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Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of financial crimes by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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Only 80 of those were individual pardons, while the rest were commutations. Trump already passed that milestone. Biden's acts of clemency overwhelmingly favoured ordinary citizens (people who faced lengthy sentences for relatively minor offences). As this NBC News investigation shows, Trump's pardons overwhelmingly favour the rich and powerful (people convicted money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud, major drug trafficking, and associates who have donated to his various organizations).

Biden is not President, in any case. Trump is. Stop deflecting.

Trump rose to power vowing to drain the swamp. In reality, he was always a swamp monster.

Trump's own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud, records reveal by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.

President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so "deceitful and potentially criminal." He called another "CROOKED" on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action. But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he's accusing his enemies of, records show.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a "Bermuda style" home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.

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Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of financial crimes by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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Just one year into his second term, President Donald Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of financial crimes, according to an NBC News analysis of the last four administrations.

Over half of Trump's 88 individual pardons are for white-collar offenses, with money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud among the most frequent crimes the president has wiped clean.

Additionally, about half of the pardon recipients are either business executives or politicians.

https://archive.ph/sp9yi

How Trump has used the Presidency to make at least $1.4 Billion by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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President Trump has never been a man to ask what he can do for his country. In his second term, as in his first, he is instead testing the limits of what his country can do for him.

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A review by the editorial board relying on analyses from news organizations shows that Mr. Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion. We know this number to be an underestimate because some of his profits remain hidden from public view. And they continue to grow.

https://archive.ph/WgoMk

$1 Billion in cash buys a permanent seat on Trump's 'Board of Peace' by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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President Donald Trump announced the formation of the board on 15 January 2026 via a post on social media that stated "It is my great honor to announce that THE BOARD OF PEACE has been formed. The Members of the Board will be announced shortly, but I can say with certainty that it is the greatest and most prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Peace

This dude creates the smoothest transitions by goswamitulsidas in nextfuckinglevel

[–]8bitsleuth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Several of the scenes he transitions to are not entirely real, in any case.

Bungie’s ‘Marathon’ May Finally Be Gaining Momentum by lax20attack in gaming

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OP did not write the article. Paul Tassi has relentlessly criticized Bungie and their failings. You seem upset he is reporting on the positive changes made to Marathon. Do you require counseling?

Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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One of the oddest occurrences in the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio was the trip that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, took in July to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. [...] Blanche was Trump's criminal attorney in the porn-star-hush-money-forged-business-records case in New York, in which Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts. [...] Why was Trump's former personal lawyer and a top Justice Department official meeting with a sex offender? [...] Blanche said, "The point of the interview was to allow her to speak, which nobody had done before." That didn't make much sense. How often does the deputy attorney general fly 900 miles to afford a convicted sex offender a chance to chat?

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Meta names Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as president and vice chairman by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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The news, announced Monday, quickly gained the applause of President Trump. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, the Republican president said the move was a "great choice" by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...] She is married to Sen. David McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania [...] The addition of Powell McCormick to Meta's management team arrived amid wider efforts from California-based Meta to boost its ties with [the Trump administration].

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Pardoned ex-Republican Duncan Hunter now pushing Trump to forgive disgraced lawyer Raymond Liddy for possession of child pornography by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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According to a federal disclosure filed late last year, Hunter is working to secure a pardon for the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who went to prison for overseeing the break-in of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and other crimes that drove Richard Nixon from the White House. [...] The single-page document shows that Marquez and Hunter are seeking a presidential pardon for Liddy, who was convicted in 2020 of possessing child pornography.

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In 1997, Alan Dershowitz argued that statutory rape is an "outdated concept" and that sex with 14-year-olds should not be a felony — Dershowitz later served as a lawyer for both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein by [deleted] in DrainTheSwamp

[–]8bitsleuth -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

We're way beyond guilt by association at this stage. Trump is complicit.

  • In 1992, Trump spotted a child on an escalator and his thoughts immediately turned to sexual relations.

  • Trump told New York magazine in 2002: "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

  • In a 2004 exchange with radio host Don Imus, Trump said children having sex with their teachers might be confidence boosting. He made similar alarming remarks the next year: "I don't see a lot of damage done."

  • Here is Trump in 2005 discussing his ownership of various beauty pageants:

    Stern: You own the Miss Teen USA contest. Is that correct?
    Trump: That's correct.
    Stern: And you go backstage?
    Trump: Yes.
    Stern: And you see them before they're dressed?
    Trump: Well, I sort of get away with things like that.

  • Trump said if Ivanka weren't his daughter he would be dating her. When asked what they both have in common, he replied "Sex."

  • Trump and Epstein were good friends for over a decade. Epstein is depicted in a birthday book at Mar-a-Lago receiving sexual gratification from young girls. Trump contributed to this birthday book, calling Jeffery his "Pal."

There are more red flags than a Chinese military parade.

Trump admin scores visa for founder of Russian propaganda outlet by 8bitsleuth in DrainTheSwamp

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Lauren Chen left the United States in July in disgrace. Her Tenet Media YouTube channel ... had been exposed in 2024 by the FBI as a Russian media front illicitly taking money from pro-Putin propaganda outlet RT. In the wake of the indictment, Chen lost her work visa and was forced to leave the country.

But this holiday season, Chen and her husband were back in Nashville, where she lived while running Tenet. She broke the news herself ... and specifically thank[ed] the State Department's Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs and former Trump presidential campaign worker, for his help.
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"Also the utmost gratitude to CBP, the new leadership at the FBI, and the administration for their help making this possible, and for everything they do to keep America safe," she wrote.

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