I’d lean towards it being an actual mechanical issue. Somewhere or other, I saw that his plane is 33 years old and I’d suspect that he’s not the most proactive owner on doing pre-emptive maintenance and planes tend to break.
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I have seen the unpaid bill thing before and it seems like a lot of it could very well fall into things that cities tried to charge the campaign for that were not explicitly agreed to. Like Trump showed up to an event that required secret service coordination with local police and some cities try to charge those services back to the campaign while others absorb it into their operating budgets. I have no idea what is customary or expected for these events and there will no doubt be attempts by some cities to charge the Trump campaign for costs that might be BS.
It also wouldn’t surprise me if Trump dislikes the mayor of a city and tells the campaign to throw away some invoices from them.
This is comedy Gold.
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I think it’s concerning that groups entirely dedicated to foreign matters have such disproportionate influence on domestic politics.
I think he would view having to run against Harris rather than Biden as constituting “fraud”.
Trump really seems to be struggling with the change in his opponent. He was on cruise control until Biden stepped aside.
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I don’t know about avoiding cities where he has debts, but a Google search of “Donald Trump unpaid bills to cities” gets a LOT of hits from credible sources.
Well, now things are going to get even more nasty.
Trump is now posting on X.
I have been wondering in recent days if the Trump assassination attempt helped him whatsoever.
It feels like if the GOP had handled the incident competently, at minimum it should have been a small boost for Trump’s chances. If it had turned out to be a BLM-supporting, queer, Latino immigrant, the election would have been an easy Trump victory unless he suddenly started calling for free abortions, DEI, and open borders.
As it happened, we all discussed in realtime the difference in responses as they came out.
One side: “This was wrong and horrible, no political violence is excusable, I am glad that Trump was not seriously harmed, we must win by peaceful voting alone.”
The other side: “Our pedophile Communist radical liberal enemies hate America and hate you and want the rightful President to be murdered just like they murder post-birth babies”
Once it came out that the shooter had no clear motive and was a registered Republican, the attacks quickly died down and it became known that “the shooter had to have help from the Deep State Democrats and Biden.”
However, I think a good portion of America noticed the difference in actual rhetoric used. I think that Biden dropping and Harris announcing took all the wind out of the sails right leaving the Trump boat in these doldrums of “A Republican shot at Trump and nobody likes Vance, our platform isn’t very motivating, but Biden old!.. And Kamala Indian!”
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To be fair, Biden did keep saying we settle things at the Battle Box…
The press has also been very eager to move on to positive(ish) stories about Harris rather than anything not negative about Trump.
TIL: misspeaking is way worse than outright lying and fomenting an insurrection. Who knew?
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In all seriousness, why wouldn’t the press want to move onto something positive rather than rehash the negative SOS from Trump?
The press in the US has been completely biased for a while already. You can’t get unbiased news from anywhere anymore.
It’s sad that this is where we’ve gotten too - a free and unbiased press is essential to a Democracy.
There was a time Walter Cronkite was considered the most respected and honest man in the US
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Insofar as it was ever possible to get unbiased news from any source, the AP and Reuters are pretty top-notch IMO. They’ve been wrong in the past, but not often, and I wouldn’t call them biased.
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On media bias:
If a candidate and former president is a really bad person, how should the media report on that person?
If a candidate runs a campaign primarily on grievances rather than policy, how should the media report this?
I agree the media appears biased against Trump, and some amount of that is an underlying liberal bias, but some of it is a direct result of the style/type of campaign that the Trump team runs.
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The thing is Trump is so incredibly divisive that you already either love him or hate him.
If he were even slightly less batshit insane the shooting would be one of the more significant stories of his career, similar to Reagan. As it is it, it doesn’t stand out.
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I thought they all covered the assassination attempt pretty thoroughly. At least as much as was available. Do you have something specific in mind?
The Trump campaign is reportedly using Epstein’s former plane…