ChiGoose

Good thing that's not happening here. Though you gotta love the idea that there is a vast cabal across basically every institution suddenly acting in cohesion and efficiency because people don't want to believe the simple explanation that this guy who has always been kinda crappy is actually very crappy.

Very stable geniuses

Ah. I see you are upset that time is linear. Sorry about that bud, but when things happen, people talk about them. When another thing happens later, people talk about that thing too. Can't really do much about it.

I'd say that it's helpful context to help educate those that are gullible enough to believe that judges just go for whichever party appointed them. Then again, most of those people are probably past the point of being educated anyway...

And both these assumptions would be wrong.

"Look at these people, talking about what's in the news. They weren't talking about this thing that happened today yesterday, but now it's their topic of conversation. How strange!" The whole "current thing" discourse / critique is just people complaining that time is linear.

It should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, but this article from "American Liberty Report News" is complete BS. Fact Check-Claims that 17,690 ballot images from the 2020 Presidential election are missing in Fulton County, Georgia

I honestly have a hard time seeing the trial for his federal crimes being concluded before next Fall. Especially since Trump's strategy is to delay as much as possible.

A Republican winning the White House in 2024 probably ends his exposure for federal crimes.

And they won’t be prosecuted for it because it’s not worth it for a couple of pens and staplers. If you quit your job and took some pens from the storage closet on the way out, do you think your former company would sue you for it? As to the documents cases, the PRA is very clear on this. Just because Pence and Biden are capable of listening to their lawyers while Trump is not does not prove some conspiracy against Trump. It just shows him to be an idiot. Sure. And if they were some government employee or contractor, they would be disciplined up to an including potentially being fired. But they’d only likely face actual prosecution if it could be proven that they took it intentionally or they refused to return it when it was discovered.

Holy cow. This is so unbelievably wrong that’s it’s really hard to know where to start. There was no real factual dispute. Trump’s lawyers knew he wasn’t supposed to have them and told him this. Your argument amounts to “the burglar truly believed that he owned the things he stole even those his own lawyers said he didn’t, therefore you cannot blame him for not returning it. Whoever is feeding you this nonsense is either completely ignorant of reality or just lying to you.

They are not allowed to have any government material without express permission of the agency that owns it, classified or not.

The real issue is that simply explaining reality is seen as partisan because conservatives now live in a fantasy world that facts cannot penetrate.

The issue is obstruction.

No, I got labeled the king because a bunch of people on this site cannot read and also can’t stop bragging about that for some reason. In any case, Trump is facing legal jeopardy because he obstructed law enforcement. If he did what Pence and Biden did, he’d be fine. But he ignored his lawyers and listened to Tom Fitton instead and now he is reaping what he sowed.

I don’t know where you get your information from but whatever it is, it’s absolutely garbage.

It’s not the essence of the dispute in any way shape or form. Trump had no right to the government documents the second he was no longer president. When it was discovered that he had them, instead of turning them over and cooperating like everyone else in his position, he obstructed the government. Then, he turned over some of the documents and lied to the authorities, saying he had returned them all when he in reality has secretly kept many of them. He ended up only getting charged with the documents he lied about. So even though he took documents he had no right to, refused to return them obstructed the government, he would not have been charged had he just handed everything over when he claimed he did.

I love that you see bragging about how utterly pathetic your life is as a good thing. Go outside and touch some grass. Sad!

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Depends on what you’re looking for. I’m a big fan of Lawfare. They have really good coverage of national security legal issues. Same with Just Security. I tend to follow reporters on specific beats (like Nina Totenberg for SCOTUS), and that ends up with recommendations of their peers at other orgs and you can collect a good number of people on the ground covering legal issues. As someone who listens to a lot of podcasts, I also enjoy The Lawfare Podcast, Rational Security, Stay Tuned with Preet, Serious Trouble, National Security Law Podcast, among others. I think those are good starting points When they have interesting guests, I might check up on them and see what they are doing.

I appreciate you proving my point. Thank you.

Partisanship has so broken your brain that you can no longer see reality and you reject it when it confronts you. Instead of assuming I’m in the tank for Biden, you could have just asked what I thought of him. I’ve told you that I didn’t support him in the 2020 primaries. Of the major candidates, he was probably only above Bernie in my rankings. I didn’t want him to run for reelection and I’m disappointed that he is. If he committed crimes, he should pay for them. But me simply trying to explain facts to you comes off as partisan because when you live in a world of falsehoods, actual factual reality is an attack against you. Hillary, Pence, and Biden* haven’t been charged with crimes because the feds did not believe they could prove intent. Trump has decided to be a textbook case on how to demonstrate intent to a jury. That’s the difference. If he had never tried to deceive his own lawyer, he wouldn’t be in this mess. You’re also comparing a “regular schmoe” to elected and/or Senate confirmed officials. When classified docs go missing, the priority is recovering them. Prosecuting everyone who ended up with them would create an incentive for people who truly had them accidentally to hide them or even destroy them. So while they may face discipline from their employers, they generally only get charged if the Feds can prove that they either intended to take them or, upon learning they had them, did not immediately notify the government and cooperate with returning them. And I think it’s pretty fitting to the complete lack of understanding that you have so far demonstrated on these matters that you cite the lack of indictment of the president by an investigation predicated on the fact that it cannot indict the president as evidence of literally anything. The Mueller Report was a road map to impeachment but as he explicitly stated in the report, he was never going to charge the president no matter the crimes he found (and by the way, in addition to all of the other crimes he charged, he also found that Trump himself committed multiple crimes). Maybe try staying in your lane if you’re going to insist on listening to people who are either lying to you or too ignorant to know what the hell they are talking about. *The Special Counsel investigation into Biden is still ongoing so this may change if new facts develop.

I know you have no idea what you’re talking about no matter how many times it’s explained to you. Possession alone is insufficient to prove intent in a court of law. Just trying to explain basic facts it’s impossible to you. I don’t care about Joe Biden. He wasn’t my top choice in the 2020 Dem primaries and he was closer to the bottom than the top. If he did crimes, he should be punished. But the insane fever dream rantings of people who have no idea what they are talking about fueled by them listening to people who also have no idea what they are talking about is insufficient to bring criminal charges. Why? Because possession alone is insufficient to prove intent in a court of law.

Wrong. Period.

Not at all if you actually understand how the law works. Trump brought this on himself. Even after he took the documents, showed them around his club, refused to turn them over for months, he likely would have faced no charges if he had just actually handed them over instead of lying and saying he did.