Devin Nunes was previously the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In that very specific role, Nunes was a member of the Gang of Eight who are briefed on all intelligence issues at the same level as the President, the chief executive. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, is the #2 ranking intelligence oversight member within the national security oversight apparatus, exceeded in rank amid the Gang of Eight group only by the House Speaker.
As the HPSCI chairman, Nunes has a very granular understanding of intelligence language and the way the intelligence apparatus uses words within national security documents. When Nunes talks about national security documents, he is a subject matter expert on the administration side of the process. Why is that important right now? Because Nunes knows how to contrast the wording in the Jack Smith indictment against wording used to describe national security documents.
Pay very close attention to this interview, prompted to 05:06, for the Nunes part. You have to get past the paid to obfuscate Mrs. Hannity interruptus, as she tries to shut down Nunes from bringing sunlight on the indictment. However, what Nunes introduces in his comments is the origin of what I am going to explain after the interview.
This is a game-changing context for the Jack Smith indictment. Again, pay close attention. WATCH:
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What almost everyone in professional narrative engineering/punditry is missing, many of them because they are paid to pretend not to know, is that the national archivists gave sworn testimony to Congress about the Trump documents on May 17, 2023 {citation}. What I am going to outline below will explain the fraud that Jack Smith and his Lawfare crew are purposefully generating.
Some baselines are needed for you to understand what is happening.
First, the National Archives and the DOJ did not demand a return of Classified Documents. They requested a return of documents containing classification markings. These are two entirely different things.
Most documents containing classification markings are not classified documents; yet, most classified documents contain classification markings. Additionally, one of the documents used by Jack Smith in his indictment [COUNT #11] contained no markings at all.
Second, it is critically important to remember that throughout the legal issues in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago raid, the DOJ has viciously denied any responsibility to describe the classified documents they claim to have retrieved. In fact, the DOJ has fought against any entity, including the court appointed “special master”, from being able to look at the documents the DOJ *previously* claimed were either classified, or, vital to national security. {GO DEEP}
Because there is a very specific type of Lawfare taking place with words, it is critical to see the value in what Devin Nunes understands about the way the language is being deployed. Now we return to the testimony of the national archivist office, and here is where it gets really interesting.
♦ During testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) officials were asked specifically about Trump documents and how they could *KNOW* fulsome return of documents had not taken place. The response from the NARA officials is enlightening:
[Source pdf, testimony transcript – page 43 and 44]
Notice that NARA had knowledge these documents were in the possession of Trump and were pertinent to their archive retrieval. It was interesting at the time that NARA would know the content of the President Obama letter, and further interesting they would know there was more than one piece of correspondence between President Trump and Chairman Kim [Jong-un]. CNN even wrote about it HERE.
[Irrelevant note: Mr Bonsanko got the name wrong, Jong-il is dead]
Reminder, keep in mind the DOJ ferocity in not wanting anyone to know what documents they retrieved and/or defined.
We know, from President Trump describing the letter left to him by the former president, that Obama told Trump in the letter that the number one foreign policy and intelligence threat perceived by Obama (at the time of his exit) was a nuclear armed North Korea. This is where you overlay the Jack Smith writing in the indictment of national defense secrets and nuclear security issues.
We know, from President Trump speaking publicly about his communication and diplomacy with Chairman Kim Jong-un, that the two leaders exchanged letters relating to aligned national security interests that centered around DPRK nuclear ambitions and status.
Trump and Kim formed a geopolitical truce, a friendship of sorts, based on respect and trust around the nuclear issue. Chairman Kim decreased hostilities; President Trump no longer used inflammatory language about “Little Rocket Man.” A diplomatic détente was created.
NARA was looking for the letter written by Obama that described DPRK nukes, and NARA was looking for letters between Trump and Kim that touched on DPRK nukes.
Now, does the wording in the Jack Smith indictment that pertains to “nuclear concerns” and “national security matters” make more sense?
Would all of this “nuclear national defense” hullaballoo really stem from President Trump not giving up personal letters written to him by President Obama and Chairman Kim? YES! Would President Trump even characterize those letters as government property? NO!
♦ The indictment accuses President Trump of withholding documents containing “classified markings,” a very specifically deployed obtuse wording intended to create the implication of something nefarious where nothing nefarious exists. It is entirely possible for a person, any person, especially a person who follows the news, to possess documents containing “classified markings.”
There is a big difference between a classified document and a document containing classified markings. As an example, anyone who has looked at the Carter Page FISA application, made public in July 2018, has reviewed a document containing “classified markings.” When a document is declassified, they do not remove the markings.
This language is the underpinning of the entire DOJ/FBI framework that predicated the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Specifically, neither NARA nor the DOJ-NSD requested President Trump or his team to return Classified Documents. The DOJ demanded the return of any documents that contained “classified markings.” [SEE BELOW]
Because the verbiage is so intentionally obtuse (ie. Lawfare), a fulsome production in compliance with this DOJ demand would include any newspaper or magazine articles that had a picture of the Carter Page FISA application, or any printed online article that might contain the same or similar elements. There is a big difference between asking for a classified document return, and asking for a return of documents that contain “classified markings.”
Can you see the way it unfolds? Of course, when you apply the Lawfare lingo, an approach entirely based on maintaining the targeting of Trump, then suddenly the seemingly innocuous becomes horribly nefarious.
In order to pull this off two things would be needed: (1) the DOJ would need to write about it in a certain way in the indictment√; and (2) simultaneously, the DOJ would need to stop anyone from viewing the actual documents, as they misleadingly described them√. Hey, wait… that’s exactly what they did.
♦ In a previous court ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court ruled in favor of the U.S. Dept of Justice – National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), and blocked the lower court order instructing a Special Master to review the DOJ claimed, “classified documents.” [pdf Ruling Here]
Essentially the order of the appellate court was based on the DOJ defining Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents as “classified” and “vital to national security”, and the court’s determination said they have no authority to question the decision of the executive branch when it comes to how they DEFINE matters of national security.
The court (judicial branch) openly stated they defer to the DOJ (executive branch) regarding any/all claims of harm to national security that may be caused by a review of documents the DOJ-NSD determined, on their own authority, to be identified as classified or matters of “national security.”
In the prior opinion of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, if the DOJ states sharing the “classified documents” with a special master may harm national security, the court must accept that position without challenge and stop the special master review.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals did what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) does with the DOJ-NSD and any matters defined by the originating Main Justice officials as “national security.” The 11th Circuit is deferred to the DOJ.
The DOJ was granted legal benefit of the doubt on all matters of national security, which puts the DOJ-NSD in ultimate control over the star chamber they operate.
This ridiculous ruling meant the DOJ could define any document as a document of “national security interest” and there is no countervailing review of their definitions. As soon as this decision was reached the DOJ then moved to appoint a special counsel. Can you see how this works?
With this ruling in his briefcase, Special Counsel Jack Smith could now define the Mar-a-Lago documents according to the legal intention of his targeting. That’s exactly what he did. The case against Trump is not a case about classified documents, it is a case about the DOJ defining unilaterally what documents are considered “vital to national security.”
With the DOJ getting to define those documents, the special counsel then moves to claim national security threats created by Trump’s ownership. The overlay of “vital to the nuclear capabilities of the defense dept,” can then be shifted to include letters from President Obama and Kim Jong-un about DPRK nuclear capabilities.
But wait, it gets better….
♦ First, ask yourself why would President Obama write about the DPRK nuclear threat in his letter welcoming President-elect Trump to the White House? It always struck me as odd, even years ago, when Trump would talk about this issue. It never made sense why President Obama would memorialize that type of an issue in writing, until today.
