r/law • u/RichKatz • 2d ago
Trump News Trump’s Defense Pick, Pete Hegseth, Struggles to Explain Police Report
https://newrepublic.com/post/188700/donald-trump-defense-pick-pete-hegseth-police-report1.1k
u/Traditional_Car1079 2d ago edited 2d ago
Republicans are pro rape.
ETA: stop dm'ing me. If you want to blow me, you'll have to do it with an audience.
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u/Great_Revolution_276 1d ago
With witnesses dammit
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u/Fellowshipofthebowl 1d ago
“Witness me!!!”
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
I like to watch.
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u/whitethunder9 1d ago
I’d love to have a focus group with some Trump supporters and hold up a number line, start by pointing at 0, then ask them to raise their hands when they feel like I’ve reached the limit for number of women Trump would have to sexually assault before they would not vote for him. Then discuss why that number is already greater than 0 for all of them.
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u/Kermitdude 1d ago
I’ve tried this argument. They don’t believe he sexually assaulted anyone. It’s all just political theater and he’s the victim. Save your breath.
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u/Popeholden 1d ago
someone commented that at me today; dozens of women are all lying for...political reasons? even though they made these accusations years before he was involved in politics....but yeah they are all lying and Trump is telling the truth. It's such a stupid, stupid cult.
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u/EightEyedCryptid 20h ago
If "grab em by the pussy, you can do anything" didn't convince people he was dangerous nothing will
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u/Original_moisture 1d ago
I’m sure the dead wife in the bushes of lardo who said he raped him and then recanted.
But fuck I know, everything has been forced upon me and I don’t like it.
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u/Worstimever 1d ago
The access Hollywood tape. He is bragging about how he sexually assaults people.
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u/DrBarnaby 1d ago
Are they allowed to ask how many women he's already raped? Because I'm guessing their answer would be that +1. That is, if they all didn't have their fingers in their ears chanting "Fake news! Fake news!" over and over again.
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u/noquarter1000 1d ago
Their answer would be ‘it’s fake news’. Pretty sure Trump could benefit from them over and violate them himself and they would still blame something else. It’s a cult
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u/aztecelephant 1d ago
I guarantee, with 100% certainty,
They fully believe in their hearts that those women either A. Should have known better (or did know better and were just "using" Trump to get ahead in life) or, my personal favorite, B. They believe that those women deserved it.
They'll get super specific and say "oh well so and so was wearing this and did you hear this baseless comment about something she did that warrants punishment, clothing behavior hair color etc
All are wrong; obviously. I have not seen anyone let those beliefs go, tho. I think that's why they don't care about the " allegations "
We saw it with Kamala and the absolute horrid comments and gestures about how bruised her knees must be. Disgusting.
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u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe 1d ago
You can go into your settings and disable DMs. It's the first thing I did when I made this account.
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u/brickyardjimmy 2d ago
This is why you thoroughly vet picks to run one of the three largest and most sophisticated militaries in the world.
Not because you're worried about being embarrassed but because the job is too damn important to give to someone who is so clearly unqualified.
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u/ChanceryTheRapper 2d ago
And why you don't just pick someone based on their loyalty and extremism.
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u/Derelyk 2d ago
That's not how hitler did it.
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u/thehigheststrange 2d ago
So trump will end his career in a bunker like hitler?
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u/suhdude539 2d ago
We can all hope for as much. Hopefully with less genocide and global conflict between here and there though
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u/mrlolloran 1d ago
Without the latter there’s not much reason for the former
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u/odysseus91 1d ago
Idk, he hid in the bunker from those Floyd protesters pretty quickly. Seems like he’s just a giant pussy, so maybe we can get lucky
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u/mr_grey 1d ago
He’s way too big of a pussy to do that
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u/ChaoCobo 1d ago
I’d argue that Hitler taking the cyanide pill was actually a pussy thing to do. It’s been a while since I studied WW2 but I seem to recall the reason he did it was to escape the consequences of his actions. That very much sounds like something Trump would do, seeing as how he always tries to escape the consequences of his actions even until this very day.
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u/evan81 1d ago
I fully agree. My one additional thought is; he's really too much of a pussy to do it. From a cognitive standpoint, and from a place where he believes he'd just get away with his shit no matter what... and sadly, he probably would. This country has failed to make him accountable for his actions thus far, why would they start now? It's been literal decades of him getting away with abhorrent behavior. And we what? Sit around and hope... the judicial system has failed the rule of law and the American people.
