Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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BirkenheadBlue said:
Sorry, I simply refuse to believe that the lead prosecutor in the case was napping throughout, and that in a courtroom packed to the gills with reporters, this juror was the only one to notice.
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Yeah that bit was weird.

Will be interesting to see if any other jurors go public on what happened behind the scenes but do think this interview might have headed off some Fox conspiracy peddling on the verdict, at least in the short term.
 


The criteria Trump himself says he bases his hiring and firing decisions on (Sessions because he was a long time supporter, Omarosa not fired as she said great things about him - nothing to do with competence for important public roles) are scandalous all by themselves.
 
LinekersLegs said:
One law for thee and another for me...

Honestly with him praising Manafort for following omertà and now these comments he is basically acting out scenes from Goodfellas.
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I sent that to someone earlier , it really is .

It’s incredible how much like an criminal organisation this is and how much of what what we’re seeing is like a traditional investigation into one.

I honestly can’t wait to read the book about all this and watch the inevitable film , that’s if I’m around long enough because I think it all may still have a while to run.
 
Harryflashman said:
I sent that to someone earlier , it really is .

It’s incredible how much like an criminal organisation this is and how much of what what we’re seeing is like a traditional investigation into one.

I honestly can’t wait to read the book about all this and watch the inevitable film , that’s if I’m around long enough because I think it all may still have a while to run.
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There are genuine issues with our criminal justice system, as the thread below details, but Trump only cares about them when they put him or his cronies in legal jeopardy.

He was perfectly fine with the Central Park 5 being co-coerced into implicating each other in a foul crime none of them committed, and still thinks those false statements meant they should have been executed, but the thought that the guy who would pay off his mistresses might get consideration for spilling the beans is outrageous.

 
Daily Post headline “Trump’s pecker screws him”?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...irer-allies-defect-david-pecker-michael-cohen
And now Trump’s most powerful media ally next to Fox News has broken with him. According to two sources briefed on the Cohen investigation, prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirerpublisher American Media Inc., and A.M.I.’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, so they would describe Trump’s involvement in Cohen’s payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaign. The Wall Street Journal first reported Pecker’s cooperation on Wednesday night. (Pecker and Howard did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.)

Pecker’s apparent decision to corroborate Cohen’s account, and implicate Trump in a federal crime, is another vivid example of how isolated Trump is becoming as the walls close in and his former friends look for ways out. “Holy s, I thought Pecker would be the last one to turn,” a Trump friend told me when I brought up the news. Trump and Pecker have been close for years. According to the Trump friend, Pecker regularly flew on Trump’s plane from New York to Florida. In July 2013, Trump tweeted that Pecker should become C.E.O. of Time magazine. “He’d make it exciting and win awards!”
 
Harryflashman said:
I sent that to someone earlier , it really is .

It’s incredible how much like an criminal organisation this is and how much of what what we’re seeing is like a traditional investigation into one.

I honestly can’t wait to read the book about all this and watch the inevitable film , that’s if I’m around long enough because I think it all may still have a while to run.
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Unfortunately, it is likely none of us will be able to appreciate the real history of the Trump administration (as opposed to journalists parroting back what they overhear without analysis). Certainly not to the extent that we do with Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon.

Government records in the United States are meant to be declassified after 30 years, unless related agencies can make a case for them to remain withheld. "National Security" is occasionally invoked on dubious grounds, most often by the CIA, but there are of course compelling examples - how to make a nuclear bomb, for instance.

In theory, this is the most transparent and praiseworthy system of any meaningful country in the world (and by comparison, Britain's track-record in this regard is disgraceful).

But the integrity of the process has long since been eroded, and is starting to break down altogether. Since the change in political climate after 9/11, the review agencies (for example, Defence, CIA, State etc) have deliberately grown much less prompt in vetting documents for release, and far more prone to withholding things on flimsy grounds.

Worse still, funding for the National Records and Archives Administration (NARA), which administers files approved for release, has been steadily cut since Reagan. To maintain favour with Congress, NARA also routinely employs undertrained and ill-motivated veterans, with the next generation of professional archivists reduced to rolling temporary contracts w/o benefits. Unsprisingly, the institutional capacity to administer government records is being haemorraged.

This is especially serious because the volume of records produced which require processing increases exponentially with the onset of email during the Clinton administration - as in, 40-fold, and more like 4000-fold by Obama.

As result, the 30-year mandate is now delayed by at least a decade in most cases (ie: 1978 files are only now being released when by now we should have up to 1988). And on particularly sensitive (ie: important) matters like the CIA role in the '65 coup in Indonesia, or the '53 coup in Iran, it is more like three decades overdue. And these are all still by and large the relatively minimal Carter and Reagan-era paper records. It will probably take 100 years to meet the depth and quality of documentation on Clinton that we have for Truman, which took only 30.

Finally, and most seriously, there is the problem of record-keeping being breeched at the point of creation. Bush II really got the ball rolling, with top staff routinely using Republican Party (and thus, not NARA-mandated) Blackberries to conduct state business. Hillary Clinton's contempt for transparency is by now well known, and alas, quite typical for the Obama administration full stop, and Trump is obviously a complete and utter disaster. Beginning with the media's total wave-the-flag capitulation after 9/11, the integrity of public record-keeping has been allowed to collapse.

All of which is to say that it's unlikely we'll ever understand the inner workings of the Trump administration as well as we do his predecessors.

This is perhaps not as immediate as supposed threats to the "free press" under Trump, but in the long run it is just as, if not more important to the principles of political transparency and public oversight.

It is also a cause that should unite left and right, particularly the libertarian right - though of course in the American context that term has long since mutated beyond coherence.
 
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