Right about now Democrats are realizing this isn’t a good day for them. They don’t yet know the depth of it.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 9, 2022
Just watch, Dems are about to change the definition of "raid."
— Rep. Jeff Duncan (@RepJeffDuncan) August 9, 2022
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJ_amBnGz4
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The Biden Recession is on fire 🔥.
"Unit labor costs Q2. 10.8%, on top of Q1. 12.7%.
Cost that all have to be paid by the consumer.
In regards to the video 📹
To get a search warrant, the FBI would have to have evidence of possible crimes being committed. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, the day after former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club had a visit from FBI agents, former White House Counsel John Dean, who served under Richard Nixon, speculated whether there was an insider giving information to the FBI.
In a statement, Trump compared the FBI to the Watergate burglars, who attempted to set up wiretaps on the phones of the Democratic Party.
"He doesn't understand what happened during Watergate or he's just trying to distort what happened there at his home," said Dean. "And it doesn't work at all, the analogy."
The coldheartedtruth is that they have him!
The Watergate burglars broke in illegally.
The FBI didn't.
AND
THESE HEADLINES and comments REALLY "nail it."
Partisan Hostility Grows including calls for civil war.
The GOP Suddenly Flip-Flops on Mishandling Classified Info (before it was terrible, now Trump does it and it’s okay).
"The Reason Donald Trump is the First Former President to be treated like a criminal is that he is the first former president who is a criminal."
We’ve Finally Reached Bottom:
We now know that absolutely nothing Trump does will cause his true believers to turn away from him. That’s good in that it makes clear to supporters of democracy what we are up against.
Trump is Carefully Watching which Republicans defend him fully and which don’t.
Judgment: Trump Must Turn Over his Tax Returns to House Committee
Trump Has Long Been Searching for Criminal Defense Lawyers
The FBI Raid Has Led to a Full-On GOP Meltdown:
Without knowing the details, GOP leaders are staking their political careers on the claim that it was a lawless, partisan ‘raid.’ And many of them want to do away with federal law enforcement altogether.
Who will investigate the FBI? The FBI?
Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
BUT Christie Says FBI Search Was ‘Fair Game’
MOST IMPORTANT: The FBI Raid Wasn’t Just About Mishandling Classified Documents:
The real reason is who instigated the attempted sedition.
MORE IMPORTANT: Why Democrats Could Win This Fall
some of these at politicawire.com
Well Roger...
Please explain in your own words how Comey and Mueller got warrants for their Russian collusion investigation when there was no hint of any crime ever found?
As stated by someone way smarter than you:
Now the fact that a "judge signed off so he must have committed a crime" is a non sequitur. This was a Magistrate judge. Not appointed, not confirmed, and with a checkered history of being in the bag for Democrats. While many would argue that this should have been kicked upstairs to a higher level judge, a Magistrate judge is generally a rubber stamp."
Getting a Magistrate Judge with a history of covering up the people involved in the Epstein affairs to sign off an an warrant for Donald Trump proves nothing of the sort... criminal wise.
This is the same issue we have had for some time. A week, two weeks, three weeks from now... if the "search" did not come up with proof a crime (other then the archive issue which has never been charged in the history of these disputes) - then are you going to be willing to admit that it was a problem?
Of course not... you will stand against Trump regardless. The FBI knows that enough people will cover them that they will not have to be held accountable even if this was an obvious politicized raid.
Hey Reverend...
Please explain to us all (in your own words) how it is GOP and not the Democrats who flipped on the whole mishandling classified information?
Hillary did it. Comey confirmed that laws were broken. Just said he couldn't make a charge because there was no criminal intent to pass the information along to anyone hostile.
Did you vote for Hillary?
If so... you voted for her in spite of knowing she mishandled classified information?
But now you believe Trump should somehow be held accountable (if in fact he even has anything of substance) vs Hillary who literally had "everything" she was in contact with on her own bathroom server. One seems quite a bit less offensive than the other?
I mean we are talking about cards to foreign leaders and a letter from Obama that is in question of whether or not they belong in the Archives or Trump should keep them. Hillary kept everyone on a server and accessed it through a non-secured Blackberry (because she was not issued a secured one). Every IT specialist involved said she was a wide open risk for hacking.
