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Things keep on lookiing worse for America's most recent ex-President: Lawyer Told Archives Last Year That Trump Had No Classified Material The National Archives has told the Justice Department that a lawyer representing former President Donald J. Trump indicated to the archives last year that boxes Mr. Trump had taken to his Mar-a-Lago home from the White House included only nonclassified material like newspaper clippings, according to a person briefed on the matter. The message was relayed to the National Archives last September by Patrick Philbin, a former top White House lawyer who was representing Mr. Trump’s post-presidency office, to the top lawyer at the archives, Gary Stern, according to two people briefed on the matter. Mr. Philbin indicated to Mr. Stern that the information was based on what Mr. Trump’s final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, believed to be the contents in the boxes, the people said. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/archives-trump-classified-clippings.html
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Hungary can ‘no longer be considered a full democracy,’ says EU Parliament
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
This is a very silly point. Is the UK a full democracy? Is any parliamentary system a full democracy? They're parliamentary democracies as is the European Union. In Hungary, Orban has had laws passed to make meaningful opposition virtually impossible. Hungary receives more EU funding per capita than does any other member state but refused to abide by its rules.- 224 replies
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Markets shudder on dashed inflation hopes; Dow falls 1,250
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Anybody who believes that the stock market won't experience steep drops from time to time probably should invest instead in....well there really aren't many investments that aren't subject to steep drops on occasion. And of course, Biden was celebrating the Anti-Inflation Act which is about a lot more than inflation. And the anti-inflationary aspects of the law won't kick in immediately. That's up to the federal reserve. And thanks to a few DINO's anti-inflationary tax hikes on the super wealthy were scotched. -
What don't you understand about the fact that Trump's lawyers gave false information when they claimed after a thorough search all classified documents had been returned? The FBI search of the premises clearly showed this to be false. That alone would qualify for an obstruction of justice charge. And now they're saying they were advised of this, not that they did the search themselves. Hmmm....
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Markets shudder on dashed inflation hopes; Dow falls 1,250
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
I've seen this same line of <deleted>. before. First off, unless your career began in Feb of 2021, you should still be way ahead of where you were just a few years ago. https://www.google.com/search?q=s%26P+average+historical&oq=s%26P+average+historical&aqs=chrome..69i57.23872j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Also, does this drop stop companies from paying dividends? It may lower dividends in many cases because lots of corporations spend large amounts of their earnings on stock buybacks. Until the Reagan administration came along, this was illegal for obvious reasons. So what you lose in dividends you might gain in stock prices. Anyway, your grounds for complaint are clearly dubious. And far more Americans are affected by the state of the job market than by the state of the stock market. -
I think you've been so conditioned by the reign of Biden's predecessor, that you think it normal for Presidents to intervene in the workings of law enforcement. There is absolutely no evidence that Biden specifically gave an OK for the FBI's search of Mar a Lago. There is a ton of evidence that the govt went out of its way to avoid making this a criminal case. For a year, NARA negotiated with Trump for the return of documents. It was only after their request was met with a blatant lie, that the FBI conducted the search.
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Markets shudder on dashed inflation hopes; Dow falls 1,250
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Payrolls increased 528,000 in July, much better than expected in a sign of strength for jobs market https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/jobs-report-july-2022-528000.html US Employers Add 315,000 Jobs as More Workers Join Labor Force https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/us-adds-315-000-jobs-as-participation-jumps-and-wages-rise https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-offers -
We know that this began with the National Archives asking Trump to return documents to the government. Documents that the law which he signed clearly forbade him from. It would have been a simple matter to return them immediately. Trump failed to fully comply with their request. It was only then, after about 1 year, that the justice department got involved at the request of NARA.
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Did you bother to read past the headlines? You really would trust the headline from Rupert Murdoch's newspaper> "The May 10 missive by Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran — published late Monday by JustTheNews — confirms that the White House counsel’s office, “affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum,” asked the National Archives on April 11 to “provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days.” https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/biden-called-in-fbi-to-look-at-classified-trump-documents/ In other words, the White House responded to a request. What's more, you seem to have some trouble dates. This is dated Aug 23. And yet you claimed the information was revealed in the recent reveal of some redacted text..
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These people were guilty of a misdemeanor. The govt separated small children and infants from their parents. And the Trump administration actually lost track of lots of them. What's more this wasn't a bug. This was a feature. And if it was such a worthy program and what the majority of America wants, why did Trump back down?
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Actually, your interpretation of what garland did is exactly wrong. He gave the Judge a chance to redeem herself. She must have seen the huge amount of criticism she got from some very right wing legal scholars. And exactly how will Garland be gone after the midterms? Even if the Republicans gain a majority in both the House and Senate, and decide to pursue impeachment, it's dubious that they would have the votes to succeed. And even if they did succeed, why would that stop the investigation. Your bile seems to have overexcited your imagination.
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Your opinion seems fueled more by bile than by understanding the situation. Judge Cannon won't be passing judgement on these documents. This is in the hands of the Special Master now. A special master that the Justice Dept. approved of. If Cannon's decision isn't overruled, he'll get to decide. Not Judge Cannon. You think that all or most of those documents will be judged to be legally held by Trump? That seems very unlikely. The law signed by Trump is very clear about that. What Trump's team has done is to delay the almost certainly inevitable.
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According to your way of thinking, no one should be admitted to the United States since all groups whether legally present or not will bring with them some crime. In fact, according to that PNAS study, undocumented aliens have a lower crime rate than US citizens by birth or naturalized citizens. And of course, they're here because businesses want them here. Especially Texas: Texas A&M’s future builders hear uncomfortable truths of immigrant-dependent industry Additionally, FWD.us estimates that more than 1.1 million workers in Texas are undocumented immigrants, representing nearly 8% of the total workforce, the highest level of any U.S. state. With such a large share of Texas’ workforce, undocumented workers have become critical to the labor infrastructure of the state, especially during times of crisis such as the COVID-19 recovery or natural disasters like hurricanes and sudden freezes. Undocumented immigrants are particularly concentrated in agricultural occupations (33% of the total agricultural workforce), construction jobs (27%), and among building grounds and maintenance workers (24%). https://www.fwd.us/news/texas-immigrants/
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As you may recall, at the time, the situation looked desperate for the Ukrainians. So, Ukraine was obviously going to try and throw everything it had at the Russians. On top of which, Ukraine was looking for convicts who were ex-soldiers. Men with combat experience. Russia is just looking for convicts.
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Northern Mexico manufacturing is very much integrated into the US economy thanks to NAFTA and whatever the unmemorable name is of its successor program. There really is no way to stop drugs from getting through. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some small time entrepreneurs looking to make it big via personal deliveries. But it's just too easy to ship it via legitimately manufactured goods.
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The surprising details behind DeSantis’ and Abbott’s immigration stunts
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Well, yours is one way to not providing proof for your characterization of these migrants as "unvetted". You're not better at answering questions directly than the politicians you criticize..