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Let’s talk about Eli Lilly, Indiana, and more to come….
THE PUMPKIN TIT RAID: PART ONE
What Is “Biological Sex”? (With Viced Rhino)
REPORT: Docs May Have Had Payroll Info On US Spies
We are learning that the DOJ had video recordings of the storage area that caused them a lot of concern. We see that these documents are very valuable to a foreign government. Imagine the damage to nation security this information about who is a spy could cause. The fact that trump is this careless with national secrets of the highest level really shows he shouldn’t ever have been president and must never be again. Nor should any of his maga supporters in any elected office at any level. It is well known that trump is in money troubles and that he faces over 600 million dollars of loans coming due this next year. How much would any government give him for the spy information or the nation’s nuclear secrets? Hugs
Newsweek reports:
In pursuing the unprecedented search of Donald Trump’s residence on Monday, the FBI was seeking to retrieve Top Secret and “compartmented” documents dealing with intelligence “sources and methods,” two federal government sources tell Newsweek—documents with the potential to reveal U.S. intelligence sources, including human sources on the American government payroll.
This greatly complicates any public discussion of the documents or any substantiation of Trump’s potential violation of U.S. law. The sources, who were briefed on the investigation, requested anonymity in order to discuss sensitive information.
Read the full article.
He never worked for the American people, he works for the highest bidder.
BlondeAmbitionn olandp • an hour ago
The thing that pisses me off is that Garland (and Biden) knew he had these docs and wasted months negotiating with that mfer to get them back.
I read where tRump threatened Garland, saying he was making some of tRump’s friends very angry. Literally mob-like threats. He has all kinds of knowledge that he can use to blackmail the government and keep them from prosecuting him. He is the biggest threat to our democracy in American history.
Gustav2 j.martindale • 2 hours ago
I’ve thinking for a while he took them as a protection from being prosecuted.
It goes without saying that he only had those documents in order to sell them to the highest bidder, no matter who that might be.
Statistics Palin rednekokie • 31 minutes ago
It is also possible the lists included FBI informants on domestic terrorism/insurgency. – informants on Trump’s blow buddies.
It looks like Russia has seen the nuclear documents, or so they claim
Boreal DirtyPierre • 2 hours ago
Trump was probably shopping these docs while he was still in office.
Fearsome Beard Boreal • 2 hours ago
No doubt that he hasn’t been shopping potential access to them since before he was elected.
Dreaming Vertebrate • 2 hours ago
The Russians have been grooming Spanky for forty years.
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Putin: Jackpot!
I know he’s a shit bag and a nasty individual, but this… this level of espionage shocked and saddened me. At this point I don’t know why I’m shocked, but I’m definitely sad…
What a fucking shit bag.
What’s worse is the 30% of the country defending him… declaring that serial liar Trump has more credibility that the entirety of the US government’s national security and intelligence apparatus.
They rest easy in the comfort of that security while they cheer Trump’s attempts to tear it all down.
Here’s hoping he finally gets held accountable for his malfeasance…🤞
This will get real ugly real quick. Most Republicans backed themselves in a corner, and actually do not support treason. But their lip flapping and now the evidence is going to put them in a quandary, and just before the midterms. Which is always a good thing.
Trump possibly could’ve had foreign powers look at those documents or he could’ve transmitted those documents to foreign powers. This is the very definition of treason.
If the Democrats are smart, and they usually are not, this would be the question they would ask their constituents. Is it OK to support a candidate who commits treason? There will always be the few who do. But the majority will not.
Trump Lawyer Told DOJ All Docs Had Been Returned
The New York Times reports:
At least one lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of the document said. The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the DOJ’s national security division.
The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material. And it could help explain why a potential violation of a criminal statute related to obstruction was cited by the department as one basis for seeking the warrant used to carry out the daylong search of the former president’s home on Monday.
Read the full article.
Theyve just said the the DoJ has hacked the security cameras at Mar-a-Lago.
Priceless.
jharp Charlie In SF • 17 hours ago
My hope is the feds seize Mar a Lago because it was used for espionage against the United States.