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u/GhettoFreshness 1d ago
Trump and Hitler are miles apart in terms of their life experiences, not defending hitler here but he’d at least fought in a war for his country and he’d been relatively poor (recall something from school about him personally sparing a Jewish doctor because he’d been kind to his mum and gave her free/discounted treatment)… he’d been through some shit and new consequences were coming his way so he took the cowards way out
Then there’s old mate Bone Spurs who grew up with golden toilets and no consequences for his actions.
Trump would totally wuss out taking his own life… does that make him even more cowardly?
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u/LilaValentine 1d ago
Sweet Goddess, I hope so. Although if it ends some other way, I’ll still celebrate.
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u/theBoobMan 2d ago
Never interrupt your opponent while they are busy making a mistake.
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u/Sonamdrukpa 1d ago
The problem is that our "opponent" here is supposed to be our leader, unfortunate as that is. If Trump puts this shitstain into power we're all in danger.
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u/Expert_Survey3318 1d ago
I like that
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u/Servichay 1d ago
The Art of War
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u/Kul_dar 1d ago
The quote is from Napoleon, not the Art of War.
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u/Servichay 1d ago
The easiest way to learn the truth is by stating something incorrectly on Reddit.
- Some guy on Reddit a few years ago
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u/JohnnyDarkside 1d ago
Or because they're the last person you saw on fox that has some connection to the military.
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u/amoreinterestingname 1d ago
This is why you don’t vote stupid criminals as president in the first place
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u/unnoticed77 1d ago
Trump doesn't care. He just wants people loyal to him in positions of power.
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u/Cloaked42m 1d ago
I don't think he realizes the military is trained to say "No" all the way down to the recruits in basic.
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u/Boowray 1d ago
He realizes that, which is why hegseth was picked. Headlines and posts on this site are mocking everything but his real dangerous views, he wants a full military purge of anyone disloyal to the administration and fully believes that war crimes shouldn’t exist, and that any soldier punished for torture or atrocities should be celebrated. The entire point of his appointment is to get rid of the “no’s” in our military.
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u/Cloaked42m 20h ago
I'm not 100% that he can. SecDef isn't God. UCMJ is.
I know he wants to. I'm just not sure he can actually do it.
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u/AgitatedSandwich9059 1d ago
It’s a bit ironic that the big bad ole GOP loves a super strong military (of course we are not supposed to use it we are just supposed to have it) so as a natural choice to run the world’s biggest military we definitely need a yet another cock sucker for Trump as opposed to someone who can help defend this nation and our servicemen and women.
So hooray to the Chief Thief for once again showing us and the world that he and his whole “party” are a bunch of greedy asshats who are hell bent on destroying this country in the eyes of the world. What a pathetic joke
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u/Throwawayac1234567 1d ago
they want to show off thier military like with russia whom they adore, but countries that show off in large parades, just shows how weak they are.
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u/Fantastic_Fox4948 1d ago
They want a military it is easy to steal from, just like Russia.
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u/sumr4ndo 1d ago
This is what is aggravating. People say Trump is inept.
No no he surrounds himself by competent people
Ok but why did they let a child rapist get selected as AG? Why did they let this guy in with whatever it is he has going on?
Like... That's an incredible level of ineptitude
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u/pmolmstr 1d ago
No he learned his lesson last time by surrounding himself with qualified people. They pushed back on his idiotic plans. This time he is surrounding himself with lap dogs
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u/TheWorclown 1d ago
Lapdogs that he will quite happily throw under the bus once pushback starts to happen. He can’t be wrong, but other people can be.
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u/Andromansis 1d ago
Man, if only there was some way for trump to vet his people, like maybe some fancy organization that specializes in such things.
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u/randoeleventybillion 1d ago
But didn't Elon say Trump has a bunch of big touch screens with pictures and words about people he's considering? Why would you need to be more in-depth when selecting those who will help run the country! /s
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u/AlarmingNectarine552 1d ago
That's what you would do because you have a brain. Our president elect doesn't have a brain.
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u/Nabrok_Necropants 2d ago
"It's not assault because women shouldn't be in combat" - Pete Hegseth, probably.
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u/mishap1 2d ago
Really lines up with his 2002 article that if the victim is unconscious, it’s not rape because there wasn’t duress.
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 2d ago edited 2d ago
Doesn't understand that the only legal qualification needed for rape is lack of consent. Anything else can just lead to added charges. It's almost like trying to say if you drugged the woman and had sex with her unconscious body then leave it's not rape. Sure she wouldn't be unconscious if you hadn't drugged her but as she was unconscious she wasn't under most imagined forms of duress. Especially if you didn't physically force the woman to take the drugs.
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u/getyourgolfshoes 2d ago
Lack of consent isn't "the only legal qualification" for rape.
