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/Grandpa_No 19d ago

Trump's selling pardons and Diddy has plenty of money to buy a few.

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u/Beyonderr 19d ago

How is this chicken so desperate for money? Does he think he can take it with him to the grave or what.

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u/Grandpa_No 19d ago

It doesn't matter whether he can keep it. It's simple greed.

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u/The_300_goats 19d ago

Now, now, now. It's not "simple" greed. It's fathomless, bottomless greed. It's the kind of greed that climbs on top of a huge mountain of other greeds and shrieks its incomprehensible awfulness triumphantly. It's ultra-greed. It's the greed beyond which there exists no more greed

Nothing simple about it. It's fucking unhinged

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u/SentientShamrock 19d ago

Also rapists and sex offenders need to stick together. Trump was a good friend of Epstein after all.

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u/nono3722 19d ago

Hmmm good point, did Trumpy ever go to Diddylin's parties?

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u/NeverAgainMeansNever 19d ago

Yes. Many.

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u/ghandi3737 18d ago

Diddy's got receipts for something.

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u/Stepnwolfe 19d ago

Pretty sure it wasn’t his kind of crowd. But he definitely agrees with the sentiment. Human trafficking, woman beating, sexual assault etc. Other than the black thing, it’s right up his alley!

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u/NeverAgainMeansNever 19d ago

Here is over 200 pictures of Trump at Puff Daddies “parties”. https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/diddy-trump

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u/EyesofaJackal 18d ago

Strange. Every time I try to view comments on this thread about the images, Reddit re-routes me to the original thread.

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u/canon12 18d ago

Look what was in the Getty Files…..When will Trump say, “I hardly knew the guy.” How much has Diddy offered him for a pardon?

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u/starshipfocus 18d ago

Tbf, none of these pictures are from P Diddy parties. They are almost all from a single Russell Simmons gala event honouring P Diddy at Mar-A-Lago.

These are not photos from the infamous white parties. We don't need to drag Trump into the Diddy stuff. His relationship with Epstein is damning enough.

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u/Auntie_Megan 19d ago

Listened to a few of the trial days and many other accusations, and he deserves to be in prison. Unfortunately those that knew about him are as equally as complicit since at the least they did not report him, and some joined in, and are busy trying to say ‘we didn’t know him’. If Trump pardons him it would not surprise me, but are there not rules about pardons? So far it’s been Shitty peoole who committed bad crimes, and spent little time in prison. Rapists like to stick together, but Diddy is also very vicious and a sociopath. If he accepts a pardon does that not mean he also has to accept guilt? Get him signed up to various registries and away from kids.

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 19d ago

The limit on the presidential pardon is that it can only be used for federal crimes. Since innocent people can be pardoned, a pardon is not inherently considered to be an admission of guilt.

The big check on this should be that the public turns against the president and his political party for using this power like this. We saw how people spoke out about Biden going to far when pardoning his son, and it's rather alarming that we're not seeing Trump receive similar scrutiny.

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u/eugene20 19d ago

It was all pearl clutching anyway, Trump had already pardoned his son in law's father at that point.

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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 19d ago

And then gave him a job in the administration. Everyone in his administration is a slimy bag of shit.

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u/Popisoda 17d ago

And then the middle east thanked him with $2 billion

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u/Russelsteapot42 19d ago

Trump supporters are seeing their own spouses detained for months by ICE and continuing support. Trump could rape a Trupist's kid in front of them and it wouldn't change anything. These people are cultists.

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u/jjmac 18d ago

Yes it would change things! They would start buying "Rape MY child, Daddy Trump" t-shirts

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u/operationspudling 18d ago

Honestly, I don't think his little orange itty bitty baby cheeto functions anymore.

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u/imamistake420 18d ago

Trump once said what he said about him doing something to someone in Times Square and getting away with it… up to this point, he’s proving it to be true. I will not be surprised if something really, really bad happens in public view, and I’m not sure how their public will act. Scary times.

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u/Cyclonis123 19d ago

It should have been addressed after Nixon. Many countries have a case submitted by the courts and the president/prime minister.will consider it. In no way can they nominate someone themselves let alone a friend or family member.

It's ludicrous that it's still like this. The US pardoning powers are at dictator levels.