Isn’t that one of the best tools used against drug dealers?
Dreaming Vertebrate Charlie In SF • 17 hours ago
They used their top-secret Italian satellite capabilities. 😉
Is it just me or does it seem Trump has lost his mojo when it comes to denials?
Or is it just that his latest crimes are truly indefensible?
Ari Melber offered a pretty good summary of how Trump’s defiant bluster in the media quickly turns to meek acceptance once he realizes he’s really in a tough place… to wit, his pathetic pleading the fifth last week.
In that context, this situation will be fun to watch.
Todd20036 Doug105 • 16 hours ago
The charges are serious and undeniable and the explanations may sell in Trumpland but they’re laughed away elsewhere
Armed Cultists Rally At Phoenix FBI Office [VIDEO]
Armed maga thugs, trump brownshirts, with the intent to intimidate the ones they are against / hate which in this case is law enforcement. They did this to school board meetings over masks and Covid precautions, they have done this to the drag queen story hours, they have done this to schools / libraries over LGBTQ+ materials. This is what open carry means to them. The power to make others fearful. They are the enforcement arm of the republican party, and the party loves to support them and to aim them at their enemies. Scary and it is going to get worse. Hugs
Phoenix’s Fox affiliate reports:
Signs reading “Honor your oath” and “Abolish FBI” were seen outside the FBI office in Phoenix on Aug. 13, just days after news broke that the agency searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Several of those who were there were armed with guns.
FBI agents seized classified records from Trump’s home during the agency’s unprecedented raid on Aug. 8, including some marked as top secret, according to a warrant and property receipt. Trump disputes the classification, saying the records have been declassified.
Read the full article.
This is domestic terrorism and needs to be treated as such.
Well hell! Let’s get some more of those ‘open carry’ laws passed!
I mean, what could go wrong?…..or maybe the rethugs wanted this all along…
Reality.Bites JB • an hour ago
Yeah, but your country decided a long, long time ago that citizens walking around with guns is perfectly OK.
There are lots of ways in which the United States is different from every other democracy on earth. And not one of them makes it better or more free.
Look at them, backing the blue. How cute.
Can we stop treating armed white people like they are harmless and treating unarmed black people like they’re a dire threat now?
If anyone in the area encounters any of these goons, you can easily escape them by walking up a couple of stairs…
Imagine if they folks were a different skin color.
They’d been blown to bits by now.
As someone posted on BB… if they were POC doing this, they would mostly be dead now.
Librarian Sues Anti-LGBTQ Activists For Defamation
I want to point out a few facts that seem to hard for the rabid right maga to understand. Anal sex is not gay. Not all gay people want anal sex. A lot of straight couples practice both female and male anal sex because the anal cavity has a lot of nerves that can be pleasurable stimulated and in fact the male “g” spot is up in the butt. In fact there were reports of teen girls preferring to do anal with their boyfriends as they thought it kept them virgins and reduced the risk of them getting pregnant. The idea against anal sex is a religious one as it is not sex for procreation but for fun. The horror of that idea, sex for fun. These people that are trying to prevent anyone from getting anal sex are also against anyone getting a blow job, because again that is sex for fun. I really wish the US would break away from that damn 1600 Puritan way of thinking about the human body and sex. Hugs
The Hill reports:
A librarian in Louisiana filed a lawsuit against two men and a conservative organization, alleging they defamed her when they attacked her for supporting the teaching of books involving the LGBTQ community.
Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian and the president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, alleged in the lawsuit that a “public campaign” against her started after she spoke out against removing certain books from the Livingston Parish Library system at a board meeting.
The lawsuit also alleges that Ryan Thames, who runs a Facebook page called “Bayou State of Mind,” posted a meme of Jones on or around July 21, showing her smiling and sitting behind a desk and saying that she advocated teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds.
Reads the full article.
The Twitter account of the above-cited right wing group, Citizens For A New Louisiana, is full of Trump cultist, anti-vax, “stolen election” batshittery.
Just an aside…
There are actually gay people who are *not* into anal sex.