Tell me how you reconcile "VOTING FOR" Clinton
But thinking Trump should be charged...
and how that does not make "YOU" a hypocrite?
It's simple, Ch. As long as it was Hillary, it was simply terrible.
Now that it's Trump, it's entirely acceptable.
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Hypocrite:
A person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸
https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1556987104219090945
I’m no Trump fan. I want him as far away from the White House as possible. But a fundamental part of his appeal has been that it’s him against a corrupt government establishment. This raid strengthens that case for millions of Americans who will see this as unjust persecution.
It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government. But literally no one will believe that or make a distinction. It’s probably bureaucratic but it seems political.
“If they raided his home just to find classified documents he took from The White House,” one legal expert noted, “he will be re-elected president in 2024, hands down. It will prove to be the greatest law enforcement mistake in history.”
show us the warrant
NOW
This is way too important to hide
(not from political_lire and the Gospel According to Goddard)
That was many years ago and is irrelevant now
Hillary did it.
Which proves what in your biased mind?????
I voted for Hillary because she wasn't an R!!!!! Simple how Busch ruined me on the GOP forever!!!
Sorry, it's beyond me in my own words, but the question
Why wasn't Hillary Clinton arrested or charged for using a private email server and later for perjury?
was answered by two people as follows
William Beilstein:
I have been programming computers for 44 years using many languages.
The main reason is that while she might have violated a state department rule passed in her final year at the state department she violated no criminal law so there is nothing to be arrested for.
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John Bøgelund Unger
Physicist, Electrical Engineer
At the time Hillary installed her private server there was no regulation prohibiting that. At the time she became Secretary of State every national security agency knew that she was sending and receiving correspondences through that server. Though upon examination some emails were set aside for further scrutiny and temporarily marked classified, normal operating procedure.
Later all were cleared.
There are a lot of people who were not happy with some answers she gave, as they were not what they wanted to hear. That does not constitute perjury. There is no evidence that she deliberately made untruthful statements though there was a massive conspiracy to paint that picture.
So the reason she was not arrested for any of the charges ... leveled against her was because she was and is not guilty.
It was not an obvious politicized raid.
Trump wanted them to get Hillary 🙄
But they didn't have enough evidence to apply for a warrant on her phones because they didn't have sufficient evidence to get a judge to authorize a warrant
You are the hypocrite
Republicans rally in defence of the former president and condemn the FBI search as Democrats say no one is above the law.
Scott who once railed against Mrs. Clinton’s document retention practices did not respond Thursday to questions about Mr. Trump’s actions. Others who had been directly involved with investigating Mrs. Clinton declined to discuss the specifics except to suggest, without evidence, that the National Archives and Records Administration was treating Mr. Trump more harshly.
?? how that does not make "YOU" a hypocrite?
You said, Ch, that with Hillary's actions, "laws were broken."
I find this:
Comey: Clinton Mishandled Classified Information but Did Not Break the Law
~~~~"We went at this very hard to see if we could make a case," but "my judgment is that she did not" break the law, Comey told the House panel.
Reverend...
I remember distinctly what Comey stated.
Unlike others around here I don't need it explained to me by others (or misexplained).
Comey's EXACT words:
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
So the reality here is if you take Comey's statement at face value...
The country ONLY prosecutes certain types of cases (which include obvious cases where there was a bad intent). Comey refused to acknowledge that the laws in the Clinton case also included "negligence" and that her unsecured blackberry was hackable (leaving the US exposed).
Trump may or may not have papers that are classified. He is cooperating with the archives to get them what they want. Of the things listed, they are literally "non-classified" papers and even those that may or many not be "classified" were said to be taken in boxes by movers when they left.
If you go by past precedent.. any dispute between a former President and the National archives (this is not the first time) - has been handled by civil action and subpoenas. Never has there been a "raid".
There is nothing in Comey's reasoning that would not apply to Trump. He is obviously not trying to sell anything to a foreign power and to be frank, the FBI doesn't even know if there "are" classified information. They used the "possibility" of classified documents as a pretense for the raid. Even if they found anything...
Comey made it clear that only egregious acts with bad intent are prosecutable.
If this is unclear to you... then nobody can explain it to you.
