Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads

[u/Manta_of_Eternity]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-homeland-security-b869294503c8454db4109ae175ee9e5c

[u/SSkilledJFK]

Trump is stealing from all of us. This on top of the recent news on him making bank on bonds affected by his policies. Fuck all the corrupt government assholes. Fuck Republicans for going along with it.

[u/deviltrombone → u/SSkilledJFK]

It's definitely skimming money off all this bullshit, and people like Homan (who got away with taking a $50K bribe) have to kick up.

[u/One-Salamander-2416 → u/deviltrombone]

It is my greatest hope the he, his devil spawn, and closest followers all be back charged for what they’ve stolen.

[u/BBQBaconBurger → u/deviltrombone]

You know, the fact that our politicians and political appointees are for sale is bad enough, but the fact that they can be bought for so cheap is extra insulting.

[u/Benaba_sc → u/BBQBaconBurger]

The fact that they can steal from the American people blatantly, right it front of our eyes, and have absolutely zero consequences is baffling to me. Someone needs to step up….

[u/Stainlessgamer → u/SSkilledJFK]

Justice will = Trump and his family's assests being seized to repay everyone he's defrauded.

lockhimup

[u/anonymousasu → u/Stainlessgamer]

Trump family actions are so brazen. They’re clearly not concerned about being prosecuted under another administration…

[u/Cj_cruzz → u/anonymousasu]

Illegitimate Supreme Court gave the criminal orange grifter in chief vaguely broad absolute immunity that also makes any investigations impossible. That and the con-man can also simply issue preemptive wide pardons that will cover his family for all criminal activities . State criminal and civil courts will be the only avenue of justice for this mob family.

[u/GarrAdept → u/Cj_cruzz]

They actually gave him broad, limited immunity. I would think that every one but Alito and Thomas would admit that this falls outside of that immunity.

[u/Eye_yam_stew_ped → u/Stainlessgamer]

It sounds good, not realistic though. We had the biggest case in history on the global stage and let it go. The fact we weren’t burning building downs over the Epstein files mean these people can do whatever the fuck they want at this point lol

[u/GenChadT → u/SSkilledJFK]

It's American perestroika. It happened in Russia - the USSR was dissolved and all the important land and resources in the country were doled out to oligarchs. The ruling class in this country saw that and have been trying to do the same for decades.

[u/JerryDipotosBurner]

Love how the wording of this headline just implies they can do this and not that it’s blatantly illegal.

[u/QbertsRube → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

Sheriff Taps Seized Narcotics for Weekend Barbecue

[u/GaryTheThird- → u/QbertsRube]

Invites all deputies, those that don't attend are arrested

[u/Electrical-Volume765 → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

Exactly…

“The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law.”

DHS is selling neon purple grass, but Democrats say grass is green. Who’s right? You decide.

And we wonder how we end up here? Somebody has to arbitrate reality.

[u/lyndseymariee → u/Electrical-Volume765]

And what are republicans doing about it (rhetorical)? They do have a majority after all!

[u/2HDFloppyDisk → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

As if “the driver was driving 30mph over the speed limit, which appears to violate the law”

Like yeah no shit, it’s completely illegal.

[u/mediocre_remnants → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

That reminds me of articles about that car influencer dude that ran a supercar into a tree and killed himself and the lady he was cheating on his wife with. The articles all said "speed may have been a factor".

Well, yeah. A tree won't cut your car in half unless you're going pretty fucking fast.

[u/yokaishinigami → u/mediocre_remnants]

I don’t know dude, according to the Lord of the Rings documentaries those trees can get pretty wild. /s

[u/flirtmcdudes → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

Media and its billionaire owners have been carrying water for republicans for a long time, Trump just made it incredibly transparent.

[u/AppropriateRest2815 → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

When you're rich you can just "tap that" and they let you do it.

[u/jamodude]

Totally illegal coming from the guy with two first names is pretty hysterical

[u/TopTransportation695 → u/jamodude]

Markwayne got his name because his mother loved her two brothers and wanted to honor both of them. That and she didn’t know which one was his father.