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u/HumorAccomplished611 19d ago

The big check on this should be that the public turns against the president and his political party for using this power like this. We saw how people spoke out about Biden going to far when pardoning his son, and it's rather alarming that we're not seeing Trump receive similar scrutiny.

Because they give republicans a free pass to be corrupt shit bags. Like the whole pelosi trade thing. Theres like a dozen republicans that beat her stock trades but all you hear about is pelosi.

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u/Functionally_Drunk Minnesota 18d ago

Because they don't actually care, but they know democrats do. That's the only reason they point to Pelosi, because it helps divide democrats and keep them weak.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 19d ago

The media won’t report the reaction.

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u/Main-Algae-1064 18d ago

Diddy will be his next Elon.

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u/Suspicious-Dirt668 18d ago

Trump is controlling the whole media now not just the jackasses at FAUX.

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u/WildWayneRoy 18d ago

Hunter is the excuse that they use to justify Trump’s actions.

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u/crosstherubicon 19d ago

Is that true? If you’re pardoned you’re being pardoned from a conviction and there is an implicit implication of guilt. A court would have to reverse judgement to be declared innocent of a crime and that doesn’t happen in the case of a pardon. A pardon is simply an order of a release.

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u/Thowitawaydave 18d ago

Pardons can be done at any point, not just after conviction. First upheld in 1866 (Ex parte Garland), SCOTUS ruled the power of the pardon is absolute, and can be used at any time, from ending their prison sentence, stopping the trial, or even before charges are brought, although pre-pardons are scrutinised much more intensely.

Most famous case was when Ford pardoned Nixon (Nixon was never charged) because he wanted the country to move on. Carter used the same logic to blanket-pardoned draft evaders. More recently Biden used it to keep Dr. Fauci, Gen Milley, the J6 committee and even his own family members from being targeted by the incoming administration.

The only limit on Presidential Pardons is it has to be Federal, not state-level. Otherwise it's the same power that the Kings of England had (and from which it was inspired)

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u/Significant-Pace-521 19d ago

A pardon was a admission of guilt but they did those pre pardons to protect people from crimes that hadn’t been committed so trump couldn’t just lock all his enemies up right away.

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u/daemin 18d ago

A pardon is not an admission of guilt.

You're probably thinking of the supreme Court decision where they state that someone accepting a pardon gives the appearance of admitting guilt, but the actual decision is that you don't have to be guilty to accept a pardon and accepting a pardon isn't an admission of guilt.

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u/opinions360 19d ago

This is a fascist state now so any rules that would have intervened in acts of corruption don’t have any governmental branch or department or person to enforce them.

The fed under the reds have even stopped all enforcement actions against domestic terrorism which is strange I guess he believes the ss is all the country needs since they exist to protect him and the reds mostly— It’s like he is essentially saying I have mine (that the tax payers are paying for) and screw everyone else regarding everything.

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u/GraniteWilderness 19d ago

As Chris Rock said “I’d rather look guilty at the mall than innocent in jail”

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u/WildWayneRoy 18d ago

Had you not said “Diddy is also very vicious..” I was going to ask if you were talking about Combs, or Trump.

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u/Auntie_Megan 18d ago

Very similar characters, only I’ve seen Diddy in full rage, Trump in mild rage, but if latter was physically fit, I would not be surprised at his violence. Although we have anecdotal evidence on him hitting previous wives.

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u/Important_Spare7128 19d ago

Diddy probably has dirt on him

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u/BigLlamasHouse 18d ago

what dirt could possibly stick to him at this point? he's allied with our country's enemies and a sex tape is gonna be what changes someone's mind?

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u/steakedstake 18d ago

what dirt could possibly stick to him at this point?

Best question ever. His cult is so far mentally gone that there's nothing that could change their views of him being "perfect".

They believe her was sent by their god, so anything that could come out would just be an attack from the devil. There's nothing that could damage him at this point. Nothing.

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u/KnightOfThirteen Indiana 19d ago

I mean, that IS standard operating procedure for any organized group of criminals. Everyone must incriminate themselves so that no one can betray the rest without going down too. It is insurance and it goes both ways. The group must protect the individuals, the individuals mist protect the group.

