At this point, is this news ? Though it highlights Trump’s politics.

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    Public lie, spread by a public figure, with an intention to mislead the public, should be a criminal offence.

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      Even if it was, presidents are now immune from criminal charges, and he is set to begin his next term in just a couple weeks, so not likely that anything could stop him from continuing to do this without sweeping reform of the office of president.

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        You just have to think Republicans in Congress would much rather have a president JD Vance. Most of them hate Trump with a passion

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            JD Vance is Elon’s boy. Elon would totally want him in charge too. Vance has had direct connections to tech billionaires for a long time

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              No, Vance is Thiel’s boy. And Thiel and Musk have hated each others’ guts since the PayPal days.

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          I low key wonder if they’ll use the 25th on him to get that to happen. He’s Thiel’s boy, and I have wondered if that was the plan from the get go.

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      Nope, best I can do is “falsely suggested” and a sense of legitimacy imbued by constant media coverage of his self-serving asshole behavior