This is a momentous occasion, and not only for President Trump. This moment portends a massive change in the norms of this nation that all Americans who care about the neutral rule of law should pay close attention to, for it raises the specter of the partisan weaponization of the criminal justice system—not just by the Democrats targeting Trump but by Republicans who will certainly retaliate when they regain control of the criminal charging process.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Commentary: The DOJ Just Opened Pandora’s Box
For the first time in American history, the leading candidate to defeat the incumbent president has been indicted by the incumbent’s Justice Department. Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally retaining classified government documents and obstructing justice.
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THEY ARE ALL CROOKS!!!!
ReplyDeleteAin't a straight one in the bunch. Hang em all!!!!!
repubs retaliate? oh please. they are much too refined to do that. Besides, they really are all crooks.
ReplyDeleteThe spineless ninnies won't retaliate, that's not the role they're playing.
DeleteAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they become quickly addicted. Frank Herbert
ReplyDeleteNo one who WANTS to run for political office should be allowed to run for political office. (Although how to solve that problem is beyond me.)
I did see some photographs purported to contain classified documents in boxes on the stage in the ballroom. One could not tell what the boxes contained, is this another example of a weaponized DOJ ?
ReplyDeleteThose photos are nothing more than propaganda as the indictment only listed a few hundred pages/documents. It doesn’t take more than a couple of boxes for a few hundred pages/documents
DeleteMadMarlin
Maybe 1 (formerly?) classified document per box with the rest never classified, maybe all the boxes with some known to contain classified documents. It's the same principle as the DEA has always used: find a potted marijuana plant, measure the pot, dirt, and plant as "the weight of the drugs".
DeleteLooks like the opening hand of the "Take over" game has been dealt. Anyone taking bets on a "fair, inclusive, reach-across-the-isle" outcome?
ReplyDeleteSince the Democrats own the voting systems now, it really doesn't matter who runs against them. But I'll vote for Trump even if he's sitting in prison, just to tweak the Deep State's nose and let them know there are some of us who don't care what they do since we consider them the enemy. That all of their efforts to make Trump a pariah are wasted, because they haven't fooled everyone; some of us realize they are worse.
ReplyDeleteAlso note that the "news" reports say "classified documents" while the charges say "documents with classified markings".
ReplyDeleteThese are NOT the same thing. Declassified documents which were once classified have "classified" markings on them.
John in Indy
The indictments are not for classified documents, they are indictments for documents having classified markings.
ReplyDeleteBig difference
Fair enough - charge EVERYBODY who violated the law then. Nobody skates - you violated the law, you get prosecuted and judged innocent or guilty.
ReplyDeleteWho is prosecuted 1st ? The longest previously skating part who weren't charged. Bill Clinton, then George Bush II, then Obama, then Trump. Fair and equal treatment between all.
One question. How are they going to "regain control"?
ReplyDeleteThe top republicans are democrats. Nothing will happen.
ReplyDeleteYou know who has the ultimate declassification power? The President. If he decided those documents were declassified, then they were. That's all there is to that.
ReplyDeleteHe can declassify. But he has to actually do that. So that everyone knows how to handle documents. "Just thinking about it" aint gonna work
DeleteOK, he should have said "To Hell with a future Presidential Library, no documents and I'm walking out of here with nothing in my underwear".
ReplyDelete" It is unlikely that the recoding of Trump showing classified material to a writer will suffice..."
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken a document is not classified if a President says it isn't and he can show it to anyone he wants to.
I dispute the use of 'former'.
ReplyDeleteNothing I see indicates President Trump was voted out of office by a majority of legitimate voters.
Everything I see indicates biden was illegally put into the White House.
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Journalists using the word 'former' are fabricating and perpetuating a lie.