Says the guy that, , has been convicted of rape, pardoned multiple people convicted of fraud, sexual assault, etc.
I wonder whom we should listen to...
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He pardoned a literal war criminal. Eddie Gallagher shot at civilians so much his team fucked with his sniper equipment to make sure at least his first shot or two missed, to give people time to get away.
Don't forget suspected prolific pedophile rapist piece of shit. I know you includes rapist, but he also raped a whole bunch of children.
"""""Suspected"""""
Nope, you can just say “rapist” and it’s factual
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
Where’d that downvote come from you got? He was not criminally charged, yes, but in a civil court they found that he had raped her
Ummm... Neither?
Marat maybe?
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This guy is the antichrist.
I never believed in any of this until him. I swear he sold his soul for power.
Hell of a return — his soul can't be worth much.
And don’t forget the lore context behind this photo. This was during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. Trump’s goons tear gassed protesters outside that church so they would disperse, allowing him to get in this photo op.
I remember my first time holding a book
What does the pope have to do with crime?
After the Roman Inquisition ended in 1908 The Pope has been weak on crime!
Pretty sure they want a crusade.
What’s he supposed to do? Dress up as batman and go punch bad guys?
This is brilliant - thank you for the laugh!
How much crime is in Vatican City?
Statistically, Vatican City has the highest crime rate in the world.
Crime rate is measured per resident. Vatican City has fewer than 800 residents, but millions of visitors each year.
The crimes are almost exclusively pickpocketing in St. Peter's Square.
On a related note, this is also why undocumented immigrants ALWAYS increase a country's crime rate statistic, even if they commit fewer crimes than people born there: Any crimes committed by immigrants are added to the crime rate, but their numbers don't increase the denominator, since they aren't counted as residents in the statistic.
So be aware of that statistical error when someone tries to use it to "prove" immigrants are criminals.
Stop trying to argue with Trump. It doesn't matter if the crime rate in Vatican City is zero. He'll just move the goal posts.
The only shit these assholes understand is a blow to their ego.
Like how they are in the Epstein files and that means they are child rapists.
Yeah let's look at statistics, Donnie
Including or excluding the Catholic Church as an organization?
What's he supposed to do? Dress up as batman and go punch bad guys?
That's a stupid way to fight crime, so it's probably what Trump would expect him to do. What really helps against crime (at least the low level crime most people seem to be more concerned about than all the corporate corruption etc. that Trump is part of) are things the pope seems to be generally in favour of: Free education, housing, healthcare, basic income, etc. All that woke shit Republicans hate, probably so that they can have a certain degree of such low level crimes to scare people into giving up their rights and distracting from their own crimes.
The Pope has never been to Epstein Island as far as I'm aware, so he's already harder on crime than certain people we could mention.
40 years ago, something like this would have american catholics (hell, and non american catholics, too) calling for his head on a stake outside the white house.
Today, however, the magat catholics will just choose their lord and savior donnie dumpfuck over the pope .
Trump: Bring back the Inquisition!
Wait until MAGA losers find out Jesus Christ was SUPER fucking liberal.
What are you on about?
An absurdity of what the Pope being tough on crime would look like. Dressing up as batman and punching bad guys? An absurd level of toughness on crime.
But for the pontius pilate stuff, the whole crucifixion came about as an execution for the crime ginned up by the Sanhedrin (a Jewish judicial body).
They already have the popemobile… how do you know he isn’t already?
I really don't think "soft on crime" and "religion that consigns you to eternal fire for eating shellfish and mixing fabrics" go together, but what do I know?