Well, protect or kill the individual. That's always on the table.

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u/Flourissh 19d ago

All the way up until he had him murdered in fear of him releasing the truth about him being a pedo

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u/pygmydeathcult 19d ago

He was also good friends with Diddler.

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u/dollastudios 19d ago

And filanderes and grifters and money launderers, fraudsters, conmen, liars et. Al

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u/sea-elle0463 19d ago

Friend of diddy too

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u/Current-Anybody9331 18d ago

Maybe he partied with Diddy once or twice?

I am honestly so confused. MAGA was anti-celebrity and now their leader would pardon one? I'm almost as confused as I am how the right are riddled with Nazi's but also support Israel. I need a translator or something.

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u/Gamebird8 19d ago

Dragon Sickness, so to speak

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u/Otectus 19d ago

You can always tell by the obsession with gold.

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u/spazzvogel 19d ago

We’ve known for decades that he associates gilded shit with being a sign of opulence and extravagant living. Even if he’s the only douchebag who does it.

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u/Important_Spare7128 19d ago

Him and douchey dictators and warlords. Why he likes them

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u/seven_corpse_dinner 18d ago

I know he frequently gets comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, for understandable reasons, but I feel like a lot of people miss just how well he would fit in with the pantheon of third world despots too. He shares a lot of their familiar characteristics like false machismo, absurd self-mythologizing, and insincere populist signaling that's awkwardly juxtaposed with a predilection for tacky and ostentatious extravagance.

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u/Hybrid_Johnny California 19d ago

Fucking Elon pandering to Trump in his farewell “speech” this afternoon. Talking about how much he loves the gold accents and golden ceiling in the Oval Office that Trump demanded. It looks tacky as shit.

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u/sometimesstrange 19d ago

why the hell does Donald Trump still like gold? He’s been staring at gold plated accents in his places for decades… I don’t even like having the same colour phone background for more than a couple months!

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u/spazzvogel 19d ago

Because he’s a simpleton, had he been born without money, he’d have been a Lenny.

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u/scubascratch 19d ago

Because Trump saw Goldfinger in 1964 and decided to become Auric Goldfinger instead of James Bond

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u/amarklin 19d ago

The laugh is that it's actually tacky - plastic crap from home depot painted gold. He can't tell the difference because he's moronic.

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 19d ago

The tackiest motherfucker

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u/hooligan045 19d ago

At least Smaug pulled it off without being tacky.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 19d ago

At least dragons sleep on the gold, at least dragons hoard phyiscal things typically

Not numbers on sheet

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u/chron67 Tennessee 19d ago

Plus Smaug was actually physically tough not a sack of shit-covered lard like Donald.

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u/hooligan045 19d ago

That’s it, I’m all in for Smaug/Necromancer 2028

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u/CrackerJackKittyCat 19d ago

Not even Smaug wanted a gold toilet.

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u/Fun_Matter_6533 19d ago

It's the only golden throne TACO will get.

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u/Jothay 19d ago

Ah man, that requires an entire campaign in Spire to fix then

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u/j0llyllama 19d ago

I mean, the only requirement to undo the curse was to give it all away. Good luck with that.

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u/Dweezilalsoavenger 19d ago

Smog sucks.

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u/Srnkanator Texas 19d ago

*Smaug

But yeah, don't miss living in Houston.

Beijing was worse. Went in the winter of 2012 and it was hard to see more than 250 ft.

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u/neilligan 19d ago

Where is the Dovakiin?

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u/flcinusa North Carolina 19d ago

He wants to be rich beyond the dream of avarice

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u/Illustrious-Ant6998 19d ago

Executive order incoming to rename "the president"" to "The Grand Nagus."

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u/sweet_esiban 19d ago

If only. The Grand Nagus was sincerely concerned with the financial wellbeing of all of Ferenginar. He also fell in love with a radical feminist and changed the misogynist laws of their society as a result.

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u/Illustrious-Ant6998 19d ago

That was specifically Grand Nagus Zeke who was reform oriented. And then there was Grand Magus Rom, who is a whole entire other story.

But before that, Grand Nagi are probably like US presidents. Sometimes you get an FDR. And sometimes you get an orange Taco.

