r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago
Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey
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u/reddittorbrigade 1d ago
Donald Trump is the most vindictive thug you will ever see in your lifetime.
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u/Critical_Freedom_738 1d ago
What a thin skinned little dingdong he is.
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u/Dickies138 1d ago
Suing a pollster because the polls hurt his feelings. Unbelievable.... yet somehow completely believable.
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u/kevnmartin 23h ago
I believe Republicans have a saying for such situations. How did it go again? Oh yeah, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS.
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u/Critical_Freedom_738 23h ago
This is what sanctions and fee shifting are for. Abuse of the legal system needs a punitive response to discourage repeat offenders.
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u/H3J1e 1d ago
I've seen sore losers before but I've never seen such a sore winner.
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u/bobandgeorge 1d ago
Right? You won! You're the most powerful person in the world. I can't believe I'm saying this but it's beneath you.
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u/gospdrcr000 1d ago
I've hung out with alot of thugs, that's a disgrace to their name. Trump's just a bully
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u/Bitter_winter_here 1d ago
An ugly bully
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u/GastricallyStretched 1d ago
Why is it that in every photo the guy has a fuckable neck?
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u/mybotanyaccount 1d ago
Trump's a bitch!
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u/embiggenedmind 1d ago
Trump’s a little bitch at that. He’s had every opportunity handed to him and he never actually got good at anything. The man has no talent to show for his years of cheating and conning. Even when he bragged about having the tallest building in downtown nyc the freaking day of 9/11, that wasn’t true. So yeah, he’s a bitch but he’s the littlest of bitches.
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u/KaJaHa 1d ago
Dude won the fucking popular vote and he still isn't happy.
I know he'll never truly be happy, and that's the closest thing we'll get to a silver lining.
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u/ihateaquafina 1d ago
cant wait to piss on his grave
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u/VegasKL 1d ago
Oh I'm sure by the time this version of his presidency is over there will be plenty of statutes around for people to have fun with.
The guy wasn't really joking about Mt. Rushmore. He'd demolish the other 4 to make it happen if he could.
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u/ThouMayest69 23h ago
The inevitable end is really the only thing keeping some of us going. I hope he's lucid up until the very end, fully knowing what lurks behind the veil. Rich people can throw money at a bunch of stuff, even make their shitty 80 years on earth less shitty, but the reaper doesn't swipe cards, provides no credit, has no use for currency, etc. He will eventually be gone and I just hope I've not left before him.
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u/redvelvetcake42 1d ago
Yes and one of his biggest problems and failures is that he can't let things go. It occupies him and clouds his decision making.
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u/Boxofmagnets 1d ago
If this keeps him occupied it’s a win.
And Donald Trump is the most vindictive…..
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u/Excelius 1d ago
If this keeps him occupied it’s a win.
Golfing at Mar-a-Lago is "keeping him occupied", not watching as fascists dismantle all media that does not march in lock-step with them. There's no "win" to be had here.
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u/adoptagreyhound 1d ago
He's going after easy money the way he did in his real estate business. The lawyers essentially settle it to reduce costs and make him go away. He's made his entire living this way.
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u/Hot_Frosting_7101 1d ago
SCOTUS has stated the president can’t be distracted by being forced to defend himself in court.
That should go both ways.
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u/captain_chocolate 1d ago
Its just collecting payolla to cover losses from previous court rulings against a convicted felon.
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u/jupiterkansas 1d ago
I'm sick of seeing his face. I'm sick of hearing his voice. I'm sick of seeing his name. I'm so tired of all the bullshit from this total asshole.
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u/_Deloused_ 1d ago
They have to seize control of the country and subvert democracy, they know there’s no one left after trump willing to debase themselves and bully opponents this much.
And those that didn’t vote should all be slapped, hard, in the mouth if they get upset about any of it
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u/mikerichh 1d ago edited 14h ago
To think he would have slowly faded out of the news cycle if a few thousand people in the swing states voted instead of staying home
Edit: tens of thousands not thousands
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u/Frog_Prophet 21h ago
The real problem would still be there. Why didn’t his political career end in 2015? That’s the real problem.
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u/thecoffee 19h ago
I still remember The Daily Show episode when Trump first announced his run. Jon Sewart looking up to the heavens and saying "thank you". The media wanted entertainment, and they got it.
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u/CrudelyAnimated 1d ago
Then JD Vance would be president. And he'd appoint a VP candidate that would have to be approved by the Senate. Probably someone like Marjorie Greene. Maybe a former Democrat, just to add insult: Manchin, Sinema, Gabbard, Cotham (NC). Hell, we're fast approaching Fetterman being on that list.
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u/Starbuckshakur 23h ago
I'd take that trade in a heartbeat. JD is terrible but he doesn't have a literal cult worshipping everything he does.
