Walker88

I wonder where this lowlife was radicalized? (tongue in cheek) In any event, the world was made a better place with his departure.

One of the more amusing episodes of this ongoing trumpian farce is when rudy announced a rally to be held at the Four Seasons in Philly. Of course, it was Four Seasons Lawn and Supply, not the upscale hotel. It was located next to a porn store where 'adult toys' were sold. Frankly, it was thoughtful of rudy to hold it so close to a place where trump's Incel demographic could buy some latex to take home.

Pssst ! No visa is required to visit Reality.

Yes. You're probably correct that trumpers lack the neurons necessary to see the patently obvious. -trump Tweeted a call to DC on 6 January for what purpose? -trump held the Mall rally on 6 January, along with rudy and eastman, telling the goobers to 'march to the Capitol' and 'fight like hell', and 'you'll never take back your country with weakness', and 'if Pence does the right thing' for what purpose? -trump told GA SecState Raffensperger "just find me 11,780 votes" for what purpose? -trump listened to Co-Conspirator #2's plan to appoint fake electors and engage in 'only a minor violation of the law' for what purpose? -trump decided to appoint Co-Conspirator #4 to Acting AG, after CC#4 said he would send an official letter to States telling them to hold off certification (AG has no power to do so) for what purpose? -trump continued to spout the Big Lie, even when he knew he lost (witnesses in the indictment) for what purpose? I really have to consider you are just a troll.

Ah, better play catch up. Biden beat trump. It's been in all the papers. Not even a "Dewey Beats Truman", just a straight up beat down of the bloated one. I have to believe you are joking. No adult could be so ignorant.

No. Some of the fake electors were told that story to get them on board. Others were fully aware. Note in the indictment where Co-Conspirator #2 (Eastman) outlines the plan in full detail, even suggesting it was 'only a minor violation of the law'. No one can be so ignorant to believe trump was limiting himself to legal means. Well, maybe trumpers can be. "Just find me 11,780 votes". Many WH meetings. Note what the indictment says about Co-Conspirator #4 (jeffrey clarke) and what he and trump discussed. Only when the entire senior service at DoJ threatened to resign en masse did trump back away. BTW, isn't it about time you go back to square one and try to equate Biden/Pence docs with trump's stolen docs?

Easy to interpret it as insurrection. They certainly were not there to buy souvenirs, nor did trump send them there to be peaceful. His style was taught to him by Ray Cohn. Lawyers and officials much more intelligent and well-versed in Constitutional Law that you are working on it. Patience, grasshopper.

Some States are planning to use the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution to keep trump and his co-conspirators off the ballot: - - - - - - - 14th Amendment Section 3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. - - - - - - - "We love you all very much" (trump to the 6 January terrorists) "If re-elected, I'll pardon all of the January 6 prisoners" At the very least, that sounds like 'given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof'.

Cute. Under all incidences lying to the FBI when under investigation is a crime. trump was under investigation for stealing classified docs. trump committed a crime. As for agency and bureau, we operate at arms length. The bureau takes charge when it involves a US Person. The agency can take charge when it involves a foreign national. For example, I could identify you through your post here, even if you are using a VPN or TOR. Within seconds, I could access your tax records, bank records, credit card purchases. club or magazine or newspaper memberships, your browsing history, etc. I could get your phone records, all calls, all messages, and even geolocate your movement 24/7, pull up next to you in a restaurant or knock on your door, and say, "Hi, yellowtail".. The capabilities are astonishing. Terrorists know all that and use throwaway SIM cards and vary their online locations. If you are a US Person, however, the agency would not be allowed to do that. The bureau, OTOH, could obtain a warrant (if, for example, you visited some kiddie porn sites), get a full profile of you as noted above, and monitor all of your activity. Doesn't matter if you have iPhone or Android or a laptop.

No. There is no dispute with the archives over TS/SCI, SAP, Codeword, HCS and RD. trump had no right to them. He has no security clearance for one, and two, such docs are required to be held in a SCIF. Nobody has an explanation for why a country club owner should need such documents. No security clearance means he cannot even see them anymore. RD is Restricted Data, related to nuclear issues, and requires a nuke clearance (known, ironically, as a Q Clearance), and not even a POTUS can declassify RD docs. Only the DoE can, as it is assumed they are much more well versed on nuclear issues than any POTUS. HCS docs are Human Clandestine Sources, as in spies. Even as a sitting POTUS, no need to know identities of clandestine assets. For trump to have those suggests he was given them by one of his appointees. No way DCI Haspel would have done that, so more likely he got them from one of his DNI appointees Grenell or Ratcliffe. That is really bad, because clandestine assets, or potential assets, would see how cavalier a POTUS was with their identities. That puts such assets and their families in danger. That could mean loss of access by US intel, which could mean missing a planned terrorist attack or actions by an adversarial state.

