Woa, a like for a Benson strip. Talks to Republic conventions is 2 states, no remorse, lots of whining about “persecution”. I’m sure he’s stirring up his legal team to come up with a plan to get out of it. P.S.: he won’t.
His second worst enemy might be his supporters. They encourage him to engage in behavior contrary to his own best interests. The actually delight in it. Someone with his pathological need for attention is not well served by their adoration.
Through the ages “story tellers” have been popular especially when they weave imaginary tales on the spur of the moment that can cast the listeners as the woeful victim protagonists rallying behind a strong, brave, unflinching, [irrational?] hero, while those they don’t understand or like — because they’re different — are cast as the ultra-evil antagonists relentlessly causing their strife.
In Politics, this has led to world wars … e.g. naziism : the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer
Or another example … Fascism is a set of right-wing political beliefs that includes strong control of society and the economy by the state, a powerful role for the armed forces, and the stopping of political opposition.
“If he has anything like what the complaint, what the indictment alleges — and of course, the government will have to prove it — then he has committed very serious crimes,” Bolton said. “This is a devastating indictment…Not only is it powerful, it’s very narrowly tailored. They didn’t throw everything up against the wall to see what would stick. This really is a rifle shot, and I think it should be the end of Donald Trump’s political career.”
House Republican’s paranoid rant claims Trump indictment is a DOJ ‘entrapment’ plan to ‘imprison’ conservatives
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, expanded on his highly-controversial paramilitary remarks from last week by issuing a statement baselessly claiming the 37-criminal felony count indictment of Donald Trump is part of the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s plan to “entrap” and imprison America’s conservatives.“This latest DOJ persecution against President Trump is an example of more than just weaponization of our DOJ/FBI against a conservative American leader, it’s an example of the now SOP [standard operating procedure] entrapment-staging that the FBI conducts,” Congressman Higgins said in a lengthy Sunday press release.
‘I want blood’: Rabid Trump supporters’ fury is building as arraignment nears
Donald Trump’s supporters are threatening war over the former president’s indictment on espionage-related charges.Republican lawmakers and politicians have responded to the indictment with incendiary rhetoric, while pro-Trump message boards have been ablaze with violent threats reminiscent of the online chatter before the Jan. 6 insurrection, reported Vice News.
The only viable “plan” to keep him out of prison is for trump and his enablers (including, unfortunately, the trial judge) to obfuscate and threaten civil unrest.
If Trump manages to escape his legal consequences and retake the presidency, you’d be well advised to send this ‘toon down the old memory hole.
He’s never been particularly smart or perceptive. I wonder if he wishes he’d never ridden that escalator. Think how many dupes he could have scammed over these years and no one would be watching.
I’ve been saying for years, that it will eventually take the GOP and like thinking supporters to recognize that the emperor has no clothes. Maybe a tipping point regarding the flim-flam grifter has been reached?
Top FBI official and J6 Fedsurrection hatchet man OBJECTS to Mar-a-Lago raid… raises 5 key objections in bombshell letter…
That these comments are coming not from any former senior FBI official, but the key hatchet man selected by Christopher Wray to conduct the federal entrapment operation in the Michigan Kidnapping plot as well as the sham Fedsurrection pipe bomb hoax, is simply remarkable.
D’Antuono’s objections, as stated to the Judiciary Committee, were as follows:
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1. The Miami Field Office did not conduct the search. The protocol in such matters is for the respective field offices to conduct the search and investigation in their jurisdiction. Mr. D’Antuono stated that he had “absolutely no idea” why this decision was made and questioned why the Miami Field Office was not taking the lead on this matter. Mr. D’Antuono stated that the FBI “learned a lot of stuff from [the] Crossfire Hurricane” investigation—notably “that the [FBI] Headquarters does not work the investigation, it is supposed to be the field offices working the investigations.” Mr. D’Antuono indicated that his “concern is that [the] DOJ was not following the same principles . . . .” In fact, as recently as May 2023, in response to the report of Special Counsel Durham, the FBI asserted that “investigations should be run out of the Field” and not from Washington, D.C.
The Department did not assign a U.S. Attorney’s Office to the matter. Yet again, this unusual decision is a deviation from protocol. D’Antuono expressed that he “never got a good answer” for this deviation from protocol. According to Jordan’s letter: . 8 Mr. D’Antuono was told that the National Security Division would be handling this matter—with Jay Bratt, who leads the Department’s counterintelligence division, as “the lead prosecutor on the case.” Mr. Bratt is the same Department lawyer who allegedly improperly pressured a lawyer representing an employee of President Trump. Mr. D’Antuono again noted his concern regarding lessons learned from Crossfire Hurricane, that the Justice Department was not following the principle that “Headquarters does not work the investigation . . . “
3. The FBI did not first seek consent to effectuate the search. In the exact language of the Jordan letter, Mr. D’Antuono recounted a meeting between FBI and Department officials during which the Department assertively pushed for the FBI to promptly execute the search warrant.12 Based upon his over-20-year tenure at the FBI, Mr. D’Antuono testified that he believed that the FBI prior to resorting to a search warrant, should have sought consent to search the premises. He testified that this outcome would have been “the best thing for all parties” involved— “[f]or the FBI, for former President Trump, and for the country . . . .” Mr. D’Antuono indicated a belief that either you or Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant, despite opposition from the line agents working this case in the WFO. Following that meeting, Mr. D’Antuono described how Justice Department counterintelligence official George Toscas—who also reportedly worked on the “Crossfire Hurricane and Clinton email investigations”—told him that FBI agents were ready to execute the warrant.M r. D’Antuono pushed back on the Department for trying to unilaterally allocate FBI resources.
4. The FBI refused to wait for President Trump’s attorney to be present before executing the search. Mr. D’Antuono testified that the FBI sought to exclude President Trump’s attorney from the search, a move with which Mr. D’Antuono disagreed.
