A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in 2022 and 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    19·
    21 hours ago

    Prosecutors said Peña resorted to violence in the belief that a “rigged” election had robbed him of victory in his bid to serve in the state Legislature.

    The amount of harm caused by the shitbag in the whitehouse will go on for generations. We’re so fucked.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
      10·
      20 hours ago

      I am still baffled some days that people saw that fat sack of orange shit and thought, yeah, that rich racist dude whos bankrupt half his company’s… lets make that guy our cult leader.

      I still think The Apprentice had a hand in giving him the presidency. That show made people think he was actually a savvy businessman, when he’s the furthest thing from it.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 minutes ago

        I still think The Apprentice had a hand in giving him the presidency. That show made people think he was actually a savvy businessman, when he’s the furthest thing from it.

        Oh, 100%. There is a good chance that even after all the self-promotion that Tacostein did all during the 80s and 90s that many Americans had no clue who he was. That show he was given changed that, and gave many Americans the entirely wrong impression of this failson.

        Of course, the “liberal media” did almost nothing to disabuse Americans of that impression of Tacostein as a Bigly Important Bidness Man.

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Pages in category “Businesses of Donald Trump that went bankrupt”

        The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (sorry I did not copy all the links)

        • Donald J. Trump Foundation
        • Golden Nugget Atlantic City
        • GoTrump. com (autolink removed through formatting)
        • Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
        • New Jersey Generals
        • Paradox Hotel Vancouver
        • Plaza Hotel
        • TD Trump Deutschland
        • The Trump Network
        • Trump Entertainment Resorts
        • Trump Ice
        • Trump Institute
        • Trump magazines
        • Trump Mortgage
        • Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico
        • Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino
        • Trump Productions
        • Trump Shuttle
        • Trump Steaks
        • Trump University
        • Trump Vodka
        • Trump World’s Fair
        • Trump: The Game
        • Trumped!
        • stringere@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 hours ago

          PolitiFact uncovered two more bankruptcies filed after 1992, totaling six. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Trump Entertainment Resorts also declared bankruptcy in 2009, after being hit hard during the 2008 recession.

      • espentan@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 hours ago

        Mhm. I’d argue that had he actually been a savvy businessman he never would’ve had a show like that.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    10·
    19 hours ago

    A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña earlier this year of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in December 2022 and January 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.

    Prosecutors, who had sought a 90-year sentence, said Peña has shown no remorse and had hoped to cause political change by terrorizing people who held contrary views to him into being too afraid to take part in political life.

    Not “a failed political candidate” but a Republican terrorist who failed to get elected. The media will do anything to keep the R-word out of the headline, and to keep it and the T-word apart.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      1·
      40 minutes ago

      Not a Republican terrorist, he was a MAGA terrorist, there’s a difference.

      The Republican Party is dead. Its core tenets were smaller government, lower taxes, economic responsibility, individual liberty, family values, etc… The MAGA Party espouses none of that. MAGAs openly support treason, racism, corruption, pedophilia, rape, hate, authoritarianism, Fascism, misogyny, ignorance, and much more, but none of it represents the foundation of Republicanism.

      Therefore, the Republican party must be declared to be as dead as the Whigs, only to be referred to in an historical context.

      That way, when this is over, and we are dealing with the aftermath of their treason, we can declare the MAGA Party to be an official Terrorist/ Hate group, and prohibit them from existing.