The Republicans have been very clear about the fact that they don’t think the classified documents found in possession of Donald Trump had any importance. Of course, now that classified, documents have been found in possession of Joe Biden everything has changed. Sure, there are different circumstances, but not in the way the GOP would like them seen. Biden’s people found the docs and reported them to the proper authorities, while Trump’s people tried to hide them and then refused to give them up to the FBI, which led to the unfortunate raid on Mar-a-Lago. Why was Trump so determined to hold onto these documents? The only answer that makes sense is that they have value as a commodity, and he planned to sell them. But they are, for the most part classified, so the sale of them by Trump would be a federal crime, even if they were sold to a legitimate historical organization, but the real money would obviously come from a foreign power. Of course, that would be a different story. That would be treason.
But Trump doesn’t recognize the fact of treason if it involves a benefit to him.
That’s the sociopath in him coming to the surface.
Biden, on the other hand, immediately recognized the problem and instructed his people to turn over everything they found to the proper authorities.
The question exists in both cases; why do these guys have these materials that have nothing to do with their present jobs? Biden’s stuff was accumulated when he was VP to Obama, and Trump’s when he was President.
Despite the useless blabber coming from McCarthy and the GOP, both matters were obviously handled in dramatically different manners and despite the fact that Merritt Garland has ordered Special Counsels in both cases, reasonable minds understand that the results of the investigations should be vastly different.
Accepting the concept that those being investigated are innocent until proven guilty, there is still the existing fact that Trump is a serial criminal and a sociopath. Yes, I know you have to come up with the facts but YES! I also know that he’s guilty because he is guilty by his own admission.
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The gun lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.
“The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – (which we no longer have) would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes the argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen any unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.”
Warren Burger
Supreme Court Chief Justice
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Of all the traitorous and criminal activities that Donald Trump has been accused of since he darkened the American scene, the latest is without question the darkest.
New information has been revealed that the disinformation, which Russia supplied to help Trump in the 2016 election, was expected to be paid for by Trump when he gave the okay to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
So, a candidate for the United States Presidency was stabbing his country in the back even before he was elected, in order to get elected. Just another example of the kind of, traitorous behavior that in another era would have gotten Trump hung.
Everyone was shocked when Trump attacked NATO. This was our ally, the first line of defense against Russia. But now, Michael Schmidt has revealed in his new book, Donald Trump V the United States, that John Kelly, Chief of Staff in the Trump White House stated that Trump didn’t even know how NATO worked, had no clue as to its purpose or how it could be used to keep the peace.
It was actually Trump’s hints that Putin’s moves in northwestern Ukraine were okay, that led to the Russian invasion of that friendly country. Trump wanted to be President more than he wanted to protect this country from Russia. That’s why he paid for Russian help by undermining our position of trying to keep the peace. That’s called treason folks. A lot of Presidents have been cheap crooks who didn’t always have the best interests of the country as their number one goal, but none, so far, have been traitors. Until Trump!
Even Tricky Dick Nixon who actually organized a gang of burglars to steal information from the Democrats, didn’t have as his goal, the weakening of the Democratic process, nor did he give any advantage to any nation competing with the United States.
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The Kevin McCarthy mess, or how I sold my soul to Marjorie Taylor Greene, has now reached epic proportions. Those few House members that started voting against him eventually reached dangerous numbers, which so unsettled him that he gave away the House in order to get the job. It’s written in stone that he will not be able to do his job, nor will he be able to keep it. The smart money gives him less than a year before he’s out on his ass.
Steve Scalise would probably have been the wise choice, but he didn’t want to take a shot at being a target again so the whole think looks like a Manchurian cluster fuck.
I’m sure McCarthy wouldn’t have had this much trouble if he had, developed some kind of plan for helping the American people solve at least some of the problems they now face, but he is so intent on going after Hunter Biden that he has absolutely no idea of what to do with the office now that he does have it.
It’s crystal clear that the GOP under McCarthy is looking to destroy any functional approach to immigration, end Social Security, block any improvements to Medicare or Obamacare and generally stop any functional legislation that will help the American people, which makes one wonder if the GOP has as their goal, to fail in the third election in a row in 2024.
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Then there is the George Santos episode. Here is a guy who has lied about everything except the fact that he is alive and here is Kevin McCarthy trying to explain to a reporter about why he doesn’t want to kick him out of the House. So, good old Kevin, who has told a few whoppers himself, babbles on about the Constitution and his lack of power in this situation.
Sure, he doesn’t have any power; he gave it all away to get the job he now can’t do.
But the real problem is that 4-vote margin the GOP is clinging to in the House. They planned on a much larger margin, but Trump killed that by backing all those losers that said he wasn’t a crook.