Even Geraldo thinks Biden regime’s banana republic tactics are a bridge too far:
The veteran journalist discussed the unprecedented nature of the DOJ’s aggressive action against the former president on Friday’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” telling co-host Steve Doocy that Smith’s charging of Trump is “preposterous” and likening the documents involved to an “overdue library book” that didn’t merit the FBI’s storming of the ex-president’s South Florida residence.
“It was dumb, it was arrogant and it was borderline illegal,” Rivera said. “What it was not is appropriate as the basis for a seven-count federal indictment against the president, a former president of the United States for the first time in the history of our republic. This is like… you didn’t give your library book back, are you gonna get scolded, so you send the cops to get you to comply with the return to the National Archives?”
“It really is preposterous,” he added. “I’m very upset about it. I think that it is an attempt whether conscious or unconscious to affect the election of 2024. It will not I believe effect that, his standing, he may still be running for president as an indicted person, or even a convicted person because there’s nothing in the Constitution of the United States that bars a person under indictment or even a federal convict from running for president.”
‘Jan. 6 is gonna look like a playground’: Supporter says ‘militias’ waiting on ‘order’ from Trump
A Trump supporter on Monday warned of violence from militias following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Ukrainian-American journalist Oliya Scootercaster shared footage of a man named Pat, who said he had been in contact with militia groups.
Laughing off GOP’s Clay Higgins’ civil war threat would be ‘painfully naive’: militia expert
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) prompted a lot of confused laughter with his tweeted response to Donald Trump’s indictment, but the chuckles died down when a militia expert deciphered his message as a threat.Author Jeff Sharlet sounded the alarm Friday and followed up with a column for The Atlantic probing the congressman’s background as a military veteran and law enforcement officer who resigned from two departments over excessive force and other questionable behavior that he doesn’t shy away from mentioning.
Plenary: unqualified; absolute:SIMILAR: unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, unqualified, absoluteNormally, of course, the president is subject to the duly passed laws of the United States Congress. However, regarding national security, the president cannot be subject to Congress. He has plenary, or absolute, power in that area.
the court explained in National Federation of Employees v. United States, 688 F.Supp. 671 (D.D.C. 1988), Truman exercised that authority to classify documents:
In other words, national security and the classification system are the president’s bailiwick, and Congress, as a co-equal branch of government, cannot constrain that authority.
In Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886 (1961) the Court concluded that, when a branch of government has plenary power, even most due process requirements must fall before it, especially when national security is involved:
As these and other cases make clear, consideration of what procedures due process may require under any given set of circumstances must begin with a determination of the precise nature of the government function involved, as well as of the private interest that has been affected by governmental action. Where it has been possible to characterize that private interest…as a mere privilege subject to the Executive’s plenary power, it has traditionally been held that notice and hearing are not constitutionally required.
The president is the ultimate authority on national security. Congress cannot decide for him what is classified and what isn’t nor can Congress or executive branch employees decide whether he made reasonable national security decisions. Likewise, people who work for agencies such as the National Archives, which started the fuss, cannot claim that laws or regulations override their boss’s plenary constitutional power. Once Trump took those documents from the White House while still president, he effectively and finally determined that they did not implicate national security.
In this, Trump’s situation differs greatly from that of Hillary Clinton’s, Joe Biden’s, and Mike Pence’s. All have admitted to violating congressional national security laws, and none had the authority to do so. Comparing them to Trump is not an apples-to-apples comparison showing the same law unequally applied. It is a felon-to-innocent man comparison, with Clinton, Biden, and Pence deserving lifetime lock-up and Trump being free from all charges of wrongdoing. – American Thinker
Hey guys, we have another new foaming-at-the- mouth cult member in cdbro here. Lots of supposed facts and NO verifiable links for evidence, just hearsay. American Thinker is not a valid source but is strongly biased Right. Geraldo Rivera is not a reliable source and has no special knowledge or training to justify his opinions. Finally, there is no link to the “bombshell letter” that he quotes extensively from. Truly a massive waste of space.
Hurry up dims, gotta get Trump, aka, cover up the noise from the incoming bombs:
Rudy Giuliani joined Rita Cosby on Newsmax on Saturday morning to discuss the latest Congressional investigations into the Biden Family Crimes.
Rudy, who warned the American public about the Biden Family’s international pay for play scandals years ago, told Rita Cosby that he has a witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts!
Rita Cosby: Are you confident that now the House Committee is going to get to the bottom of that? Because that is stunning.
Rudy Giuliani: The reality is that we gave it to them in January of 2020, and the Pittsburgh US attorney was very interested. And then in a very strange move, Barr took it away from him, gave it to the US attorney in Delaware. He didn’t do a d@mn thing about it. And the woman was under threat of death. So we tried to put pressure on them to do something. Look, suppose she was lying. You would find out in a minute she wouldn’t have the accounts. She either has the goods or she doesn’t. And it’s absurd not to interview her. She claims she had bank accounts and that the Biden’s got a lot more money under the table than already. We had $8 million on the table that we could prove, which they could prove tomorrow if they wanted to they could have proved it three years ago, Rita. They could have indicted him before he ran for president and obviated this problem. We could have found out if he was innocent or guilty in January of 2020. All the witnesses were there, and I have him on tape like Schokin. Schokin was willing to come and testify.
For what, when you come down to it, is Trump’s crime? Please don’t tell me it has something to do with his possession of classified documents or “obstruction” of an official proceeding. Former presidents have very wide latitude with respect to managing documents, as was set forth explicitly by the Presidential Records Act in the late 1970s.
It’s a different matter with the 1,800 boxes of documents that Joe Biden glommed onto in his days in the Senate and as vice president. I believe they are still moldering under his Corvette in the garage of his Delaware residence, having wound up there after a trip through D.C.’s Chinatown and the Penn Biden Center, a facility paid for, as was Biden’s $900,000 stipend at the University of Pennsylvania, by China.
