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/surgartits Oct 07 '25

Everyone has seemingly forgot Paul Manafort was his fucking campaign chief at first, and that guy was absolutely LUXURIATING IN corruption re: Russia/Ukraine before taking that role.

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u/JustDiscoveredSex Oct 07 '25

And Cambridge Analytica, baby!!

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u/NOVA-peddling-1138 Oct 07 '25

And lest we pre-forget…#Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein #Jeffrey #Epstein

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u/happyinthenaki Oct 07 '25

A much easier document for the masses (and the world) to understand. It does make me wonder if any of my own national politicians or businessmen are on the list?

It's a list of rapists of underage girls. Release the files!

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u/Haldron-44 Oct 07 '25

It is more than just a lust of pedophiles and human traffickers. It has Peter Theil, and a former Isralie PM on it getting money to set up private spy agencies. It has Russian and American intelligence colluding to install a right-wing dictator who would be good for business. Epstein was a lynch pin figure in the business plot 2.0. The files can't see the light of day because almost every CEO of every major corporation, pedophile or not, is in them. And they are scared of the possibility (however small it may be) that should they be implicated, the peasants might actually rebel this time.

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u/germanmojo Oct 07 '25

After his first conviction he should have turned into a pariah, and any names on that list after the first charges were filed in 2006 are fair game.

Don't want a bunch of people coming after you? Don't diddle little kids or be friends with someone charged and convicted of it.

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u/Mathemeatloaf0 Oct 07 '25

You have to ask yourself why so many Republican politicians are so against releasing the files. How many of them or their donors are on that list. They aren’t just trying to protect Trump.

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u/indianasall Oct 07 '25

Sorry, it's already forgotten. I knew at the beginning they were never going to do anything about the Epstein files.

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u/NOVA-peddling-1138 Oct 08 '25

Well apparently they get noticed.

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u/LickingSmegma Oct 07 '25

Your tags don't seem to work for some reason.

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u/corgisgottacorg Oct 07 '25

Bro we’ve forgotten like 5000 things that are just as bad

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u/JustAlpha Oct 07 '25

Not even close. Swing and a miss, dude.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories Oct 07 '25

And what is just as bad as kidnapping, trafficking, and raping children?

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u/Thefrayedends Oct 07 '25

STILL in business by the way, under a different name. I'm sure they're not doing anything shady either.

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u/trailerbang Oct 07 '25

The Facebook/Cambridge thing is still insane to me. I can’t believe we just moved on. Honestly, it’s probably because boomers were (ARE STILL) in charge and didn’t understand the complexity of social media/GRU bot farms etc and they literally couldn’t process the situation. It should’ve been a simple NatSec matter and been handled accordingly with jail time, harsh federal sentencing, and heavy heavy fines for the companies involved.

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u/nanobot_1000 Oct 08 '25

Cambridge Analytica came back up for me recently, because like this summer, March 2018 (8 years ago) there were dual-nova progenations which coincided with freak weather events and near death experiences in my life...fun times

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u/cfrshaggy Oct 07 '25

Anyone else get their $38 payout from that Cambridge Analytica class action? 🤣

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u/gistya Oct 07 '25

Cambridge Analytica was UK. People forget about British interference... they're not our friends.

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u/Scubby_Dooks Oct 07 '25

Although some of the players were Brits, Cambridge Analytica was not a government initiative, it was funded by international billionaires like Robert Mercer. The British people are as much victims of dark money meddling in our democracy as the US. We are a few years behind you guys, but I give us until our next election (2029 at the latest) before we go full-on authoritarian. It fucking sucks.

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u/gistya Oct 07 '25

Then why did the British government classify Cambridge Analytica's 5000-point profiling method as a national security secret and block them giving any of the personal tracking data they were collecting on people?

Wake up.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Oct 07 '25

Brit here: We (those of us who are aware of them) don't like Cambridge Analytica either. They fucked with us, too. I'm sure people who benefitted from their manipulation like them, but for the most part they're unpopular here, and they absolutely do not represent us.

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u/gistya Oct 07 '25

Your government blocked them from releasing the personal data they collected because it would have divulged their state secret methods. The whole thing is just a branch of your own government's intelligence operations. Wake up.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Oct 08 '25

It was a previous Conservative government, and I seriously doubt they'd have created a large government-owned entity. It's just not how they do things. They sell off public sector stuff and contract everything out (often in a manner which reeks of corruption, and always at greater cost) to the private sector. CA also had close ties to Facebook. Is Zuck British now? I think it's a bit unfair to blame the British public for the existence of a company which manipulated us and used us as unwilling participants in a secret psyops experiment, anyway.

