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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 30, 2024, 02:19 PM Mar 2024

Trump's Bible Stunt Isn't Brilliant. It's Insanely Desperate.

The standard commentary on Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bible” is that while of course it’s cynical and twisted and borderline sacrilegious, there’s also no doubt that his people are going to buy it by the carload, because these people would buy a bag of Trump Dogshit from the guy (“from the bowels of the best dogs, everybody says so”). Some people are just that, well, let us say easily taken in.

Trump’s dark penchant for hucksterism is endless, and P.T. Barnum’s dictum is as true today as it was when he said it. You could take slips of paper on which you write the names of 25 things these Americans like, pull out three or four, conjure up some physical manifestation of it, and Trump would sell it: NASCAR-Branson’s Famous Baldknobbers Beer, in limited-edition cans that show Trump as Rambo.

It’s endless. Or is it? Trump’s fundraising has taken a nosedive. His small-donor numbers are below where they once were. NBC News recently reported that donations to Trump of $200 or less are down 62.5 percent against 2019. He’s still raised a lot; I don’t want to mislead you here. The New York Times recently reported that Trump has more small donors than Joe Biden in some key swing states. But Biden has raised more from small donors overall, according to OpenSecrets. And in the most recent Federal Election Commission filings, Trump had $33.5 million cash on hand and Biden reported having $71 million. That was March 20, before Thursday night’s Radio City Music Hall event with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, where Biden raked in $26 million.

All this is a shock to no one, because as we all know, Trump is spending a good chunk of his donations on his legal bills. The Times ran an amazing report about this on Wednesday. Of nearly $85 million in donations, almost a third, $27 million, has gone to legal bills. Hey, at least this time around, he’s apparently actually paying them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-bible-stunt-isn-t-143328517.html

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Trump's Bible Stunt Isn't Brilliant. It's Insanely Desperate. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 OP
Of course, he's actually paying the lawyer bills. They know they have to be paid up front or they ain't 3Hotdogs Mar 2024 #1

3Hotdogs

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1. Of course, he's actually paying the lawyer bills. They know they have to be paid up front or they ain't
Sat Mar 30, 2024, 03:53 PM
Mar 2024

gonna be paid at all.


About two years ago, there were lawyers on the Smerconish Sirius/Xm radio program. They defended Anal Fistula in the Senate impeachment hearing. They said they wouldn't get into the limo to take them to the train station until the check (wire transfer or whatever) cleared.

A dilwad like Habbas might go without being paid before hand -- in search of publicity. But you get what you pay for. However, I bet she got paid the Walmart rate. -- o.t.o.h., she is his type. Maybe she let him grab.....

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