Trump is a compulsive criminal who has been normalized by the media

[Snake Plissken]

Trump is a compulsive criminal who got away with one of his crime on a technicality, so he decided to commit the same exact crime again but this time got caught red handed

Law enforcement deals with his ilk all the time, life long con men who can't stop committing crimes because they are addicted to the rush of getting away with it

Trump will continue to commit crimes until he is brought to justice, it's really that simple.

[madaboutharry]

1. He has a criminal mind.

He has been behaving with criminality his entire life. He is "shell shocked" because this is the first time he is being held to account for his criminality.

[Snake Plissken]

4. The way the media downplayed his Trump University scam still absolutely blows my mind

Here is a dirtbag who created a fake university for the sole purpose of enriching himself by defrauding people out of their life savings.

And not only did he avoid prison, but he avoided civil action by the states where he set up this scam by giving huge campaign donations to the District Attorneys in those states to drop the lawsuits, and the media just acts like ... well that's just Trump being Trump.

It took a class action suit to finally make him pay up for his fraud which was most likely paid for by the missing $25 million dollars from his inauguration

[blm]

5. That was a huge tell.

There isn’t one Democrat who would have gotten a pass from the media like that.

With Democrats the entire media pounces for just the “appearance” of a wrongdoing.

[Botany]

10. One of Trump U's scam was to market itself to the widows of the Iraq war

Want to make good money and stay home with the kids too? Why not real estate?

Trump U in some cases took the death benefit money and family assistance payments
from the V.A. (?) and social security and sold those people worthless degrees.

[bdamomma]

20. now he is

defrauding us and our country.

[triron]

25. And the media still wanted to talk about the Bidens (until overwhelming shit on Trump came out).

[uponit7771]

29. +1, can you imagine if Clinton or Obama or Carter or anyone else would've ran a scam like this?!

[Chili Pepper]

9. And he can't buy ...

... or bully his way out of it.

[Celerity]

2. his entire family, empire, and circle of goons, stooges and henchpeople need to be taken DOWN

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Liquidate ALL his family's assets after he and the rest are duly convicted (as restitution to the nation), revoke Melania and her grifter family's illegally gained citizenship and send them the fuck back to live out their lives in Slovenian poverty (put a financial lien on ALL her future earnings over a certain amount), and FFS, lock up for life all the inner echelon, Ivanka, the 2 oldest sons, Jared, Barr, and Moscow Mitch included. PURE traitors and murderers, the lot of 'em.

[Duppers]

3. 👍👍

[moondust]

6. symbiosis

In the old days tabloids chased the "dashing young millionaire" who craved all that attention. Both benefited.

NBC ran his reality TV show for 14 seasons based on the premise that he was a God-like business mogul whose place in the world was now to sit in judgment of others who wanted to be moguls like him. (Just don't mention his multiple bankuptcies.) Some people apparently fell for it and watched the show. Both he and the network apparently benefited.

More recently MSM chased the "unpredictable old billionaire" who decided to run for President and then started winning. Viewers were glued to their screens to see what the political neophyte would do next. Advertising revenues got a boost as people couldn't look away from this train wreck in motion. Eyeballs baby! Both benefited.

You can't jail the rich and famous, can you sheriff, since jail is for the little people who can't afford an army of lawyers? I mean, he's rich and famous for a good reason, right?

[PaulRevere08]

7. This!!! He is enabled by others because they also profit off him.

The losers are the poor schmucks who actually believe the garbage that is served up to them; and it's a long list. Folks duped by his various scams, folks duped into delivering services with the expectation of being payed and lastly folks who voted for him. All were left holding the bag while trump and his enablers profited.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. If Netflix still has it... excellent four part documentary on trump

Starts with his first Manhattan deal where he coerced the city council into giving him a 40 year tax abatement. He has been winning through coercion and out-lawyering all his life.

But the most telling thing was the way Everyone fawned all over him. You can see it in all the old clips. They said he was the greatest self promoter ever.

[maddiemom]

13. Yes! This is definitely worth watching.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. It is! I don't think people realize how the vast

majority of people believed he was a great and brilliant business icon. I remember my mom seeing him on the street in NY and her telling us how the crowds moved out of his way like he was a superstar god.

Thinking back, wonder what have happened if he hadn't jumped on the birther band wagon.

Btw, about the part about his dad buying millions in casino chips and just never playing them. Makes me think that it would take a team of forensic accountants to find where he injected Russian cash into his hurting organization. Not like there will be a balance sheet line item "due to Russia".

