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This is completely incoherent. The Trump administration has appointed Durham to investigate this matter, in the hope of incriminating the so-called left (and in particular Hillary). Now you are claiming that Trump would have kept incriminating evidence instead of offering them to Durham on a silver plate, really? On top of it, what would have prevented Trump to make these documents public? In particular as he was claiming they were not classified documents! ????

Aren't you tired of trolling?

Unsurprisingly, you chose to target Biden shaking hands on the 13/07/2022, at a time there were no restrictions in place any more, and forgot to mention all the right-wing politicians and figures who have openly downplayed the pandemic and campaigned against various restrictions and measures. It has, among other things, resulted in a much higher Covid death rate in districts who voted for Trump, than in districts who voted for Biden.

Right, they still cannot swallow they lost these territories in the Vladivostok region (which actually were Mandchu, not Chinese). https://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/china/russias-vladivostok-lures-chinese-tourists-who-want-city-back The irony is that they may use the same trick as Putin in Ukraine. An increasing number of Chinese is settllng across the border and they may well become the majority of inhabitants in this area one day. Them China may argue it needs to conduct a special operation in this part of historic China in order to protect Chinese inhabitants oppressed by Russian fascists. ????

And as usual.... That's how illegal drugs cross the border: "So the drugs that are actually taking the lives of people here in the United States - methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl- almost universally come through the ports of entry along the southern border - so that is people that carry them on their bodies or even in their bodies or cars or vehicles. And then the second w And then the second way is through the international postal mail service." "People don't backpack or try to sneak those drugs across the border between the ports of entry because, one, they could be caught by the Border Patrol. Number two, they don't really trust those people to do that. So it's much better for them to have somebody that is taking the drugs through a port of entry where they're met on the other side of the port here in the United States, and those drugs are immediately taken" https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/710712195/how-do-illegal-drugs-cross-the-u-s-mexico-border

Texas, you said Texas? Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas "We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes. In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences between US-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocumented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as measures of crime." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117 The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

He claims otherwise! Lol! As if he had any credibility! ( You know, the same guy who claims he won the 2020 elections) BTW what if a politician would have strengthened a law just to harm a political opponent, and would ultimately end up having a taste of his own medicine? Should he feel outraged or just dumb?

Then it doesn't apply to the current case then, as Trump is solely responsible for it. You know, by refusing to give back presidential records, hiding them, having his lawyers lie about it etc...

I am not sure I understand. Do you mean the law should not be applied to political opponents?

Here we are! Trump warns of 'problems' like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted https://news.yahoo.com/trump-warns-problems-weve-never-145023687.html

Memory problems. Are you affected by aging too?

I am not sure I understand. Do You mean you don't trust Durham for investigating the FBI?

It's very likely Biden didn't drive it and was just a passenger. Anyway, nice to see that MAGA fans now care about made up stories, That's new! ????

You may be right on the general principle. However, before a policy decision is made, competent people make impact analyses and make sure they are able to apply the decision, I.e. implement procedures, resources, etc... Of course, with the orange moron, that was not the case. Trump only cared about being able to brag about it in the media. No procedures and resources planned, no place to put the children, infants and toddlers left without care, no system to keep track of family members in order to be able to reunite them, etc... Another example of Trump's dumbness and incompetence.

This is thread about the Durham investigation, not about an information campaign about the Russia investigation (not hoax). Yes, the Clinton campaign was looking for information against Trump and partly financed the Steele dossier, and also approved leaking information about Alfa Bank servers. This is not illegal. No, the Durham probe, which aim was to prove that the Russia investigation was not properly predicated, did not succeed. Facts are: -the Steele dossier was not at the origin of the Russia probe. Confirmed by the IG investigation and the Durham investigation, - the Alfa Bank information was given by Sussman after the FBI opened its Russia investigation, it could not have caused it, (from the trial) - the FBI did not use the information provided by Sussman, as it was not considered as reliable (from the trial) - the Clinton campaign did not send Sussman (from the trial). Not only did the Durham investigation fail to prove the Russia probe was not properly predicated, it also indirectly debunked Trumps conspiracy theory! ???? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/john-durham-michael-sussman-verdict-not-guilty-russia-alfabank-trump-barr-fbi-clinton.html https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/how-john-durhams-probe-has-exposed-trumps-russia-con/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/fbi-agent-at-sussmann-trial-bureau-rejected-alfa-bank-claims-within-days Your last reference was about the GOP-led Senate investigation in 2020. Guess what the conclusion of the GOP-led investigation was? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election

What a waste of time and money for nothing. 3 years and $4 million spent for a lame conspiracy theory.

Laughing emoticon conveniently back!

Top oversight Democrat demands that Trump officially certify that he's turned over all sensitive documents taken from the White House "I urge NARA to seek from former President Trump a written certification that he has surrendered all presidential records or classified materials, has not made any copies or reproductions of such materials, and has not transferred any records or government documents to any party other than NARA or DOJ since his term ended," she added." https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-must-certify-that-hes-surrendered-all-classified-files-maloney-2022-9?r=US&IR=T

Of course, there is no evidence. Everyone knows that he was lying.

Make decisions without analysing consequences and without anticipating how to effectively apply them.... That's what morons like Trump usually do. Another proof of his level of incompetence.

Hmmm... I wonder who could have "advised" him? ????

Not to forget the war in Irak. A country which, unlike Afghanistan, had absolutely no relation to the 9/11 attack.6

Another lame false equivalence. The kids in cage during Obama's tenure were not kids who had been separated from their parents by the U.S. administration, as was the policy by the Trump administration. They were kids who were without their parents, and it was a temporary solution until a foster family was found.

Nice try at distracting attention from the key issue. The key issue is not how it is called, but that Trump has been continuously repeating the same lie (which is a big one). Trump is not "equally" at fault. Trump is "solely" at fault for pushing this lie over and over. Nobody would talk about it if Trump had just shut up, instead of using this lie as a tactic to gain political benefits.

As discussed before, you are right about the origin of this expression. However, as also discussed before, this is also used to characterize a propaganda technique used by Goebbels and more recently by Bannon. And That's exactly what Trump is doing (If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it-Goebbels).