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

Bondi is an utter embarrassment. Her responses to committee members were disgraceful. Basically her testimony was to insult, make up excuses and what about statements to use up each members 5 mins.

Hope she gets a long time behind bars for her actions.

Far as I`m concerned the only thing you are Ireland first on is the same as the MAGA America first, immigrants.

Everything else stems from that with your admiration for Trump and your constant, often ludicrous, attempts at defending him and your "what about Biden". Playing the typical MAGA playbook, so nobody here believes your are not an Irish MAGA want-to-be.

The funny side is that from your own posts you have shown just how poor Trump`s record on deprting illegals has been even with an extra spend of $19 billion per annum of taxpayers money on his own private army of thugs where there were more illegals in the U.S. end of 2025 than the beginning of 2025.

"But what about Biden….?" Biden deported more people in 2024 than Trump in 2025 and did it without a private army of thugs and did it for $19 billion less.

Trump orders intelligence services to share classified information with Kurt Olsen, one of his 'Stop the Steal' lawyers who challenged the 2020 election results.

“The president has asked Mr. Olsen to look at intelligence related to the 2020 election and the agency is ensuring that he has the access necessary to do his work,” a CIA official said in an emailed statement.

The Wall Street Journal first reported last year on the hiring of Olsen, saying he was seeking intelligence reports from U.S. spy agencies. Politico first reported that the president had directed intelligence agencies to cooperate with Olsen’s efforts.

Olsen does not have a background working in the intelligence world. But the press secretary for the Office of the Director National Intelligence, Olivia Coleman, said: “Every individual who is granted access to classified information goes through an extensive background investigation, including record checks and personal interviews, with a trained investigator to ensure that the individual is trustworthy and does not pose a threat to national security.”

Trump’s decision to provide potentially sensitive intelligence to Olsen coincides with concerns raised by Democrats in Congress and legal experts that his administration is seeking to revive claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election to justify the president’s calls for the federal government to assert control over ballot counting in the upcoming midterms

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Last year, a federal court upheld sanctions against Olsen in a case involving Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful legal challenge to her electoral defeat in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race. A three-judge panel ruled 2 to 1 that Olsen and another lawyer had made “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” when they argued that Arizona’s electronic voting system failed to protect voters’ rights.

It's rather grim and terrifying to think this is the calibre of people who have control of the nuclear button.

House has passed the SAVE Act 218-213. It goes to the Senate where it wil have a tougher time because of the 60 vote rule. However the Senate can overturn the filibuster rule by changing Senate rules, which had happened several times since Trump's first term where they abolished it for SCOTUS judge appointments.

The SAVE Act would require proof of American citizenship to vote including photo id. While most Americans support voter ID, concerns have been expressed at obstacles erected to getting the ID, including charging for it in some states, which could amount to a poll tax which is banned by the Voting Rights Act. Also concerns that married women might be disenfranchised because their surnames usually would have changed compared to their previous ID. Also, the bill explicitly excludes admissibility of Student ID. They are trying to stack the deck.

I'd have no problem admitting it in person never mind anonymously. People here think I would anyway so there's no reason not to.

What's with the whole giving Biden a free pass thing?

https://prismreports.org/2025/01/15/biden-immigration-migrant-deaths/

I get it you don't like Trump, not many of us here do but where's the balance?

Some new information surfacing on this.

Maybe there's two Seamus Culletons from that villagen

Republican House bill would gut regulation of toxic chemicals. The chemicals regulators are now lobbyists for the chemical industry. Also guts worker and consumer protection. Also requires regulators to meet industry representatives when drawing up regulations.

Trump hasn't just lowered the bar, he is the bar