Actually, lying to the DoJ and FBI are crimes.

Yes, the poster to whom you responded is far from unbiased. I, too, am biased. I am arrogant enough to think I am morally superior to racists, misogynists, antisemitics, and especially those tikitorch marchers who chant "Jews will not replace us". They are not one side of 'good people', as trump said (almost losing his economic advisor Gary Cohn that day). Though perhaps unfair, I believe myself intellectually superior to those who, inter alia, believe in the QAnon drivel, use terms such as 'globalist cabal' or "Deep State", or who believe both sides of a story where 'trump declassified in his mind' and 'the FBI planted them'. Also, I consider myself a good enough judge of character and intent that a guy who calls his supporters to DC for 6 January and says 'it'll be wild', and who later tells them to 'march to the Capitol', and 'fight like hell' and 'you'll never get back your country with weakness' wasn't suggesting his goobers go to the Capitol gift shop to buy souvenirs. Along the same vein, and having observed trump's style for far too long, I know his intent when---in a speech in New Hampshire this week---he talks of opponent Chris Christie, saying "he's probably eating right now", and follows with "Don't call him a fat pig. You can't do it. You can't do that. So now, because you're not allowed to do that, and, therefore, we're not going to do it, OK? We want to be very civil, right?" Trump said as he chuckled. (From Fox News https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mockery-christies-weight-takes-230558345.html). Pretty clear what trump's intent is, which is funny in itself, as it doesn not look as if trump has ever missed a meal nor seen the inside of a gym.

It's just another term for lying. trump claimed he returned everything. He lied. That is obstructing the legal and legitimate work of the DoJ and FBI.

Yes, you did. You equated the inadvertent possession of classified docs by Pence and Biden with the willful theft of documents by trump. I use 'theft' because 1) he said he took the docs, and 2) he had no right to take the docs. Lacking a right to take something is defined as 'theft'. He added to the crime by lying, saying he returned everything. Fortunately, the DoJ and FBI did not believe him (one suspects a cooperating witness), so they obtained a warrant, searched his country club, and found he still had more than a hundred highly classified documents.

What is 'there desparation'? Other trumpers are moaning that 'why did it take 2 1/2 years'? Investigations take time. Uncover one thing, it leads to another. SC Smith took time because the case is so unprecedented, and he wasn't even appointed until Nov 22. Now if the "DoJ, the government, are so corrupt it's pathetic", that sounds like you must have dozens of examples. Perhaps you'll post some. Personally, while I cannot prove it, I think it appears to be more than a coincidence that BOTH former FBI Dir James Comey and former Acting FBI Dir Andrew McCabe were both audited by the IRS the same year, while trump was still POTUS.

Persecuted? Like Ted Bundy was persecuted?

Those fears are understandable. WaPo had another [Opinion] piece a day or so ago where they noted fears of trump's base causing mayhem. Certainly there is precedent for his goobers to get violent, with 6 January being the prime example. Also, trump's thinly veiled threats of sending his foot soldiers pillaging via his social media postings, or even in the 2016 debate when he said something along the lines of his 2nd Amendment people going after Hillary. Certainly many of the terrorists convicted of felonies at the Capitol claimed they were sent by trump. All that being said, there absolutely MUST be greater punishment, other than losing the election, for a guy who tried to overthrow American democracy. The US certainly does not need a repeat, but if trump isn't punished, then I wonder what the reaction will be if a Dem loser begins claiming 'stolen election', calls State officials to 'just find me 11,780 votes', puts together a plan to create fake electors to take the place of legitimate electors in the Electoral College, tries repeatedly to pressure their outgoing VP to refuse the ceremonial duty of certifying what the States already certified, calls supporters to DC for the Inauguration to march to the Capitol and 'fight like hell' and tell them 'you'll never take back your country with weakness', and to top it all off steals hundreds of highly classified documents and takes them home?

How childish of a 77 year old to call his adversaries Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas Warren, Ron Sanctimonious, Crooked HIllary, Cryin Chuck Schumer, Low IQ Maxine Waters, Shifty Schiff/Pencil Neck Schiff, Deranged Jack Smith, Evan McMuffin (McMullin), Coco Chow, Evita (AOC), Nervous Nancy, Crazy Bernie, Little Marco Rubio, Wacky Jacky Rosen, Lyin' Ted Cruz, etc. Why do you worship that twice impeached, thrice indicted, convicted sex offender, convicted charity fraudster who spews out such nicknames? Do you trumpers find that 'Presidential'? Goose and gander.

