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The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"...according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign."

The same group that said 6'3" 215, right?

STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ummm isn't trump the "group" that said he was 6'3" 215. How the fuck is politico suppose to take the heat for trump being vain as fuck?

[-] Jagermo@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.

[-] Franzia 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago

Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.

He bankrupted two casinos, let's hope he destroys the GOP

[-] PhatInferno@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump (tm) voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I had hoped that the split would have come much sooner. I want to see an unbeatable Dem majority in 2024.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago
[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much of that is just laundering Russian money?

Can we see the donor list, please?

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Russia has any money left?

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Grifters gonna grift.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago

If he's convicted, does this count as proceeds gained via criminal activity, which he would then forfeit?

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's specifically not a crime to be arrested, that'd be an infinite jail glitch.

He'll waste it all on lawyers whose job will be to disprove hard evidence though, since he's very guilty, so it'll be fine.

[-] jhulten@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

But he could misuse funds or commit other fraud with them.

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, but getting arrested still isn't a crime.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.

[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Trump campaign doesn’t own it, so Trump shouldn’t profit from it unless you buy directly from their merch shop. Best thing to do is sell T shirts and donate the profits

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[-] Nerrad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That'll buy a lot of soap and toothpaste from the prison commissary!

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

He is going to buy ramen and use the flavor packets as spray tan.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's going straight to his lawyers.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Trump don't pay lawyers. So not going there.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Nah he's paid out a ton of PAC money.

He doesn't spend his OWN money on lawyers.

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

This confirms the narrative his machine has been pushing. It can't help but mobilize his base.

Morally and legally it's the right thing to do. Politically, I'm not sure - I don't know what would be better, but this will likely help him in the short/medium term.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Before I write this, I want one thing to be clear. I find Trump to an absolutely repugnant person, and elevating him to the Presidency has debased the office. I found him unfit for office in 2016, and I don’t believe he should be eligible for 2024.

For better or worse, however, there are a couple of truths about this whole mess as it currently stands. A former President is being prosecuted by the Justice Department of a political rival’s administration. It’s the right thing to do, but it does create a certain precedent that could be disastrous for our democracy. I think Biden saw that, and I think that’s why the Justice Department has waited this long to do anything about it. If his polling numbers were garbage, and he was unlikely to get the Republican nomination, I doubt he’d be getting prosecuted to avoid the appearance of political persecution.

Luckily though, I don’t think Trump is popular enough among independent voters to win the office. Until more polling comes out to tell me otherwise, I don’t think he can beat Biden. He’ll take the Republican primaries in a landslide, but once he needs the independent vote, I doubt he’ll perform nearly as well.

It’ll be a real mess if he catches a conviction too. The man is a walking constitutional crisis.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

the absence of prosecution is very much as political as the prosecution. Not prosecuting what is, in reality, a failed attempt at a coup.... is what would be disastrous for our democracy. not that there's a lot of that left, given the sheer number of dumb-asses that think it was "justified".

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely concur. I hate that they waited this long to bring charges. I really do think that Biden instructed Garland to avoid prosecution as long as possible to avoid the appearance of this being politically motivated.

The best scenario would have been for Congress to have convicted him during one of his impeachment trials. We wouldn’t be dealing with this bullshit at this point.

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[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We can't not prosecute him.

We can't set the precedent. Yes he's the first. I hope he's the only.

I'm going to leave the above statements here. If you object, down vote. So be it.

If you support the rule of law and don't agree that he needs a fair trial, tell us here.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He should have been convicted in his at least one of his impeachment trials… then we wouldn’t be in this mess…

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

While I agree, impeachment is political.

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[-] kava@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I hate that you feel that you have to preface this with a disclaimer so people don't dogpile you.

I think Brazil is a nice little preview of what will happen next here in America. Bolsonaro used the Justice system to imprison a political rival, Lula. Lula of course was corrupt, but the fact of whether he's guilty or not doesn't matter. He was prosecuted because he was polling well.

He ended up going to jail but then shortly after was released. What happened next? Lula is now president of Brazil and now his administration is trying to prosecute Bolsonaro and throw him in jail.

No matter how you slice it, this prosecution of Trump is bad news. We are in for a rough time and an unclear future. They may ultimately only be helping Trump take over the country.

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