US President ++Donald Trump++bought up to $5 million worth of stock in the corporation that makes Taser electroshock guns, police body cameras, and policing software two weeks before his administration announced the solicitation of a $220 million contract apparently tailored to the company’s product and services, CNBC revealed Monday.

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    Just add it to the pile of corruption that grows every day. I keep saying even if the Democrats don’t have the votes for impeachment, they should keep filing weekly and add all the new stuff that happens every week, until enough Republicans can’t keep looking the other way.

    They could give weekly speeches, like “Welcome to this week’s Articles of Impeachment, same as last weeks except this week we have…” then list all the new shit.

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    Corruption is normal, now.
    The question is: will he, his family and hangers-on ever be brought to justice, or will the U.S. slide further into dictatorship and irrelevance?
    Yes, that is the binary option.

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    meet the new impeachable offense, nearly identical impeachment offense frim last week…

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        Nixon was impeached. It is not theatrical.

        Vance recently boasted that Watergate today would be a short lived news story.

        Problem is the government is full of corrupt politicians. Most of them are profiting illegally, and they don’t want to convict their peers, lest they get convicted too

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        If Trump had been convicted in the Senate, he (legally) would have been removed from office and prohibited from ever holding office again.

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    His dumbass spawn partly own the drone manufacturer, too.

    I mean, keeping tally on all the rampant corruption in this crime family would be a full time job, because ripping off the American people and engaging in blatant corruption is all that this crime family does.

    Donvict is incoherent on a given topic? Well, no shit, because he considers his full-time job to be ripping off everyone and enriching himself and his family and to hell with everyone else or doing the actual job.

    https://apnews.com/article/drones-eric-donald-trump-powerus-iran-defense-089bff3892f921a10ef4ec785308e716