On Truth Social, Trump has repeatedly promoted Stake, an unregulated online casino that, according to state gambling regulators, is operating illegally.
I never want to hear again that we are “a nation of laws.” We’re a nation of flimsy laws, or gentlemen’s agreements, or norms — anything but what I used to believe were “laws”.
Trump is just continuing a grand old Republican tradition, that's ultimately paid by the taxpayer. Like his recent $1.8 billion slush fund; that will actually pay out our money to Jan-Sixers, nine of whom have been convicted of pedophile charges *after* their pardons by Trump. No wonder the GOP doesn't want the Epstein Files released! Let's all remember this as we near election day.
The problem with your statement is that it implies this is just conventional GOP corruption as usual, which is exactly the impression Trump wants. This is the most deeply, expansively corrupt regime in US history. Every day a new revelation. We can't let him off so easily.
As I commented a few minutes ago, the Democrat speech writers should be giddy at all of the talking points they have to persuade people they can do better. You've added to the list that I posted! The list is long....
Biden was supposed to “Trump proof” the presidency by prosecuting all traitors at highest levels but he did squat to the wealthy & thus, you have the republicans completing the coup d’ etat.
Oh please, Flora - trump blames Biden for everything that isn't perfect and YOU are proliferating his lies. No one president can "trump proof" the presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. The fact that trump and his regime are the most corrupt and lawless crew to ever take power is not Biden's fault. It IS the fault of the corrupt oligarchs that bribed people in all branches of the government to enrich the rich. This IS the fault of corrupt Republicans that put trump in power twice in their name. And it IS directly the fault of the Americans who either voted for a corrupt criminal twice or did not vote. We have become a nation of transactional, greedy, selfish consumers and we got what SOME idiots voted for.
Instead of finding fault and blame like felon trump does, it is time the American people decide to move outside their personal selfish opinions, get educated beyond disinformation, and start thinking and voting for an America that lives up to our historic goals. The new "rules" of our country must contend with vast corruption, wealth inequality, and AI, but we can do it if we decide to do it.
The Biden admin didn’t even try to hold him & the traitors at highest levels accountable. AG GOP MG show walked everything & ran out the clock- intentionally.
Take a look at Brazil- after their attempted coup- that’s exactly what should have happened in the USA BUT DID NOT.
Yes , It’s Biden’s fault they weren’t prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Biden was in the senate & also VP- he knew the score & he let it happen- on his watch.
There are laws, but so far when DJT breaks them, the people who would be able to stand up to him don't. Instead, they seems to be signaling "more, more, more, sir!"
I think you’re right, but there’s more. It also seems our laws are so riddled with loopholes, that Trump et al have been able to exploit them with impunity. In the way that cyber criminals are often used to find flaws in digital systems, I thought our Democratic leaders and lawyers would be leading the charge to close loopholes, and write into law some mechanisms that would immediately restrict damage. Project 2025 was published while Biden was President. We had time to get ahead of lots of this. But we didn’t.
And the current head of the DOJ noted that it's not unusual for people assaulting police officers to receive money for it. He didn't give any examples. But we just let it go as a rationale for the corruption fund paying J6ers. We could go on and on, couldn't we....
Well, The damn SCOTUS under Roberts gave him a free pass to be above any laws, didn't they? They are the ones I blame. They knew very well that he was a lawless criminal, and has been all of his misbegotten life, but they told him to go ahead and loot the treasury, hire other criminals and take all the bribes he can get.
The grift just marches on... When the books are written, we will sit jaws agape at the stories they will tell. The conversations on the golf course, the phone call conversations with the agencies to rewrite rules, the conversations with the man who stood up and said no. Those reporters and writers will have the time it takes to get those granular details. For now, it is imperative that Judd et al find and report on these details, the ones that will make the books "unbelievable."
Here is how I know the God of my childhood religion does not exist: prayer. I know that when I wake up in the morning I, along with a million other people, pray that Twump died overnight. If a million + people fervently praying for the same thing - and it is a good thing - and it does not "work," then prayer does not work. Period. Because there is no one listening.
Hope takes longer but may be more powerful than time wasting prayers.
Katy, I was with you reading the first paragraph and then you went on this tangent about praying for someone’s death. So many responses jump into my head but I will simply say that I understand your unbelief in a Disneyfied deity. I, too, don’t have a belief in a superpower in the sky who can kill a human if we all just get our heads together and believed really hard that we can make and do anything. I don’t waste my time praying for harm or retribution either. Rather, hope is with us in our suffering, present in the comfort of others, given unseen and unconditionally, and often received without knowledge or the ability to give thanks. That’s the good news for all people, period. Donald is close to death without anybody else’s intervention. He is a sad, sick man and we need to all hang together and be there for each other when this nightmare ends. Peace.
