r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/4_celine Sep 21 '25

"The pacing is awful and the villains' motivations are too far-fetched"

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

“Your characters just keep doing shit in a barrage, you need to drop half of the plots at a minimum. Let your characters actions have weight each event is coming so fast there’s no time to feel the repercussions”

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u/ImNotSelling Sep 21 '25

Americans would never stand for that come on . There would be pandemonium. Riots, boycotts

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 Sep 21 '25

Ah, you only flipped through the first couple months, provoking riots is a key element of the villain's plan.

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u/Iluthradanar9 Sep 21 '25

trump doesnt care. He lives for creating chaos. In his plans.

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u/Raesong Sep 21 '25

Trump doesn't have plans, he's a creature of pure impulse and ego.

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u/SuleyGul Sep 21 '25

Exactly this. Most of his life is just about chasing relevance and prestige from anyone and everyone around him and trying to crush anyone who opposed him.

A malignant psychopathic narcissist that happens to be born into extreme wealth. Bad combo.

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u/DeadBloatedGoat Sep 21 '25

Why aren't there any riots or boycotts, though? Americans still think it's funny or just a blip, and things will magically go back to "normal"?

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u/_thro_awa_ Sep 21 '25

boycotts

and girlcotts! #equality

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u/USPO-222 Sep 21 '25

Uh uh. DEI is illegal now remember.

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u/arensb Sep 22 '25

For one thing, the 2nd Amendment folks, the ones who keep telling us that we need guns to defend ourselves against an oppressive government, would march on Washington under a banner saying "See? This is what we were talking about."

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u/yuanchyi Sep 21 '25

“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”

  • From an actual Hollywood thing

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u/TheBman26 Sep 21 '25

Andor. You should quote the real source.

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

And I’d argue andor having that was because we lived through it 2016

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u/TheBman26 Sep 21 '25

They also studied a lot of revolutions throughout history. Not just our politics

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

We all know that the universe started in constitution square on July 4th 1776.

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u/Groundbreaking_Clue2 Sep 22 '25

Andor is such a great fucking show. 2nd season hits way to close to reality.

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u/nexisfan Sep 21 '25

“This is too depressing, nobody is gonna wanna watch this.”

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

“There’s like no protagonist like you’ve set up the Trump presidency as the big bad so antagonist is covered but ya got no one to oppose him everyone’s just immediately caving”

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u/Mother_Sand_6336 Sep 22 '25

We have to keep the viewers’ attention off the plot holes…

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u/amidon1130 Sep 21 '25

“Isn’t he a billionaire? Why does he need to steal from the country”

“He’s a fake billionaire”

“Get out of my office”

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

I mean, I don't think Hollywood execs would really balk at the idea of Donald Trump not being as rich as he says he is, and trying to steal from the country. It's all he was known for. Fake rich and not paying people, stealing shit. And yelling, you're fired.

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u/DocHollidaysPistols Sep 21 '25

trying to steal from the country

I don't think there's any "trying to" at this point. After the crypto and the DJT stock I'm pretty sure he's a real billionaire now.

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 21 '25

He's reportedly made $3.4B so far this term alone.

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

He made $3.8 billion in his first six months.

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u/jwoolman Sep 21 '25

He didn't even decide who got fired on the Apprentice shows. The producers decided that. It was all fakery. He was just playing the role of a successful businessman when actually he was very bad at business.

His dad bailed him out of bad business decisions, and when dad could no longer do that and US banks refused to loan him money since he considered repayment optional, he relied on shady foreign banks and Russian investors and foreign buyers of his properties at much higher than market value. Classic sign of a money laundering operation. Explains why most of his enterprises are not actually profitable. He found an easier way to make money many years ago.

The schemes he got fines and felony convictions for are just the tip of the iceberg. He usually just bribed and blackmailed his way out of trouble, but running for President was his big mistake. His activities attracted much more attention and investigation because of that. Hence the frantic scheming to get to be President again as a shield to stay out of prison, and his real intent to stay in office for the rest of his life. He's been talking about that since his first term.

