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So let me get this straight (Original Post) Aviation Pro 15 hrs ago OP
They're doing god's work dontcha know Clouds Passing 15 hrs ago #1
Yup, the God of Hellfire... wcmagumba 15 hrs ago #2
And brimstone Clouds Passing 15 hrs ago #3
sounds like normal Republican operating protocol to me rurallib 15 hrs ago #4
That not quite how public blackmail works unblock 14 hrs ago #5
It cuts both ways. Igel 13 hrs ago #6
K&R spanone 13 hrs ago #7

unblock

(56,084 posts)
5. That not quite how public blackmail works
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 05:35 PM
14 hrs ago

It's not so much that she will lie to "clear" him if he pardons her; it's that she will bury him with the truth if he doesn't pardon her.

But it kinda ruins it if she spells it out that way in public.

Igel

(37,433 posts)
6. It cuts both ways.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:41 PM
13 hrs ago

If she's so unreliable as to have no possible credible testimony in favor of Trump, why does anything she say against him need to be the truth?

Unreliable is unreliable.

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