Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Fox Business" channel.

  1. The funny thing about the Letisha James ruling. If it get's overturned on appeal, then the plaintiff has to pay the interest. So there is a good chance Ms. James will cost the state of NY 100 million.
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  2. Basically Biden did Hillary Clinton's "Deplorables" speech, but feature length, and with appropriate optics -- the crazed emperor from star wars "my face may be wrinkled and misshapened, but my resolve has never been stronger." This is going to hurt the Democrats.
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  3. It's about time that someone starts exposing this unconstitutional lawfare.
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  4. A second trial after a hung jury would be massive political overreach, which would drive Trump's poll numbers up.
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  5. Hillary Clinton didn't know about the Uranium 1 deal, but she knew enough to hide the 145 million the Clinton Foundation got from the Russian buyers.
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  6. There are even rules on taking items for evidence. The warrant is supposed to list what they're looking for. And what they take needs to be catalogued as evidence.
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  7. I'm wondering how Garland can get away with such extreme conflict of interest. He's investigating and raided the main opposition candidate of his boss. I would have thought you'd get disbarred for doing something like this.
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  8. 1980 concerning Carter "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" 2022 concerning Biden "Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?" Sleepy Joe did it in record time.
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  9. This is going to cost them dearly. If there were a legitimate justification, the DOJ would have released a statement. You don't make an unprecedented raid of an expresident and political rival, and remain silent, if you have the goods. If they had a justification, they'd make it public to cover their bases.
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  10. "Plundered a lifetime reputation for being an honest man." WTF? He has a history of plagiarism and lying about his entire life.
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  11. When I was in college, I would work in a factory or shop in the summer. And those guys were already resentful of "college boys". "You went to college and you don't know how to operate a CNC machine !!!" "Um...yeah."
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  12. Haley isn't going to win a single state.
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  13. The first question in the debate should be "Boxers or briefs, Mr Presidents?" DJT: "Yes" JB: "Depends"
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  14. I think that was the plan. Rules always apply to both debaters.
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  15.  @beckyalberter5912  Um...See my above comment about Democrats being strategic dummies. The Biden administration just handed Trump a huge propaganda victory.
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  16. That's a reasonable resolution.
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  17. During the campaign he thought people still used record players. He's just reading a scrip. He doesn't know what AI is.
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  18.  @Deblanch57  Of course a plan for drug testing would include publishing the results.
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  19. It just blows me away that people are defending the Biden administration at this point. I've never been in the military, but I know you never leave your countrymen behind. And now this jerk is boasting about getting some people out after stranding them.
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  20.  @carolharris2357  But without careful handling of item, chain of custody, cataloging etc. It will be useless in a trial.
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  21.  @SS-pi5sh  The defendant normally doesn't take the stand when the prosecution has a weak case. And this case is extraordinarily weak. A trial is not a debate. The prosecution has to prove their case. If they can't prove their case, then the defendant normally doesn't take the stand.
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  22. Cornyn said that for the marks, to sound inoffensive. They know this is a pure shameless political stunt by the Democrats. People have known for decades that this "recovered memory" involve created "memory". In other words, therapists delude people into thinking some thought is a memory. That the democrats would use these tactics is a testament to their level of scumbaggery.
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  23. The Democrats have been making the accusation of "colluding with Russia" for 8 months. But they have nothing.
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  24. "Vote for me and I will do something about the border." She's campaigning against herself.
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  25. How is he up for being president when he needs weeks and 16 advisors to prep for a single debate?
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  26. Why does nobody care that this "Russia Interference" happened when Obama was president? And BTW, as far as I know, the "Russian interference" consisted of 100k worth of Facebook ads, twitter bots, and unproven claims of Russian hacking.
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  27. My elderly father in law fell over on a bike and he couldn't walk for 3 weeks -- landed on the hip socket joint, and it takes 3 weeks to heal.
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  28.  @carlosmarcano7364  That happens all the time. Trump appointed what he thought was a non-political appointee. But he turns out to be a snake. That's what Comey was.
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  29. He's not just incompetent. He doesn't even acknowledge his screw ups. There's no accountability or responsibility. He needs to go.
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  30. So the trial had to be rushed before the election, but that standard doesn't apply to the appeal.
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  31. The interesting thing will be what happens when the appellate courts, perhaps the Supreme Court, review these kangaroo trials. Eg. Jack Smith claims judge Chutkan is "not biased", when she's on the record several times saying that Trump should be in jail. These cases are total clown shows.
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  32. "Vote for me and I will do something about the border." She's campaigning against herself.
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  33.  @Deblanch57  So far there is no agreement to drug test. But if there were, then the results would be public, otherwise it would be the same as not doing it.
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  34.  @ohmightywez  The judge can't stop an appeal. But what he's trying to do (running his biased clown court) set the fine so high that Trump could not cover it for the appeal. But Trump has the money to put in bond. We really need to remove judicial immunity so these crooks can be imprisoned.
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  35. Fetterman's win makes me think of my mom taking my 93 year old grandfather to vote. She just tells him who to vote for because he's no longer all there. Democrats are comfortable doing that with people in high office.
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  36. They have removed all of the constitutional legal standards, such as innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt. FFS in this case the charges aren't even constitutional.
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  37. She's much worse than John Kerry.
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  38. Fortunately, it looks like he's going to be a lame duck next year. But he's done damage in just 2 years that will take decades to fix.
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  39. He was able to answer one of 5 prescripted questions in Vietnam before sunsetting.
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  40.  @tenbelow9617  That total just means it's most likely going to be overturned. Then the state owes Trump 9% interest.
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  41. This debate will be Trump versus the moderator. With the moderator framing every question in Biden's favor.
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  42. I commented on YT ridiculing Hamas for slaughtering civilians and then playing the victim. And I got a "hate speech" warning from YT.
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  43. I have to ask because this is driving me insane. How can someone be a machine politician for 50 year, with the support of the media and the bureaucracy and be this feckless?
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  44.  @georgewilson4245  "a crook" It has been 4 weeks of prosecution testimony and still no crime has been found.
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  45. I think Garland made a big mistake with this. Even the OLC could have told him that this is a civil matter, not criminal. It's like he just forgot that Trump is an ex-president, so the legal situation regarding classified documents is completely different. And that he was breaking a 245 year precedent. I don't think he has any charge that would stick. For the Espionage Act, they would have to prove that he gave information to a foreign country with the "intent of harming the US". There's no chance of that.
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  46. Anyone making 50k per year can pay off a 10k debt in one year. This is a transfer of wealth not a bail out of people who are bankrupt.
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  47. Even on Cops they state "All suspects are innocent until proven guilty." Mueller doesn't think that counts if you're the president.
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  48.  @dutchdna  The DOJ and Garland are blaming the FBI for this. The DOJ realizes that this was a mistake that's backfiring politically.
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  49. Does anyone really think Biden sounded good at the SOTU? He sounded angry and petulant, like the old man yelling at kids plying in his yard.
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  50. He also evaded the question "Did the FBI know about Thomas Crooks?" Wray: "He's not in the FBI tracking system." The FBI watches suspicious people who are not in their "tracking system".
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  51. Trump is competent to manage things and in diplomacy. Biden is completely incompetent at both. What's worse, is that Biden doesn't even acknowledge his f-ckups. He screws up our foreign relations, screws up the withdrawal and gets people killed, and he still has the nerve praise himself like some pig-headed passive-aggressive prick.
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  52.  @peterjackson7473  It didn't used to be that way. CA voted for Reagan and HW Bush. But voted Demo 92 and later. But with Ultra-Carter in charge, there's going to be a major political realignment.
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  53. One of the reasons for the Taliban offensive this summer was that Biden violated Trump's peace agreement. The agreement called for a US withdrawal in May. The Biden administration is completely unable to think on their feet. Biden makes a decision then he reacts a month later while situations are changing in hours.
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  54. And the Democrats are itching for war. We can see why the mainstream politicians are losing.
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  55. How do they handle water, food, and waste for such a huge crowd?
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  56.  @Deblanch57  Are you drunk? If the results of the drug test are not published, then it will be the same as if they didn't agree to a drug test.
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  57.  @Angeleyes119  Trump is climbing in the polls. The RCP betting odds has Biden at 16.5%🤣
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  58. Absolutely. People need to be fired.
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  59.  @cacamalapasa1508  "he signed a legal doc saying he returned all docs" Then why didn't the NARA go to the storage room and get them? You must know that Trump doesn't actually move boxes. He told people to return some documents. Then the Archives complained that they didn't get something they wanted. That could mean one of about 5 things. 1. The staff made a mistake with packing. 2. The documents were privileged, attorney client, etc. 3. The Archives was mistaken about what was there. These issues arise with every president. What has changed is the bureaucracies have never been so politicized.
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  60. They might, with the presidential immunity ruling. Strong enough presidential immunity would put a stop to this.
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  61. Aborting a baby in the 3rd term is beyond cruel. I think they induce birth, and leave the baby to die.
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  62. It wasn't a "victimless crime". There was no crime whatsoever. Trump just submitted his own evaluations. Then banks conduct their own appraisals. It's the banks who decide whether to issue a loan, not some crank judge.
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  63. My understanding is that the SC sent the issue to the states. A law couldn't "codify" it. Either that law would be unconstitutional, or it wouldn't supersede any state law. I'm pretty sure if the feds, say legalized marijuana, it wouldn't invalidate state laws. It's not completely legal like alcohol in any state.
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  64. This is such an example of having the man, and contriving the "crime"--i.e. Soviet political trial. The indictment doesn't even list a crime. The charge accuses him of falsifying records to cover up a crime, but there is no crime listed. Hush money agreements aren't illegal. The "crime" is supposed to be not recording it as a campaign expense. But the FEC concluded that it was not a campaign finance expense. So Bragg is arguing that Trump committed fraud by having records that agree with the Feds??? These clowns are just destroying the US legal system.
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  65. Hmm. So the left has ceded the gun control argument. Because it used to be, "You don't need a gun. Call the police." Without police, there will only be vigilante enforcement.
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  66.  @ernestclary6035  "set the loser straight" The witness, Costello, is a federal prosecutor from the SD NY. Compare that to Cohen, felon, serial perjurer, grifter, and thief. The judge was wigging out because Costello destroys Cohen's whole story.
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  67. Ending the filibuster would be a huge gift to the Republicans when they take power next year. And I don't think they can codify Roe v. Wade. The court ruling is that it's an issue for the states.
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  68. "Nobody is above the law" LOL That's why Fani is getting thrown off the case and disciplined. She could get prosecuted for perjury and embezzlement.
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  69.  @Hooyahfish  What "nuclear secret"?
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  70.  @robyoung-pl1gq  LOL So far this kangaroo GA rico case has just ruined this DA reputation, and will ruin her career as a prosecutor.
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  71. The president doesn't even have the "nuclear codes". They just give him/her a card with a two word confirmation code that he tells the general as a confirmation when he orders the strike.