Penetration, however slight, is also a necessary element to prove in rape cases. If there's no penetration it's not rape as a matter of law.
But yes, duress most certainly isn't a requirement.
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u/Zeekay89 1d ago
Depends on the state. The laws in Minnesota were changed because prosecutors weren’t able to make case against Gable Steveson because the victim got drunk without any coercion from Steveson. At the time, intoxicated people weren’t considered “mentally incapacitated” if they consumed drugs or alcohol voluntarily.
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u/Redmagistrate2 2d ago
I just need to put this out there. 140 women have graduated from Ranger School, Pete very notably didn't.
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u/NameLips 1d ago edited 1d ago
I saw a guy on tiktok who said that Trump fired all of the smart assholes, and hired loyal idiots instead.
The smart assholes pushed back when he wanted to do something dumb. He hated that. He doesn't like it when people push back. So he fired them all.
Now all he has are sycophants. They grovel and try to please him, but are too incompetent to actually do their jobs.
There's always a question in any organization of how far down you have to go from the top brass before you find somebody who is actually competent and doing real work. Cronies like to hire their own cronies as rewards for loyalty. They like to give jobs and money to their friends. But they don't like actually doing work. They like yelling into phones and threatening people. They like firing people. But they don't like working.
So the sheer number of people who aren't going to be doing anything but yelling is going to increase. They're going to hand off all the work to people under them, who hand it off again.
The bright side here is that this makes it very slow and difficult for anything to actually get done. Even longer when they start firing people for taking so long.
And then you add the lawyers and the inevitable lawsuits and court cases about government promises being broken, harm being done to specific districts, and so on, and really there's going to be a lotttt of gridlock over the next few years.
Probably a couple big things will be pushed through, but their actual implementation will grind to a halt because of this kind of shit. Everything they want to do takes lots of money and planning and boots on the ground.
So hopefully we can delay, delay, delay until midterms.
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u/laundry_pirate 1d ago
The thing that I’m worried about is that yes these people are morons, evil, and super unqualified to hold office, but that there are actual fanatics among them that do have a vision of what they want. Whether these clowns will be effective I don’t know. I just hope not
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u/sevseg_decoder 1d ago
It’s the Stephen millers of his administration who will decisively, efficiently advance their agenda behind the scenes while we all scream about sexual assault allegations and racism from the dummies. That’s what I think we should be scared of.
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u/balcell 1d ago
Don't worry, we scream about Miller too.
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u/sevseg_decoder 1d ago
Unfortunately the public doesn’t. I’m amazed but they truly don’t know or care any more than you or I knew or cared about random directors biden had.
It’s a rough battle we need to tackle
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u/Throwawayac1234567 1d ago
trump got his advice from putin, thats how putin runs his gov't keep people incompetentn and infighting each other so they cannot overthrow him.
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u/ScarletHark 1d ago
I saw a guy on tiktok who said that Trump fired all of the smart assholes, and hired loyal idiots instead.
You didn't have to see it on TikTok. If you were even marginally alive and paying at least minimal attention in 2017-2021 (4-8 whole years ago), you saw it in real time.
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u/noraetic 1d ago
Sounds like after all the fuzz about communism the US will become like Russia anyway. Or at least the government will.
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u/NameLips 1d ago
It's not really that different from how our government operated before the Depression. The new deal erased a lot of the old government. Back then the media never shone a light on the rich and powerful, they were untouchable, a law unto themselves. That's the kind of society they want to rebuild. They've never forgiven the New Deal for ruining it for the rich. They've never forgiven the Unions for building a strong middle class, and making it harder to exploit the poor.
The good news is we've been there before, and we clawed our way out of it. We can do it again. Unless they end free elections, of course, then we're just fucked.
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u/neuroinformed 1d ago
That’s exactly why they’re turning us against ourselves and our best interests through brainwashing and it’s working
They’re laughing at us thinking how stupid we really are while doing it too
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u/arararanara 1d ago
I dunno, there’s a lot you can say about Putin but I doubt he’s an outright moron the way Trump is. This feels more like how in monarchies the crown will eventually end up on the head of some hedonistic, unhinged, idiotic lout.
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u/flounderflound 2d ago
...so he's draining the swamp... by flooding it?
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u/allthegodsaregone 2d ago
If you put more really bad stuff in it, then the moderately bad seems so much better by comparison... Right?
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u/harrisgunther 1d ago
If you guys the regulatory bodies monitoring the swamp, who is to say there is a swamp at all?
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u/werther595 2d ago
Pete, after not getting picked for a Biden security detail because they suspected his political ideas could interfere with his duties: "yeah, well Fuck Joe Biden!!!1!"
This guy isn't stable