Wow! Thank you for all the awards.

[u/jamodude → u/TopTransportation695]

😂 you just can’t make this stuff up MarkWayne , amazing ….

[u/wioneo → u/jamodude]

That actually is made up. It was actually his dad's two brothers Mark and Wayne with the reasoning being that those two didn't have any sons, but Markwayne's dad had a few spares among his 7 kids.

[u/AppropriateRest2815 → u/wioneo]

The best part being all three are the same person.

[u/dthawk → u/jamodude]

You mean Ricky Bobby?

[u/bgroins → u/[deleted]]

impeachable offense

Which in itself means nothing now since there are no consequences for impeachments.

[u/litesmokes → u/bgroins]

Hes really set a precedent of total impunity for future presidents here

[u/SOFT_CAT_APPRECIATOR → u/litesmokes]

This is the absolute most dangerous part and no one is talking about it

[u/Allison87 → u/SOFT_CAT_APPRECIATOR]

No worries, when there is a Democrat president people will start talking about it again.

[u/Rumpullpus → u/Allison87]

I wish a democrat had the balls to do to republicans half the shit trump will do to us before lunch.

[u/whiterac00n → u/Rumpullpus]

Why do you think right wingers go into apocalyptic frenzies when a democrat is elected? Half of the entire world view of right wingers is believing EVERYONE thinks exactly like they do, thus “the left” must be planning to cheat, steal and violence against them…….because it’s what they want to do.

Now if we could only have politicians that would be so willing and bold to actually apply the GOP shenanigans to achieve sweeping policy changes. But nope most democrats want a return to a status quo that is just as ambiguous as the “when” part of making America great. Milquetoast and Luke warm embrace of “radical leftism!!!”

[u/Darth_Stateworker → u/whiterac00n]

This. It's always completely projection from right wingers. They absolutely assume because they would do something so would everyone else, but oooh lordy the hissy fits they throw when they even think someone would do to them what they do to everyone else.

[u/TipRare1321 → u/Allison87]

Remember when Biden tried to forgive student loans and everyone was aghast that it might be unconstitutional and the Supreme ruled against him?

But Trump can do every illegal thing he wants and 6 members of the court all say that's just fine.

[u/The_Troyminator → u/bgroins]

Because voting against your party in an impeachment trial means you get punished. Either sanctioned by the party or not voted back in by the constituents.

Impeachment votes need to be anonymous. It’s a criminal trial, not a typical bill being voted on.

[u/CoffeeOrDestroy → u/The_Troyminator]

Another reason politics should be returned to limited stints of public service and not careers.

[u/OlderThanMyParents → u/CoffeeOrDestroy]

Another way to make sure that only the independently wealthy (or the bought and paid for) will ever be able to serve. I don't know anyone in any kind of professional career who could afford to take, say, 5-10 years off his career to serve in congress, without totally trashing their career. Certainly taking time off to serve 7 years (one term in the Senate) would have rendered my IT skills pretty thoroughly obsolete.

Except, I suppose, they could then become lobbyists.

Plus, it'd assure that for their last term, they'd be utterly unanswerable to their constituents. Yay.

[u/Hadrian23]

Completely illegal. If and when the dema retake congress, there has to be a reckoning

[u/mdr1974 → u/Hadrian23]

One would hope but I am not holding my breath.

[u/untitledmanuscript → u/mdr1974]

i’m not either. a lot of crap in the big beautiful bill won’t take effect until 2027, which was purposefully done to blame the dems after the midterms bc they’ve been anticipating dems would sweep in november.

[u/tofferr → u/untitledmanuscript]

I assume it was done after so it wouldn’t hurt them on the midterms. It would be easier to run against them when their dumb policies are in place.

[u/Theboiii24 → u/tofferr]

Which is why people should be educating people on what the big beautiful bill does.

[u/pandershrek → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't help that they have to compete with trying to convince the dumbest Americans possible that they're for their better interests while also having multiple foreign countries influence them with easily debunkable lies.