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  72. We're going to solve everything with coal powered cars, aka electric vehicles.
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  73. The working poor also pay high taxes in Europe.
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  74. It's a crime under the military code of justice. Any military lawyer could give the details. But a general taking over the President's governing and diplomatic powers is a military coup and a crime.
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  75. I think it is some designer stimulants. This is just absurd. A senator can be wheeled out to cast a vote, but the president has singular constitutional powers. Eg. he needs to give permission for all military actions; president is in charge of document classifications, etc.
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  76.  @lindaobrien2659  The Democrats reaction is also the same. "Cry more" proving that they have no clue. Elections are a battle over swing voters and turnout. Telling voters "You're either with me or with the terrorists." is the losing strategy.
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  77.  @duanekelly-fe5bt  She's just not cut out for this. John Kerry is a flip-flopper, wants everything both ways, twice over. But he's a skilled BS'er. Harris is really bad at spinning. She just gives a word salad, or some tautologies and platitudes.
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  78. Pundits are saying she won. But it's the voters who decide, not pundits. If pundits mattered, Trump wouldn't even be a candidate.
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  79. I've been wondering how a corrupt prosecutor can get away with this, when it's this blatant. As far as I know, it will just be overturned on appeal. But what does the Supreme Court say when they get a case that was made up out of whole cloth.
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  80.  @tamlynn786  Over half the country doesn't like Biden. People were deluded into thinking he was a competent, stable, establishment politician. Turns out he's a dementia ridden goof, and stone cold and arrogant.
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  81.  @andrabook8758  Um...Biden supplied the Taliban with 85 billion in arms and equipment. Al qaeda's senior leadership is back in Afghanistan with members in the Taliban government. And Biden is negotiating with them. Biden tried to copy Trump's withdrawal plan, because he's too gone mentally to do anything else, and he completely botched it by delaying the withdrawal.
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  82. "structural racism", "mass incarceration"?This guy is a doofus.
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  83.  @fredschnerbert1238  They're considering what happened when people try to sue Clinton over taking documents. This question went to court when Judicial Watch sued for documents president Clinton took with them. The court ruled the following: 1) The president has sole discretion on classifying or declassifying documents. 2) The president has sole responsibility for the process of declassifying documents and how they are handled. 3) The Archives has no authority to question the president's decisions. 4) The fact that the president took the documents with him is DeFacto proof that they are not presidential records. This was a court ruling.... Not someone's opinion! If they prosecute, they're not going to win.
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  84. Harris' interview was 18 minutes and she was at the CNN building in Atlanta for 6 hours. I've seen Trump give a 15 minute interview on someone's podcast this year and he was there 15 minutes. CNN did massive editing and added filler and ads to fill time.
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  85.  @williamadams5384  That's pretty stupid on their part. Desantis wont be easier to beat in the general election. He has pretty much the same political position, but he's tactful, and has a traditional political elite background: military, ivy league education, gov. of a large state.
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  86. @Dogg Ville Biden is a disgrace. He disastrously mismanaged the Afghan withdrawal, while lying constantly about it. And he's not just incompetent, he's arrogant and stupid; he doesn't even acknowledge his blunders, but just continues to lie.
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  87. It really gives me the creeps when Biden does the angry old man thing. He did that bringing up Xi Xinpeng, angrily asking "Name me one. Name me one." But you couldn't tell what his point was.
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  88.  @churly9717  Incriminate himself in what? As an ex-president it's his right to have access to all his presidential records, and it was his constitutional right to declassify anything before Jan 21, 2021.
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  89.  @churly9717  "but he didn't declassify them" He claims he did, so he did. The president can declassify just by saying so. The Supreme Court has ruled such in 1988. The ex-president has the right to access his records. He also has the final authority to declassify anything. So this whole thing is over records storage. And its only purpose is to help the Democrats in an upcoming election.
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  90.  @MrBucksutube  She lied to her attorney. She told him that Trump was stalking her, when it was the other way around.
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  91.  @LilFisch1174  The warrant could get thrown out for being too broad. A search warrant for anything is unconstitutional. But as I've said before. This is all politics. They can't convict an ex president of having classified documents. The president can declare anything unclassified, for any reason. And essentially just saying it's declassified makes it so. This is in Supreme Court rulings. Even if Garland got a conviction, it would be thrown out by the Supreme Court, and he'd have massive egg on his face. In normal times an AG would never do this, because of those reasons. These Democrats are just rabid dogs with no self-awareness. Why is the left arguing for more government secrecy, and stricter classification? Are they now opposed to releasing the Pentagon Papers? It's going to be the GOP after 2024 that does massive declassification, of FBI, CIA, NSA documents. And the Democrats are going to do everything to stop it.
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  92. I don't think it's practical to supply power with lightning -- a tesla coil provides extremely high voltage, and thus lightning coming out of it. High voltage without current is useless. High voltage with current is extremely dangerous.
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  93. This prosecutor is incompetent for a reason. I heard that Garland couldn't find a federal prosecutor who would bring the legal norm destroying Trump cases. So he appointed Jack Smith, whose appointment is being challenged as illegal, because it wasn't confirmed by the senate.
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  94. Sending him to jail would guarantee his election in November.
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  95. Aren't most of them escaping Chile? Chile is not a poor country. It's actually rather a developed nation.
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  96.  @michaeljohnson4777  Yes it is. The US has Civilian Control of the Military from the Constitution and throughout the laws. Any general who goes over the head of the president to negotiate with foreign governments unauthorized is not just out of line and facing reprimand, it is criminal.
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  97.  @genettashipman4087  We're not talking about Trump. This is about a general who usurped presidential political powers. He's also one of the people in charge of the Afghan withdrawal debacle.
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  98. Nobody was defrauded. The banks made profits, and want to continue to do business with him.
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  99.  @cacamalapasa1508  "to declassify requires changes in the markings" Not for the President. The classification is a Commander in Chief power, as ruled by the SC. Therefore, it's impossible that a bureaucracy has a higher authority on classification. Those rules apply to everyone else.
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  100. The president gets to decide what is confidential. So that's a meaningless statement.
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  101. There were political prosecutions in Turkey. I know someone who went to jail. But in one respect the Flynn case is even worse. There was a military coup in turkey in 2016. All this hysteria and corruption of the legal system from the Dems is payback over Trump beating Clinton.
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  102.  @rodalan8835  I wouldn't take them seriously. You've seen the meme of the happy smug mask, and angry behind it. Just pulling out civilians and equipment in May would have been a successful carrying out of Biden's plan of withdrawal (which was copied from Trump). But what Biden did was a complete clusterfuck. He lied that the Taliban weren't advancing. Pulled out of Baghram airbase, and waited until Kabul fell to evacuate. Then it was impossible for civilians to get out safely. He didn't even notify Nato allies about this.
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  103.  @bluemax92  That's a fake talking point. Nothing happened to the Kurds. Trump told the Turks that they better not, and they respected him. You know, this fake BS is what got us the Biden disaster.
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  104.  @Wolfe-zl4ld  What's your point? Biden got 13 needlessly killed in a single day. They wouldn't have died if he just pulled out properly. Way to prove my point. One of the things civilized countries do is minimize the costs of war. You don't pull out troops before civilians, then put them back in so their sitting ducks for terrorism.
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  105. +shannon oliver Chomsky and Hedges are just dumb regressives.
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  106. Hillary Clinton sells herself as a "strong and independent woman", but she was cheated on by her husband at least 20 times, with even sexual harassment lawsuits and one woman claiming she was raped and she's still loyal to him.
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  107. The media is constantly lying by omission about the president's plenary power to declassify. They just keep telling us, over and over, that Trump declassified documents that he moved to Mar-a-lago. So what? It was his Constitutional authority to do that. "Trump had documents on a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities" So what? He was president. It was his job to know about such things. It could be a personal letter from Kim Jung Un. The fact that it doesn't mention the country, means that mentioning it wouldn't make him look bad.
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  108. The Democrats' problem is that the public has lived through a Trump and a Biden presidency. Trump is better at both domestic and foreign policy. Biden's incompetence was on full display in his first year. And worse, he never expressed one iota of regret over the Afghanistan debacle.
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  109. Where is the Supreme Court? We're watching all these fake cases, brought purely to get Trump politically, and defeat his movement, and we're seeing a mockery made of the justice system.
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  110. "We'll find out later how weak or strong the case is." No. We already know this is a joke. That statute of limitations has expired. It's a misdemeanor, elevated to a felony using as basis a crime that doesn't exist, and there is exculpatory evidence, Robert J. Costello's testimony and letter he sent to the FEC in 2018. We know this is pure politics. Not a real case.
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  111. Sanders has more in common with Trump than Biden. Biden is paying the pensions of Ukrainian government workers, while Americans who got coated with toxic fallout in Ohio only got $200 checks.
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  112. The thing is if you talk to the Ultra-Carter Biden base, they're infuriating. Nothing that's happening is Biden's fault. Inflation, stock market, crime, immigration -- it's all Putin or Trump's fault. So he's just some useless pawn occupying the office for them, he can't be expected to assume any responsibility.
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  113. "..but didn't win any votes." So she didn't win the debate. That's just like Hillary Clinton saying she won the election because of the popular vote. But only the electoral college counts.
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  114. Moving the boxes are legal under the Presidential Records Act. But more fundamental than that, the Constitution gives the president the power of document classification. So the P.R.A. can't take that away, thus it's as civil law statute.
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  115. Also reign in the ADL problem.
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  116.  @CharliThinks  They don't have the power to "not allow" him. They're not putting him in jail for an archive issue.
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  117. These people are so superficial. They went from "who going to take a vaccine?" last year, to "Anyone who doesn't obey and take the vaccine is a bad person".
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  118. "They're voting against their self interest." They don't consider record inflation, high energy prices, tanking stock market, and an open border, and feckless foreign policy, to be in their self-interest. It's amazing that people can still push Demo talking points after all the damage Biden has done in less than 2 years.
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  119.  @donnamcadams5564  When I was making 50k a year, I was putting 15k in the bank each year. I didn't have debt, it was just a choice. But I lived just as someone saddled with debt, and didn't care. This is bourgeoise welfare.
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  120. In this case Letisha James claimed that 4000 sq ft Park Avenue apartments Trump owned were worth $60,000 apiece. That's outright legal fraud. They're worth like 25 million. You can't buy a parking space in Midtown Manhattan for $60,000.
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  121. They're cashing in on the swamp. That's why it's so powerful.
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  122. I went from making an additional 25k a year on investments, to losing a lot of money, from a down market and inflation. Gee thanks democrats for the $600 check then making me 30k poorer.
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  123. This should go right to the SCOTUS because of the unconstitutional jury instructions, violating the 6th and 7th amendments.
