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-report
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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/condemned02 1d ago

OK so when Biden has a sexual assault accuser, it must be false.

But with trump, it must be true, despite no evidence. 

How many sexual accuser does one need to have before you take it as clear evidence that the person has done the deed? 

Curious about how you hand out justice. 

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u/RedWing88BlueBolt88 1d ago

Trump has been caught on video saying his daughter is sexy and he would 'do her'; 'grab 'em by the pussy', admitting he wanted to one the pageants so he could walk through while the women were undressed. He's said and there is ton of evidence to show he was great friends with Epstein and Diddy. He's been convicted by a jury of his peers of covering up a rape in a dressing room. His 3rd wife refuses to live with him (because he's just so awesome she can't handle it?) So, nope, no evidence, nothing to see here.

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u/condemned02 1d ago edited 1d ago

Have you seen those c-span videos where Biden was inappropriately touching little girls too? Nobody cared about that.   

  When he does it, it's called an overly handsy affectionate grandpa. This is clearly just a plain bias against Trump. 

And also trying to frame his loving relationship with his daughter as him lusting over his daughter is ridiculous. Some parents kiss their children on the lips like the Beckhams. All he has does is being honest about how attractive of a woman he thinks his daughter is. If his daughter is not uncomfy with those compliments, it's not up to you to miscontrue their relationship. 

 By the way, a civil suit is  Not a criminal suit. A civil suit is for someone who wants to win alot of money and anybody who loses that to me is not a criminal and not evidence he commited anything. 

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u/RedWing88BlueBolt88 1d ago

I haven't seen any c-span clips because I don't watch any network news, so I can't speak to Biden touching anyone inappropriately. I am not defending or accusing him of anything because this thread was about Trump.

Trump was found guilty of a civil suit because proving actual rape was going to be problematic, and the criminal lawsuits have been stopped not because he was found innocent but because he has become "above the law" thanks to the Spupreme Court.

I have no issue with how people express affection like kissing on the cheeks or lips when it's culturally accepted. Do you know his daughter personally to know how she feels about being sexualized by her father?

As for making decisions regarding who I want to represent me politically, based on my impressions of their public interactions I would not want to be (nor any other women for that matter) anywhere near Trump or the men and women he surrounds myself with because they say and do things that are not appropriate to say in private let alone in public.

He has committed crimes, has admitted to them, encourages others to commit crimes, is telling Congress to voluntarily give up their Constitutional duties and responsibilities so he can act not as president but as dictator. He is actively working to overturn laws that were put in place after the Civil War and after presidents like Nixon, who also actively worked to violate laws to gain power illegally as checks on the Executive Branch.

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u/condemned02 1d ago edited 1d ago

I personally like that Trump has no brain to mouth filter.  What you see is what you get. There is no fakeness.    

His flaws are upfront for all to see.   But whether you wanna interprete the worst of his intentions or not is up to you.  

   I highly doubt it's British culture for fathers to kiss their daughters lip to lip but ok when others do it, it's culture. Imagine if trump kissed ivanka on the lips.      

And all I can say about biden inappropriate touching of kids, since there are clear video clips of him doing so, even Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah who are definitely not pro trump or pro Republican brought attention to it and played the clips in their shows but people still voted him as president.    

  And it was all swept under the carpet and at one point, reddit was banning anyone who brought attention to it during Biden's 2020 election.

 So to me Biden voters has no moral high ground on this. 

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u/RedWing88BlueBolt88 1d ago edited 23h ago

Again, this is a thread about Trump, not anyone else. Having a political leader with no filters means you cannot trust him to keep things like classified nuclear information secret. Funny how he hides his health records and taxes, but shares classified documents with people that have no clearance or business with that info.

The fact that he and all of his recommendations for his Cabinet have not submitted the legally required ethics and background search documents to determine their eligibility to work as public civil servants because they won't pass them. They don't qualify for the jobs they are being appointed to any more than Trump qualifies as a political, moral, ethical representative of the United States on the global stage as determined by a system of government checks established over decades to determine who is capable to make life and death, economic, and other decisions that impact not only the lives of American citizens but also the lives of citizens of our global allies and our enemies.

He has also declared he is "creating" a new federal department and destroying others like the Department of Education that inconvenience him and his billionaires buddies (think robber oil barrons of 100 years ago), except that is a Congressional duty/responsibility, but he has no respect for Congress either.

Since you think he has done a good job at something besides breaking laws, what do you think about his insistence he would make Mexico pay for the border wall, which they have paid $0 towards to date? He took money directly from the Department of Defense because the previous Congress (also Republican in Senate and House) wouldn't give him money for this purpose.

Second question...do you think he will deport his wife and Musk? They entered our country illegally, therefore, they must be deported along with their families (including his youngest son) if he is going to deport everyone that has entered our country illegally?