It looks like they had anticipated the investigation yesterday and had already hidden or destroyed the evidence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/
That's why he fired Comey 🤣
Here is all you need to know about the logic of liberals
Hillary HAD classified information on her personal server. But the argument is that just having them is not a crime.
Trump may or may not have any classified information among the documents he left with. But if they find some... then it is a crime no matter what?
It's simple, Ch. As long as it was Hillary, it was simply terrible.
Now that it's Trump, it's entirely acceptable.
It's simple.. as long as it was Hillary. It was fine and Reverend will even vote for her for President. Oh and she got away with it. No charges were filed.
Now that it is Trump... he should not get away with it like Hillary did... well because... um... I guess the Reverend has no reason for the hypocrisy other than TDS.
A hypocrite would expect a different result.
I expect that Clinton and Trump should be treated the same...
Clinton was not charged?
Do you agree with consistency?
Or are you a hypocrite?
perhaps the Reverend should answer.... otherwise is there a need for me to approve any of his subsequent comments?
I expect that Clinton and Trump should be treated the same...
OF COURSE YOU WOULD IF TRUMP IS NOT CHARGED LIKE CLINTON .......BE PATIENT GRASSHOPPER.....GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT!!!!!!!!
Trump may or may not have any classified information among the documents he left with.
I guess that is why they searched his home......that he may not have had data that cannot be discussed in public like is being reported.....Sorry sport.....most of the classified Hillary data was embedded in e mails that were not marked and discovered well after being found !!!! Granted....she was sloppy but Comey made the independent call that criminal it was not.....trump hiding shit and taking such compartmentalized documents which are HIGHLY sensitive!!!!!! Big difference
Meanwhile the Biden Recession charges on.
"US Productivity Falls for a Second Quarter, Labor Costs Surge
Consecutive declines in output per hour worst back to 1947
Unit labor costs jumped nearly 11% in second quarter"
Bloomberg News.
Really a good link to the whole Clinton story that you ignored earlier...
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/clintons-handling-of-classified-information/
It truly is a good recap and fair of what happened
The DOJ seems to be moving forward, but a problem remains in that Trump is delegitimizing our judicial system to the point where his supporters will not accept an indictment, much less a conviction.
Whether prosecutable criminality will or will not be uncovered by the FBI raid remains to be seen. The DOJ must have thought there was something seriously criminal to be found, or they would not have gone to these unusual lengths to send in the FBI.
As for Comey's exact words, I do not find him saying that "laws were broken" as you stated, nor did he find in Hillary's action any "efforts to obstruct justice."
Now, let us see if any prosecutable "efforts to obstruct justice" are found with regard to Trump.
5:16 For once I see sanity under "Anonymous," but Trump's supporters may find themselves up against massive force if they violently rise up against a conviction based on well established guilt.
Unlike that day at the Capitol.
To recap: Joe Biden’s DHS allowed a purge of Secret Service cell phone data without mandating and archiving content, is stonewalling an internal investigation into what Joe Biden insists is a terrorist attack comparable to 9/11, and now shrugs off the fact that texts from 24 Secret Service employees including the head of agency over a crucial one-month period might be gone for good.
Given those revelations, one would assume the January 6 committee and House Democrats would be livid at DHS officials and calling for heads to roll. They are—but they want Cuffari’s head.
EXCLUSIVE — Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania says that the FBI has confiscated his cellphone.
Perry, in an exclusive statement, told Fox News on Tuesday that while traveling with his family earlier in the day, he was approached by three FBI agents who handed him a warrant and requested that he turn over his cellphone.
The confiscation of the congressman’s personal phone comes one day after FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
"This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone. They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish. I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress," Perry said in his statement. "My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s business."
We need to dismantle the Department of Justice and the FBI
4:51
...perhaps the Reverend should answer.... otherwise is there a need for me to approve any of his subsequent comments?
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Seems to me I already gave you a sufficient answer at 3:39 and 4:00pm.
The course for the Biden Administration is simple.
Release the warrant and the return.
The warrant will show We the People , what was in the Affidavit and who swore it to be true.
The Return is a detailed document of all property sized.
Let us see what ya all got.
Hey Reverend...
Refresh my memory?
When Clinton was found to have classified material on a private email server... was she charged with a crime?
