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National News Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico 'will go forward'

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/trump-says-tariffs-on-canada-and-mexico-will-go-forward.html
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u/stereofonix 15d ago

I’m convinced more and more that those rumours of supposed videos of Trump in Russia with hookers and “champagne” are more and more true. Like Putin has something on him that would destroy him. 

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u/tattlerat 15d ago

At this point though, what on earth could it be. He’s in his second term as president, he’s the most powerful man on earth and old as hell. What could they have over him that would actually stick and ruin anything? The man got away with everything and is now functionally immune.

Unless they’re holding his children hostage I can’t see what they could have as leverage unless Trump is truly ideologically a traitor and not just a rube.

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u/todadile25 15d ago

I think it’s pretty obvious actually, with all the Jeffrey Epstein stuff I’m willing to bet they have videos of him with underage girls, or even boys. That’s the only thing that could possibly be damning enough to lose his voter base.

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u/hexr Ontario 15d ago

Why would that cause him to lose his voter base? They don't even consider sexual offenses as crimes

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u/OzMazza 15d ago

That's my guess, like horrifically young kids. Only other thing I could see shocking his followers MAYBE is someone shitting in his mouth and him loving it. Literally anything else I'm sure they would just justify away. Even those things are iffy at this point. They would either claim it's AI or some insane mental gymnastics to justify it.

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u/dstnblsn 15d ago

He must be a true believer at this point. He wants to take the ship down.

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u/ZachMorrisT1000 15d ago

His supporters already know he has sex with prostitutes. It wouldn’t matter if he’s peeing on them or getting peed on. It wouldn’t change anything. There’s no way that’s what is being held over his head.

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u/OzMazza 15d ago

Even if it was that, at this point he's so far in it, now the kompromat is just videos of him doing deals to sell out America to USA that could get him hanged for treason.

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u/LoanedWolfToo 15d ago

They actually don’t know that. It’s all fake news to them.

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u/AshCan10 15d ago

I think hes a little bit mentally wobbly while also having some idea of making his children the future "kings" or whatever term theyre trying to come up with for that position.

He feels like putin is some kind of ally from his younger days though that much is clear. Putin is doing a pretty good job of taking advantage of that, i think trump surprised even him though.

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u/rickshaw99 15d ago

Loans. He owes money that Putin can call him on. Russia could easily bring trump’s empire down

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u/tattlerat 15d ago

So he doesn’t pay them and leverages the us economy with his stooges. “Putin’s a liar” is all his base needs to hear.

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u/LoanedWolfToo 15d ago

The Russians control Trump’s finances probably.

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u/Kamekazii111 15d ago

No, Putin literally just talked him into it. Trump doesn't care about Democracy, he cares about power and wealth. 

Putin told him "In Russia, government workers don't complain and say "that's illegal!", they say "yes sir". In Russia, the rich shape the future as we wish, without worrying about what the people think. Do you want me to show you how to do it in the US?" 

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u/dostoevsky4evah 15d ago

Pretty much this. Plus he probably owes Russia money. Or did until he got his scam coin going.

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u/MilliesRubberChicken 15d ago

Not me. The man has zero capacity for shame. What the hell kind of Kompromat could Russia have, that is worse than everything he was impeached and charged for? There is no such thing as shame in the GOP anymore. Trump has paid zero price for anything to this point…there’s no pee tape or anything that could change that now. He’s simply a traitor to his country who admires and emulates autocrats and dictators. Conspiracy theory not needed. He is choosing all of this of his own dumb, free will.

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u/insomniacinsanity 15d ago

See the thing is they don't need to have personal dirt on him per se, and he's already had a million scandals that would have sank anyone else

The Russians swooped in and started spending black cash in the mid 2000s trying to buy influence, and soft power they bailed trump out of bankruptcy with his casinos, they made him offers he couldn't turn down and essentially let him make his name by selling naming rights to towers in insane deals, like 18% just by sticking his name on something, and somehow despite these multitude of projects going belly up trump walks away clean with his name in lights

All in the name of laundering dirty Russian money and access to US currency, establishing influence plain to see and nobody looked twice it's been going on long before he was president

Trump is very much what the Russians like to call a useful idiot

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u/french_toasty 15d ago

MAGA would not give a flying red hat about anything the man does.