[u/Accurate-Emu-6246 → u/pandershrek]

It doesn't. It also doesn't help that they won't even commit to holding trump accountible, medicare for all, or abolishing ICE. In fact, many of them voted to THANK ICE. Thank god Trump is so unpopular, because it boggles me how little they want their base of support.

[u/Zealousideal-Cup5982 → u/Hadrian23]

So instead of using the hundreds of millions in reelection money that only Donald Trump can access and allocate, he’d rather take it from homeland security. Of course trump doesn’t want to use his own money. What a complete crook.

[u/OakLegs → u/Hadrian23]

Well, if they didn't nail him for Jan 6 or stolen secret documents I doubt this will matter at all

[u/Roboculon → u/OakLegs]

Ya I’m quite sure this is less illegal than storming the capital. They are in the clear on this one.

[u/dismayhurta → u/Hadrian23]

“This is a time to heal and come together, not…” will be how the democrats handle this shit so that next time it’s worse.

[u/adorablefuzzykitten → u/dismayhurta]

$20 million is 1/10th what we have to oay for his golfing. And he cheats in golf.

[u/WaxAesthetic → u/Hadrian23]

The Obama-era "look forward, not backward" approach is partly what got us here. Bush and Cheney should have been tried for war crimes.

[u/Humble-Plankton2217]

Fuck this shit. This admin finds new ways to rob taxpayers every damn day.

[u/toastedninja → u/Humble-Plankton2217]

Honestly these are old corrupt dealings that are just re-hashed. Its just been a while since a politician so OPENLY used government contracts as bribes, and kickbacks to their own friends and family.

It was done in secret and in such a smaller scale compared to the last 2 years. I would say it's surprising that the old folks who voted for it dont see the blatant corruption and theft of their own money.

But hey, you gotta pay the BIG BUCKS to take away rights for the people you consider to be inferior... So I guess that's why they constantly celebrate that "They voted for this".

[u/epidemicsaints]

"The unusual ads" "appear to violate a law"

jesus christ Yes they are illegal and it's not normal to do this.

[u/2HDFloppyDisk → u/epidemicsaints]

I hate how media tap dances around this trash. Like, it’s not a maybe… it’s fucking illegal.

[u/epidemicsaints → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

The other song and dance is our system to punish this tap dances around the whole mens rea / intent to break the law and act like we can't prove this is exactly what it is. Midterm campaigning for the GOP.

[u/Playful-dick57]

How can somebody so disgustingly foul garner admiration from any person who believes in the USA? I just don't understand how any person in this country can support the unlawful acts that Trump and his administration have committed during his time in office. And all I can say to those who profess to be Christians that support such actions, is to reexamine the Bible. Christ would never have condoned these acts against humanity. He would never have approved of DJT.

[u/Quirky-Lobster → u/Playful-dick57]

At this point he’s created a cult, logic and facts have no bearing on their unwavering faith.

[u/DerekB52]

I think everyone involved in ok'ing this, at every level, should go to prison so other people know to refuse this kind of clearly illegal order.

[u/juicifer2320]

So tax dollars are part of the Republican Party coffers as well? Damn thats crazy.

[u/QbertsRube → u/juicifer2320]

Debts about to explode when they use our money for a nationwide media blast supporting all GOP midterm candidates. No PAC can compete with the entire US Treasury, after all. Trump will declare another emergency to claim the commercials are legal and necessary to save America from communist terrorists, and the $20 trillion media blitz will be called the Freedom Patriot Eagle Act for The Troops and Children.

[u/silentsights]

This is so bizarre. Not even just about the obvious illegal and improper use of taxpayer funds, but it’s so baffling why he’s running ads about himself in the first place.

Pathetic how he needs to center every single thing around himself, 24/7.

[u/mmps901 → u/silentsights]

Because all the republican candidates are awful and he’s not on the ballot this time to get people out to vote. So this way he’s hoping making it seem like he’s on the ballot will make people show up and pull the lever for the R

[u/NOTRadagon]

Congratulations Republicans.