This is the moment we return to Hillary Clinton and her “home-brew” email server through which she ran all manner of classified correspondence. According to disgraced former FBI Director James “Higher Loyalty” Comey, “no reasonable prosecutor” would go after Hillary, even though she deleted thousands of emails and destroyed mobile phones and hard drives after being subpoenaed.
If you are hearing the winds murmur “two-tier system of justice” you are not imagining things. Donald Trump, as president, could declassify anything he wished. Neither Joe Biden nor Hillary Clinton had that authority. Yet Trump has to show up in Court on Tuesday to face criminal charges, while Hillary and (so far) Joe Biden skate.
I say “so far” with respect to Biden because things are heating up for the Senescent One. Margot Cleveland, writing at The Federalist, noted the curious timing of the Trump indictment: “The news of the indictment quickly suffocated coverage of a confidential human source’s claim that the Ukrainian founder of Burisma had paid a $5 million bribe to Joe Biden.” Hmm.
Nothing to see here, gents, move along please. – Roger Kimball, AG
With Trump’s indictment, DOJ/FBI and Jack Smith just worm holed the entire Crossfire Hurricane docs @realDonaldTrump declassified- that was always one of their main objectives… Why don’t they want those released, how can they defy a presidential order?
Micheal Goodwin, NYP:If federal prosecutors had empaneled a grand jury and obtained a search warrant for Joe Biden’s properties and if FBI agents had put his aides, employees and lawyers under oath, scoured their phones and emails and confronted them with evidence to get them to talk, agents would have found that Biden knowingly kept classified documents for many years in his homes and offices, including in the four years between his being vice president and president.
Honest agents unencumbered by any political bias of their own or their bosses’ might also have discovered that Hunter Biden and other family members and associates had access to the supposedly secret documents and possibly used them in drawing up their lucrative business schemes with foreign officials and businesses.Former President Trump said Saturday he “will never yield” to President Biden’s “Stalinist” tactics, his first comments since the unsealing of a 49-page, 37-count federal indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents.
I also believe that had the Department of Justice empaneled a grand jury and executed a search warrant on Hillary Clinton’s home and offices in 2013 or 2014 and seized her private computer server, phones and electronic devices, along with the devices of her aides and interviewed her lawyers under oath, FBI agents would have found many thousands of unsecured critical documents that were still in her possession long after she left the Department of State.
The federal case against Trump now, even if it meets the standard of the law, cannot be divorced from the recent history of election meddling, given that he is the leading GOP candidate against Biden. Then there’s the newest dimension to Joe’s likely misconduct — the discovery that the FBI has been sitting on a charge since 2017, and renewed at least twice since by an informant, that he accepted a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian businessman.
Reports say Hunter also got $5 million in the same deal, and there are suggestions the money came from the head of Burisma, the corrupt energy company that hired Hunter for its board of directors and paid him millions while Joe was Obama’s point man for Ukraine.
Where’s the grand jury on that case? Where are the subpoenas for Biden’s bank records and a house raid searching for evidence? Where is the media firestorm?
Nowhere, that’s where, because Garland and the FBI have been sitting on the Biden bribe allegation without either confirming it or dismissing it.
We know the allegation exists only because a tipster told congressional Republicans, who demanded to see the FBI report of the informant’s story.
The possibility of Joe Biden’s guilt has many implications, including the specter that Congress impeached the wrong man in 2019.House Democrats impeached Trump over a phone call with the president of Ukraine, in which Trump asked for help investigating whether the Bidens engaged in corrupt actions there when Joe was vice president.
It was an unfair, purely partisan impeachment under any circumstances, but even more so if Biden really was guilty of corruption.
Had that been discovered then, Trump would have been re-elected and Biden would be the one facing criminal charges.
Sharing classified docs with your crackhead son, no problem…
Hunter Biden Email About Ukraine Suggests First Son Was Privy to Dad Joe’s Classified Documents
In the latest development to come shortly after President Biden was accused of receiving $5 million in bribes from an executive from the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, an email found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop found that the first son may have been privy to classified information during his father’s time as vice president.
Biden special counsel Robert Hur is now being urged to look into the matter, according to the New York Post, with a specific focus on the “uncharacteristically sophisticated” email sent by Hunter to business partner Devon Archer on April 13, 2014 – just one week before then-Vice President Biden visited Ukraine.
The email allegedly listed 22 points about Ukraine’s political situation at the time, and it reportedly provided a detailed analysis of a then-upcoming election.
The email also reportedly anticipated Russia’s “destabilization campaign” against Ukraine that ultimately materialized in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin first invaded the neighboring nation.
The investigation will be crucial in determining if there is any overlap with classified documents found in President Biden’s Delaware home or various offices, the Post reported, particularly after it was revealed Hunter was living at the Biden family home in Delaware while classified documents were allegedly being improperly stored in the garage. Connor Surmonte, Radar
The National Archives and Records Administration refuses to release several emails and communications between First Son Hunter Biden and his father’s administration, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The Biden staffers claim that they are protected under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that covers communications between the president and his advisors.
The news comes on the heels of America First Legal releasing several heavily-redacted emails they received from NARA between Hunter and his father’s office while Joe was still serving as Vice President to Barack Obama.
The emails were obtained through a FOLA request and had been slowly rolling out in batches at a time.
One of the emails of interest includes communication between Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin and the Office of the Vice President about a supposed “China Lunch” with then-Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011.
2024 long-shot candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is in Miami and he’s fired up, calling what’s happening to President Trump “politicization” of the judicial system. He’s also calling on every single presidential candidate on the left and right to vow that if need be, they will pardon President Trump.
Here’s what Vivek said outside of the Miami court house: “I challenge every US Presidential candidate to join me in standing for TRUTH. Commit to pardon Donald Trump for these federal charges on Day 1, or explain why you won’t. No one should hide. Not Biden. Not DeSantis. Not Haley. Not Pence. Not RFK. Not Scott. Not anyone. Principles over politics.”
The TDS is strong here. I’ll wait for the evidence and come to my own conclusion. The media has had far too much power for far too long. No offense given.
