Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by pessimizer on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:03PM
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I get the impression that there's no explanation required for how all the forces of the most powerful government in the world and its intelligence agencies, which are the largest, best financed, and since 9/11 least restrained in the world can't prove the liberal claims of a vast array of crimes that a slightly stupid wrestling valet game show host who largely lived off branding agreements with real estate developers committed with the aid of a small network of self-serving d-list dipshits.
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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by peyton on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:25PM
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You’re talking about the 76-year-old WWE hall-of-famer who posted upwards of 200 tweets a day despite famously eschewing technology for paper and pencil. There’s nothing fake about this political figure. Or any others, for that matter.
> how all the forces of the most powerful government in the world and its intelligence agencies, which are the largest, best financed, and since 9/11 least restrained in the world can't prove the liberal claims
It's not the job of all those intelligence agencies to do that. This is a law and order question, which must be handled by the legal system, not the NSA and CIA.
I don't think the Manhattan DA has direct access to the full capacity of US intelligence agencies to use against citizens or former presidents.
Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by dboreham on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:31AM
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Gold.
Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by trafficante on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:51AM
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Yeah it’s hard to look at something like the Rod Blagojevich saga and then look back at Trump and not immediately wonder what the hell is going on here.
They very clearly have the capability to coordinate the entire media apparatus, law enforcement, etc to cuff a sitting Governor and quickly send him to a federal pit and down the memory hole for essentially the exact same sort of quid pro quo that was underpinning the first Trump impeachment.
Trump isn’t Phoenix Wright, he’s only still a free man because the Blob either can’t come to a consensus on “Blago’ing” him - or else the constant “The walls are closing in on Drumpf THIS time” drama is serving a larger purpose.
Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by mindslight on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:11AM
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A state governor doesn't have control or influence over federal law enforcement, nor do they get the cloud of ambiguity created by presidential immunity.