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Peacetrain

(24,279 posts)
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:22 AM Mar 2025

Trump Brags About Publishing Innocent People's Social Security Numbers

“Well, you know, I was given the task of releasing that. Many presidents have gone through it, and they haven’t released. And I said, ‘Release.’ We even released Social Security numbers, I didn’t want anything deleted,” Trump replied. “They said, ‘So what about Social Security?’ People long gone.… We gave Social Security, we gave everything. And the rest is for you to look at.”

https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-brags-publishing-innocent-people-202619264.html

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Trump Brags About Publishing Innocent People's Social Security Numbers (Original Post) Peacetrain Mar 2025 OP
God he's weird Blues Heron Mar 2025 #1
Man is so embroiled in lawsuits Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 #6
I think the nihilism appeals to some segment of his followers EYESORE 9001 Mar 2025 #7
Someone release his. Polly Hennessey Mar 2025 #2
Trump Brags About Publishing Innocent People's Social Security Numbers LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #3
And throwing his former attorney Joseph DiGenova under the bus in the process. tanyev Mar 2025 #4
This is what pundits and outlets aren't talking about...the fact that he values cruelty and exercise of wiggs Mar 2025 #5

Baitball Blogger

(51,735 posts)
6. Man is so embroiled in lawsuits
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:26 AM
Mar 2025

You have to ask yourself where is the mark when conservatives decide it’s making them all look like they’re following a crazy person.

EYESORE 9001

(29,458 posts)
7. I think the nihilism appeals to some segment of his followers
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:12 PM
Mar 2025

Remember when shadypants went off on childless cat ladies? I’m here to tell ya, some of their male MAGAt counterparts - childless middle-age males, married even - possess a nihilistic streak a mile wide. Like the internet meme cartoon dog sitting amidst flames, saying ‘this is fine,’ some of those I’ve encountered could care less if the sun rose tomorrow. They’re almost gleeful at the prospect of civilization collapsing, although their personal oxen have yet to be gored. Yet.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,985 posts)
3. Trump Brags About Publishing Innocent People's Social Security Numbers
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:07 AM
Mar 2025

Imagine being such a degenerate asshole that you delight in publishing the personal information of others



https://newrepublic.com/post/193053/trump-brags-publish-social-security-numbers-jfk-files

Donald Trump bragged about releasing the Social Security numbers of hundreds of people during his anticlimactic release of the John F. Kennedy assassination files.

“Eighty thousand pages of documents is a lot to sift through,” a reporter said to Trump on Friday. “Can you just tell us who killed Kennedy?”

“Well, you know, I was given the task of releasing that. Many presidents have gone through it, and they haven’t released. And I said, ‘Release.’ We even released Social Security numbers, I didn’t want anything deleted,” Trump replied. “They said, ‘So what about Social Security?’ People long gone.… We gave Social Security, we gave everything. And the rest is for you to look at.”

These Social Security numbers are from potentially hundreds of people who are alive, not “long gone,” as the president wrongly claimed.

One of them, Reagan-era Justice Department attorney and Trump’s own former campaign lawyer Joseph diGenova, was furious about the release of his personal data. “I intend to sue the National Archives,” he told USA Today. “They violated the Privacy Act.”

tanyev

(48,666 posts)
4. And throwing his former attorney Joseph DiGenova under the bus in the process.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:17 AM
Mar 2025

Who, by the way, blamed incompetent people doing the reviewing but not the incompetent person who gave the orders.

People named in JFK assassination documents are not happy their personal information was released
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016400352

wiggs

(8,684 posts)
5. This is what pundits and outlets aren't talking about...the fact that he values cruelty and exercise of
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:23 AM
Mar 2025

power more than popularity. He isn't worried about polls and elections anymore. he has free reign to cheat, steal, lie, destroy, and do things no one has ever done before....because he can. Without consequence. Often the cruelty is pointless, except that his disordered brain craves it.

Analysts talk as though Trump has a goal to make America great, or improve the economy for most people. That he's playing the long game. Not his goal at all. Daily cruelty and exercise of unlimited power all the way down.

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