No matter your opinion on Trump or any of the players in the Republican party, you’d have to be blind not to see the shenanigans of the deep state over the past seven years constitute little more than a personal vendetta – a way to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential race and to protect themselves from exposure of the most unfathomable corruption in their own party.
A Trump victory looked to be a longshot against one of the weakest candidates the country has ever known, but Democrats aren’t going to take a chance. They know the only sure-fire way to ensure another four years of Biden, despite the disastrous path the country has been on since the day he took over the Oval Office, was to knock Trump out completely. And they won’t stop until they succeed.
Conspiracy theories written in 2018… now all proven true:
led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Nunes says the documents will show that, in order to spy on the Trump campaign, there was FBI abuse of the FISA application process.
Given the seriousness of these charges, and the fact that Democrats in Congress have leaked like a sieve to their favorite lefty media stars, you’d think they’d be willing, eager even, to release as much information as possible. After all, they’re the ones who allege Trump “colluded” with the Russians.
But you’d be wrong. In fact, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and Sens. Chuck Schumer and Mark Warner hit the panic button, sending a letter Tuesday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats expressing “profound alarm” at the documents’ release and calling it a “brazen abuse of power.”
Given their routine and incredibly casual treatment of past actual secrets, it’s hard to take the Democrats seriously at all when they express concern about classified information being made public.
Sabotaging TrumpNo, what they’re really worried about is that Nunes is right. There are highly questionable connections between officials in the Justice Department, FBI, CIA and Hillary Clinton campaign. They suggest that U.S. officials actively used their offices and taxpayer funds to sabotage Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. If so, it’s a criminal conspiracy. People should go to prison.
Yet, shockingly, while Trump ordered the “immediate declassification” of the materials, the Deep State has other ideas. Justice, the FBI and the National Intelligence director’s office are slow-walking the release. They plan to redact the documents, despite Trump’s lawful order.
But that’s not all. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a secretly shot video of a leftist Department of Justice employee admitting that “she does research on the home addresses and license plates of private individuals who are then targeted for loud protests at their homes by socialist demonstrators.” The employee, Allison Hrabar, was one of the people who disrupted a private dinner by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she ate in a Washington, D.C. restaurant.
Hrabar reportedly used a Justice Department LexisNexis account for her research, and others apparently do too. So taxpayers are helping to fund their anti-American, pro-socialist demonstrations.
That wasn’t all, however. In yet another video, a State Department employee named Stuart Karaffa, a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America, talked about engaging in his far-left politics while working as a bureaucrat-diplomat.
In the video, Trump-hater Karaffa vows to “resist everything … every level. F#@k sh#t up!” Now that’s diplomacy! Who hires these people?
Well, Lisa, d@mmed if you do and d@mmed if you don’t, ergo, you must be doing something right. In which case, my hearty applause! As I say to my adult daughter: YOU GO, GIRL!!
DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith is one of the only lawyers in America to achieve this EMBARRASSING status…
We are not governed by a group of highly intelligent “James Bond” types; it’s more like the Keystone Cops. The situation with DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith is a perfect example. He’s currently doing the regime’s “dirty work” by attempting to destroy President Trump through this unjust and morally wrong prosecution linked to the so-called “classified docs” scandal concocted by the left.
Mr. Smith, whom the left loves to praise as this amazing legal genius, is far from it. The reality is that Mr. Smith is a clumsy overreacher, and he holds the rather embarrassing distinction of being one of the few lawyers in America to have his conviction unanimously overturned by the entire Supreme Court. Yes, every single justice agreed.
Once again, Jack was out to do the bidding of the left by targeting a Republican. Back in 2014, he went after Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and managed to convict him on corruption charges. However, two years later, the whole Supreme Court threw out the conviction, leaving poor Mr. Smith with egg all over his face.
McDonnell was, at the time, considered a major threat to Democrats and a top contender for the presidency. So it’s no wonder Obama unleashed Jack Smith on him.
You know it’s bad when even RBG thought he was off his rocker. Mr. Smith’s conviction was so seriously flawed, that it created an opportunity for numerous other people to pursue justice. This further proves that our elites are not highly-skilled warriors for justice. They are partisan hacks, twisting our laws and policies into pretzels so they can punish their political enemies and gain more power. -Revolver News
cdbro & Radish the wordsmith, you two sure like hearing yourself talk, almost like a paid troll. Do you have an original thought of your own or are you finally 100% thoughtless robots?
mourdac Premium Member 11 months ago
Woa, a like for a Benson strip. Talks to Republic conventions is 2 states, no remorse, lots of whining about “persecution”. I’m sure he’s stirring up his legal team to come up with a plan to get out of it. P.S.: he won’t.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Finally admitting that Trump is Satanic and has the luck of the devil.
Arthur I Romeo Premium Member 11 months ago
And always has been.
Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago
Who are you and what have you done with Ms Benson?
Bookworm 11 months ago
“Et tu, Lisa? Then fall Caesar!” /s
StackableContainers 11 months ago
His second worst enemy might be his supporters. They encourage him to engage in behavior contrary to his own best interests. The actually delight in it. Someone with his pathological need for attention is not well served by their adoration.
klbdds 11 months ago
He kind of reminds me Zorro; An elusive criminal defying a bumbling Sgt. Garcia like government.
superposition 11 months ago
Through the ages “story tellers” have been popular especially when they weave imaginary tales on the spur of the moment that can cast the listeners as the woeful victim protagonists rallying behind a strong, brave, unflinching, [irrational?] hero, while those they don’t understand or like — because they’re different — are cast as the ultra-evil antagonists relentlessly causing their strife.
In Politics, this has led to world wars … e.g. naziism : the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer
Or another example … Fascism is a set of right-wing political beliefs that includes strong control of society and the economy by the state, a powerful role for the armed forces, and the stopping of political opposition.
Ontman 11 months ago
Lisa has turned her back on her hero.
preacherman 11 months ago
Oh, so, like Flip Wilson, Dump’s defense is going to be “the devil made me do it.”
