The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

[Shiftless2]

BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ was just busted TRACKING the reporter who blew open the Epstein case with her groundbreaking story!

In an eyebrow-raising development, reporter Julie K. Brown took to her Substack to share her stunning discovery: her American Airline flight records from the day that Epstein was arrested were IN THE EPSTEIN FILES release by the DOJ.

“I expected my name to be in the Epstein files, since the Miami Herald published the series “Perversion of Justice” — an unsparing look at how Jeffrey Epstein got away with his crimes in South Florida — and that series led prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to open a criminal probe — just days after the series ran in late November 2018,” wrote Brown.

“But what I didn’t expect to see was an American Airlines flight record from 2019 with my full name on them, including my maiden name, which I don’t use professionally. It’s an unusual name, so it’s clear it’s me.

The document appears to be details of an itinerary for a series of flights I booked in July just before the SDNY and FBI arrested Epstein.”

On Twitter, Brown asked “does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)? As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me?”

You’ll recall that Donald Trump was the president in 2019, and his hand-picked cronies were staffing the Justice Department. So they were tracking Julie K. Brown as she exposed the entire scandal and made everyone involved, including Donald J. Trump, vulnerable and anxious.

We need to know what else they were doing in their efforts to protect Epstein and Trump. Release ALL the files now!

SOURCE

 

[sear]

"Cheney wouldn't have benefited personally regardless from Haliburton's results - forget the details but he'd purchased an insurance policy that guaranteed him exactly the same income regardless of whether Haliburton made a fortune or tanked." S2 #2,177

Meaning, VP Cheney lied for some other reason.

"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." V.P. Cheney "8/26/02" C-SPAN2

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson

“Because America no longer wants me.” #2,180

note:
Trump's "America First" approach has not merely placed the U.S. last, but in important ways excluded U.S. entirely.
For decades our neighbors / allies shared intelligence with U.S., as we were then a relatively trusted ally. No longer.
Now our former allies in the region exclude U.S. from such intelligence sharing, as they now know the U.S. / Trump administration can no longer be trusted.

Same for Western Europe, as our NATO allies understand if they share intelligence relevant to the security of Western Europe on Wednesday night,
that intelligence information may well be on Putin's desk by Thursday morning.

"AMERICA FIRST"?
Semantically perhaps. But it's little more than a political slogan, and in the ways that matter most, the opposite of what is true.

 

[Shiftless2]

This just keeps getting "better" .....



BREAKING: Pam Bondi vows to go after Obama and Biden for “ongoing criminal conspiracy” of “government weaponization” against Trump.

In a stunning escalation of Trump-era retribution attempts, Attorney General Pam Bondi has openly declared that the Department of Justice is now investigating what she calls a decade-long “criminal conspiracy” by Democrats — a claim so sweeping it would make a QAnon message board blush.

According to Bondi, the DOJ is now probing supposed “lawfare” carried out under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, alleging a vast, coordinated effort to “weaponize” the justice system against Donald Trump and his allies. The irony? This announcement comes as the same administration aggressively uses federal power to pursue critics, journalists, and political opponents — all while insisting they’re the victims.

Bondi’s comments, delivered to a friendly conservative outlet, frame routine law enforcement actions as part of a grand Democratic plot. She even suggested that investigations into Trump were never legitimate law enforcement efforts, but rather an ongoing “criminal conspiracy” that conveniently justifies reopening old grievances and punishing perceived enemies.

Even more alarming, Bondi and her allies appear to be laying the groundwork to bypass legal safeguards by branding past investigations as “continuing crimes,” a legal maneuver critics warn could be used to erase statutes of limitation and target political opponents indefinitely.

This is not subtle. It’s a blueprint.

By invoking shadowy “weaponization,” Bondi echoed talking points long pushed by Trump loyalists like Kash Patel, who have argued—without evidence—that institutions like the FBI and DOJ exist solely to protect Democrats and persecute conservatives. The message is clear: anyone who investigated Trump is now the real criminal.

And while Bondi claims this crusade is about “protecting civil liberties,” her own words suggest the opposite — an administration eager to relitigate the past, rewrite reality, and use prosecutorial power as a political bludgeon.

This isn’t accountability. It’s retribution dressed up as reform. And in this new era, the rule of law isn’t blind — it’s looking over its shoulder.

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[sear]

"This just keeps getting "better" .....
BREAKING: Pam Bondi vows to go after Obama and Biden for “ongoing criminal conspiracy” of “government weaponization” against Trump." #2,183

- fine -

I believe Trump is using clutter / chaos in the exec. much the way smoke can be used on the battlefield, to obscure.

Not to diminish the severity of Trump weaponizing DOJ, but I sense when "the other shoe" drops, it'll raise a mushroom cloud.

 

[Rigby5]

Obviously false to me as well.

At the U.N. Sec. Powell showed U.S. government drawings as "evidence".
Pres. JFK showed aerial photographs, taken from U2 iirc.

The obvious question: why would Bush lie?

