FBI / NKVD election interference
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And now we know thanks to Mark Zuckerberg the Feds fucked around once again in an election process in 2020 by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story at least on Facebook (and probably other social media companies) pushing the bullshit Russian disinformation line.
[/QUOTE]This is a huge story which is being predictably ignored by the wacko leftist fake news.
We already knew that Facebook and Twitter interfered in the election by blocking the story about Hunter's laptop and the vast evidence of crimes contained therein. Polls have shown that, had voters had access to the censored story, it would have decisively shifted the election to Trump (ie his victory would have been so enormous that even the huge amount of democrat mail-in ballot rigging would not have been enough to steal it). [URL]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/24/medias-suppression-of-hunter-laptop-was-election-i/[/URL].
That was bad enough. But it just got worse.
Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan the other day and said that the FBI told him the laptop was "Russian minsinformation".
That was a flat-out lie, and the FBI knew it. It has now been quietly acknowledged even in the fake news media that the laptop is real, and the feds have known it for years.
The fact that the FBI actually flatly lied to tell social media companies to block true information which would have led to a Trump victory is absolutely scandalous. It also confirms what we have known for some time: that the FBI is the latter-day NKVD of the Washington swamp, and that the entire rotten edifice is beyond saving. It must be torn down and replaced. And it will be. The Tree of Liberty is dehydrated.
Yes I know how tariffs work
[QUOTE=PVMonger;2736776]Do you have any understanding at all about tariffs?
Tariffs are not paid by the sender. They are paid by the receiver. The receiver than jacks up the price of their product to cover their increased cost. Eventually, the consumer is who suffers. [URL]https://taxfoundation.org/who-really-pays-tariffs/and[/URL] [URL]https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-tariff-and-who-pays-it[/URL] and [URL]https://www.investors.com/news/economy/what-is-a-tariff/[/URL] ad infinitum.
Please stop listening to FUX Snooze.[/QUOTE]Yes I know how tariffs work. USA companies bought the Chinese products. When Trump put the tariffs on China they devalued their currency by 10%. Consumers paid the 10% less for the products plus the 10% tariff and ended up paying the same for the product. China received 10% less Farmers got a settlement from the trade wars. A lot different than the giveaway by Biden to the worthless deadbeats who weren't paying their student loans.
1 year Anniversary of Biden Afghanistan disaster
It is the one year anniversary of one of Biden's biggest failures. Not many people celebrating. Democrats avoiding the subject. There still are Americans stuck in Afghanistan and the Taliban has restored their terrorist leadership government. Taliban is well armed as Biden left billions of dollars of new weapons for them to use against Americans. Biden talking about sending money for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan which will go to Taliban terror groups. You can't fix stupid.
Trumpers, the non master subject changers
"Every conversation I ever had with a Trumper".
LOL.
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You could "indict a ham sandwich"
Steve Musal: "I'm not a lawyer. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the majority of the Metropolitan's readers are also not lawyers. And while there are a few exceptions, I know most of my Facebook followers aren't lawyers. And yet, there are many people who seem to be so sure of their understanding about how a grand jury works, that they're willing to take any decision made at face value — as proof of innocence or guilt.
That's not actually how a grand jury works. In a grand jury hearing, the prosecution (usually only the prosecution) presents evidence in a relaxed setting to the grand jury, who decide whether to issue an indictment **— whether there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime. Since, traditionally, the defense doesn't get a say, it's pretty easy to get a grand jury to indict someone in most cases. In fact, it's so easy in most cases that a former New York state chief judge, Sol Wachtler, famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich. " On a federal level, in 2010 (the last year for which we have statistics), grand juries returned just 11 out of 162,000 violent crime cases without an indictment, according to the FBI's Bureau of Justice Statistics. . . ".
