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By BRIAN MELLEY and LARRY NEUMEISTER LOS ANGELES©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Another crook in Trump's orbit? I'm shocked. Working for another country, no less. Whatever happened to "MAGA?"
Madverts
Yup another one close to the Orange maniac accused of treason. They're all going to get their comeuppance. Trump's second act was always going to be the best...
PTownsend
The above should surprise no one, the UAE is not a democracy, and Trump and his branch of the G/QOP are anti-democracy.
Big oil and and gas states like the UAE and es the globe's big oil and gas corporations get richest in states controlled by authoritarian regimes. Big oil and gas have long been anti-democracy.
PTownsend
edit above; Big oil and and gas states like the UAE and especially the globe's big oil and gas corporations get richest in states controlled by authoritarian regimes. Big oil and gas have long been anti-democracy.
Jsapc
To the surprise of absolutely noone.
bass4funk
Impossible.
Big oil and and gas states like the UAE and es the globe's big oil and gas corporations get richest in states controlled by authoritarian regimes.
that doesn’t scare you that a few liberal billionaires are controlling what we can openly say or think. Oil and gas will be around for a long time unless you can make eyeglasses, dentures, computers, paint, umbrellas, shampoo, toothpaste without oil on a massive scale, it’s pretty much going nowhere.
No, because of oil and gas it gives us all a higher standard of living. Particularly in first world nations.
GdTokyo
5 Trump Cabinet members were referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution by their own departments’ IG during his single term. Easily a record in corruption. Not surprisingly the Trump DOJ declined to prosecute in all 5 cases.
Jsapc
Do you realize that any time you freely complain about censorship on the internet, you ironically prove yourself wrong?
Oh yeah, defending big oil and big gas! You go girl!
lincolnman
Starting from the top with the Russian asset in the WH, it seems almost every Trump cabinet member, lawyer, associate, contributor, or golf partner is representing a government other than the USA....
MAGA indeed...
Express sister
No, it's the truth. That's why Trump and his Qanon cultists tried to overthrow democracy. This was back in January, remember?
Commodore Perry
Tom Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, California, was among three men charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent as they tried to influence foreign policy while Trump was running in 2016 and later while he was president.
Anyone can try anything.
Authorities said Barrack served as an informal adviser to Trump’s campaign from April 2016 to November 2016 and chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee from November 2016 to January 2017. Beginning in January 2017, he informally advised senior U.S. government officials on Middle East foreign policy, they added.
Libs would criticize Trump if he had failed at bringing the UAE and Israel together to the table.
Trump deserves the Nobel Peace prize for the Abraham Accords Peace Agreement which normalizes relations between the United Arab Emirates and the Israel. MAGA!
bass4funk
No, if so then Biden’s DOJ would have stated that and charged them justifiably and accordingly, insurrection didn’t meet that charge, so much for that.
Bingo!
lincolnman
Caught red-handed, representing a foreign government illegally....same as Rudy and Manafort...
And when he's brought in and questioned under oath, he openly lies about it...
Sure fits the pattern...
He can get Trump's cell ready for him...as his indictment is next...
Strangerland
Every response to any Republican whining forever should just be: "but, Trump!", and it would be a mic drop every single time.
Express sister
Only because it is, sadly, nearly impossible to prove. Even Cliven Bundy, who invaded government land and started an armed stand-off against the US government (hey, another GOP traitor, go figure) wasn't charged with it.
But you can see your Qanon pals and fellow Trump cultists assaulting police officers. Smashing windows. Breaking into the Capitol. Invading the offices of elected officials. Searching for elected officials to kill. They explicitly invaded to have a "revolution" to overthrow US democracy and stop the rightfully elected President, Biden, from being confirmed.
Trump trash.
SuperLib
Another one?
SuperLib
Sounds like you're admitting defeat.
GdTokyo
Gosh, it's almost as if corruption in the former guy's "administration" was a feature rather than a bug!
And the investigation into the insurrectionists is not yet over, so a more accurate description would be "they haven't been charged YET."
bass4funk
Ok, to sum it up, the DOJ really are in the poo end of the pool on this one.
Unlike the defund the police gang that assaulted the police for 3 months during the hot summer last year.
Destroying public property defacing our statues, destroying small businesses ransacking, looting...
Like they tried to do with Trump, check the internet, or remember when Griffen held a bloody mock Trump head? Yeah, liberals can't say anything about wanting to kill anyone.
After Trump was inaugurated the NYT wrote 35 min into his admin. "the impeachment begins." and for 4 years the left with the help of intel agencies tried to undo a duly elected President and again, the left has no walls to justify any outrage they have when they were the ones trying to dismantle democracy.
Jsapc
Still not as bad as invading the Capitol building with the clear intent of killing elected officials and reversing the results of an election, but whatever.
bass4funk
Ok, so screw small business owners who cares if they lose their lives or livelihoods...yup, not at all surprised by that response.
As the left tried with Trump, where is your outrage?
plasticmonkey
Impeachment of a president who abused his powers is not only constitutional, it is the moral duty of congress. How is that dismantling democracy?
Nah. Weak comparison.
When is the last time liberals stormed the capitol?
Jsapc
Burning a small business is bad. A violent coup d'État is worse. That's about it.
In what alternate reality did "the left" invade the White House screaming "Hang Donald Trump" and build gallows on the lawn, exactly?
bass4funk
Based on the flimsy evidence (so-called) and the Senate, they didn't think so.
When you are pushing for something without a shred of evidence to support your bogus claims.
Not weak, spot on, and funny how the violent 3 months of Antifa and BLM rioting and looting and destruction didn't and would not get any coverage on the lib networks, but what flavor ice cream Joe likes? Yeah, ok.......