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  • JonJ Offline
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    That’s a lot of sleight of hand on McCarthys part. Note he used the passive voice in Hillary’s case “documents were destroyed”.

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    • AxtremusA Axtremus

      The indictment (PDF):

      https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/06/trump-indictment.pdf

      Washington Post's breakdown of the 37 charges, including range of penalties: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/09/trump-charges-classified-documents/

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      @Axtremus said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

      Washington Post's breakdown of the 37 charges, including range of penalties:

      Fat man do crime,
      Fat man do time.

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        @Mik That was my point earlier... https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/ron-desantis-gaining-on-trump-in-iowa-in-virtual-tie-internal-poll-shows/

        https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4040215-trump-desantis-neck-and-neck-in-utah-poll/

        The Brad

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        • JonJ Jon

          That’s a lot of sleight of hand on McCarthys part. Note he used the passive voice in Hillary’s case “documents were destroyed”.

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          George K
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          @Jon said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

          That’s a lot of sleight of hand on McCarthys part.

          Please elaborate.

          It's not McCarthy's column - it's Noah Rothman (my bad - I should have been clear). He's referencing a McCarthy column.

          Note he used the passive voice in Hillary’s case “documents were destroyed”.

          That's like saying "Biden Trump didn't carry the boxes to the garage bathroom."

          Phones were destroyed, and tens of thousands of emails about recipes (as though Clinton even knew where the kitchen is) and wedding plans were deleted.

          McCarthy's column says:

          Trump’s best selective-prosecution argument involves Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state set up an unauthorized, laughably insecure home-brew server system, which she used for years to conduct State Department business. This was a willful act: Clinton sought to defeat government record-keeping and record-disclosure requirements, including the mandate that officials conduct government business via government facilities — a mandate Clinton enforced on her subordinates as a cabinet secretary.

          Because Clinton’s position was steeped in sensitive foreign-relations and national-security matters, by setting up an insecure email system, she was guaranteeing that national-defense information would be transmitted through it. Indeed, she used the system to communicate with President Obama, including from what the FBI gingerly referred to as “the territory of . . . an adversary” (which was probably Russia). The FBI found that classified information was stored in Clinton’s system, some of it designated at the highest level of sensitivity — the “Top Secret/Special Access Program” level. The bureau further acknowledged it was highly likely that Clinton’s system had been penetrated by hostile actors, including foreign intelligence operatives. When Clinton’s system came to light, she caused over 30,000 emails to be deleted and destroyed, even though a congressional subpoena had been issued for them.

          The Clinton precedent is a strong basis for Trump to argue that, in fairness, he should not be charged. Nevertheless, if he is charged, it will not be a legal defense at trial — although he will surely try to use it for jury-nullification purposes. At trial, the only issue for the jury will be whether Trump committed the offenses charged against him. It will be beside the point that someone else committed analogous crimes but was not charged.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • JollyJ Offline
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            Oh, I think it great fun if Trump would be reelected...

            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            • George KG Offline
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              George K
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              #42

              Oh...

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              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • JollyJ Jolly

                Oh, I think it great fun if Trump would be reelected...

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                @Jolly said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

                Oh, I think it great fun if Trump would be reelected...

                Indeed I would enjoy watching the left bananas.

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                • JollyJ Offline
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                  It's the same playbook as before.

                  A. Create a crime
                  B. Actually prosecute people for process crimes connected to the created fictitious crime.
                  C. They don't care if they convict Trump. They just want to affect the election.

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • George KG Offline
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                    Well...

                    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/five-revelations-trump-unsealed-indictment

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                      LuFins Dad
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                      #46

                      This seems like it could be the real deal.

                      The Brad

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                      • George KG Offline
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                        George K
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                        Charles Cooke at NRO has a response to Rothman's article I quoted earlier:


                        Noah writes:

                        Republicans rejected the standard James Comey set in 2016, as they should have. The FBI director’s subsequent bungling of the on-again, off-again Clinton probe confirmed the wisdom of their skepticism toward the showboating FBI director. The GOP should resist the urge to ratify the Comey precedent today, now that it serves as a blunt instrument of political utility.

                        If Trump is found to have violated the law — not just the mishandling of classified materials, which seems only ever to be a prosecutable offense if the alleged offender is not a household name, but the allegedly deliberate misleading of investigators and obstructive conduct — he should face the consequences he himself has said should befall anyone who violates the statutes that apply to the handling of confidential materials.

                        The equal but opposite uneven application of justice is no remedy for the uneven application of justice. The fact that the Comey precedent, applied to Trump’s case, might exculpate him of misconduct despite the publicly available evidence suggestive of his guilt demonstrates that the FBI director abdicated his duties in 2016. Republicans were right to reject the Comey standard then. They should continue to reject it today.

                        I disagree with this. I think that it is entirely possible — necessary, even — to believe that James Comey got it wrong, but that, in so doing, he set a precedent that ought to apply to all who find themselves in the same situation — at least for a time. Certainly, I am not of the view that a bad precedent must stick around forever. I am, however, of the view that it is unsustainable for that bad precedent to be changed the first time that a politician of the opposite party is being considered for prosecution. If, as James Comey insisted, no reasonable prosecutor would have brought a case against Hillary Clinton, then, if and when the next case against a Republican is similar, the same rule ought to be applied. The alternative is caprice.