Consistency would be treating Clinton and Trump the same way. There would be zero hypocrisy in that outcome.
Now again...
What happened to Clinton? Criminally?
Seems to me I already gave you a sufficient answer at 3:39 and 4:00pm.
So then the Reverend and I agree!
Comey said that simply having classified information where it was not supposed to be was not a crime.
Then the same logic would hold true for Trump!
Thanks for the clarification.
Here I thought you believed Clinton should be innocent and Trump should be charged... when you were posting Comey's explanation of how classified information works.
You and I agree! No hypocrisy.
Federal U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart approved a warrant for FBI agents to search the property, according to a person familiar with the matter. No one answered the phone in the judge’s chambers Tuesday. Judge Reinhart, like other magistrate judges who usually review such requests, wasn’t presidentially appointed to that position but was named to the post by judges on the district court.
6:13
Er... flushing classified documents down toilets and physically removing them to a non government location (to hide it from view?) doesn't exactly mirror what Hillary did rather carelessly did, so I guess you and I DON'T agree.
But let's just see what charges if any the DOJ may bring.
Comey said that simply having classified information where it was not supposed to be was not a crime.
The other sticky item here is a President can declassify virtually anything, who’s to say Trump can’t claim he meant to declassify everything in his possession?
Cankles didn’t that authority…
I mean damn we have a president that can’t dress himself, now
This is going to blow up in the left’s face
CNBC
How Wall Street wooed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and preserved its multibillion-dollar carried interest tax break
To get Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s vote, and the Inflation Reduction Act passed, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats had “no choice” but to drop the provision that would have closed the carried interest tax loophole from the bill.
Sinema has been fighting since at least last year to help preserve the tax break, which allows hedge fund managers, law firm partners and private equity executives, among others, to pay significantly less tax than ordinary workers.
Since the start of the 2018 election cycle, she’s raked in at least $2 million from the securities and investment industry...
Funny Reverend...
But we all know Clinton had classified documents on a private email service and that she accessed them with an unsecured Blackberry.
You have no actual proof of Trump flushing anything down a toilet or even evidence that classified materials were in his house.
Yet you seem to believe that he is a criminal.
That seems rather odd to me.
How do you justify it?
Because earlier you were using James Comey as your expert on classified information. He stated that it was not a crime unless there was a nefarious plot to use it to harm the government or it was involved in some sort of criminal cover-up.
Since this material was never subpoenaed they cannot claim that he was obstructing anything by not turning it over... and there is no evidence that he was trying to give it to any foreign power.
Seems like you were caught red handed selectively and hypocritically using Comey to defend Clinton's actions... but don't want the same logic applied to Trump!
Hypocritical...
Hypocritical...
Hypocritical...
“Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records — despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former president’s private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.”
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WONDER what was in the safe...
Er... flushing classified documents down toilets and physically removing them to a non government location (to hide it from view?) doesn't exactly mirror what Hillary did rather carelessly did, so I guess you and I DON'T agree.
But let's just see what charges if any the DOJ may bring.
You guys went down this rabbit hole in 2017 when Trump “gave classified info to the Russians”, it blew up in your faces.
Learn the Constitution
I read somewhere this judge is a democrat donor and had donated $2,000 to Biden.
Odd they chose him
And don't forget the treatment Hillary got. All her aids were given immunity. They sat in the room when she was being "interviewed" by a corrupt FBI agent. There was no transcript nor video taken. Then they physically destroyed all her devices. Without backup
odd
Mar Lago
18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
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(a)
Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b)
Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Donald Trump called it “siege,” a “raid,” a modern-day Watergate, complete with nefarious safe-crackers. Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis darkly suggested the Biden administration – or “the Regime,” as he phrased it — had seconded law federal enforcement to target its political opponents and that this meant the United States was now a “Banana Republic.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who has been quoted saying that she is not sure that al-Qaida carried out the 9/11 attacks and has flirted with the belief that the U.S. government is controlled by a Satanic pedophile cult, had a three-word response: “Defund the FBI!”
To put it mildly, MAGA-land erupted last night at the news that the former president’s Mar-a-Lago private club and mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., was searched for several hours on Monday by FBI agents. They evidently found what they were looking for: presidential materials that Trump removed from the White House, among them, according to early press reports, “many pages of classified documents.”