Normally that type of national security policy and leadership challenge issue would be part of a conversation. “Mr. Trump, as I depart office the number one issue you might first want to deal with on a national security basis is the nuclear ambitions of North Korea, here’s my opinion“… and so it would go.
Why write it down?
Why memorialize the nuclear threat of North Korea in a letter welcoming Donald Trump? Well, if the Obama intention was to create a written record that would always mean his letter was going to remain hidden from public review, then writing about DPRK nukes would be a way to make that happen.
Lastly, who would know about the content of the letter that President Obama wrote to President-elect Trump, specifically as it centers around a national security issue? Who would know what Obama wrote to Trump?
Lisa Monaco would certainly know the content of the letter written by Barack Obama to Donald Trump; she, Susan Rice and Kathryn Ruemmler might have even assisted in the writing of it. Remember, it was Susan Rice who wrote the January 20th “by the book” memo memorializing the FBI targeting of Trump, and Kathryn Ruemmler represented Susan Rice as her lawyer when investigators made inquiry.
Lisa Monaco was previously President Obama’s senior advisor for national security. Monaco is now the Deputy Attorney General to AG Merrick Garland.
Deputy AG Lisa Monaco is the head of the DOJ operation that was targeting the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents and framing the legal issues for the DOJ to use in court. Monaco would know that any production of documents that did not include the Obama letter would mean a “national security document” remained in Mar-a-Lago.
Special Counsel Jack Smith also reports to Lisa Monaco.
Things making sense now?
♦ There is also a letter from lawyers representing President Trump to the chair of the House Intel Committee that is very interesting [pdf available here]. The letter was written to the HPSCI prior to the testimony by officials for NARA
The letter is written to HPSCI Chair Mike Turner and copied to the other seven members of the gang-of-eight in the Senate and House. The letter outlines the details of the documents that became the contested issue between the DOJ-National Security Division (‘NSD’, important distinction), specifically a DOJ-NSD official named Jay Bratt, and the attorney for President Trump, Mr. Evan Corcoran.
The letter is fascinating because it outlines how the process of moving documents from the White House was weaponized by a politically motivated National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”), and the letter also gives fulsome context to the types of “classified materials” that have been insanely over emphasized by media.
[…] “Tim Parlatore and Jim Trusty, two of the undersigned counsel for President Trump, reviewed all 15 boxes at NARA earlier this year and based on that review, it is clear to us what happened. The boxes contain all manner of documents from the White House, are loosely grouped by date, and include newspapers, magazines, notes, letters, and daily schedules. Following its review of the materials, NARA inserted placeholder pages where it had removed documents with classification markings. That allowed Messrs. Parlatore and Trusty to discern what the documents were, as well as what other materials in the boxes were in the proximity of the marked documents when the White House staff packed them. The vast majority of the placeholder inserts refer to briefings for phone calls with foreign leaders that were located near the schedule for those calls.” (page 3, pdf link)
Additionally, get this part… despite the standard process that has been in place for the prior four administrations, the NARA refused to participate in the collection of any documents from the White House during the transition phase following the November 2020 election.
The NARA refused to assist in the collection of the Trump records for national archive holding and review, and then the NARA triggered a sequence of events that led to the DOJ using a reference from the NARA, to weaponize a process they refused to engage in. The NARA refused to do their specialized bureaucratic job, and then the NARA used what they defined as an incomplete job as a reason to refer the outcome to the DOJ. The details are quite interesting.
The letter details how the DOJ-NSD then weaponized the process, fought with the FBI investigative and supervisory agents who were saying Trump was doing nothing wrong, and then culminating in a documented lie to the Florida magistrate, in order to get a politically motivated search warrant.
The DOJ will not release the documents they used to convince the judge to obtain the warrant. Additionally, the DOJ will not release a list of the documents, or even describe the documents, they later claimed are classified. To this date, the Trump defense team is being told President Trump held classified documents, yet the DOJ will not describe to the lawyers who represent President Trump, what specifically those classified documents are.
Ingraham, Hannity, Jones, and now this bobblehead… Clearly, they attended the same interview school. Good grief. Shut up and let the guest speak!!!
Their egos won’t let them shut up!
A Foreign National has Audio Recordings of a $5 million bribe
given to Hunter & VP Joe Biden. Those Audio Recordings contain
far greater criminal activity than just a bribe.
The Foreign National recorded everything as an ‘Insurance Policy’.
It’s all for show. The 24 hour media loop of, “The documents, the documents, the documents.” Exactly the same as, “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Get the pitchforks. -€
McCarthy handled CNN reporter pretty well here…
The question, and it was a good one, was whether the house plans to defund the FBI and the DOJ. The answer, which Kevin McCarthy will not give, is no they don’t intend to do anything about the two-tiered justice system in the horrific abuses of the FBI and DOJ, except whine about them. The only real power that the House of Representatives has is the power of the purse, and Kevin McCarthy just gave all of that away with the debt ceiling deal. Kevin McCarthy is a cuckold. He’s a tool of the Marxist left.
Actually, “the House” and SPECIFICALLY the Speaker have another Power, and its a Big one also intentionally NOT being excercised by McCarthy, just as it wasn’t by his predecessor.
An entity can not be a party to any legal action in Court; you can not “sue” an entity, or depose them, etc.
This is why if you were going to sue the Trump organisation, the boy scouts, or SPLC, or if they were going to sue you, in addition to listing the name of the entity, names of individuals, as official representstived OF that entity would have to be named as plaintiffs or claiments, and would have to sign documents.
Point is, if either House or Senate committees want to sue in Court, say to take the FBI to Court, to get a court order to force the FBI to relinquish a document the Speaker is THE person designated to sign off, as the designated representative of Congress.
Comer agreed to a compromise on the document BECAUSE Kevin refused to sign off (literally) on taking the FBI to Court, to force the documents release.Just as Nunes was hamstrung by Ryan.
Many here posted Comer oversight committee should use U.S. Marshalls etc.
All CONgress would need to do, IF McCarthy (or Ryan) were willing, is go to Court; Wray WOULD have to comply with a Court order, or face contempt of Court charges, which unlike Contempt of Congress, has consequences.
THEY want it to appear CONgress has no power to compell the FBI to produce the document, unredacted (as its NOT “Classified”) but they DO, and Kevin is refusing to excercise that Power.And Comer, MTG, Jordan etc. ALL KNOW IT.
ANY one of them COULD go on a talking head show, or in a “presser” and publically “call out” the Speaker, but none has or will.
The 20/6 are NOT “Holding Kevins feet to the fire”, either they are complicit, compromised or fear retribution from Kevin.
“A number of people told me I can have a really succesful political career, if I just distance myself from President Trump.
As if I give a DAMN about a “political career”; I am in this for my CHILDREN, and my COUNTRY!”
-Kari Lake
Obviously, the 20/6 are more concerned about their political careers.
McCarthy will not do anything about a rogue deep state because he’s part of the uniparty and the deep state. He is not on our team; he never was he never will be.
I am going to give McCarthy a little breathing room as Speaker.
Here’s why: When there was a debate about him or someone else as Speaker, very early on in that process, Don Jr. came out all in for McCarthy.
It made me think there is some sort of long term plan in place to clean up the swamp.
As many commenters here have pointed out, things are trending in the right direction in DC. We the People are starting to pick up wins. The corrupt members of the DC swamp are not winning. They are getting exposed daily and the do not look good, joyous or healthy. They appear desperate.