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  124. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol The FEC suspicion was that it WAS a campaign expense. But 1) Not reporting a campaign expense is a fine offense, ie. like a parking ticket. 2) They concluded that it wasn't a campaign expense. They've long since concluded that it's not helpful to consider everything a campaign expense. That would lead to the grifting that you're accusing in your misunderstanding of events.
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  125. Someone just need to put "I hereby resign as president." into the teleprompter and he will read it.
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  126. That could be. But a criminal trial has a burden of "proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt". The prosecution obviously has not proven anything, especial beyond a reasonable doubt. It will be thrown out on appeal regardless.
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  127. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol That woman even owes Trump $670,00. You guys are embarrassing yourselves with this. Of all the cases, this one will help Trump's campaign the most.
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  128.  @jamesjenkins9918  That's not true. The warrant names thing like "box of documents". This isn't going anywhere. Because the president has the ultimate constitutional authority over classification -- not the National Archives. Here's the Supreme Court: "The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant." Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will." The constitution trumps any legislation. If they want to go down that road and try to prosecute Trump, it would be a disaster for the Democrats. Getting the FBI involved in their political machinations was already a massive overreach.
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  129. "The FBI does good work." LOL Like busting the people who found Ashley Biden's diary, that she left in a rental house. They didn't even steal it, she left it there.
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  130. The Trump administration proved them wrong. Obama thought peace with Iran was the road to peace in the ME. Trump strengthened relations with Arab countries and they normalized relations with Israel. The Arab Persian Gulf states are rich and not run by crazies.
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  131. Looks like Biden is toast. The polls always favor the incumbent until close to the fall. For example, Carter was not consistently behind in the polls until late Summer, early Fall.
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  132.  @doraalberts9097  Biden's betting odds are now at 11.5% below Harris. They really only could replace him with Harris, who would also lose.
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  133.  @PPISAFETY  I would figure that at a local level a DA would need to recuse himself, if there were personal interests involved. I would also expect that in law school one would take an ethics course on such issues. Garland seems either really arrogant or a doofus.
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  134.  @delaineymacphearson6850  Mitch McConnell. Trump was just a candidate in 2016.
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  135.  @delaineymacphearson6850  Trump is still the most powerful influencer in the GOP. Consider what happened to Cheney. The Jan 6 committee is not working -- few people care. So they're desperate to smear Trump. But this Trump raid is backfiring, because it's too obvious a political maneuver.
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  136. I knew he was kind of a bozo. But I had no idea what an absolute disaster he is. He hasn't done a single thing that hasn't had disastrous outcomes.
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  137.  @superchuck3259  No. Low production and supply along with high supply of cash causes inflation. The result is a wealth transfer from lower and middle classes to the government, by devaluing the US debt.
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  138. So that means we have a sovereign right to enter Mexico?
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  139. Just yesterday Biden introduced Zelinski at a meeting as "Putin" and he said his vice president was "Trump".
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  140.  @ChrisVernon-hj6se  When Trump is rambling at a rally it's not the same situation as a SOTU speech. His SOTU speeches were focused on policy. Biden can't even deliver a speech without a teleprompter, and even then he reads the directions. This is Biden going off script at a MI brewery. "The beer brewed here... Hah ish issah use to make the brew beer here... Issh da-finer... Oooooh Earth Rider... Thanks for the Great Lakes!"
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  141.  @JRCP2053  And a lawyer would definitely see no problem with the judge's family raising 90 million for the Adam Schiff campaign using the case. That's totally professional and ethical conduct. Get bent.
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  142. This is insane. Mar-a-Lago was under secret service protection. The FBI was entering a place that was already secured by feds. Biden is unhinged.
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  143.  @captainwho1  The congressmen give him a general question, that would be an easy "yes" or "no". But then he answers a more specific question.
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  144. It's not even comparable to the Secretary of State deleting classified emails. The president has constitutional ultimate authority in declassifying documents. If Garland tried to prosecute Trump over leaking classified documents, at most it would go to the Supreme Court and get struck down. And he would have egg on his face.
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  145. She deserved it. The whole impeachment stunt was uncalled for.
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  146. If they thought this would change Trump's electoral chances then they're idiots. The Democrats have been doing this since Trump was elected in 2016, i.e. lawfare to try to take him out of politics. This is no more legitimate than the Russia Hoax. Presidential records is a civil matter, not criminal, until now. You can't get an president for espionage, because the authority of classification is the president's.
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  147. No. She didn't. She deleted 30k subpoenaed emails and then bleach bitted the server. Again, even if all things are equal, there's still no comparison, because the president has plenary power to declassify. So this whole thing is just over document storage. I think this is about documents Trump declassified that are embarrassing to the FBI and DOJ.
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  148. The polygraph was part of the set up. She was only asked two questions, neither question mentioned Kavanaugh which was the only relevant issue to her testimony.
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  149. He's under no legal risk. There is a good chance that a biased jury will convict, as in the NYC civil cases, but it will never survive appeal.
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  150. I'm buying stock in boxed wine and kitty litter this November.
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  151. Trump was basically a big middle finger of the working and middle classes to the political and media establishments. The Biden administration is a big middle from the political establishment to the working and middle classes. For example, anyone relying on a fixed income or an investment retirement account is much poorer, after just 18 months.
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  152.  @danconklin9280  The self-own aspect of this is funny. The FBI/DOJ was trying to manufacture a crime that Trump supposedly committed. (Departing presidents always declassify documents and declare some personal. And move them to different storage.) But that blew up in their faces with Biden's actual stolen classified documents.
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  153. The President can declassify anything. But only the President has that power.
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  154. +Scott Farner They were charged with arson for a controlled burn of brush land burning some of the wildlife refuge, about $100 damage. They were charged under an anti-terrorism statute.
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  155. The students should then harass the protesters at the food stamp office.
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  156. The "hard left" that Dershowitz is speaking about is obsessed with some very sleazy ethics. For example, at the DNC they had Michael Brown's mother speak. Her son robbed a store, and then tried to kill a cop with his own gun. Then the next day rioters went and burned down his store. They are completely callous to the older, probably immigrant, Indian man trying to make a living running a convenience store.
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  157. I can't get over the fact that the Biden administration thinks that Trump's peace deal meant they had to surrender to the Taliban. It required the Taliban to enter peace negotiations with the Afghan government, which they didn't do.
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  158. But Democrat overreach has been Trump's biggest ally, besides his loyal base. So Trump will be convicted in a political kangaroo court rigged by a Democrat activist judge, who's daughter is raising millions in campaign contributions from the case. There is zero chance this case survives appeal. The judge has even lied to the jury. He told the jury there was a financial crime. Then they wouldn't allow the defense to bring an FEC representative to testify that there was no financial crime.
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  159. Dershowitz is the only Democrat who's not a whack job.
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  160. Biden is not going to be functioning by 2025.
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  161. It's just boxes of presidential records. They wont find anything incriminating. Does any serious person think they're going to find a document "Plan to collude with Russia to hack the 2016 election", two things that didn't happen.
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  162. The point isn't even getting the bond before the appeal. The goal with the 70 IQ low life AG is to just the courts to break a politician she doesn't like.
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  163. Biden doesn't have 47% approval. The Real Clear Politics aggregate is 41% approval, 55% disapproval.
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  164. They're actually blaming this on Trump. They have absolutely no sense of responsibility or desire to take charge.
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  165. These manufactured Trump scandals are always based on fake media narratives. Here it's "nuclear documents". The affidavit doesn't even mention "nuclear". The DOJ leaks BS that will set off the Democrat low IQ base. They're still even excited that Trump will go down for having Top Secret documents, because they don't know the constitutional powers of the president for declassification.
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  166.  @cacamalapasa1508  The president carries a card with a couple code words to confirm his identity. But as the OP said, an old one would be useless. Even if an enemy knew the code words, they would know where the president is.
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  167.  @jf7078  That's what a lot of these legal analysts get wrong. This trial is already a massive overreach and a PR negative for the Democrats. A hung jury is the best outcome for the Democrats. The judge in his jury instructions told the jury that they didn't even have to agree on the underlying crime. That is blatantly unconstitutional--6th amendment violation. That's how trials are rigged. The defendant can't mount a legal defense when the prosecution doesn't specify what he's accused of.
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  168. This also reveals the Trump records scandal. The Biden DOJ was trying to retrieve the Crossfire Hurricane documents that Trump declassified.
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  169. Trump's behavior was exactly the same as all real estate developers. They take out bank loans on the assessed values of their properties. Use the money to build. And then pay off the loans with the sales. This is a bargaining process between the banks and the developers. This is nothing but a political hit job.
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  170. It's amazing that they wont even consider increasing US production, and supply, even thought that would not only lower prices, but would help the US economy, and provide another source for Europe while they're bing pinched by Russia. A real leader would consider all options. Buying overseas doesn't even effect the CO2 that they're obsessed with.
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  171. Harris says she will do something about the open border if she's elected. But she's already in charge. She's campaigning against herself.
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  172. Did Alan put his shirt on inside out?
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  173. Are these dipshits "thrilled" that Trump made 50 million in donations overnight?
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  174. I'm surprised he did this. I thought he was going to back off, to save his career, and so Democrats could ridicule Trump for saying "indictment is immanent". He wouldn't even name what the crime is that Trump covered up. That's an obvious 6th Amendment violation. The 6th Amendment requires that defendants know clearly the charges they are facing.
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  175. This whole thing is a farce, and higher courts should put a stop to it. For example, the bail is not supposed to be punitive, but it's being used that way. There is no prosecutor's right to a verdict before an election, but Smith is arguing this. This is a complete abuse of the legal system.
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  176. You just know this is all based on nothing, and it's going to backfire. Trump could have just declared everything he took declassified. That's the president's constitutional power.
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  177.  @david64317  That was a rhetorical question.
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  178. It thought it was ridiculous electing someone with mental decline. But I honestly never thought his presidency would be this incompetent.
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  179. "If Trump is the nominee, we will lose." Meanwhile Haley can't win a single state primary. Also, Trump is polling higher against Biden than she is.
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  180.  @arthurdavis1065  He's called "Crooked Joe Biden" or formerly "Sleepy Joe". not "Plastic Spoon".
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  181.  @rayrussell6258  We're not going to have bigger deficits just because of a tax cut for minimum wage workers.
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  182.  @rayrussell6258  It's just like the Democrats to go after low wage workers. Enjoy losing in Nov.
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  183.  @PmurtDlanod  Well. it stops the petty Democrats from going after those people for not claiming their tips.
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  184.  @Robocat-ff3vn  Team dementia, is so desperate they're trying to lock up the opposition. AND THEY"RE STILL LOSING. Trump is polling above Biden in the general election polls. And that's even with GOP primary challengers.
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  185.  @ernestclary6035  "loser"? Robert Costello is a respected lawyer and former federal prosecutor. While Cohen is a felon, grifter, serial perjurer, disbarred lawyer and a thief. This case is a total fail to smear Trump. A conviction in this clown case will help him.
