Team Trump v/s Everyone

[BDKJMU]

Jack Smith better lawyer up..

[houndawg]

Jack Smith better lawyer up..

A convicted felon with nothing to hide doesn't want to let investigators verify his claims of having nothing to hide.

Can't wait until the report leaks

He may be phony as fuck with his wig and high heels (he's actually 5'11") and kilograms of makeup ranging in shade from hunting vest orange to turd brown; he may be an 80 year old deteriorating carcass whose diaper stinks up everyplace and everybody that comes into proximity with him; he may be a rapist who was able to cop to a lesser offense because he used his finger instead of his weewee (it was bigger ); but he sure as fuck ain't boring, at least for a convicted felon.

[kalm]

Behahahaha!

[Bobcat]

Smith needs to be in prison

[UNI88]

Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his “boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another “Report” based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were. Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!

Such a bitter, nasty man with a raging case of SDS!

[Bobcat]

Scumbags like Smith need to be removed from all sectors of the federal government. They need to be in prison, Schumer, McConnel, Graham, Kinzinger, Schiff, Swallowswell etc

[UNI88]

Speaking of a raging case of SDS and a variety of other _DS's.

[Bobcat]

There is only TDS, its time to tone down you hateful rhetoric.

We have a mandate

[UNI88]

Wrong.

[Bobcat]

You dont make the rules anymore

MANDATE

[kalm]

An important reminder of what Trump was allowed to get away with, violating laws and core principles of our nations’s founding. There’s also some solid information of why Hegseth is a terrible nominee.

This is how Trump’s actions as a candidate and president will be remembered (with the exception of course for MAGA and those in the future who will be fooled by the enhancement of his legacy and scrubbing the facts behind what really happened.

Shortly after midnight last night, the Justice Department released special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on former president Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The 137-page report concludes that “substantial evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump…engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power.”

The report explains the case Smith and his team compiled against Trump. It outlines the ways in which evidence proved Trump broke laws, and it lays out the federal interests served by prosecuting Trump. It explains how the team investigated Trump, interviewing more than 250 people and obtaining the testimony of more than 55 witnesses before a grand jury, and how Justice Department policy governed that investigation. It also explains how Trump’s litigation and the U.S. Supreme Court’s surprising determination that Trump enjoyed immunity from prosecution for breaking laws as part of his official duties dramatically slowed the prosecution.

There is little in the part of the report covering Trump’s behavior that was not already public information. The report explains how Trump lied that he won the 2020 presidential election and continued to lie even when his own appointees and employees told him he had lost. It lays out how he pressured state officials to throw out votes for his opponent, then-president-elect Joe Biden, and how he and his cronies recruited false electors in key states Trump lost to create slates of false electoral votes.

It explains how Trump tried to force Justice Department officials to support his lie and to trick states into rescinding their electoral votes for Biden and how, finally, he pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to either throw out votes for Biden or send state counts back to the states. When Pence refused, correctly asserting that he had no such power, Trump urged his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol. He refused to call them off for hours.

Smith explained that the Justice Department concluded that Trump was guilty on four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States by trying “to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest”; obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct by creating false evidence; and conspiracy against rights by trying to take away people’s right to vote for president.

The report explains why the Justice Department did not bring charges against Trump for insurrection, noting that such cases are rare and definitions of “insurrection” are unclear, raising concerns that such a charge would endanger the larger case.

The report explained that prosecuting Trump served important national interests. The government has an interest in the integrity of the country’s process for “collecting, counting, and certifying presidential elections.” It cares about “a peaceful and orderly transition of presidential power.” It cares that “every citizen’s vote is counted” and about “protecting public officials and government workers from violence.” Finally, it cares about “the fair and even-handed enforcement of the law.”

While the report contained little new information, what jumped out from its stark recitation of the events of late 2020 and early 2021 was the power of Trump’s lies. There was no evidence that he won the 2020 election; to the contrary, all evidence showed he lost it. Even he didn’t appear to believe he had won. And yet, by the sheer power of repeating the lie that he had won and getting his cronies to repeat it, along with embellishments that were also lies—about suitcases of ballots, and thumb drives, and voting machines, and so on—he induced his followers to try to overthrow a free and fair election and install him in the presidency.

