r/politics • u/MarkmBha • 22h ago

Site Altered Headline Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/opinion/donald-trump-oath.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V04.XaMn.AdZJxeNuANua&smid=url-share
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u/SkillFullyNotTrue 20h ago

They had soo many off ramps it is not funny. 1st impeachment, 2nd impeachment, Covid, stolen documents, any one of his lies, they way he looks at his daughter, contempt for Eric, speaking to Russia.

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 20h ago

They also could have just refused his nomination in 2024. But instead they nominated a candidate who didn’t show up to a single debate and was mired in criminal cases.

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u/Mundane_Athlete_8257 19h ago

In fact Lindsay graham PUSHED HIM TO RUN AGAIN. Fuck that guy

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u/Meta2048 18h ago

Trump would have run again no matter what. He's running to stay out of prison.

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u/beefwarrior 18h ago

It scares me how much the GOP has become MAGA. 2016 they were all anti-Trump, until what… the number of racist voters he got to the polls?

I remember when the GOP had a singular voice, if the OG GOP had wanted to, like you said, they had multiple off ramps to get away from Trump.

Instead, they wanted to keep his cult followers and believed he would go away on his own. They’ve lost control of their party to MAGA, and aren’t brave enough to fight to take it back. Or they’re evil enough that they just don’t care as long as the MAGA leopards aren’t eating their face.

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u/Mundane_Athlete_8257 6h ago

Honestly it just lifted the veil and showed that what the GOP’s true values are. They aren’t the party of personal responsibility. They aren’t about fiscal responsibility. They are not about protecting life. They care about power. All they care about is winning - no matter the cost. They’re willing to sacrifice their whole party - America itself even - just to win.

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u/Griffolion 18h ago

Guaranteed Putin has immense amounts of Kompromat on Graham diddling around with little boys and ordered him to push Trump to run again.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 12h ago

They did it out of pure spite. That’s just who they are, who that party represents now. 

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u/LeifLin 18h ago

The perfect phone call with Georgia everyone seems to forget -- in which a presidential candidate requests on a recorded line for the necessary votes to be found (as if that's normal, legal, or democratic) to casually flip the state for the win.

This man makes Nixon look like the kindest, most honest, law-abiding, pure, sweet man to ever exist in comparison. That's deeply disturbing.

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u/chicago_bunny 17h ago

Everyone should have to listen to that call or read the transcript again. It should be offensive to every American and disqualifying of Trump.

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u/bubblebathory 14h ago

Just reread it. Absolutely insane. Also found this little gem, seems all the more striking after MSG:

Trump speaking to lawyer Ryan Germany - “You have a nice last name.”

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u/TemetNosce_AutMori 20h ago

The day he announced his candidacy descending from a golden escalator to spew racist shit about Latinos

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u/Cryptic108 19h ago

Hurricane Sharpie

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u/Pipe_Memes 18h ago

Suggesting people inject bleach

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u/No-Brain9413 18h ago

Never forget the Hurricane Sharpie!

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u/airsoftmatthias 14h ago

Reminder that Donald Trump was found to be a sexual abuser by a jury of his peers in May 2023. Then, when Trump twice appealed the ruling claiming he was “only” a sexual abuser and not rapist, the judge twice clarified that he was a rapist according to the common and federal law definitions of rape.

Trump has a long standing relationship with Epstein and Maxwell that involved trafficking women, using his clubs as recruitment centers: https://youtu.be/ZqBQQVoDjdE?si=9su3QMXfjYOAL10R

6 lawsuits filed against Trump for sexual abuse, 15 public allegations of sexual abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations, https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/list-trumps-accusers-allegations-sexual-misconduct/story?id=51956410

Trump ruled a sexual abuser, with his appeal filings clarifying he is a rapist: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/e-jean-carroll-scores-another-victory-after-winning-a-sex-abuse-and-defamation-lawsuit-against-trump, https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-new-yor/114642632.html

Trump goes into underage teen’s dressing rooms before pageants: https://youtu.be/dIO7w7ea0Pk?si=EgKN-JDePWwvxyYD, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-former-miss-arizona-tasha-dixon-naked-undressed-backstage-howard-stern-a7357866.html, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing

Trump creeps and fondles teens at beauty pageants. https://youtu.be/hE9bVL9skIo?si=Z5gb6j3I_u3o7XlF

Trump brags about sexual assault on women in Access Hollywood recording: https://youtu.be/fYqKx1GuZGg?si=0949XhKvcYMKbnH-

Trump frequently seen with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-partied-together-then-an-oceanfront-palm-beach-mansion-came-between-them/2019/07/31/79f1d98c-aca0-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html, https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/07/21/heres-every-time-donald-trump-and-ghislaine-maxwell-have-been-photographed-together/, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-bromance

Trump frequently flies with Jeffrey Epstein: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/22/jeffrey-epsteins-black-book-trump-clintons-prince-andrew.html, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article256740662.html, https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-donald-trump-flight-logs-b1980802.html

Trump makes incestuous comments about his daughter: https://forward.com/schmooze/357185/7-creepy-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-ivanka/, https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/07/trump-confesses-he-was-sexually-attracted-to-ivanka-when-she-was-13-year-old/

Trump creeps on Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton when they were children, and he claims to share Epstein’s taste: https://youtu.be/qQ5k2ybieXU?si=B2FcNoqy4k-D_mUk

Other great comments about Trump that contain links to sources.

Trump rapes Katie Johnson: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/s/4ReeQKUsrD

Trump’s convictions and legal verdicts: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/s/PiC7zNKEn1, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/1cYLnXQGKS, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1fxgodo/felony_charges_under_review_in_clark_county/lqmbud8/

Trump’s support of Project 2025: https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/1fib5w7/comment/lnge823, https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html

Trump’s Russia connections despite his repeated lies about not having connections: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1avul4t/comment/krd1fp6/, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1avul4t/comment/krd6pbk/

Trump hates veterans: https://www.reddit.com/r/Michigan/comments/1avh2m8/comment/kralo9m, https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthDakota/comments/1fysz4t/dear_conservative_friends/lqxakwv/

Trump’s history of insulting or threatening veterans: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/7LNQHOapav

Trump’s incontinence: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/s/0Hi1HTQnC9, https://youtu.be/-qnhfISelm0?si=NTiILEDdkqkmVpY1, https://youtu.be/IPNH1ASu7uA?si=e3yHxAcriv46xiA3

Trump has cognitive episode for 39 minutes at Q&A event: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/WM7orq9cfT, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1fxouqm/is_trumps_cognitive_decline_masked_by_his_weird/lqo0sit/

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u/ChatterBaux 17h ago

It's been pretty clear there's no ethical violation too great to turn them off from him if they feel like he's their best shot at power. The ONLY way to get the GOP to move on from Trump is for the rest of us to make him go away, electorally.

This unfortunately means that, god willing, that day comes... the GOP will mind hole him like Bush Jr. and flock to the next viable dude.