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I'm just so indignant over how MANY times he has slithered away from accountability--- and particularly the impeachments: aided and abetted by the Repugnant Insurgency Party.
I'm just so indignant over how MANY times he has slithered away from accountability--- and particularly the impeachments: aided and abetted by the Repugnant Insurgency Party.
For once in his life, he is being hold accountable for his alleged crime. Stealing top secret government documents (not his) with malice intent is a crime against the United States. No one know the exact nature of national security damage already been done. Let’s see how he is being examined under the Espionage Act. https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1045/espionage-act-of-1917
The noose indeed appears to be tightening... The following excerpts are from Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American" dated 12/03.
"Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the Washington, D.C., District Court recently rejected Trump’s claims of executive privilege and ordered Trump’s White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, and deputy counsel, Patrick Philbin, to provide additional testimony to a federal grand jury. On Friday, they each testified for several hours. On November 29, Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who worked with Trump on his speech at the Ellipse, also testified before the grand jury."
"The Department of Justice is also investigating Trump’s theft of documents when he left the White House. The December 1 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit declaring that Judge Aileen Cannon had no authority to allow Trump a special master to review the materials the FBI took when they searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, had a very clear, concise rundown of what the government has so far recovered from the former president, and the list was damning."
"Meanwhile, Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and South Carolina’s Supreme Court has ordered Trump’s White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify to that grand jury, another reason for the former president to be concerned."
"And the Trump Organization’s trial for tax evasion is reaching a verdict, while the House Ways and Means Committee has finally received six years of Trump’s tax returns after years of attempts by the former president to keep them out of Congress’s hands. At Lawfare, Daniel J. Hemel says that as a matter of law, the committee can make the returns public. He counsels against it for a number of reasons (although he says they should be made public) but notes that the Senate Finance Committee, which will remain in Democratic hands, can now get access to the material easily and will be able to release it. If his attempt to hide his taxes was anything other than principled, there is reason for Trump to be concerned about this as well."
Thank you. Professor Richardson’s writing is well summarized here. ( I too subscribe to her Letter). Donald Trump will face multiple charges including civil (tax evasion) and criminal (obstruction of justice and espionage).
Someone predicted that the only he would run for president is to hope the law will not persecute a presidential candidate. How can any person be qualified as a candidate with these serious charges? Let hope the justice will be serve.
Someone predicted that the only he would run for president is to hope the law will not persecute a presidential candidate. How can any person be qualified as a candidate with these serious charges? Let hope the justice will be serve.
I've also heard the theory that he's running to avoid prosecution. Anyone that has done what he's done (especially fomenting an insurrection) should be automatically disqualified from any important political position. This man is a utterly disgraceful!
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https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1045/espionage-act-of-1917
The following excerpts are from Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American" dated 12/03.
"Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the Washington, D.C., District Court recently rejected Trump’s claims of executive privilege and ordered Trump’s White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, and deputy counsel, Patrick Philbin, to provide additional testimony to a federal grand jury. On Friday, they each testified for several hours. On November 29, Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who worked with Trump on his speech at the Ellipse, also testified before the grand jury."
"The Department of Justice is also investigating Trump’s theft of documents when he left the White House. The December 1 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit declaring that Judge Aileen Cannon had no authority to allow Trump a special master to review the materials the FBI took when they searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, had a very clear, concise rundown of what the government has so far recovered from the former president, and the list was damning."
"Meanwhile, Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and South Carolina’s Supreme Court has ordered Trump’s White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify to that grand jury, another reason for the former president to be concerned."
"And the Trump Organization’s trial for tax evasion is reaching a verdict, while the House Ways and Means Committee has finally received six years of Trump’s tax returns after years of attempts by the former president to keep them out of Congress’s hands. At Lawfare, Daniel J. Hemel says that as a matter of law, the committee can make the returns public. He counsels against it for a number of reasons (although he says they should be made public) but notes that the Senate Finance Committee, which will remain in Democratic hands, can now get access to the material easily and will be able to release it. If his attempt to hide his taxes was anything other than principled, there is reason for Trump to be concerned about this as well."
Someone predicted that the only he would run for president is to hope the law will not persecute a presidential candidate. How can any person be qualified as a candidate with these serious charges? Let hope the justice will be serve.
Anyone that has done what he's done (especially fomenting an insurrection)
should be automatically disqualified from any important political position.
This man is a utterly disgraceful!