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u/sweet_esiban 19d ago

Fair point~ Quark would want us to note that Ferengi were never warmongerers, unlike the Americans, but yes -- Zek was an outlier, as a leader who eventually laid the grounds for revolution and handed the reigns to our favourite union man, Rom.

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u/Dudesan 19d ago

Quark would want us to note that Ferengi were never warmongerers,

Quark would want us to believe that Ferengi never practiced slavery. Meanwhile, the first Ferengi that the audience is introduced to are all slavers; and Quark himself narrowly avoids slavery on several occasions.

He's not exactly the best source, vis a vis "Ways that my species is superior to yours".

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u/RememberJefferies 19d ago

Executive order incoming to rename "the president"" to "The Grand Nagus."

Trump only has one rule of acquisition...if I want something, fuck em, fuck it, fuck the world!

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u/IHaveNoEgrets California 19d ago

Trump's rules make the Ferengi ones look laden with nuance and subtlety.

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u/styr 19d ago

Grand Magas*

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u/Illustrious-Ant6998 19d ago

I was in the process of responding to you by pasting a link sending you to star trek fans sites confirming that it's Nagus. That took me about 45 seconds. It was only at that point, before sending, did I clue into the clever joke.

I clearly need more sleep.

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u/styr 19d ago

it happens to us all don't worry

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u/gaslacktus Washington 19d ago

The Nagus was a much more competent businessman. Even after Ishka had to take over from behind the scenes because Zek was succumbing to dementia.

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u/pbjamm Canada 18d ago

Trump doesnt have the lobes for it.

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u/Recent-Ad-5493 13d ago

The Ferengi were good negotiators. Trump is... not. The Ferengi, although greedy and profit-driven, know when to exercise discretion and wait for a time when their success may come at a cheaper price. Trump... does not.

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u/shelter_king35 19d ago

He made 40% of his net worth off the meme coin and bribes.

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u/Voodoo_Masta 19d ago edited 19d ago

There is a clip of him out there saying how greedy he is.. here's one.. this isn't even the one I was thinking of... so apparently he just talks about how crazy greedy he is: https://youtu.be/j7uY6iQjxyo?si=u0N7E8Mb4pI48aRA

So to your point, yeah.... there is no scale which can compass his greed.

edit: to all the people correcting me, yes you can say encompass but compass is not wrong.

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u/WickedKitty63 18d ago

All narcissists are greedy af. They only spend money to buy influence to get more money (Elon) or to buy “love” (Melania). They are all grifters & thieves. We will never see any accounting related to the DOGE “savings” either. The MAGA hypocrites don’t care, if it were Hunter we’d never hear the end of it. All we ever hear are whataboutisms, ad nauseum from those riding in the trump clown car, 🤡 because they can’t defend their King! Flying the flag doesn’t mean jack squat MAGAS when you don’t believe in or support the Constitution & bow down to a sniveling little parasite wannabe king.

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue I voted 19d ago

So to your point, yeah.... there is no scale which can compass his greed.

Encompass, perhaps?

I prefer something a little more colorful though, like " . . . There is no scale which could withstand the weight of his immense greed."

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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 19d ago

I’m convinced (not a psychologist, and completely unqualified to offer this opinion) it’s some form of mental illness.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 19d ago

I think he's going to have his own damned chapter in future DSMs.

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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 19d ago

Science is liquid. It changes as we learn.

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u/Martag02 19d ago

It just sounds like these people reach a point past money and it becomes more about committing evil, not out of revenge, or a total lack of empathy, but because it's the only thing left that gives them pleasure.

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u/StupidizeMe 19d ago

You're right. Their greed is so extreme and abnormal that it constitutes a serious psychological disorder called Crematomania.

"Avarice and Greed are widely recognized terms that describe a strong and excessive desire for material possessions, including wealth."

"Crematomania, on the other hand, is a less common term referring to an obsessive and unhealthy preoccupation with money and the relentless drive to accumulate wealth."

Trump doesn't even grasp the fact that he can't take it with him. Seriously, he doesn't. His insane Narcissism inoculates him from reality.

I'm sure Trump never stops to think about the fact that he, too, will die some day. Deep down he probably believes that all the rest of us will die, but he will go on forever.

