As had been expected for some time now, failed former president Donald Trump was indicted Thursday on multiple counts connected to his mishandling of classified documents and obstructing justice.
Trump said Thursday night that his attorneys were informed that he has been indicted in the special counsel’s investigation into his handling of classified documents. Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the indictment, one adding that Trump had received a summons to appear in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said: “The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax.”
As you’d expect, the pro-Trump MAGA faithful went into full apocalyptic meltdown mode, whining and weeping on social media as they proved their own ignorance of the case and their blind devotion to a man who has been engaged in criminal behavior his entire life.
The Biden Administration is weaponizing the DOJ to go after their number one opponent. It’s a two-tiered system of justice aimed directly at Donald Trump and conservatives.
The American people should choose our next President, not politicized prosecutors hand-picked by Joe…
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) June 9, 2023
If the people in power can jail their political opponents at will, we don’t have a republic
Our completely out-of-control Department of Justice is destroying the country. Meddling in elections, refusing to prosecute political allies, political prosecutions of political opponents. Just horrific situation we're in right now. Horrific.
There’s an eponymous saying attributed to P.T. Barnum that we’re all familiar with: There’s a sucker born every minute.
But based on a report from NBC News, it’s probably safe to say that when it comes to supporters of failed, one-term, twice-impeached and once-indicted former president Donald Trump, those suckers are born every second.
Take, for example, John Amann, who says he purchased $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks over the past year but was told they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his bank.
NBC News has identified the Colorado-based companies behind the Trump Bucks as Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots and reviewed dozens of social posts, online complaints and hundreds of misleading ads for the products. Additionally, NBC News has found at least a dozen people like Amann who say they invested thousands of dollars after watching the pitches on Telegram and other websites that strongly suggested that Trump himself was endorsing these products.
“Now I’m questioning whether he is aware of this,” Amann said of Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWi7h4r-4o
There’s no proof that the failed ex-president is connected to the scam, though if he were, you know he’d be getting a hefty share of the profits and would also likely deny he was.
Patriots Dynasty, the company behind the scam, operates out of a industrial center in Denver and has been given an F rating by the Better Business Bureau.
All of this is part of a larger scam goes by the moniker of the Trump Rebate Banking System (TRB for short), which is telling buyers that when Trump is returned to office, he’ll unveil a new monetary system that will magically transform the Trump Bucks into money that is worth much more than what they paid for the items.
Invest in a TRB membership card “issued by Donald Trump,” the ads from Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots claim, and the purchaser who spent, say, $99.99 on a “$10,000 Diamond Trump Bucks” bill will be able to cash it in for $10,000 at major banks and retailers like Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.
“TRB system membership cards are official cards issued by Donald Trump to allow Trump Bucks holders to use Trump Bucks as legal tender and deposit them in banks such as JP Morgan Chase, the Bank of America and Wells Fargo,” a narrator identified only as “John” that appears to be a computer-generated voice says in one YouTube ad just moments after cautioning viewers that “Trump Bucks are not legal tender.”
Another victim, a 75-year-old grandmother who lives in Alabama, had this to say about the Trump Bucks, which she now realizes have no value whatsoever:
“I saw all these ads on Telegram that had Trump pushing coins and checks that he endorsed and how you can cash them in after a year and make a profit. I was told how you can go to Bank of America or Target or Amazon to cash them in.”
But when she went to the local Bank of America branch, she found out that she’d been conned out of $1,500.
“When we get there the lady tells me she’s seen dozens of people coming in to cash these checks and they have nothing to do with this,” the grandmother said.
“Now I realize, well, that was stupid,” she said. “But I bought them because I believed President Trump, because he knows all about finance, and he was going to help the real Trump Patriots get rich.”
There’s big trouble in MAGA world tonight, and it’s all over a damn can of beer.
You may recall that many conservatives, MAGA morons, and right-wing nutjobs have been urging each other to stop buying products made by Anheuser-Busch because the company is partnering with a transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney.
But Donald Trump Jr., who many feel is the heir to the already decaying MAGA throne, said on his podcast that a boycott was a bad idea, noting that Anheuser-Busch donates more money to Republicans than Democrats.
“That’s literally unheard of in corporate America, where it’s really easy to go woke, where they do so constantly, where there’s a consequence of actually being a conservative,” Junior insisted. “So 60-40 to the conservative side is kind of a big deal.”
He added:
“The company itself doesn’t participate in the same leftist nonsense as the other big conglomerates. Frankly, they don’t participate in the same woke garbage that other people in the beer industry actually do, who are significantly worse offenders when I looked into it. But if they do this again, then it’s on them! Then screw them.”
Those comments didn’t sit well with many in the MAGA movement, Newsweek reports.
Conservatives and Republicans have repeatedly hit out at the transgender community and have worked to pass legislation to limit the medical treatment that transgender children are allowed to receive as part of any physical transition.
Former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski noted Trump Jr. had been subject to a backlash from MAGA supporters over his stance.
In a Twitter post on Saturday, Filipkowski said: “I have to type this through tears after laughing so hard reading MAGA posts attacking [Trump] junior for calling off the Bud Light boycott.”
MORE PROOF THAT DJT IS NOT GOING TO SAVE AMERICA. APPARENTLY ANHEUSER-BUSCH’S CONSERVATIVE CREDENTIALS ALSO INCLUDE GETTING 70% OF AMERICANS INJECTED WITH THE CV19 BIOWEAPON.https://t.co/uhdR7VCx9m
A supporter of failed one-term ex-president Donald Trump tried to attack anti-Trump protesters in New York City Tuesday morning and had to be pulled away by police.
David Mack of BuzzFeed News shared video of the incident on Twitter and it quickly went viral.
“A Trump supporter just rushed the banner and tried to tear it up. Started attacking the anti-Trump protesters. Very ugly and heated. Swarmed by media. Police struggled to get in to break it up. Getting heated.”
JUST NOW: A Trump supporter just rushed the banner and tried to tear it up. Started attacking the anti-Trump protesters. Very ugly and heated. Swarmed by media. Police struggled to get in to break it up. Getting heated. pic.twitter.com/H2pfiHI2cN
Law enforcement had to step in and separate the two groups.
The confrontation came just hours before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is scheduled to hold a pro-Trump rally in the very same area of downtown Manhattan.
The disgraced former president will be arraigned, booked, fingerprinted, and photographed at 1:30 pm. He will then return to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and make a speech later this evening.
Based on the behavior of the crowd that showed up for failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, the 2024 race for the White House could wind up being a rocky one for the disgraced ex-president.
According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, large numbers of the MAGA faithful began heading for the exits after just 30 minutes.
Trump arrived shortly before 6 p.m., his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens. He wrapped up at 7:32 in the evening, though quite a few fans did not last that long.
About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk back to the parking lots, designated and otherwise. Several leaving early said they accomplished what they wanted to achieve by showing up for the rally, enduring traffic and long lines. Some said after hours on the tarmac, they were tired, hungry or both and wanted to get home.
Since when are the Trump fanatics thinking about being tired or hungry when their tangerine savior is speaking?
Then again, maybe it was the speech itself, which was a litany of worn-out grievances and racist tropes, including the usual bullshit about how the 2020 election had been stolen (minus any tangible proof) and anyone who tries to indict him is actually attacking his supporters.
But it sounds like much of the fervor for Trump and his noxious rhetoric has begun to die down. Maybe because people are sick and tired of the same old shit. Or maybe because even he doesn’t actually have his heart in another run for president. After all, the only reason he’s running is so he can try to forestall the inevitable prison terms that are on the way.