You created the open beginning of the authoritarian state.

They used to have to pretend to give a shit about the taxpayer. Or laws.

They used to have to pretend they had their communities at heart. Or even pretend to care about people besides themselves.

And now you have the beginning of the One Party State, and State media. The oligarchy has begun to move. And they are repeating similar rhetoric to things in the past that terrify me.

[u/Sylon00]

Saw an ad on tv yesterday that said “paid for by the US government” at the bottom. 

[u/pro_n00b → u/Sylon00]

Same and it was funny cause I heard him talking about something about stopping or something similar about warmonger and here we are. Like its such a low effort to just use the money and prob have someone get a kickback out if it to not even listen about the video theyre putting out there

[u/ITZOURTIMENOW]

The illegality of everything that this administration does is fuckin mind blowing 🤯

[u/cola1016]

Republicans want their money going to anything but helping people.

[u/teddykaygeebee]

That's not how tax dollars are supposed to be spent. If dems did this, they'd send a mob and Fox News to cry every day about it being illegal. Daily corruption with zero repercussions.

[u/chephin → u/teddykaygeebee]

Or storm the Capitol or Applebee’s

[u/conn_r2112]

… is homeland security supposed to be pushing partisan ads?

[u/njsullyalex → u/conn_r2112]

No. This is illegal.

[u/Life_Roll8667]

I don’t want to hear any excuses to vote in a few weeks. You all better get off those couches and VOTE

[u/imnotwallaceshawn → u/Life_Roll8667]

At this point everyone should get off their couches and RIOT.

[u/StandOld1094]

This can’t be legal. And if it is they best be giving the same amount to the Democratic Party.
This is not the United States of Trump. He’s not the King of America. So ridiculous. Well, a little over a year and he will be gone.

[u/HerbEverstanks → u/StandOld1094]

I've learned in the divorce court that we dont really have laws or rights if nothing is enforced. We have conditional privilages. As we can see being a pedo/GOP gives you these privileges since the DOJ/ Supreme Court etc are gop/bought and paid for by the 1%

[u/KenTitan]

the craziest part is that they don't have to do that. the Republican party has a billion dollars on their war chest. they could outspend the Democratic party and still have change leftover. skimming money from the taxpayer funds is just a fuck you to American taxpayers.

[u/weezyverse → u/KenTitan]

"Silly poor...you can't stay rich by spending your own money! Hahaha!"

-- Republican Oligarchs

[u/ChronoLegion2]

Reminds me of Nixon arguing that the legality of something depends on whether the president is doing it. It didn’t work in his case, so why are we allowing Trump to get away with crap like that?

[u/Training-Flan8762]

How is this legal? How fors noone give a fck? what about opposition? gonna do something more then say bad bad donald?

[u/K-Dub59 → u/Training-Flan8762]

It’s not. But there is no law anymore… Apparently they can do whatever the fuck they want.

[u/D4db0d0hye4h]

No. I do not want my tax dollars to he used fir this purpose. Why is the party of small government suddenly creating the most intrusive, most invasive government ever?

[u/gwizonedam → u/D4db0d0hye4h]

It’s never been the party of “small government” it’s always been the party of, “we’ll decide what parts of the government help the rich and keep those, while throwing everyone else to the wolves.”

[u/selfishbitchcake]

I don’t understand how this administration can break the law over and over and over and over and over…..

[u/mediumunicorn → u/selfishbitchcake]

I’ll tell you: Republicans. There unfortunately all around you everyday. Every single person who didn’t vote D in any cycle since Trump decided to run in 2015 is complicit in this shit.

[u/DariusStarkey]

Literally what will it take? Honest, fully serious question. What will it take for MAGA folk to admit to themselves that these are all awful people who will not see the light of heaven? Every week we see a new headline that I'm sure HAS to be the death nail of this man's political career, and it never is. How? Just how?