I've puzzled over that for nearly a quarter century.
I know of no more plausible explanation than the younger President Bush attempted (& failed) to teach his pappy President Bush (elder) about not halting Desert Storm at the Kuwait / Iraq border, but press Schwarzkopf and company to Baghdad for regime change.

Stupid idea, as it would then have destabilized the region by upsetting the balance of power. It didn't, because Schwarzkopf didn't. GHWB was right.

Schwarzkopf didn't.
Abizaid did.
The resulting destabilization inflicted consequences. Trump bombed Iran's nuke infrastructure. We didn't have to do much of that when Saddam was around. Saddam helped keep Iran in check.

If not that, why lie U.S. into War? So VP Cheney's Halliburton could make a $killing?

Yes.
I think that the war with Iraq as partly to increase the price of Texas oil, to appease Israeli anger over Saddam missile strikes on Israel, and to profit arms producers in the US.
We then also profited by making Iraq allow us to sell Iraqi oil.

 

[sear]

"Yes.
I think that the war with Iraq as partly to increase the price of Texas oil, to appease Israeli anger over Saddam missile strikes on Israel, and to profit arms producers in the US.
We then also profited by making Iraq allow us to sell Iraqi oil." R5 #2,185

I don't mean to seem dismissive about why.
But it's important to me that however harebrained or corrupt the reasons, Bush / Cheney / Powell lied not merely to the People, but to the planet.

 

[Rigby5]

I don't mean to seem dismissive about why.
But it's important to me that however harebrained or corrupt the reasons, Bush / Cheney / Powell lied not merely to the People, but to the planet.

And while Europe did not buy our false claims, the US media did.
And the UN also showed it was useless by doing nothing.
It showed that all the claims of being a democratic republic actually were false, because the media presented lies so well, almost everyone believed them.

 

[Shiftless2]

I wanted to take a few days to digest the level of imbecility this administration put out at the end of last week because it was like having a hydrogen stupid bomb explode right next to my head and despite having one of the hardest heads on the planet when dealing with morons, this one took me aback.

I have to be honest, future historians are going to write thousands of books on how Americans became so depraved that they thought electing a 34 count convicted felon to be the President of the United States and I am having trouble coming to terms with witnessing a full half of my home country riddled with not just bubonic dumbfuckery but also a playing-with-their-poop-level of insanity.

We have effectively shut down the Venezuelan fishing boats by killing anyone daring to go out and fish. Now we are sending Navy SEALs out to board tankers full of oil and sending them up to Texas to offload their oil because we are now a nation of thieves oppressing a poorer nation by stealing what resources it has to sell.

If it were awful enough that we are indiscriminately killing Venezuelans who are guilty of being Venezuelan, Trump send two global hawk drones to bomb Venezuela’s largest port. It is not longer able to function. Venezuela is alleged to have the largest oil reserves in the world at least twice the reserves of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the people there continue to suffer because Donald Trump and his incompetent lackeys have no purpose for being there to begin with except to flex our military at the cost of $300 million a day.

We are breaking international law doing this since Venezuela has committed no acts of aggression against the United States. We are also stealing the oil from Venezuela which we have no right to do for any reason. Trump did that, turned us into a nation of thieves and *only* a Democrat can fix these crimes
Trump has committed.

Still, that is not the most absurd of Trump’s military actions.

The United States Navy is off the shore of Nigeria now which has the largest oil reserves in Africa. We’re not there to steal the oil. We are there to save Christians.

Yea I sayeth unto you Christian warriors that the Al Qaeda ISIS has swooped into Africa and is killing innocent Christians by the bushel. So President of the Knights Templar, Donald Trump has sent in the ....

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[sear]

"... the media presented lies so well, almost everyone believed them." R5 #2,187

Interesting insight.
Interesting wording.

If / when such "news" (lies from government officials) is reported accurately, who deserves blame? The liars? Or the ones that faithfully report the lies?

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Thanks for the update on the Lincoln / Trump Memorial.

 

[Rigby5]

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I wanted to take a few days to digest the level of imbecility this administration put out at the end of last week because it was like having a hydrogen stupid bomb explode right next to my head and despite having one of the hardest heads on the planet when dealing with morons, this one took me aback.

I have to be honest, future historians are going to write thousands of books on how Americans became so depraved that they thought electing a 34 count convicted felon to be the President of the United States and I am having trouble coming to terms with witnessing a full half of my home country riddled with not just bubonic dumbfuckery but also a playing-with-their-poop-level of insanity.

We have effectively shut down the Venezuelan fishing boats by killing anyone daring to go out and fish. Now we are sending Navy SEALs out to board tankers full of oil and sending them up to Texas to offload their oil because we are now a nation of thieves oppressing a poorer nation by stealing what resources it has to sell.

If it were awful enough that we are indiscriminately killing Venezuelans who are guilty of being Venezuelan, Trump send two global hawk drones to bomb Venezuela’s largest port. It is not longer able to function. Venezuela is alleged to have the largest oil reserves in the world at least twice the reserves of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the people there continue to suffer because Donald Trump and his incompetent lackeys have no purpose for being there to begin with except to flex our military at the cost of $300 million a day.

