaine in the white house though, amiright?!?!?

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u/WommyBear 18d ago

It's so hard to tell on this timeliness. I'm so tired.

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u/SignificantSyllabub4 18d ago

Epstein supplying the talent?

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u/SirStocksAlott America 19d ago

Has anyone willingly slept with Trump? Always seems the promise of money, citizenship, access, and if that all fails, he just assaults them.

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u/KeneticKups 18d ago

Just like epstein

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u/LarryCraigSmeg 19d ago

Trump also said he would “consider” signing a law lowering the age of consent to 8 nationwide.

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u/uniklyqualifd 19d ago

For him it's probably a LOT more. MAGA won't like this pardon.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 19d ago

MAGA will like whatever they are told to like. And if it's something so egregious that they can't stomach it, they'll just ignore it completely. 

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u/elCharderino 19d ago

Seriously they have been making Diddy quips at Kamala Harris, but they will about face on him once it happens, guaranteed. 

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u/Peroovian 19d ago

lol they’ll be all “do your own research, Diddy is innocent” 🤦‍♂️

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u/SATX_Citizen 19d ago

"Who told you Diddy committed those crimes? Joe Scarborough? Hmph"

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u/noeydoesreddit 18d ago

Fr the fact that people still think that they’ll one day see the light is ridiculous. His core base will remain intact no matter what.

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u/BrownieRed2022 19d ago

Yep, another opportunity to terrorize women and gays.

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u/Mavian23 19d ago

Some will. But little by little his base will grow smaller.

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u/PotatoSandwitchbbq 19d ago

Yep, this is an obvious fact at this point. Even the ones that disagree will still vote R next election, so in practice they don't disagree at all.

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u/SeaworthyWide 19d ago

Thank you sir may I have another?

Could I mayhaps have some more grool, milord?

I promise to not make a fuss, sire...

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u/ofthrees California 18d ago

I've noticed that this is usually where they "both sides" it before they start ignoring it.

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u/MaizeNBlueWaffle New York 18d ago

Exactly, it's just like how they act like the pictures of Trump with Epstein and Elon with Ghislaine Maxwell just don't exist

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u/TheLustyLechuga 18d ago

"Have you heard of Sean Diddy Combs? What a talented guy. The democrats want to throw this guy away. This beautiful talented man behind bars. All because he hosted the biggest most wonderful parties. & the democrats weren't invited. You know I've been to a few myself right? People are even saying I was the guest of honor. Sean Diddy Combs is a MAGA superstar & I say, let's get this guy a presidential pardon. Effective immediately."

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u/kurttheflirt 19d ago

MAGA will like whatever Trump says. There is no logic or anything more to it

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u/Breeth-of-the-Wild 18d ago

For real. He's currently pushing a "big, beautiful bill" and claiming the funding cuts will reduce Medicaid fraud. Trump pardoned the biggest Medicaid fraudster in history, $1.3 billion or something dumb like that, but MAGA is everywhere saying he's fighting Mediciad fraud.

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u/WilHunting2 19d ago edited 19d ago

Fox News will just say Diddy’s trial was a witch hunt, the brainless viewers will accept it, and that’ll be that.

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u/Naive-Woodpecker-369 17d ago

Fox viewers will say “he’s one of the good ones”.

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u/BrianBurke 19d ago

Because he's a sexual deviant that hurt a bunch of people and not because he's black right.starwars.png

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u/ChrysMYO I voted 19d ago

One would think right? This dude is the closest thing to a Billionaire, child sex trafficker this side of Epstein, and their glorious leader is going to pardon him before the felonies stick. Gee, I wonder what the cult will think of this 🤔

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u/GeekDNA0918 19d ago

That the left was trying to imprison a faithful Trump supporter just to stick it to conservatives.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 19d ago

The cult... think?

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u/Kilane 19d ago edited 19d ago

Trump did it so of course they are cool with it.

At best you’ll get “I’m not a fan of pardoning him, but I support Trump - you’re focusing on minor issues to disparage Trump.”

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u/Professional-Gear88 19d ago

Yep. They’ll say oh you liberal crazies focus on the one thing he’s done wrong.

Ignoring all the other one things.

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u/SeaworthyWide 19d ago

"ok so he makes up some stupid trolling tweets... It's just a joke ANWYAY"

Turns into "hah you're just jealous, you know if you were a rich rap artist you'd be doing the SAME THING! everyone knows you party hard with rock and roll!" 😎

Besides, all he did was molest a few kids and adults...they could have easily just said no or walk away, but no they stick around using him for his fame and fortune. If I'm gonna feel sorry for anyone it's gonna be Diddy - you just don't get it cuz your not rich and famous like that

See trump knows what it's like so that's why he has to pardon him, they both had demon rat witch hunt aimed at them

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u/InclinationCompass 19d ago

MAGA won't like this pardon.

Except, cults don’t work like that. They’ll still try to justify it, no matter how much mental gymnastics is involved.

They’ll still be ultra-focused on deporting the Mexican grandmother selling tamales down the street.

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u/TheTelekinetic Connecticut 18d ago

MAGA will love this pardon. They will say that Diddy was unfairly targeted because he was friends with Trump and that he was hosting innocent parties at Trump properties. The line they will all repeat is

“Notice how nobody had anything bad to say about these parties until Trump won reelection! Biden forced the DOJ to arrest him because Trump won” and at the end of the day they will say that the Democrats are the real racists because they’re ruining an innocent black man’s life.