Crazy, I know.
Elagabalus Ed B • 3 hours ago • edited
And many straights who are. In fact, I’d wager that most of the “sodomy” that’s being “committed” is happening among straights since they represent more than 90% of the population compared to little old us.
Longpole Elagabalus • 2 hours ago
16 year girls can “keep” their virginity by letting their boyfriend butt fuck her.
And, no worry about pregnancy either.
We were 12 and 13, I think, when they told us about the “birds and the bees” in our final year of elementary school and first year of junior high. Anal sex, what it was, was among MANY things we were told about. Nothing was “advocated”–we were told what things were, not how to DO them. As for younger children, say 5 to 10 years old, I would imagine that, especially if they ASKED, you’d tell them some men have boyfriends instead of girlfriends, and they can marry and raise a family; and some women have girlfriends instead of boyfriends, and THEY can ALSO marry and raise a family. There’s nothing very complicated about ANY of this, and nothing SINISTER, except when dishonest people PRETEND there is, and the sly media fan the flames for the sake of sensationalism.
Steven in TX 🏳️🌈 ISOLATION billbear1961 • 3 hours ago
It is just this simple.
Welcome back, always love your postings!
Elagabalus • 3 hours ago • edited
The lawsuit also alleges that Ryan Thames, who runs a Facebook page called “Bayou State of Mind,” posted a meme of Jones on or around July 21, showing her smiling and sitting behind a desk and saying that she advocated teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds.
So, in the minds of the cultists, teaching children that LGBT people exist is tantamount to teaching anal sex to children. That’s their “argument.” Good for this librarian for hitting back.
Ninja0980 Elagabalus • 3 hours ago
An age old trope.
Reduce LGBT people to sex acts and it makes it easier to shun and discriminate against them.
JF910 Bambino🇺🇦🌻 • 3 hours ago
“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
I like wearing this in front of all bigots!
In the 70s and 80s there were no books in my school library that discussed lgbt issues. Somehow I became gay anyway. I wonder how?
These fool are worried about books and librarians wile priests and GOP congressmen are arrested daily for molesting children🤔
Stoned and loving it Mouse 2024 🇺🇸 • 2 hours ago
it’s always been do as I say not as I do.
re: TFG signs legislation for handling classified material. TFG violates same.
Fundraiser for Amanda Jones by Tiffany Whitehead : Legal Fees for Librarian Amanda Jones
Isnt butt sex supposed to be how good xstain girls stay virginal until their married off by their parents?
Trump’s latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified
There are steps that must be taken to declassify material and it cannot be done with a standing order, handwaving, or trump bellowing “Mine, my precious”. In fact the president cannot declassify some nuclear secrets. Also remember that trump lost both the clearance a president has and his right to intelligence briefings because Biden said he was erratic. The fact is this is a national security matter. He had these documents that were highly classified improperly stored and he is known to be associating with two foreign government that desperately want those documents, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Some of the documents are so secret thatthe FBI plans to dust them for prints. Hugs
Former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
- Trump’s new explanation for Mar-a-Lago documents is that “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.”
- Trump claimed he had a “standing order” to declassify documents “the moment” they left the Oval Office.
- The DOJ is investigating whether Trump broke three laws when he took government records to Mar-a-Lago.
Former President Donald Trump said that everyone takes work home sometimes, as he sought to develop a new line to explain why top secret government documents were stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
“As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different,” said the statement from Trump’s office on Friday night read out on Fox News.
Trump further claimed that he had a “standing order” to declassify documents “the moment” they left the Oval Office.
“President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents, including classified documents, from the Oval Office to the residence. He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them,” the statement said.
It claimed that the power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the president and that he did not need approval from a “paper-pushing bureaucrat.”
This new defense – portraying Trump as just another hard-working American – contradicts previous statements by Trump and his lawyers that baselessly claimed the FBI could have planted evidence while on site.
While the president has the authority to declassify documents, legal experts say they must follow a defined procedure. It is not clear if Trump ever did.
