Posted on 06/09/2023 4:37:59 PM PDT by karpov
Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, his indictment by President Biden’s Justice Department is a fraught moment for American democracy. For the first time in U.S. history, the prosecutorial power of the federal government has been used against a former President who is also running against the sitting President. This is far graver than the previous indictment by a rogue New York prosecutor, and it will roil the 2024 election and U.S. politics for years to come.
Special counsel Jack Smith announced the indictment in a brief statement on Friday. But no one should be fooled: This is Attorney General Merrick Garland’s responsibility. Mr. Garland appointed Mr. Smith to provide political cover, but Mr. Garland, who reports to Mr. Biden, has the authority to overrule a special counsel’s recommendation. Americans will inevitably see this as a Garland-Biden indictment, and they are right to think so.
The indictment levels 37 charges against Mr. Trump that are related to his handling of classified documents, including at his Mar-a-Lago club, since he left the White House. Thirty-one of the counts are for violating the ancient and seldom-enforced Espionage Act for the “willful retention of national defense information.”
But it’s striking, and legally notable, that the indictment never mentions the Presidential Records Act (PRA) that allows a President access to documents, both classified and unclassified, once he leaves office. It allows for good-faith negotiation with the National Archives. Yet the indictment assumes that Mr. Trump had no right to take any classified documents.
This doesn’t fit the spirit or letter of the PRA, which was written by Congress to recognize that such documents had previously been the property of former Presidents. If the Espionage Act means Presidents can’t retain any classified documents, then the PRA is all but meaningless.
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Luke 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
If sanity ever comes to the greater Western world this horror will be inexplicable to those future historians trying to fathom this madness.
Former Presidents are fair game now.
Time to indict Clinton, Bush and Obama while we wait to prosecute Dementia Joe.
Has anyone read the Espionage Act?
From a site I read:
What is the Espionage Act?
The Espionage Act of 1917, enacted just after the beginning of World War I, makes it illegal to obtain information, capture photographs or copy descriptions of any information relating to national defense, with the intent for that information to be used against the United States or for the gain of any foreign nation.
So is Smith and his squad going to say that Pres Trump was going to “information to be used against the United States or for the gain of any foreign nation.”
They better have something good other than, “ we think he was going to sell the information to the ????”
They understand that they are about rule everything and nothing can touch them.
America isn't a democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic.
Oh, democracy meaning the Democrat's power and control system. Yeah, fraught is a good word.
I'd be filling my Depends just like Joe too if I were a Democrat.
Never mind.
The coup has been successful. “There’s no turning back, my friend. There’s no turning back.....”
Yep. The monster will not obey.
Not just the USA but for Europe as well.
Espionage act be damned. Trumps powers and this fiasco is covered under the Presidential Records act.
“supported by Soros”
Why continue to spread this obvious lie?
TRUMP’S BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS FIRING BANNON, THE ONE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BETRAU HIM, AND THEN TRUSTING PEOPLE WHO DID.
The new works order controlling the new man
We studied this in political theory
The end game of messianic humanism at U of M
I majored in it believe it or not
Dr Erwin Neumaier
A post WWII orphaned refugee kid from Allemange
The new man devoid of traditional wants and individualism nurtured by the all knowing state
Erasing the predominate religion and gender and family is part of the path
Ironically probably the biggest resistance is Islam in the west
Our people seem fat happy and pliant though a bit angry
The globalists have zero fear of us it seems especially if they can get our guns
So far we’ve done nothing
The globalist new man paradigm uniparty has zero fear of us
Can anyone blame them really?
They obviously fear Donald Trump
Sandie people here:
They will destroy him too if they can if he fails to adhere to his institutional support
They don’t care. They have drawn the sword and thrown away the scabbard.
Yes...the entire Western world is in decline. It’s an amazing phenomenon.
A phenomenon clearly anticipated by Madison, who knew the concentration of government would lead to disaster. He states clearly in Federalist 10 the reasons for keeping power, as much as possible, dispersed among the states and localities.
A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the union, than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire state...Madison, Fed. 10
Disrespect for the wisdom of our founders has lead directly to the concentration of power into the hands of power hungry scum, and that has finally resulted in the events of this week. Namely actions worthy of a Hitler, Stalin etc.. The tolerance of indolence as to learning the value of our traditions and the disrespect for our institutions is rotting the heart of America.
Madison was brilliant. A very sound thinker. Jefferson gets more adulation in the history books, but Madison was a towering intellect.
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