Ask yourself, would you want to be Wray, Garland, Barr, Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Graham, Schiff, McConnell, Biden, etc right now? Not to mention Pence and Chris Crispy. Pence is a complete phony. And don’t go near Chris Crispy Creme with any sharp objects cuz he’s so big that he may just burst.
By contrast, our favorite President draws in Yuge crowds of joyous people. He is having fun, is of good cheer and dances with the happy crowd.
Trump went all in for Barr, point being the swamp is full of snakes in the grass.
As far as the wins you speak of you won’t hear a word of any of them on any msm fake news rag. See for yourself and hop over to CNN’s app and look for any story on the Biden crime syndicate scandals. You’ll discover zero. Then count the endless attack stories on Trump and his dangerous far right supporters.
Until something actually comes of the Biden crime syndicate scandal I wouldn’t be too optimistic. And if it does, the only reason will be is to help the democrats stop Joe from running, as the uni-party has no intention of letting him run. But first they are focused on destroying Trump as he is their biggest threat to disrupting their communist march to totalitarian rule.
McConnell made it clear to Trump that who he wanted would never be confirmed .
And, there is a very simple solution for PDJT to employ in his next term, to address this problem that he is VERY aware of.
Objective, unemotional thought for 2 minutes, understanding THE PROCESS should enable anyone to figure out what it is, and certainly a VSG has, long ago.
nuff said,….
Sluggo,
Candidate DJT got 90 percent negative coverage by MSM, during the 2016 campaign, for all the good it did his opposition.
As for Joe, I disagree with your assessment, and time will show which of us is correct.
I maintain the PLAN of the Uniparty (Dem wing) was to leave Joe as the D nominee.
Obviously all potential party operatives that jumped up to dissipate Bernie in 2020 have been “waved off” for 2024.In “traditional politics” they SHOULD have already made their moves by now, to position themselves to challenge Joe in the primaries and have not.
To me, the intention, the PLAN was to use Joe as the “cautionary tale” to force MAGA voters to “hold their nose” and vote for RDS (cause Joe is WORSE) a ploy they have used successfully many times before.
Hence, the “worse” Joe looks, the better they like it.
However, the plan is crashing, so I can see a slight chance they “call an audible” and as they did in 2008, they push Joe aside and insert another at the convention, although I don’t see that as gaining them anything.
RDS is NOT working out as intended, the indictments are only increasing PDJT’s strength, and at this point changing their play, is like a football offensive team changing their play, AFTER the ball has been snapped.
And that NEVER works out well…
Overall, what is being exposed for all to see, is what I have been saying for some time is the underlieing, foundational election fraud; the manipulation of elections by the Uniparty strategy of ONE two-faced party; the ballot fraud is just an outgrowth of THAT, and it is the exposure and destruction of that that is necesary in order to MAGA.
And that exposure and destruction is proceeding according to plan, hence I remain optimistic and excited about the future.
Don Jr also came out in favor of bud light
It’s clear to me that Don Jr doesn’t have a clue what the whole “Pride” movement is really about .
That is somewhat of a misrepresentation. I heard his explanation. Because BL is a big donor to the R party, he was advocating that we not shoot ourselves in the foot. He was NOT advocating support of the content of the trans-guy ad, but it would have been better it he said nothing.
You are dreaming my friend. The most we can hope for is that Wray et al leave us alone. The alternative is treatment similar to Jan 6 defendants. No one is coming to save us. Get prepared.
I wonder how every single member of congress and the administration lost their sense of honesty, integrity and morality all at the same time. It’s like someone flipped a switch and turned off everything that is good about the human race.
Seems like there are only a few of us who did not get switched off. I try to keep a “stiff upper lip” but those around me including my relatives seem to wallow in the crap.
This country which I once loved is not my country anymore.
I don’t comment much so forgive me for this bit of negativity just this once.
It’s like someone flipped a switch and turned off everything that is good about the human race.
This country which I once loved is not my country anymore.
Wow, these two sentences…. Yes, D., I know exactly what you mean. It’s eerie, impossible, beyond the range of belief, and yet, here we are. Feel like you’re living in a dystopian novel?
Yeah, me, too.
Only good thing is, the few relatives we have who get into this crap keep silent about it, and I think a couple may be actually ashamed. The other two are into whatever’s trendy — your perfect mass psychosis subjects — so there you are.
I agree with your post and Dixie’s.
It seems overwhelming because it is.
My thought for several years has been: Once you realize your country is a banana republic, it probably has already been one for some time.
For this reason, what we are witnessing is probably not new. It’s simply the exposure of it and our becoming aware of it that’s new.
Sundance is the best disinfectant. And we are trending towards more sunlight right now, not less.
And yes that was an intentional typo referring to Sundance as Sunlight ;).
Dixie,
Ultimately, it is Satan vs God, and we KNOW had that turns out.
Do NOT be discouraged, ALL Satan has is lies and deceptions, with NO actual POWER.
The country you once loved was an illusion, but we now have the opportunity to make it a reality.
SOME suggest God has “abandoned America, because of our embrace (as a country) of sin”.
Similar to what some claimed, when Moses went up on the mountain, and his detractors called for making a golden calf.
But if God is truly punishing America, WHY has he clearly given us PDJT and now KL as well?
WE are actually WINNING, and as another commenter pointed out, would anyone REALLY want to be in the shoes of Comey, Hunter, etc. right now?
DECEPTION, ILLUSION, MISDIRECTION is ALL they have, and its just not working.
I think it just seems like they all “lost their sense of honesty, integrity and morality all at the same time” because President Trump is the only person who has exposed them all at the same timeframe. In reality, these people have been corruption to some level and some far more than others for a very long time.
I agree Dixie, I am concerned with our country
Maga Minuteman,
While I agree with your last paragraph, I strongly disagree with your first, regarding Don Jr.’s support for McCarthy.
Many questioned PDJT’s support for both Kevin and Ronna.
In fact the same notion you suggest about McCarthy (actually being a white hat) could apply to Ronna, for the same reasoning.
So, “WHY publically support Ronna and Kevin?”
Because both attempts to challenge Ronna as RNC Chair and McCarthy as Speaker were doomed to be unsuccesful, at least as far as unseating them.
Both efforts WERE “worth doing” in terms of illustrating to voters the TRUE NATURE of the RNC, and the manipulative nature of the Uniparty, however.
With Ronna, the effort cleary demonstrated to all, what I have been saying for some time; the REAL Political POWER within the Republican party is wielded by the State R party EXECUTIVE BOARDS, that sit at the top.
Putting a MAGA person in as “State Chair” accomplishes little, so long as the Overseeing Board are RINO; its like a CEO vs the Board of Directors constantly undermining the CEO’S efforts.
The 163 (?) who voted for Ronna were put in their positions by the Executive boards, and voted as instructed.
These same Executive boards insure their will never be a MAGA majority in the House, or Senate capable of wresting control away from the RINOS (McCarthy and McConnell now Thune).
Knowing that, for PDJT to have not supported Ronna and McCarthy, first of all would have put him on the”losing side”, optics wise; WHY would he do that?
In addition, we are reaching (finally!) a showdown between PDJT and MAGA, and the RNC/GOPe; WE all know it.
THEY want an excuse, ANY excuse to deny PDJT the nomination.
To say he is “divisive”, is “splitting the Party” is “fighting with party leadership” etc. is an argument they could make, IF he had taken a position against Ronna and Kevin.
He can not give them ANY excuse for denying them the nomination, hence he ALWAYS said “good things” about Ronna.
