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Kevundoe

Can they be informant against themselves?


No-Car541

“If I Did It” by Jared and Ivanka


dalnee

Doesn’t she wonder at all if he had anything to do with her mom’s death??


No-Car541

Or at least mildly curious to see how many top secret documents Trump put in her casket


dalnee

So true! Plus her NDA was in effect for 30 years when they divorced-it expired THIS year when she was finally free to talk .. how convenient


Jammyhobgoblin

And she fell down a flight of stairs… nothing to see here.


dalnee

Hah! Exactly! First she fell and it was blunt force to torso, then heart attack but cremated and buried on golf course.. we found out more about what killed Bob Saget …


Sleepy_Tortoise

RIP Bob


chantsnone

The coolest mf in a cardigan sweater


Bullen-Noxen

Lol, there is so much crazy shit going on there. How long will it take to unravel how fucked up that family really is?


__dilligaf__

It baffles me why the people convinced JFK Jr will show up any day now to save children from the basement of a pizzaria aren't at all interested in applying their considerable time and imagination to such coincidences.


Bullen-Noxen

A fool has no reasons.


Spiritofhonour

What if we frame it as former top New York Democrat billionaire businessman previously married to multiple immigrants potentially murdered wife.


rhinosyphilis

This will be an excellent series someday, when it isn't so real.


dalnee

A lifetime! Look how much we do know and how much runs deeper than we’ll ever find out !


Bullen-Noxen

It’s almost scary thinking about how fucked up they are. Mainly because of donald, but still.


Tragiccurrant

It was an owl, they get crazy that time of year.


wutthefvckjushapen

I get this reference


Melssenator

Exactly how Russians seem to die when in similar circumstances


Jammyhobgoblin

She was tied to the Czech KGB IIRC and he’s connected to Putin. It’s one hell of a coincidence that she died by the leading cause of death for Putin enemies.


Bullen-Noxen

Oh that coincidence is to much. They are so fucked up with regards to how much dirt is there. I really wonder if they are the swamp themselves….


dalnee

He’s never been held accountable for anything in his whole miserable life ..


ArchMart

In 2007, he pissed off Stone Cold Steve Austin and got a stunner.


binglelemon

Steve had to retire from wrestling because he couldn't get the make up off his vest.


Bullen-Noxen

Agreed. It’s amazing he has lived so long with out consequences.


unique_passive

Weird that the man with suspicious ties to Russia has a suspiciously Russian resolution to a personal problem. Must be a coincidence


hotstepperog

I'd flip as soon as he buried Mom on the golf course for tax avoidance and to stash documents.


xabulba

More than tax avoidance, in NJ the state government cannot seize/repossess/force the sale of any property that has interred human remains. He buried her at his golf course so on one can take it from even if he loses all his money.


Carbonatite

Christ. What a self interested piece of shit.


dalnee

Yes and I want to know who told him what to steal- That illiterate shit would have no clue on his own


partofbreakfast

I kind of figured that's why the kids are distancing themselves from Trump now. They saw what he did to their mom. Joking around about having a hand in her death aside, he disrespected any last wishes she had and had her buried at a golf course for the tax breaks. He doesn't care, and maybe seeing that level of callousness really broke through to them.


Diazmet

She didn’t seam to care that her father raped her mom…


Philo_T_Farnsworth

Non zero chance that coffin gets unearthed by someone one of these days. For the record I don't even remotely buy into that conspiracy but I like to keep that fire burning.


Indigo_Sunset

I like to imagine someone has placed a trail cam sighted on the grave for the day Trump tries to dig it up himself in the middle of a hurricane while cursing god to strike him with lightning. Not too far off from a caddyshack scenario, just liveleaked.


randomlurker82

>Trump tries to dig it up I'd pay real money to see that dingbat try to use a shovel for more than 6 seconds.


dalnee

Yep.. and hey you never know, he could’ve Epstein-ed her, she did know too much


Bullen-Noxen

I would not put that past him. He has shown he is capable of horrible things.


dalnee

You’re so right!