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  186.  @billydoyle9984  Merchan allowed the liars Daniels and Cohen to ramble on and on about irrelevancies. Then when the former federal prosecutor Costello was on the stand, the hack judge kept interrupting him with objections, sustained before even hearing the question.
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  187. A case against Trump would die in the courts. The president has plenary power to declassify.
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  188.  @PamSchmelz  False comparison. Harris has zero policy, no platform, and does not talk to the press. Trump does. You can look up Trump's positions on his website. Harris has no policy or platform on his website.
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  189. The only thing Trump could do in 2020 was to either send in federal marshals, or federalize the national guards, and the Democrats would have had a meltdown if he did that. He did sent federal marshals into Portland to protect the federal courthouse from rioters and vandals, and of course, the Oregon Democrats had a meltdown. The Democrats were actively pro-riot in 2020.
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  190. The thing about this case. Even if the judge is able to get a conviction, with his antics, such as lying to the jury, it will hurt the Democrats. This is such an obviously unfair trial, that a conviction isn't going to hurt Trump.
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  191. Well..they gave you some good campaign advertisements. Mondale ran for president in 1984 on raising taxes and he won WI and DC. It was an absolute landslide for Reagan. But spending 100 billion on hiring IRS agents is even worse. It's growing the parasitic bureaucratic state.
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  192.  @ohmightywez  He has way more wealth than this fine. But even the very wealthy generally don't have hundreds of millions cash in the bank. These creeps are like "How dare you deny elections and claim we're cheaters." Meanwhile they cheat with every means at their disposal.
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  193.  @geraldboesen5037  They both seem really dumb. All of James' postings on twitter, give her fake assessments of properties, and gloating over the judgement, sound like something in law school the professor would tell you never to do. Baboon brained, like Biden's self-defense advice: "I there is an intruder just get a shot gun and fire it through the door."
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  194. The Bragg case is even a joke compared to the joke Jack Smith cases. The indictment doesn't even give the crime that he supposedly covered up with his records. It's too ridiculous to even get to the fact based evidence. And if you entertain that, Michael Cohen, a multiply convicted liar and perjurer, is the prosecution's key witness. What ever happens in Manhattan, it will be overturned in the higher courts.
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  195. The prosecution's main witness is Cohen. Shows you how perverse this case is. Normally, no responsible prosecutor would base a case on the testimony of a convicted felon liar.
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  196. Biden gave him such a obvious campaign opportunity. Biden made a campaign stop in Ukraine, boasting about giving 120 billion to non-Americans; while Trump is going to a lower middle class community decimated and ignored by the Democrats.
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  197. "What I don't understand is why are they delaying releasing information." They're delaying because they have no justification. This was a political operation like the Carter Paige warrant that FBI agents lied to get. Democrats are strategically stupid. They're in an ideological bubble and didn't realize this would help Trump, big time.
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  198. That's one thing the Democrats are despicable about. They do things that severely undermine trust in our elections, and then they go on the war path over people being "election deniers". It's like a criminal lamenting that there is low levels of trust in our society.
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  199. Biden doesn't just look weak. Everything he has done since taking office has made things worse.
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  200. LOL The Democrats have tried this for over 8 years. Trump cannot be bullied. He wasn't intimidated by the Dems' felony indictments, nor the assassination attempts.
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  201. How would a directed verdict work when the judge is obviously biased, and will do anything to convict Trump?
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  202. I've always wondered. The Democrats have a base with an IQ of about 75. They lie in the most ridiculously absurd, obvious, fashion.
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  203. The TDS Democrats are dummies. This was just about storage/archiving documents. That's something every ex-president does. When a president leaves all the documents are just packed up and moved to a private place. They're sorted out with cooperation with the Nat. Archives. Sources also say that this was a due to a mix up in the DOJ. Garland didn't approve it. That's why the DOJ is silent. These idiots boosted Trump's candidacy and gave the GOP a mandate to clean out the Dem ideologues out of these agencies next year. Good.
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  204.  @Jinglejang  I didn't say they announced it in advance. My point is that they made the most unprecedented raid in decades. The DOJ doesn't send the FBI to raid the house of an ex-president and leader opposition party's house and take it lightly, unless they're stupid. This is a boondoggle for the DOJ. If they had a justification they would be making it to the press, and not keeping silent. They have a serious PR problem, and are making no effort to get ahead of it. They F-ed up big time. This was a huge screw up, because an ex-president having a classified document is equal to a parking ticket. Every president takes all their documents when they leave and puts them in storage. Then they work with Nat. Archives over storage. The Democrats are in for some serious trouble. A party using the FBI against their political opposition is an extreme breach of ethics. People will get fired next year.
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  205.  @dianagary1304  The latest CNN made up talking point is "nuclear documents". Your point isn't coherent. This is an attempt at rebooting another Russia Russia Russia hoax to dog Trump. You can't prosecute an ex-president for classified documents. Because he had the constitutional authority to declassify anything he wanted to. He also has a security clearance.
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  206.  @williamadams5384  Biden's approval significantly dropped after the Roe v Wade decision. The Democrat base is dissipating, with the Biden admin. polling in the 20s with hispanics.
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  207.  @williamadams5384  Not only that, they're just as desperate as when Trump was president. The media cycle is constant BS about Trump being a naught man. It's all hearsay, contradicted by others who were there. They're behaving like it's 2017. Biden is a non-entity, who can't do anything useful or constructive.
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  208. It's amazing that they can get away with just lying like this. They're saying that Trump "tried to strangle a secret service agent", who has denied it ever happened. And another talking point is "Trump knew the crowd was armed." But the crowd wasn't armed. No guns were confiscated. They pay off liars like Hutchinson, and Blassey Ford.
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  209.  @suzettevdm51  Biden's approval rating dropped significant'y after the Roe v Wade decision. Nothing is saving this presidency.
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  210.  Justin TimberFlake  That's so weak as Biden has embarrassed everyone who voted for him with his abject incompetence.
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  211.  @jorgecarrejo  Lack of presidential immunity means that Biden can get prosecuted.
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  212. The DOJ f-cked up. Merick Garland gave a weak statement with zero details. There is no justification for this. They f-cked up.
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  213. So Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Muller investigation to avoid a conflict of interest, even though the Mueller investigation was a baseless witch hunt based on Clinton campaign dirty tricks. But this administration, that claimed to "heal divisions" and "take down the temperature of the country", has an attorney general who sent the FBI to raid the presidential opponent of his boss, and provide no justification besides the totally vague warrant.
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  214. Joe Biden is a pathological liar.
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  215. "I've always loved balloons." --Kamala Harris
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  216. The Mueller probe is such a joke. Roger Stone tried to make friends with Julian Assange, who wasn't interested, for publicity.
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  217. "Return to normalcy" We do have a return to the pre-Trump stock market where you can't make any money. And the Taliban are in complete control of Afghanistan.
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  218. The courts in Russia and China are more fair than this.
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  219. These people even flip. You could get banned from social media for saying X, and then a month later you get banned for saying "not X".
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  220. Oh the horror. Clinton might "lose total control".
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  221.  @SonnyboiMusic  I'm not sure where you're coming from. The lawfare is a Democrat cheating operation. No responsible prosecutor would bring a case like this, where the charges aren't even legitimate. That's why the SC might put a stop to it, to save the legal system from shameless Dem hacks.
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  222.  @WE23anime  This isn't a legit case. Bragg is charging Trump with a statute that accuses him of falsifying records to cover up a crime. But there is no crime. Hush money payments, which were made by Cohen, not Trump, are not illegal.
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  223. They base criminal cases on fake BS media narratives. Their problem is that the courts rely on evidence. And a defendant has the right to defend themself. FFS, they have a letter from Cohen's lawyer saying that Cohen is a liar and Trump had nothing to do with the Stormy Daniels' payment.
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  224. "They hate everyone who doesn't agree with them." The irony is that Harris doesn't even agree with herself. Every press interview is a debate she loses with herself.
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  225. Most guns are semi-automatic. Biden is proposing a radical gun ban.
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  226. How can people be such hypocrites. Biden straight up appointed a special prosecutor to take out his opponent. Biden ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago and the prosecution as revealed in court documents that were unredacted.
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  227. This is ridiculous. There's about five serious legal problems that would get this thrown out. Expired statute of limitations, Bragg can't name the crime that Trump supposedly covered up (blatant 6th amendment violation), but even after that, the evidence is on Trump's side. Cohen is a convicted felon and liar, and Robert Costello, his ex-lawyer.
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  228. We don't even know there is an "Epstein File". The executive branch doesn't have the authority to release court documents, without the judge's permission.
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  229. I've been instinctively concluding that the huge spending bills were a money transfer scam. Because the economic fall out is going to cost them the elections.
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  230. LOL The Democratic party will judge them very poorly. These political kangaroo court cases are driving up Trump popularity. If one of these judges incarcerates him, it will all but guarantee his election.
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  231. It's funny that people refer to Hunter Biden as a "kid", because he has no adult responsibility. Hunter is 49.
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  232. This is like a dog chasing a car. If the Democrats succeed and Trump is removed from the ticket, then their party and the US will be an international embarrassment. It's only dictatorships where you have just one major party candidate on the ballot. And dictatorships tend to allow minor party candidates, because that gives a pretense of democracy.
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  233.  @johnmurphy9550  The president walks around with a card in his pocket with the nuclear codes. (Clinton once left it in his suit that went to laundry. So the card had to be found and returned.) How secure is it with Biden walking around with it. He probably has given it to a waiter when paying the check.
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  234.  @1288joshua  Yeah right. Just like Russiagate was about Trump being a double agent for Putin. We've been down this road 50 times, and it always turns out to be BS.
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  235. The Democrats have become the authoritarian party. I'm only voting for a candidate in 2024 who is for massive declassification. In 2024 president Trump or Desantis should go through the FBI, CIA and NSA and release massive amounts of information to the public. These agencies have been politicized and are using their power against the public.
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  236.  @davidhamilton6612  They do have an opportunity to rule more strongly in favor of presidential immunity. This alleged case took place during Trump's presidency. Bragg is alleging that the legal fees Trump paid to Cohen, after the election, were somehow fraudulent.
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  237. They blacked it out, because the Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that the President has universal authority to declassify. He can declassify just by his actions. That case ruled that that is the presidents constitutional authority as C. in C.
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  238.  @tonyatkinson2210  There should be FISA warrants there, such as the ones where FBI agents lied to judges to spy on the Trump campaign. Again, "top secret" doesn't apply to the president. The president has final authority on classification, as part of his constitutional powers as C. in C.
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  239.  @tonyatkinson2210  He did declassify those documents. The DOJ has held them up under some statute that doesn't even apply to the WH, for redactions. And, you're lying. Kevin Kleinsmith lied to a judge to get the FISA warrants on Carter Paige.