Its politics; its just like how he gave “lip service” to Climate Change while campaigning in 2016, but then opened up keystone, etc. once in office.
You fight the battles you can WIN.
Dutch, yes I agree.
Fight the battles you can win and take the wins where you can get them.
I should have phrased “Don Jr. came out all in for McCarthy” better.
His support for McCarthy was one more of, “Hey guys, let’s take the win here. Let’s not bicker over the Speakership and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”.
I am hopeful, wide eyed hopeful, but still hopeful that McCarthy is being pressured by the good guys to do the right thing.
President Trump mentioned on the Howie Carr radio show yesterday that now the gloves are off. Now that they went after him, a former President, he can go full bore after them. The precedent has now been set.
We’ll see what happens! What have we got to lose?
dutchman,
The people who ultimately voted to re-elect Ronna to her position were the committeemen and committeewomen — one of each for every state — who make up the Republican National Committee.
I do not know the process in other states, but in Texas the committeeman and the committeewoman are elected by the delegates from each county at the state convention. The SREC members are also elected to their positions, but they do not have greater voting power than any other delegate in the election of the committeeman and committeewoman.
The Republican political structure in Texas is very bottom-up. A lot of those delegate spots end up going to RINOs of retirement age because people with full-time jobs have a harder time handling the time and expenses entailed in attending conventions.
It is a shame that younger people with families don’t feel as free to participate.
Trump was wrong in supporting him
Nearly all swap trash like Frank Luntz’s boy friend Kevie are themselves compromised. True, he’s uniparty rino as they come, but once compromised always owned.
Never forget that the US Marshals are part of Lisa Monaco’s DOJ and would never be allowed to arrest Wray for protecting the Selected Ones.
Sternly written letters are their specialty.
Congressmen Walter B Jones, Jr. and Dennis Kucinich and eight other reps sued Obama and the Secretary of Defense for militarily involving the USA in Libya without seeking approval from congress in 2011. Jonathan Turley was their attorney.
Since the Libya adventure would have failed in congress, the cost was “cash flowed” through DoD funds.
Judge Reggie Walton in DC threw out the case for lack of standing. Truly. He did.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2011cv1096-14
That bad precedent might be part of the discussion.
The court of public opinion may have to be the more effective venue.
Truley is an exceptional lawyer too
While the Ds, DOJ/FBI, U-Party et al cross all the rubicons imaginable, the Rs won’t. Remember when President Trump said he would teach the Rs how to fight? He taught but no one is receptive.
This republic thingy isn’t working as intended.
They gave away that power on purpose so when all of this goes down they can throw up their hands and say they can’t do anything.
There is no “power of the purse” (since it takes a 2/3rd majority of both houses to wield that “power”), but if there is, it is the appropriations process, not the debt ceiling/budget act.
Maobama’s Mockingbird assets announce themselves with struggle sessions.
“The intel agencies are the epicenter of the US uniparty.”
Kev gave the equivalent of writing a GOPe letter to a 14 year old CNN reporter with a microphone on a sugar high.
Having a rational, comparative conversation with any member of the crime syndicate media is a waste of time. Kev needs to look at Pelosi tapes and take note on how she answers any question from any conservative reporter.
CNN should lose their license and taken off the air for spreading lies about our 45 President, Covid, St. Floyd, Crime etc etc.
I’m blown away that NYT vs. Sullivan is still the standard. My God, what does it TAKE to prove malice? If it’s not malice, you’re saying it was just coincidence and/or error that made CNN and all the rest spread untrue (and they had ways of knowing its untruth) over and over and over and over and…for YEARS? (And certainly “truth” was no defense, since they knew from the start that it was all leaks from their favorite gov. entity, as it had been for years…)
where do these little twits come from?
How on God’s little blue marble do these useful idiots think they can get away with this treason? I want a refund.
Never Wash Back
Never Back O.F.F.
MAGA Back Better
“Joe call us terrorists, HA-HA. Never been no white supremacist, NU-UH.”
–Mayor of MAGAVILLE
youtube.com/watch?v=Al-gcOPAHtA
That’s the kicker, we’re paying for this crap!
Taxpayers are finding only a tiny portion, which is why they are not working for us.
They have progressively done more publicly and no one or nothing has stopped them yet. They don’t care about covering anything up anymore. It’s going to get worse. If you let a bully continue to bully you, it gets worse. The American people have been bullied for several years and have done nothing except be keyboard warriors.
Tell me, please.
Two opposing explanations for their behavior.
One (yours and many others) is that they are blatant, because they simply “don’t care that everyone can see what they are doing, and they haven’t faced any accountability for their actions, so why WOULD they?”
The other explanation is because they have been FORCED to engage in DEFENSIVE actions that have HAD to be ‘blatant’ and overt, because they could not achieve their desired results by covert means.
And my question wvvet is HOW would we be able to objectively detirmine WHICH explanation is the true one?
And it matters not which explanation is correct- they both lead to the same end and are represented by the same types of actions.
Reparations from all the treasonous bastids.
You would think?
Playing these stupid games only leads to the despot morons getting theirs in the end, eventually Obamo will be looked at and hard for the evil deeds he has committed and all the minor little thing they are attacking Trump for and the made up crap. Because, eventually different people will be in charge. The old guard is dying off Carter and Biden are to old to care about and probably be dead before they see the inside of a court room, so that leaves Obongo and he is the one that is responsible for all we see anyway.
Maybe Obongo should leave the country while he can!
“The seeds of hatred and revenge which they [sow] with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time.
“Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Francois de Marbois, 1817
You forgot about BUSH; Poppa is gone, but George jr. is still avalaible for the gallows, and every bit as culpable as Barach.
Michael Tracey
@mtracey
“Trump Attorney 1” is Robert Corcoran [*Correction, the attorney’s name is Evan Corcoran, not Robert Corcoran] who was forced to testify to the grand jury and hand over notes memorializing conversations with his client, Trump. Abolishing bedrock principles of attorney-client privilege: another casualty of the principle of throwing Trump in prison
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1668430834116771840.html
Barnes goes deep. He thinks the lawyers are wimps.
Worth your time, icymi.
https://rumble.com/v2tn4ac-get-this-video-to-trump-barnes-breaks-down-federal-indictment-viva-frei-liv.html
Whenever ANYONE tells you they want to talk to you, “but not on the phone, face to face” bring a tape recorder, a witness and/or a Lawyer.
Just as with Gen. Flynn, this was an obvious “set up” and the methods they are using have been developed by FBI and Federal Prosecutors over some time.
Bear that in mind, when considering actions like PDJT’s prison reform measures.
Its not just J6 prisoners, a lot of people railroaded into Federal prison.
This is an absolute must see! Barnes is easily disputing the whole indictment against President Trump. The magnanimity of what Barnes is saying is based on his knowledge of the Constitution and years of defending illegally brought indictments. I bookmarked this interview. Please do yourself a favor and refer to this interview when you hear all of the lies the Deep State wants you to believe.
If I hadn’t been a serious Tree House fan, I wouldn’t have been here to see this interview. Thanks CTH!!
I heard him call them Pus*sies. That there is some strong language.
If we had a half honest media we would not have these issues.
Note how the media talks about “classified” documents… Obviously this point was written for them…
The “media” is not interested on looking at what the charges are… just as they are not interesting on seeing what’s going on in Ukraine or Biden’s corruption.
because the y “literally know nothing”
and think they know it all.