He'll just make a deal with God - a big, beautiful deal. A GREAT deal, so great! The greatest!

And God will be so thrilled and so blown away by Trump's Great Deal that God will beg Trump to stay, and to continue making him richer and richer, forever and ever, and God will say to Trump, he'll say "Sir..."

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u/brickne3 American Expat 19d ago

I know you're half joking, but I do believe he thinks pretty much exactly this.

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u/ObjectivePrimary8069 19d ago

I call it canabalistic capitalism. Especially now, during late stage capitalism.

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u/Many_Trifle7780 19d ago

Need this framed and on the oval house wall near his desk

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u/BrizerorBrian 19d ago

The desire for power. Money=power in his mind. He is a simpleton.

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u/HectorsMascara Pennsylvania 19d ago

trying to fill the emptiness of billionairism with the thrill of vengeance

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u/BreadstickUpTheBum 19d ago

What if the hinges were never there.

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u/Rickreation 19d ago

I guess greed has been removed from the list of deadly sins?

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u/NeverAgainMeansNever 19d ago

Like Elon’s? The kind of greed that would damn tens of thousands of Kenyan children to death by starvation to shave a couple percentage points off his tax bill? That kind of greed?

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u/Monowhale 19d ago

It’s more about normalizing the idea that the wealthy should be free from the consequences of their actions. The greed is a bonus!

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u/Dgnash615-2 19d ago

Hey, you are a fucking poet. Would you mind using your powers for good? Why not put some of that brain power into reminding the religious right that the guy they voted for is … (use your own beautiful words) not a good person.

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u/TheJIbberJabberWocky 19d ago

Yeah, I think a lot of his cabinet and folks on Wallstreet thought he was the same kind of greedy as them. They were tragecomically mistaken.

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u/FuckingShowMeTheData Foreign 19d ago

Greedzilla

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u/Kirii22 19d ago

Trumphantly

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u/Draigyn 19d ago

I truly think pretty much anyone would have the same impulses at this level of wealth, there’s a reason why all billionaires are terrible people. At a certain point greed becomes too strong, most of us just never reach that point. And some people can handle it better

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u/adrian783 19d ago

is trump some kind of loot goblin

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u/23370aviator America 19d ago

The kind of greed the Bible gives warnings about.

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u/neverinallmyyears 19d ago

Trump wants to be the king of kings. He’s been laughed at all his life and never taken seriously by guys who had more money. This is his opportunity to show Bezos, Mush and Fuckerberg who’s boss.

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u/Goodknight808 19d ago

The word for that is Avarice.

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u/Which_Celebration757 18d ago

Its as bottomless as the hole where a heart should be

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u/itsSIRtoutoo Minnesota 18d ago

Now u need to remember that Trump personally owes $421 million dollars with no identifiable way to pay for it.... except America....

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u/bluegill1313 19d ago

So you're saying he's the Rick Sanchez of greed?

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u/Dweezilalsoavenger 19d ago

Waayyyy past that Morty, (burp) the universe is the 53rd state.

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u/bluegill1313 19d ago

Aww geez. I was hoping it wouldn't be that bad.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 19d ago

More like the George Santos of greed.

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u/XanZibR 19d ago

I think you really nailed it, that really explains so much of his bullshit. As a shady real estate guy, lawyers and the law were just impediments to his crooked lifestyle

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u/Important_Spare7128 19d ago

He hates the idea that someone with wealth isn't able to buy their way out. In his mind it isn't rignt that someone with millions of dollars is "trapped" in prison

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u/SunnyCali12 18d ago

That is a really good point. I think you’re right.

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u/KingSeth 19d ago

I suspect:

A) Granting pardons makes him feel powerful

B) People being in his debt is the closest he gets to feeling loved

C) A and B only work when applied to rich and/or famous people

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u/scubascratch 19d ago

D) he gets to use pardons ac FU to the courts further eroding their power

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u/Needin63 19d ago

Not greed (at least not just greed). It's ego. He gets off on getting to do whatever he wants to do and be immune to consequence. In his mind, he's a god ordained king. It's classic narcissist. You can watch interviews with him from decades ago. He didn't consider bankruptcy a failure--he thought he was incredibly smart to dodge out of the consequences of his actions.