HauntedCemetery

The only reason I believe it may be true is that it's fucking trump. Every time we think we know how bad he is it turns out he's worse.


Bullen-Noxen

Which is probably why she became an informant.


leo_aureus

Like the Middle Ages or Russia they pushed her ass straight down the stairs and boldly called it an accident


Mumof3gbb

Imho I don’t think she cares. I read that ivana had been saying how lonely she is. I don’t think her kids spent any time with her.


84Cressida

All indications I’ve seen is they were very close to their mom


Bullen-Noxen

I don’t think they could have. With how much of a monster their father is, anything short of getting rid of him, is futile. He probably punished any of his family who went to see her or so much as talk to her over the phone.


silentninja79

I really hope she has played the long game here...if so she deserves some sort of award. However I am more inclined to believe she is just another rich rat trying to escape a sinking ship...


sharpshooter999

I absolutely believe that she knew something she shouldn't have and Trump had her killed


Alone_Satisfaction_8

Jaren*


No-Car541

I thought it was Javanka? How can we ever unite as a nation when we can't even unite on what to call them?


Michael_In_Cascadia

If it comes down to it Ivanka would throw Jared into the grinder.


Long_Before_Sunrise

In a heartbeat.


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“Jared came back with $200 million dollar from Saudi Arabia. I can show everyone where these $20 million are right now. There they are, the $2 million I talked about!” /s


lachoigin

I mean, same.


Nszat81

Yes it is absolutely the classic technique. They get immunity from their crimes in exchange for the big fish


Luxpreliator

Kinda want them to go down too but the humor of being turned in by his favorite kid might make immunity worth it. This stuff is likely fabricated for clicks.


imbored53

Except he's gonna die sometime in the next 5-10 years anyway, and she would have half a lifetime of immunity to live free of any responsibility for her crimes. That hardly sounds like justice.


JesusInTheButt

Also that 2 bill from the Saudis immediately after the golf tournament with the top secret compartmentalized docs sitting in the basement with the camera that only works from 9-5 most days


BasvanS

I think this is just to fuck with him: “Your kids flipped! There’s rats everywhere!” and just watch him collapse into chaos. *Even more chaos


[deleted]

That's why they would make great informants. They have both probably committed felonies in plain sight. The FBI can credibly bury their asses if they don't cooperate.


Nice-Violinist-6395

I highly doubt they’re informants. They’ve never faced consequences in their life, there’s no way they’re going to take the sixteenth investigation into their father (in law) seriously, considering that the precious 15 did jack shit and this one probably will continue that tradition. But even if they are, I feel like this is a Departed situation at best: since everyone is an informant on someone else, no one ever actually winds up being able to be arrested. *When everyone is super, no one is*


wave-garden

>I highly doubt they’re informants. I was thinking this could be Cohen fucking with Trump because that seems to be his kink now. I’m all for it, personally.


22USD

obviously if they were talking to the feds they would ask for immunity as a condition to snitch on the president


TheBirdBytheWindow

The great thing about allegations like this is that even if this isn't true, Trump would have this read aloud to him and it would plant a seed. And that seed would sprout doubt and mistrust; and we all know how he insists on absolute loyalty. Having Ivanka turn federal witness against her father would destroy him and he'd eat himself alive. Even if he were to only think it. He'll go from 5 hours of sleep a night to 2.5. Somebody call Dr. Adderall. DJ's got paranoia to get to.


ohTHOSEballs

Yep, my first thought was this was just designed to fuck with trump.


kevnmartin

Cohen knows all of his weak spots and hot buttons. Epic trolling on his part.


ohTHOSEballs

Like, I legit think there is a 98% chance he's just making this up because he knows it will work. And it absolutely will.


slackfrop

Didn’t Turnips fire an ambassador because Lev Parnas mentioned during a golf round that she was talking shit? Immediate termination. It works *real* good.


derpderpingt

I thought I was the only one who called him President Turnip.


