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21. Pack rat, souvenier collector AND greedy extortionist/blackmailer with a huge ego.

Sat Jun 10, 2023, 08:40 AM

Jun 2023

I have no doubt he started his collection on Day One. And, chalking things up to him being a pack rat only minimizes the gravity of what he did. Sure, he took some of that stuff so he could show it off to his sycophants. However, he has always been big on extortion and blackmail, and now he had the entire Federal Government at his grubby fingertips. Of course, he was going to start going through government documents. President Zelenskyy and Lindsey Graham likely are just the very tip of his extortion/blackmail schemes.

Let's also not forget that he's up to his eyeballs in debt, much of it to shady foreign entities like Putin and the Saudis. He is beholden to them in more ways than one. I'm sure he took a bunch of stuff to sell in order to pay off his debts.

No one blew the whistle on him, because they knew he could ruin them. Or, worse. I'm sure a fair number of them were in on it all, too. I don't think Walt Nauta will be the only one charged before this is all over.

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so, he was just skimmin this shit for the whole 4 years? [View all] mopinko Jun 2023 OP

It's like the most stomach-churning Hoarders episode ever nt Shermann Jun 2023 #1

When Trump entered the WH, he was like a kid in a candy shop. Irish_Dem Jun 2023 #2

how much of a kid he is is just... mopinko Jun 2023 #3

A 5 y/o who is obsessed with money, fame and power. Irish_Dem Jun 2023 #5

Actually, Trump is more like a typical 4-year-old. raging moderate Jun 2023 #25

+1 Irish_Dem Jun 2023 #29

In the indictment, one of his employees is quoted as calling them the "beautiful mind paper boxes." Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #4

i hope he pleads diminished capacity. mopinko Jun 2023 #6

Tell a person their bigotry is acceptable and they'll follow you everywhere. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #11

dissect him brain when he dies. mopinko Jun 2023 #37

john kelly- u should be court martialed. mopinko Jun 2023 #7

When I saw how many boxes there were, I wondered Tanuki Jun 2023 #8

when do they search the rest of the properties? mopinko Jun 2023 #10

Yes. There's proof in the indictment there are documents in Bedminster. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #13

yeah, that's the real bottom line. what will it take to get that trust back? mopinko Jun 2023 #14

and yes, dig up that grave. mopinko Jun 2023 #15

Right? I noticed that too. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #16

everybody did. mopinko Jun 2023 #19

well he KNEW he wasn't a real PRESIDENT Skittles Jun 2023 #9

👇👇👇👁️👁️ Goonch Jun 2023 #12

He was probably giving out free samples the whole time dalton99a Jun 2023 #17

no doubt. mopinko Jun 2023 #18

Definitely not Rebl2 Jun 2023 #34

I believe that. If it benefitted him to give/sell secrets he would do it. It's not like wiggs Jun 2023 #20

probably wont be known, either. mopinko Jun 2023 #23

Very much agree. nt wiggs Jun 2023 #24

Pack rat, souvenier collector AND greedy extortionist/blackmailer with a huge ego. GoCubsGo Jun 2023 #21

not meant as an excuse. evidence of a pattern is all i'm sayin. mopinko Jun 2023 #22

Even if he wasn't in debt, he envisioned rising to the very top of the world's oligarch wiggs Jun 2023 #27

..to my point, former Trump attorney says look at Saudis... wiggs Jun 2023 #32

"...and no one blew the whistle" kentuck Jun 2023 #26

+1 2naSalit Jun 2023 #28

Been saying that since Day1 catrose Jun 2023 #44

Seems like calling him a pack rat and souvenir collector diminishes the gravity of what he was doing Bristlecone Jun 2023 #30

it's not an excuse- it's a pattern of behavior. mopinko Jun 2023 #33

You're surprised that he took stuff that wasn't his? lol Niagara Jun 2023 #31

no, i'm surprised no one stopped him. mopinko Jun 2023 #35

The people who told him "no" were promptly fired. Niagara Jun 2023 #38

so once he'd been fired, what stopped him? mopinko Jun 2023 #41

There was a quite a few staff that were fired or that had resigned Niagara Jun 2023 #43

Good damn point. Brenda Jun 2023 #39

He doesn't even read! WH employees said so. live love laugh Jun 2023 #36

except he rly is insane. mopinko Jun 2023 #42

Kushner needed docs to get his 2billion from the bonesaw prince JanMichael Jun 2023 #40