The National Archives prevailed upon Trump after he left office to hand over 15 boxes of presidential materials, which he was legally bound to do. He only did so a year later. After receiving the boxes, it discovered documents that contained "classified national security information." The DOJ began an investigation based on that finding.
Federal agents removed about a dozen boxes of materials from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and issued a warrant indicating the search pertained to possible violations surrounding classified information and the Presidential Records Act.
Two problems....
Nobody has ever been charged with a violation of the Presidential Records Act and no President has been charged with 18 U.S. Code § 2071 because of a dispute between them and the National Archives. People are pretending that they are the same laws... when they simply are not.
If you bothered to even pretend to believe that Comey did the right thing with Clinton, then precedent demands that at best the Government should do would be to file a civil complaint and go get subpoenas to garner the information they believe should be in the archives.
Instead they did a surprise raid and seized documents from Trump's personal residence. Pretty serious stuff.
Think about what the next GOP administration will do to Hunter and Joe! They actually committed crimes.
This is as , RRB points out.
ALKY Level Stupid.
Pelosi: China Is a ‘Strong Democracy’ — ‘One of the Freest Societies in the World’
CALI SAID,
"Comey said that simply having classified information where it was not supposed to be was not a crime."
He didn't say mutilating and or removing classified documents from federal property is not a crime.
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8 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
(a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away....etc., etc.
(b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States...
Trump not only destroyed and/or or took away classified documents, but failed/refused to return all he had taken when it was demanded that he do so.
If Obama had done this...
FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.
The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.
The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.
I disliked Trump personally, he was a far more effective president than Dementia Joe could ever be. He knows what day it is
But I think the Donks, just stumbled into a briar patch
Days of yore, reading about “the tar baby”
obody has ever been charged with a violation of the Presidential Records Act
LOLOLOLO!!!! So fucking what......we also have never had such a dirt bag lying leader as trump!!!!!! Surprise raid....lololo. they have been trying to get trump to fess up and provide the documents for month....the only surprise is you are surprised!!!!!
Scott, if he had highly classified documents taken from the White, The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era Espionage Act.
That law has traditionally been used to target government leakers, such as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. But it also “actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling [of classified material] through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen or destroyed,”
I have been reading about this and if they press charges he could spend three years in prison and could not run for President again
But you probably won't post this 🤔
Trump is having to sit and be deposed this morning, poor guy..
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/donald-trump-deposed-wednesday-morning-031617134.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
More data and alarms about the incessant heat that the GOP still thinks is a hoax!!!! Sad that such facts do not get absorbed by the right!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/09/another-wave-extreme-heat-targets-europe-prompting-alerts/
It has been barely three weeks since a historic spate of extreme temperatures baked western Europe, smashing all-time records in Britain. Now a new heat wave is building over the continent, with alerts issued and more records in jeopardy.
10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint
By Thursday, much of France and southern parts of the England are expected to see high temperatures 18 to 27 degrees (10 to 15 Celsius) above normal — with highs in the 90s (above 32 Celsius) rather than the 70s (above 21 Celsius).
People keep demanding that the FBI release a copy of the warrant.
But Trump's lawyers have the warrant, and a copy of a list of what was taken.
Why are THEY staying silent?
“In New York City tonight. Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!
“My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides. Banana Republic!”
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in July, less than expected as inflation pressures ease a bit
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Inflation climbed 8.5% in July, lower than expectations
Prices that consumers pay for a variety of goods and services rose 8.5% in July from a year ago, a slowing pace from the previous month due largely to a drop in gasoline prices.
On a monthly basis, prices were flat as energy prices broadly declined 4.6% and gasoline fell 7.7%. That offset a 1.1% monthly gain in food prices and a 0.5% increase in shelter costs.
Bad news for slurpers like the Kansan fraud who keep wishing the economy down!!!!! OOOPS!!!
Yahoo Finance
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U.S. stock futures climbed early Wednesday as Wall Street mulled a better-than expected inflation reading for July.
Futures tied to the benchmark S&P 500 index were up 0.4%, while contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced by 80 points, or about 0.2%. Nasdaq futures gained 0.5%.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' July Consumer Price Index (CPI) reflected a year-over-year increase of 8.5% last month, down from June's 40-year high of 9.1%. Consensus economists were expecting last month's reading to show an 8.7% increase, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
I just read that Trump's lawyer is advising him to take the fifth.