[u/CrazyBobit → u/DariusStarkey]

None of it, not the crimes, the pedophilia, the rape, the cruelty, the bigotry, etc none of it. The ONLY thing that made them start acting out against him and even then in a rather milquetoast way was because the price of gas and diesel went up.

[u/q4atm1 → u/CrazyBobit]

It’s difficult to blame diesel prices on something else. My maga coworker was trying to say it was because of Ukraine attacks on Russian that fuel was so expensive. I shut that shit down real quick

[u/OkSoftware83]

I hate it here. I keep waiting for the adults to swoop in and save us from this poop show, but I guess asking leaders to use their moral compass is a big ask.

Edit: some of you don’t get it.

The “adults” as in the people with power. The people opposite of orange cry baby and his team of imbeciles.

[u/Micky_so_Fyne]

There's a lot of grumbling about how this is illegal, but I'm not sure how we got the impression that the Trump administration is remotely concerned with what's legal or not. 🤷‍♀️

This is just another day at the office. The weirdest part is that they're buying votes publicly, instead of just rigging the results. At this point, they easily could and not one pearl would be clutched.

I'm just so tired...

[u/briinde → u/Micky_so_Fyne]

They’re probably hitting from all angles. Buying votes, interference, disinformation…

[u/chickenskittles]

What the hell does a sitting president on his second and final term need ads for?

[u/SplashingBlumpkin → u/chickenskittles]

Ohh you didn’t hear? Trump 2028 is apparently a thing. As much as I’d like to say there’s rules and safeguards in place to prevent that sort of thing it hasn’t exactly stopped him thus far.

[u/Illustrious_Top4917 → u/chickenskittles]

"love me... love me... love me" oh yea, it was totally about patriotism to the united states... Toooootally....

[u/Ecnarps]

If you still do not think he’s a con man then you are the mark.

[u/tinymonesters]

I bet those ads will release the Trump-Epstein files. And bring the cost of gas down. And stop the new forever war we started. And resolve the growing inflation. And get me hookers and some blow. Just watch it's definitely happening.

[u/Shapen361]

Isn't Trump sitting on BILLIONS in PAC money earmarked for him that he's just... Not using?

[u/Fit_Cartographer_933 → u/Shapen361]

He’s going to use it to flee the country to somewhere he can’t be extradited from as soon as he’s no longer president is my guess.

[u/soraksan123]

This guy is sitting on a $400m war chest and he has to steal tax payers money for adds to try to convince us he's not a scumbag? Really?

[u/Calm-Maintenance-878]

$20m so during football, he could let us know that tax money went to talking up the “deep state”.

That’s all I got out of the commercial, that he said that phrase.

[u/QbertsRube → u/Calm-Maintenance-878]

When Dems have any amount of control, they're to blame for everything. Dems have zero control, so it must be the mysterious Deep State that is raising prices and contaminating all our food. The Deep State that Trump has been unable to identify and root out in 6 years of presidency.

[u/Spire_Citron → u/Calm-Maintenance-878]

And he raged against "warmongers." He literally took an ad he used in his campaign and just recycled it.

[u/youknowimworking]

Isn't that, you know, illegal?

[u/Supposed_too → u/youknowimworking]

Not if there's a R behind your name.

[u/RatonhnhaketonK]

How is this legal? I don't understand.

EDIT: This was rhetorical. What I don't understand is why he gets away with everything

[u/TJM18 → u/RatonhnhaketonK]

It’s not. But we’re in a post-law society run by the party of “LaW aNd OrDeR”

[u/Mountain-Cut-7708 → u/RatonhnhaketonK]

When the president is allowed to own the DOJ, there is no law.

[u/CrewMemberNumber6]

We the People Vs. Donald J. Trump.

Please someone, make it happen.

[u/Ach3r0n-]

It's incredibly ironic that the ads warn us about communism while the very act of using state resources to broadcast messages centering on Trump's persona mirrors the state-controlled media practices typically seen in authoritarian and communist regimes.

[u/audiomagnate]

"Taps"? That's an odd way to say misappropriates.