Ah, the old absolutely meaningless "republic" vs "democracy" ! Please tell me what you are implying, because if you think "Republic" is a valid excuse for trying to overthrow American democracy, then.... ....you're a trumper The Electoral College, anachronism that it is, is an entity that takes the tallies votes from each State, where DEMOCRACY means the one with the most votes takes that State and all of its electors. Each State electors' votes are then tallied to produce a winner. Biden gained the most Electoral Votes, and thus a brave and patriotic VP Pence did his ceremonial duty and certified the results, ignoring trump's demands Pence break the law, or as un-indicted co-conspirator #2 said, "it's only a minor violation' of the law. Biden wins, trump loses. Incidentally, Biden crushed trump in the nationwide popular vote. HRC womped his behind, too, but the electoral college awarded the victory to trump.

As soon as they were discovered, both Pence and Biden allowed FBI teams to search all of their private spaces and remove anything classified they found. Neither man fought the search, neither man lied about it. trump stole, trump lied. HUGE diffeerence.,

I know the allegations. It's in the indictment. -trump willfully took documents to which he had zero right -he was told to return them -he refused initially -he eventually returned some, retained others -he lied saying he returned them all -the FBI obtained a search warrant, entered his country club, and retrieved 11 more boxes of documents Perhaps you can explain why a country club operator and wedding planner needs TS/SCI, SAP, Codeword, HCS and RD docs? Why did trump lie and claim he returned them, when he kept many? Why did he lie and claim he 'declassified' them in his mind, when as ex-POTUS, he should know full well what the declassification procedure is? For many years, I had classification authority, holding TS/SCI clearance. I know the procedures on both handling and declassifying. Why didn't trump?

That Lysol didn't work out, eh? And "15...soon down to 1" was wrong. And withholding PPE from Blue States was unwise. As for Dems vs repubs, go back to the Civil War and look at all the data since. Economy performs better under Dem control. So does the stock market. Even before trump mishandled Covid so badly, his economy was no big deal relative to the last 70 years, plus new debt exceeded growth. That is called debt-fueled. Simple example: neighbor gets a new F-150, a bassboat and a barbeque pit. Looks flush and successful. The mailman delivers the credit card bill. That was trump's 'good years'. At trump's poorly attended Inauguration, he spoke of American Carnage 'ending right here, right now'. Even Dubya said 'that's some crazy (slang for #2) right there'. Dubya should know. He handed Obama a collapsing banking system, an insurance industry about to disappear, and the worst Recession since the 1930s. Obama turned it all around. UE fell from a peak of 10.4% to 4.8% when Obama participated in the peaceful transition of power to trump. Obama also handed trump a growing economy. Hardly 'carnage'. trump signed off on the budget-busting tax cut, began fiscal profligacy on a scale never seen, tried to ignore and downplay what experts knew was a major international health crisis, and finally left---not quite so peacefully---handing Biden 6.8% UE and a Recession. Losers have excuses. Winners achieve results. Obama took a crisis and beat it. trump took growth and quashed it.

Glad you introduced that term. aspirational trump's lawyer actually used it in an interview over the weekend. Perhaps realizing he had implied trump lied about a 'stolen election' by claiming trump has a First Amendment right to say he won, when he knew full well he lost, he has changed the verbiage. Now, it's an 'aspirational claim' of winning, rather than a simple lie about winning. It will be interesting to see how trump's lawyer dances in court and in what manner he tosses in 'aspirational'. Everyone will know he means trump lied, but I suspect the base will still believe two diametrically opposed sides to the same story, i.e., trump liked about winning, but he won. It's like the stolen classified docs case: trump declassified in his mind, but the FBI planted the docs. Schrodinger's Cat.

I ridicule those who think the minority wins, or who support a traitor who is now indicted for breaking laws for the purpose of overthrowing US democracy.

Nor did either Pence or Biden lie about returning everything. In fact, both men invited the FBI to come into their private spaces and search anywhere the authorities wanted. trump, on the other hand, lied to the authorities about returning everything. He is alleged even to have told one of his quislings to erase 45 days of security footage. So sure were authorities that trump lied, they obtained a warrant and then searched his country club, where they found and removed an additional 11 boxes of classified material and other material required by law to be held by govt archivists.