Thanks, Sarcastic Prophet, I knew I was stepping over a line and as dark as I can get, when God comes into it, people get their hackles up. That's cool, go hackles! But I cannot pretend that I do not wish for the death of this decrepit man and, if I'm being honest, I'd like the death to occur in a car taking him and several other men to the Memorial Day service where Hogsbreath has written his speech from a Wikipedia page on the history of Memorial Day and Twump cannot get a sentence out that sounds like he read it even once before he stood in front of parents, wives and children of fallen soldiers. Could not be bothered. Did not care. So, yeah, I wish fervently for his death and I don't want it to be painless.
I mean it. I've had it up to here with being good and waiting and patient. I want him out of my sight. I want my country back. I want the cruelty to stop. I want better people to lead. I want America to wake the f up.
I want those soldiers to have died for something. Not to make this man powerful and rich, not so Leon Musk can whine and complain, not so media platforms can corrupt and destroy our children. No, they died for something noble and meaningful. They died to keep us free. Our freedom is being wiped away by Twump and his minions.
Nope, I don't take it back and I do not believe that I am wrong.
I am with you, Katy. I say the same thing"prayer" every day. It is NOT wrong to wish this scourge is removed from us, even if I do not know who the hell I am praying to, I just throw it out into the Universe in hopes that karma is listening.
How dare you admonish someone for heartfelt anguish about the state of our nation and the central instigator who is the nexus of immeasurable misery.
So many people wake up hoping Trump’s death is the first headline they read.
I would have hoped for Hitler’s death, had I been there then, like I, too, hope for the same news every morning about our American version of a deadly dictator.
I know. I have been reading your comments for a year or two. We are in this lifeboat together. Let's save room for disagreement and even hysteria when need be. I am so incredibly sad today after the debacle that was Memorial Day at Arlington yesterday. My heart aches for all of our families who have lost a loved one on a battlefield, losses too heavy to bear.
Agree completely! I once read that monsters will be monsters. They can't help themselves (read DJT). But the followers have a choice. It's amazing how many are making that choice! I watched Steven J. Ross being interviewed by Rachel Maddow yesterday, and his new book (can't remember the title) explains who these people are, what they believe, what they want, and why they will do go extreme lengths to destroy our country.
Online gambling is nothing more than fleecing Americans and greed. The proliferation of illegal activities during tRumpies time has been mind boggling. I swear he gives prizes to regime members who come up with the latest scam, blackmail, his personal enrichment along with his miserable family.
When the supreme court gave the trump crime family immunity, it was just a matter of time until they spread that nullification of laws to the wider criminal population.
No, other than paying off the Jan-Sixers with his new $1.8 billion slush fund, Trump is pretty keen on the grift being a Trump-only or Trump-family-only gig. He's a family man, practicing GOP family values.
His planned permanent exemption to IRS auditing, will make roughly $200 *million* in back taxes just vanish. And could theoretically mean he'll never pay another dime in taxes for the rest of his life.
The trump crime family has spread criminal protection by selling pardons, selling regulatory changes, and teaching their insiders to trade on insider information. The pardons have allowed criminals to avoid paying court ordered restitution to victims. The trump crime family has groomed the American population to be more accepting of crime.
Thank you for uncovering this. Of course Trump is advertising with his tweets. And of course his doing it for a company that pays someone $100,000,000 per year for advertising. I’m sure the company is barely profitable. 🫣 And the fruit flavored vapes…these are things that happen where you realize yet again that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself and money. Still blows my mind.
I never want to hear again that we are “a nation of laws.” We’re a nation of flimsy laws, or gentlemen’s agreements, or norms — anything but what I used to believe were “laws”.
C'mon Leslie, that Constitution thingee, with its emoluments clause, is like two-hundred years old. It's so, like, ancient.
But seriously, the GOP takes to corruption like ducks to water. The ratio of GOP to Dem bribery *convictions* is 38:1: https://medium.com/rantt/gop-admins-had-38-times-more-criminal-convictions-than-democrats-1961-2016-91ddb60b0697
Trump is just continuing a grand old Republican tradition, that's ultimately paid by the taxpayer. Like his recent $1.8 billion slush fund; that will actually pay out our money to Jan-Sixers, nine of whom have been convicted of pedophile charges *after* their pardons by Trump. No wonder the GOP doesn't want the Epstein Files released! Let's all remember this as we near election day.
The problem with your statement is that it implies this is just conventional GOP corruption as usual, which is exactly the impression Trump wants. This is the most deeply, expansively corrupt regime in US history. Every day a new revelation. We can't let him off so easily.
As I commented a few minutes ago, the Democrat speech writers should be giddy at all of the talking points they have to persuade people they can do better. You've added to the list that I posted! The list is long....