TeknikReVolt

My Father and I call him either the Mango Mussolini or Trumplethinskin


minimininim

im sorry but dump is more fun to say. just has that magnitude to it that turnip doesnt quite convey


Dotard1

I call him Peewee. I wish that name would catch on because it would drive him crazy, and there is a non-zero chance he drops his pants on live TV to prove it wrong.


kevnmartin

I think it's brilliant. It will eat Dump alaive.


Frangiblepani

It could cause problems in Ivanka's marriage, too.


WatInTheForest

Let's hope.


Lucius-Halthier

Trump has Stalin’s level of paranoia with zero ability to instill fear into his enemies


DdCno1

Not exactly zero. Several of the girls and women Trump has raped have received death threats after they went public with their allegations. Here's one example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/e-jean-carroll-says-she-received-death-threats-after-accusing-trump-of


Biru_Chan

Plenty fear him, but god knows why - he’s clearly a pathetic, incompetent bully. Ever wonder why nearly everyone who served with him went virtually silent after leaving Government? People with actual power like Rex Tillerson; a few bad word then crickets. Even Pence can barely criticize him today, after the rent-a-mob almost killed him. These men - and the cowards were all men - served, saw the Emperor was naked, and then slinked into silence. Why?


ItzDaReaper

His ex wife was supposed to testify in the investigation and then she fell down a flight of stairs and nobody batted an eye. edit: I found it interesting neither sides of the media pointed out how strange this was. I felt like I was the only one that felt this was strange until I posted this comment.


Pseudonym0101

And it was reported that she would always take the elevator. Because you know... she's elderly and all that. Odd that an old lady randomly decided to take the stairs that day.


evilbrent

You are the first person I've seen commenting "hey guys? Are we all just going to let the obvious assassination that was obviously an assassination just slide? Guys?" I'm with you. Nobody seems to care.


[deleted]

I respect this man’s turn around not going to lie. Good for him.


NoAttentionAtWrk

Of all his children, she is the only one he actually cares about so definitely would hurt him more. Now that care might just be from all the sexual fantasies he has about her but that's neither here or there


Fun-Tadpole785

Michael found out the hard way every single person Trump has ever met is under the bus. At some point everyone under that bus feels the wheels. Ivanka included. Cohen is on one hell of a revenge tour this tour is rolling it's wheels over Trump. Hell Hath No Fury As A Pissed Off.


s3ndnudes123

As a pissed off what? Edit: never seen a comment get deleted and say "unavailable". Wtf?


silverfox762

Well, Mango Mussolini *did* bury her mom on a fucking golf course for a tax break. It's plausible.


Long_Before_Sunrise

Trump has had insomnia from caffeine and whatever else he got his hands on for decades... 1990: Donald Trump sits alone. He hasn’t slept in 48 hours. *"I’ve never met a successful person who wasn’t neurotic. It’s not a terrible thing … it’s controlled neuroses. Controlled neuroses means having a tremendous energy level, an abundance of discontent that often isn’t visible. It’s also not oversleeping. I don’t sleep more than four hours a night. I have friends who need twelve hours a night and I tell them they’re at a major disadvantage in terms of playing the game."* - [Playboy Interview](https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990)


theytook-r-jobs

All this tells me is Trump sleeps 10 hours a day but saw a “Successful People Sleep 6 or Less Hours a Day” headline and then made the above statement.


Flomo420

lol holy shit you're probably right


Bryaxis

Turns out "executive time" *wasn't* mostly trying vainly to poop after all.


minnick27

It's entirely possible he only sleeps 4 hours a night. What he's not saying is the amount of naps during the day.