He continued this disinformation after he left office, and then engaged in lawfare, with both him and friendly witnesses slowing down his cases by challenging subpoenas until there were no more avenues to challenge them. And then the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in.

The report calls out the extraordinary July 2024 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. United States declaring that presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts. “Before this case,” the report reads, “no court had ever found that Presidents are immune from criminal responsibility for their official acts, and no text in the Constitution explicitly confers such criminal immunity on the President.” It continued: “[N]o President whose conduct was investigated (other than Mr. Trump) ever claimed absolute criminal immunity for all official acts.”

The report quoted the dissent of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, noting that the decision of the Republican-appointed justices “effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding.”

That observation hits hard today, as January 14 is officially Ratification Day, the anniversary of the day in 1784 when members of the Confederation Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War and formally recognized the independence of the United States from Great Britain. The colonists had thrown off monarchy and determined to have a government of laws, not of men.

But Trump threw off that bedrock principle with a lie. His success recalls how Confederates who lost the Civil War resurrected their cause by claiming that the lenience of General Ulysses S. Grant of the United States toward officers and soldiers who surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 showed not the mercy of a victor but rather an understanding that the Confederates’ defense of human slavery was superior to the ideas of those trying to preserve the United States as a land based in the idea that all men were created equal.

When no punishment was forthcoming for those who had tried to destroy the United States, that story of Appomattox became the myth of the Lost Cause, defending the racial hierarchies of the Old South and attacking the federal government that tried to make opportunity and equal rights available for everyone. In response to federal protection of Black rights after 1948, when President Harry Truman desegregated the U.S. military, Confederate symbols and Confederate ideology began their return to the front of American culture, where they fed the reactionary right. The myth of the Lost Cause and Trump’s lie came together in the rioters who carried the Confederate battle flag when they breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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[Caribbean Hen]

Hegseth is exactly what the USA needs

Our enemies know the enabler and chief days are almost over but let’s see what kind of fireworks Joey Rotten pulls out his ass at the finish line

[kalm]

Hegseth is exactly what the USA needs

Our enemies know the enabler and chief days are almost over but let’s see what kind of fireworks Joey Rotten pulls out his ass at the finish line

The defense secretary oversees about 1.3 million active-duty troops and another 1.4 million in the National Guard and employed in Reserves and civilian positions, as well as a budget of more than $800 billion. Hegseth has none of the usual qualifications of defense secretaries. As Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare pointed out today, he has “never held a policy role…never run anything larger than a company of 200 soldiers…never been elected to anything.”

Hegseth suggested his lack of qualifications was a strength, saying in his opening statement that while “t is true that I don’t have a similar biography to Defense Secretaries of the last 30 years…as President Trump…told me, we’ve repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly ‘the right credentials’...and where has it gotten us? He believes, and I humbly agree, that it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.”

The “dust on his boots” claim was designed to make Hegseth’s authenticity outweigh his lack of credentials, but former Marine pilot Amy McGrath pointed out that Trump’s defense secretary James Mattis and Biden’s defense secretary Lloyd Austin, both of whom reached the top ranks of the military, each came from the infantry.

[Caribbean Hen]

Hegseth is exactly what the USA needs

Our enemies know the enabler and chief days are almost over but let’s see what kind of fireworks Joey Rotten pulls out his ass at the finish line

The defense secretary oversees about 1.3 million active-duty troops and another 1.4 million in the National Guard and employed in Reserves and civilian positions, as well as a budget of more than $800 billion. Hegseth has none of the usual qualifications of defense secretaries. As Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare pointed out today, he has “never held a policy role…never run anything larger than a company of 200 soldiers…never been elected to anything.”

Hegseth suggested his lack of qualifications was a strength, saying in his opening statement that while “t is true that I don’t have a similar biography to Defense Secretaries of the last 30 years…as President Trump…told me, we’ve repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly ‘the right credentials’...and where has it gotten us? He believes, and I humbly agree, that it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.”

The “dust on his boots” claim was designed to make Hegseth’s authenticity outweigh his lack of credentials, but former Marine pilot Amy McGrath pointed out that Trump’s defense secretary James Mattis and Biden’s defense secretary Lloyd Austin, both of whom reached the top ranks of the military, each came from the infantry.

