Trump Accuses DOJ Probe Into Alleged Bribery-For-Pardon Plot Of Being ‘Fake News’

President Donald Trump called the Justice Department’s investigation into an alleged scheme involving a bribe in return for a presidential pardon “fake news” on Tuesday night.


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Right on cue.

Yawn… :yawning_face:

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Best guess is Elliot Broidy via Junior

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“Pardon investigation is Fake News!” he tweeted.

In other words, Trump just verified its authenticity.

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Oh my, how far we have gone when an accusation of the POTUS accepting a bride for a pardon is believable. This is all due to polurization caused by three decades of right wing media, headed by the foreigner Ralpher Murdock.

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Wow … no response to the Georgia official who ripped into him for putting peoples lives in danger …
But this story triggers him …an actual DOJ probe … and he amplifies the attention that it is getting by shouting “fake news”? … actually have not heard him use “fake news” in a while
…it had gotten to be the universal code phrase for " yes, that is absolutely true"

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Ah the cry of Fake News! right on cue. As predictable as the sun rising in the morning thus confirming its validity. We have learned alot from this dummy.

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Actually, he did respond to Gabriel Sterling - not with any concern about the physical threats, but he did respond…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333975991518187521

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Basically being called an asshole by the GA election offical doesn’t bother him. He knows he’s an asshole. Its his stock in trade and the only thing he has successfully sold to his MAGAts. But he is deathly afraid of criminal prosecution.

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Donnie, the striped uniform you are wearing is fake. This locked room you are in with the thin-mattress bed, toilet, and locked door is fake. Reality is fake.

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I, Donald John Trump, The One Term King, hereby pardon myself for the following crimes, which are Totally Fake News, but all the same:

**** 235) For selling pardons, or discussing giving of pardons in exchange for monetary or other value, or conspiring to issue pardons in exchange for money or pardons or real estate deals whereby my name would be on residential or office buildings in Kazakhstan, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Russia, the Philippines, Panama, New York City or anywhere else I have forgotten to include in this list which shall be for illustrative purposes only and not limit in any way the places or locations which I discussed in connection with corruptly issuing pardons.


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A response? … OK … but not really

About like screaming that the cold-storage makeshift morgue trailers parked in the streets are impeding the flow of traffic and making travel in the city difficult … is a recognition of the impact of COVID-19.

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Presumably the idiots didn’t go through with the bribe after all the phones/computers were confiscated, right. The old “it’s the fuzz! Cheese it!”

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Let’s see…this has been going on since summer, and the DOJ seemed to want to keep it secret. I wonder why they did not have the director of the FBI write a letter and release it a few days before the election? Hmmm…
So tell us again about Obama’s DOJ being corrupt. Please. Explain it to us again.

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OT, but i simply gotta!

:laughing: :rofl: :joy: :laughing: :rofl: :rofl: :laughing: :sweat_smile:

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Tweeting as though anyone gives a shit anymore.

If I wasn’t enjoying his psychic disintegration so much, I’d say “Sad.”

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My neighbor accused his kid of robbing the cookie jar but the kid denied it. He reasoned that it’s too kid like to snatch cookies to not be true. My dog gave me that innocent look when I confronted him about chewing up my dress shoe but I knew that it’s too dog like to chew up a shoe for it not to be true. Then I read that the Trump administration was accused of a pardon for money scam…WAY too Trump like not to be true. Money and stupidity in combo. How Trumpy is that?

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So assuming that he pardons himself, can DC go after him?

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It is wise to keep an eye on Trump’s reaction. He always says the quiet part out loud.

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