Feel free to share a link to some sort of supporting documentation of this "FBI evidence" of bribery.
Surely it had nothing to do with the books that he and his wife wrote that were published that very same year...
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Surely it had nothing to do with the books that he and his wife wrote that were published that very same year...
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Sure, Rudy, we believe you:
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Derek Cressman
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Talk about, surround myself only with the best and most serious people....
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) claimed Thursday that another source in the GOP’s Biden family probe has been missing ― for the last three years. The lawmaker complained to Fox News host Sean Hannity that MSNBCrides him over informants who have disappeared. (Watch the video below.)
Hannity asked Comer if he had any contact with an unidentified oligarch who claimed he bribed President Joe Biden as vice president.
Comer answered: “Unfortunately, nobody’s had any contact with him for the last three years. You know, MSNBC makes fun of me when I said that there are a lot of people that were involved in the Biden shenanigans that are currently missing. But with respect to this oligarch, we think we know where he is. He just hasn’t been seen in public in a long time, but we’re following the money.”
Comer raised eyebrows last month when he admitted to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that a key informant was missing. He chalked it up to the mystery person likely being in the “spy business.” Comer indicated that others also could not be found.
“Nine of the 10 people that we’ve identified that have very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens, they’re one of three things,” he said. “They’re either currently in court, they’re currently in jail or they’re currently missing.”
Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness
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“Look at that corrupt President report income and pay taxes on it, without even fighting to keep his returns secret! I’m mad at that!”
Same weird, broken energy as being MAD at the Biden administration for getting better at seizing fentanyl.
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The comments show just how lost in disinformation the MAGA are. I love how he begins his bogus tweet about obsessed with returns. Trump never released nor explained any windfalls. Biden got a book deal.
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Again, in the MAGA worldview, Biden is somehow both (1) senile and incompetent, and (2) genuinely (and still actively!) one of the most cunning criminal masterminds of the last hundred years.
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When the only avenue your "source" has left is twitter and podcasts, that should tell you something. And all of this by age 36! So much accomplished in so short a time.
No wonder rubes love him!
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/03 ... y-johnson/
No wonder rubes love him!
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/03 ... y-johnson/
Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness
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"Everything Trump Touches Dies" much?
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Jim Trusty, who withdrew from representing Trump in a pair of federal criminal probes last week, pulled out of yet another Trump legal matter Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences” with the former president.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, Trusty indicated his intention to withdraw from Trump’s pending defamation lawsuit against CNN. The longshot lawsuit, which Trump filed last October, accuses the network of maligning him as a “‘racist,’ ‘Russian lackey,’ ‘insurrectionist,’ and ultimately ‘Hitler.’”
...The move follows Trusty’s decision, along with Trump attorney John Rowley, to resign from Trump’s legal team shortly after he was indicted by a Florida grand jury for stashing military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The two lawyers issued a joint statement that made no mention of “irreconcilable differences.”
“Now that the case has been filed in Miami, this is a logical moment for us to step aside and let others carry the cases through to completion,” they wrote last week. “We have no plans to hold media appearances that address our withdrawals or any other confidential communications we’ve had with the President or his legal team.” [...]
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Jim Trusty, who withdrew from representing Trump in a pair of federal criminal probes last week, pulled out of yet another Trump legal matter Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences” with the former president.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, Trusty indicated his intention to withdraw from Trump’s pending defamation lawsuit against CNN. The longshot lawsuit, which Trump filed last October, accuses the network of maligning him as a “‘racist,’ ‘Russian lackey,’ ‘insurrectionist,’ and ultimately ‘Hitler.’”
...The move follows Trusty’s decision, along with Trump attorney John Rowley, to resign from Trump’s legal team shortly after he was indicted by a Florida grand jury for stashing military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The two lawyers issued a joint statement that made no mention of “irreconcilable differences.”
“Now that the case has been filed in Miami, this is a logical moment for us to step aside and let others carry the cases through to completion,” they wrote last week. “We have no plans to hold media appearances that address our withdrawals or any other confidential communications we’ve had with the President or his legal team.” [...]
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You know, for being a “do your own research” guy, you sure don’t seem confident in just telling us (with objective, factual support) directly what you, personally, think.
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it’s quite lobster-esque
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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How does she know it wasn't Baptist space lasers? Or Episcopalian, or Presbyterian, or even Lutheran space lasers?
