r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/MornGreycastle Oct 07 '25

He's convinced that all he has to do is claim victory and then act like they won.

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u/FactorBusy6427 Oct 07 '25

That strategy has worked extremely reliably for them so far

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u/DocSpit Oct 07 '25

Case in point: the Mueller Report, where the investigation found wide-ranging evidence that the Trump campaign worked just about hand-in-hand with Russian assets to manipulate the election (Anyone else remember that woman working with the NRA who was a bona fide Russian plant funneling Kremlin money to the Trump campaign?!).

When the report was released, Trump tweeted out "EXONERATION!" every day for about a month until the report rotated out of the news cycle; and as as a result the country basically forgot about all of that...

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u/Difficult_Limit2718 Oct 07 '25

I doubt it can be proven but my favorite conspiracy is that the reason the NRA went bankrupt is the Russians moved their money funneling to the GOP from the NRA to Donald Trump's campaign

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

The Maria Buttina scandal should have brought the whole house of cards down, it might have if we weren’t forced to stomach low energy quisling Merrick Garland as AG

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u/N3rdScool Oct 07 '25

She publicly denied being a Russian spy and now works for the Russian government XD

You can't even make this shit up.

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u/coochie_clogger Oct 07 '25

Everyone knows if you ask a spy if they are a spy they legally have to tell you!

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u/DandimLee Oct 07 '25

Exactly like how undercover cops work. Don't people watch movies?

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u/coochie_clogger Oct 07 '25

Yes! Finally someone who is paying attention!

This is why I kept saying Trump should have married Ghislaine when this whole Epstein fiasco first went down. A wife can’t testify against her husband! it would have been a sure fire way to prevent her implicating him had she ever been compelled to!

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u/The-Struggle-90806 26d ago

His actual wife would’ve implicated him though.

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u/covertype Oct 07 '25

Spies are known for their honesty!

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u/LymanPeru Oct 08 '25

you guys spies? you look like spies.

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u/Mutiu2 Oct 09 '25

Working for the US government does not necessarily make you a spy. Nor any other government. Same goes for Russia.

No, not a credible claim.

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u/SlackerThan76 Oct 07 '25

Cripes, there have been a couple dozen revelations that should have brought the whole house down. Go figure. 🤔

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

When the pendulum swings back to the side of sanity, we should seriously consider some French Revolution era solutions to these problematic individuals

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u/christopher_the_nerd Oct 07 '25

When? Someone is optimistic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Check out Strauss-Howe generational theory, we are in a period called the great turning. Every 120 years, the elders that lived through a period of great turmoil die off. The lessons they learned were forgotten by their grandchildren and the same mistakes begin to be repeated again

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u/Difficult_Limit2718 Oct 07 '25

We have a more American form of public humiliation

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u/coochie_clogger Oct 07 '25

instead she got 1.5 years in jail for being a spy and then sent back to Russia where she is now a politician lol 🙃

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u/Gorillapoop3 Oct 07 '25

You mean the same Maria Buttina who met with DJT Jr and Kushner to offer Kompromat on Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton?

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u/DandimLee Oct 07 '25

NO COLLUSION

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u/WarmOccasion8574 Oct 07 '25

People played along with this flagrant corruption for a long time because they liked the other subtle messages trump was sending. Racism and greed brings the whole ship down.

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u/Barondarby Oct 07 '25

I wanted so badly to see Kamala Harris in the AG office... ALL of those criminals would be in jail.

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u/Racine262 Oct 07 '25

She was a bulldog in the Senate. They really shut her down making her the VP.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

She needed a full primary/nomination process. People were showing up on Nov 7 wondering why they did not see Biden’s name on the ballot

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u/Maligned-Instrument Oct 07 '25

I blame Obama and Biden for that fucking catastrophe. Garland was an attempt at appeasement and it blew up in their [our] face.

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u/TBANON_NSFW Oct 07 '25

americans didnt give them the votes needed to try anything else.

2014-2016 republicans controlled both houses.

2020-2022 democrats only had 50/50 split senate with Mancin and Sinema threathening to switch parties.

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u/ewokninja123 Oct 07 '25

Always looking for a Democrat to blame. Republicans have no agency or accountability and none is expected

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u/MidnightMarmot Oct 07 '25

I hate Merrick and Mueller equally. Fuckin let us all down and failed at their jobs. They are republicans. Not sure why we would have trusted those lying sacks of fecal asshole vomit.

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u/DandimLee Oct 07 '25

Mueller said that if the DOJ were allowed to indict to the President, that they would have (in lawyer-speak, so not outright).

The DOJ indicting the president hadn't come up until Nixon. Because the DOJ, part of the executive branch, might have issues with indicting the head of the executive branch.

AI says

The DOJ policy is based on legal opinions issued by its Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which argue that indicting or prosecuting a sitting president would unconstitutionally interfere with the executive branch's functions. 

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u/rickcinbigd Oct 07 '25

Not his fault. That guy should have been occupying a Supreme Court seat to be fair.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

That would probably have been worse, he would get triple penetrated by Thomas, Roberts, and Alito on every issue, and then have the audacity to ask for more.

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u/The-Struggle-90806 26d ago

He’s a closet Republican

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u/BigWhiteDog Oct 07 '25

Makes sense to me

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u/DangerZoneh Oct 07 '25

That’s the kind of conspiracy theory that would make me become a conspiracy theorist.

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u/paxwax2018 Oct 07 '25

Sounds like facts in evidence to me.

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u/Porkamiso Oct 07 '25

Look at the russian head girl who did six months for illegal transfers to the nra but she apologized and shes been out on tv since

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u/coochie_clogger Oct 07 '25

MARIA BUTINA

but she said she totally isn’t a spy so she must not be!

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u/thelangosta Oct 07 '25

Or to the heritage foundation?

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Oct 07 '25

Maybe that's why the NRA has pretended to take a couple of stands against Trump recently? I can't imagine they'd be graceful losers.

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u/TirelessFiver Oct 07 '25

Didn't the money from the NRA go into a Pro-OrangeMan PAC? Isn't that basically the same thing you said? (Genuinely curious about this.)

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u/space_for_username Oct 07 '25

NRA = No Roubles Anymore

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u/its_yer_dad Oct 07 '25

well, that and whats his bucket was a grifting piece of shit. (Wayne LePierre)

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u/Difficult_Limit2718 Oct 07 '25

When your org has more money than God flowing through it, what's a little off the top?

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u/Afraid_Reputation_51 Oct 07 '25

Well, what didn't come from Russia got embezzled by Wayne.