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Poll Results:  If New York AG Takes Trump Properties Politically will it Backfire?

Yes, Even Democrats will Against Her   81.5% 81.5 % (22)
No, It will Open Doors for Even More Politically Driven Cases   18.5% 18.5 % (5)


Total Votes: 27

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-03-22 10:04:50   By: Anonymous
 
Trump’s getting that Loser Stink all over him.

He committed long-term financial fraud that benefited him to the tune of $350 million, and now he has to pay that back plus interest. Boohoo

Meanwhile, he’s taken over the GOP $$$ for his legal cases and is going to bankrupt every single republican race down the ballot. They should have impeached him when they had the chance.

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    Posted on: 2024-03-22 11:39:57   By: Anonymous
     
    Maybe, but a governmental question? Do you want your legal system to be vindictive and political? If you and other's do we are done as a country already

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      Posted on: 2024-03-22 12:54:36   By: Anonymous
       
      I think John Hamilton is retarded.

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        Posted on: 2024-03-25 08:32:18   By: Anonymous
         
        Stormy says Don has a little Dick!

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          Posted on: 2024-03-26 10:48:28   By: Anonymous
           
          I thought we weren't supposed to say retarded anymore. He is mentally challenged

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      Posted on: 2024-03-23 08:08:59   By: Anonymous
       
      Donald Trump was found guilty of engaging in a years-long scheme to deceive banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
      This scheme involved falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, and conspiracy to falsify business records.
      The judge ruled that Trump's fraudulent financial claims were critical to his success, enabling him to secure loans with lower interest rates and undertake projects he might not have completed otherwise.

      That’s a crime. Trump is guilty. He’s had LESS consequences because of who he is, not more. I know it’s going to hurt to see him for the stinky loser he is, but you’ll be okay.

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        Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
        Posted on: 2024-03-24 08:21:20   By: Anonymous
         
        I know you libs are soiling yourselves with this punishment but who was were the actual victims in this case? The banks were happy and got repaid on time, the insurance companies weren't upset and nobody but the DA (dumb-ass) had any issue with Donald Trump. The punishment to fit the crime seems overwhelmingly harsh and can you remember a penalty for anyone that even approached this amount? If you want Venezuela and Hugo Chavez type law and order you have it with this drama.

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          Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
          Posted on: 2024-03-24 09:22:57   By: Anonymous
           
          Lol, you would agree it was a crime if Biden had done it.

          The mental gymnastics you have to do to keep defending donald- you deserve a gold medal!

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          Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
          Posted on: 2024-03-24 09:34:54   By: Anonymous
           
          Having to pay back your ill-gotten gains is a well known legal remedy.

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            Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
            Posted on: 2024-03-26 09:01:41   By: Anonymous
             
            Who were the victims here? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the real corruption here, the so-called law keepers are making it up as they go. Letitia ran her campaign promising to crucify Donald Trump which should have gotten her disbarred from the git go. Which company complained about any of this?

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              Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
              Posted on: 2024-03-26 10:26:32   By: Anonymous
               
              An uneven playing field has victims. Why should anyone play fair if the competition doesn’t?

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                Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
                Posted on: 2024-04-07 13:10:32   By: Anonymous
                 
                But the victim here is all of us if the DOJ and State AGs see political persecution as their job description

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                  Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
                  Posted on: 2024-04-08 11:34:08   By: Anonymous
                   
                  Lol ok sure

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                  Re: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
                  Posted on: 2024-04-08 11:36:00   By: Anonymous
                   
                  If this were anybody but trump they would be in jail already. You go ahead and threaten your judge’s daughter and see if you get the same treatment trump does.



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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-03-26 11:24:16   By: Anonymous
 
Right-wing "media" are foreign agents....
Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-03-27 09:16:09   By: Anonymous
 
Could this poll question have any more one-sided choices? Do better, John.

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    Posted on: 2024-03-28 05:50:23   By: Anonymous
     
    Look, it's hard when your hero is forced by our legal system to take accountability (like every other citizen) for his actions.
    Accountability, accountability, accountability; it sucks if you're a criminal.
    Trump is finding that out.
    His sentences and fines are based on the scale of his criminal activity, as it should be.
    It took a 90 million dollar judgement against him for him to finally STOP SLANDERING THE VICTIM HE RAPED!

    Unfortunately over 8,000 of our neighbors here in the county believe any rape, insurrection, etc. preformed by Mr. Trump is perfectly acceptable/legal.