[URL]https://www.mymetmedia.com/indict-ham-sandwich/[/URL]
The sworn affidavit presented to secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago used by the FBI to raid Donald Trump's home had what appears to be a crucial error in it, one that could be easily debunked. If the facts detailed by independent journalist Paul Sperry are accurate, this could be enough to obliterate the Department of Justice's case against Trump. . . BREAKING: The FBI affiant who swore to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant appears to have made a critical factual error by stating in the unsealed affidavit: "I do not believe that any spaces within the PREMISES have been authorized for the storage of classified information. " This finding, which is the linchpin of the criminal case vs. Trump, overlooks the fact that: 1) White House records confirm that a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) authorizing the briefing and storage of classified material up to the TS / SCI level had in fact been installed at Mar-a-Lago; and, 2) records show that the Secret Service had recently awarded a nearly $600,000 contract to upgrade physical security within the premises at Mar-a-Lago for Trump's post-presidency transition. . . [URL]https://americafirstreport.com/critical-factual-error-by-fbi-raid-affiant-could-blow-up-the-dojs-case-against-trump/[/URL].
[QUOTE=PVMonger;2736777]I have finally seen enough. Donald Trump will be indicted by a federal grand jury.
You heard me right: I believe Trump will actually be indicted for a criminal offense. Even with all its redactions, the probable cause affidavit published today by the magistrate judge in Florida makes clear to me three essential points:
(1) Trump was in unauthorized possession of national defense information, namely properly marked classified documents.
(2) he was put on notice by the USA Government that he was not permitted to retain those documents at Mar-a-Lago.
(3) he continued to maintain possession of the documents (and allegedly undertook efforts to conceal them in different places throughout the property) up until the FBI finally executed a search warrant earlier this month.
That is the ball game, folks. Absent some unforeseen change in factual or legal circumstances, I believe there is little left for the Justice Department to do but decide whether to wait until after the midterms to formally seek the indictment from the grand jury.
The cruelest irony for Trump is that it never needed to be this way.
Put aside that in the chaos following his election loss Trump's team never undertook the normal procedure for properly sorting through and archiving his presidential records in coordination with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Put aside that properly marked classified records were shipped to Mar-a-Lago and sat there for months until he began turning stuff over to NARA in late 2021.
If he had fully cooperated at that point, and returned all of the records to NARA last year, this likely never would have become a criminal matter. DOJ would have declined to take any action, notwithstanding the existence of the classified records, and it would have been a "no harm, no foul" situation. Just another minor story in the Trump saga of incompetence.
But Trump just could not bring himself to play by the rules. He turned over 15 boxes last January but did not turn over all the records. Political operatives from conservative organizations started whispering into his ear that he had legal precedent on his side to refuse to turn over the classified records to NARA (he did not). His lawyers surprisingly wrote a rather condescending letter to DOJ in May 2022, effectively arguing that even if there were still classified records at Mar-a-Lago the FBI lacked the authority to take any criminal action against Trump given his former status as president. Then, in June 2022 after the FBI executed a subpoena to recover more records at Mar-a-Lago, two Trump lawyers wrote (and one signed) a sworn affidavit reassuring the government there were no more classified records at the property.
We now know that statement was not true. The FBI found multiple more classified records, including some with markings for Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS / SCI) during the search this month, and not just located in the storage room with the other boxes of records. They found records located in different parts of Mar-a-Lago.
Of course, there are various arguments for why a prosecution might not succeed in this situation.
There is the contention by Trump and his allies that he declassified the documents, whether through a "standing order" or more specific verbal action. No evidence has been produced corroborating that assertion, and there certainly is no indication that the classification markings themselves were ever revised to reflect the declassification. The Trump lawyers in May certainly did not provide any such evidence in their letter to DOJ, and they similarly provided no evidence of it in their "motion" filed earlier this week in district court in Florida seeking a Special Master.
And that is before we even consider if the classification status would matter for an Espionage Act prosecution, which only requires that the information relate to the national defense.
There is also the issue of selective political prosecution and supposed bad faith by the government in its decision to pursue the case. This is something that has been mentioned ad nauseum by Trump allies on cable news, and was briefly mentioned in the "motion" filed earlier this week in court. Lacking from those arguments is anything beyond rank speculation. That will not fly in court. Just ask Sidney Powell how well it works to try to litigate in court the way you argue on cable news. Hint: it does not go well.
All in all, this case should and in my opinion will result in an indictment. Sure, an indictment does not equal a conviction. Trump is still assumed innocent until proven guilty. There are unknown variables like whether the prosecution would occur in Florida or in the. See. We do not know what evidence Trump might have to substantiate his declassification claim. And we do not know what the courts would say about his various arguments.
Get the popcorn ready either way.
Source: [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/over-trump-indicted-220111093.html[/URL].[/QUOTE]