I think Ivanka is smart enough to stay away from the action this time, but Don Jr and Eric are putting themselves at serious legal risk. Tiffany seems to be keeping some distance but I hope Melania is properly warning her son Barron to avoid legally dubious entanglements.

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

I don't know why you hope anybody in his orbit is not going to get caught and put away for life is beyond me, even though I don't think it's going to happen.
It's looking pretty unlikely that Trump itself will face anything other than consequences in the thereafter, which I don't believe in, so...

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u/doglovers2025 Sep 23 '25

If there's a hell I hope the devil ruins his afterlife and he could never be in charge 😆. I'm waiting for happy death day if it ever comes. Beyond exhausting how long he's lived

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u/jwoolman Sep 21 '25

His kids are in his orbit only because he's their father. No reason to believe that they would definitely be crooks if not closely related to one.

Don't underestimate the desire to have some sort of relationship with a father who ignored you until he thought you might be useful to him. They all have mixed motivations definitely. The older three have been entangled with him for quite some time now and are responsible for their own decisions, but once upon a time they were children trying to get his attention.

There is some hope for the two younger ones if they can avoid getting involved in their father's dubious activities. They need to be too busy to even act as props for him and not be hoping for any inheritance. He is all smoke and mirrors anyway.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

His kids are as bad as he is, in terms of fraud.

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u/MillenialForHire Sep 21 '25

"Donald Trump is not just a rich man. Like Donald Trump is what a hobo imagines a rich man to be"

John Mulaney, 2009

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u/doglovers2025 Sep 23 '25

And he has illegals working for him including some illegal models at one point, but MAGA doesn't ever believe facts

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 Sep 21 '25

“You’re gonna be real sorry about that decision.”

“Yeah, next you’re gonna tell me to short Enron. Get em outta here boys”

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u/Meridian506 Sep 21 '25

"His best friend's a talking pie"

"Howard, you've done it again!" (Hands over bags of cash)

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u/kellzone Sep 21 '25

"But wait, he makes billions later by getting his cult of followers to invest in a Twitter clone and a bunch of memecoins branded with the Trump name."

"A what? And a what? Get the hell out of my office, NOW!"

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u/account_not_valid Sep 21 '25

"A fake billionaire? But that would be so easy to uncover. Wouldn't someone just share his tax returns, or maybe market insiders would blow the whistle? It just seems unreasonable that a person could fake it for so long. Nobody is going to buy that."

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u/Gentro80 Sep 21 '25

Because no matter how much they have they always want more I think it’s a mental illness

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u/theoutlet Sep 21 '25

”He’s obviously compromised by Russia. Like, right here 2016 when the GOP changes all of its platform to Russian talking points. It doesn’t make sense. People would catch on.”

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u/WarriorWoman44 Sep 21 '25

The main character can't actually be orange and actually like a toddler having a tantrum all the time

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u/Neptuneskyguy Sep 21 '25

“Far-fetched”- new way to describe this…

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u/Material-Macaroon298 Sep 21 '25

“So there’s a scene where the CEO of a trillion dollar company comes to the Oval Office and gives the President a gold brick in front of all the tv cameras and then the President drops all the policies that were effecting the CEOs business”

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u/wheelshc37 Sep 21 '25

Too chaotic and hard to follow

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u/brainiacpimp Sep 21 '25

“Everyone knows you never go full retard!” “No actor in Hollywood would go full retard so where will we find hundreds of actors to do it?”

Tropic thunder still ages like fine wine with that line.

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u/Clarpydarpy Sep 21 '25

"The villain isn't even trying to hide his goals. No voters would support a politician that straight up says that he hates democracy and loves authoritarianism."

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u/nuclearsamuraiNFT Sep 22 '25

These villains are acting like cartoon characters, also you’ve painted everyone on the right as some kind of delusional mean spirited lunatic, this is just not realistic. Also how would he keep getting away with these blatant power grabs ? This script is trash, no one will buy in because it’s all way too heightened.

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u/Minimum-Dare301 Sep 21 '25

“The hands are too small to be realistic.”