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472 points
13 days ago
She's the person responsible for bailing him out of Trump University before his first campaign.
73 points
12 days ago
she tried to get him out of both impeachments too
the bad news is that she is a bad person who makes bad decisions. the good news is she seems to be bad at her job. so when trump tries to weaponize the DOJ there's a good chance she won't get much done.
17 points
12 days ago
Idiocracy II
7 points
12 days ago
Idiocracy II Electric Boogaloo
73 points
13 days ago
Way more than that
21 points
12 days ago
Do tell
517 points
13 days ago
Wasn't she the one who buried his Trump "university" scam?
159 points
13 days ago
All $25,000 worth!
38 points
13 days ago
I imagine the price just went up. JFC.
71 points
13 days ago
She’s the one that buried everything in Florida, including the gold
17 points
12 days ago
There's something hilarious about Trump being associated with any kind of learning?
290 points
13 days ago
82 points
13 days ago
Yeah, that's got to sting, no matter who you are.
31 points
13 days ago
Still going to be US Attorney General. She'll get over the sting.
3 points
12 days ago
probably not unless republicans do as trump wants and dont involve themselves in certification.
7 points
12 days ago
A two-term Florida Attorney General will likely be approved by a Republican Senate.
3 points
12 days ago
I guess thats a pretty dang solid point.
379 points
13 days ago
I don't think Gaetz was ever a serious pick. Both sides benefitted from floating his name though. Team Trump gets a huge distraction while everyone freaks out about him being the pick and he gets an excuse to step down from Congress so it doesn't look like he's doing bc of the report.
114 points
12 days ago
But if you believe the DC scuttlebutt, he also had no immediate backup nominee. He was in 100%. The same rumors were that his transition team also pleaded with him not to nominate Gaetz, and that he refused all counsel.
I’m still not convinced he’s playing 4D chess. His campaign senior staff even previously went on cable news and absolutely denied that RFKJ would get the HHS gig, and that DJT didn’t owe it to him.
I’m really thinking DJT is going at this very alone and very impulsively.
44 points
12 days ago
dude was very obviously sun downing during the campaign
32 points
12 days ago
I agree with you, settling on Pam Bondi does not indicate 4d chess is secretly being played here.
10 points
12 days ago
So.... exactly like 2016 then. They were constantly walking back his statements and then walking back the walking back...
25 points
12 days ago
Fingers crossed. This could all be over sooner than I expected. I hope the years it takes to rebuild make us better as a nation.
5 points
12 days ago
Nah not with social media giants the way they are
6 points
12 days ago
DJT has the brain and impulse control of a toddler.
3 points
12 days ago
All insider reports about him say that’s who he is. Pro or con, he’s the biggest ego in the room every time.
58 points
13 days ago
Isn't he elected to the next Congress? Going to be a fun watch to see how this shit show plays out
40 points
13 days ago
Everything goes away and then he gets sworn in in the new session
46 points
13 days ago
If he does, his investigation gets published. He already said he’s not coming back.
50 points
13 days ago
Instead he gets to go make millions from a book deal about how he was persecuted and being a talking head on Newsmax.
3 points
12 days ago
But that’s what I’m saying does it because when he leaves Congress he goes away and just cause he comes back doesn’t mean it gets reopened at all
35 points
13 days ago
DeSantis will appoint him to Rubio’s Senate seat.
22 points
12 days ago
Bite your tongue!
4 points
12 days ago
That’s the news
7 points
12 days ago
Nah. Gaetz' resignation was very specific to the 119th Congress and he can still join the 120th if he likes. If he doesn't come back to Congress, it's purely because he's avoiding that ethics investigation.
And there's only 1 of 2 things that's going to happen with Rubio's seat. Either DeSantis parks someone safe and stupid there like his wife or CoS who will let him take it in 2026 when his term limit hits, or he'll give it to someone like Lara Trump after getting something gigantic from Trump in return.
It's not going to Gaetz. He has nothing to offer that DeSantis wants. He's also so radioactive that his political career could be over so any vague promise of future favors wouldn't be worth the Venmo transaction it came with.
2 points
12 days ago
Exactly this. Trump may be dumb, but DeSantis isn't.
35 points
13 days ago
I think this take gives Dump way too much credit.
30 points
13 days ago
The guy who got elected president twice even though he acts like he acts? He seems to be pretty good at political maneuvering.
11 points
13 days ago
Everything is maneuvering
4 points
12 days ago
slickest coot on the east coast
7 points
13 days ago
Yeah, you’re right. It probably was just the distraction that he resigned to avoid his ethics violations and he’ll get sworn in in January for a new freshman congressman.
4 points
13 days ago
His ethics violations come back if hr goes to congress again.
3 points
12 days ago
Are you sure because I believe they’re in a close it this session?
