Economic analyses show that tens of billions of dollars in federal payroll and other taxes are lost with mass deportation, not to mention that deporting these workers means less contributions to Social Security, Medicare, and other tax-funded programs. We need that money!

I think it's pretended stupidity, but Trump pretends not to understand the importance of Ukraine successfully defending itself from the Russian invasion. The consequences to the interests of the US and its European Allies makes it imperative that the war be resolved on terms unfavorable to Russia.

We have a form of insanity here. Despite a Federal Court ruling that L. Halligan is not a US Attorney, the AG instructed that office to "to (continue) signing court filings in the name of 'L. Halligan, United States Attorney." She's like a kindergartner. Dangerous felons could walk. It's foolish.

The Justice Department has argued that Boasberg’s written injunction halting deportations had no bearing on those already removed from the country (in the air on a plane). What they fail to understand is that the order had bearing on actors (like Kristi Noem) that were in the US, and they disobeyed.

Trump's aim to make Jim Comey's life miserable has had the opposite effect, elevating him. The case will never stand at law now. The "indictment" was like my grocery list, i.e. of no legal effect, void ab initio, or nunc pro tunc. The statute of limitations has run. Comey will write another book.

Whatever rigors Judge Boasberg might put the Trump administration through, and whatever penalty he might impose, it will not deter this criminal enterprise. There is a profound culture of lying, stealing, and concealing. No court order is too good not to defy. Turn the plane back? Not this gang.

It's encouraging to see how a first world country, Brazil, does things when somebody tries to overturn the will of the electorate, send him to prison for 27 years. Now, I will be more encouraged if the US becomes a first world country. We can do it if we don't elect convicted criminals.

Something needs explanation. The Epstein emails say Trump spent hours alone at Epstein's house with a victim whom the White House has identified as Virginia Giuffre. But Trump claimed he broke up with his best friend, Epstein, because Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre from the employ of Mara Lago.

Neither the case vs Leticia James nor James Comey will be successfully revived under the 6 months rule. A smart lawyer in the DOJ will understand that the indictments against these two were invalid NUNC PRO TUNC. There is no technical defect to correct 'cause the indictments never existed.

I joke around a lot about Trump's abject incompetence and having zero understanding of his job, but for the record I'm dead serious about my concerns for the safety of this country while he is in office. The most basic functions of a President elude him and he's insulated from reality, delusional.

I'm impressed by Trump going for years without breaking character. He is so phony, not even he believes a word that comes out of his mouth, yet he never breaks out in laughter at the idiocy of his words. His aides stand there in shock, looking like they saw a grizzly murder. He just keeps acting.

When Trump rigs the criminal justice system by naming his sycophants as US attorneys instead of qualified, morally upright candidates, he risks national security. These US attorneys are charged with keeping America safe. Having an infantile President is a horrible start to keeping the country safe

Wanted: lawyer with no experience and no ability, to be US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Top profile cases like terrorism, organized crime and government corruption cases need immediate attention and are of the utmost importance to national security. Please apply. Anybody'll do.

I am laughing my head off at the dismissal of cases against Comey and James, but I'm having a hard time figuring out who is more incompetent, Trump, AG Bondi, or erstwhile US Attorney Halligan. Not one of them figured out how to legally appoint a US atty? Maybe they need a lawyer to figure it out.

Hold onto your hats, and underwear. Trump says tariff revenues are about to "skyrocket," i.e. you will be taxed to death. I can take higher taxes, but not when every aspect of federal policy is decimating the economy, government revenues, employment, and the US$. Trump/GOP recession coming.

Okay, so the absolutely best that the GOP can offer to America is a 34x convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, whose biggest policy move is to impose the largest tax increase since 1951 AND set both borrowing AND spending records at the same time? Don't even try to say this is a conservative party.

The best satirist could not have created this scenario. A convict and adjudicated rapist coiffured with a bouffant who, according to 14 or 15 y.o. girls, used to walk into their dressing room at the Miss Teen USA pageant claims he broke up with his best friend, Jeffrey, because HE was a creep.