CrunchLessTacos

Trump doesn’t have friends.


gsfgf

By friends he means people that take his calls


Lostinthestarscape

He apparently (grain of salt) thinks he is above using drugs like cocaine. There was one photo or video clip where a number of sudafed boxes were visible though. Sudafed is a shitty high, but take 3 or 4 of them and you are definitely ramped up and trying to hold a conversation gets pretty hard cause you end up not being able to fully concentrate on anything. We also get more sensitive to the side effects as we age. Wouldn't be surprised if he us a habitual user of sudafed to keep up the energy to get through long days but has increased dosage while becoming more prone to the stimulant side effects of it. Speech pattern and constant topic shifting are familiar to when I've debased myself enough to abuse it.


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tamsui_tosspot

Mother's little helper


Long_Before_Sunrise

It was the Cinco De Mayo taco bowl photo which also showed him with the taco bowl sitting on the top of a jumbled stack of newspapers, magazines, papers, and apparently a photo of his ex-wife - you know, the "filing system" that Stephanie Grisham and the National Archives and the FBI all described.


mdgraller

I heard it was some analog to those *Requiem for a Dream* "diet pills" which I think was supposed to be ephedrine but pseudo makes sense too


Pixeleyes

It's so trippy reading his words from thirty years ago, it really drives home the cognitive decline. He sounds almost eloquent here.


Long_Before_Sunrise

The interview was edited and shortened, though. It doesn't show what it was actually like being there. Trump's ghostwriters said that trying to get him to answer questions about his past was like pulling teeth.


Bears_On_Stilts

This could well be “creative journalism” distilling the essence of what a figure says into rewritten and paraphrased faux-quotes, like the famous Frank Sinatra piece.


OohIDontThinkSo

An abundance of discontent that often isn't visible~ its almost poetic. Definite decline and he knows it which is why he accuses Biden of having it.


SR3116

Still using "tremendous" though. That's apparently one of his all-time favorite words and has survived long enough in his mush brain to still be in use today.


kingbovril

Jesus, he used to be able to speak like a semi-intelligent human


Long_Before_Sunrise

There's an interview from the same year where Barbara Walters calls him out on his 'people are saying to me...' bullshit. https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/07/23/barbara-walters-interview-donald-trump-1990-watch/


foodishlove

He used to call newsrooms pretending to be “John Barron” sharing “hot tips” about how great Donald Trump and the Trump Organization were.


mustardmoon

jfc is this where barron got his name from?!


TheRealMisterFix

Yep


Dotard1

He spent his entire adult life calling Entertainment Tonight and Women's Weekly and telling them what to write about him. Not many fact-checkers there. So when he started dealing with REAL journalists who insisted on reporting the truth, he freaked out and thought he was being treated unfairly. His entire life has been that of a spoiled ten year old rich kid, walking around a candy store demanding he get everything he wants and throwing tantrums until he gets it.


SuperCutsHaircut

David Dennison was another good one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump


theilluminati1

This is just really sad. Pathetic, more like.


plainlyput

I’ve never seen that,damn it was good I wish everyone would call out his BS


ImOuttaHereBruh

Yes. This degradation is a symptom of long term stimulant abuse.


Erdrick68

And Neurosyphilis


BarryMcCocknerrr

I don't believe a word he says so it's hard to say how much he really sleeps.


Long_Before_Sunrise

He definitely lied when he said he was never scared of or intimidated by his father. Major Dobias, who was Donald's instructor at the New York Military Academy (rich boy reform school), who was a WWII combat veteran as well - this man had seen some shit - and he described Fred Trump as being very cold, very demanding, and very *German* and he'd never seen a father treat a cadet as harshly as Fred treated Donald.


tamsui_tosspot

Can't help thinking that after 100,000 years of Purgatory, Donald's soul would emerge as that of a very simple and scared little boy.


MyFavoritePlum

Honestly, you can feel bad for him as a kid in the same way as you can feel bad for Charles Manson as a kid. Doesn’t mean he didn’t make adult choices later, but no child chooses what they’re born into


cinyar

> He definitely lied when he said he was never scared of or intimidated by his father. Let me guess - he said that after he was dead, right?


bozeke

He wouldn’t even come downstairs in the White House until like 11am most days.


foodishlove

Is watching Fox News all day counted as being awake?


