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patphil

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17. He wouldn't say "my friends will get hurt" unless he was getting big time favors from those "friends".

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 04:40 PM

3 hrs ago

Trump would never do anything to spare one or more of his friends, unless the friends have something he really wants, or needs. Or, the "friend" has something on Trump that needs to be protected.
It's more likely he's the friend he wants to protect.

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Trump yelled "My friends will get hurt" at MTG re: file release [View all] Tanuki 5 hrs ago OP

Oh please, that man has no friends. He should've said his BENEFACTORS will get hurt. MIButterfly 5 hrs ago #1

Bwah! Yeah, my First thought... electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #15

I can hear him saying it... Amaryllis 2 hrs ago #28

That's right, Donald. And they won't be your friends anymore. They never liked you in the first place. Walleye 5 hrs ago #2

He left out, "And so will *I*! " UTUSN 4 hrs ago #3

This right here. He doesn't care about any of his "friends" - he'd throw them under the bus in a NY minute Marie Marie 3 hrs ago #13

Hell, he left that out as the biggest person who would 'get hurt'. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 2 hrs ago #32

He has no friends newdeal2 4 hrs ago #4

Epstein and Trump weren't friends in any meaningful sense PJMcK 3 hrs ago #16

Odd take given all we know newdeal2 2 hrs ago #22

Did he say that when Republicans wanted to back Ukraine too? dem4decades 4 hrs ago #5

My friends....the voices in his head talking to him Tribetime 4 hrs ago #6

That's what I was going to say! 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #10

When he says "friends" PCIntern 4 hrs ago #7

Tiny Tim NewLarry 2 hrs ago #30

Friends like John Barron and John Miller Bristlecone 4 hrs ago #8

Otherwise known as Left Ball and Right Ball Seinan Sensei 2 hrs ago #23

Ya mean the "friends" who are paying for your ballroom? progressoid 4 hrs ago #9

Over 500 comments and I couldn't find a possitive one for the orange anus. progressoid 4 hrs ago #11

Good! Fuck 'em all! Initech 4 hrs ago #12

What was left out was that... S/V Loner 3 hrs ago #14

He wouldn't say "my friends will get hurt" unless he was getting big time favors from those "friends". patphil 3 hrs ago #17

Knowing Trump, he is already popsdenver 2 hrs ago #20

BS, Trump only worries about himself. Emile 2 hrs ago #18

damn! poozwah 2 hrs ago #19

All his friends are either in HELL, or headed that way. So bluestarone 2 hrs ago #21

I totally believe this to be true. Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #24

I guess he means Dershowitz. Only friend I know of. yellowcanine 2 hrs ago #25

"Friends" are people who enable and abet his crimes. usonian 2 hrs ago #26

His friends sound sketchy as hell IronLionZion 2 hrs ago #27

Like Andrew Tate and that other loser? Blue Owl 2 hrs ago #29

The women AND CHILDREN are the victims...fixed it for her. AllyCat 2 hrs ago #31

He doesn't have any friends. Figarosmom 2 hrs ago #33

The Term Is "Henchmen". BurnDoubt 2 hrs ago #34

BTW.... BurnDoubt 1 hr ago #35

Friends? More like co-conspirators. Ineedamoment 1 hr ago #36

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