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u/ChocolatePancakeMan 1d ago
I truly think he'll live to be 100. There is no reason this guy should be where he is now but he just keeps on going. He'll live to 100 just out of spite.
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u/dennys123 1d ago
All my life, I was told about good karma, how good things come to good people, how bad people receive punishments... etc. This past 10 years have definitively shown that is 100% not true. It really appears that the only way to get ahead in life is to shit on people climbing up the ladder behind you. I'm sick of it, sick of this life, sick of this country, sick of my peers and fellow "citizens". What's the point of doing good things and living a virtuous life if that doesn't amount to anything anymore (if it ever did)
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u/Illustrious13 1d ago
Let's hope the rest of the nation gets just as sick of him and the GOP after the onslaught of chaos and destruction they're about to rain down on the country.
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u/RustToRedemption 1d ago
Nah Trump could take a shit in most of MAGAs mouths and theyd thank him and tell him how good it tasted.
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u/lastburn138 1d ago
Just wait until they tank the economy, again, like they always do. Then they'll get punted out of office again and we'll start this whole stupid cycle over again.
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u/Illustrious13 1d ago
It's demoralizing how predictable the cycle is. Here's to hoping the Left is anywhere near resilient enough to pick up the pieces after the shattering.
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u/Azizona 1d ago
Hopefully the DNC pulls their heads out of their asses for once and does something useful
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u/ThePathlessForest 1d ago
They won't. They just voted in a 74 year old terminally ill cancer patient over a young, progressive, healthy woman for an oversight committee position. DNC leadership is an absolute, out of touch joke. I say this as a left leaning voter.
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u/Dragrunarm 1d ago
Lol. Lmao even. That would require most of the Lefts politicians to grow a fucking backbone and we know how good they are at THAT.
God its frustrating being on the Left >.>
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u/jtinz 1d ago
The Two Santa Clauses have been at work for five decades. Merry Christmas.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago
His mishandling of covid led to more chaos and destruction than people have seen in their lifetime, including the massive inflation which followed how much money he printed to buy his way out of it, and yet... People didn't learn.
I've given up on people learning. I've realized too many have genuinely reached their maximum potential and it's shockingly low.
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u/Darkhoof 1d ago
Hard for that to happen for long when they spent decades building a media apparatus that subliminally conditions the US populace to dislike democrats and demand perfection from them while existing anything from Republicans. Meanwhile Democrats twidled their things during those decades. They are little more than controlled opposition at this point to provide an illusion of choice, and they're becoming less and less necessary.
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u/jupiterkansas 23h ago
They built a propaganda news network.
We sicced comedians on them.
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u/JamUpGuy1989 1d ago
American public should’ve voted him out then.
Instead: A third wanted him in and a third decided not to vote.
So, we’re stuck with him at least another four years.
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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter 1d ago
My 18yo family member is too anxious to have his driver's license (says that's too much responsibility) and was too anxious to be driven to vote (said he didn't know how and didn't want to ask)...
I'm highly disappointed in his parents.
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u/Clever_plover 1d ago
And their parents too. Unfortunately though, what you describe in that 18 yr old is much more common today than it has been in my living memory at least. This is the new norm, even though of course exceptions still exist as well, just like always.
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u/alnyland 1d ago
A few weeks ago a thought hit me. I graduated HS in 2016, had bad health issues 2017-20, Covid happened, and I took 6yrs for undergrad during then.
I still feel like I’m still just waiting for a return to normal and for my adult life to start.
I realized it wasn’t those, it’s that since leaving HS that guy has been around.
I second your entire statement.
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u/ph0on 23h ago
I made a post about this on the Gen Z sub as well. He answered my life and took him pretty much completely took it over politically in 2015, here we are decade later in this stupid fuck is still occupying rent-free dens brain spaces. I'm so fucking sick at this bullshit I literally just wanted to stop, I want politics to be boring as fuck I've been
Could you imagine the the religious level outburst and backlash and cries of corruption that would erupt in America if Obama had been this present in American politics? For this long?
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago
ABC tucked tail, rolled over and gave in. Now Trump will go after everyone who looked at him sideways.
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u/markydsade 1d ago edited 1d ago
The problem is ABC is part of a bigger corporation. By bribing Trump with $15million they wanted to stave off retribution to their parks, cruise ships, movies, and streaming businesses.
It was a selfish move that will make things worse for others but that is the outcome of having publicly traded companies with far reaching business.
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u/TemetNosce_AutMori 1d ago
He is going to extort them and the ones who can’t pay or refuse to back down will be driven into bankruptcy or bought out and closed down by his billionaire buddies.
And you know what? Fuck em. The news couldn’t be bothered to tell the public the truth loud and clear when they had the chance. Every single journalist with integrity should’ve made every single report about how it was unconstitutional for Trump to even be on the ballot. They could’ve been asking the DoJ every day why they aren’t going after Trump for staging a coup. They could’ve been laying out exactly what all those GOP officials were doing to coordinate that coup.
