# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178 "2021-05-15T18:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 272
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5421 "2024-01-04T18:15:56Z")
And SCOTUS simply dismissed the pending emoluments cases against him when he left office in early 2021. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5422 "2024-01-04T18:20:50Z")
And the grift goes on, the grift goes on. šŸŽµ šŸŽµ ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5423 "2024-01-04T18:51:49Z")
Itā€™s well known that one of the methods of money laundering used by criminal enterprises and gangs is to pay outsized sums for AirB+B bookings, or limo rides (and then never show up), or to pay ridiculous sums for a common item on ebay. This bullshit with countries and others shoveling money to Trump properties is just more of the same. Moneylaundering/buying influence. Itā€™s criminal in nature. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5424 "2024-01-04T19:06:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Itā€™s well known that one of the methods of money laundering used by criminal enterprises and gangs is to pay outsized sums for AirB+B bookings, or limo rides (and then never show up), or to pay ridiculous sums for a common item on ebay. Whatā€™s funny is that Iā€™ve used that method in online RPGs that donā€™t allow trading between characters on an account. If I want to send money between characters, I put a cheap item on the auction house for the amount of money I want to transfer, and then buy it while signed in with my other character. Most games arenā€™t that dumb and if they donā€™t want you to trade between characters on your account they make it so you canā€™t even see an item posted by another character on your account. But Iā€™ve played a few where that worked. I never thought about the fact that I was technically money laundering in a virtual world. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5425 "2024-01-04T20:12:39Z")
Speaking of money laundering with virtual items, Trump is really pumping out those NFT trading cardsā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5426 "2024-01-04T21:16:31Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I never thought about the fact that I was technically money laundering in a virtual world Itā€™s virtual prison for you! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5427 "2024-01-04T21:27:09Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 156-page report on foreign payments made to the Orange Menace and his family during his administration. Good timing, dudes! I award them the Too Little Too Late award. Also, I am picking up defensive vibes. As in: Oh yeah? Your guy did it worse. I hope Iā€™m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5428 "2024-01-04T22:20:13Z")
More like: ā€œYour guy _actually_ did it.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5429 "2024-01-04T22:23:31Z")
The maxim holds true for Republicans: ā€œEvery accusation is a confessionā€ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5430 "2024-01-04T23:35:30Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > More like: ā€œYour guy _actually_ did it.ā€ If youā€™re talking Biden: yeah. Didnā€™t do it (wouldnā€™t at least a _smidgeon_ of evidence have shown up if he _did_ do it?) But we do have Bob Menendez as an example, to be brought up a billion times by every MAGAt defending Trump, of ā€œyour guys do it too.ā€ . . . > [@Turek](#): > > ā€œThe Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday.ā€ > [https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/politics/trump-properties-china-foreign-payments/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/politics/trump-properties-china-foreign-payments/index.html) You can almost hear the deal-making that must have gone on. ā€œWeā€™ll have Trump repeat eleventy-seven million times that ā€˜_China is paying the tariffs I put in place, paying through the nose, I really got them_ā€™ and American rubes will buy it hook, line, and sinker, never realizing that THEY are the ones paying. And in return, how about $5.5 million?ā€ . . . > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Use backslash+asterisk: \* Many thanks! I will use it. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5431 "2024-01-04T23:37:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > But we do have Bob Menendez as an example, to be brought up a billion times by every MAGAt defending Trump, of ā€œyour guys do it too.ā€ Yes, be heā€™s being prosecuted at least. And no one in the party is claiming the FBI or the courts are crooked. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5432 "2024-01-04T23:39:59Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > And no one in the party is claiming the FBI or the courts are crooked. Youā€™re right. Or at least I havenā€™t heard of any Democrat saying anything akin to the usual MAGAt excuse-lies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5433 "2024-01-05T15:40:57Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > But we do have Bob Menendez as an example, to be brought up a billion times by every MAGAt defending Trump, of ā€œyour guys do it too.ā€ > > Yes, be heā€™s being prosecuted at least. And no one in the party is claiming the FBI or the courts are crooked. Not crooked, exactly, but ā€œhostile,ā€ according to the senatorā€™s lawyer: [https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/bob-menendez-superseding-indictment-qatar/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/bob-menendez-superseding-indictment-qatar/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5434 "2024-01-05T16:52:57Z")
Look at Al Franken. An embarrassing photo of him showed up. That He might touch a womanā€™s breasts. He resigned. It was wrong of course, but he is/was a comedian just joking around. Look at Trump and the rape charges. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5435 "2024-01-06T01:23:40Z")
I guess weā€™re not even bothering with the thoughts and prayers anymore. > ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5436 "2024-01-06T01:44:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I guess weā€™re not even bothering with the thoughts and prayers anymore. Iā€™ve yet to see evidence he engages in either ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5437 "2024-01-06T03:27:41Z")
You seem to be making the assumption that heā€™s _capable_ of either. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5438 "2024-01-06T04:15:20Z")
Oh, Iā€™m sure heā€™s never prayed or thought about anything in his life. Hereā€™s another gem from the same speech, where he complains about how ugly Iowa is and how he wishes he could be somewhere else before asking the crowd there in Iowa to vote for him. > ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5439 "2024-01-06T15:15:46Z")
Every place he goes is instantly made a temple to Mammon, so he doesnā€™t have to pray. Itā€™s a simple system. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5440 "2024-01-06T20:49:28Z")
Trumps latest truth ā€œGOD MADE TRUMPā€. I canā€™t find a standalone version so this is in the middle of a MeidasTouch video. 3 minutes. [https://youtu.be/tolcFqOsSwU?t=86](https://youtu.be/tolcFqOsSwU?t=86) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178.md?page=271) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178.md?page=273)