Posted on 06/27/2023 8:13:34 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
After a full media cycle of apoplexy and pearl-clutching, which included Andrew Weissmann appearing on MSNBC to declare “It’s the end of Trump,” CBS is now reporting there is no Defense Department memo about attacking Iran – the foundation of the media claims surrounding the leaked audio tapes from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Worse still, and exactly as CTH previously outlined, despite the claims by CNN about how this audio would be used as the “central element” by the prosecution of Trump, the audio and mysterious memo are not part of the Special Counsel case.
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(Via CBS) – The Defense Department memo on Iran — at the heart of the now-public audio recording that captured a July 2021 meeting with former President Donald Trump — is not part of the 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information charged in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
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There never was an Iran memo document. President Trump was discussing newspaper reports, “newspapers” and stacks of “papers”, as he originally told Brett Baier. Duh.
Reminder, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on June 19, Trump said that at the meeting with the book’s publisher, he was not referring to the document itself, but newspaper articles:
“There was no document… That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”
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Sadly Trump’s personallity will not allow that.
“Wonder how long till the NeverTrump defenestrations begin?”
When DeSwampis runs Third Party and they cheer him on as the “true conservative”.
sadly, when something as massive as this gets exposed, it almost immediately is swamped by new articles on FR.
this should be front and center for 24 hours minimum.
it’s rare Trump supporters get to be on the offensive....don’t stop now.
Or he wants to do maximum public damage to Trump and taint a DC J6 trial jury before this case is tossed. Smith has already asked for documents to be privileged and lost, thenasked for the trial date to be moved to December. He knows he has nothing and doesn’t want it to go to trial. He’s focusing on J6 indictment.
Thank you.
Just might be the stupidest of stupid takes. I'm going to show these fools by entrapping myself into a federal indictment and then when they try to convict me, I'll just say "ha, it was all an act!".
There have been US military plans to attack Iran drafted and redrafted over and over for forty years. Iran is a US enemy, they overran our embassy and held our diplomats hostage for over a year and we had at least one failed military assault planned to rescue those hostages... and stuff hasn't gotten much better since then. Making those attack plans is what military planners get paid to do, and we have hundreds of them employed in the US military. The idea that no plans exist is absurd.
Was Trump talking about one of those plans, or a document derived from those plans, at least abstractly? Probably. Was he showing a classified document that he deliberately withheld from government collectors illegally? That's complicated, but it's unprovable. Does it sound like he was showing a classified document to a person not authorized for that classified document? Yeah, it does.
What will a jury do? It all depends on the makeup of the jury, but juries are normally swayed by stuff like this audio. He is rather directly saying he's doing the thing he's being charged with doing. Even if this is not one fo the documents he's been caught with, it's pretty easy for the government to say "yes, there were documents provided to the President that fit this description that were not returned to the archives." Direct audio or video, as evidenced by the trial in New York just a few months ago, is damning.
I'll be happy to be wrong, I'm not rooting for it, but expect at least one charge to stick. Then what? That's the real question.
I believe you’re correct. :)
What part of "the Feds are vicious lying corrupt evil clowns" don't you get?
Listening to the actual tape...people were even laughing....this was a meeting mocking the media...or that’s how it appears to me...
They all got hoodwinked then got the hood slammed on their heads.
The whole issue is a joke.............If this is all Smith has, he is in trouble, what a joke.
“Smith is desperate. He knew the document Trump was lying about didn’t exist”
Is it possible that this was the reason for the raid on Trump’s home, to find documents that never existed?
That and the opportunity to rifle through Melania’s underwear drawer.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if they planted evidence.
DeSantis needs to apologize to the people of Florida, and then Trump for his back-handed run for President. Trump endorsed DeSantis for Governor before he'd even announced his run for the office. If it wasn't for Trump, Andrew Gillum would have been elected Governor. The race was very close.
DeSantis wasn't even into the sixth month of his second term when he announced his candidacy for President. You don't wake up one day and simply announce your candidacy. It takes planning, and quite a lot of it. You need backing, and money, and that doesn't come overnight. It takes months for things to fall into place. I believe when DeSantis ran for Governor last year, that he was already planning on running for President in 2024. All he needed was to cement a second term to springboard from. I believe he lied to the people of Florida last November, while planning behind their backs to ditch the Governor's office for The White House. And on top of it, he did the same thing that Charlie Crist did when he was Governor. He got the State Legislature to change the "Resign to Run" Bill so he wouldn't have to resign to run for President. Crist did it when he was Governor, because he thought he had a shot at being McCain's VP candidate. When it didn't happen, it didn't bother to change the law back. Rick Scott did that, and on the same day DeSantis announced his run for President, he signed the new law so he'd still get a paycheck while testing the Presidential waters. Talk about self-serving a-holes.
Desantis` main problem is that he cannot run for reelection in Florida. He wants to run for president now, while he is still a bigwig. Otherwise, he would be just another Chrispie Christy, the donut queen.
Jack Smith’s office leaks like the Titanic.
MSNBC is garbage. It is not in any way, shape or form journalism.
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