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  240. Well, Biden issued preemptive pardons to all his cohorts.
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  241. Do some Democrats have a picture of Dershowitz on Epstein Island doing something unethical? Because he's a loyal Democrat after constantly criticizing their perverse attack on legal norms and rights.
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  242. It's rich that the Democrats are bragging that Trump is in court. Biden told his ghost writer "The classified documents are in the garage." The classified documents Biden stole from the SCIF, as senator and VP, with no presidential declassification authority.
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  243. "Excess profit tax" ? That will get them to increase production 🤦🏼‍♂️
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  244.  @jonfreeman9682  She wont do anything. Inflation is caused by too much spending, injecting too much cash into the economy. And their approach in 2021 was to spend more, driving it up to >9%.
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  245.  @niacal4nia  Joe Biden bankrupted millions of households. Mortgage rates are up 120% under Biden.
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  246. The pig headed incompetence of this administration is unbelievable. Their spending bills don't help people if you tank the economy like they did. Any competent president would have got the economy rolling again, then passed whatever infrastructure bill they wanted.
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  247. The media keeps lying about the presidential power to declassify. Trump could have just declassified everything he took. So there's not prosecutable offense of having classified material. The Supreme Court has ruled that the president has the ultimate authority over document classification, coming from his Article 2 presidential power as C. in C. If it went to trial, the DOJ and NARA would say "it's classified", Trump will say "I declassified it". Then that's the end of it.
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  248. This is such a joke of a scandal. The president has ultimate final authority to declassify, not the FBI, NARA, or the DOJ. The president is just going to declare anything he takes to be declassified.
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  249. The judicial system has become such a joke, Hur is more professional and fair than most of them, and that's not saying much. The only reason Trump is being prosecuted and sued is that he's a threat to the political establishment. Both constitutional law and the presidential records act gives him the authority to have all of his presidential records.
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  250. Kraft durch Freude, 1933, 2024.
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  251. We'll also have to confiscate all of Biden's documents. Dish it out, then you have to eat it too.
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  252. The Democrats are gross. To run interference for a corrupt bureaucrat like that.
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  253. The left feels that they need to control the media. I would even go to leftist outlets, Huff Po, Slate, to engage with people I don't agree with. But I would always get shadow banned, because they can't stand criticism. It's a cult.
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  254. This is the most dishonest, astroturfed, disingenuous campaign I have ever seen. They're literally running against their own record. Harris "Promote me to president, so I can fix all the problems I and Biden caused."
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  255. If there aren't serious consequences for this, when the GOP has the power, then they are wimps.
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  256. Trump is correct. This prosecution is a joke and purely political. This Fox panel are a bunch of media liars. The charges are for "espionage" over documents he has 100% right to have. Up until 1978 there were zero regulations on presidential records. The president took all of them and did what they please with them. And there was not a single prosecution under the 1917 Espionage Act.
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  257. Biden gave a wartime speech, but it was against his opposition voters. What the F?
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  258. He's more loyal to Ukrainians than Americans.
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  259. He has to pick another populist, otherwise the Democrats will do anything to eliminate him.
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  260. It's weird that they lie when it's an obvious lie. That undermines their positions where it's not clear, eg. the election legitimacy. One is inclined to believe Trump on other issued because of her shameless "Of course there's no evidence tying Joe Biden to Hunter's business deals."
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  261. This isn't even saving people from hardship. When I made just 60-65k in high tax MA, I was saving 15k per year. I could have paid 10k and still had a net savings. And if I was saddled with debt there were things I could have done, such as move out of the city center where rents are $1500, and commute.
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  262. This case is guaranteed to help Trump. It's a blatant 6th amendment violation, before you even get to the non-sense interpretation of the law, and that their star witness is a convicted perjurer.
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  263. She owes Trump $670,000 in legal fees from cases she lost against Trump. This is a joke. NDA's are not illegal. All these networks make employees sign NDAs. And we don't even know this is real. All they have is some retainer checks paid to Michael Cohen, and Cohen's word that it was for the NDA. Cohen is a notorious liar.
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  264. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol That is a lie. They just have retainer checks Trump paid to Cohen.
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  265. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol "thanks for admitting trump did a crime- this is not a parking ticket" Reading isn't your talent. I said that the FEC concluded that it WASN"T a campaign expense. If it were then it is NOT a crime, but a fine. All major presidential campaigns have accounting at the end. The Obama campaign had to pay 5 million in fines for not reporting some expenses. This cases are driving Trump polls up. You hysterical idiots can't help yourselves.
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  266. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol Failing to report a campaign expense is NOT a crime. All the campaign, Clinton, Obama, etc. had campaign expenditure that they failed to report. That's how all these case are a total joke. You have to rewrite all the laws and legal precedent just to go after Trump. And the result is Trump's polls going up.
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  267.  @Buconoir  Trump is NOT worried about this case. This will only help is campaign.
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  268. Their main talking point is that it was Trump's plan to withdrawal and Trump left them with the deadline. But they didn't follow Trump's plan. And why is Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal the one thing that Biden felt committed to? This is the most useless White House ever.
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  269. Trump was raided for pure propaganda purposes. The Democrats had their low info base convinced that "Trump stole top secret documents, with 'nuclear secrets'" Trump did what every president does. He declassified documents and moved personal items from the White House."
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  270.  @tonyatkinson2210  LOL Yeah...I'm sure that totally happened. I am so done with this anonymous source fake news bullcrap.
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  271.  @tonyatkinson2210  There's zero evidence of "nuclear secrets" being involved in this. That was some fake news anonymous leak by the DOJ.
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  272.  @tonyatkinson2210  LOL I'm sure she was looking for those "nuclear documents". This is such disingenuous crap. Military secrets would be at a government lab, not the WH or a residence of the president. Bill Clinton even shared nuclear technology with the Chinese, which they they used to build their arsenal. And no Democrats cared. Because nothing is genuine coming from them.
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  273.  @churly9717  They pretty much are. He has the right to access them. And when still president he had the universal power to declassify. This is just a last ditch, desperate attempt, to take Trump down before an election the Democrats are set to lose. The election interference from the FBI is obscene.
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  274. The idea of msnbc having a Trump town hall is funny. They can't even show Trump on camera live, without getting triggered. Trump was in the Cuban restaurant partying, after the indictment. And Jake Tapper was "Can we cut the camera. Enough of this."
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  275. Notice that the Democrats always ascribe "rage" to those people who don't support them. How is supporting a political movement, other than the Democrats, rage?
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  276. This really makes you wonder about the judge, who called Flynn a "traitor to his country". The fruitcakes at MSNBC and CNN spread this poisonous crap, and good people pay for it.
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  277. I recall Harris giving a speech in which she compared Jan 6 to the Civil War, Pear Harbor, and 911. This woman cannot be given the presidency. There were 4 people who died on Jan 6, 2021, and they were all protesters who died from police violence.
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  278. It's amazing that there is no competence in the Biden administration. They're lashing out at reporters for accusing them of having no plan, while they offer no plan.
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  279. Their main witness Michael Cohen is a serial liar, who has been convicted of lying and admonished by judges for lying.
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  280. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol No he didn't. He paid Micheal Cohen attorney retainer checks.
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  281.  @markdelacruz1322  This case is a total joke. And Trump is under no legal jeopardy. Even the usual lawfare people, ie the partisan hacks behind all these operations from the Russia Hoax in 2017, have lamented how weak this is. But this absolute joke of an indictment is all they could get to proceed before the election.
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  282.  @edthebumblingfool  She owes Trump $670,000 in legal fees. Over an "illegal" NDA payment. The people doing this lawfare are doing a great job helping the Trump campaign.
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  283. They're just leaking lies, like "Trump has top secret nuclear documents". Something so super duper secret that the FBI let it sit there for 18 months with no urgency, when they had access to the room. That's how the sleaze balls in these agencies operate. They leak BS to the press, and then they cite that BS in their official documents. It's what happens when political activists are running powerful bureaucracies.
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  284.  @lone982  They had access to the documents, liar.
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  285.  @lone982  These issues have gone through the courts before. And you're totally ignorant of the Constitutional law. This question went to court when Judicial Watch sued for documents president Clinton took with them. The court ruled the following: 1) The president has sole discretion on classifying or declassifying documents. 2) The president has sole responsibility for the process of declassifying documents and how they are handled. 3) The Archives has no authority to question the president's decisions. 4) The fact that the president took the documents with him is DeFacto proof that they are not presidential records. This was a court ruling.... Not someone's opinion!
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  286.  @ajsmith6816  I really hope you people convince Merrick Garland to indict. It will be the greatest self-own in American politics.
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  287.  @kosh9639  Tears? The Biden administration just guaranteed a 2024 Trump win.
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  288.  @VuongNguyen-cg6yo  I don't think they were careful at all. This was a clown operation. The DOJ is even too scared to own it. But you can't prosecute if you don't follow a long list of rules for evidence.
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  289.  @thetruthfornow6045  But this is backfiring spectacularly BECAUS the justification was the handling of classified documents. That in itself is a self-own, and is why the DOJ is silent about this. They're embarrassed and trying to come up with damage control. Raiding an ex-president over an archive/records issue is like raiding someone over an overdue library book. Trump could declassify anything before he took it.
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  290.  @maxsmart8954  "Crime to possess" Every ex-president takes documents and puts them in storage, which is eventually their presidential library. Democrats have reached peak stupid. They're always looking for ways to get Trump. But they did him a huge favor with this raid.
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  291.  @williamelliott  The latest info is that this was all a screw up. It's just what FBI agents would do. But it didn't have approval of Garland.
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  292.  @maxsmart8954  They did in this case. The DOJ is even blaming this on the FBI. There's finger pointing in the agencies, because this was a massive error in judgement. This wasn't even theft. All presidents when they leave, have the WH staff pack up all the documents and put them in private storage. Then their staff works with the Nat. Archives. Most of it ends up in the presidential library. This was a f-ck up. Leftoids are slow to catch on. They're in a bubble, so they lack acumen.
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  293. Normally you wouldn't want the help of someone like Avanati, but the prosecution's star witness his Michael Cohen, a convicted felon, and perjurer. The Trump team can't have higher standards than the kangaroo court.
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  294. Why was nobody already talking about this before? The US government was using Twitter and Facebook as shell organizations to get around the Constitution, so they could censor. That's no different than creating a shell company to avoid taxes. Someone needs to file lawsuits.
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  295. We know from established SC precedent that the President has universal authority to declassify. That's something the media keeps lying about. And one thing about these Trump "scandals" is that they always rely on media misinformation and manipulation. Trump could have just said that everything he was taking was declassified, and it would be the case. The 1988 SC case ruled that it's his constitutional authority, deriving from his Article 2 role as C. in C.