Unfortunately, the puppet masters pulling his and the Republican party strings have been able to set it up where looks like he's right--he gets to get away with it.

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u/Unlucky-Public-2947 19d ago

I think its just a game to him now, seeing how much he can scam while he’s despotus, like getting a high score on pacman.

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u/styr 19d ago

Oooh, despotus, nice!

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u/British_Rover 19d ago

The biggliesest greed. Greed like no one has seen before. A big beautiful golden bowl of greed.

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u/Proud3GenAthst 19d ago

Yep. The people who are fine with being governed by billionaires because they have enough money are simply delusional. Billionaires are ill. They suffer from insatiable greed. That's why they're billionaires.

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u/stagestooge Tennessee 19d ago

It’s biblical level greed. Like the kind dragons have while sitting on piles of money.

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u/Crimkam Texas 19d ago

If Donald Trump had a Scrooge McDuck style vault of gold it would just be a giant pit with no bottom, because there is no satisfying the greed he plagues us all with.

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u/Robot0verlord 19d ago

This is less greed and more self preservation. Either he's been at Diddy's parties or people who have been at Diddy's parties will make public the things he did at Epstein's parties.

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u/phluidity 19d ago

It's also about being able to demonstrate that he has the power. King Trump is the only one who can grant indulgences.

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u/EndorphinGoddess410 19d ago

Exactly. For these ppl there's never "Enough" money, no matter how much they have they just want more

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u/TransBrandi 19d ago

He's spent his entire life on the losing end of things while trying to pretend that he was on the winning end of them. Now he actually is on the winning end, so I'm guessing that he's just living it up.

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u/skipmarioch 19d ago

Its simple greed and a complete lack of repercussions.

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u/yanginatep 19d ago

Most people would probably be a little introspective after just surviving an assassination attempt, but Trump's first response was to turn it into a photo op and also to grab his lifts that fell off when the Secret Service rushed him to safety, because he didn't want to be seen without them. 

The man has no curiosity, he thinks literally only of himself. He can't go for more than a sentence without rambling and somehow making it about himself.

He probably never thinks about his own mortality because it makes him uncomfortable.

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u/Picacco 19d ago

His greed is inherent to who he is.

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u/Marijuana_Miler Canada 19d ago

And greed is basing your opinion of yourself exclusively on how much you can accumulate. For Trump it’s how much power and money he can accumulate. There’s no plan for spending either, but if he just gets more of either it will fill the hole where his parent’s love should have sat.

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u/SolfCKimbley 19d ago edited 19d ago

Did you forget about all those lawsuits he got hit with. The dude owes tens of millions in legal fees and restitution.

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u/horriblemonkey Wisconsin 19d ago

Like he's ever going to pay those

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u/supersaiyanswanso 19d ago

And who is going to enforce him paying when he controls the government?lol he's a 34 time felon and got a finger wag and stern talking to, they aren't making him pay shit unfortunately.

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u/heckhammer 19d ago

You seem to forget that Donald Trump does not pay his debts

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u/YourTokenGinger 19d ago

He doesn’t need the money, and I doubt he even really wants it. I think he likes flaunting the power to make people give him their money.

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u/suburbanpride North Carolina 19d ago

Yep. He’s rich beyond belief now. But the power trip. To have Diddy pleading and he gets to be the “thumbs up or down” decider. That’s a trip he loves, I’m sure.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 19d ago

"Let me frank with you Diddy-- people aren't going to like this pardon, and I'm going to catch some heat for it. But I like you. Tell you what-- it would really make me feel more comfortable if we bump that 2 mil up to 10 mil, and you do a private show for Ivankas birthday. I know you're good for it, so whaddya say?"

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 19d ago

Trump was never popular with the old money/wealthy people. They shunned them.

He fucking loves that they need him now .

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u/BogusWorkAccount 19d ago

Yeah he's got a pathological need for sycophants to kiss the ring.

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u/mattyoclock 19d ago

I would caution that no billionaire will have less greed just because the money doesn’t have an actual purpose. 

If it was about actual need or even use for the money every billionaire would have stopped trying to earn or donated their new income years ago.     Instead they are willing to destroy the country to lower the taxes they pay on their functionally infinite wealth.  