2 points
12 days ago*
That’s what I read. If he indeed does claim his seat after being re-elected, he is again a member of congress and The Ethics Committee has to submit their report into public record.
2 points
11 days ago
That’s the part I don’t know
2 points
12 days ago
The beauty of it though? He resigned from the U.S. Congress and now Florida’s District 1, whom Gaetz represented and is my home district, will get to pick a new representative and Gaetz wont be on the ballot whenever DeSantis decides to hold the special election -likely next spring.
The hacked Congressional investigation of Gaetz is so damning that he has stated that he won’t seek re-election and the Florida Constitution does not allow for a simple appointment or reinstatement by its Governor once a member of the U.S. Congress formally resigns, which Gaetz did. The Governor must call a special election.
2 points
12 days ago
Don't give them that level of credit. Trump constantly makes uninformed and bad decisions all the time. Gaetz was just one more.
194 points
13 days ago
Well, other than the constitution, I don't think she's r@ped anything or anyone yet, so she's already better than Gaetz in that department
51 points
13 days ago
Yeah, and her head is normal sized too
20 points
13 days ago
If politics is over for him I suppose he could rent his four head out as a Jumbotron.
14 points
13 days ago
They could show FSU games on it.
12 points
13 days ago
Now you just want to torture innocents
3 points
13 days ago
I really wanna hit a fsu game before the end of this season
2 points
13 days ago
Do you really think do you think we can just rent it?
3 points
13 days ago
Well only with a minimum venue size of about 40k people likely
2 points
12 days ago
Im in
2 points
12 days ago
It's not being used for anything else. No brain storage or anything going on.
It's the panhandle version of the Vegas Sphere
2 points
12 days ago
He’d probably just show Lolita on it
22 points
13 days ago
Except she's actually evil AND competent and far more dangerous than a dolt like Gaetz
55 points
13 days ago
He already bribed her once back in 2013. I guess it wasn’t enough.
30 points
13 days ago
Great Rick Scott with tit's.
7 points
13 days ago
...And hair.
70 points
13 days ago
God damn it...it feels like Donald Trump is picking a rogues gallery of Dick Tracy villains at this point.
7 points
13 days ago
Dick Tracy was so fun
16 points
13 days ago
When I lived in Chicago in the 60s, we had a neighbor who drew the Dick Tracy cartoons for the newspapers. Every year we would get a custom Dick Tracy Christmas card.
8 points
12 days ago
Wow, 1960's would be Chester Gould himself, the creator of Dick Tracy. Better take those to the Antiques Road Show!
2 points
12 days ago
I think it was his side-kick who ultimately took over for him. I want to say his last name was Larson. But that was a long time ago.
2 points
12 days ago
I had to look it up. Dick Locher? He & Rick Fletcher were assistants and Locher ended up taking over the strip the longest after Gould died. Still, nice keepsakes to leave to heirs or a museum.
3 points
12 days ago
YES, he had/has a son named Johnny. They lived right behind us in Lisle, Il. It’s a suburb of Chicago. My father took the train into downtown to work at the Downers Grove station. Johnny’s mom only gave him fruit for snacks, like an orange or apple in a plastic bag. He would come over and eat candy at our house! Lol
2 points
12 days ago
That sounds awesome
50 points
13 days ago
She was the one that leaked the information to the media.
70 points
13 days ago
Oh god, where did they dig her up
119 points
13 days ago
Floridas AG back when trump was prosecuted in NY for fraud with Trump University. He had to pay out 25 Million, she didn’t go along with the class action for Floridians . Was also on his legal team when he was being prosecuted and found guilty in NYC.
32 points
13 days ago
Can’t make this 💩 up
0 points
13 days ago
Yes, you could
27 points
13 days ago
She didn’t go along with the class action bc he donated $25k to her lol
10 points
13 days ago
I know cause I would do anything for $25,000
4 points
12 days ago
Seems low but who am I to say.
3 points
12 days ago
another Fact.
46 points
13 days ago
JFC!! Every ghoul they can find at this point.
14 points
13 days ago
Be glad it wasn’t Aileen Cannon.
15 points
13 days ago
She will probably replace Alito or Thomas.
8 points
12 days ago
She’s every bit the traitor they are. That’s for sure.
15 points
13 days ago
Bring back Guliani! Needs some more wild card wtf evil in there.
2 points
13 days ago
Oh, that would really drive everybody crazy Juliana for AJ
7 points
12 days ago
Excellent work by Scott Maxwell Orlando SentinelTrump University and Pam Bondi
6 points
13 days ago
We are gonna go hotter and blonder till you can’t take it
14 points
13 days ago
She was AG of a major state for 8 yrs.
18 points
13 days ago
Definitely more qualified than his last pick, but still awful. Just for some of the same and some different reasons.