Trump fought like a cornered panther to prevent release of the Epstein files, including statements that nobody anywhere did anything worth looking into. Then did a 180. Now it seriously warrants investigation. Might as well install lights on his forehead flashing "I'M A PEDOPHILE."

It's apparent that Trump and every GOP voter handed the US over to Russia on a silver platter. They are not bending over backwards to counter this appearance, either. Either vast amounts of money are trading hands or, as Mark Epstein "joked," Putin does indeed have pics of "Trump blowing Bubba."

Yesterday I was considering posting about how I oppose the position of the Trump/Putin plan, but today I'll just say I oppose the Putin plan, because Trump is a nothing burger. Is he a Putin puppet or just his stenographer? I've said before that Putin owns Trump, and it's never been more evident.

It was bad the US House was shut down because of the Epstein file, but it's worse if the underlying reason is that Trump is afraid of being outed as bi. Ironically, being gay might be the one and only thing about him that's likable, yet, he's deathly afraid of his homophobic base.

Donald Trump can hardly be held responsible for not knowing that the military oath and code requires that only lawful orders be followed. He can't be held responsible for knowing anything at all. The cheese done slipped off his cracker. He should be in a rest home. He can't manage his own affairs

Our lying stinking shit-hole government said that deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica was "not an option." But ABC News obtained a copy of an official letter from Costa Rican officials stating otherwise. If the DOJ says it, assume it's a lie. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Re: illegal orders, I am reminded of the case of Lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted for his role in the My Lai Massacre. Claimed he was following orders when he massacred hundreds of innocent villagers. At court martial, those killing men at sea today will say it, too. but it's no defence.

Living near a military base on a border lake, I sometimes run into servicemen and on the odd occasion I have thanked them for their service. Not any more. If I say anything at all, I don't think they are gonna like it. Trump illegally orders them to shoot at their own families and they do it!

I'm grossed out by these thoughts, so I might as well gross everybody else out, too. I'm 68, so when I consider that at the age of 69 Trump was running Miss Teen USA and sneaking into the dressing rooms, I want to vomit. Suggests strongly he's a PEDOPHILE! www.imdb.com/news/ni60357...

Sound like Trump? "Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein.... before our Landslide Election Victory" I would characterize it differently. "Nobody" means no Trump voters. So lets say it this way: "Trump voters condoned the Trump/Epstein relationship and also Trump's perversity on Access Hollywood."

This is truly an Orwellian moment. Republicans stood up in the House of Representatives railing against socialism (you know, where the government owns the means of production?) while engineering the acquisition of ownership interests in American companies US Steel, Intel and MP Materials. Ahem.

With every official or unofficial statement Trump makes, and with every commission and omission, Trump proves one thing: his supporters are not of average or even in the normal range of intelligence. They are undesirable. If I'm hiring, you need reasonable judgment. You need a guardian? "Next."

I've been distracted momentarily from the evidence in the Epstein file. This bit about hanging sitting legislators was a great distraction and a timely one. The Epstein emails say Trump blew a guy and I don't see Trump denying it. Was Trump in that film "Outed" about closeted gay politicians?

Madame, don't bristle at the suggestion that Trump has EVER issued illegal orders. He does it all the time, and the military follows. Just Thursday in Federal Court it was ruled the military deployment in Washington DC was illegal. And did the Nat'l Guard disobey? No www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...

One of the worst problems in America today is that we have a President with anile sensibilities. He is supposed to have the maturity and sobriety of a man entrusted with the nuclear football, but he acts like a feeble 90-year-old woman with bruised feelings and arsenic, and he (she) uses it.

I think this is a repeat, but NOTICE TO US ARMED FORCES: DO NOT FOLLOW ILLEGAL ORDERS AND BE ESPECIALLY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR ILLEGAL ORDERS FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE IS KNOWN TO HAVE GIVEN ILLEGAL MILITARY ORDERS IN THE PAST. HE'S A CRIMINAL AND HE'S DANGEROUS. DON'T BE A CHUMP.

