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Related: About this forumDesperate! Trump begs billionaire to literally buy CNN for him as high prices doom second term - The Beat - MS NOW
Voters are blaming Trump for high prices. MS NOWs Ari Melber reports on how those prices are shaping voters economic priorities. - Aired on 12/09/2025.
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Desperate! Trump begs billionaire to literally buy CNN for him as high prices doom second term - The Beat - MS NOW (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Dec 9
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He's Made Billions Grifting, Cheating, and Extorting, Mostly At the Expense of the American People
The Roux Comes First
Dec 9
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And yet President Carter had to put his family business in a blind trust while he was POTUS
Rhiannon12866
Dec 9
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I Did Not Know of This! What a Horror. But That Was Back When America Had Actually Earned Some Honor
The Roux Comes First
Dec 9
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The Roux Comes First
(2,152 posts)1. He's Made Billions Grifting, Cheating, and Extorting, Mostly At the Expense of the American People
No indication he has "earned" an honest dollar for labor put in ever in his life.
Let him spend some of his own misbegotten wealth.
Rhiannon12866
(250,127 posts)2. And yet President Carter had to put his family business in a blind trust while he was POTUS
And due to mismanagement, when he returned home he learned the business was facing bankruptcy and Jimmy Carter had to sell the Carter Warehouse to save it.
The Roux Comes First
(2,152 posts)3. I Did Not Know of This! What a Horror. But That Was Back When America Had Actually Earned Some Honor
And many of our politicians, JC in particular, exemplified this.
Now of course, we have glitter-fied commodes and cheap thugs pretending to do actual work.
Rhiannon12866
(250,127 posts)5. I've listened to his autobiography ("A Full Life: Reflections at 90") numerous times - read by the author
And I recommend it highly. He really did live one very full and compelling life. And, before the felon-in-chief who treats the presidency as a money-making opportunity for himself and his family, that was the law of the land.
House of Roberts
(6,398 posts)4. CNN's ratings aren't high enough for it to effectively influence anyone.
It doesn't really matter if they turn Nazi.