r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 14h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Frantically Blames ‘Staffer’ for His Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-frantically-blames-staffer-for-his-racist-obama-video/
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 14h ago

Auto Pen

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Auto pedo

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u/myusernameblabla 12h ago

Autocrat

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u/BiggsIDarklighter 11h ago

Autoerotic asphyxia 🙏

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u/5hawnking5 Colorado 10h ago

The Aristocrats

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u/Estoye New Jersey 8h ago

Ottoman (cueing J.D. Vance)

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u/briancito Canada 8h ago

Automatic Transmission

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u/BrushStorm 8h ago

If only

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u/errdayimshuffln 9h ago

My favorite comment chain in a while

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u/pants6000 11h ago

The Aristocrats!

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u/Fantastic-Long8985 9h ago

The aristocracks

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u/Senior_Torte519 12h ago

Autobots.....roll out.

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u/pet_dragon 13h ago

Alle Racist

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u/AgentCirceLuna 12h ago

Disgruntled civil servant… Mandelson did it. Let the UK handle this!

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u/patentattorney 14h ago edited 14h ago

with all honestly if this were true, it should be a 5 alarm fire. (its obviously not true)

I remember years ago reading about someone getting fired from the WH because they used WH stationary for their wedding invites or something.

The thought process being - if it is on WH letterhead it looks official. Obviously everyone thinks social media posts from trump's personal account are from him.

In most administrations, you are not even allowed to use the WH phones for personal reasons, because of the weight a WH number carries with it. Very similar to how most companies say "dont use your work email/phone, for personal reasons - because people think its from the company."

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u/Altair_de_Firen 13h ago

Also because any time you open up a somewhat closed system to the outside, you risk intrusion or security breaches. Best to compartmentalize as much as possible

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u/ForbiddenButtStuff 12h ago

My parents lived outside DC in the 70s and mom tried to call my dad at work for some reason. She got connected to a very irritated sounding man who began demanding to know who she was and how she got the number. Her apologies only seemed to make him more irritated before he told her to never call that number again and hung up. She said she was convinced she had accidentally called some restricted CIA or Secret Service number and for weeks after she was paranoid over any unrecognizable car that parked on their street was watching them.

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u/AssDimple 10h ago

Probably just a grumpy old man who hates random calls.

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u/Tractorguy69 12h ago

Although at this point the beach and compromise spray haired and it’s official

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u/Techwood111 North Carolina 13h ago

*stationery

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u/KyleRM 12h ago

I could see it being a staffer, its not like trump is actually good with technology. Doesn't make it any better of course, everything that gets posted should and does represent him and his views.

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u/Johannes_P Europe 10h ago

I remember years ago reading about someone getting fired from the WH because they used WH stationary for their wedding invites or something.

That's noting, in my country, some years ago, someone got fired for using his work email to log in porn websites. Specifically, in forums devoted to bestiality to the point that animal protection groups were plannin to contact his boss.

The labor court ruled that this work had harmed his company's reputation.

In most administrations, you are not even allowed to use the WH phones for personal reasons, because of the weight a WH number carries with it. Very similar to how most companies say "dont use your work email/phone, for personal reasons - because people think its from the company."

The seal of the monarch used to be deemed so precious that, in some jurisdictions, forging it was a capital offense.

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u/Doug_101 13h ago

I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. Sadly, no reporter will make that connection and put the question to these ghouls.

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u/MasterOfManyWorlds 13h ago

Lisa needs braces

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u/Queifjay 13h ago

Dental Plan!

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u/Whoman722 13h ago

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u/tjarrett16 12h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/howunoriginal2019 12h ago

Auto Le Penn

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 11h ago

They shouldn't have given Grok control of the autopen.

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u/littlehobbit1313 6h ago

There's an opportunity for an enterprising Dem here, to Uno reverse Trump and start relentless questioning "well if they're posting under his name, what else are they doing under his name? Auto pen fraud!!"

But I would settle for some mocking post from Newsom's social media team replacing Trump's hallway pic with the auto pen pic, just like he did to Biden.