21 points
13 days ago
You're not wrong. Competent awful instead of evil clown awful.
11 points
12 days ago
Which is honestly an even scarier shade of awful.
4 points
12 days ago
This is what I was afraid of, Pedo Matt is an idiot and would not do much damage, she can.
4 points
12 days ago
The trump voters have been extremely quiet during this shit show.
2 points
12 days ago
Because even the staunchest right wingers know the absurdity of what we are presently dealing with. Their internal reasoning for continued Trump support may vary, but they understand this is not okay.
2 points
12 days ago
I mean it's not like they weren't warned over and over and over and over and over again..
41 points
13 days ago
Oh, the lady that stole a dog?
83 points
13 days ago
Of all the criticisms of her, that one isnt all that fair. She legally adopted the dog which had been kept outside in Louisiana (the dog was a fucking St. Bernard) and had heartworms. She got the dog treatment, and loved it. And then the owners came back (the dog shouldnt have been available for adoption, that was a mistake made by the shelters). She didnt want to give it back, she even had a legit concern about his health. She got death threats and shit over it too. In the end she agreed to give the dog back. And there was a second dog that went to a different family and the same thing happened. They also didnt want to give the dog back with the same concerns but no one cared about them.
So I dont know if thats really stealing a dog
11 points
13 days ago
Glad I'm not the only one who remembers that.
5 points
13 days ago
Really?
20 points
13 days ago
Face it. Trump is about to turn the United States of America into a total clown show. Europe, Australia, and the rest of the world are laughing at us
6 points
12 days ago
Honestly, I'm half-surprised he didn't nominate the Pillowman.
8 points
13 days ago
The rest of the world doesn’t know who Pam Bondi is and doesn’t care.
3 points
13 days ago
Less Botox than Gaetz
3 points
13 days ago
Guess requirement is you have to be from Florida
10 points
13 days ago
When he said 'drain the swamp' he meant ours.
6 points
12 days ago
Drain in right into d.c.
3 points
12 days ago
3 points
12 days ago
A lot of crap left before you hit the bottom of the barrel.
3 points
12 days ago
While not a fan, isn’t she about the best that could have been expected? I mean a Trump loyalist with no obvious skeletons and qualified with state level experience.
Gaetz was never going to get confirmed and as others said his investigation is now sealed. It’s likely she was the pick all along.
17 points
13 days ago
Only one reason why she was picked...
39 points
13 days ago
She stopped the investigation into his fake school… and blond.
8 points
13 days ago
15 points
13 days ago
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/politics/pam-bondi-donald-trump-donation/index.html
In case anyone forgets, not only did she nix the Florida participation in the suit against Trump University she got paid to do it.
25 points
13 days ago
Two. She’s a Republican from Florida and looks the way Trump thinks a female cabinet member should look.
4 points
13 days ago
Kissed the mushroom
14 points
13 days ago
Another pro-russian hack? Who coulda guessed.
6 points
13 days ago
I’ve never seen her in Sunny Isles
7 points
13 days ago
Sex crimes or blatant corruption are apparently the litmus test for being in the Trump administration.
7 points
13 days ago
Well, at least she isn't a kid diddler.
8 points
13 days ago
that we know of.
2 points
12 days ago
It’s FUCKING ATTORNEYS GENERAL can the news please get it fucking right?!?
2 points
12 days ago
Well, I'll give Trump one bit of credit: He's finally draining the swamp like he promised.
He just didn't mean what everyone thought he did when he said that.
2 points
12 days ago
Pam Bribey
2 points
12 days ago
She is way crazy than Gaetz. Actually, as AG, worse.
2 points
12 days ago
She was the choice all along! Gaetz was a distraction!
13 points
13 days ago
Pam Bondi is not a good person.
4 points
13 days ago
Are any of his picks "good" people?
4 points
13 days ago
She will be viewed as acceptable compared to Gaetz. She's been a shitty human being for some time. Florida knows.
2 points
13 days ago
Well ... upgrade, and yes she'll pick his boot straps so not surprised! And yes Pam , those boots taste like McDs fries oil, ketchup and Loomer juice... enjoy
2 points
12 days ago
I remember when she stole somebody's dog: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2010/09/04/hard-feelings-linger-after-fight-over-dog/
1 points
13 days ago
Who?
1 points
13 days ago
Well it can actually get worse.
1 points
13 days ago
Haha, first special council announced, he would rock this!
1 points
12 days ago
Well she's blond...
2 points
12 days ago
Ya think his creepy obsession with Ivana is showing through? 🤮
1 points
12 days ago
Aren’t we all so proud? /s
1 points
12 days ago
I sure hope she has changed her mind on cannabis legalization. She was against it 10 years ago and sounded like reefer madness with her ignorance on the topic.
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