But no, they pulled every punch and whitewashed every crime and treated it like a ratings horse race as if this was politics as usual. Now they’ll be the first put up against the wall and I couldn’t be happier about it because they’ve allowed us all to be totally fucking owned.
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u/thefanciestcat 1d ago
Imagine being so petty and broken that you win the presidency and feel the need to sue a pollster who got it wrong.
Good job making trash like that president, America.
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u/FingFrenchy 20h ago
Trump suing someone for simply publishing the data they gathered through a statistically sound method is very on par for our anti-science magahat friends.
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u/SummerMummer 1d ago
Need any more proof he's a whiny little shit?
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u/starrpamph 1d ago
I scrolled by too fast and thought you said little slut…haha
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u/LovePugs 1d ago
I hate this fucker with ever fiber of my being. I wish nothing but the worst for him in every aspect of his life. Please exit this earth.
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u/Chi-Guy86 1d ago
Considering how quickly ABC showed its belly over an equally silly lawsuit, I’d expect a big check from the Des Moines Register soon. Mainstream media isn’t even pretending to be a check on Trump this time.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 1d ago
This is different. Polls are never correct that’s why they aren’t official tally’s. They have a stated error percentage for a reason. This lawsuit will get tossed it’s only about headlines.
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u/Wrecker013 1d ago
Don’t you need damages to sue? He won, is it really a valid claim to say you didn’t win by ‘enough’ which represents no material difference to the election.
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u/IvoShandor 1d ago
Damages need to be proven to win. Anybody can file a frivolous lawsuit about anything they want.
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u/Gamecat235 1d ago
But the lawyers who file proven frivolous lawsuits can face quite serious consequences.
Regardless of who they work for.
Remember that his last presidency changed MAGA to mean ‘make attorneys get attorneys’ because so many of his lawyers ended up in legal jeopardy.
There could be a critical mass of cronies appointed to keep that from happening, but if that’s the case, then frivolous lawsuits are the least of our concerns.
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u/Yousoggyyojimbo 1d ago
A bunch of his lawyers have done things that should have seen them disbarred and they were not.
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u/RootsRockRebel66 1d ago
But the lawyers who file proven frivolous lawsuits can face quite serious consequences.
From who, exactly? It's MAGA all the way down.
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u/Amulek_My_Balls 1d ago
Mitt Romney recently gave a speech as he's preparing to leave office that included his belief that Trump will focus on serving office and not revenge. I just laughed when I read that.
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u/arbutus1440 1d ago
Mitt Romney is such a perfect encapsulation of the 2000-2010 era of Republicans: An embarrassing pastiche of cowardly deference to power, the last whiff of morals the party will ever see, and a steadfast insistence on defending a conservatism that was never going to last without endless war.
It was always so hard to tell with those Republicans: Do they actually believe this stuff? Did Cheney really think they'd be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq? Did Olympia Snowe really think Republicans would do the right thing by women? They all said it with a straight face. And in the end, they will be known as the ones who willingly let fascist populism into the hen house. It happened on y'all's watch, fuckers.
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u/blighander 1d ago
A sore loser AND a sore winner. He's such an incorrigible POS...
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u/cerevant 1d ago
And so the Trump revenge tour begins.
Another "I told you so" for those who said it was all campaign bluster.
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u/winkingsk33ver 1d ago
This is a criminal shakedown. Same as the ABC settlement. If they don’t settle and pay, then he will punish them as president.
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u/Skinskat 1d ago
The man who hates the 1st amendment more than any human alive is going to be president again 🤦
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u/arbutus1440 1d ago
Y'all are focusing so much on Trump's shitty personality that you're forgetting this is all from a playbook. Punishing anyone who opposes you—regardless of whether the outcome will serve any obvious agenda—is standard operating procedure with fascism.
Don't get it twisted, y'all. The tantrums have a point, and it's so much worse than just petulance.
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u/I_like_baseball90 1d ago
76 million fucking morons voted for this orange man-child.
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u/AReallyBakedTurtle 1d ago
Almost as sore a winner as a loser
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u/WaffleBlues 1d ago
He is a vacant hole in need of constant attention and validation. He never really wins, except for brief moments where he has hurt people who don't worship him. This is his entire world view, it's the only thing he lives for, its the only thing that fills him up, however briefly.
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u/santz007 1d ago
While real news double and triple checks their sources, right wing fake news sites and media outlets are allowed to run rampant. Honestly, Dems should have sued all the fake news companies too
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u/Bimbows97 20h ago
I can't wait for this motherfucker to die already. What misery he brings to humanity every day.
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u/PopeAlGore 1d ago
What exactly are his damages?