Yet Trump himself, years ago, repeatedly suggested that only people with something to hide avail themselves of the protection against self-incrimination.
“The mob takes the Fifth,” he declared.
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About to join the mob, Donald?
The raid on Mar-a-Lago is the act of a set of political actors who have no regard for the law, and who serve the god of big government. They pray daily that they will be seated in positions of power where they can prove their self-importance to their deity. None of them have the slightest concern for real Americans who actually work to provide for their families after the demigods in DC have extracted their pound (or three) of flesh. Why else would doubling the size of the IRS be on their now-fulfilled short-term wish list?
Returning to the Donald, my greatest complaint against him has been that he didn’t choose the correct staff. But having been burned, he’s now prepared to deal with the Swamp. The much bandied-about Schedule F rule would likely be his first move. Roughly 50,000 federal employees with policy-making authority would be reclassified into Schedule F, making them “at-will” employees. Because they have actively opposed Trump at every turn, he might fire them en masse, draining the Swamp in a single blow.
This would certainly be met with lawsuits, but all those run up against the first sentence of Article II of the Constitution. “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Put bluntly, that means he doesn’t even need Schedule F, but Schedule F would make things cleaner. And the Civil Service Act notwithstanding, all those procedures that make it almost impossible to fire anyone are unconstitutional. We don’t need Donald Trump to implement Schedule F. Ron DeSantis could do it just as easily. But there is one thing only Donald Trump can do.
Donald Trump’s re-election can restore faith in America. We’ve all seen how high-sounding words tossed off by the Left as if they mean something are simply sociopaths lying about their plans to create Gulag America. They have a two-tier justice system in which the privileged are given a pass for things that cause mere mortals to lose life and liberty. Many are rotting in solitary confinement without the benefit of trial for the simple act of walking into the Capitol building after police waved them in. The list of evil perversions of justice is too long for this missive.
Donald Trump’s re-election would say that the Left has lost in a way that no other candidate can say. Their litany of lies has been rejected by We the People. Our champion, warts and all, will not be defeated. And We the People will not allow the cult of the elite to destroy the American Dream. We still believe that we have the right to bust our butts to make a better life and not have it stolen by the government.
Roger would kill himself
"I'm taking the fifth."
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/inflation-cpi-report-july
Zero inflation in July
"[O]bituaries were being penned only two weeks ago as Biden’s poll numbers dropped below even Donald Trump’s nadir. Yet here we are. America’s oldest president can now boast of a stronger legislative record in less than two years than either Obama or Bill Clinton achieved in eight. It turns out that low expectations are Biden’s secret weapon.”
We wanted the midterms to be a referenadum on Joe Biden. Trump is now blowing that all to pieces.
So, what kinds of documents could Trump want to take with him from the White House, at the risk of violating several federal statutes? What is the thing that Trump has always valued most in his life?
The answer is money, and the documents associated with getting or being paid money are usually contracts. Trump could have removed from the White House contracts he concocted while he was serving as president that would provide him money after he left office.
The other sorts of documents which might be valuable enough to be worth real money would be secrets regarding foreign nations that might be willing to pay money to learn what those secrets are. These may be the documents said to have been marked "Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information," or "TS/SCI." This is a level of security used to protect national security secrets, data and even technology which could affect national security if they fall into the wrong hands.
This is also the kind of information that is sought by foreign spies and paid for by foreign governments to American citizens who sell it to them. This is called espionage, and I think it may be possible that the FBI was looking for materials that are valuable as intelligence sought by foreign powers hostile to the United States.
It seems unlikely that the Department of Justice would search the home of a former president, something that has never been done in the nation's history, unless they are involved in an investigation of a very, very serious crime, such as walking away with secrets that are known to be sought by hostile foreign actors, not merely walking away with documents that don't belong to you. It's possible the DOJ may be investigating Trump not only for violating the Presidential Records Act, but for violating the Espionage Act.
It seems unlikely that the Department of Justice would search the home of a former president unless they are involved in an investigation of a very, very serious crime.
Inflation 8.5 percent in July.
Never expect Roger to ever get anything right on economic issues.
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