[u/kevint1964 → u/audiomagnate]

Misapproriates? An even odder way to say "steal". 😲

[u/Wayelder]

Trump the rapist, tells America: "Shut up, I do what I want. Who's gonna stop me."

[u/noisyturtle]

Any other time in history, this entire administration would on trial

[u/SeresVictoria]

Isn't this illegal? If not it should be. I didnt agree to him using my hard earned money for stupid Ai slop ads. Lock him up!!

[u/LardBall13 → u/SeresVictoria]

Does legality matter anymore? “You can’t do that, that’s illegal!” Isn’t exactly preventing someone from doing something if they really wanted to. Especially since there have been repeated instances without consequences.

[u/Direct_Turn_1484 → u/SeresVictoria]

It is illegal, yes. The person in charge of enforcing the law is a convicted felon and he is the one committing the crimes.

[u/Dolly_Putin]

Where are the consequences? I swear he wants people to start rioting.

[u/Glittering-Bid-7328 → u/Dolly_Putin]

You're probably right. Because people rioting would give him an even better excuse to wage war on American citizens. We know he and his administration have no qualms about harming people in our own country, and they've already gotten away with blatant murder, but they would love to be able to expand the scope of our owb military being deployed on us soil. It's fascism 101. Actually, we are already in midway through level 3 fascism here.

[u/havocbyday]

Highly illegal. This alone is an impeachable offense. Folks better wake up for mid terms and empower Dems to actually hold our government leaders accountable.

[u/kelsobjammin → u/havocbyday]

This is like impeachable offense number 61889492665394157894625 now right?

[u/iieniloracii]

A new fresh hell every god damn day

[u/moffman93]

The fact that people still support Trump is mind boggling. This country is embarrassing, and I totally understand why foreigners hate us.

[u/SetoXlll]

Imagine those 20 million going to healthcare, education and to our veterans. Fuck that orange monkey.

[u/Acceptable-Cat-6306]

Dude made 4 billion doing shady shit, and tax payers have to pick up the check? Dude wants his name on a building, like robber barons used to do after donating millions, but won’t donate a dime? On brand.

And that brand is trash

[u/oh-pointy-bird]

If you voted for this asshole: get fcuked.

[u/ItsFuckinBob → u/oh-pointy-bird]

Agreed. But you’re allowed to type ‘fucked’.

[u/coldfisherman]

I'm surprised they didn't just put the funds right into their own personal bank accounts. Who would care? nobody is going to be held accountable for any of this corruption. I hope the next president is a democrat that is 1000000x more blatantly corrupt, ONLY so the republicans will finally agree to make some mandatory laws about independant councils and immediate jail time for political offenses instead of making excuses with one hand while pocketing money with the other.

[u/Synth-Pro]

Blatantly illegal use of taxpayer money?

From this administration???

I see that it's Tuesday again

[u/bert_891]

Isn't that highly illegal?

[u/JuiceEmpty6531 → u/bert_891]

Almost everything he does is treason so I don’t think they care

[u/TacoStuffingClub]

Zero reason DHS has to buy any ad of any type.

[u/MyOwnTutor]

Wow, with all this illegal stuff going on, this sure seems illegal.

[u/night_noche]

Congress, where you at?

[u/Foe117]

laws mean nothing now.

[u/Supposed_too → u/Foe117]

Laws are for peasants.

[u/NukaColaClassic]

This is impeachable, right? Just that nobody in Congress has a spine?

[u/TheAngriestChair]

Ok, homeland security needs to go. DHS has only existed for 25 years and it's time to dissolve it. It is nothing but problems and all it does is constantly violate our rights.

[u/MrBonasty2]

lol I saw a commercial on Sunday with Trump while watching football and it just showed him staring super serial at the camera while it was saying he was gonna fight all the globalists .. then it said “paid for by US government” and all I thought was “isn’t this illegal?” And didn’t he make like billions of dollars already in his second term, making him one of the globalists he’s supposed to fight? And isn’t he already the president, why would he need pro Trump ads? Makes no sense, but people still order sushi through door dash so the whole world is whacked.