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Derek Cressman
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What is more, the tweet wasn't grammatically correct. He also conceeds that Trump is a tax evader.jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:44 amYou know, for being a “do your own research” guy, you sure don’t seem confident in just telling us (with objective, factual support) directly what you, personally, think.
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Wondering if the play here was to surprise (and overwhelm) Trump’s defense by opening up two fronts.
Perhaps - and totally spitballing, this isn’t what I do - the reason Smith is unconcerned about the Florida noise (judges, jurors) is that there are procedural rules supporting the consolidation of these two actions (which Trump might need to seek) in New Jersey (where the final act in the relevant fact pattern, dissemination) is alleged to have occurred.
Perhaps - and totally spitballing, this isn’t what I do - the reason Smith is unconcerned about the Florida noise (judges, jurors) is that there are procedural rules supporting the consolidation of these two actions (which Trump might need to seek) in New Jersey (where the final act in the relevant fact pattern, dissemination) is alleged to have occurred.
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New Jersey is the place where the worst crimes appear to have happened. I am hopeful. Cannon really is bad. I think it is silly to believe she would act impartially.
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Decent article/column from Gene Lyons.....
Just how frightened are normal people supposed to be? Has the time come to bring the dogs inside, shut the blinds, fasten the deadbolts, wear body armor and prop a shotgun by the door?
I see where Kari Lake, the make-believe governor of Arizona (she lost the 2022 election but refuses to concede, despite multiple recounts and failed lawsuits) has issued a threat to “Merrick Garland and Jack Smith and Joe Biden — and the guys back there in the fake news media,” a cohort that presumably includes your humble, obedient servant here.
Despite her own history of ideological flexibility — the former local TV news anchor once supported President Obama — Lake’s gone all-in on the Trump cult. She told a cheering post-indictment rally in Georgia, “If you want to get to President Trump, you’re going to have to go through me, and you’re going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”
“That’s not a threat,” she added. “That’s a public service announcement.”
Cute, right? I’m guessing Lake’s never heard a shot fired in anger. Total poser. Come the revolution, she’ll be fleeing in high heels. Even so, loose talk about political violence has to be taken seriously in a country in which mass shooting incidents are a near-daily occurrence.
So here’s my suggestion to would-be pro-Trump insurrectionists: Before locking and loading, read the damn indictment. It’s only 49 pages.
If it helps you get through it, you could try substituting the names “Obama” or “Clinton” for “Trump.”
Here’s a sample: “The classified documents TRUMP stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation ... The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.”
Nuclear weapons secrets! There are none graver.
And how were these boxes stored? Why, “in various locations at the Mar-a-Lago Club — including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.” Most of these locations were easily accessible to any of the “tens of thousands” of paying guests at the club. There were no security procedures, and there are photos. Possibly you’ve seen them on TV.
Said Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr on Fox News Sunday: “If even half of it is true, then he’s toast. It’s a very detailed indictment. And it’s very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous ... He’s not a victim here. He was totally wrong.”
Barr added that he thought “the government acted responsibly. They gave him every opportunity to return those documents. They acted with restraint. They were very deferential to him and they were very patient. They talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents, and he jerked them around. They finally went to a subpoena. And what did he do? According to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena.”
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump cited Trump’s rejoinder. On his webpage, Trump called Barr a “’disgruntled former employee’ & lazy Attorney General who was weak & totally ineffective. ... Barr’s doing it because he hates ‘TRUMP’ for firing him. ... Turn off FoxNews [sic] when that ‘Gutless Pig’ is on!”
That’s Trump’s idea of an argument. How do you suppose it will fly in a federal courtroom?
Especially when it’s up against, for example, “Your Honor, the United States would like to enter into evidence the following photographs taken by FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago ...”
Another onetime Trump ally and U.S. attorney, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, described the facts in the indictment as “devastating.” He asked, “Is this the type of conduct that we want from someone who wants to be president of the United States?”
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a federal prosecutor who charged violent white supremacists in his day, called upon Trump to withdraw his candidacy.
The rest of Trump’s brave rivals for the GOP nomination pretty much chanted in unison about the terrible unfairness of prosecuting Trump for storing nuclear weapons secrets in a public bathroom while Hillary Clinton was still running around free. Never mind that there were at least five separate investigations, including several by Trump-appointed officials, that concluded she hadn’t committed any crimes.