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    Posted on: 2024-03-29 12:34:26   By: Anonymous
     
    John can't do any better. He's retarded just like his loyal and extremely hateful, easily manipulated and so over-the-top illiterate it's almost funny. Yet, unnerving in the same. John Hamilton and his band of brothers, oh how pround he must be. F-ucking creepy, there's a reason locals call it the pinetree.nuts. Sorry, we aren't supposed to say retarded anymore. Now it's mentally challenged, special needs, or whatever the f-uck. Hop on the Hamilton short bus and let's take a ride on the pine tree express. WeeWeeWee 🙌

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-03-31 11:34:52   By: Anonymous
 
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread. No matter how I present it, I’ll offend some thoughtful, decent people.

The north star here is truth. We tell the truth, even when it offends some of the people who pay us for information.

The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse.

This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it.

The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it.

As for those who equate Trump and Joe Biden, that’s false equivalency. Biden has done nothing remotely close to the egregious, anti-American acts of Trump. We can debate the success and mindset of our current president, as we have about most presidents in our lifetimes, but Biden was never a threat to our democracy. Trump is. He is unique among all American presidents for his efforts to keep power at any cost.

Personally, I find it hard to understand how Americans who take pride in our system of government support Trump. All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil. How do they not see it?

The March 25 edition of the New Yorker magazine offers some insight. It includes a detailed review of a new book about Adolf Hitler, focused on the year 1932. It’s called “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” and is by historian Timothy W. Ryback. It explains how German leaders – including some in the media -- thought they could use Hitler as a means to get power for themselves and were willing to look past his obvious deficiencies to get where they wanted. In tolerating and using Hitler as a means to an end, they helped create the monstrous dictator responsible for millions of deaths.

How are those German leaders different from people in Congress saying the election was stolen or that Jan. 6 was not an insurrection aimed at destroying our government? They know the truth, but they deny it. They see Trump as a means to an end – power for themselves and their “team” – even if it means repeatedly telling lies.

Sadly, many believe the lies. They trust people in authority, without questioning the obvious discrepancies or relying on their own eyes. These are the people who take offense to the truths we tell about Trump. No one in our newsroom gets up in the morning wanting to make a segment of readers feel bad. No one seeks to demean anyone. We understand what a privilege it is to be welcomed into the lives of the millions of people who visit our platforms each month for news, sports and entertainment. But our duty is to the truth.

Our nation does seem to be slipping down the same slide that Germany did in the 1930s. Maybe the collapse of government in the hands of a madman is inevitable, given how the media landscape has been corrupted by partisans, as it was in 1930s Germany.

I hope not.

In our newsroom, we’ll do our part. Much as it offends some who read us, we will continue to tell the truth about Trump

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer

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    Posted on: 2024-04-06 06:29:07   By: Anonymous
     
    When the citizens of America see the United States Supreme Court attempting to give the criminal insurrectionist Donald J Trump a free pass on his indictments. The rule of Law and Order is under attack. I believe this country did not come two hundred years to fail under the scheme of Valdemar Putin and Donald Trump and his MAGA REPUBLICANS.

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      Posted on: 2024-04-06 06:36:30   By: Anonymous
       
      If any other American Citizen owed 500 million to the state of New York. For twenty plus year of fraud and tax evasion. You’re damm right they would take you fuc-ing assets. What is that some kind of News flash ?

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        Posted on: 2024-04-06 06:48:24   By: Anonymous
         
        He is continuing to commit fraud even to this day. Asking his lower income followers to save up what ever money they can. Five,ten dollars to send to him. To pay his astronomical legal fees. As he continues to sue more people. In attempt to continue to exploit our legal system. His 175 million dollar Bone Bounced. Again everything this criminal insurrectionist does, is a Scam on the hard working families of America.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-04-14 15:22:21   By: Anonymous
 
He is NOT above the law - no one is, even though he thinks he is. He cannot be allowed to set a precedent that certain people can be above the law.




















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    Posted on: 2024-04-15 07:22:49   By: Anonymous
     
    Did the Donald pay his income taxes this year. Wait one minute. He is calling the IRS a total witch hunt. Completely insane, dying old fool.

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      Posted on: 2024-04-15 07:24:15   By: Anonymous
       
      His taxes are under audit. Permanently.

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        Posted on: 2024-04-15 07:26:02   By: Anonymous
         
        Is it fair to say. He the Donald never tells the truth about anything. Full Stop…..

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-04-15 11:29:42   By: Anonymous
 
Trump is the first former president ever to fall asleep at his own criminal trial.

Sleepy Donald

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