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Is Trump Considering A Presidential Pardon For Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs?

After officially taking office on January 20 of next year, Donald Trump will again have full presidential pardon power, meaning he can give anyone convicted of a federal crime a clean slate and release them from prison if they’re still incarcerated.

Perhaps the most famous (and infamous) person currently in federal custody is rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. If convicted, Combs faces decades behind bars.

So, would Trump pardon Combs? The two have been acquaintances for decades and once traveled in the same social circle.

A bodyguard who was employed by Combs in the 1990s doubts that Trump would hand the rapper a get-out-of-jail-free card, according to Newsweek.

Gene Deal, who served as a bodyguard for Combs in the 1990s when the star was known as Puff Daddy, has expressed doubts that Trump will take any such action on behalf of the hip-hop musician, given his past criticisms of the onetime real estate mogul.

During a recent appearance on hip-hop interview channel The Art of Dialogue, Deal said that Combs “wasn’t even good with Trump like that [anymore]. He was going against Donald Trump.”

Deal added that he expects Trump would ask the following question: “Why should I help this mother****** when he talks s*** about me?”

“Donald Trump probably wouldn’t p*** on Puff if he was on fire,” Deal added. “At one point, they was going at him. So why would he help? … I don’t believe he’s gonna help him. Not at all.”

In 2012, however, Trump sounded like a fan of Combs, remarking, “I love Diddy. You know he’s a good friend of mine. He’s a good guy.”

Combs returned Trump’s love in 2015, telling the Washington Post, “Donald Trump is a friend of mine, and he works very hard.”

But two years later, Combs wasn’t so enthusiastic.

“I think that to be honest, we don’t really give a f*** about Trump, because [black people are] in the same f*****-up position. So that’s not what we’re on. The tomfoolery that’s going on in D.C., that’s just regular everyday business to black folks. That’s not surprising.”

Combs also revealed that he had voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.

“When you look at it, we don’t have no choice. Say what you want about Biden, I can’t say I love the pick either. But we’ve got to get him in office, and then we’ve got to hold him accountable.”

Trump and Combs are the same in one regard: Both have been accused of horrific sexual crimes and both appear to be sexual predators. Too bad they can’t share a prison cell together.

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‘Efficiency’ Co-Chair Ramaswamy Hints Department Of Education Will Be ‘Deleted Outright’ By Trump

Failed venture capital hack and serial liar Vivkek Ramaswamy said Sunday that once Donald Trump is again in the White House, he will eliminate the U.S. Department of Education “outright” as part of a plan to slash federal spending, even when it helps Americans.

Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, made that remark to Fox host Maria Bartitomo.

“Elon and I aren’t in this for the credit,” Ramaswamy explained. “But I think we’re gonna build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made for most of our history.”

“President Trump has talked about the Department of Education,” Bartiromo noted. “For example, are you gonna be closing down departments?”

With a smile, Ramaswamy replied, “We expect mass would be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government, So yes, we expect all of the above and I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop.”

He added, “So this is a historic opportunity We’re not actually going to squander this, but I think part of the key is to move quickly to move effectively. I think that mass deregulation that I talked about earlier that gives us the industrial logic to then make cuts to that bureaucracy and moving quickly is our objective.”

While we’re at it, why not sell the White House and most of the monuments in the nation’s capital to the highest bidder, too? Hey, maybe we could even rename them for whoever forks over the most cash.

Just imagine it: The Walmart/Washington Monument. Or what about the Viagra Pentagon, where our Defense Department is hard 24/7 for any foe that might want to challenge America? Not including Russia, of course, because they already control Trump completely.

With people like Ramaswamy, Musk, and Trump running things, we truly are fucked. Make sure your passport is current and valid, because you may need it to escape the coming shithole USA sooner rather than later.

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Jack Smith Has The Perfect Way To Put Trump In A Legal Bind On His Way Out As Special Counsel

As he prepares to resign before Donald Trump takes office on January 20 of next year, Special Counsel Jack Smith has a way to make sure that Trump has to make a painful choice as he attempts to get the federal criminal cases against him permanently dismissed.

That’s the word from former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, who explained what Smith is likely to do in his last days as special counsel.

Speaking with MSNBC’s Katie Phang, McQuade explained the two choices Smith has.