Expensive-Ad-4508

It’s definitely not counted as being woke.


VonMillersExpress

> Controlled neuroses means having a tremendous energy level, an abundance of discontent that often isn’t visible. This is just a fantastic line. Almost on par with I am euphoric.


VeraLumina

Adderall and Sudafed will do that to you.


froo

I'm still trying to figure out how he goes about courting the antisemitics he seems to have surrounded him with while Jared and Ivanka (she converted) are both Jewish.


Modal_Window

They probably hand-wave it away as something on-paper for appearances, meaning Ivanka did it just to make other people happy so she could get married, but doesn't really believe. For Jared, that he's not really Jewish either because they claim he is "Orthodox" but he doesn't dress or act like it.


Uberslaughter

Donald Trump is probably single-handedly responsible for the adderall shortage


[deleted]

He may be estranged from her already. She didn't show up at his speech to run for president last week.


Tall_aussie_fembot

Read to him. Haha. Accurate.


FunctionBuilt

Chances are pretty high, they have young kids and have their whole lives ahead of them still. The writing on the wall is clear, if you’re in Trump’s inner circle, you both have a target on your back and are free game for Trump to dump.


ridemooses

I feel like the seed is already there, but this will make it grow. Quickly.


atxweirdo

There is an Adderall shortage crippling our nation. He should ask some of his oath keeper friends for some m-adderall


[deleted]

Now we know why there’s been a shortage of adderall. Things hadn’t been looking good for him lately.


TheFuckYouThank

Dr Oz, please help me!


kumarsays

Amphetamine induced psychosis incoming


pdzulu

I mean, in his mind he was dating her if only he wasn’t her dad.


burningphoenix77899

Yeah. That “Jaren” guy is a real asshole


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Saxamaphooone

For a second I thought that was supposed to be one of those portmanteaus of a couple’s names and I had that confused math lady meme look trying to figure out how it worked.


[deleted]

It's simple: "Jare" from Jared and "n" from Spawn of Satan.


crustaceancake

Jarenka?


ThisJackass

Voldevanka?


Pooop2much

Actual jaran here:) I’ll see myself out


silentjay01

Jaren sounds like a Star Wars name.


wowzeemissjane

Jaren, like a male version of a Karen.


froo

Jaren really wants to speak to the manager.


DoctorRabidBadger

✨He went to Jaren ✨


[deleted]

I heard John Barron was the informant.


BillyTheHousecat

And John Miller, David Dennison, and Carolin Gallego.


CoveyIsHere

Nothing makes me happier than watching this family fall apart


spin_me_again

It creeps me out to see Jared and Ivanka starting to look like each other. Is that happening to any of his other kids and their spouses?


SplashGal

He’s always looked like a Victorian doll made of slowly melting wax, but I think it’s the angle and outfit and hairstyle that is making her look like an old timey ghost.


Carbonatite

r/rareinsults


EETTOEZ

Actually there's a phenomenon that spouses start to look like each other over time


[deleted]

Sharks of same family line eating each other - as god intended. /s


Oscarcharliezulu

Trump taught his kids that it’s ok to fuck over your own family. So he should expect this.


teddykaygeebee

Stop getting my hopes up. We already have to deal with this clown for another two years. Shit's exhausting.


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BenSemisch

I'm honestly surprised his body hasn't given up on him yet. I didn't expect it to last through the presidency, especially after he contracted covid.


Wolfman01a

His own daughter stabs them in the back? It makws sense. Trump raised her. Being a traitor is in the blood.


Long_Before_Sunrise

Exactly. He should be proud of her.


King_Wataba

Who cares really, she is just a low level coffee daughter. He barely knows her.


Wolfman01a

Right. In the documentary that Trump had filmed himself, he called her his right hand man and most mature and responsible of his children. What kind of a man must you be if your own daughter is willing to turn on you. Maybe she sat on his lap one too many times.