[bdamomma]

18. oh brother

"I remember my mom seeing him on the street in NY and her telling us how the crowds moved out of his way like he was a superstar god".


Well we know he is no superstar and no god.

[northoftheborder]

22. Do you remember the name of that documentary on Netflix?

[PaulRevere08]

24. Trump: An American Dream

https://www.netflix.com/title/80206395

[Six117]

8. Yes, they are! I read this to get an idea of what some conservatives are thinking

and, once again confirmed- they've got the notion of TDS COMPLETELY BACKWARDS! It is deranged to continually make excuses for a CRIMINAL and allow him to make a mockery of our laws and EVERYTHING we believe in.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/trump-impeachment-question-president-public-trust/

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. TDS?

[PaulRevere08]

26. Trump Derangement Syndrome

[yaesu]

12. The media reinvented the business disaster called tRump, NBC in particular with the reality show BS

I think he would have been in prison long before he became dictator if it wasn't for the corporate networks cashing him in, making him a "star" and setting their monster on us with the help of their corporate propaganda machine called "news'.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. I don't know. It would be interesting to look back

and see what was publicly known about his shenanigans back then. I looked and his show was on from 2004-2010. He didn't start his birther thing until 2011. Just know he was the best at self promotion and good at doing and hiding bad things. Will say though that NBC learned he was bullshit through filming. He wasn't the wise business icon they depicted. Had to do multiple takes to make him come off that way.

On edit, these dates don't look right. Like Obama's correspondence dinner swipe about Meatball seemed current.

[Hugin]

16. The truly horrifiying part of this normalization situation...

Is Orange Julius Ceasar is far far from alone. Sometimes, all it seems to take is $$$ or the rumor of it being there.

[dalton99a]

17. The only language criminals understand is force.

As in, prison time

[Texin]

19. Actually, the term "man baby" stunningly fits him.

My takeaway from the congressional hearing yesterday was more a sort of dawning to me that tRump is more like an oversized bully-boy adolescent with a low IQ. He frankly doesn't really know that what he's been doing and saying is not only not appropriate or illegal, it's just brain dead supid. He's got a bunch of underlings who are frantically running behind him and trying to hide and sweep up the broken china and fractured relationships he leaves in his wake on a minute by minute basis, thereby, making themselves criminal accomplices after the fact. That he would go (and be taped!) delivering the words about executing the "traitor(s)" for making this known - in the same day - is just mind-blowing to me, and it proves to me that he truly doesn't know that he's doing anything wrong. I don't know whether he believes in that pea size brain of his that he's been cast in a reality show or he naively thought that presidents can do anything they want with impunity (frankly, I couldn't point to one or the other as being what he actually thinks, but it's something along those lines), and he's got a retinue of underlings that are willing to prostrate themselves in a debased position as criminal accomplices for mere pittances.

The rethuglicans have chained themselves to an oafish, idiotic child and they seem determined to sink to the bottom of the Sea of Abyss with him. I'm shaking my head continuously as I think about it.

[bdamomma]

21. Let them all sink with him

and that goes for his cult supporters too.

[Skittles]

27. Trump has behaved this way his entire life

people have always had to clean up the messes he left behind, while he went on to create more chaos....Trump has never been held accountable in his life but this is one situation he cannot buy or tweet his way out of

[uponit7771]

28. K&R, *** A CHILD ABUSING RACIST !!! *** Media needs to call him that often !!!

[NCLefty]

30. The only time his crime slows is when he feels in danger.

There will be more whistleblowers/witnesses. This is just the tip, still.

"Law enforcement deals with his ilk all the time, life long con men who can't stop committing crimes because they are addicted to the rush of getting away with it"

I've thought a lot about lifelong law-men/women too since all these investigations began... people like Comey, Yates, Mueller, McCabe, others. I think about how some of them must have looked at Trump and were just horrified as things unfolded. Yet, each tried to use their power and the power or our laws to check him in the face of his great power and relentless attacks.

The next president needs to give out some damn medals... the whistleblowers, law (and other) people who Did Something or tried to... and some journalists.

[dalton99a]

31. "it may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS"

Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? This is pretty amazing…. Who would have thought that this circus would come to town?

But, you know—it may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS, that’s all I got to say.

So what can I say? It’s—you know, the money’s rolling in, and this is fun.

- Les Moonves