                        Is the case against Trump similar to the one against Clinton? Having now seen the indictment, I am not sure that it is. Hillary’s alleged crimes — for which she absolutely should have been prosecuted — were bad. Trump’s are worse, and the case against him is stronger. To a large extent, that is Trump’s fault. Hillary was a lawyer, and she behaved like one once her transgressions had been discovered. Trump is a narcissist, and he behaved like one after the government contacted him. Reasonable prosecutors have to make reasonable decisions, and from what I read this morning, the case against Trump is more than reasonable. Unlike Noah, I’d like the the Comey Precedent to be enforced going forward. But it doesn’t apply here.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K

                          Charles Cooke at NRO has a response to Rothman's article I quoted earlier:


                          Noah writes:

                          Republicans rejected the standard James Comey set in 2016, as they should have. The FBI director’s subsequent bungling of the on-again, off-again Clinton probe confirmed the wisdom of their skepticism toward the showboating FBI director. The GOP should resist the urge to ratify the Comey precedent today, now that it serves as a blunt instrument of political utility.

                          If Trump is found to have violated the law — not just the mishandling of classified materials, which seems only ever to be a prosecutable offense if the alleged offender is not a household name, but the allegedly deliberate misleading of investigators and obstructive conduct — he should face the consequences he himself has said should befall anyone who violates the statutes that apply to the handling of confidential materials.

                          The equal but opposite uneven application of justice is no remedy for the uneven application of justice. The fact that the Comey precedent, applied to Trump’s case, might exculpate him of misconduct despite the publicly available evidence suggestive of his guilt demonstrates that the FBI director abdicated his duties in 2016. Republicans were right to reject the Comey standard then. They should continue to reject it today.

                          I disagree with this. I think that it is entirely possible — necessary, even — to believe that James Comey got it wrong, but that, in so doing, he set a precedent that ought to apply to all who find themselves in the same situation — at least for a time. Certainly, I am not of the view that a bad precedent must stick around forever. I am, however, of the view that it is unsustainable for that bad precedent to be changed the first time that a politician of the opposite party is being considered for prosecution. If, as James Comey insisted, no reasonable prosecutor would have brought a case against Hillary Clinton, then, if and when the next case against a Republican is similar, the same rule ought to be applied. The alternative is caprice.

                          Is the case against Trump similar to the one against Clinton? Having now seen the indictment, I am not sure that it is. Hillary’s alleged crimes — for which she absolutely should have been prosecuted — were bad. Trump’s are worse, and the case against him is stronger. To a large extent, that is Trump’s fault. Hillary was a lawyer, and she behaved like one once her transgressions had been discovered. Trump is a narcissist, and he behaved like one after the government contacted him. Reasonable prosecutors have to make reasonable decisions, and from what I read this morning, the case against Trump is more than reasonable. Unlike Noah, I’d like the the Comey Precedent to be enforced going forward. But it doesn’t apply here.

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                          @George-K , you take the position that somehow HRC and Trump's transgressions are equivalent. What if they are not, that Comey was right about HRC then and Jack Smith is also right about Trump now?

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                            I've not really being following the details of all this, but didn't President Trump pass a law in 2018 that increased the penalties for mis-handling classified information?

                            I was only joking

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                                @bachophile said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

                                😂

                                The Brad

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                                • JollyJ Jolly

                                  Oh, I think it great fun if Trump would be reelected...

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                                  @Jolly said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

                                  Oh, I think it great fun if Trump would be reelected...

                                  I think it would be great fun if Trump were caged.

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                                    The Trumps, the Bidens, the Obamas, the Clintons all need some jail time.

                                    The voting public will demand it.

                                    How else can we fix this?

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                                      Whether the breaches were equivalent is irrelevant. The failure to enforce the law in the case of HRC casts an air of illegitimacy to these proceedings now. If her violation was less fragrant and dangerous, then adjust for that in the sentencing. It’s why there’s a range. The same holds true for Biden and Burisma. If Trump did what the indictment accuses, I am all for locking him up, but this trial and the evidence given had better be fully transparent AND you have got to be fully transparent and serious about HRC and Biden.

                                      Now you will have 25% of the country fully convinced that we are seeing a completely politicized and weaponized Justice Department simply jailing their political opponents. There’s nothing you can do about that. But there is something that can be done about the 15-20% that suspect that this is highly motivated by politics…

                                      The Brad

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                                        Put that first figure at 30-40%.

                                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                        • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                          @George-K , you take the position that somehow HRC and Trump's transgressions are equivalent. What if they are not, that Comey was right about HRC then and Jack Smith is also right about Trump now?

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                                          @Axtremus said in Trump to be indicted - again.:

                                          @George-K , you take the position that somehow HRC and Trump's transgressions are equivalent. What if they are not, that Comey was right about HRC then and Jack Smith is also right about Trump now?

                                          McCarthy and Rothman take that position. My comment echoes their position. Cook, whose comments I also posted, disagrees, but does not dismiss HRC's actions.

                                          Nevertheless, I do agree that Comey's dismissal of Clinton's transgressions was inappropriate. He dismissed them even before interviewing her. The law says nothing of "intent", but that's what he based his decision to not pursue on.

                                          We talked about this back in 2016 - no need to re-litigate it here..

                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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