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  296.  @ajsmith6816  That's not true. The presidents power to declassify is from his/her Article 2 powers as Commander in Chief, as ruled by the Supreme Court. As Commander in Chief the President has the final authority to declassify and classify. You guys are just flat out lying.
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  297.  @ajsmith6816  Laws can't take away the president's authority to declassify -- that's a constitutional power, ruled part of his/her powers as Commander in Chief by the Supreme Court. I'm surprised you guys are pushing this misinformation. An indictment might be the boost Trump needs to win in 2024. Any charge will be thrown out by the Supreme Court.
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  298. All of the Democrat media outlets are blaming the voters for "not seeing how good the economy really is". That's the worst possible strategy they could have.
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  299. It's physical age not chronological age that's an issue. People age differently. My grandparents were over 90 when they were like Biden.
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  300. She wears black and still looks as big as the Hindenburg.
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  301. It's indefensible that some states, eg AZ, will take over a week to count the ballots. It should only take one day. It's really obnoxious that the Democrats preach about "election denial" but they intentionally make the election process suspect. If you stop the vote counting, people will think you're cheating. The election denial of 2020 is their fault.
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  302. Trump is only being prosecuted because he's Trump. He had the constitutional authority to have all of his records, classified or not. And he had the blanket authority to declassify anything.
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  303. It actually used to be etiquette to not talk about the previous president. But Biden doesn't even respect the previous president's constitutional rights.
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  304. It was previously reported that Bolton took classified documents and hid them. Basically, to further the Russia hoax.
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  305.  @vlombardi51  Bolton was leaking and hiding classified documents, along with Comey, Brennan, Clapper.
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  306. There's no comparison between Biden's classified documents in his garage and Trump's. The president has the constitutional power of declassification. He can also declare anything (by court precedent) persona and then it's not a concern of the Archives.
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  307. Inflation could drop to 0% and prices would still be up 19% over Biden's presidency. That means that people, on average, have taken a substantial pay cut. The APR inflation, is the rate at which costs are going up, not how high prices are.
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  308.  @DCC303  Oh. We don't even know what Trump was convicted of by the jury. These crooks used an unprecedented and unconstitutional legal theory, of nested "crimes". He was charged with "falsifying records to cover up a crime", but he was not told what that "crime" was. That way he couldn't defend himself in court. Then this sleezball judge instructed the jury to pick their own "crime", that Trump's lawyer couldn't refute in court; because they didn't know what it was.
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  309. They're going way to far trying to put Roger Stone away. Because Stone isn't a politician he's just a private citizen publicity hound. It would be the same if Trump tried to give Keith Olbermann 9 years for BS charges.
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  310. At the RNC they talked about America, inflation, the border, etc. At the DNC they're talking about Trump.
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  311. I'm not an Obama supporter, but he does have talent. And what a way to soil your legacy, buy endorsing and supporting the awful and incompetent Biden.
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  312. I know. This is such a joke. It would be like someone showing their suspended drivers license, claiming that it's legal because it says so.
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  313. How can he continue to be a Biden supporter. The republic is being destroyed by a total POS, and he still supports him out of partisan loyalty.
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  314. Ironically the plant is getting substantially greener because of CO2. CO2 is fertilizer. Greenhouses commonly use supplemental CO2.
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  315. State courts get federal funding. Next year Trump should make cuts to the NY City districts. They obvious run corrupt operations.
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  316. Garland is on such thin ice. We have already seen the official memos from Jan 21, 2021 where Trump declassified everything he took. If some still classified document were took, then there would be no intent, so those statutes still don't apply.
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  317. The agencies need to be whittled down, because they're used as political tools against the people. Eg. the FBI should just be for bank robberies and human trafficking.
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  318. The way they test animals for self awareness is they put a mark on their forehead and put them in front of a mirror. A great ape will realize that the mark is on their forehead, but a dog will just think it's another dog. We need to give Biden that test.
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  319. No one in the White House has a clue how the economy works. His "plan" for fighting inflation is to increase regulations, cut production, and demand corporations lower prices.
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  320. That's before we knew that the FBI, and other agencies, is full of crooks who lie to judges to get FISA warrants.
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  321. What's with the green bandanas? It's like they're Hamas. Green is the color of Islam.
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  322. Biden has never been held accountable, for accepting foreign payments, targeting his enemies. thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court, etc.
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  323. The media is so slow to catch on that the public knows they're lying. Everybody knows this indictment is election interference. As president Trump could have declassified everything. The Nat Archies has no constitutional authority over classified documents.
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  324. Don't they know that buying petroleum from Saudi Arabia doesn't pollute less. It just means the profits go overseas.
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  325. The whole document controversy was a set up from the beginning. Every president takes their documents at the end of their term, declassifies them, removes personal documents, and puts "presidential records" in storage. Trump did the same thing, but with an antagonistic, uncooperative, Nat. Archives.
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  326. Not just difference in treatment. It's legal for Trump to declassify documents and take them. The Secretary of State has no such authority. Comey didn't charge Clinton because he didn't want to interfere in the 2016 election. The BIden DOJ is going after Trump because they want to interfere in the 2024 election.
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  327. Every swing state is leaning red. Biden is toast. The Democrats did themselves in by nominating Biden. They used his name recognition in 2020 to win, but had no plan for 2024 when his condition would be too bad to even be able to hold the office.
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  328. The US was producing 2 million more barrels a day under Trump (pre-covid). And the Saudi-Biden dustup is over Saudi Arabia cutting production by 2 million barrels. So, it's obvious that we wouldn't have this problem under Trump.
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  329. This is really pathetic desperation. Some general, bitter about being fired by Trump, claims he said something and everyone else denies it. Nobody cares. And one of these generals DID defy the constitution by contacting China behind the president's back.
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  330.  @KenGalan  See Tom Crowford's comment below. I mind you that the Attorney general didn't investigate Clinton. It was given to Comey whether to decide to indict. Comey's answer to your (snippy) question "DOJ is not allowed to investigate people accused of wrong doing if they oppose 'your boss'. " was "yes". But unlike that case, the Garland sought out this case. The DOJ doesn't even know what they're looking for. It's Russiagate 2.0. They told the judge today, "the investigation is at it's beginning". This is obviously a political hit and fishing expedition. And that makes you wonder why Garland would wreck his career over this. I'm sure Comey didn't want to chose whether to indict Clinton. But Garland chose to compromise himself.
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  331.  @farmerjohn6526  That's the thing. Everybody knows this is just politics. Which is grossly inappropriate. I expect Garland to be the loser. Their leaks are comical. "Nuclear secrets"? That was obviously to rile up dummies in leftist media. The WH doesn't keep technical military secrets. Those would be in government laboratories.
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  332.  @farmerjohn6526  "1) If they were officially classified documents- then why are they now looking for them 2 years later" There's a major hole in that pretext. Trump, until Jan 20, 2021, had universal authority to declassify. So of course, as any president would do, he declared all the documents he was taken declassified. I'm hearing constantly on Dem/leftist (it's weird that the left all of a sudden respect the FBI and security state, but they've never been smart) that Trump couldn't do that. But he could. The Supreme Court has ruled that the president can declassify anything, by just saying it is. How could they make a criminal case over Trump having declassified documents?
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  333. They're stupid. They thought communist style show trials would turn support away from him. The problem with that reasoning is obvious.
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  334. I think Tesla is responsible for developing alternating current, and the three phase power used today. He also had nutty ideas which didn't go anywhere.
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  335. It's disturbing that we're sending 100 billion a year to, and paying the government salaries for, a country that Biden took a bribe from.
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  336. Biden is so much of a puppet that his personal pronoun is "we". LOL
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  337. Harris is embracing the wing of the Dem party that hates Israel and is full of anti-Semites. I'm not jewish so these aren't important issues for me. But he's very loyal to Israel.
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  338. They're not allowed to boo the scum bag that's trying to take away their right to vote?
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  339.  @TuhljinTampergauge  I was roasting Hamas supporters commenting on the internet. Hamas murders defenseless people, babies, children, rapes their victims, puts their headquarters under a hospital. And then they cry about what victims they are.
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  340.  @TuhljinTampergauge  Twitter under the previous management would have just permanently banned me. I got banned from there for calling Biden a "moron" for his botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
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  341. "Inflation is a global problem." There used to be an advantage to living in America. The US had a better economy with more economic mobility. Biden caused inflation with the American Rescue Plan, and the Infrastructure Act. So like Afghanistan it's a global problem created by Dementia Joe.
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  342. If he's right, this will be a massive self-own by the Democrats. The judge rigged this trial as far as he could against the defense. He even lied to the jury that an election financial crime took place. The FEC investigated this in 2018 and found no crime.
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  343. There was a "peaceful transition of power" in 2021. It's the Democrats and Biden administration that are still obsessed with Trump because Biden has failed as a president.
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  344. Shouldn't have weaponized the DOJ and local Dem controlled jurisdictions against Trump, if you didn't want the SCOTUS to rule in favorer of presidential immunity. The 5-6 majority is now considering saving these jurisdictions from themselves.
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  345. It wasn't that he was over prepared. He has cognitive decline. We saw him trying to find the words to say, then giving up and saying nonsense "We finally beat medicare." And looking confused while Trump was talking, mouth open and eye darting around.
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  346. Bragg is a liar. Those "39 felony charges" are each for a retainer check he paid to Cohen. And those monthly payments continued into his presidency.
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  347.  @blintzkreig1638  That's what's actually amusing about this. Though a political party destroying US institutions is a serious matter. You people get a serotonin boost by punishing your ideological enemies. But it's just driving up Trump's popularity. At this point a 1980 style landslide is a possibility--from the petty lawfare, Biden's failure as a president, and Biden's declining condition.
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  348. So the same FBI agents who are trying classify Trump voters as domestic terrorists put down that Trump was suspected of "espionage". Are we just supposed to forget that these same people smeared his as a "Russian double agent" for 3 years? I'm just done with these people.
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  349. Trump has already won a judgement against "Horseface" because she violated the non-disclosure agreement. Now he's going to be prosecuted for the agreement?
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  350. You normally wouldn't have a convict testify. But this isn't a normal trial. The prosecution's main witness is the convict Michael Cohen, who served time for lying, and has been excoriated by judges for perjury.
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  351. Obviously a departing president will declassify all the documents he is taking. He can do it just by decree. So what are they going to find? Most likely, they're looking for documents they want locked up, so the public can't see them.
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  352. It seems that Trump Derangement Syndrome went to the top of government. These are the actions of delusional people (Milley and Pelosi). Trump was more conservative with military strikes than the previous three presidents. This is real insurrectionist actions, not some guy in facepaint and a bufalo hat taking selfies in the Capitol.
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  353. To be fair. If I were president Xi, I would invade now under Biden. Then use the Taiwan semiconductor industry to normalize relations with the US again.
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  354.  @JimElliott-l1o  Trump has been requesting a debate for months. Biden was going to try to avoid it, but his poll numbers are abysmal. If the election were held today it would be at least 312/226 Trump win.
