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Trump Melts Down as Idiot Sons Are Set to Take the Stand (newrepublic.com)

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 160 points 1 year ago

“Someone else offered much more, so what? Now they come up with something called ‘disgorgement.’ I never even heard of the term. WITCH HUNT!!! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!” Trump wrote.

Disgorgement is a remedy requiring a party who profits from illegal or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of that illegal or wrongful conduct. The purpose of this remedy is to prevent unjust enrichment and make illegal conduct unprofitable.

Congratulations, both me, you, and Donald Trump learned something new today.

[-] koolkiwi@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I highly doubt Trump learned something from this

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm sure Trump's familiar with engorgement, however...

[-] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You could have NOT put that in my head! 🤣

[-] Haus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

late 15th century: from Old French desgorger, from des- (expressing removal) + gorge ‘throat’.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

He's smart enough to realize his own ignorance is probably shared by most of his cultists, so playing using his own ignorance to attack the the government is going to work perfectly every time. Basically, it's hard to sound like a fool if you're speaking to a bunch of fools.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love that "idiot sons" is actually part of the real headline.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Nice to see more accuracy in news headlines

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

Not even quotation marks. Wow.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan of New Republic but it's a silly headline, should have used the proper term "failson."

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Trump Melts Down… if only. I’d love to see him as a puddle.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Trump on acid?"

"No, I said 'Trump in acid.'"

[-] lando55@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

"Trump stoned?"

"No, Trump getting crushed under a pile of increasingly larger stones."

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"Trump on crack" "No, Trump having all his bones cracked"

[-] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Like that guy from the original Robocop movie, classic acid meltdown

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[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seriously now, why is he so upset that his kids have to testify? It's not like they're being arrested. All they have to do is get up there and (at least pretend to) tell the truth. What's so awful about that?

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

He's probably afraid that they'll slip up and prove that he really did everything that's been claimed, that has a mountain of evidence, and that he's already been found liable for.

Wouldn't you be worried if your entire financial well-being depended on Don Jr and Eric?

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping they ask questions that they know the kids will perjure themselves lying about and that they have proof that they know what the truth is.

[-] fleabomber@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

He's losing. He's not talking to the court, he's talking to the "stand back and stand by" crowd.

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Ffs put that crap heap of a sorry excuse for a human being in jail already. Preferably supermax, I recommend Terre Haute, Indiana. No, wait, a 250% booked medium security with hundreds of beds in a school gym. Yeah. That'll do.

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

He'd be the leader of some skin head gang by the end of the first day. Enjoying special privileges from prison staff that are believers. It would put him in direct contact with very dangerous people that idolize the image he's projected, people he wouldn't normally be caught dead talking to.

I'd prefer house arrest for him, keep him comfortable enough to prevent too much complaints. Isolated enough to prevent damage. No visitors, no internet, but lots of Big Macs and KFC. His very own Elba.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wait wait wait, now that you mention Elba, don't we have a bunch of bird shit islands that we could build a house on and ship mcdonalds to for him?

I'd be fine with that as long as there's no wifi and we never hear from him again.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

His very own Elba.

Read this as ebola at first and thought it took a delightful twist at the end.

I unfortunately agree: a former POTUS will never go to a regular prison. I'll settle for house arrest.

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[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

The Trump family and Musk are both prime examples of why you shouldn't pass on excessive wealth to your children. Your kids or grandkids will grow up to be complete idiots, or at least, they have a higher chance of it.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Don't attribute to stupidity what can be attributed to malice.

Trump is an idiot. Musk is evil. Musk didn't buy Xitter to make it better, despite his claim of being capable of making it more profitable. He bought it using a shitload of Saudi oil money in order to destroy one of the largest platforms for leftist voices in the western world. This wasn't just him blustering into a 25 billion dollar loss on Xitter. What Musk does is very intentional.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Eh. I'll agree to disagree. There's a reason the razor is the exact opposite, to first attribute to stupidity and then to malice.

There's no way Elon would've agreed to trash his reputation like this to kill Twitter. He's far too egotistical and craves worship.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Think about it this way.

He trashed the reputation he gained amongst well educated millenials to look good in the eyes of the same people who voted for Trump.

What's more important as a billionaire narcissist? Constantly having to navigate your support base, a support base you inherently disagree with, or developing one that will support you no matter what you do?

Idk, food for thought.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, but his business model's primary target is well educated millennials. I know I'm not the only one who went from thinking of getting a Tesla as my next car to looking at what competitors have.

[-] teuast@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No reason he couldn't be both stupid and malicious.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hm, I thought lots of boomers and Gen Xers were the ones that could afford them the most, though.

[-] yao@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mmmm tasty narcissism...

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I think he's not even 1/10th as smart as his fanbois seem to think he is. I think he also set out to life the voices of the alt-right, though.

But I bet he didn't think his purchase would be worth less than half a year after he bought it and completely mismanaged it.

[-] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 1 year ago

'Meltdown' is his default state. It would be news if he had a melt-up.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Trump Melt-Up Sandwich: $32. Made with stale white gas station bread, coated with cheeto crumbs, filled with moldy bologna with a side of dog shit

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry, way too coherent to be believable.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

NOT ENOUGH CAPS. SAD!

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is a great idea actually. A real sandwich shop with one joke sandwich that's just totally gross. Uk some maga turd will order it just cuZ his entire personality is trump and just get rekt.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's one of those hyperbolic headline words, in actuality it's a pathetic complain post that reads like all his others. I'm sure the judge will "absolutely obliterate" him later by sitting there and doing their job.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Are they selling tickets? I'd like a front row seat

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[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I can't think of Eric trump without thinking of the SNL skits

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Anyone wondering where his sons inherited that stupid gene from?

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[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Idiot is an understatement

[-] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rage more Orange man. We love it!

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