If we had had a true opposition Political party, aggressively fighting for OUR policy initiatives, we would not HAVE an MSM monopoly, as our Representatives would have used the existing laws, specifically written and directing the FCC to prevent Media monopolies to prevent it.
Likewise, they would have pushed thru National School vouchers, 30+ years ago when WE urged them to, which would have broken the Public school indoctrination operation.
ALL of the “leftward slide” of our country would have been blocked, instead if being facillitated.
The MSM, Public indoctrination etc. are NOT the #1 “Enemy of the People”; they are #’s2 and 3.
#1 is the RNC/GOPe, and expose and destroy it, we win.
Fail to destroy it, and we can never truly prevail.
Fortunately, we HAVE and continue to expose and weaken it, it is now cornered and desperate, and one way or another, 2024 spells its doom.
Praise God and pass the ammunition,…oh and either quit whining or get out of my foxhole, your distracting me, directed at no one in particular.
And, he doesn’t have to. The President is “The Executive Branch” as set forth by and empowered by Article 2. His actions while in Office in regards to any matters such as these are plenary. They cannot be questioned.
7 actual charges, reminds one of ol Chucks comment on 7 ways to Sunday??
The big # is 37. With 34 from Bragg, its obvious they are looking at Georgia to ‘bring it home’ with at least 30 charges, for a perfect phone call with a bunch of lawyers in the call.
SO THAT they can have THE NARRATIVE of “OVER 100 INDICTMENTS!” as THAT is “the line” they are angling for.
If the trend holds, the Ga Indictments are 4-6 weeks away.
PDJT’s #’s will jump ANOTHER 10-12 points, his campaign fund another $10-15 million.
Not sure any Presidential Candidate since Washington has had such support, over a year before an election.
And pretty sure no incumbent has had such low #’s as Joe, at this point,..
I THINK the RNC will “blink” and while they will TRY using the Indictments as an excuse to keep PDJT off the ticket, they will NOT “push it” and use the authority they have, to blatantly refuse him.
And, once they “blink” and capitualate, PDJT knows he has them, and unlike Kevin knows well how to negotiate from strength, and will get his VP choice.
I believe PDJT actually has them right where he wants them, and there isn’t a THING they can do about it.
Dutch the only thing THEY can do is watch in horror as they have to overtly expose themselves to keep the company line floated and protected. And I mean the Uniparty company line.
Yup, they got nothing, and as all of their chips are in the pot, they are committed to their coarse of bluffing with a weak hand, and PDJT is “calling”.
Thought it was six ways to Sunday, but we all know it’s the highest number we can think of, squared, when it comes to killing the number one pro-America/anti-globalist president in history.
Eric and Don JR: Time to release the MLG Panty Raid Tapes.
MLG?
Probably should be MAL
Sorry Mar-a-Lago
Lets see what these brave FBI representatives were doing in the home of the President.
Why the worst nightmares shift into reality:
Suspicion raised about indictment-merits at court proceedings go and ten months after an authorized a search warrant!
It’s wired:
“[I]t is critically important to remember that throughout the legal issues in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago raid, the DOJ has viciously denied any responsibility to describe the classified documents they claim to have retrieved.”
After reviewing an authorized search warrant where a judge found probable cause for violating Espionage Act, these LEGAL analysts shared their opinion (ranking by significance of accountability): Andrew Napolitano, Andrew McCarthy, Bill Barr (persons character doesn’t affect the quality of his argument), Jonathan Turley, and Alain Dershowitz (among countless others). It not only raises the quality of one’s own analysis considerably, but also does not arise questions such as “Did you read the indictment” if one includes valid arguments of others in his/her own considerations.
Legal analysts uses their twitter account to inform their followers about her next on air presence, such as:
“I helped write the rules on classified document handling that the Trump indictment cited. So I know Trump’s defenses will fail [.]”
If someone don’t share the choice of a yes/no option and expresses this with a re-tweet, s/he should be spot on:
“I hate to interrupt your bragging, but executive orders are not binding on the next POTUS. It’s the fatal flaw in your argument.”
In laymen’s term: EO’s, like 13,526 [1] which was cited on pp 5-7 of indictment, last until they are overturned (or expire). Yes or No Question is: Did President Trump let EO 13,526 in place? If not: Point us to the replacement!
To sum up: Are we surrounded by some or countless contraflow drivers?
[1] The President Executive Order 13526 | National Archives
Apparently these people who say “legally invalid” have never read the SCOTUS decision in Navy v. Eagan, among others.
American Thinker recently published an article detailing three directly-relevant SCOTUS decisions on these matters. (You’ll have to search for it now.)
The President’s prerogatives in this matter are determined by Article 2 itself – not by any other Branch nor unit of the Executive Branch. They cannot be altered by “executive order.” The legal term used is: “plenary.” Unrestricted, unconstrained, arbitrary, absolute. No consensus, no consent, no “due process.”
After a federal Grand Jury issued a subpoena (5/11/22), a judged approved a search warrant citing Espionage Act among others (issued on 8/5/22 executed on 8/8/22), indictment issued 31 charges in violation of Espionage Act, among others [1].
For those who drove by the flow: This is the key question (since ten months):
Did President Trump had “unauthorized possession of, access to, and control over documents” named in counts 1-31 and are these documents “related to national defense”? (pp 28-33 of indictment)
I am positive that Andrea Widburg [2-4] will assist President’s legal team in answering this question!
In addition Counts 32-37 of indictment shouldn’t dodged:
[1 ] gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0_2.pdf (courtlistener.com)
[2] Debunking another false claim that Trump violated national security law – American Thinker
[3] The Eleventh Circuit’s unconstitutional ruling against Trump – American Thinker
[4] Bookworm Room – Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You won’t have to search far.
Here’s the AT article, with embedded links to the three cases mentioned:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/trump_did_not_violate_the_law_because_he_could_not_violate_the_law.html
With ample time, analgesics and an armchair you can form your own judgment as to how apposite they appear to be to the Trump case.
If National Archives needed Barack’s letter to Trump for archiving, couldn’t they get it from Barack, Monico, Weismann, or someone else? Did they LOSE theirs?
Were Obama’s cautionary words about failed North Korea negotiations that useful to Trump?
Were there maps of missile installations or secret codes on those pages?
Did Barack reveal their spy network?
Or did Obama just blather on about how he was afraid Trump might screw up the transforming American enemies part.
Didnt Obama and Wendy Sherman give N. Korea nuclear technology in exchange for them to stop testing. Those two buffoons are the ones who should be charged for giving away Nuke info.
No, none of those things but it did include words like nuclear, scary, and Obama things….thus it’s a great tool to use as narrative fodder and court manipulation. Other than that…it’s worthless. But they must try hence Jack Smith pushing for a speedy trial. Government never pushes for a speedy trial, every. They want time to make it air tight. Smith needs Trump to plea because Smith’s case falls apart fast when sunlight hits it.
Does Obama have a copy of that letter in his millions of documents?
Your best article ever!!
This is simply a continuum of the 4th branch elements usurping the power to decide what’s classified from the President, who actually holds that power under Article 2. Remember, Sundance has noted many times that the DOJ-NSD had essentially removed themselves from all oversight, executive or otherwise, during the reign of Obama. Trump attempted to bring them back in line, and this is probably what Schumer had in mind when he said that the Deep State can get back at you anytime, anywhere. No oversight means they can do whatever, whenever. Put differently, the ability for an executive who really and truly believes he’s accountable to the people to expose anything they desire to sunlight is akin to a Raid fogger going off in a cockroach nest. They simply can’t allow it. So they have to make sh*t up, just to wait out and in what they hope, demoralize the MAGA constituency, so that we go back to sitting out elections and they’re “it’s our party’s turn” selections go off without a hitch. Live your best life and keep on denying them that satisfaction.