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  355.  @gr33kb0i  Having a moderator that allows the Democrat to lie doesn't count as "winning". Besides getting crotchety, Biden just lied about major issues. "I never had any involvement in Hunter's overseas business activity." "The laptop is a Russian disinformation plant." Joe Biden can't speak without lying. "Inflation was 9% when I took office." It was 1.5%. Joe made it 9% in late 2021.
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  356. It makes you wonder how long Biden can continue. Alzheimers is a rapidly progressive condition. Reagan survived 10 years, but he had to retire from public life soon after the diagnosis.
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  357. It's fun watching the democrats freak out about this. Because anyone with half a brain knew this would happen. We knew Trump would be acquitted and he would be stronger for it. Hay democrats, are you F-ing stupid? Why did you do this?
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  358. Of all the recent presidents, Trump is actually the cleanest. Biden had classified documents in his garage and offices that he stole from SCIFs and was using to sell access to Ukrainian and Chinese corporations through his son. Obama assassinated 2 US citizens.
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  359.  @jansen4282  That's what I think about the Democrats' massive spending. They don't care about the negative repercussions, so it has to be a scam. They invest in say green energy and then congress dumps 2 trillion dollars into that industry.
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  360.  @jansen4282  But what did we get for any of the 4 trillion in Democrat discretionary spending? All it did was cause 8.5% inflation. That's an 8.5% pay cut. It also tanked the stock market shrinking my savings by 20%.
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  361. I always hear them blaming inflation, taking stock market, energy prices on Trump. It's amazing what people will believe. The Biden administration cannot govern.
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  362. There is no way Biden makes it through a second term. He's in the same condition as may grandfather was when he was 93, and he didn't live to 94.
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  363.  @danieldylan1273  That's the classic response of the cornered "No!!! You!!"
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  364.  @IloveEaster  So the joke isn't funny because you believe some corporate media lies?
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  365.  @peterbruno657  That's just as "true" as "Trump threw catchup at the wall" and "Trump reached for the steering wheel from the back of the limo." Then when people there were asked, they said it didn't happen.
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  366. Fascism is reformed communism. Mussolini saw that socializing the economy was a disaster, so you socialize the people. So then all institutions serve the interests of the single party state.
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  367. Antifa is paramilitary, snowflake shock troops, of the Democratic Party. It is fun watching them run into ordinary hard working blue collar Americans--getting knocked out with one punch.
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  368. Wray is a disgrace.
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  369. I think the two lawyers on the jury are perplexed, that they're being asked to deliberate on a case, where the prosecution not only didn't prove their case, but didn't even state their case clearly. The judge also gave unconstitutional instructions, that they can split over the underlying crime. There's case law that says that is unconstitutional--violation of 6th and 7th amendment.
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  370. The cases are too obviously bogus. Of course, it's pissing people off. Not only are they trying to take away your ability to vote, these cases also make a mockery of our constitutional rights.
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  371.  @Magatdestroyer  We've all been seeing that he's unfazed by all of this. Biden can't even handle an appearance or a speech, and he's coddled by the establishment.
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  372.  @susanwillis519  Trump is beating Biden in the polls. And Biden's popularity is getting worse; people are pissed off about the economy, and they see Biden's dementia getting worse.
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  373. I'm not a lawyer but charging someone with perjury because they felt forced to make a guilty plea with they thought they were innocent has to be a blatant violation of the defendants rights. Conversely, it's your right to plead "innocent" when you know you're guilty. Charging one for pleading "innocent" would be criminalizing their constitutional rights. This judge is a total crank.
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  374. And then he did his best to shut down Robert Costello, a respected lawyer and former federal prosecutor. The judge is a total corrupt goon.
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  375.  @JRCP2053  Without fail everyone who supports this, makes an appeal to authority. Because you have no argument.
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  376. If I were HE, I would want to debate me to.
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  377. She was arrested throwing cats at Trump's bodyguards.
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  378. "The FBI is not politically biased." Hahahahahahaha We're just going to hide incriminating evidence of criminal activity by Biden.
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  379. The US state department likes to judge countries around the world for commitment to democratic values. The president of El Salvador has already told the US administration that they take no judgment from governments that meddle in their own elections.
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  380.  @Mark-12-31  The indictment is unconstitutional vague. Trump is charged with fraudulent business records, with the goal of covering up a crime. But the indictment doesn't say what the "crime" is. That's a 6th Amendment violation. "In all criminal prosecutions, ....by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, .... and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; There's 2 6th Amendment violations right there. The prosecution is accusing him of "election interference", "campaign finance violation". Those are federal crimes. This is the district court of Manhattan. And, the indictment doesn't state what the crime is, violating the 2nd clause. It's hard to defend yourself against charges which aren't clear. The prosecution will just keep changing what the "crime" is. That's unconstitutional.
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  381.  @cs3350  Democrats have no analytical abilities. It's just pull the string and you repeat lame brain talking points. The indictment violates the 6th Amendment requirement that the charges be clearly stated. He's charged with fraudulent business records intended to cover up a crime. But the "crime" is not stated in the indictment. You can't mount a good defense, if you don't know precisely what you are accused off. The prosecution is stating that it was an "election crime" but the NY DA has no jurisdiction over federal elections. The FEC looked at these payments and found no crime.
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  382. These "progressives" don't care about people. I've heard of about 5 cases that were just as bad as the Floyd killing in the last few years. But because the victim wasn't black it wasn't national news, or a reason to hate cops or whites.
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  383. The law is clear that one doesn't have to be aware or intend to mishandle classified documents. The spin is really silly and obvious. Trump's defense is that they were declassified documents, that he had the right to have, and were in a secure storage facility, SCIF. Biden has none of those defenses.
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  384. Democrats are wondering how they can print that many ballots in the swing states in one night.
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  385. If Trump's employees had put down "campaign expense" in the ledger, then they would be prosecuting him for not entering it as "legal expense". It's sketchier to claim everything as a campaign expense, because that leads to campaign grifting.
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  386. 0:15 "Borrowers making less than $125 annually" Those people aren't paying back the loan anyways.
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  387. Millions of those ballots were "harvested" and filled out by others. That's why GA election boards stonewalled on audits.
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  388. Biden apparently doesn't realize that the Revolutionary War was an insurrection.
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  389. So when Trump says things which anger his base, he's blamed for stoking a terrorism threat. But when Garland, with the permission of Biden, raids the home of the opposition leader, Schumer for telling Supreme Court justices "you will pay the price." they aren't blamed for stoking a terrorism threat?
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  390. Trump didn't debate during the primaries because he was 50 points ahead, so he was already the presumptive primary winner. Biden is 2 points behind Trump.
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  391. LOL All the people who cry about "fascism" from conservatives and moderates are supportive of military rule. Those people are gone mentally.
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  392. The fact that the DOJ has not issued a statement, proves there is no justification. If there were a legitimate justification they would have at least made a statement to the press, to prevent PR damage. I think this was really just a major strategic blunder on their part. Democrats are strategically very dumb.
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  393.  @ekay9783  He can't do anything Trump couldn't do, or will do in his next term. These criminal cases were already BS. Trump taking his records to storage in Mar-a-Lago was an official act as president--something all presidents do.
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  394. When he's in hospice they're going to be telling us "It's just a stutter."
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  395. Technically any Democrat can assume that role, by not voting with the Democrats. Except the Democrats still have control with 50 votes and the VP tie breaker. Fortunately, they lost the House so they can't just pilfer the budget. I really think they're straight up crooks with their spending. Otherwise they wouldn't do it despite tanking the economy.
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  396. Garland's Mar-a-Lago case is also falling apart. The Iran document was never one of the documents the Archives requested returned. And Milley wrote about it in the New Yorker in 2021, to smear Trump. How do you have a super secret, national security risk, document that a general is blabbing about in the New Yorker?
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  397. So Harris is now for Finishing Trump's wall, no taxes on tips, stopping outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, and enforcing immigration laws. When is she going to put orange makeup on like Biden after he lost the debate?
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  398. Trump didn't even pay hush money. He paid a lawyer attorney retainer fees. It was Michael Cohen's idea to pay the woman.
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  399. "A conspiracy to influence the election" So he was campaigning for office. A political campaign is a conspiracy to influence an election. These lefties, controlling institutions are just mentally gone.
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  400. Biden is just a dummy. It's amazing that someone with no talent like him can rise to the top in politics.
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  401. No. It's not "both sides" and "top to bottom" equally. The SCOTUS showed total contempt for the 14th Amendment nonsense from the CO court. Leftwing protesters who break the law are given misdemeanors that are dismissed, while those who are conservative, populist, or libertarian are locked up with enhanced felonies.
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  402. To even take this seriously, you have to not know that the president has unique executive powers regarding documents. The President has THE power of document classification.
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  403.  @MsBeachgirl10  Um...no. Garland is in trouble. He'll never prosecute Trump over a document records issue. Democrats didn't even know that the president has absolute authority to declassify. Garland wont be able to prosecute, and wont be able to dispel the obvious -- that this was a political hit job.
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  404. It's "traitor" not "trader". Come one Fox, did your editors graduate from high school?
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  405. What are they complaining about? Biden is interfering in the elections by cutting US production and canceling pipelines. He's helping the other party, but so be it.
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  406. At this point I have to as the "resistance": When are you going to get tired of always being wrong? They latch onto every pea brained conspiracy theory uncritically, and then always lose in the end. Because they believe every pathological liar like Adam Schiff.
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  407.  @matthewmosier8439  I think you're right. The Democrats will throw him under the bus, when this backfires legally. The John Edward case fell apart, because the DOJ/FEC realized that if they required everything to be a campaign expenditure, then you'd basically be legally requiring campaign fraud. The FEC rules say that Trump recorded this correctly, as a personal expense; now Bragg who is not a federal prosecutor, is deciding that it should be a campaign expense.
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  408. He deserves to be impeached just for Afghanistan, not to mention his other failures. It was a 20 year Nato operation to deny the Taliban the country, and in one month Biden handed it over to the taliban, with 80 billion in helicopters, and threw all our allies under the bus.
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  409. How is Adam Schiff even on this committee? Bald faced lying about a major multi-million dollar investigation is gross misconduct. That's like having a committee on bank fraud with Michael Cohen, or a committee on domestic violence with O. J. Simpson.
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  410. Most people haven't been fooled. The WH and media were lying about it. The only thing that changed was that the debate made it too obvious.
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  411.  @captainwho1  I suppose it comes with the territory, but these higher ups in these agencies, FBI, CIA, etc., are total snakes. They should have their funding cut. FBI agents had a program to frame Trump and his men, for payback for 2016. We don't know what they might do.
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  412.  @brunoheggli2888  That would be funny. Hunter Biden wouldn't last 1 month. He's be impeached and removed for financial fraud, using the WH as an illegal bordello, and cocaine charges.