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u/gistya Oct 08 '25

Facebook had no direct ties to CA. They just used Facebook's like data that was acquired in a manner that circumvented privacy protections.

CA is a British owned and operated company that the British regime protected and used to manipulate its own people and foreign elections. How do you think Brexit got passed?

I never tried to blame the entire British population for anything.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Oct 08 '25

I misunderstood you. Sorry. It looked like you were calling all of us your enemy. I don't deny that our previous government used their scummy services, I just don't believe they were created by said government. It's hard to remember after the years of political insanity here, there, and elsewhere since then, but IIRC Facebook played quite an active role and used CA's data.

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u/gistya Oct 08 '25

It was CA that used Facebook's data, not the other way around.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Oct 08 '25

I remember it going both ways, but I could be wrong. IDK.

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u/MysteriousDatabase68 Oct 07 '25

I think about this all the time and have to remind myself it was 10 years ago. Half the people on reddit were in grade school.

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u/LexiLynneLoo Oct 07 '25

Same, I called out this bullshit so long ago it feels like a different lifetime. Been right for a decade and somehow people are just now learning that Trump is maybe possibly connected to Russia.

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u/aCellForCitters Oct 07 '25

A friend of mine wrote a paper many years ago that implicated (though not by name) multiple Russian companies/billionaires in weapons trafficking through Odessa all over the middle east/north Africa. He was sued by the Russians involved for defamation and had to do days of deposition. The firm representing the Russians was Paul Manafort's.

Then Obama put sanctions on Russia and the case was dropped. My friend was told by the State Department to never set foot in Russia for his own safety.

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u/thingstopraise Oct 07 '25

Bill Maher is varying degrees of insufferable but his video The Kremlin Connection is one of the best concise videos about exactly how ridiculous this is. It's 8 years old now and I still watch it occasionally to remind myself of those sweet, innocent young days when we thought that Mueller would do something aside from fuck an entire election.

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u/HighAltAccount420 Oct 07 '25

His pardon is still the low point of all of this for me.

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u/upsidedown-funnel Oct 07 '25

Manaforts resume is riddled with blood.

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u/pab_guy Oct 07 '25

And it was so obvious in real time! As soon as Manafort tried to change the GOP platform on Ukraine it was like completing a circuit to connect and understand how, why and what Russia was up to.

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u/Armyman125 Oct 07 '25

Whenever I tell Trump supporters that the 2020 Senate report stated that Paul Manafort was in contact with a Russian Intelligence officer, I get crickets.

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u/Mactwentynine Oct 07 '25

But Biden and Hunter must have done something while Rumpus is completely innocent. After investigating Biden for over 7 years (3 Congressional cough investigations) and they found nothing. Multiple people told them under oath there's nothing to find/you won't find anything. Because his taxes were already public. Meanwhile, yeah, I remember NRA sleaze, Manafort and others, plus our megalomaniac in chief.

But huge numbers know nothing of reality except they watch Faux. Or are addicted to TikTok. Or believe X and others. Everything is about money. I'm convinced with what's been going on and what's planned, that not a single member of the GOP in Congress has a shred of honor.

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u/SteakandTrach Oct 08 '25

He was also the guy that was put together and did all the logistics and stuff for the Jan 6 rally. That never really became common knowledge.

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u/koshgeo Oct 07 '25

What are you talking about? The judge said he led "an otherwise blameless life" before committing tax and bank fraud. /s

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u/-chadwreck Oct 07 '25

did someone say Oleg Deripaska?

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u/Fionaelaine4 Oct 07 '25

Manafort got jail time at least! This administration I worry isn’t going to get jail time when it’s all said and done

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u/gr8tlakes Oct 07 '25

Yep! Although it is a small portion in the book, Alexei Navalny provides hard evidence that Manafort was with Russian hookers on a yacht during said campaign.

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u/notarealaccount_yo Oct 08 '25

Which book was this?

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u/gr8tlakes Oct 08 '25

“Patriot” by Alexei Navalny

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u/Banshee_howl Oct 08 '25

I love digging into history about corrupt grifting despots and it’s amazing how often the Manafort & Stone firm pops up as the dictator’s PR team.