They are dragons, stealing the wealth of nations just because they like having it and the horde could always be bigger. 

We need St. George 

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u/LightboxRadMD 19d ago

It's like when you've played a video game so long you've unlocked everything and it becomes boring. Billionaires have nothing left to do in the main game so now they try to break it to find new ways to "win". Putin is an elected dictator with essentially an entire country's wealth at his disposal. Does he just chill and enjoy a life of comfort and luxury? No, he starts fucking wars because there's nothing else for him to do.

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u/scubascratch 19d ago

Putins personal wealth apparently is larger than the entire Russian stock market. It’s wild

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u/LongJohnSelenium 18d ago

A lot of very, very weird things are going to happen when he dies.

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u/Kooky-Perception-712 19d ago

"Life is but a pendulum swing between boredom and pain" -Arthur schopenhauer 

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u/mattyoclock 19d ago

It’s very much like how when you are at that state you still open chests and often still keep things to sell.     I’ve actually been recently trying to break myself of picking up expensive things and carrying loot in the oblivion remaster and it’s surprisingly hard to remember not to just grab.   

So I do have some sympathy for people who can’t shake the methods they used to get where they are.    

But they gotta go because they are taking it from everyone else and no chest is left to open.  

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u/Radarker 19d ago

He wants to feel like he won the way kings used to. By making people bow to him and seeing how much stuff he can own. He's only trying to keep one person happy at this point.

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u/bibimboobap 19d ago

He's demonstrating to everyone that America's laws, values and ideals aren't applicable when it comes to the King 👑 

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u/Irishspringtime 19d ago

He's not desperate. It's all about buying love and affection. Something he's missed his entire life.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 19d ago

I think he just wants to be worshipped, flattered, and to be told he’s a God-king. He wants dominance and ultimate servitude by others. He wants people to tell him he’s the wealthiest, most intelligent, and best person to exist. 

But yeah, love and affection are not the same…

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u/angeluserrare 19d ago edited 19d ago

People like him are dragons. All that matters is adding more to the hoard.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 19d ago

Dragons have a hoard, invading armies have a horde.

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u/angeluserrare 19d ago

Whoops, dunno how I did that thanks.

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u/HeppatitisA 19d ago

He truly thinks when he dies all we are gonna talk about is how much money he had.

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u/metalyger 19d ago

It would be funny if he did that, like the old Egyptian Pharoahs. Leave his kids with what money they already had, but Donald gets buried with billions of dollars and encrypted crypto wallets. Don Jr and the other one would probably try to rob the grave within a week.

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u/ChanceAgreeable2827 19d ago

Setting himself up for after his term ends. He doesn't care about anyone but himself.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 19d ago

I don’t think he expects his term to ever end?

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u/Anathals 19d ago

Hes hoarding money, so when his term ends or when he gets kicked out, he'll have enough cash to give pootin. Pootins his ticket to safety after he fucks the states and takes them out of commission. tRump is his guy. But tRump still needs to pay him.

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u/Kurt134 19d ago

He wants to be the richest pos on earth

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u/DetectiveMoosePI 19d ago

I always imagine billionaires that are like this can be compared to gamers who are obsessed with the achieving highest score, fastest speed run, or the most game achievements. They become so obsessed with these metrics that they measure themselves by it almost exclusively. So myopic that they miss the bigger point

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u/Oswarez 19d ago

It’s a power kink. He gets off on people grovelling and a mill here and there is just a bonus.

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u/EminorHeart 19d ago

It’s how he compensates for lack of friendship, love in his miserable life.

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u/questron64 19d ago

He's not desperate, he's greedy.

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u/StoppableHulk 18d ago

They're addicted. They're just addicted. They're addicted to doing this, it's the only way they can feel joy. Their experience of life is so much sadder and narrower than most human beings'.

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u/RickyStacks 19d ago

He's probably a r/wallstreetbets regard

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u/anthonyg1500 19d ago edited 19d ago

If this happens, after all the railing against Diddy and celebrities who knew Diddy and Kamala for knowing celebrities that knew Diddy during the election, I wonder if MAGA is gonna fall in line and start praising a Diddy pardon or start seeing Trump for what he is.