We are breaking international law doing this since Venezuela has committed no acts of aggression against the United States. We are also stealing the oil from Venezuela which we have no right to do for any reason. Trump did that, turned us into a nation of thieves and *only* a Democrat can fix these crimes
Trump has committed.

Still, that is not the most absurd of Trump’s military actions.

The United States Navy is off the shore of Nigeria now which has the largest oil reserves in Africa. We’re not there to steal the oil. We are there to save Christians.

Yea I sayeth unto you Christian warriors that the Al Qaeda ISIS has swooped into Africa and is killing innocent Christians by the bushel. So President of the Knights Templar, Donald Trump has sent in the ....

MORE>

Since I think the 34 counts against Trump were wrong, for a while he had my sympathy. But between things like tearing down the east wing of the capital, ICE, foolish tariffs, Venezuela, and egotistical renamings, Trump has lost any sympathy I had for him.

 

[sear]

"Since I think the 34 counts against Trump were wrong, for a while he had my sympathy. But between things like tearing down the east wing of the capital, ICE, foolish tariffs, Venezuela, and egotistical renamings, Trump has lost any sympathy I had for him." R5 #2,190

Trump

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...-00498178?mc_cid=e10e58718c&mc_eid=057381ea4a

The American Presidency Project
Ron DeSantis / 2024 Presidential Candidate / Governor: Florida

DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Despite His Promise to Pay it Down, Donald Trump Added $7.8 Trillion to the Debt While in Office​

September 27, 2023 / Trump Kickstarted Current Inflation Crisis with Reckless Spending
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump branded himself as the "king of debt" who could start significantly paying it down. Once he took office, Trump said his tariffs and tax cuts would help lower the debt. That did not happen. Instead, Trump refused to veto any congressional spending and added $7.8 trillion to the nation debt.

DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Despite His Promise to Pay it Down, Donald Trump Added $7.8 Trillion to the Debt While in Office | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

The inmates have overtaken the asylum.

 

[Rigby5]

Trump



The American Presidency Project
Ron DeSantis / 2024 Presidential Candidate / Governor: Florida

DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Despite His Promise to Pay it Down, Donald Trump Added $7.8 Trillion to the Debt While in Office​

September 27, 2023 / Trump Kickstarted Current Inflation Crisis with Reckless Spending
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump branded himself as the "king of debt" who could start significantly paying it down. Once he took office, Trump said his tariffs and tax cuts would help lower the debt. That did not happen. Instead, Trump refused to veto any congressional spending and added $7.8 trillion to the nation debt.

DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Despite His Promise to Pay it Down, Donald Trump Added $7.8 Trillion to the Debt While in Office | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

The inmates have overtaken the asylum.

Yes, the national debt is likely the worst of what Trump did.
Last time I gave him a pass due to covid, but this term he has no excuse.

 

[sear]

"Yes, the national debt is likely the worst of what Trump did." R5 #2,192

It may seem so. But that may be because it's quantifiable. Numbers tell the story.

But the consequences of Trump undermining long-tenured security alliances and trade relations cannot be evaded by being ignored.

But Trump administration xenophobic policy, rendering the U.S. as unfriendly as a nation to B1 visa holders as Donald is personally risks absolutely devastating consequences.

The U.S. has for generations been privileged to be a global talent magnet, attracting some of the best innovation and wealth multipliers alive.

The new millennium is witness to global competition. India and China may be rivals, competing against one another both on Earth and in outer space.
But Trump stiff-arming them risks drawing them into alliance with one another. That's a bell we cannot unring.

"Last time I gave him a pass due to covid, but this term he has no excuse." R5 #2,192

The birth of Rigby5 & sear hasn't invented politics.
Republican political strategist Carl Rove is recognized as the man behind the curtain that helped get Governor GWB [R-"TX"] into the U.S. presidency, along with a final shove by Republican-packed SCOTUS. [shove it up the U.S.]

Donald Trump is somewhat of a do-it-yourselfer (DIY) because of Trump's compulsive style of extemporaneous lies.
It's difficult to operate a team of policy implementers if that team is based on the whim of one deliberately unpredictable iconoclast.

Trump, recognized as a media talent for more than a cameo in Home Alone. Trump's The Apprentice (U.S. "reality" competition television series [2004–2017]) honed Trump's skill at playing to his audience.

And Trump applied these skills as Trump formed his campaign lies in the States Trump needed to win election.

Thus Trump is a political parasite.
Trump holds the office, Trump wields the power not for the selfless benefit of mankind, but for the selfish greed of Donald Trump.

How else can we explain Trump murdering boatmen in the Caribbean ostensibly for U.S. Drug War while simultaneously pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (who flooded American communities with 400 tons of cocaine). https://democrats-foreignaffairs.ho...g-trump-s-pardon-of-notorious-drug-trafficker

Accusing Trump of forked tongue is an insult to vipers.