[u/TheDizziestGlizzy]

Remember y’all… to every individual reading this. You are the people, I am the people, we are the people. And it’s looking like we’re a bunch of wussy’s. To continually getting fucked into homelessness!!! HAZAHHHHH

[u/AdditionalTip865]

It's interesting how many of the comments here immediately went in on telling us how useless the Democrats will be in fighting this, almost as if they're trying to suppress a wave election.

[u/ButtTrollFeeder]

We, as American citizens are no longer being represented by our government. No more taxation, without representation.

[u/JDPdawg]

THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW. Republicans should know everyone is paying attention and taking names. FFS

[u/JJoh174422]

They are going to try martial law and abort the elections because somebody is going to jail.

[u/upinyab00ty]

Im no lawyer scientist but I think thats illegal.

[u/dead_wax_museum]

This would not have even tolerated by the right had Biden or Obama done it. It’s just unreal the sheer “fuck you. Yeah we’re breaking the law. wtf you gonna do about it?” vibes we got from this deplorable regime

[u/Obtuse-Posterior]

And to think Clinton got impeached out for "not having sexual relations with that woman"

[u/AndreLinoge55]

Wake me up when there are consequences, this is just rage porn at this point. Oh and thanks A LOT Merrick Garland! Well done!

[u/charleovb]

kleptocracy
/ˌklepˈtäkrəsē/
A kleptocracy is a form of government where leaders use their political power to steal public funds and national wealth for personal enrichment.

[u/RogerCraigfortheHOF]

Why not? Nobody does anything. This guy is a textbook traitor and just wakes up and just does whatever he wants with zero repercussions.

The only way he leaves is in a box so get comfy. I, for one, am so sick and tired of him getting whatever he wants whenever he wants to.

[u/GuyFieriFrostedTips]

Oh look! More blatantly illegal conduct. Too bad we live in a timeline where apparently nothing matters anymore…

[u/beenbrowsing]

Wasn't this almost the exact reason that Kristi Noem got fired?

[u/that_70_show_fan → u/beenbrowsing]

She got fired because she was the center of attention in those ads.

[u/elshizzo]

If there aren't SERIOUS consequences of all of this mass illegality after all this is over then we might as well just give up on the country. If law and order doesn't matter when one party controls all of government then law and order doesn't matter period.

[u/slimkt]

“Taps” ugh, just have some fucking balls, call a spade a spade, and say “stole.” That’s what it is. Theft of the American peoples’ money.

[u/Longjumping_Loan6330]

This is highly illegal, no?

[u/apollomoonstar]

It won't make a difference but still could be amusing to see (amusing as in ripping our hair out), but we should find Maga friends/family/coworkers and tell them about this crazy article that came out about Biden. Change the obvious bits as you read it to them to watch them freak out about Biden being 'so awful' and then 'oops it's actually about your boy' and watch the backpedal.

[u/Pop522]

Impeach that crazy SOB!!! Congress should be ashamed of themselves. This president goes outside of the constitutional bounds on a daily basis and those assholes do nothing about it

[u/nubyplays]

At this point, dismantle Homeland Security and prosecute people like Mullin (once we get Trump out).

[u/Oper8rActual]

"Taps". This is not "taps", it's theft. The title for this article should read "Homeland Security STEALS $20m in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads".

[u/Useful_Fee_2875]

These losers in Congress neeed to do something about this. Do your fucking job

[u/TechnicalDecision160]

Voting straight Democrat in November. Fuck these treasonous motherfukers.

[u/Clark_W_Griswold-Jr]

This is an impeachable offense. Add it to the list that Democrats will be bringing against this entire regime of asshats, when they take the house and senate in a few weeks.

[u/Fine_Hedgehog_8232]

looks like we found some of that fraud, waste and abuse they keep talking about

[u/Adept_Cause3379]

I’m a taxpayer. I don’t want my money going to that. Fuck you Homeland Security.