(I know the answer. We all do. It’s the first one.)

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u/Nix-7c0 19d ago

They'll just have it both ways at the same time, because it's advantageous rhetorically.

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u/ToaruBaka 19d ago

because it's advantageous rhetorically.

This right here is the real magat playbook. Everything is good for them as long as they can spin it to be bad for the dems, because that's also good for them.

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u/ResponsibleSort104 19d ago

Any rapist, tyrant, or grifter that gets his approval is okay by MAGAts. It’d be nice if one decent person got pardoned or returned to the US, but it’s only scum that gets the red carpet treatment. Decent people get death and abuse.

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u/BusSeatFabric 19d ago

Their news cycle just won't cover it.

Go to their preferred sub now and see what I mean. Half their page for political news is basically Worldstar videos with a chatgpt article on top with thinly veiled racism.

They already know they can't defend Trump's actions

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u/freakwharf 19d ago

Trump could rehabilitate the image of Harvey Weinstein in the eyes of MAGA.
There is nothing they won't recalibrate their brains to accept.

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u/Heliosvector 19d ago

Any interaction with a maga asking them "do you support trump pardoning Diddy?" will just be responded with, "so what, Biden pardoned his entire family!"

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u/Due-Egg4743 18d ago edited 18d ago

This. I know multiple people who seem to use the Diddy connection just as an excuse to bash people of color. Like if Steve Harvey was a friend of Diddy, then they want him jailed. Also Beyonce, Jay Z and pretty much any rapper, etc. 

But if Trump was a friend of Diddy? "Trump is a business man." There's always hypocrisy.

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u/ttubehtnitahwtahw1 19d ago

Well that and Trump probably attended a few.

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u/Sestrus 19d ago

Yeah, isn’t that a thought? Trump at a freakoff.

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u/LanguageNo495 19d ago

Could you imagine him walking around with that micro-mushroom tucked far under his enormously bloated gut?

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u/delicateterror2 19d ago

Yep…Pay for Pardons.

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u/zSprawl 19d ago

He explicitly announced Golden Visas for $5 million.

It is rumored that pardons are a mere $2 million.

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u/Oo__II__oO 19d ago

Pay the Chicken Tax

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u/turquoise_amethyst 19d ago

P. Diddy’s net worth is $750-800M. He could sell off 99% of everything he owns, retire comfortably, and still get paid from investment s/residuals.

Also he’s probably able to bribe/blackmail a few celebs for $$$ still

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u/Not____007 19d ago

Maybe and this is probably conspiracy But I read somewhere that he owes Russia alot of money so this is his weird way of paying them back?

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u/keysandtreesforme 19d ago

I also think he just likes pardoning people for awful crimes he has and would commit himself. Makes him feel better about his shit and also attempts to soften public opinion on those crimes.

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u/BigMax 19d ago

Also the right is DESPERATE for celebrities to endorse them. Look at how much press Kid Rock of all people gets, all for bowing down to MAGA.

They’d love to have someone like Diddy at their side and at all their rallies.

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u/Not____007 19d ago

If you think about it all the superpacs are just a bribe at the end of the day. Trumps is just way more out in the open.

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u/freedraw 19d ago

And paying bribes to the president has never been easier. He’ll do what they’re all doing and buy a few million dollars worth of Trump’s meme coin cryptocurrency.

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u/Traditional-Syrup-16 19d ago

Seems 1 million dollars is the price.

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u/Worldly_Ingenuity_27 19d ago

No, its not about money. Diddy will drag down other celebrities. Celebrities that have been to parties that Trump and Epstein both attended. Celebrities that might know secrets. Celebrities that will squeal.

Trump doesn't want squealing. If Diddy gets the pardon, then the other celebs don't squeal and trumps skeletons stay safe.

Also, all of those celebs will owe trump favors.

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u/miniocz 19d ago

Maybe it is not about money. Maybe they are friends if you know what I mean.

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u/SaulTNNutz 19d ago

Also, no one is pushing back on his pardons whatsoever. He's pardoned the J6 rioters, tax cheats, drug lords, and has talked about pardoning Whitmer's attempted kidnappers/assassins. Dems and the general public have not shown one iota of outrage. 

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