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Donald Trump indicted on federal charges related to handling of classified documents
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I'm sure they played the entire tape. Maybe they doctored it like the J6 committee did with video footage of the Capitol.
Two of his lawyers quit because they are not licensed to practice law in Florida. Try and read beyond the headlines. You might actually create a wrinkle or two in that brain of yours.
Seen some powerful cope on Twitter about this. I'm sure here is no different, but I honestly can't generate the willpower to find out.
Those charged in the probe committed crimes and were found guilty of crimes. That's how it works. Don't you MAGAs like to claim you're the party of law and order
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Trader Pat has demonstrated numerous times in this thread and others that a reasonable or intelligent discussion simply isn't going to be possible because they aren't a reasonable or intelligent person.
That does apply to all MAGAs though
That's the problem with the MAGA cult. They will never be wrong, even when the evidence is right there in their faces.Those charged in the probe committed crimes and were found guilty of crimes. That's how it works. Don't you MAGAs like to claim you're the party of law and order
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Trader Pat has demonstrated numerous times in this thread and others that a reasonable or intelligent discussion simply isn't going to be possible because they aren't a reasonable or intelligent person.
That does apply to all MAGAs though
MAGAs are known for being unintelligent.
It's no shock that when viewing IQ by county the lowest IQs in tht nation are always counties that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
What crimes? Process crimes? Those are some hard hitting indictments.Those charged in the probe committed crimes and were found guilty of crimes. That's how it works. Don't you MAGAs like to claim you're the party of law and order
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The key to an intelligent conversation is always the first to use personal attacks. It makes up for the lack of facts the left possess.Trader Pat has demonstrated numerous times in this thread and others that a reasonable or intelligent discussion simply isn't going to be possible because they aren't a reasonable or intelligent person.
That does apply to all MAGAs though
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Not gonna respond to TraitorPat's cope posts right now, just gonna start collecting them.
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They should just use the one of him playing tennis with his adult diaper showing.Still waiting on seeing Trump's mugshot.
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Not responding to you is the only intelligent suggestion you've ever made as you're one of the dumbest people I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with
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You're right, I should've stopped humoring you by pretending you had any salient points to make years ago. The fact that you're still willing to sacrifice all your credibility defending a corrupt East coast elitist even after this shows that you aren't and never were worth taking seriously. Just another loser conservative who wants so badly to fit in with the counterculture, but isn't willing to drop all the racism and classism to do it.
Appears to be false. Also a rather interesting defense of "equal justice under the law" and apologetics for the authoritarian right. Trump was aware that there is a legal process involved in declassification that applied to him, even as president. This article is written by one of the people who wrote Executive Order (EO) 13526:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/opinions/declassification-rules-trump-legal-jeopardy-eisen/index.html
Trump was also Chief Executive, lest we forget. To him, this was purely an “Executive Suggestion”. Once again, this power is granted by the constitution and based on Article 2. It trumps (ha!) any other existing legislation or process. There’s Supreme Court precedent for it, too.
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...resident-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/
The problem lies entirely in the fact that Trump didn’t follow any associated procedure, so there’s no *evidence* that he declassified anything. He can *say* that he declassified a document, but that’s just his word. He’s not the Chief Executive *anymore*, so what he says *now* about something he did in the past may or may not be true - a court would have to establish that in the course of the proceedings. With that being said, his defense based on the PRA is a little odd - he doesn’t have to go that route to justify it and I don’t know why his legal team chose that path. This isn’t likely to work in court.
Not sure why you’re sliding in a little jab about equal justice under the law from our previous conversation - it’s entirely irrelevant, but if it was relevant, the principle would apply and the stance is logically consistent. This is a power vested in the office, not in a specific person - it applies to any president, not just Trump. It would apply to you if you were president. Anyone who becomes president enjoys presidential privilege while they hold their station, there’s nothing “unequal” about it.
It's pretty simple. It is hypocritical to claim to advocate equal justice under the law whilst simultaneously supporting/defending a narcissist/sociopath who has a long history of using his wealth, power, and privilege and a team of lawyers to avoid prosecution/conviction for countless criminal acts that would have landed most Americans in prison. A true advocate of equal justice would find Trump's Teflon legal immunity to be a chilling example of the opposite. However, such support makes sense under the notion that one's political goals are served by just such an individual, as long as they remain legally shielded, in clear disregard of such lofty ideological principles. Thankfully, after decades of stonewalling and millions in legal deflection, the charges and convictions are finally starting to catch up with the long list of crimes. Few Americans are able to afford this level of blatant inequality under the law. So, it would be better to be honest here and just say that equality under the law has the appearance of being a nice libertarian campaign slogan, while in practice Machiavellian political expediency is the true modus operandi.
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