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius
198.23.5.11 11 months ago
As the old joke goes—
“that man is his own worst enemy”
“Not while I’m around,he isn’t”
charliekane 11 months ago
America’s worst enemy.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
“If he has anything like what the complaint, what the indictment alleges — and of course, the government will have to prove it — then he has committed very serious crimes,” Bolton said. “This is a devastating indictment…Not only is it powerful, it’s very narrowly tailored. They didn’t throw everything up against the wall to see what would stick. This really is a rifle shot, and I think it should be the end of Donald Trump’s political career.”
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
House Republican’s paranoid rant claims Trump indictment is a DOJ ‘entrapment’ plan to ‘imprison’ conservatives
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, expanded on his highly-controversial paramilitary remarks from last week by issuing a statement baselessly claiming the 37-criminal felony count indictment of Donald Trump is part of the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s plan to “entrap” and imprison America’s conservatives.“This latest DOJ persecution against President Trump is an example of more than just weaponization of our DOJ/FBI against a conservative American leader, it’s an example of the now SOP [standard operating procedure] entrapment-staging that the FBI conducts,” Congressman Higgins said in a lengthy Sunday press release.
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The head of the FBI is a Trump appointee.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
‘I want blood’: Rabid Trump supporters’ fury is building as arraignment nears
Donald Trump’s supporters are threatening war over the former president’s indictment on espionage-related charges.Republican lawmakers and politicians have responded to the indictment with incendiary rhetoric, while pro-Trump message boards have been ablaze with violent threats reminiscent of the online chatter before the Jan. 6 insurrection, reported Vice News.
quixotic3 11 months ago
Sorry, Lisa, that ship has sailed.
The only viable “plan” to keep him out of prison is for trump and his enablers (including, unfortunately, the trial judge) to obfuscate and threaten civil unrest.
If Trump manages to escape his legal consequences and retake the presidency, you’d be well advised to send this ‘toon down the old memory hole.
librarylady59 11 months ago
He’s never been particularly smart or perceptive. I wonder if he wishes he’d never ridden that escalator. Think how many dupes he could have scammed over these years and no one would be watching.
Havel 11 months ago
I’ve been saying for years, that it will eventually take the GOP and like thinking supporters to recognize that the emperor has no clothes. Maybe a tipping point regarding the flim-flam grifter has been reached?
lawguy05 11 months ago
I’m supporting the Republican nominee – whomever it may be. Who needs enemies when our own lambasts our own?
cdbro 11 months ago
Top FBI official and J6 Fedsurrection hatchet man OBJECTS to Mar-a-Lago raid… raises 5 key objections in bombshell letter…
That these comments are coming not from any former senior FBI official, but the key hatchet man selected by Christopher Wray to conduct the federal entrapment operation in the Michigan Kidnapping plot as well as the sham Fedsurrection pipe bomb hoax, is simply remarkable.
D’Antuono’s objections, as stated to the Judiciary Committee, were as follows:
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1. The Miami Field Office did not conduct the search. The protocol in such matters is for the respective field offices to conduct the search and investigation in their jurisdiction. Mr. D’Antuono stated that he had “absolutely no idea” why this decision was made and questioned why the Miami Field Office was not taking the lead on this matter. Mr. D’Antuono stated that the FBI “learned a lot of stuff from [the] Crossfire Hurricane” investigation—notably “that the [FBI] Headquarters does not work the investigation, it is supposed to be the field offices working the investigations.” Mr. D’Antuono indicated that his “concern is that [the] DOJ was not following the same principles . . . .” In fact, as recently as May 2023, in response to the report of Special Counsel Durham, the FBI asserted that “investigations should be run out of the Field” and not from Washington, D.C.
cdbro 11 months ago
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The Department did not assign a U.S. Attorney’s Office to the matter. Yet again, this unusual decision is a deviation from protocol. D’Antuono expressed that he “never got a good answer” for this deviation from protocol. According to Jordan’s letter: . 8 Mr. D’Antuono was told that the National Security Division would be handling this matter—with Jay Bratt, who leads the Department’s counterintelligence division, as “the lead prosecutor on the case.” Mr. Bratt is the same Department lawyer who allegedly improperly pressured a lawyer representing an employee of President Trump. Mr. D’Antuono again noted his concern regarding lessons learned from Crossfire Hurricane, that the Justice Department was not following the principle that “Headquarters does not work the investigation . . . “
cdbro 11 months ago
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3. The FBI did not first seek consent to effectuate the search. In the exact language of the Jordan letter, Mr. D’Antuono recounted a meeting between FBI and Department officials during which the Department assertively pushed for the FBI to promptly execute the search warrant.12 Based upon his over-20-year tenure at the FBI, Mr. D’Antuono testified that he believed that the FBI prior to resorting to a search warrant, should have sought consent to search the premises. He testified that this outcome would have been “the best thing for all parties” involved— “[f]or the FBI, for former President Trump, and for the country . . . .” Mr. D’Antuono indicated a belief that either you or Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant, despite opposition from the line agents working this case in the WFO. Following that meeting, Mr. D’Antuono described how Justice Department counterintelligence official George Toscas—who also reportedly worked on the “Crossfire Hurricane and Clinton email investigations”—told him that FBI agents were ready to execute the warrant.M r. D’Antuono pushed back on the Department for trying to unilaterally allocate FBI resources.
Masterskrain Premium Member 11 months ago
TFG: “Open mouth, insert foot, chew vigorously.”
TFG’s Lawyers: “Won’t he EVER SHUT UP????”
cdbro 11 months ago
4/4
4. The FBI refused to wait for President Trump’s attorney to be present before executing the search. Mr. D’Antuono testified that the FBI sought to exclude President Trump’s attorney from the search, a move with which Mr. D’Antuono disagreed.
cdbro 11 months ago
Even Geraldo thinks Biden regime’s banana republic tactics are a bridge too far:
The veteran journalist discussed the unprecedented nature of the DOJ’s aggressive action against the former president on Friday’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” telling co-host Steve Doocy that Smith’s charging of Trump is “preposterous” and likening the documents involved to an “overdue library book” that didn’t merit the FBI’s storming of the ex-president’s South Florida residence.