More proof the GOP is a criminal organization. Trump minions are fraudulently misrepresenting the clearly recorded remarks of sitting legislators in order to justify calling for their death. I wonder if the GOP has any other political strategy than outright fraud, extortion, and violence. I saw it.

The Judge didn't call Halligan a puppet, he was asking a question about the Defendant's position in the case. Ergo, it appears Halligan committed ANOTHER infraction under the Rules of Professional Conduct, Sec. 8.2(a) with her comment about the Judge. She's green. www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/do...

I think I see what's going on here. The government screwed up so bad, Trump sees his retribution cases failing miserably, so he is throwing key Trump loyalists under the bus, to disassociate them from the "investigation." It won't work. What's done is done. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...

Trump's grip on the GOP is loosening, yes, with some instances of defiance lately. They condoned Trump's insane agenda wholeheartedly. It's just he's unpopular now, so their own fortunes are slipping away. They still want a 2d class government, no healthcare, giveaways to the rich, and runaway debt.

Thank you, John Stewart, for focusing on a key exchange in Epstein's emails. I recently posted about my suspicion that the Epstein file would reveal Trump in gay episodes, hence his desperation to sweep it under the rug (or into the cabinet.) John Stewart cited documentary evidence supporting that.

Trump almost always takes a "time is on my side" approach. He figures if he just promises to do something in two weeks, he can create lots of diversions in the interim. He said COVID would just go away, and he acts as if he thinks Epstein will go away, that he can dodge it forever.

King Trump is desperately clinging to power, could start a war. Unhinged from reality, trying to convince people they didn't just buy beef for 14.7% more than last year. Life is great, he says. He now uses a mocking tone as he says the word "affordability," condescending to those who are suffering.

Two best friends. One owned and operated Miss Teen USA, a beauty pageant for girls age 14 to 19, from 1996 to 2015. The other best friend recruited victims for sex trafficking, girls aged 14 to 19. over about the same time period. Trump and Epstein. Figure it out. Check the bank records.

"Things happen?" Is that what a President says about Washington Post reporter who was cut up with a bone saw and carried out in a suitcase? Things happen? That's the same thing he said about women he sexually assaulted and children that were victims of Epstein's trafficking. Pshaw, things happen.

"Quiet, piggy!"

When the President says abusive things like he said to a reporter yesterday, I'd really love to see somebody spit a real big honker right in his face. It would be offensive to the sputum, but sacrifices have to be made.

I'm sorry, but no matter what else is said or done, I have serious doubts that any important part of the Epstein file will ever see the light of day. Today was a victory, seemingly, but the pedophiles, led by Trump, have just begun to fight. You better believe Trump is holding aces up his sleeve.

What if the Epstein file reveals that Trump and Epstein were more than friends? Anybody want to bet those video tapes reveal Trump and Epstein in a threesome with one girl between? And maybe no girl between! IS HE GAY!!? That would explain his desperation to keep the Epstein file under wraps.

I'm tired of hearing in every Trump story..."and it's illegal, you know!" WTF. In every story about Jesse James, did they say, btw, it's illegal to rob banks? Or that it was illegal for Dahmer to eat boys? Isn't it a bit pedantic to talk about Trump and then add, "and what he's doing is illegal?"

Yeah, thank you Trump voters. With Trump in office all we talk about is rapists and sex traffickers and pedophiles. People are struggling with everyday life, and all the energy of the government is focused on the President's past criminal sexual deviancy. I am so sick of these GOP perverts.

I have no doubt that some of our Supreme Court Justices are in the Epstein file and need protection. A guy like Kavanaugh would be a perfect target to make a puppet on the court. He likes beer and being violent with women. Snap some pics and own him. Men with "pecadillos" are ripe for extortion.

Years ago, I would have envisioned that in 2025, our government would be pursuing hi-tech, highly scientific solutions to societies problems based on skillfully collected data and scholarship. Instead, we get a bunch of pedos running the government doing nothing but burying evidence.