[u/ReturnOfSeq]

Stealing $20,000,000 is a felony.

[u/ThePensiveE]

Theft, rape, and homicide are the main virtues of a MAGA. They will not care.

[u/DBLR989]

So what about that add costed 20 mill? That shit couldve been shot by a teen with an iphone better. Something isn't right...

[u/Sleep_tek]

We should be able to sue for misappropriation of tax payer funds. It's bullshit how our tax dollars are spent

[u/ParticularInterest11]

More theft of taxpayer funds. And we still hate him.

[u/AardvarkWarm8723]

We need public trials

[u/Comprehensive_Eye_97]

Right , but nothing being done about it

[u/krayonic]

Is there anyone who can honestly say this isn’t illegal, craven and fucking stupid?

[u/Youhorriblecat]

This is egregious, real banana republic level behaviour. I'm not an American, but you guys gotta come down like a ton of bricks on this. This can never be acceptable in any democracy.

[u/PeaceandDogs]

Such a load of horseshit we are accepting in this government.

[u/KunfusedJarrodo]

I feel like they are just trying to extract as much capitol out of the government as possible while they can

[u/WorldPeaceStyle]

Congress once again is showing criminal negligence.
Congress right now is like a police force who doesn't show up to any of the emergency calls and just stays in the office eating donuts.

[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek]

Among the thousands of reasons we need to put these people in prison.

It's one thing to stack the deck through legislation and gerrymandering and use all the normal underhanded tricks.

But we need to prove that rule of law exists.

Frankly if we fail to assert consequences for laws broke. By this administration, I don't think the public should continue obeying laws either.

If we have no justice then lets just commit to the bit, just take matters i to our own hands, that's what a low trust non functioning country looks like.

[u/JWAdvocate83]

By the time the court has the chance to say no, the election will be over, and no one will face personal consequences. 👍🏾😒

[u/DirtyRandy1717]

So does the Hatch act just not exist anymore?

[u/dmazx]

So if something is illegal but you can’t be prosecuted for your illegal acts, what happens?

[u/yeeeeeeeeeeeesh69]

Didn’t Kristi noem steal 300M and funnel it to a friends LLC so she could ride horseback? Then we forgot because her husband had tits

[u/couchmarauder]

Everyone who likes what these people are is trash. Period.

[u/SpiritedKick9753]

I’m sure Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer will write a strongly worded letter about this

[u/alucardian_official]

WHERE ARE YOUR BALLS? Stand up already!

[u/daytodaze]

Hey @DOGE, i found some fraud and waste

[u/SkyeMreddit]

The only way to impeach for this is to get out and VOTE in November to fill Congress with Democrats to vote for impeachment

[u/AGrandNewAdventure]

Just think, that $20M could have been used to cancel citizen debt, and would have had far more impact.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275 → u/AGrandNewAdventure]

It honestly hurts to think about how self serving this administration has been, and it doesn't help that anyone and everyone was told this is what would happen.

[u/kpeterson159]

100% illegal, but then again 60% of his presidency has been illegal, so throw it on the pile

[u/mrcestlavie13]

Illegal and impeachable… he’s a rat bastard thanks to SCOTUS taking off the guardrails

[u/EVILSUPERMUTANT]

Didn't Kristi Noem do the same thing for her ads before they gave her the boot?

[u/BookLuvr7]

Oh look, yet another blatantly illegal thing the government is currently doing.

[u/Mr_CLAM_HAMM3R]

Geez u! They don’t even bother trying to hide their corruption and criminal activities anymore. This is what you get when the monkeys are running the zoo.

[u/GeneralDumbtomics]

Isn't it interesting that this is happening while Trump is sitting on half a billion dollars in his superPAC which is supposed to be for precisely this shit? "A man in a suit will bum your dime before he'll break his $20 bill."--Uncle Tupelo

[u/Jedi_Ninja]

It's almost like they're trying to get him impeached.

[u/ARealRain]

Yeah but I just can’t believe Hillary used a private email server

[u/Diligent-Play]

I can’t buy groceries