“It was dumb, it was arrogant and it was borderline illegal,” Rivera said. “What it was not is appropriate as the basis for a seven-count federal indictment against the president, a former president of the United States for the first time in the history of our republic. This is like… you didn’t give your library book back, are you gonna get scolded, so you send the cops to get you to comply with the return to the National Archives?”
“It really is preposterous,” he added. “I’m very upset about it. I think that it is an attempt whether conscious or unconscious to affect the election of 2024. It will not I believe effect that, his standing, he may still be running for president as an indicted person, or even a convicted person because there’s nothing in the Constitution of the United States that bars a person under indictment or even a federal convict from running for president.”
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Arrogant republicans are proud of their criminal leader and support him over the laws of the USA.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
‘Jan. 6 is gonna look like a playground’: Supporter says ‘militias’ waiting on ‘order’ from Trump
A Trump supporter on Monday warned of violence from militias following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Ukrainian-American journalist Oliya Scootercaster shared footage of a man named Pat, who said he had been in contact with militia groups.
zxcar1 11 months ago
Rivera??? He hasn’t been relevant since he opened The Tomb Of Al Capone’s Air and the Magnum PI look-a-like fad went away.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Laughing off GOP’s Clay Higgins’ civil war threat would be ‘painfully naive’: militia expert
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) prompted a lot of confused laughter with his tweeted response to Donald Trump’s indictment, but the chuckles died down when a militia expert deciphered his message as a threat.Author Jeff Sharlet sounded the alarm Friday and followed up with a column for The Atlantic probing the congressman’s background as a military veteran and law enforcement officer who resigned from two departments over excessive force and other questionable behavior that he doesn’t shy away from mentioning.
cdbro 11 months ago
Plenary: unqualified; absolute:SIMILAR: unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, unqualified, absoluteNormally, of course, the president is subject to the duly passed laws of the United States Congress. However, regarding national security, the president cannot be subject to Congress. He has plenary, or absolute, power in that area.
the court explained in National Federation of Employees v. United States, 688 F.Supp. 671 (D.D.C. 1988), Truman exercised that authority to classify documents:
In other words, national security and the classification system are the president’s bailiwick, and Congress, as a co-equal branch of government, cannot constrain that authority.
In Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886 (1961) the Court concluded that, when a branch of government has plenary power, even most due process requirements must fall before it, especially when national security is involved:
As these and other cases make clear, consideration of what procedures due process may require under any given set of circumstances must begin with a determination of the precise nature of the government function involved, as well as of the private interest that has been affected by governmental action. Where it has been possible to characterize that private interest…as a mere privilege subject to the Executive’s plenary power, it has traditionally been held that notice and hearing are not constitutionally required.
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cdbro 11 months ago
The president is the ultimate authority on national security. Congress cannot decide for him what is classified and what isn’t nor can Congress or executive branch employees decide whether he made reasonable national security decisions. Likewise, people who work for agencies such as the National Archives, which started the fuss, cannot claim that laws or regulations override their boss’s plenary constitutional power. Once Trump took those documents from the White House while still president, he effectively and finally determined that they did not implicate national security.
In this, Trump’s situation differs greatly from that of Hillary Clinton’s, Joe Biden’s, and Mike Pence’s. All have admitted to violating congressional national security laws, and none had the authority to do so. Comparing them to Trump is not an apples-to-apples comparison showing the same law unequally applied. It is a felon-to-innocent man comparison, with Clinton, Biden, and Pence deserving lifetime lock-up and Trump being free from all charges of wrongdoing. – American Thinker
braindead Premium Member 11 months ago
Notice that Lisa is NOT admitting that The Messiah did anything wrong. Only that he says stupid stuff.
martens 11 months ago
Hey guys, we have another new foaming-at-the- mouth cult member in cdbro here. Lots of supposed facts and NO verifiable links for evidence, just hearsay. American Thinker is not a valid source but is strongly biased Right. Geraldo Rivera is not a reliable source and has no special knowledge or training to justify his opinions. Finally, there is no link to the “bombshell letter” that he quotes extensively from. Truly a massive waste of space.
cdbro 11 months ago
Hurry up dims, gotta get Trump, aka, cover up the noise from the incoming bombs:
Rudy Giuliani joined Rita Cosby on Newsmax on Saturday morning to discuss the latest Congressional investigations into the Biden Family Crimes.
Rudy, who warned the American public about the Biden Family’s international pay for play scandals years ago, told Rita Cosby that he has a witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts!
Rita Cosby: Are you confident that now the House Committee is going to get to the bottom of that? Because that is stunning.
Rudy Giuliani: The reality is that we gave it to them in January of 2020, and the Pittsburgh US attorney was very interested. And then in a very strange move, Barr took it away from him, gave it to the US attorney in Delaware. He didn’t do a d@mn thing about it. And the woman was under threat of death. So we tried to put pressure on them to do something. Look, suppose she was lying. You would find out in a minute she wouldn’t have the accounts. She either has the goods or she doesn’t. And it’s absurd not to interview her. She claims she had bank accounts and that the Biden’s got a lot more money under the table than already. We had $8 million on the table that we could prove, which they could prove tomorrow if they wanted to they could have proved it three years ago, Rita. They could have indicted him before he ran for president and obviated this problem. We could have found out if he was innocent or guilty in January of 2020. All the witnesses were there, and I have him on tape like Schokin. Schokin was willing to come and testify.
cdbro 11 months ago
For what, when you come down to it, is Trump’s crime? Please don’t tell me it has something to do with his possession of classified documents or “obstruction” of an official proceeding. Former presidents have very wide latitude with respect to managing documents, as was set forth explicitly by the Presidential Records Act in the late 1970s.