“I have heard from a number of people saying, why should Jack Smith pull the plug on his own case, why not just let Trump just fire him, make him go through that exercise so that people can see that it was Trump who ended this?” she noted. “And I think it is because Jack Smith can have a lot more control if he ends it on his own terms.”

“There are a couple of things he can do,” McQuade continued. “One, as you say, is to issue a full-throated report on both of the cases; the January 6th election interference case, as well as the documents case in Florida ––those two things. The other thing he could do, Katie, and I don’t know if this would withstand all of the machinations that Trump will certainly try to put up against it –– to dismiss the cases without prejudice, and make the argument later that the statute of limitations is tolled during the Trump presidency and revive the cases in 2029.”

“I think there is a 50-50 shot that succeeds, so if he ends it now with prejudice, that keeps those cases alive. It would put the Trump administration in the untenable spot of either accepting that or having to refile the cases just so they can dismiss them with prejudice.”

McQuade concluded, “So, we will see how that goes, but I think this keeps Jack Smith’s hands in control rather than leaving it in the hands of the next Department of Justice.”

In other words, the federal case against Donald Trump is far from finished, and it could well be restarted once he leaves the White House in 2029.

The bar of justice isn’t finished with the disgraced felon president-elect.

Here’s the video of McQuade’s conversation with Phang:

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Trump Taking Calls From ‘Unknown Foreign Numbers’ As He Picks Cabinet Nominees

From his home at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump continues to pick one controversial (and potentially unconfirmable) person after another for his cabinet, using up the dwindling political capital he earned by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris less than two weeks ago.

First, Fox host Pete Hegseth was nominated for Secretary of Defense. Then came Matt Gaetz for Attorney General of the United States. It now appears neither has a chance of gaining Senate approval.

As Trump makes those picks, he’s also having numerous phone conversations with people who have “foreign numbers,” according to a disturbing report from the New York Times.

“Even with the differences since 2016, all signs so far indicate that the 78-year-old president-elect is sticking to some of his old habits. It sometimes seems to his staff as if half the world now has Mr. Trump’s cellphone number. Even since becoming the president-elect, he still seems willing to take every call — even calls from unknown foreign numbers.”

Where are those calls coming from? Russia? China? North Korea? No one knows, but the very idea that a president-elect might be seeking guidance from foreign nations on his appointees should worry every American, even those who voted for Trump.

And when he isn’t on the phone or regaling guests with tales of how he managed to win the 2024 election, Trump is also playing disc jockey.

“He has been spotted in the tearoom beneath the gold-canopied roof, or out on the Mar-a-Lago patio, picking out music on his iPad and blasting Pavarotti.”

In other words, Donald is more unhinged than ever, and he doesn’t even care if we all know that he could be talking about staffing moves with Vladimir Putin or Orbán, potentially selling out the United States to whatever dictator is willing to offer him the biggest financial reward.

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Trump Refusing To Let FBI Do Background Checks On Cabinet Nominees

Failed former president Donald Trump is refusing to let the FBI do background checks or vetting on some of the people he has nominated for top jobs in his new administration.

According to CNN, Trump is instead using private companies to do background checks, but it’s unclear if those companies are capable of such a job.

“Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect’s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage.”

“The discussions come as Trump has floated several controversial choices for high-level positions in the US government – including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.”

Gaetz and Gabbard could never pass an FBI check because both have questionable backgrounds that include alleged illegal activity and connections to nations hostile to the United States, including Russia.

 

“Gaetz has been mired for years in Justice Department and House ethics investigations related to sex trafficking. The Justice Department declined to charge Gaetz, and the House ethics probe, days away from being completed, was effectively ended when the Florida congressman resigned from his seat this week. Gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.”

“Gabbard, meanwhile, has frequently appeared to take positions more favorable to foreign leaders widely considered not just American adversaries but, in some cases, brutal dictators, including the presidents of Syria and Russia, raising questions from allies and critics alike.”

The CNN report set has set off alarm bells for some in Congress, including Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who remarked, “This is an alarming step that, frankly, should alarm every American citizen who wants the basic function of government to work, who wants to ensure that the FBI, as you were reporting earlier, is able to investigate terrorist threats,” she said. “The fact that they would avoid a traditional background check process to me means they know they can’t pass it, and what it means is that information that would be available to the FBI just won’t even be considered.”