“He can’t just wave a wand and say it’s declassified,” Richard Immerman, a historian and an assistant deputy director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, told NBC News. “There has to be a formal process. That’s the only way the system can work.”
Immerman noted that declassified documents are marked with the date they were declassified. It is not the case with some of the documents returned from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives this year, per NBC.
When reports of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago emerged in May, former Trump administration official Kash Patel claimed that Trump had declassified the files shortly before leaving office but that the classified markings had not been removed.
When searching Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top-secret.
The Department of Justice is investigating whether Trump broke three laws, including the Espionage Act, when he took government records to Mar-a-Lago after he left office, according to the warrant unsealed on Friday.
One of the laws relates to removing information about the US’s national defense, and the other two relate to the concealment or destruction of government records.
The possible crimes being investigated do not depend on the classification of the documents.
“Because the Espionage Act speaks in terms of national defense information, it leaves open the possibility that such information could be unclassified as long as an agency is still taking steps to protect it from disclosure,” Steven Aftergood, who runs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, told The New York Times.
Sarah • 2 hours ago • edited
He sounds like a second-grader trying to explain why they don’t have their homework to turn in.
I didn’t take any documents
Okay, I took documents but they weren’t classified
Okay, they were top secret but I declassified them
Look over there, Obama took 30 million documents with him!
GOP Plots Legal Challenge To Inflation Reduction Act
Please note the deception and hope that some company will sue. The republicans have farmed out their job of governing to the maga people. They want the anti-abortion enforcement done by the maga spying on women, the want maga parents / people objecting to the books they want banned, schools can be sued by the public if a parent doesn’t like something just like the Texas abortion bill. The republicans cannot win on policy, and they cannot win politically on the federal level, so they have to resort be being sneaky assholes. Hugs
Axios reports:
House Republicans are planning to try to open up Democrats’ $740 billion tax, climate and health care bill to a legal challenge after it passes, Axios has learned. The move is Republicans’ way of showing their base that they’re going to great lengths to kill the legislation, which is likely to be unanimously opposed by House Republicans.
Republicans, led by members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, plan to get “as many members as possible to vote by proxy” in order to deny Democrats a physical quorum. The bill would still pass, but Republicans hope a company affected by the tax provisions in the bill will then sue to challenge the law’s constitutionality.
Read the full article.
As I recall, the proxy thing was already challenged in court once before and bounced immediately because the ruling was, “The Congress of the United States is free to set its own operating rules.”
They’re upset they lost on this one. They can’t let it go. That is ALL they care about—obstructing anything the Democratic Party does, good or bad. (And generally good.)
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow Ore Carmi • 16 hours ago
They’re vindictive, petty, bitchy little things. Didn’t many of this same lot attempt to repeal Obamacare some 30+ times?
These sore losers are exhausting.
Geoff Ore Carmi • 10 hours ago
Much like American Rescue Plan (ARP) this is a good thing for the Rethugs constituents. A reasonable intelligent person would have voted for IRA, but thats not how Rethugs roll .
One hopes – that the lame ass DNC is ready to run counter programming against each and every single one of these Rethugs in their districts.
I go to my local Rethug’s “town halls” and pepper it with questions about ARP.. but its TaliBama … so its like asking questions to a wall.
Brian Curtis Ore Carmi • 13 hours ago
It’s even more important to block the GOOD bills, to ensure that Democrats can’t take credit for any accomplishment and–gods forbid–become popular by actually serving the public.
Ore Carmi Brian Curtis • 12 hours ago
Which is odd, because when good legislation does pass, Republicans still claim credit for it, even though they worked against it and voted against it. I hate Republicans!
Biden and the Dems have had massive wins over the last two weeks. It’s very upsetting to the party of No.
Ninja0980 danolgb • 17 hours ago
The judges Biden has been able to put on the courts makes them angry as well.
The Party Of No strikes again. If only they worked this hard at helping improve the lives of the people who voted for them.
Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! JackFknTwist • 16 hours ago
Actually it stopped in the 90’s with Newt Gingrich. Not just when he decided to go after Bill Clinton!!!
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