Hegseth made the Dems look like total Buffoons but that’s not really hard… He will be just fine… pass it on to the all your progressive Hacks

Austin? Nobody even knows where he is

[Bobcat]

Hegseth is a badass, he will be fine. Its not that hard to be in any of the positions in Washington. Look at most of the people that are, Boxer, Harris, Kinzinger, Beto, Rubio, Blumenthal, Hirono. Those 6 combined IQ would have trouble cracking 3 digits.

[UNI88]

Hegseth made the Dems look like total Buffoons but that’s not really hard… He will be just fine… pass it on to the all your progressive Hacks

Austin? Nobody even knows where he is

Thinking he made Duckworth look like a buffoon is She's more qualified than he is to run the DoD.

[Bobcat]

Nobody is more qualified than Hegseth, hes had boots on the ground and actually done what the people questioning him hide from. That shit is gonna change

[UNI88]

Tammy Duckworth, Senator and retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, ...



She's given more to her country and is more qualified.

[Bobcat]

She doesnt have a leg to stand on when it comes to Hegseth or Tulsi.

[Bobcat]

Tammy Duckworth, Senator and retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, ...



She's given more to her country and is more qualified.

Yeah shes a "hero" just like that POS John McCain, hope hes burning in hell right now. He earned it

She doesn't like Hegseth because hes a man, a man she cant have. Shes a man hater

[houndawg]

Hegseth is exactly what the USA needs

Our enemies know the enabler and chief days are almost over but let’s see what kind of fireworks Joey Rotten pulls out his ass at the finish line

a stumbling drunken rapist.

[houndawg]

Tammy Duckworth, Senator and retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, ...



She's given more to her country and is more qualified.

Yeah shes a "hero" just like that POS John McCain, hope hes burning in hell right now. He earned it

She doesn't like Hegseth because hes a man, a man she cant have. Shes a man hater

her balls are bigger than yours....much bigger...balls...

[UNI88]

Tammy Duckworth, Senator and retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, ...



She's given more to her country and is more qualified.

Yeah shes a "hero" just like that POS John McCain, hope hes burning in hell right now. He earned it

She doesn't like Hegseth because hes a man, a man she cant have. Shes a man hater

A POS is someone who's father arranges for a doctor to diagnose a non-existent medical condition to keep you out of the draft.

A hero is someone who sacrifices themselves for their country and their peers. Tammy Duckworth and John McCain are heroes. You can disagree with McCain and Duckworth as Senators and people but questioning their service and heroism is ignorant and

I'm sorry you're intimidated by strong women like Duckworth and I hope you find a healthier way to deal with your insecurities and feelings of inadequacy than calling them names and questioning their sexual orientation (which is none of your business and irrelevant to their ability to do their jobs).

[Bobcat]

I'm not intimidated, shes literally stupid almost as bad as Boxer and Hirono. You can buy into the if your in the military your better than everyone else, but speaking as someone thats been in the military, choosing to be in the US military you are fool. You are just a number for people that would never put their ass on the line to use you and kill you in a war so they can get rich. All the warhawks on the left and right are scum, like Dan Crenshaw, hes a fucking coward and an incredible POS like McCain

[BDKJMU]

Tammy Duckworth, Senator and retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, ...



She's given more to her country and is more qualified.

No she hasn‘t and is debatable. Hegseth saw FAR more combat than she did. Just because he wasn‘t wounded/lost a limb(s) doesn‘t mean he gave less.

Duckworth:
-22 years Reserve and Nat Guard.
-1 combat tour (Iraq)
-Army Commendation Medal; Purple Heart.
-Retired rank colonel.

-BA Univ Of Hawaii; masters GW, doctorate NIU.
-2+ years Director of the Il Dept of Vet Affairs.
-2+ years Assistant Sec of Vet Affairs.
-4 years Rep.
-8 years Senate.

Hegseth:
-18 years Nat Guard.
-2 combat tours (Iraq and Afghanistan) + Cuba deployment
-Combat Infantry Badge; 2 Army Commendation Medals; Bronze Star.
-Retired rank major.

-BA Princeton, Masters Harvard.
-5 years Exec Dir Vets for Freedom.
-3 years President of Concerned Veterans of America.