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

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The fire...
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Did she say Hillary Crinton? What a start! lol
 
The FBI admitting they lied to a FISA court to spy on Trump's campaign. Yet I'm supposed to believe the political and intel establishment are not out to get Trump.



Obviously, this is a bit more nuanced than a soundbyte from 2020. For example, law enforcement agency members lean conservative, and the current and past Directors were both Republican. The entire DoJ report that looked into this issue is quite lengthy and, within their broader investigation, they looked into political bias of the investigators. Page 410 of this report (link below) shows that they found no evidence of political bias and that the FBI followed policies/procedures.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

To be sure, the decision to look into any potential criminal activity is always "discretionary" but it would be hard to factually point to a cadre of high-level FBI agents, which included "[Bill] Priestap...who ultimately made the decision to open the investigation, and evidence reflected that this decision by Priestap was reached by consensus after multiple days of discussions and meetings that included [Peter] Strzok and other leadership in CD [counterintelligence division], the FBI Deputy Director, the FBI General Counsel, and a FBI Deputy General Counsel." No doubt, Strzok was biased, as evidenced by his texts, but bias alone doesn't necessarily lead to partiality, as concluded by the right-leaning Wall Street Journal.

You can look up the political affiliation of those above, but it doesn't seem to indicate that the "political and intel establishment" are on some sort of conspiracy against Trump.
 
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Obviously, this is a bit more nuanced than a soundbyte from 2020. For example, law enforcement agency members lean conservative, and the current and past Directors were both Republican. The entire DoJ report that looked into this issue is quite lengthy and, within their broader investigation, they looked into political bias of the investigators. Page 410 of this report (link below) shows that they found no evidence of political bias and that the FBI followed policies/procedures.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

To be sure, the decision to look into any potential criminal activity is always "discretionary" but it would be hard to factually point to a cadre of high-level FBI agents, which included "[Bill] Priestap...who ultimately made the decision to open the investigation, and evidence reflected that this decision by Priestap was reached by consensus after multiple days of discussions and meetings that included [Peter] Strzok and other leadership in CD [counterintelligence division], the FBI Deputy Director, the FBI General Counsel, and a FBI Deputy General Counsel." No doubt, Strzok was biased, as evidenced by his texts, but bias alone doesn't necessarily lead to partiality, as concluded by the right-leaning Wall Street Journal.

You can look up the political affiliation of those above, but it doesn't seem to indicate that the "political and intel establishment" are biased against Trump.
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This was actually a joke when I posted it, I honestly didn’t think it would be the first thing his lawyer did.

I'm just happy that "But her emails" is getting a 2023 remix rerelease as there's no new material.

Seriously, the issue that GOP have here:

1 - The 'victims' (for want of a better word) are the Government agency literally charged with record-keeping. It's not like they're unreliable witnesses, they know exactly what was missing and have no reason to lie about any of it. The retention of these documents is routine stuff, and they probably reported the lack of response from Trump's people to the FBI thinking it would just expedite the return. The evidence handed over by Trump's lawyers trying to deal with the request (in good faith) completes the picture and points unerringly to Trump's guilt in the actual crime, not of retaining the documents in the first place, but his ongoing efforts to keep hold of them and lie about doing so. In summary: Trump is clearly guilty.

2 - It's been downplayed, but Trump holding on to state & nuclear secrets that involve foreign governments put numerous American personnel at risk, from the armed forces to intelligence services. It's hard to stake an "America First" claim when your actions literally endanger the Americans at the sharp end of protecting America. The GOP being all about veterans (snigger), national security & the military are defending a man who might have thrown them all under a metaphorical bus, or got them thrown out of a literal window. In summary: Trump has endangered American lives (you know, in addition to the ones who shone UV torches up their asses to fight off their Covid infections on his televised recommendation).

3 - Significantly, Trump's MAGA base is still important for any GOP electoral prospects in battleground states, and so any alternative presidential candidate, or even House/State representative, have to be able to toe the fine line of outrage over Democrat overreach without nailing their colours too firmly to the 'Trump is innocent' flag. So instead it's all "But her emails" and "We don't prosecute political opponents" without engaging with the substance of the indictment and being taken down with him should a guilty verdict be forthcoming. In summary: Continued cowardice.
 
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