It’s a different matter with the 1,800 boxes of documents that Joe Biden glommed onto in his days in the Senate and as vice president. I believe they are still moldering under his Corvette in the garage of his Delaware residence, having wound up there after a trip through D.C.’s Chinatown and the Penn Biden Center, a facility paid for, as was Biden’s $900,000 stipend at the University of Pennsylvania, by China.
This is the moment we return to Hillary Clinton and her “home-brew” email server through which she ran all manner of classified correspondence. According to disgraced former FBI Director James “Higher Loyalty” Comey, “no reasonable prosecutor” would go after Hillary, even though she deleted thousands of emails and destroyed mobile phones and hard drives after being subpoenaed.
If you are hearing the winds murmur “two-tier system of justice” you are not imagining things. Donald Trump, as president, could declassify anything he wished. Neither Joe Biden nor Hillary Clinton had that authority. Yet Trump has to show up in Court on Tuesday to face criminal charges, while Hillary and (so far) Joe Biden skate.
I say “so far” with respect to Biden because things are heating up for the Senescent One. Margot Cleveland, writing at The Federalist, noted the curious timing of the Trump indictment: “The news of the indictment quickly suffocated coverage of a confidential human source’s claim that the Ukrainian founder of Burisma had paid a $5 million bribe to Joe Biden.” Hmm.
Nothing to see here, gents, move along please. – Roger Kimball, AG
cdbro 11 months ago
Kash Patel
@Kash
With Trump’s indictment, DOJ/FBI and Jack Smith just worm holed the entire Crossfire Hurricane docs @realDonaldTrump declassified- that was always one of their main objectives… Why don’t they want those released, how can they defy a presidential order?
All Roads lead back to Russia GateVidrinath Premium Member 11 months ago
I continue to think Lisa will gush over him once he gets the nomination.
tpcox928 11 months ago
The rhetoric from the Right is frightening. If it is based on ignorance, that is one concern; if it is maliciousness, it is another concern.
Mongo 11 months ago
Now do Joe Bribe-den
cdbro 11 months ago
Micheal Goodwin, NYP:If federal prosecutors had empaneled a grand jury and obtained a search warrant for Joe Biden’s properties and if FBI agents had put his aides, employees and lawyers under oath, scoured their phones and emails and confronted them with evidence to get them to talk, agents would have found that Biden knowingly kept classified documents for many years in his homes and offices, including in the four years between his being vice president and president.
Honest agents unencumbered by any political bias of their own or their bosses’ might also have discovered that Hunter Biden and other family members and associates had access to the supposedly secret documents and possibly used them in drawing up their lucrative business schemes with foreign officials and businesses.Former President Trump said Saturday he “will never yield” to President Biden’s “Stalinist” tactics, his first comments since the unsealing of a 49-page, 37-count federal indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents.
I also believe that had the Department of Justice empaneled a grand jury and executed a search warrant on Hillary Clinton’s home and offices in 2013 or 2014 and seized her private computer server, phones and electronic devices, along with the devices of her aides and interviewed her lawyers under oath, FBI agents would have found many thousands of unsecured critical documents that were still in her possession long after she left the Department of State.
cdbro 11 months ago
The federal case against Trump now, even if it meets the standard of the law, cannot be divorced from the recent history of election meddling, given that he is the leading GOP candidate against Biden. Then there’s the newest dimension to Joe’s likely misconduct — the discovery that the FBI has been sitting on a charge since 2017, and renewed at least twice since by an informant, that he accepted a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian businessman.
Reports say Hunter also got $5 million in the same deal, and there are suggestions the money came from the head of Burisma, the corrupt energy company that hired Hunter for its board of directors and paid him millions while Joe was Obama’s point man for Ukraine.
Where’s the grand jury on that case? Where are the subpoenas for Biden’s bank records and a house raid searching for evidence? Where is the media firestorm?
Nowhere, that’s where, because Garland and the FBI have been sitting on the Biden bribe allegation without either confirming it or dismissing it.
We know the allegation exists only because a tipster told congressional Republicans, who demanded to see the FBI report of the informant’s story.
The possibility of Joe Biden’s guilt has many implications, including the specter that Congress impeached the wrong man in 2019.House Democrats impeached Trump over a phone call with the president of Ukraine, in which Trump asked for help investigating whether the Bidens engaged in corrupt actions there when Joe was vice president.
It was an unfair, purely partisan impeachment under any circumstances, but even more so if Biden really was guilty of corruption.
Had that been discovered then, Trump would have been re-elected and Biden would be the one facing criminal charges.
cdbro 11 months ago
Sharing classified docs with your crackhead son, no problem…
Hunter Biden Email About Ukraine Suggests First Son Was Privy to Dad Joe’s Classified Documents
In the latest development to come shortly after President Biden was accused of receiving $5 million in bribes from an executive from the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, an email found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop found that the first son may have been privy to classified information during his father’s time as vice president.
Biden special counsel Robert Hur is now being urged to look into the matter, according to the New York Post, with a specific focus on the “uncharacteristically sophisticated” email sent by Hunter to business partner Devon Archer on April 13, 2014 – just one week before then-Vice President Biden visited Ukraine.
The email allegedly listed 22 points about Ukraine’s political situation at the time, and it reportedly provided a detailed analysis of a then-upcoming election.
The email also reportedly anticipated Russia’s “destabilization campaign” against Ukraine that ultimately materialized in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin first invaded the neighboring nation.
The investigation will be crucial in determining if there is any overlap with classified documents found in President Biden’s Delaware home or various offices, the Post reported, particularly after it was revealed Hunter was living at the Biden family home in Delaware while classified documents were allegedly being improperly stored in the garage. Connor Surmonte, Radar
cdbro 11 months ago
NARA is partisan “Conspiracy Theory”…
The National Archives and Records Administration refuses to release several emails and communications between First Son Hunter Biden and his father’s administration, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The Biden staffers claim that they are protected under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that covers communications between the president and his advisors.
