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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by CamperBob2 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14
toomanyrichies wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out. I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happ…

> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on strikin…

Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by simmerup »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #21
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on strikin…

Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?

Especially considering Trump is an obvious vindictive, narcissistic bully who would love to torment Biden

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

#24

Post by tzs »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14
toomanyrichies wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out. I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happ…

> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on strikin…

Several presidents have given preemptive pardons before Biden: Ford, Carter, the first Bush, and Trump in his first term.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by CamperBob2 »

simmerup wrote: post #23
CamperBob2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?

Especially considering Trump is an obvious vindictive, narcissistic bully who would love to torment Biden

Exactly, that's my point. It's silly to play the game in good faith when you know damned well that you're the only one doing so. At the time Biden promised not to pardon his son, it still seemed vanishingly unlikely that we'd re-elect Trump, and in fact he hadn't even been nominated yet.

So many things changed between June and December 2024. The country's wheels came off, and the undercarriage dragged on the road and caught fire.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by [deleted] »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14
toomanyrichies wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out. I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happ…

> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on strikin…

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Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by antiochIst »

You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...
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