38:1?!!! WHY have I not seen this statistic before?!!! HEADLINE NEWS!
Biden was supposed to “Trump proof” the presidency by prosecuting all traitors at highest levels but he did squat to the wealthy & thus, you have the republicans completing the coup d’ etat.
Oh please, Flora - trump blames Biden for everything that isn't perfect and YOU are proliferating his lies. No one president can "trump proof" the presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. The fact that trump and his regime are the most corrupt and lawless crew to ever take power is not Biden's fault. It IS the fault of the corrupt oligarchs that bribed people in all branches of the government to enrich the rich. This IS the fault of corrupt Republicans that put trump in power twice in their name. And it IS directly the fault of the Americans who either voted for a corrupt criminal twice or did not vote. We have become a nation of transactional, greedy, selfish consumers and we got what SOME idiots voted for.
Instead of finding fault and blame like felon trump does, it is time the American people decide to move outside their personal selfish opinions, get educated beyond disinformation, and start thinking and voting for an America that lives up to our historic goals. The new "rules" of our country must contend with vast corruption, wealth inequality, and AI, but we can do it if we decide to do it.
The Biden admin didn’t even try to hold him & the traitors at highest levels accountable. AG GOP MG show walked everything & ran out the clock- intentionally.
Take a look at Brazil- after their attempted coup- that’s exactly what should have happened in the USA BUT DID NOT.
Yes , It’s Biden’s fault they weren’t prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Biden was in the senate & also VP- he knew the score & he let it happen- on his watch.
Come on Man.
There are laws, but so far when DJT breaks them, the people who would be able to stand up to him don't. Instead, they seems to be signaling "more, more, more, sir!"
I think you’re right, but there’s more. It also seems our laws are so riddled with loopholes, that Trump et al have been able to exploit them with impunity. In the way that cyber criminals are often used to find flaws in digital systems, I thought our Democratic leaders and lawyers would be leading the charge to close loopholes, and write into law some mechanisms that would immediately restrict damage. Project 2025 was published while Biden was President. We had time to get ahead of lots of this. But we didn’t.
The DOJ has been neutered. Large numbers of attorneys fired. Loyalists hired.
And the current head of the DOJ noted that it's not unusual for people assaulting police officers to receive money for it. He didn't give any examples. But we just let it go as a rationale for the corruption fund paying J6ers. We could go on and on, couldn't we....
Well, The damn SCOTUS under Roberts gave him a free pass to be above any laws, didn't they? They are the ones I blame. They knew very well that he was a lawless criminal, and has been all of his misbegotten life, but they told him to go ahead and loot the treasury, hire other criminals and take all the bribes he can get.
& They should have been prosecuted immediately after the first coup- before the Robert’s’ court gave him immunity.
Stake: We're a safe and free gaming experience.
Regulators: You're an illegal online casino. For gambling.
Stake: Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.
The grift just marches on... When the books are written, we will sit jaws agape at the stories they will tell. The conversations on the golf course, the phone call conversations with the agencies to rewrite rules, the conversations with the man who stood up and said no. Those reporters and writers will have the time it takes to get those granular details. For now, it is imperative that Judd et al find and report on these details, the ones that will make the books "unbelievable."
Here is how I know the God of my childhood religion does not exist: prayer. I know that when I wake up in the morning I, along with a million other people, pray that Twump died overnight. If a million + people fervently praying for the same thing - and it is a good thing - and it does not "work," then prayer does not work. Period. Because there is no one listening.
Hope takes longer but may be more powerful than time wasting prayers.
Katy, I was with you reading the first paragraph and then you went on this tangent about praying for someone’s death. So many responses jump into my head but I will simply say that I understand your unbelief in a Disneyfied deity. I, too, don’t have a belief in a superpower in the sky who can kill a human if we all just get our heads together and believed really hard that we can make and do anything. I don’t waste my time praying for harm or retribution either. Rather, hope is with us in our suffering, present in the comfort of others, given unseen and unconditionally, and often received without knowledge or the ability to give thanks. That’s the good news for all people, period. Donald is close to death without anybody else’s intervention. He is a sad, sick man and we need to all hang together and be there for each other when this nightmare ends. Peace.
Thanks, Sarcastic Prophet, I knew I was stepping over a line and as dark as I can get, when God comes into it, people get their hackles up. That's cool, go hackles! But I cannot pretend that I do not wish for the death of this decrepit man and, if I'm being honest, I'd like the death to occur in a car taking him and several other men to the Memorial Day service where Hogsbreath has written his speech from a Wikipedia page on the history of Memorial Day and Twump cannot get a sentence out that sounds like he read it even once before he stood in front of parents, wives and children of fallen soldiers. Could not be bothered. Did not care. So, yeah, I wish fervently for his death and I don't want it to be painless.