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  413. This is a misapplication of the law. The Fourth Amendment bans general warrants, i.e. they're only supposed to issue a warrant to investigate a specified probable crime. The Democrats are using the Stalinist method. They have the target (Trump) and they're searching for the crime that will stick. This still wont stick. Because when it comes to presidential records, the Constitution sides with the president. The Archives is a bureaucracy, it doesn't have constitutional powers.
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  414. Joe Biden with laser eyes. The left can't meme. Similar avatars of Trump or Trump's head on a boxer's body work because the left is always calling his a "strong man", "brash and rude", or recently "toxic masculine".
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  415. Hunter's face looks almost as old as Biden's. The crack smoking took its toll.
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  416. There's a Stalinist infestation in our government.
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  417. "He doesn't grasp the seriousness of the charges." F_ck Fox. It's an indictment over presidential records and it doesn't mention the Pres. Records Act once, but it gives pages of campaign statements made by Trump in 2016, when he wasn't president.
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  418. Biden lied. He will do one thing different. He wont sign any bills, because the House wont pass his agenda.
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  419. Biden is guilty of all the things they put Paul Manafort in prison for. I don't expect much to happen from this, but after what lunatic Dem FBI agents and judges did to Gen. Flynn, they can throw the book at him.
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  420. I'm starting to think this is a spectacular self-own by Garland. The left is so incredibly arrogant, that Garland unwittingly pulled the most blatantly politically motivated and politically compromised move on any Attorney General. Even the judge who signed the warrant is an anti-Trump activist with posts on social media. These people were supposed to recuse themselves, even if it were legitimate.
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  421. I can't get over what an absolute f-ck-up Biden is. Literally every issue that he has been active on has been much much worse. After giving us record inflation, destroying US energy independence, tanking the stock market, recession, destroying Nato Afghanistan policy, now he's working on destroying US/Saudi relations.
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  422. Alvin Bragg has been letting violent street thugs out without bond. The guy who beat the 65 year old bodega owner had a rap sheet full of violent felonies, including attacking a cop. Then Bragg arrested the bodega owner for defending himself.
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  423. This trial is a fee campaign add for Trump.
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  424. Funding for NGOs, means funding for human traffickers.
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  425. One thing I learned after the Trump election is that the FBI, CIA behave like dirty cops. Consider the hell they've put people through, eg Flynn, but they just get a slap on the wrist for much more serious offenses.
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  426. Their demands don't sound realistic in today's economy. 39% pay raise, 32 hour work week with pay for 40 ?
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  427. I picture the FBI agents shutting down, like when Robocop tried to arrest the OCP ceo, when they see Hunter Biden's laptop.
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  428. This is the worst administration ever. They even lack basic common sense. Inflation is caused by a shortage of supply compared to the money in the economy. The one painless solution is to increase supply, but that's the one thing they will not do.
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  429. Urban liberals are always talking down to rural Americans, as being poor, ignorant and stupid. My grandfather lived in Oklahoma, worked as a mechanic, and when he died he owned two houses and 320 acres of farm land. They live in better conditions than city people in many respects.
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  430. This production reminds me of a scene from the Simpsons. The joke is the same. "The Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"
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  431. And they're saying that Ford is credible. This is creepy.
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  432. Mark Judge was interviewed. He gave a sworn statement to the senate, which stated he never saw this incident happen.
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  433. It's not. These Trump scandals are always based on media BS that's based on lies leaked by the agencies, here the DOJ, to the media. They want you to think there is some "process" to declassify. There isn't for the president, because it's a constitutional authority.
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  434.  @Benji77178  I'm not going to read the news to people like you. The stupid judge, Chutkan, said that Trump should be locked up. A legitimate trial, requires following established constitutional norms. Jack Smith and this judge are conducting a kangaroo court. And that means it will be thrown out on appeal.
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  435.  mentesinquietas9712  Yawn. The left can't meme. Putin endorsed Biden for 2024.
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  436. Dershowitz says the one serious charge in the indictment is related to the tape. But Smith isn't charging Trump over any documents at the Bedminster location. So Trump isn't even being charged over the "incriminating evidence".
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  437. It looks like the Democrats are looking to end Biden's candidacy in 2024.
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  438. Putin is thanking Biden for boosting the Russian economy with high oil prices.
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  439. "racist tweets" LOL Those people think saying G. Floyd died of fentanyl or using the OK hand gesture is racist.
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  440. It's not showing the wikipedia "context" to me. I suppose they took it down, probably because they realize this kangaroo court stunt is backfiring.
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  441. Make Iraq and Syria Babylon again.
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  442. Put simply, if you're for someone being framed with phony charges, then you are the bad guy. (Trump's records are completely accurate according to the FEC, and Bragg can't name the crime he was supposed to covering up.
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  443. The Biden regime is coddling Iran, because they want the Iran deal back. The problem is that nobody else supports it. The Iranian people are protesting the Mullahs, and the Arabs obviously consider Iran a serious threat, because it is. Biden was always a clown regarding foreign policy. He opposed the 1991 Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. But then he supported the 2003 invasion. He opposed the assassination of bin Laden. But then blew up an aid worker and 8 children in Afghanistan.
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  444.  @davidaponte7521  Iran is at war with US allies in the region. They have attack a Saudi Oil field with drones. They attacked the US embassy in Iraq. And they threaten Israel.
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  445. So Democrats have been calling everyone who's no an ideological leftist a "Fascist" for years. But they will defend a general who illegally usurps presidential powers. The principle of civilian control of the military is there for a very serious reason. Rome changed from a republic to a military dictatorship because the military had political power.
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  446. The Democrats have such double standards, that it's fun seeing it coming to bite them in the arse. President Trump took documents that he considered personal, as was his prerogative. But unlike Trump, Biden had no power of declassification while VP.
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  447. This is an incredibly petty case. First, it's being done by the Biden administration, against their top political challenger--straight up election cheating. Second, Trump had the power to declassify everything, and to declare it all personal documents. This is also throwing a wrench in the whole presidential records process. It forces presidents to act defensively, rather than cooperatively. Good job, Banana Republic BIden.
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  448. They wouldn't do it to a uniparty candidate, but they will to any America first candidate. FFS these traitors were waving Ukrainian flags in Congress yesterday.
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  449. @user-je4vd9sp5d Who cares. Letisha James is a crook and belongs in prison.
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  450.  @Johndoe345-k2d  Joe wont live for another 4 years.
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  451. Trump winning the primary was a foregone conclusion. These politically motivated indictments are not changing that. It just proves that the Democrats are willing to use all means to cheat.
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  452. Biden committed a prosecutable offense. Trump did not, because he had the power to declassify anything. That said, Biden wont be prosecuted. First there's a tradition of not prosecuting a sitting president, and they'll make up some reason (that's not in the statutes) such as Comey's "She didn't intend to".
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  453. He has a deluded savior complex from the western global establishment's BS narrative that he's fighting a threat to the democratic world order. But Ukraine is about the only country in Europe that doesn't have elections.
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  454. Nixon was a great president compared to Biden. The Democrats lie much more than he did.
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  455.  Dennis Lauterbach  "23 billion over 20 years." Huh? That's not a lot for the US government. Biden supplied the Taliban with 85 billion in arms and equipment in one week. Biden even gave the an airbase, Baghram. Any commander with any sense when retreating, destroys the equipment and bombs the airfields. Biden is dangerously incompetent, and he surrounds himself with people just as foolish as himself.
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  456. She said she will "eliminate taxes on tips". So she should talk to Trump to find out what to do about inflation.
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  457. It would be hilarious if the Reps gained a super majority in the House and Adam Schiff was removed for his lying.
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  458. She's afraid of flying. But took frequent vacations in Barbados, Belize and Hawaii.
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  459. I've always figured that the Biden presidency is punishment for Trump, and that's why they relish making the American people suffer.
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  460. There isn't a top secret binder there. He obvious declassified anything he took.
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  461. Biden wants to be a wartime president. (GW Bush's approval shot up to 90% after 911) But he wants to be a civil wartime president. The guy is demented.
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  462. The judge wont do sh1t.
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  463. I'm astonished that the left really, even after a year and a half, is still clueless that sanctimonious moral authoritarianism is not a winning strategy. The one candidate for the 2016 presidential race who does not give a fuck about it won. And they all doubled down on the same strategy.
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  464. The FEC does not consider Trump's payments to Cohen to be campaign expenditures. So end of story. Bragg has no authority to second guess the FEC. This is the equivalent of Bragg prosecuting someone for cheating on their federal taxes, when the IRS says you're in order. He has no business here.
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  465. No free pass for anyone who got us into this mess. Their goal was to get rid of Trump at all cost, and the costs were very high. The general public is paying heavily for it.
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  466. Sentencing Trump to jail would be a logistical and political nightmare for them. The Secret Service would take over a wing of the jail. They have legal supremacy over any local authorities. I don't even know if Fulton County could do it.
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  467. They're going to cancel and replace Biden, because he's losing to Trump in the polls.
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  468. Next year Trump should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Fani Willis and her team.
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  469. It's amazing that a natural born American wouldn't know that, let alone the former Speaker of the House. What else does she not know? That the police need a warrant to search your house. Or, that you have the "right to remain silent".
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  470. This is such good news. Even if you're not for Trump, these indictments just spit on the Constitution and legal precedent. That's an abuse of power always, but they're doing it for the dirtiest reason, to keep political power.
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  471.  @BlackShogun  Every president takes their documents after they leave office.
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  472.  @saltysocks1074  The VP can only declassify documents that he himself classified. Only the president has plenary power to declassify.
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  473.  @saltysocks1074  "Literally no" Um.. I said "only the president can declassify ANYTHING" What is the Nat. Security Advisor going to be able to declassify?
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  474.  @AlexM-jd2ro  Trump had presidential authority to both declassify and to keep his presidential records. There's no comparison.
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  475.  @saltysocks1074  The VP can only declassify that which he classified. That generally doesn't include much, because the VP generally doesn't make policy.
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  476.  @saltysocks1074  Document classification is an Article 2 Constitutional power of the Pres. as commander in chief.
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  477.  @Frederick-ck7fp  Trump was supposed to have classified documents. Those were his presidential records. Presidents always take their records with them. But the FBI brought their own folders with "highly classified" markings and they put Time magazines in them, took a picture and gave it to CNN. The whole thing was a political stunt.
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  478.  @saltysocks1074  In the case Department of the Navy v. Egan | 484 U.S. 518 (1988) The SCOTUS ruled that document classification originates with the President's Article 2 Commander in Chief powers.
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  479. What an insufferable demagogue and hack.
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  480. This is going nowhere. Here's the Supreme Court on declassifying records: "The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant." Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will." An attempted prosecution would be a debacle for the Democrats. An ex-president with a security clearance being prosecuted for declassifying documents.
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