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Trump administration 2024-2028

HavokFour said:
The Dear Leader-ification of our neighbor continues.

apnews.com

Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center.
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And this was the only other thing of note from last night, other than the $1776 bonus.

trumprx.gov

TrumpRx

The lowest prescription prices in America. Coming January 2026.
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TrumpRx , I’m guessing Trump is giving himself a commission on every prescription.
 
HavokFour said:
May or may not require it's own thread as people and organizations start sorting through them.
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The "old photos of Trump are evidence of questionable habits with children" crowd is having a hard time coping with the (many more) old photos of Clinton.

My prior assessment was that people with incentives to find dirt on Trump and with access to the documents have already combed through the documents for years and we've already seen the highlights (such as they were), and that releasing more info would end up casting mud in places the critics probably don't want to see any mud.

Now we're getting a dump of highlights from Trump's DoJ.

From here on in, future revelations will become increasingly less interesting because they won't involve current or former US presidents.

Predictable and predicted.
 
Brad Sallows said:
The "old photos of Trump are evidence of questionable habits with children" crowd is having a hard time coping with the (many more) old photos of Clinton.

My prior assessment was that people with incentives to find dirt on Trump and with access to the documents have already combed through the documents for years and we've already seen the highlights (such as they were), and that releasing more info would end up casting mud in places the critics probably don't want to see any mud.

Now we're getting a dump of highlights from Trump's DoJ.

From here on in, future revelations will become increasingly less interesting because they won't involve current or former US presidents.

Predictable and predicted.
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There is a reason why Republicans and Democrats didn’t want it released. The push to release only came once one side decided that the benefit was greater than the cost.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
There is a reason why Republicans and Democrats didn’t want it released. The push to release only came once one side decided that the benefit was greater than the cost.
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Democrats, maybe. Republicans had all the same information and knew there was nothing there to really burn Trump. For them it was not about cost/benefit so much as "Fuck it, they want it, give it to them and let them eat it", and, that it would put an end to freestyle speculation.

The freedom to speculate at will about a political scandal is much more politically valuable than the facts. The Democrats were dogs chasing a car; this time, they caught it.
 
www.yahoo.com

The ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’ website is taken. This comedian owns it.

On Thursday afternoon, the board of the Kennedy Center announced it had voted to rename the cultural institution the “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Art...
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On Thursday afternoon, the board of the Kennedy Center announced it had voted to rename the cultural institution the “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” By Friday morning a wholesale rebranding effort was underway, aided by construction workers on aerial lifts, adding the president’s name to the building’s exterior.

The organization’s leaders might have wanted a new website to replace kennedy-center.org, too. But if they’d hoped for trumpkennedycenter.org, they were out of luck. A comedian bought it months ago.

“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with “South Park” and “Mad TV” credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. All year, Morton followed news of Trump’s takeover of the institution - how the president purged many of its existing board members, replaced them with loyalists, then announced plans to personally host the Kennedy Center Honors - and in August he snapped up the rights to both trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
 
Meanwhile, keeping an eye on the future - this from Catholic media: "Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk, a Catholic, backs Vice President JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid"
... and from other MSM
www.bbc.com

Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president at conservative event

Conservatives traded criticims at this year's annual Turning Point USA America Fest conference.
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www.ctvnews.ca

Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk backs U.S. Vice-President JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid

Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the organization’s new leader, endorsed a potential presidential bid by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance on the opening night of the conservative youth group’s annual conference.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
www.foxnews.com

2028 power move: Turning Point's Erika Kirk throws support behind JD Vance as MAGA ‘heir apparent’

Erika Kirk, widow of the assassinated Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, endorses Vice President JD Vance for president in the 2028 White House election
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brihard said:
This’ll be fun.
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I am left here wondering what the point was? All it's done is make the DOJ and the Admin look guilty as shit. It's not like the files weren't immediately downloaded and backed up elsewhere with this exact situation in mind.
 
Cloud Cover said:
I was just down in the US. Nobody at US border asked me for squat other than my ID, where I’m going and why. Coming back into Canada was the real shit show. Bunch of clowns and morons up here.
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Let me guess. They just wanted to know if you’re bringing in cigarettes or booze, and didn’t care if you’re Canadian or not?
 
FJAG said:
It probably would have been reasonable if they hadn't spent all that time redacting things that shouldn't have been redacted.
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Such as? Which should be more upsetting: unnecessary redactions (which can of course be challenged), or people taking it upon themselves to leak unredacted information (by definition without appropriate processes and controls)? Missing deadline, or failing to safeguard the information which is to be protected?

As I wrote, critics can take it to court. The worst thing that can happen for over-redaction and failing to meet deadline is that it takes longer (to issue the challenges to see everything that should be revealed); the shortcoming can be undone. The worst thing that can happen for under-redaction is revealing that which should not be revealed and hurting people, which cannot be undone.

It's always instructive when the goalposts move away from the target/subject to the process. The salivating hordes failed to collect Trump's head because it was never there to be collected. All that's left is trying to collect some kind of process consolation prize rather than focusing on whoever else has been implicated and giving them the kind of treatment which Trump would have received. It should be goose, gander, unless the whole point of the exercise is just to keep finding fly shit in the pepper to attack Trump.

My guess: whatever was "over-redacted" will not damage Trump once it is unredacted, but will damage a bunch of other people. Undoubtedly some of them don't deserve protection, but equally undoubtedly some are not guilty of anything except poor choice of associates.
 
Brad Sallows said:
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Not going there. I've had to redact legal documents. The volume they had and time to do it properly was pretty much impossible.

I frankly don't care who gets caught up in this. Greasy people playing with underage women deserve to be exposed. I'm far from a liberal but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them agree with me.

I'm also resigned to the fact that if anything is found out about Trump, he'll slide out from underneath it until it doesn't matter anymore. I think he was 100% right when he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Even if charged he'd skate through court until he was long dead of natural causes.

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I stand with "better 10 guilty men free than 1 innocent convicted". I could never be convinced to become sloppy about that just because some politically hyperactive people are increasingly deranged over their failure to find something to implicate Trump and therefore willing to be sloppy about disclosing information that, if it weren't for the Trump angle, pretty much the entire legal establishment would ordinarily be arguing to keep confidential to protect the rights of victims and alleged accused. The taint of accusations of sexual impropriety never really goes away.

People are pressing hard, which means risking potentially harmful disclosures to settle what is only a political grudge. Moreover, the effort appears increasingly unlikely to bear the fruit they seek - if a scandal with Trump at the nexus existed to be found, it would have been found and blown wide open long ago. So again: "Undoubtedly some of them don't deserve protection, but equally undoubtedly some are not guilty of anything except poor choice of associates."
 
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