I mean it. I've had it up to here with being good and waiting and patient. I want him out of my sight. I want my country back. I want the cruelty to stop. I want better people to lead. I want America to wake the f up.
I want those soldiers to have died for something. Not to make this man powerful and rich, not so Leon Musk can whine and complain, not so media platforms can corrupt and destroy our children. No, they died for something noble and meaningful. They died to keep us free. Our freedom is being wiped away by Twump and his minions.
Nope, I don't take it back and I do not believe that I am wrong.
And, truly, from the bottom of my heart: peace.
I am with you, Katy. I say the same thing"prayer" every day. It is NOT wrong to wish this scourge is removed from us, even if I do not know who the hell I am praying to, I just throw it out into the Universe in hopes that karma is listening.
How dare you admonish someone for heartfelt anguish about the state of our nation and the central instigator who is the nexus of immeasurable misery.
So many people wake up hoping Trump’s death is the first headline they read.
I would have hoped for Hitler’s death, had I been there then, like I, too, hope for the same news every morning about our American version of a deadly dictator.
He has earned every bit of this anger and fear.
Keep your supercilious preaching to yourself.
Thank you. I feel your words. I will not lie. I think so many of the same thoughts.
I know. I have been reading your comments for a year or two. We are in this lifeboat together. Let's save room for disagreement and even hysteria when need be. I am so incredibly sad today after the debacle that was Memorial Day at Arlington yesterday. My heart aches for all of our families who have lost a loved one on a battlefield, losses too heavy to bear.
Frequently unpleasant to read, always well-researched, thank you for your important work for our country. Hope this gets wide dissemination.
Trump is Corruption Inc. And many Americans still support him. The saddest part is not who he is, but how many go along with this.
Agree completely! I once read that monsters will be monsters. They can't help themselves (read DJT). But the followers have a choice. It's amazing how many are making that choice! I watched Steven J. Ross being interviewed by Rachel Maddow yesterday, and his new book (can't remember the title) explains who these people are, what they believe, what they want, and why they will do go extreme lengths to destroy our country.
Great investigative reporting. Thank you.
Show him the money— seems democracy is for sale & it was sold to wealthy oligarchs- either foreign or domestic.
Online gambling is nothing more than fleecing Americans and greed. The proliferation of illegal activities during tRumpies time has been mind boggling. I swear he gives prizes to regime members who come up with the latest scam, blackmail, his personal enrichment along with his miserable family.
When the supreme court gave the trump crime family immunity, it was just a matter of time until they spread that nullification of laws to the wider criminal population.
No, other than paying off the Jan-Sixers with his new $1.8 billion slush fund, Trump is pretty keen on the grift being a Trump-only or Trump-family-only gig. He's a family man, practicing GOP family values.
His planned permanent exemption to IRS auditing, will make roughly $200 *million* in back taxes just vanish. And could theoretically mean he'll never pay another dime in taxes for the rest of his life.
The trump crime family has spread criminal protection by selling pardons, selling regulatory changes, and teaching their insiders to trade on insider information. The pardons have allowed criminals to avoid paying court ordered restitution to victims. The trump crime family has groomed the American population to be more accepting of crime.
He is cutting his old buddy Steve Witkoff in on some crypto deals. But mostly it’s family.
Grifter for president. Ack
Super PAC’s SUPERFREAK… !
He’s a very kinky boy
The kind you don't take home to mother
He will never let maga spirits down
Once you get him off the tweet, ow, boy
He likes the boys in his band
Donald’s very hard to please, oh, ya!
That guy is pretty wild now (the guy’s a super freak)
The kind of guy you read about (in maga-con magazines)
That guy is pretty kinky (the guy’s a super freak)
MAGA really love to cheer him (every time they meet)
He’s alright, he’s alright
That guy’s alright with them
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey!
He’s a super freak, super freak
He’s super-freaky, yow 🎶🎶
Not bad. Not bad at all. Now can you do "Love My Way" by the Psychadelic Furs?
Your turn …
Hey! No fair mister!!! Hahahahahahahaha.
Hmmmm.... Something is illegally making money. Trump gets a bribe. Trump endorses illegal activity.
Next!
Thank you for uncovering this. Of course Trump is advertising with his tweets. And of course his doing it for a company that pays someone $100,000,000 per year for advertising. I’m sure the company is barely profitable. 🫣 And the fruit flavored vapes…these are things that happen where you realize yet again that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself and money. Still blows my mind.
Once again, I am shocked to find more people want Mr. Potter and Pottersville than George Bailey and Bedford Falls. I am so disappointed!
More pay to play and following the money. Thank you Judd and team.
Another receipt. Keep them coming Judd! Thank you!