BREAKING: MONSTER! Donald Trump Jr. rushes to defend convicted rapist Russell Brand by saying that "no one had a problem" with it before.
Clearly, he sees his father in the disgraced comedian...
“So when he was like married to Katy Perry, he’s one of the most famous actors in the world, no one seemed to have a problem,” Don Jr. said on his Rumble show "Triggered."
“No one seemed to think he was a rapist then, but he finds God, I guess, changes his ways, sees some aspects of conservative life, and talks about them. And now he’s going to spend ten and a half years in prison for rape when no one had a problem with it in the prior 27 years,” he added.
Brand was sentenced to ten and a half years this week for raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others over the course of five years, starting in 2004. There have been numerous other accusations against the self-proclaimed "sex addict."
Don Jr. called the sentence "severe," but frankly we don't think it's severe enough. Brand is a serial predator who clearly sees women as objects to be terrorized and abused. The world is safer with him behind bars.
What's more, the assertion that this conviction is reprisal for Brand embracing far-right politics in recent years is absurd. His pivot from being an atheist libertine to a Bible-thumping conservative was as predictable as it was transparent.
This is the playbook every time a famous person is accused of heinous sexual crimes. They do a hard pivot to the right, confident that they'll be embraced by reactionaries who are starved for celebrity. They know that if they say the right things, and prattle on about Jesus enough, Fox News, and Tucker Carlson, and Republican politicians will fawn over them.
Of course, Brand's conversion to Christianity is a total farce. If this man really believed that Jesus Christ is his Lord and savior, he'd have atoned for his crimes. It's not enough to simply call yourself a Christian, you have to act like one. You have to repent and admit to your sins. Brand never did that because this was never about the teachings of Jesus. It was about crafting cover for his inevitable court case.
"Now, take a step back and think about what this tells you about a society that seems to decide punishment and sentencing based on who you are instead of what you did," whined Don Jr. "The same establishment that lectures America about norms can’t find a consistent sentence for the worst crime on the books."
“Like I always say, it’s just yet another example of how Britain is falling and failing to uphold any sense of equal justice," he added. "And again, the stuff that I’ve read with Russell, they were doing some pretty crazy stuff, and then it went further. There were no complaints. Then 27 years later, rape. It’s crazy."
The fact that it took so long to convict Brand for his crimes doesn't prove that he's innocent, it just demonstrates how easily predators are able to operate in the open if they have enough money, power, and influence. Famous men are able to intimidate their victims into silence, which is exactly what Donald Trump Jr.'s father did for years. It's no wonder he feels a knee-jerk impulse to publicly defend a convicted rapist.
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CALLOUS. DISRESPECTFUL.
DISGUSTING.
On Veterans Day, at a memorial honoring those who served, Trump referred to veterans as a “WALL OF FLESH.” These are American heroes. Show them some damn respect. 🇺🇸
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Our current military deserves better than Pete "Hair Gel" Hegseth and Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump.
Trump famously missed Vietnam because his feet hurt, and thinks his personal Vietnam was avoiding STDs in the 80's.
And let's review the resume of the man Trump put in charge of the greatest military on earth, Pete Hegseth:
He took us into a war with Iran that Congress never signed off on.
He put attack plans in a Signal group chat that somehow had a magazine editor in it.
He basically took a sobriety oath in order to get confirmed, and we doubt he's been honest.
He ordered mandatory testosterone testing for male troops over 30, which medical experts called puzzling. Because nothing says national security like checking everybody's hormone levels.
These two have never told the truth about the war, hiding the real numbers of wounded and killed; not being up front about the damages to US bases and equipment; and refusing to answer questions to members of Congress.
Hegseth and Trump have no idea what the hell they are doing and even less a clue how to get out of doing it. Negotiations and bombings are called on and off at a moment's notice while the world's oil markets go haywire. It's not the work of two people who are "crazy like a fox", it's just incomparable incompetence.
Hegseth is becoming history's fall guy for a war that's ripping the wool off the eyes of even Trump's most fervent supporters. MAGA wanted no new wars, no corruption, and no rising prices. They got all three in the war with Iran.
Let's call it what it is. Pete Hegseth is a low-IQ sycophant who got handed a war machine because he licked Trump's boots on Trump's favorite news channel every week. Anybody would be a better fit.
God knows our service members deserve better.