Maybe we should just impeach Trump

Good summary.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-indictment-over-mishandling-classified-222107255.html

I would love to see Trump in jail for 15 years
Would we see widespread looting and disorder?
Could a future -shudder- Republican president pardon him?

Dude has all the leverage so nothing will happen. He’s got all the state secrets and his affiliates have all the other secrets. You try to take him down he will take everyone down with him.  It will take a massive profile in courage to follow through - and the cast of characters here like Garland, Biden, Wray and whoever else have no will to do it. So enjoy the show but it’s more of the same.

🐝 kill

did something last night that i hadn't in a while: listened to Brooks and Capehart.  they pointed out that we are headed for a collision between the judicial and political systems.  it's going to take months and month before trump is charged, and he's going to fight and delay the proceedings as much as he can - possibly so it stretches into GOP primaries and, heaven forbid, the general election.  what then?  how are conservatives going to react if trump is cruising along in the primaries but suddenly gets hauled away?  what if he goes down during the general?  imagine if he's in the lead, the forecasted winner in 2024 - how is the right going to react? 

imagine if trump's DOJ arrested biden in early 2020 on some (perceived) flimsy charges - there would have been riots in the streets.  now imagine that those rioters all have guns… 

David Brooks = worst political pundit in the country. (*)













(*) tie with Thomas Friedman

I see your Brooks (and Friedman) and raise you a Mark Thiessen.

Justin wrote:
I see your Brooks (and Friedman) and raise you a Mark Thiessen.

Ok great point.

I am not including self-evident party hacks but should have added that caveat.

Thiessen is a joke.

Brooks and Friedman have been proven wrong so many times but I do think they actually believe what they are saying or writing when they do so…..

Guys like Thiessen I think are aware they are writing drivel and propaganda.

Everything The FBI Seized During The Raid At Mar-A-Lago

https://www.theonion.com/everything-the-fbi-seized-during-the-raid-at-mar-a-lago-1849406417

Starsky wrote:
David Brooks = worst political pundit in the country. (*)

really?  i often don't agree with his right-of-center POVs but they're generally well-reasoned and defensible, IMO.

but beyond dismissing his arguments in toto, any thoughts on what would happen if a front-running candidate trump gets convicted and jailed?  the potential for another J6-type uprising/insurrection seems really, really high.

so not only do MAGAts want to defund the FBI, they also want to label it a terrorist organization:

"Kevin Smith, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, was booed on Sunday while answering questions about whether he supports a proposal to dismantle the FBI or label the bureau a terrorist organization." (source)

jesus h.  i can't even.

trump lawyer says, on TV, that the trump legal team "has done a very thorough search [of the documents]" and didn't see anything problematic.

you know what is problematic?  admitting you reviewed secret and top secret documents without a security clearance.  puts them in a boat highly adjacent to their boss', AKA the mighty USS Espionage Act.

absolute clown car.  guess that's the quality of lawyer you're left with after a lifetime of stiffing lawyers and/or throwing them under the bus.  too bad, he could really use some good lawyers soon…

looking like Mark meadows is getting thrown under the bus
not that we didn't see that happening
hope he turns on them

^oh that's really good!

@sandibachom
I heard something interesting legal twitter. By burying someone on your property, it can't be seized, say in a RICO case?

also just saw this too
Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg expected to plead GUILTY on Thursday and admit to 15 felonies. As part of the deal, he has reportedly agreed to testify against Donald Trump's companies.

took many months/years for all this to fall into place, amazing how many of these things hit in the last few weeks
Obviously adding to the 'witch hunt' chants

french wrote:
also just saw this too
Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg expected to plead GUILTY on Thursday and admit to 15 felonies. As part of the deal, he has reportedly agreed to testify against Donald Trump's companies.

interesting, first time i've seen this.  everything i've read so far said that he would get 5 months of jail time but no cooperation agreement… he wouldn't be made to testify.  we might find out tomorrow.


edit: twitter is now full of Weisselberg-will-cooperate content, but sounds like it's limited cooperation: he'll testify against the company but not any persons, his cooperation may be limited to existing cases, etc.  sounds like he's not an unlimited witness, which is usually the requirement in a plead deal.

So TFG is endorsing someone other than the hair from FL and alleged trafficker… and now there is an ad suggestion he’s the spyville-a-lago mole?  Guess the hair can only take you so far

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1559994885872156673?s=21&t=xqzBgUfWUU9G6_Ic2f40YQ

in other news: the DOJ grand jury investigating the lead-up to Jan.6 issued a subpoena back in May to the National Archives for all white house documents provided to the J6 committee.  they've been moving in lock-step for months now.

Do you work for MSNBC?

If not, you should.

Starsky wrote:
Do you work for MSNBC?

If not, you should.

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