Summary:
President Donald Trump has sparked outrage after agreeing with a suggestion that January 6 rioters who received pardons could be financially compensated, leaving many social media users appalled. In an interview with Newsmax Tuesday night, Trump responded to a question about whether a "compensation fund" for the pardoned rioters was being considered, confirming, "There's talk about that."
Trump defended the individuals involved in the insurrection, referring to them as "patriots" and insisting they had been treated unfairly.
32 Comments
funkforager@sh.itjust.works · 96 pts · 1y
wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 1y
I’d be ashamed to even call myself an american at this point.
What a fall america is taking. It’s the joke of the planet.
Catma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Honestly I would expect Trump to be more patriotic and go with Silver Shirts
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 79 pts · 1y
This barrel has no bottom.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
They're digging down under the barrel straight into raw sewage.
Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It's certainly up there with Russia and North Korea at the moment.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y
"Paid for Committing Treason" pretty much sums up Trump's presidency.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Hey, at least this time he's actually paying the people that do work for him.
derryt@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Taxpayers are paying the people. FTFY
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 35 pts · 1y
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Ok, let's go storm the capital. We just have to spend a little time in jail and the next pres will let us out and pay us. No harm no foul.
/s
HorreC@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Users?? Has the US started to talk about its populace like they are on a twitch stream?
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
What the fuck is this headline? The main subject of the reporting is the online reaction to the actual news story. Why can't they just report the event and not people's reaction to it?
KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Are we cooked, Chat?
Infynis@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
What would you prefer, social media victims?
HorreC@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Could just call them people, but I guess Users would be ok as some of those will have been bots.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Why would he compensate "ANTIFA"?
dephyre@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
So… crime does pay?
venotic@kbin.melroy.org · 16 pts · 1y
I wouldn't be surprised if those $5,000 DOGE stimulus payments I've been reading about lately, went to these idiots. I vaguely recall the number of people who 'qualify' for it being north of 70+ million. Huh, weren't those the same 70+ million that voted for trump? go figure.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Hey you've got to pay your army.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
He's officially hiring his useful idiots to be his goons.
NotLemming@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Presumably, with all the money saved on transgenic mice
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Remember, too, they cut funding for 911 survivors, again.
DarthKaren@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
All the years he's never paid his bills. Damn...what a fucking time to start...
NABDad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
He isn't going to pay them shit. He wants to make us pay them.
DarthKaren@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Guarantee you that isn't the way he sees.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Appalled yes, surprised no
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Users?
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y
Gotta give it to him: he knows how to flood the zone with distracting outrage.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
What's he going to give them? Brown coats and
black SUVsrusted out '90s pickup trucks? Fucking Nazi.BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Our money
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 1y
They keep pulling the hair of the US population while taking them from behind .... and all the people will do is try to ignore it all
This isn't a problem with the government ... the people are standing aside and either ignoring it, defending it or want to believe it has nothing to do with them.
pedz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y