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

Its not really disingenuous, its just a way to try and dodge and shut down questions. Trumpesque tactics, what did you expect?

When has the US ever abided by the Geneva convention. They have actively targeted civilians and non combatants on a regular basis. The Collateral damage excuse is thrown out like confetti. They have tortured pow's, and even just suspects as well as illegally extradition and holding without trial. They have openly stated that if war criminals were taken into custody, they would launch a mission to free them.

The Geneva convention doesnt apply to the US. They don't even recognise the ICC.

There won't be an investigation. Not unless the dems get control.

Manic has always said that soldiers need to follow orders based on those orders being legitimate. Which I agree with.

But here we have clear signs, both from the footage itself and Hegseths claim, that there are serious questions to be answered.

So where is the evidence that the lawyers either preapproved or even post approved these actions?

Under what set of laws as they considered legal? Hegseth seems to be claiming they are acts of war but is that correct? If war has been declared does that not require Congress to vote?

Has Bondi published her written advice? Did Trump sign off on this? What officials in the DoW, FBI or other agency approved this action.

Why is the DoW involved? Is this not a criminal offence and as such the FBI/CIA should be leading it.

So many questions and yet MAGAs are completely silent.

What it shows it that people are willing to accept pretty much anything once they believe its to protect US (or their particular country

"For the "this was an unlawful order which should have been refused" situation to be in play, three things must have happened. One criminal, one stupid, one incompetent"

Wrong. For it to be unlawful it only needs to be criminal. That's pretty cut and dried.

Stupid and incompetent are only factors in getting caught but for the US army those have always been bigger crimes than murder.

Judges appointed by Ronald Reagan have become outspoken critics of Trump. Those still on the bench are ruling against him, and one has resigned in order to be able to speak more freely.

When U.S. District Judge William Young ruled this summer that the Trump administration illegally canceled hundreds of research grants focused on gender identity or diversity, he went further than just striking the revocations down. 

The Reagan-appointed judge, who took the bench in 1985, said it was his “unflinching obligation” to draw the conclusion that the administration’s move amounted to racial discrimination and discrimination against the LGBTQ community. 

“That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out,” the judge said. “My duty is to call it out.” …………..

In one of Trump’s first acts back in the White House, he pardoned nearly all Jan. 6, 2021, defendants accused of storming the Capitol after he lost his 2020 bid for the presidency to former President Biden.  

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan judge who took the bench in 1987, wrote days later that in his 37 years of judgeship, he could not recall a time when “such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream.”  

“I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history, claiming rioters behaved ‘in an orderly fashion’ like ordinary tourists, or martyrizing convicted January 6 defendants as ‘political prisoners’ or even, incredibly, ‘hostages,’” the judge wrote. “That is all preposterous.” 

The trend has continued as Trump has pushed the bounds of presidential authority. 

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who took the bench in 1981, wrote in a February decision striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order that, to Trump, “the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals.” 

When an appeals panel in April urged the Trump administration to more diligently seek the return of then-mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, U.S. Circuit Judge Harvie Wilkinson III penned the order, contending the government’s “shocking” conduct asserted a right to “stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.” 

And Young, again, excoriated the administration in September with a blistering rebuke of Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists. In the ruling, he quoted a portion of Reagan’s inauguration speech which noted “freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction,” but posited that Trump may have drawn a “darker, more cynical” meaning from the message.   

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected,” Young wrote. “Is he correct?”  

There's no such thing as "criminality at the time". If it was criminal 2 months ago it's criminal now.

Part 2 and 3 are about being caught not being criminal.

It's quiet clear the US have once again committed war crimes and equally clear you're desperate attempts to defend them are nothing but lies and waffle.

It must be great to be a Republican. Anything that puts them in a poor light is dismissed as fake news. Any decision that goes against them is taken by activist judges. Thus, it can be ignored.

And of course, anything bad is Biden's fault

Somehow Marjorie Taylor Greene is the most respected Republican in 2025.

That says so much about the state of them.