WTAF? Since when does the criminal have any say in how their fine is spent?
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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So he tried to steal her money but found he couldn't.
In the US, the president gets to decide what you do with your money, I guess.
If he keeps doing what he's doing, we'll end up using it as toilet paper or burning it for warmth.
Brasil in the 80s.
You need more warmth?
Let me get back to you on that in a few months.
Winter is coming.
I can tell you wholeheartedly based strictly on the size and quality of my garlic harvest that this past winter was incredibly fucking cold where I live at least
You needed a garlic harvest to tell you that?
No? Do you need someone to read what i wrote for you?
Yeah, he has no say, she could blow it allon Funko Pops if she wanted.
Ask him about his family's crypto scams
Let's remind everyone what this about. He said she lied about being raped and 12 civil jurors (still jurors) decided that she didn't lie and that she was raped.
I still can't get over the President of the USA being a convicted rapist
Ah, so... "Convicted of rape" is a legal term for criminal court. Both "convicted" and "rape" carry legal definitions distinct from the civil version "found liable for sexual assault."
I know it's splitting hairs, but that's what lawyers do.
Civil court cannot impose jail time and does not have a criminal component. Proceedings for each can be had with separate outcomes. Prime example, OJ Simpson. Not guilty of murder, but found liable for death.
Stupid as fuck.
Adjudicated rapist.
Rapist will do.
Agreed.
Then he said she lied about that, and another jury awarded her another $83 million. Still waiting for that payout, by the way.
More eventual retirement money invested in the market then.
If I were E, I'd consider buying ad space to display my market gains. Maybe a billboard, definitely a website. Possibly hire a guy to make a statue for the national mall. Idk, I'd have some fun with this.
I'm all about finding the thing that would piss him off most, and investing heavily in that.
Billboard at the entrance to Maralago.
The money remained safely in cris? I was not aware of this...
It's her money. She can do whatever she wants with it
Die Trump, die. Take your rotten offspring with you and join all the ghouls down in hell.
Your German is excellent!
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
Joey Joe Joe!!
Say she lied again.
Was that a defamatory remark from the defamator-in-chief, again? Cha-ching!
He's probably waiting until the new dollar coins get minted so he can pay in currency with his face on it because he is a petty little man.
Yeah, I keep expecting him to simultaneously announce they are discontinuing paper ones with the stupid dollar coin.
No vending machine on the planet will take them.
Bullies gotta bully.