The news comes on the heels of America First Legal releasing several heavily-redacted emails they received from NARA between Hunter and his father’s office while Joe was still serving as Vice President to Barack Obama.
The emails were obtained through a FOLA request and had been slowly rolling out in batches at a time.
One of the emails of interest includes communication between Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin and the Office of the Vice President about a supposed “China Lunch” with then-Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011.
cdbro 11 months ago
2024 long-shot candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is in Miami and he’s fired up, calling what’s happening to President Trump “politicization” of the judicial system. He’s also calling on every single presidential candidate on the left and right to vow that if need be, they will pardon President Trump.
Here’s what Vivek said outside of the Miami court house: “I challenge every US Presidential candidate to join me in standing for TRUTH. Commit to pardon Donald Trump for these federal charges on Day 1, or explain why you won’t. No one should hide. Not Biden. Not DeSantis. Not Haley. Not Pence. Not RFK. Not Scott. Not anyone. Principles over politics.”
MemaJean 11 months ago
The TDS is strong here. I’ll wait for the evidence and come to my own conclusion. The media has had far too much power for far too long. No offense given.
cdbro 11 months ago
No matter your opinion on Trump or any of the players in the Republican party, you’d have to be blind not to see the shenanigans of the deep state over the past seven years constitute little more than a personal vendetta – a way to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential race and to protect themselves from exposure of the most unfathomable corruption in their own party.
A Trump victory looked to be a longshot against one of the weakest candidates the country has ever known, but Democrats aren’t going to take a chance. They know the only sure-fire way to ensure another four years of Biden, despite the disastrous path the country has been on since the day he took over the Oval Office, was to knock Trump out completely. And they won’t stop until they succeed.
Jennifer Galardi – 19Fortyfive
cdbro 11 months ago
Conspiracy theories written in 2018… now all proven true:
led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Nunes says the documents will show that, in order to spy on the Trump campaign, there was FBI abuse of the FISA application process.
Given the seriousness of these charges, and the fact that Democrats in Congress have leaked like a sieve to their favorite lefty media stars, you’d think they’d be willing, eager even, to release as much information as possible. After all, they’re the ones who allege Trump “colluded” with the Russians.
But you’d be wrong. In fact, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and Sens. Chuck Schumer and Mark Warner hit the panic button, sending a letter Tuesday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats expressing “profound alarm” at the documents’ release and calling it a “brazen abuse of power.”
Given their routine and incredibly casual treatment of past actual secrets, it’s hard to take the Democrats seriously at all when they express concern about classified information being made public.
Sabotaging TrumpNo, what they’re really worried about is that Nunes is right. There are highly questionable connections between officials in the Justice Department, FBI, CIA and Hillary Clinton campaign. They suggest that U.S. officials actively used their offices and taxpayer funds to sabotage Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. If so, it’s a criminal conspiracy. People should go to prison.
Yet, shockingly, while Trump ordered the “immediate declassification” of the materials, the Deep State has other ideas. Justice, the FBI and the National Intelligence director’s office are slow-walking the release. They plan to redact the documents, despite Trump’s lawful order.
That’s the Deep State in action.
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cdbro 11 months ago
But that’s not all. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a secretly shot video of a leftist Department of Justice employee admitting that “she does research on the home addresses and license plates of private individuals who are then targeted for loud protests at their homes by socialist demonstrators.” The employee, Allison Hrabar, was one of the people who disrupted a private dinner by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she ate in a Washington, D.C. restaurant.
Hrabar reportedly used a Justice Department LexisNexis account for her research, and others apparently do too. So taxpayers are helping to fund their anti-American, pro-socialist demonstrations.
That wasn’t all, however. In yet another video, a State Department employee named Stuart Karaffa, a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America, talked about engaging in his far-left politics while working as a bureaucrat-diplomat.
In the video, Trump-hater Karaffa vows to “resist everything … every level. F#@k sh#t up!” Now that’s diplomacy! Who hires these people?
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fjblume2000 11 months ago
Well, Lisa, d@mmed if you do and d@mmed if you don’t, ergo, you must be doing something right. In which case, my hearty applause! As I say to my adult daughter: YOU GO, GIRL!!
cdbro 11 months ago
DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith is one of the only lawyers in America to achieve this EMBARRASSING status…
We are not governed by a group of highly intelligent “James Bond” types; it’s more like the Keystone Cops. The situation with DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith is a perfect example. He’s currently doing the regime’s “dirty work” by attempting to destroy President Trump through this unjust and morally wrong prosecution linked to the so-called “classified docs” scandal concocted by the left.
Mr. Smith, whom the left loves to praise as this amazing legal genius, is far from it. The reality is that Mr. Smith is a clumsy overreacher, and he holds the rather embarrassing distinction of being one of the few lawyers in America to have his conviction unanimously overturned by the entire Supreme Court. Yes, every single justice agreed.
Once again, Jack was out to do the bidding of the left by targeting a Republican. Back in 2014, he went after Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and managed to convict him on corruption charges. However, two years later, the whole Supreme Court threw out the conviction, leaving poor Mr. Smith with egg all over his face.
McDonnell was, at the time, considered a major threat to Democrats and a top contender for the presidency. So it’s no wonder Obama unleashed Jack Smith on him.
You know it’s bad when even RBG thought he was off his rocker. Mr. Smith’s conviction was so seriously flawed, that it created an opportunity for numerous other people to pursue justice. This further proves that our elites are not highly-skilled warriors for justice. They are partisan hacks, twisting our laws and policies into pretzels so they can punish their political enemies and gain more power. -Revolver News
198.23.5.11 11 months ago
One thing I know for certain—-CDBRO doesn’t have a day job
canuckulator 11 months ago
cdbro & Radish the wordsmith, you two sure like hearing yourself talk, almost like a paid troll. Do you have an original thought of your own or are you finally 100% thoughtless robots?