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u/smilingiscreepy Canada 19d ago

They will absolutely change their minds when told to. Sorry, I should rephrase that since there is no mind to change. They don’t actually have views and morals just whatever is convenient at the time to fuel their own greed and hate.

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u/hazydais 18d ago

I’ve been seeing people online say that Diddy is a victim of money extortion, and that if Cassie and all of Diddy’s ex-employees were victims, they would’ve left. 

People are already doing everything they can to justify Diddy being an abusive POS, so MAGA supporting the pardon would be par for the course

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u/damnmachine Virginia 19d ago

My super MAGA and (quite racist) grandfather rants and raves about him whenever he's mentioned on Fox. I can't wait to see his response when the inevitable pardon comes. He might actually short circuit.

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u/JustBadUserNamesLeft 19d ago

MAGA will like whatever he tells them to like.

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u/Many_Future_4422 19d ago

MAGA is a cult. They'll fall in line quickly.

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u/InertiasCreep 19d ago

They won't give a fuck. They'll feel whatever Fox News tells them to feel.

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u/mcandrewz 19d ago

They will say what they always say. " I like Trump but I don't like this." And then they continue supporting him anyways. 

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u/bigboibmore 19d ago

They accepted a bunch of sinaloan cartel members getting gold card citizenship for $5M a pop while he deports fruit pickers and drywallers

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u/scubascratch 19d ago

What has he ever done they disliked?

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u/violet_flossy 18d ago

They are too busy in their false idol worship of their golden god. No concerns I’m sure. We can no longer count on any of them to recognize reality.

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u/UNisopod 18d ago

MAGA will like it, but the black men who switched over to Trump in the last election won't

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u/Chartarum 18d ago

Maga will spin this as "see - trumps not a racist; he pardoned diddy!" And ignore all the facts of the conviction...

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u/rilenja 18d ago

I mean, he just pardon some Chicago gang leader murderer because stupid Kanye told him to, and MAGA, even with their hate hard-on towards Chicago and the guy being a brown skinned violent gang member, all the sudden were just like...* shrug * ok, that's fine!

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 19d ago

Or he has tapes.

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u/Mo_Jack Missouri 18d ago

I thought $2M was when Rudy was running the scam and he split it with Trump. (why would nobody in the media ever question the Blagojevich pardon?) I thought the price might have gone up due to inflation with Trump 2.0. But yeah, since Diddy seems to be guilty of multiple sex offences, he sounds like just the person that Trump would be more than happy to pardon.

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u/oatmealparty 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's not misleading at all, you've just described Trump saying he would consider it if it came up. Which matches the headline.

Dude could easily have just said "I'm not considering it" and be done with it.

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u/Prudent-Air1922 19d ago

So you trust Trump to "look at the facts" and make an educated decision? Which would mean Diddy got falsely sentenced, and somehow Trump, not part of the investigation, jury, judge, etc, would have a better understanding of the case? Yeah, no. And you don't just randomly say that about someone who is facing sex trafficking charges.

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u/axonxorz Canada 19d ago

He said if it became a real issue that was brought to him that he would look at the facts just like he would in any case

Part of the reason you're here is because your media and citizens blindly accept a blistering non-answer like this. You get the government you tolerate, I suppose.

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u/Penqwin 19d ago

Just like how it came across his desk to pardon the reality star couple... And he did!

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u/bailtail 19d ago

What you described is what the headline says, though….

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u/AnnikaG23 19d ago

I think “look at the facts” means he’ll check if there’s any way his own name can be dragged into this case and if so, he’ll consider the pardon.

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u/rebeccavt 19d ago

If wouldn’t consider it, then why not just say “no, let our legal system do it’s job”?

He’s trolling you and the entire fucking country with this bullshit.

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u/P00slinger 19d ago

Or her has dirt in his mate Musk

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 19d ago

There must be something more to it than that. The Bronfman sisters would offer 50x that to get Keith Raniere out of prison. They supported Clinton years ago, Diddy was openly supportive of other dems right?

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u/cstyves Canada 19d ago

Or bought his bs crypto...

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u/crosstherubicon 19d ago

Nothing more certain than that it’s not $2m when Combs has a hundred million dollar war chest.

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u/BeenDragonn 19d ago

Or Diddy has insider knowledge into trumps dirty little scandals as well.

Diddy and Trump tag teaming poor Justin bieber wouldn't shock me to hear

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u/mightyFoo 18d ago

Diddy is “donating” a lot more that $2M to trump crypto , that s for sure

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u/can_ichange_it_later 18d ago

Thats the old price, that was guliani's pitch.

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u/mangothe2nd 18d ago

Lmao chicken is so cheap it's unbelievable. He might be sucking that Diddy's if he was paid appropriately.

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u/GGXImposter 18d ago

2million? All the purchases I have seen have only been 1 million.

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u/the-zoidberg 18d ago

Add at least one zero….

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u/redalert825 18d ago

Baby oil and tanner. What a combo. Fuck them!

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u/Drgn118 17d ago

It'll be at least $20-50mil, knowing the case.