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To: Gene Eric

True! This is hell in action... The control they have taken has to be stopped.

Raiding Mayor Giuliani’s home while doing nothing with the Biden’s filthy dirt they are mixed in... Hunting for anything while ignoring the obvious.. We have to get Trump back... A man who has 4 years time to make hay and rid us of the evil rats.

This time I think he will not hesitate to clean house.


7 posted on 04/29/2021 1:19:40 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie

They are after Trump.

Remember they said they could go after him once out of office.

I recall saying that Trump and his family needed to go into exile for a while.

“I don’t want to see him impeached,” she said. “I want to see him in prison.” Pelosi’s comments, reported by Politico,

1. Obstruction of justice. Robert Mueller’s decision not to formally charge Trump with obstruction of justice leaned heavily on the Department of Justice’s rule that it cannot charge the president with a crime. But Mueller clearly presented Trump’s behavior as criminal, and more than a thousand former federal prosecutors agreed that the acts cited in the report would be prosecuted as obstruction were Trump not president.

Mueller’s report also noted “a President does not have immunity after he leaves office” and that part of his task was to “preserve the evidence.” This opens a very clear avenue for the Department of Justice to charge Trump with obstruction once his term has ended.

2. Campaign finance violations. Last December, the Department of Justice charged Michael Cohen with campaign finance violations for his role in routing hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The sentencing document made it clear that the buck did not stop with Cohen. “Cohen himself has now admitted,” it said, “with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1.”

Individual-1 is of course Donald Trump. This branch of the investigation has been spun off to federal prosecutors working out of the Southern District of New York. They too will surely follow the prohibition against charging a president while in office, but this would not protect Trump afterward.

3. Inauguration overcharges. The financing of Trump’s inauguration had several financial curiosities. Some of those involve apparent funding from foreign sources, which is illegal. But the most pertinent issues involve massive overcharging by Trump’s D.C. hotel.

There is a long and fairly detailed paper trail showing that Trump’s inaugural committee knew it was paying Trump’s hotel absurdly inflated costs for room rentals during the inauguration period. We don’t know if Trump himself directed the scheme, and if he did, we don’t know that proof exists. But if so, this would amount to a pretty obvious crime. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Washington D.C. attorney general are both investigating.

4. New York tax fraud. Last fall, the New York Times obtained detailed financial records showing that Trump and his father spent years committing what the paper called outright tax fraud — i.e., a crime. Though the alleged crimes uncovered by the Times occurred too long ago to be prosecuted today, the New York State attorney general is investigating Trump’s finances.

5. Trump Foundation fraud. The Trump Foundation, Trump’s purportedly charitable body, has engaged in a pattern of self-dealing ranging from the petty (paying Donald Trump Jr.’s $7 Boy Scout membership fee) to the grand (refurbishing a fountain next to a Trump hotel). The New York attorney general alleged “a shocking pattern of illegality” and shut down the foundation, but the probe continues.

It would be improper if Pelosi was somehow suggesting Democrats lobby prosecutors to charge Trump once he’s out of office. But there’s no reason to think her comments, which Politico described secondhand, proposed anything of the sort.

Rather, she seemed to reference the simple reality that defeating Trump next year would leave him exposed to criminal investigation. If Democrats believe they need the system to hold Trump accountable above and beyond mere electoral repudiation, the criminal justice system has several promising avenues through which such an outcome might result. There’s a well-justified norm against criminalizing political differences. But it does not apply to a career criminal who happened to be elected president.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/pelosi-trump-prison-charged-crimes-after-leaving-office.html

‘People died here on January 6’: Pelosi says Congress won’t give Trump a ‘get out of jail’ card just because he’s out of office https://www.businessinsider.com/pelosi-congress-trump-get-out-of-jail-card-capitol-riot-2021-1

Trump Is Leaving Office With a Bunch of Legal Problems — And We’re Not Just Talking About Impeachment https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-leaving-office-with-a-bunch-of-legal-problems-and-were-not-just-talking-about-impeachment/


10 posted on 04/29/2021 3:25:05 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

“This time I think he will not hesitate to clean house.”


And therein lies the problem.

The “Republicans” demonstrably do not have the fire in the belly to do squat.

They are ALL a bunch of panty waisted p-words who are afraid they may offend someone.

This is provably true by the fact that they allowed the election to be stolen.


11 posted on 04/29/2021 3:37:10 AM PDT by Captain7seas (Don't resist, after all you will get a free shower.)
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