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Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by gadders on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:00AM (#49695398)
I don't think it's OK, but it's semi-understandable given the lawfare undertaken by Democrats after his first term.

I would say that despite whatever pardons (which I believe can only be federal, not state?), he pro-actively gives himself and colleagues, family etc when he leaves office he will be spending the rest of his life fighting spurious court case after court case, none of which will be cheap.

In that regard, having massive personal wealth makes some kind of sense.

However - they're all at it to some degree across both sides of the aisle - Pelosi, Crenshaw etc etc.

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by drcongo on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:11AM (#49695531)
> No whataboutisms

Couldn't even follow the ask in your first sentence.

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by optimisticedits on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:31AM (#49695761)
What about, how the ask is completely nonsensical and incoherent?

It also came with a request for no-downvotes... What's next? A request for only responses that agree with me?

Here's my request: Upvotes only. Please don't respond.

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by bogwog on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:40AM (#49695870)
Whataboutism is what's known as a "fallacy" in debate. Wikipedia has a nice list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's "nonsensical and incoherent"

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by drcongo on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:36AM (#49695811)
It wasn't my post, but I read it as "please don't downvote the answers"
Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by gadders on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:08AM (#49696224)
That's only the last sentence, and I've deleted it for you. Why not engage with the thrust of the argument?
Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by tzs on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:25PM (#49701578)
> I don't think it's OK, but it's semi-understandable given the lawfare undertaken by Democrats after his first term

Examples?

> when he leaves office he will be spending the rest of his life fighting spurious court case after court case, none of which will be cheap.

Uhm...have you mixed Trump up with someone else. It is Trump who loves to bring spurious lawsuits. When Trump is on the receiving end it is almost always not a spurious lawsuit.

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by gadders on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:14AM (#49709325)
>> I don't think it's OK, but it's semi-understandable given the lawfare undertaken by Democrats after his first term

> Examples?

I don't think there is much point debating with someone who doesn't actually follow the news.

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by tzs on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:54AM (#49712566)
I do follow the news. I'm aware of his hush money trial, the case against him over Jan 6th, the illegal retention of classified documents, and the Georgia election interference case, The E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, and the New York civil fraud trial.

None of these are "lawfare". The only one that could even remotely maybe be called that was the retention of classified documents, because other Presidents have also retained documents they were not allowed to, as have others such as Vice Presidents, so it might give the initial appearance of Trump being singled out for something that ex-officials are usually not punished for.

However, in those cases either the ex-official or their staff discovered that they had documents they were not allowed to have and immediately notified the government and arranged to securely return the documents, or if it was the government that discovered it and as soon as notified the ex-official immediately returned the documents.

Only Trump refused to return the documents, despite many requests and warnings that it could result in criminal charges.

This was widely reported. When you said "follow the news" did you only mean Fox or Newsmax or whatever shows up on your social media feeds?

Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Fed... by cosmicgadget on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:11PM (#49703243)
> lawfare

Ah yes, boxes upon boxes of national secrets retained to discredit John Bolton who is, coincidentally, going to be convicted for doing the same.

Well, for that and possibly to share with certain guests.