But a White House official confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, that Trump does not plan to reimburse the money already spent, saying, “The President’s Truth was not referring to reimbursement.”

The ads were part of a $20 million campaign and feature Trump’s voice saying the country will defeat socialism and communism.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    16 days ago

    I mean on some level everything is similar. Menendez is 2024. It regularly happens with one party and not so much with the other. With the other it usually involves formal investigation and you don’t see the party cleaning its own house much. so at one level they are similar (politicians) and in another they are light years apart (violating the constitution, bribery, corruption)

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        15 days ago

        individual occurences yeah but this administration its part of policy. If one ice agent did not do due process once or heck if it even happened once in awhile but the agency investigated and corrected the occurence or if not if its parent agency did or if not if the secretary of the department did or if not if the president stepped in or if not if the congress did its duty. Then it would not be policy. actually the policy is when the president did not act. it going further just shows its the whole party behind it.

        • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          15 days ago

          You don’t think the whole Democratic party is complicit in their own party’s corruption? I’m not saying the two are equal to be clear. But dismissing Democrat corruption as a few bad apples is insane work.

          • HubertManne@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            15 days ago

            im not dismissing it. im comparing one that is the product of the world being imperfect to the other that is absolutely nuts.

            • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              15 days ago

              So Democrat corruption is ok because “that’s just life” but Republicans are pure evil? Where is your line boss

              • HubertManne@piefed.social
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                15 days ago

                one over its history has brought regulations, put forth healthcare plans, increased consumer protections, increased social wealfare programs, has increased taxes on the wealthy, improved the nations infrastructure, incentivized energy efficiency and use of renewables… It really gets me how folks like to just ignore good things and be like. its not enough and they are all the same. I have been experiencing it for over 50 years and its certainly not all the same. I really get annoyed at the biden hate. His actions on student loan forgiveness, junk fees, infrastructure, renewables, anti monopoly, corporate minum tax, tax on stock by backs, stopping non competes. These are the things I prefer to see an administration over unmarked paramilitary kidnapping and renditioning folks to foreign gulangs. The line is way better is better than way worse.

            • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              15 days ago

              You are stuck in an illusion of choice.

              “You can go to bed now, or you can go to bed in five minutes” do you really get a choice there?

              How about, "The rich will get tax cuts and Israel WILL take your money. Would you like to be physically assaulted to achieve this? Or would you like to “return to normalcy” to achieve this?

                • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  15 days ago

                  The possibilities are endless.

                  “Hopefully, the slaves will be comfy on their planks so we don’t have to make them appreciate it by making them MORE uncomfortable”, right?

                  • HubertManne@piefed.social
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    15 days ago

                    you can still work on escape while sleeping on the wood boards. sleeping on the nails won’t improve your escape plans.