Posted on 06/12/2023 4:09:22 PM PDT by thegagline
People in their right minds who care about the country could never defend the factual details of Donald Trump’s conduct, as alleged in the federal indictment unsealed last week.
No one is going to say, “It makes total sense to me that he was storing the crown jewels of national defense — such as how other countries could go about attacking American military vulnerabilities — next to the toilet at a beach club.”
No one is going to say, “I can certainly see why Trump would refuse to return such top-secret intelligence to government officials, who pleaded with him for over a year to return it before finally resorting to coercive measures.”
No one is going to say, “It was so vitally important for Trump, who had no official government duties in his post-presidency, to retain possession of top-secret government intelligence reports that it made sense for him to defy a subpoena and mislead a grand jury in order to keep them.”
No one is going to say, “If a Democratic former president had done what Trump did, I’d be fine with that.”
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Since Trump’s conduct is indefensible, his apologists have adopted the familiar tactic of making bombastic claims that the prosecution is so fundamentally unfair and un-American that the facts don’t matter. Remarkably, the people asserting these claims never tire of pointing out that Trump is not merely a former president but a current presidential candidate. Putting aside whether he is guilty of crimes (he appears to be, but he’ll get his day in court), what could possibly be more relevant to his fitness for the presidency than the facts of the case?
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Never Trump rag National Review has thoughts.
Shove it NRO.
I hope Andrew McCarthy was listening to Mark Levin today, or hears a replay or reads the transcript.
Levin ‘ripped’ McCarthy (and Barr) ‘a new one’, completely debunked their stupidity, ignorance and deep state directed propaganda on thes topic.
Not that I’m a huge fan of Levin, but he is absolutely right on this topic.
Which.plan? I’m sure there are many
Not yet...yard work day here near FR HQ! Maybe some video watching tonight. ;-)
While doing yard work was listening to a podcast from a local conservative lawyer that runs the local “Right to Life” chapter and crisis pregnancy center...he has more of a “counterpoint” opinion...wait until the 2nd segment before you get angry...he points out govt. hypocrisy on the matter in the 2nd segment:
(It is the 6/12/23 podcast, his show just ending now...may not be posted yet)
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-the-john-gerardi-show-49416138/
For further study:
The indictment: https://www.scribd.com/document/651869255/Former-President-Donald-Trump-indictment-June-8-2023
Constitution Article II annotated:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/
Presidential Records Act (late 1970’s law):
https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html
The Robert Barnes video for later:
https://rumble.com/v2tn4ac-get-this-video-to-trump-barnes-breaks-down-federal-indictment-viva-frei-liv.html
Didn’t Andrew say the same about Muellers Trump Witch special counse
Great post. Barnes is one of the very few lawyers that I don't despise.
NR prefers any Democrat to DJT and maybe prefers a Democrat to DeSantis and Scott and Ramaswami or any other Republican, except George Romney, of course.
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Thanks.
I’ve pointed out, when they subpoena complex bank records, SARS reports, Tax records, or phone records from many numbers, including burners — they are going to show them for 5 minutes in a SCIF now.
Bad, bad Precedent, Kevin.
Or maybe that was the plan.
You definitely get it.
Why aren’t more people observant as you? The pictures were leaked. The pictures were staged. This is what law enforcement does. More people need to recognize this and try to put it in context. Just an itty bitty bit of critical thinking begins with a few questions.
Boasting is dumb, boring, and stupid…and sometimes inculpatory.
My father got me into reading NR decades ago. When Buckley died, things deteriorated.
You’re a fakir with Texas plates and southern pretend creed
Ask anyone if I’m authority on who’s authentic
You uniparty neocons always mask the same way
So silly
Sic Semper Tyrannis
My ass
My father got me into reading NR decades ago. When Buckley died, things deteriorated.
Boasting is dumb, boring, and stupid…and sometimes inculpatory.
There were about 130 documents located between the subpoena and the search warrant. Only 31 resulted in charges.
Now who can argue with that?
I think we're all indebted to wardaddy for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
You are nevertrumper agitator pretending to be Texan and some sort of butternut diehard
Btw its Deo Vendice
No real southerner respects the harm Boothe did to terms
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