(As an aside, once the radicals control all of the levers of power [including at the state level, by executive fiat] they have no use for the other wing of the Uniparty. The Mitchs of the party are delusional that they won’t end up in a gulag somewhere. But maybe that’s the point.)
Your last paragraph especially. Everyone thought they were a confidant of Joseph Stalin.
Actually, it is the last paragraph I take the most exception to.
Its like people “falling for” the idea the CONmunism is an “ideology” and getting involved in long debates about whether what we are currently experiencing is CONmunism, Fascism or Marxism, Nazism or the new “Globalism”as if they are different ideologies.
Its a CON; a small group of people working together to perptuate a CON in order to manipulate the population into surrendering TO the small group their inalienable rights; their inherent God given liberties, the fruits of their labors, their progeny and lives.
THERE IS NO IDEOLOGY.
In the middle ages, a con artists came up with a simple “street con” involving 3 walnut 1/2 shells, a pea a “patter” to distract the player and an accomplice to fool the marks into believing the game wasn’t rigged, and then adding a gang of pick pockets to steal from the crowd of onlookers.
And, it “worked” for a # of years, until enough people recognised it for what it was and refused to play.
So, they took the CON “off the market, waited for memories to fade, changed the ‘trappings’ and the patter, and reintruoduced it as “Find the Queen” aka “3 card monte”.
The original Bolshevic CONmunism, repackaged as Naziism, repackaged as Fascism, repackaged as Marxism, and now repackaged as Globalism is THE SAME CON, with the same GOAL.
“Ideology’ is only the “patter” used to distract the ‘marks’ and disrupt their critical thinking.
The Repubs are the accomplice, that APPEARS to be “one of us” (i.e. ‘the crowd’) in order to delude us that the game isn’t fixed.
McCarthy and now Thune won’t “end up in a gulag somewhere” and in fact EVERY time they are threatened, we see the Dem wing jump to protect them.
After all, without the “guy from the crowd” playing and appearing to win the CON doesn’t WORK.
NO, Dems or Leftists do NOT actually pursue any “Ideology” other than the aquisition of POWER, wealth and Priviledge, and they share the proceeds of their CON with their accomplises.
Those at the Top of the CCP, or the Soviet politoburo, have/had no illusions about their system of “Collectivism” being for “the greatest good for the greatest #” and our current group of CON artists don’t ACTUALLY believe the Climate Change, DEI or Trans bullshirt they spew; it is ONLY the ‘patter’ they use to distract the punters.
Evoke a strong emotional responce in order to shut down critical thinking, and sew DIVISION to prevent the populalace from UNITING against you.
THAT is the only COMMON element; all else is mutable its the APPEARANCE they are changing every time they repackage the Con.
There is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between the Dem wing and the Repub wing of the Uniparty; their agenda, their goals are ONE.
To think otherwise is to be distracted from the obvious apperent truth, that the only way that player won “find the pea/queen” is because he is in cahoots.
Wow. Yes.
Dang, Dutch, I’m so glad you’re on our side!
Well done.
Are you familiar with the honest media’s incubator babies? /s
The multinational free-market monopolists hate competition.
biggs.house.gov/media/videos/featuring-marlo-oaks-woke-esg
She is almost as insufferable as Hannity. Wow
talk about a set up… one of the documents in question is a letter written by Obama to President Trump.
I mean, holy sh%@.
Whatever you do, Donald, don’t hire General Flynn! Oh and here’s a letter I want you to have. Oh and here is a cell phone I think you’ll like. And whatever you do, do not hire Jeff Sessions or Bill Barr…
To think that Obama wrote a letter in 2016 with the intent of it potentially being used as a tool against Trump, 7 years in the future, is beyond nefarious.
Obama is not smart enough, but Lisa Monaco remembered it, so she is using it.
They are ALL terrified of that one honest man!
bottom line
MAGA 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Desperate acts by desperate clowns.
President Trump knows more about this than we do. He hinted to it when he put out the question asking what Jack Smith’s real name is.
As someone who doesn’t watch TV news, I feel bad for those that still do and are still in the trance of the intelligence controlled Mockingbird media.
Seeing clips of the blow hard bagpipes Barr out there this weekend peddling the narrative to us is a dead giveaway of the bondo operation. We here all know what a fraud he is and know he is only out there on clean up duty. Unfortunately, for those who are still in the trance of the media bubble, they don’t know he’s a fraud and think this is serious stuff.
Treasonous conspiracies *are* “serious stuff.” Those in the “media bubble trance” have got it backwards, is all. They’re blaming an innocent man, President Trump, the one who would save them from themselves.
And they prefer it that way.. pretending not to know things helps useful idiots sleep better at night. Because to consider the alternative, that the free world is in free fall and the media is complicit in our destruction, is far worse for them to contemplate.
God forbid all these navel gazers would have to break a sweat and THINK.
It is DENIAL, you are correct about that, Judith.
Who among us hasn’t thought “If only I didn’t know NOW, what I didn’t know THEN, I would sleep much better at night!”
IF we are honest and objective, WE were not just “sleeping” or “too caught up in our own lives, raising our children, pursuing our careers to realise what was happening”; as the evidence of the decline of our country has been right in front of us, for many years.
Did we REALLY think the “broken border” was because Dems were consistently able to out manuever Repubs, and that Repubs were TRYING to “fix it”?
Did we not recognise the Public School system has been an indictrination system for 50+ years, and the economy was manipulated to push parents raising kids into two earner households, SO THAT they would be dependant on that system to raise their kids, which they no longer had time and energy for?
It actually took the Vax to open peoples eyes to the utter corruption of the medical system,…REALLY?
Or, did we simply avert our eyes to a reality too horrific to contemplate?
My pont is, can we really afford to condemn these “navel gazers” for something the vadt majority of us are ourselves guilty of, just because WE have confronted and overcome our denial sooner than they?
Now, the actual CON artitist, perpetuating this Global ponzi scheme; hang them high!
But those who are fellow victims, and simply resisting (in denial) that they have been victimised by a con, BECAUSE it means accepting all of those financial statements from Madoff, showing unbelievable returns are B.S., and their fortunes are GONE, I submit are not the enemy.
Saying they are “part of the problem” means that WE, back when WE were in denial, were also “part of the problem” and “judge not that ye be judged”?
Ultimately, only one thing can defeat Tyranny; UNITY.
With Unity, 2A is unnecesary, and without Unity, 2A is unworkable.
Great comment! You should repost this on the daily Presidential thread daily for a while.
With Unity, 2A is unnecesary, and without Unity, 2A is unworkable.
If I might?
BOOM!!
The hard news on Newsmax is actually further left than the hard news on Fox. Notice in the crawl they always say “gender-affirming care”. I like a few of the hosts, but you have to remember this is the Christopher Ruddy network. And OAN uses wire service copy for their news which also repeats left wing talking points. They need to hire some writers and write their own news!
Ok…the plot thickens and quickly does it not. National defense “documents” that are “concerning” to the “archivist” are letters written directly to Trump. On a side note, do not tell me one more time in breathless array about 17 tapes proving Biden corruption. Publish them. I have a right to them. These absolute oligarchial elitist pigs should not be able to keep such things from the American people. And while we are at it: constitutionally the press does not have an enhanced First Amendment right to access governmental information over the individual First Amendment rights of the American people. So when you release the J6 tapes to media there no longer is any legal support for not releasing them to us. The filter of our betters must be destroyed.
