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The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 year ago (30 children)

"A fool and his money are soon parted" is once again proven true.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad used to smuggly say this all the time. Look who is laughing now that he is maga cuck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no it's completely ridiculous how many things they will misuse in exactly this way.. there is strange magic afoot, friends.. keep your wits about you..

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[–] Snapz 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"...according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign."

The same group that said 6'3" 215, right?

STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)

[–] Daft_ish 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ummm isn't trump the "group" that said he was 6'3" 215. How the fuck is politico suppose to take the heat for trump being vain as fuck?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.

He bankrupted two casinos, let's hope he destroys the GOP

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump (tm) voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

villagers throwing money down a well, because they believe something down there likes them

[–] Snapz 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just do not understand how this Zoolander mugshot can motivate people for anything but laughter. But apparently they even give money after seeing it.

[–] nepenthes 6 points 1 year ago

Are you even allowed to hold your head like that in a mugshot though? My passport photos had all kinds a crazy rules.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Grifters gonna grift.

[–] Pretzilla 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How much of that is just laundering Russian money?

Can we see the donor list, please?

[–] jj4211 6 points 1 year ago

Russia has any money left?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many days of lawyer fees is that?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infinity, because he doesn't pay his lawyers.

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[–] luckyhunter 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh for sure. This is the most iconic image in us political history and all sides are fundraising off of it.

[–] btaf45 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The biggest thing I've got from the mugshot is that Crybaby Trump must never again have any nuclear launch codes.

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[–] dx1 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

IDK about most iconic. Raising flag over Iwo Jima photo? 9/11 photos? JFK portrait photo? Just off the top of my head.

Trump doing a mini fundraiser over the whole "look how mad I am for the true Americans" B.S. expression he put on. Dems basically just saying "look at this dumbass" and ready to forget it within a week.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he's convicted, does this count as proceeds gained via criminal activity, which he would then forfeit?

[–] Khanzarate 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, it's specifically not a crime to be arrested, that'd be an infinite jail glitch.

He'll waste it all on lawyers whose job will be to disprove hard evidence though, since he's very guilty, so it'll be fine.

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[–] Nerrad 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

That'll buy a lot of soap and toothpaste from the prison commissary!

[–] Death_Equity 11 points 1 year ago

He is going to buy ramen and use the flavor packets as spray tan.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.

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[–] Fades 5 points 1 year ago
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