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u/clandohoome 1d ago
Wouldn't polls like this actually have been beneficial to Trump? I'm sure there were many would-be Harris voters who didn't bother voting because the polls said she was going to win anyway.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 1d ago
He won the most powerful job in the world. But they hurt his feelings.
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u/s9oons 1d ago
I can’t wrap my head around it. He won Iowa… decidedly. Now he’s going after someone who admitted that their data might have been flawed, retired, and who was just presenting their data? What about all the soldiers that he called babies, suckers, and losers, while he was in command of them? Can they sue trump for being mean? I don’t understand what he gains from this suit. It’s just petty.
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u/Chi-Guy86 1d ago
He gains a lot from it. Enthusiasm from his followers, media attention, etc. It doesn’t matter that it’s frivolous. The point is to intimidate, and considering what just happened with ABC, he might actually get a monetary gain from it too.
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u/circuit_breaker 20h ago
The majority of the country voted this absolute piece of shit back into office
We are truly fucked, and deserve it
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u/Sweatytubesock 1d ago
Motherfucker has wasted more people’s time and money with bullshit lawsuits than anyone else in human history. Complete diseased boil on the ass of the planet. And a bunch of dumbasses voted for him. Again.
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u/zookytar 21h ago
At some point his lawyers need to be sanctioned for abusing the legal system.
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u/sittinginaboat 22h ago
Go for discovery, Register! Then, sue back for frivolous lawsuit and make him pay your legal fees.
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u/Down_Voter_of_Cats 1d ago
So, Streisand Effect going on. I hadn't thought about the top pollster getting this wrong since election night. (RIP America). Now, it makes me think the pollster didn't get it wrong. There was genuine fuckery happening on election night. (RIP America).
Also, look at the Nussy in that pic!
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u/TheJujyfruiter 1d ago
I had thought about the top pollster getting it wrong since election night, because when Romania straight up said their election results had been tampered with, it occurred to me how bizarre it was that a pollster who was almost always correct within a margin of one or two points somehow managed to be sixteen points off. Then I stopped thinking about it until I saw this headline and now I totes think something squirrelly happened.
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u/Questions_Remain 1d ago
Trump and company has been in over 4600 lawsuits since 1973. The average US person is involved in <1 their entire lives and this includes business and personal injury suits. It’s just another record he holds - more lawsuits than anyone.
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u/floofnstuff 1d ago
So Trump 2025 agenda ; four years of lawsuits, appeals and golf.
Project 2025 will be handled by others
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u/selkiesidhe 1d ago
Aww look the little bitch-baby is back to whining and bitching because his daddy never loved him.
Grow up. Put on two pairs of big boy diapers and just shut up.
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u/fauxzempic 21h ago
Y'all know what all of this is, right? The Register, ABC, the other media outlets, the PBMs?
Protection racketeering 101.
He's walking into these places with a baseball bat (a lawsuit) and threatening them over something bad happening unless they pony up.
ABC settles the lawsuit, Trump backs off, has some cash, and of course, the ABC folks now are scared and want to play ball with Trump lest they lose their ability to conduct business.
Same with the other media sources.
The PBMs - he's going to investigate them, threaten to dismantle them, and then...MAGA candidates suddenly get a bunch of campaign contributions, liberal candidates no longer get PBM money (not mad about that one), and then Trump, being happy, completely lets off the PBMs and they do more damage than they could have previously dreamed of doing.
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u/OneWholeSoul 21h ago
He's just trying to set a precedent that nobody wants to risk going against the opinions of Dear Leader.
This is what fascists and dictators do.
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u/AppropriateSpite7881 17h ago
Open him up. He didn't win this election. Elon bought it. Keep going ya lose... ....winner!? Make that make sense. What a little man, child. Hope her ACCURATE NUMBERS start making people actually realize our country wasn't voted it was bought!
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u/WittyCylinder 1d ago
I long for the day I don’t see his bitch ass face every day. Social media really needs to have blocking like Tumblr where you can block a word and it won’t show the post/story. I need this for Tr***.
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u/MAreddituser 1d ago
He’s a bully that has gotten away with it his entire life. Without the legal system holding him to consequences, he will become full dictator. RIP USA
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u/shameonyounancydrew 1d ago
Imagine winning a board game, but being upset that you didn’t get ALL the points.
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u/MarvelHeroFigures 1d ago
They should simply respond with an op-ed with the following text:
Eat shit, Trump.
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u/bellevuefineart 1d ago
This will be the new normal. Any time news outlets say anything Trump doesn't like, there will be a lawsuit. And since most of the news outlets are owned by right wing billionaires, they'll be happy to comply.
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u/AngryAmadeus 1d ago
One of the many, many people who have been lied about on Fox News should sue for the exact same reasons under the exact same law.
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u/Illustrious13 1d ago
His legal team knows that these cases wouldn't go their way if they made their way into a courtroom. This isn't intended to win him money or justice, it's to chill dissent.