Great analysis. Thank you, Sundance, again!
who is this chick with the annoying voice and doesnt know when to keep quiet?
A blond member of the 4th Column
You do know Nunes truth you 3 X’s on this post.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/03/info-wars-and-billionaire-motives-elon-musk-uses-team-desantis-twitter-community-notes-to-undermine-trump/
We’re in a transitional phase from liberal democracy to fascism.
American constitutional democracy was just so splendid for lawyers. America had more lawyers than the rest of the world combined.
But the religion of leftism overwhelmed these sad souls. They heard the siren song of fascism and they succumbed.
Lawfare and the rest are now using bogus laws to undermine democracy. And when the fascists reach their ultimate victory, why exactly will they need you, Andrew Weissmann?
‘Mrs Hannity’ – very good – didn’t get it at first, until listened to panicked interruption -that “verbal diarrhea “ characteristic ( sorry for gross imagery ) seems to be a qualification for these interviewers – don’t watch cable news BTW – get the “essence” here . Saves so much time although I miss those 5 minute Gold commercials (sarcasm )
Nunes is very good – will they ever be able to break through the Classified propaganda/Fake News hysteria – as he says “average” person intentionally being misled …Will it make a difference to the “low information ballots” (sarcasm?)
Lisa, Susan and Kathryn …. again. Never should have given women the right to vote. It’s been down hill ever since. Wink, wink.
Bob Woodward had no background whatsoever in the news business. Instead, Bob Woodward came directly from the classified areas of the federal government. Shortly before Watergate, Woodward was a naval officer at the Pentagon.
Just to make it crystal clear what was actually happening, Woodward’s main source for his Watergate series was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt, and Mark Felt ran — and we’re not making this up —
the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which was designed to secretly discredit political actors, the federal agencies wanted to destroy — people like Richard Nixon. And at the same time, those same agencies were also working to take down Nixon’s elected vice president, Spiro Agnew. In the fall of 1973, Agnew was indicted for tax evasion and forced to resign. His replacement was a colorless congressman from Grand Rapids called Gerald Ford.
Felt was also taking revenge for not being appointed Director to replace Hoover.
And to muck things up, the FIB had stopped running ops for the CIA, so the CIA was abusing Nixon to run said ops.
IMHO, That story that Felt was taking revenge is a disinfo false narrative that distracts away from the truth, that he was a “company man” following orders.
It gives him a MOTIVE, to cover for the truth.
I feel more and more like after Russia Russia Russia it’s obvious the media thinks we are idiots to be manipulated at their choosing. That interviewer to Nunes was so obviously stepping back on her heels looking for an out – she asks him a question, he answers “even newsmax” and she pulls a hannity x2. They think we are idiots waiting to be fed their lies and misrepresentations. We truly live in Stalin’s world of propaganda, et al
Newsmax /Fox (?) – Any complaints from the Dems about these so -called ‘conservative ‘ outlets now is pure Kabuki – they know their ‘other wing’-the Gope/ Ryan / Old crow etc – has “got this covered” as the saying goes …
… IMHO
But in all of this there are three already-settled SCOTUS cases, most notably Navy v. Eagan, which plainly state that the President’s power to determine what is “national security” material and what is not is the President’s alone, and that power is plenary – unconditional, unrestricted, not subject to review nor assent. Derived exclusively from Article 2 itself.
The entire present system of “classification” that we now use derives from Presidential powers in a system designed by Harry Truman. But none of it applies personally to him. (And, Eagan discusses the President’s sovereign powers regarding “the materials themselves,” not their “classification.”)
In this situation, employees(!) of the Executive Branch are attempting to “play President.” They seek to “determine” that these documents were “sensitive,” and to declare that he had no authority to possess them and that he somehow “harmed the nation” by possessing or discussing them. Then, again “by their own fantasized ‘authority,'” they want to use the Judicial Branch to throw their boss into prison for a hundred years. But no one other than the President has these powers of “determination,” he by definition can do no wrong in this matter, and no one can tell him what or what not to do.
The Executive Branch(!) can discharge his Oath of Office any damned way he wants to, with no one to tell him “no.” No Branch may interfere with, obstruct, nor be obstructed by any other Branch. Each one is sovereign in its own appointed role.
As I’ve said before, this is like a second lieutenant court-martialing his supreme commander, by his own supposed “authority,” for making a decision or issuing a command that he didn’t like.
Based on Eagan alone, these indictments should be thrown out even before being filed, based on utter lack of standing. Presidency has its privileges, and the Law is already settled. No President could perform his job if anyone could credibly threaten to throw him into prison after his term ended, based on some decision he made that they didn’t agree with.
Here is a brief , so to speak, summary showing multiple examples of federal misconduct. Several of which would be grounds for dismissal.
DOJ demands return of documents containing classified markings, which as Sundance has pointed out does not mean classified documents.
DOJ decides which docs cannot be viewed and uses that as an excuse to gets rid of special master and install Jack Smith
DOJ decides which docs are classified while still keeping them from public view
Federal judge Howell allows prosecutors to circumvent attorney client privilege forcing Trumps lawyer to testify.
DOJ breaks law by leaking to media
DOJ breaks law by bribing attorney for defense
DOJ forces Trump’s attorney’s to be removed
DOJ threatens witness if he does not turn on Trump.
DOJ transcripts to media are altered from original recordings to make Trump look guilty (see Sperry)
Since President Trump took these documents home with him while President, he had the sovereign right to do so. Period. He will forever possess the [penultimate …] security clearance and thus be entitled to possess them. It is not up to the DOJ to “determine” which materials are classified, and it doesn’t matter in the slightest whether or not they are.
This is “malicious prosecution” and a direct confrontation to already-settled SCOTUS decisions from quite some time ago.
You might want to add – the ML Raid itself , based on “vapors” ? possible violations? – but perhaps can’t argue that now ? Although that is basis of a lot that followed ? ?
Good point. We could also add that this is an established pattern as they have a history of interfering in elections to hurt President Trump, see the 2016 election, and the 2020 election with the lap top.
Also a bit of a coincidence that Trumps lawsuit against Hillary was thrown out a month after the Mar-a-largo raid when the evidence was taken by the feds.
For those that forgot Trump was fined $1,000,000 by the judge for a frivolous lawsuit. Just a few months later Durham confirmed all of Trumps allegations.
Hearsay.
Great simple explanation Mike.
And to add to it- most people fail to understand that all EXECUTIVE Departments: NSA, DOJ, DOT, DOE, FBI, DHS,Dept. of Ed, etc. all derive their authorities from the President. Thus those Departments are nothing but extensions of the Presidency created by Congress with the sole role of assisting the President carry out his functions as outlined in the Constitution with oversight provided by Congress to ensure they stay within the bounds of Article 2.
The President informs the NSA, DOJ and FBI not the other way around.
Once you see the strings ya can’t unsee em! Thank you SD for the years of tutelage on the workings of these absolute nefarious actors. Praise our lord for eyes to see.
Insiders say Trump’s new legal team preparing to file motion to dismiss case citing prosecutorial misconduct & will ask Judge Cannon to unseal Obama-appointed Judge Howell’s order breaching attorney-client privilege b/t Corcoran and Trump and declare notes inadmissable.
Paul Sperry Twitter
They can also simply file a motion to dismiss based on the reality that these prosecutors had no Constitutional right to question the national security prerogatives of a then-sitting President. A man who retained and still has the legal right to possess everything that he had – whether or not he “declassified” them, which he could do by his words or actions.
