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When He Isn’t Passing the Buck Trump Is Selling Pardons and Selling Out America

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Cartoons of drug-running speedboats and of Trump signing pardons

Trump has turned the Resolute Desk into the Excuse Desk, dodging blame while auctioning off pardons, rewarding crooks, and selling out America to foreign strongmen. iPINIONS argues that, from Saudi blood money to Honduran narco-politics to get-out-of-jail cards for wealthy swindlers, Trump’s presidency is now a pay-to-betray operation. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/when-he-isnt-passing-the-buck-trump Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bombing drug speedboats, drug trafficking, Jared Kushner, MbS, pay-to-play, presidential pardons, Saudi Arabia, Trump presidency, Venezuela

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Brings Presidential Relief but Incites Trumpian Projection

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Joe Biden and son Hunter with Republicans holding hearing on Bidens and Donald Trump, Ivanka and Jared inset.

Hunter Biden plea deal Donald Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state to find 11,780 votes. He needed those votes to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. He failed. But there’s an audio recording of him applying that pressure attempt. So the whole world knows about it. Trump also pressured his attorney general to investigate Hunter Biden. He wanted… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, Jared Kushner, MbS, plea deal, political projection, reelection campaign, Republicans, Roy Cohn, special prosecutor

WTF! Biden Warned OPEC Not to Cut Oil Production by 1 Million Barrels. So OPEC Cut It by 2 million…?

Friday, October 7, 2022 at 6:19 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Joe Biden fist bumping mbs

The only thing that explains this unprecedented snub is OPEC countries, no doubt at Russia’s urging, being hell-bent on showing that they no longer need the United States … for anything. This, because they now have the backing of China as a more indulging economic superpower, and of Russia as a nuclear power that is… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Joe Biden, MbS, oil, OPEC, Saudi Arabia

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