Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Put a lawyer in charge who spent 14 years addling his brain with cocaine and heroin, what possibly could go wrong!

Newsome seems to be stepping up as credible opposition to Trump.

Jan 6th, 2021, is never going to fade away. The U.S Air Force has rowed back on a decision made in 2021 that denied Ashley Babbitt (the woman shot dead inside the Capitol building on Jan 6th while she and other insurrectionists used force inside the building to get hold of members of Congress with malice on their minds) military funeral honours.

In a letter dated August 15, Air Force Undersecretary Matthew Lohmeier overturned a 2021 ruling that denied Babbitt, who served for more than a decade before settling in San Diego, military funeral honors. That earlier decision, issued shortly after the insurrection, said her actions “would bring discredit upon the Air Force.”

Judicial Watch, a right-wing group that represented Babbitt’s family in a wrongful-death lawsuit, released the letter this week and declared victory. Babbitt’s ceremony will include a bugler playing “Taps”, a two-person honor guard, and a folded American flag presented to her family.

The reversal comes just months after the Trump administration agreed to pay nearly $5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by Babbitt’s family. The suit had initially sought $30 million. Investigators had cleared the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, ruling the use of force lawful. Babbitt had become a cause célèbre on the right with President Donald Trump embracing her family and framing her as a victim. The settlement provided a payout to her estate and attorneys.

Probably along the lines of "nothing to see here, them's the rules, everything in order, checks and balances, all normal sailing".

He's the voice of the reason that has left us so long ago, we can't even see it in the rear view mirror.

Trump's the one who got her killed. Without his leading the stolen election charge, she wouldn't have been at the Capitol that day. The policeman who actually shot her was acting within his legal capacity after having told her group to stay back and not come through that door. The only way to regard her as a hero or martyr is to accept she was operating in a morally-correct capacity, which she wasn't. She was attempting to usurp a lawful election on behalf of her orange godking.

Which is exactly why Trump will eventually try to name a public holiday after her or something.

Absolutely nothing Trump does or would "just asking" wonder about doing will surprise me. I expect him to be advised that a service award would be out of the question should he ask if he could do so.

She swore an oath to defend the Constitution, and she then tried to usurp the swearing in of a president who won the vote in accordance with that very Constitution.

She is worthy only of disgrace and the fact that another here who has sworn to protect the exact same Constitution can't or won't see that and equivocates rather than call things as they are is manifestly shameful.

“Russia/Putin really have some sort of hold over him,”

I think it’s far simpler than that- Trump envy’s Putin and the power he has in his own country- Trump wants that too - hence dismantling the institutions of democracy - Russia don’t have to have anything over Trump- he’s a willing lapdog

I think they view this in the same way that Irish Republicans would have viewed Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's funeral and Pearse's oration at the event. It's not about the individual, it's about creating a ritual to burnish the legitimacy of the cause via veneration of a martyr.

It's pretty vile but we're talking about a man who…, well we all know what he is at this point without needing examples surely.