The FBI did, in fact, determine that one document that should have been classified Top Secret was improperly stored on Clinton’s private email server. It concerned a proposed phone call between then-Secretary of State Clinton and the incoming president of Malawi.
Shocking, I know. But then, sometimes it’s what the news media chooses not to tell you that gives the game away.
Just how frightened are normal people supposed to be? Has the time come to bring the dogs inside, shut the blinds, fasten the deadbolts, wear body armor and prop a shotgun by the door?
I see where Kari Lake, the make-believe governor of Arizona (she lost the 2022 election but refuses to concede, despite multiple recounts and failed lawsuits) has issued a threat to “Merrick Garland and Jack Smith and Joe Biden — and the guys back there in the fake news media,” a cohort that presumably includes your humble, obedient servant here.
Despite her own history of ideological flexibility — the former local TV news anchor once supported President Obama — Lake’s gone all-in on the Trump cult. She told a cheering post-indictment rally in Georgia, “If you want to get to President Trump, you’re going to have to go through me, and you’re going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”
“That’s not a threat,” she added. “That’s a public service announcement.”
Cute, right? I’m guessing Lake’s never heard a shot fired in anger. Total poser. Come the revolution, she’ll be fleeing in high heels. Even so, loose talk about political violence has to be taken seriously in a country in which mass shooting incidents are a near-daily occurrence.
So here’s my suggestion to would-be pro-Trump insurrectionists: Before locking and loading, read the damn indictment. It’s only 49 pages.
If it helps you get through it, you could try substituting the names “Obama” or “Clinton” for “Trump.”
Here’s a sample: “The classified documents TRUMP stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation ... The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.”
Nuclear weapons secrets! There are none graver.
And how were these boxes stored? Why, “in various locations at the Mar-a-Lago Club — including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.” Most of these locations were easily accessible to any of the “tens of thousands” of paying guests at the club. There were no security procedures, and there are photos. Possibly you’ve seen them on TV.
Said Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr on Fox News Sunday: “If even half of it is true, then he’s toast. It’s a very detailed indictment. And it’s very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous ... He’s not a victim here. He was totally wrong.”
Barr added that he thought “the government acted responsibly. They gave him every opportunity to return those documents. They acted with restraint. They were very deferential to him and they were very patient. They talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents, and he jerked them around. They finally went to a subpoena. And what did he do? According to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena.”
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump cited Trump’s rejoinder. On his webpage, Trump called Barr a “’disgruntled former employee’ & lazy Attorney General who was weak & totally ineffective. ... Barr’s doing it because he hates ‘TRUMP’ for firing him. ... Turn off FoxNews [sic] when that ‘Gutless Pig’ is on!”
That’s Trump’s idea of an argument. How do you suppose it will fly in a federal courtroom?
Especially when it’s up against, for example, “Your Honor, the United States would like to enter into evidence the following photographs taken by FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago ...”
Another onetime Trump ally and U.S. attorney, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, described the facts in the indictment as “devastating.” He asked, “Is this the type of conduct that we want from someone who wants to be president of the United States?”
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a federal prosecutor who charged violent white supremacists in his day, called upon Trump to withdraw his candidacy.
The rest of Trump’s brave rivals for the GOP nomination pretty much chanted in unison about the terrible unfairness of prosecuting Trump for storing nuclear weapons secrets in a public bathroom while Hillary Clinton was still running around free. Never mind that there were at least five separate investigations, including several by Trump-appointed officials, that concluded she hadn’t committed any crimes.
The FBI did, in fact, determine that one document that should have been classified Top Secret was improperly stored on Clinton’s private email server. It concerned a proposed phone call between then-Secretary of State Clinton and the incoming president of Malawi.
Shocking, I know. But then, sometimes it’s what the news media chooses not to tell you that gives the game away.
Gutter wrote: Fri Nov 8th 2:16pm
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
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John Eastman's California disbarment hearing live, this Tuesday.
Truth: If they can come after Eastman’s license to practice law for trying to overthrow the government, they can come after ANYONE’S license to practice law for trying to overthrow the government.
Truth: If they can come after Eastman’s license to practice law for trying to overthrow the government, they can come after ANYONE’S license to practice law for trying to overthrow the government.
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and on queue…those bastions of integrity, mccarthy, comer, etc., call it a slap on the wrist
(David Weiss, who was in charge of the case and had the final say in charges, is a trump appointee)
(David Weiss, who was in charge of the case and had the final say in charges, is a trump appointee)
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?