These indictments are based on “determinations” made by Executive Branch employees against their boss. But these people had no power to make any such determinations, and the President wouldn’t be subject to them anyway. All of this is settled law.
But Mike, there’s a narrative to create as Sundance, Nunes (in this interview), and others are pointing out….
This lawsuit is not about merits it’s about narratives.
It is long pat time to pass laws that make it illegal to purposely mislead via press conferences, on the official floors of government proceedings, in social media, on matters concerning government actions and legal cases by both the media and government officials.
THIS hasn’t aged well…
Remember the Nunes Memo?
Here’s the apoplectic talking heads and Head Weasel Comey when they knew it was coming out.
Wrong link. Sorry!
In my 4+ decades of military service, I handled a lot of classified materials, including Top Secret and SCI. Proper document handling and classification marking were pounded into us; Strategic Air Command had no sense of humor on this.
Thus, Sundance’s summary and Nunes’ explanation make perfect sense. DOJ’s denial of viewing the documents is intentional obfuscation and is intended to sway an ignorant grand jury and a credulous Kneepad Media. It’s rabble-rousing weasel wording of the most vicious kind.
FWIW, when Comey said that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against Hillary for her handling misdeeds, any GI who regularly handled classified material immediate knew that was a baldfaced lie. If I had done one-tenth of what Hillary did, there’s no doubt in my mind that I’d be doing twenty years, minimum, at Leavenworth. Comey is guilty of dereliction of duty.
I’m a vet that had very high clearance as well. And your post nails it.
Why does our side spend all their time on explaining to us that we’re being lied to and no time on actually doing something about it? Yeah, we know they’re lying. We have known it for years and nobody is ever held accountable for the lies or the crimes they’re committing against America. I’m tired of waiting…
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/12/joe-scarborough-screaming-fit-trump-indictment/
FTA “MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s rant about former President Donald Trump turned into a screaming fit during Monday’s panel, just days after the former president’s indictment. Scarborough began screaming at the top of his lungs while discussing a CBS News/YouGov poll showing 80% of the U.S. agrees Trump taking nuclear and military documents is a national security risk.
“80%, that is us,” Scarborough continued. “That is us. We are the majority and we will stay the majority as long as these insurrectionist weirdos and freaks continue to say it’s ok for Donald Trump to do whatever he wants to do.”
The “insurrectionist weirdos and freaks” that would be us We The People! As Sundance pointed out yesterday the “nuclear and military documents” aren’t nuclear codes, or nuclear war documents at all just 2 letters one from obama warning about North Korea and one or perhaps more from Kim Jong Un. “Would all of this hullaballoo really stem from President Trump not giving up personal letters written to him by President Obama and Chairman Kim? YES! Would President Trump even characterize those as government property? NO!…In order to pull this off two things would be needed: (1) the DOJ would need to write about it in a certain way in the indictment√; and (2) simultaneously, the DOJ would need to stop anyone from viewing the actual documents, as they misleadingly described them√. Hey, wait… that’s exactly what they did.” But poor ignorant, uninformed Joe believes and screams the DOJ indictment as written. What a fool thank goodness no one watches that show of propaganda!!! Godspeed President Trump and Sundance!!! I reposted from the Presidential Politics so everyone can hear in the video provided Joe Scarborough scream his lunacy!!!
FJS!!! oh yeah, and his ugly wife :):)
Back in 2017 Judicial Watch filed a FOI Act request for the documents related to the “unmasking” of US citizens who were part of the Trump campaign by officials in the Obama administration.
The National Security Council replied that these documents had been transferred to the Obama Library. And that the library was entitled to keep them to itself for five years after the president left office.
Notice that these were not personal letters between Obama and foreign leaders, they were official government records of a sensitive nature and most likely had some classification level attached to them.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-obama-nsc-advisor-susan-rices-unmasking-material-obama-library/
Jack Smith is the UNSUB combining all the other UNSUBS behavior on the show “Criminal Minds.”
So true.
If you have read this pdf available on
The us senate website and https://captainconvey.com
You have in your possession a documents with “classified markings”.
A linguistic trick is being used to indict President Trump.
No classified documents were requested from the corrupt nara/doj-nsd.
Corrupt biden/obama regime requested “classified markings” only.
https://www.tumblr.com/captainconvey/720017725474439168/a-classified-markings-document-for-you?source=embed
Gee, kind of like an “insurance policy” against a Trump rerun. The Obama crew seems to have had lots of them. They didn’t need them in 2020 because they were able to pull off a cheat, but this time that may be more difficult.
Han Nutty, MeAgain Kelly, Bully O’Really are MSM parrots in the moloch murdoch echo chamber
the law they are trying to use REQUIRES INTENT they have to prove Trump intended toharm the USA something tehy cant possibly do
If HRC didn’t “intend” (according to J. Edgar Comey) to cause harm by doing all her business email on a home server in her bathroom — and we know she didn’t, as Comey assured us repeatedly that she did not intend to and therefore, no reasonable prosecutor could charger her…
Then certainly that goes for someone bringing home paperwork from the job. And seriously, DS’ers—ya have to go back and re-use the silly “he’s a Russian spy!” thing AGAIN when it didn’t work the first time? Not much imagination, eh?
(Or is it more like, knowing what a sincere and true patriot he is — and his supporters are — you figure the nastiest thing you can do is accuse him of trying to overthrow the United States — or at least give his enemies “aid and comfort” — and that you always unimaginatively resort to the ol’ Allinsky “accuse them of what you are doing” trick.)
All we can say is…you know that contempt you feel toward middle-class, esp heartland-Americans? Well, take that and times it a million if you want some idea of the pure contempt we hold you and your kind in. We’re not just whistling Dixie (is that even still allowed?) when we say we don’t even have to be in the same big building (Wal-Mart) to “smell” you — your demonic stench is so strong that it invades our every small town across the country, all the way from that sewer that used to be our proud country’s national capital.
This is PURE SEDITION by the DOJ and Smith. They are the criminals. There is nothing here that is an actual crime. It’s all fantasy. If it were true, Article II of the Constitution would be VOID. Smith and the DOJ are CRIMINALS and SEDITIONISTS!
It also explains why they were after Clarence Thomas big time 2 months ago…
They all were right there and in on it….And Now the court President Trump is using is under Thomas’s jurisdiction…See how THAT works too
And millions of people are allowed to enter the United States like an army without guns.
They are aware that they can cause more damage to the country without firing a bullet.
And they talk about national security my ass.
So the US government has concocted another lie, composed of portions of the truth used in order to deceive, to target President Trump and interfere yet again with an election.
This makes the US government quite weak, I think many of us fear the government because of the illusion of being at the mercy of their whim. Ie) show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.
Can I safely oppose this corrupt government without being targeted?
Speaking in plain truth is kryptonite to the current US system of governance.
We are a banana republic, make the current US government own this truth.
The only fools left are the ones believing the propaganda being put out by US Gov and US Media. Unfortunately as the pool of fools dwindles, those left seem to use more force to push their rule. Rather than give up any portion of power/control, they would seek to burn the whole thing down by destroying opposition.
Could get ugly (er) fast.
“…get past the paid to obfuscate Mrs. Hannity interruptus…”
That is funnnnyy!!
Nunes knows what he speaks of
Why doesn’t some one somewhere say no you cant do that lawfare (etc.etc.) on my watch?? So much of what we know, everybody tries everything to rub this person or that person’s name in the mud simply to defame and dethrone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