Posted on 06/09/2023 12:00:39 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Donald Trump was hit with a sweeping 37-count indictment from the special counsel's office Thursday, alleging that he willfully retained documents containing the nation's most sensitive secrets, including nuclear programs, after he left office, showed some of them on at least two occasions and then tried to obstruct the investigation into their whereabouts.
Federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment Friday against the former president and his aide Walt Nauta in connection with his handling of government documents.
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Yup! I am in total agreement.
Obstruction of Justice = Hillary destroying 30,000 emails and five government phones while under subpoena. This not to mention an illegal unsecured home server used for government business stashed in her home.
Defending yourself = Declaring yourself innocent when assaulted by a corrupt DOJ.
“ended the Roman Republic.”
Ceaser was assassinated in 44 B.C. The Roman Republic existed until 27 B.C.
One caution I would give about RFK is that he’s spent his entire career working for very liberal non-profit organizations that relied on massive funding from the same leftist organizations that drive our national political agenda today.
“nuclear programs”
Iran and North Korea know about their own nuclear programs.
“I am genuinely curious why you think he is “deep-state”.”
He is deeply tied to Gore, Kerry, Cuomo, etc.
I’m supposed to believe that in trumps mega mansion he put boxes in his shower and bathroom please the feds when they came in turned off the cameras they planted evidence
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It’s (D)ifferent!
By relentlessly persecuting him the Left is making Trump a sympathetic figure. A David vs. Goliath situation is shaping up. And the crowd usually roots for the underdog. This time they may vote for him in large numbers.
TRUMP’s Public Statements on Classified Information
As a candidate for President of the United States, TRUMP made the following public statements, among others, about classified information:
a. On August 18, 2016, TRUMP stated, “In my administration I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”
b. On September 6, 2016, TRUMP stated, “We also need to fight this battle by collecting intelligence and then protecting, protecting our classified secrets. . . . We can’t have someone in the Oval Office who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified.”
c. On September 7, 2016, TRUMP stated, “[O]ne of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.”
d. On September 19, 2016, TRUMP stated, “We also need the best protection of classified information.”
e. On November 3, 2016, TRUMP stated, “Service members here in North Carolina have risked their lives to acquire classified intelligence to protect our country.”
If Trump were to drop out ( not likely ) look for Desantis to suddenly become a kinder gentler 1,000 points of light Republican....
Whether the Republic still existed between Jan. 49 (when Caesar crossed the Rubicon and ignited the civil war) and 27 B.C., when Octavian made a pretense of surrendering his powers to the Senate and People of Rome and was given the name Augustus, is questionable. After Caesar defeated his enemies, he was effectively picking the officials who would be elected. After his death, Cicero tried to revive the Republic but any hope of that ended with the creation of the Triumvirate in late 43 and the defeat of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in 42.
“And Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are charged with NO counts for doing the same thing, only much, much worse and on a much grander scale.”
Trump’s DOJ dropped their investigation into Hillary.
“But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges. The Justice Department kept open the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s family foundation for nearly all of President Donald J. Trump’s administration, with prosecutors closing the case without charges just days before he left office.May 22, 2023”
What do public statements made before he was President have to do with the law?
It’s terrible that he kept those documents in his garage and a Chinese funded office. Oh wait, that was Biden. Never mind.
34. Upon greeting the writer, publisher, and his two staff members, TRUMP stated, “Look what I found, this was [the Senior Military Official’s] plan of attack, read it and just show . . . it’s interesting.” Later in the interview, TRUMP engaged in the following exchange:
TRUMP: Well, with [the Senior Military Official]—uh, let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack [Country A]. Isn’t it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this—this is off the record, but—they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.
WRITER: Wow.
TRUMP: We looked at some. This was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff—pages long, look.
STAFFER: Mm.
TRUMP: Wait a minute, let’s see here.
STAFFER: [Laughter] Yeah.
TRUMP: I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know.
STAFFER: Mm-hm.
TRUMP: Except it is like, highly confidential.
STAFFER: Yeah. [Laughter]
TRUMP: Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. You attack, and— * * *
TRUMP: By the way. Isn’t that incredible?
STAFFER: Yeah.
TRUMP: I was just thinking, because we were talking about it. And you know, he said, “he wanted to attack [Country A], and what . . .”
STAFFER: You did.
TRUMP: This was done by the military and given to me. Uh, I think we can probably, right?
STAFFER: I don’t know, we’ll, we’ll have to see. Yeah, we’ll have to try to—
TRUMP: Declassify it.
STAFFER: —figure out a—yeah.
TRUMP: See as president I could have declassified it.
STAFFER: Yeah. [Laughter]
TRUMP: Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.
STAFFER: Yeah. [Laughter] Now we have a problem.
TRUMP: Isn’t that interesting?
At the time of this exchange, the writer, the publisher, and TRUMP’s two staff members did not have security clearances or any need-to-know any classified information about a plan of attack on Country A.
“ When they trumped up a bunch of charges against Caesar, he overturned the regime and ended the Roman Republic.”
The American Republic is already long dead. If we can overturn the current American regime, we will be ending a fascist dictatorship. I am aware of none of those that has been over-thrown without massive outside help.
I will never voter for DeSpincter. Ever. F you Torys
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