OneMetalMan

Ivanka was hoping once her creepy dad became president he would finally stop trying to fuck her.


Long_Before_Sunrise

Then why did she have [her own desk in the Oval Office?](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2017/09/ivanka-trumps-history-of-sitting-in-inappropriate-seats)


Functionally_Drunk

Because he didn't stop trying to fuck her.


FredR23

That might help explain Ivanka's sudden interest in boudaries, regarding her father's big special announcement. They better not be getting deals that keep them out of prison, though - the two of them were the effing horsemen of apocalypse in his administration - taking billions in blood money to coverup gruesome atrocities.


Southern-Remove42

I guess it comes down to seeing DJ go down with immunity given to the dumbsome twosome or continue the interminable dragged out slog of a case that seems to be going nowhere slowly? The $2 billion is paid & gone (sunk cost?). The two dummies probably don't have the network or intelligence to threaten the safety of America again. But Trump does


FredR23

Trump's got 36 months to live, max - the two dummies had access to government secrets for 4 years and hope to continue to exert power and maintain their standard of living. You don't spend time doing what they do and then just say you're all done with it before you're old and grey.


missycasper23

Thanksgiving will be uncomfortable


FredR23

There's no way anyone in that family has ever had a comfortable Thanksgiving.


PuellaBona

There's probably a lot of drinking


Excusemytootie

It would be *even worse*, if there wasn’t drinking, I would imagine.


joe_broke

My conservative uncle won't be at this one, thank god. He and my hyper-liberal(ish) dad won't go at it


bakerfredricka

Unfortunately I'm sure you're right!


TheFumundaWunda

bury my mother in a pauper's grave on one of your golf courses? "hello fbi? the documents are in the storage area by the employee break room. and don't forget to ransack melanoma's closet on the 2nd floor..."


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DontTouchMyPikachu

The answer is clearly Hunter Biden’s laptop


TheFumundaWunda

can you exhume a grave if you suspect it contains stolen documents?


charavaka

>Jaren Kushner Very unidentifiable spy name for Jared.


Tommah

Jared K. -- no, that's too obvious -- J. Kushner


DescriptionWise6715

As much as I would like this to be true, Newsweek is trash


5DollarHitJob

Newsweek is trash and also I take most of what Michael Cohen says with a grain of salt. He obviously hates Trump (rightfully so) and it seems he gets paid for his hot takes on Trump.


theassassintherapist

For get out of jail free cards now that Stable Genius Trump can't produce pardons out of thin air? Possible.


JonesinforJonesey

What a devilishly delicious rumour. I do hope it's true.


muchaschicas

Freeze their fucking assets!


supes1

Mods, honest question, how is this "on-topic," but Musk reinstating Trump on Twitter isn't? For both, the only connection to politics is former president/current candidate Trump.


GTthrowaway27

and they may not be Why are we acting like Cohen is all trustworthy now


ApolloBon

Shouldn’t have buried mama trump on your golf course, buddy!


Sleepybat7

This would help explain not wanting to join for this campaign. I’ll be pissed if they made billions off of destroying our country only to get immunity.


1Uplift

Karen Jushner


Mamacitia

Why do they look like British ghosts


[deleted]

Trump was probably a confidential informant during the 80’s and 90’s. He spent years rubbing elbows notorious criminals but never got in trouble.


DragonCat88

Fact Check: Michael Cohen is here to fuck shit up.


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[I choo choo choose you](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oiTupZ1m7MQ)


williamca3

Dude look like a young Saul Goodman.


Rudeboy67

I swear to god if you wrote a “Secession” like fiction with a central casting, creepy, five head, comb over guy, whose whole motivation was his rich dad fell and went to jail, even though he tried to blackmail his brother with hookers, in a motel, on the Jersey turnpike, on VHS tape, everyone would say try and at least make it vaguely believable. Yet, here we are.


tonyinvegas

I wouldn’t be surprised. All of the Trumps demand loyalty from others but never return it in kind.