Below is my column on Fox.com on the removal of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the start of one of Washington’s favorite sports lines: the cabinet sweepstakes. The city is in a frenzy over who will replace Bondi in a job that has everything but job security.
Here is the column:
There is an old joke that scientists switched from lab rats to lawyers because you do not get as attached to lawyers. President Trump has shown the same tendency not to become attached to either private or public counsel. Attorney General Pam Bondi is only the latest in a long line of lawyers let go by a president made famous with the tagline “You’re fired.”
There is no evidence of bad blood between President Trump and Bondi. The Attorney General has been attacked over her loyalty to the President and has been by his side in some of the most precarious moments from his impeachment to his criminal defense. As his “apprentices” learned, this is not personal. It’s business.
Jeff Sessions. Rex Tillerson. Bill Barr. Mark Esper. Kristi Noem. Trump’s “cabinets” are known more for shelving than storage.
Indeed, being a cabinet member in a Trump administration is about as secure as being a quarterback on the Cleveland Browns.
Trump has always viewed terminations as a way to spur higher performance levels.
There is a reason why Trump may have wanted to move now in swapping out Attorneys General. There are growing predictions that the Republicans will lose the House and could also lose the Senate.
Democrats are running on pledges of unleashing a new spasm of investigations and impeachments, targeting not just President Trump but anyone who supports him.
Figures like Susan Rice, top policy adviser to both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have promised “revenge” against all those who pushed Democrats out of power and warned that “it’s not going to end well for them.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) pledged that, as soon as they regain power, they will start throwing Trump people in jail when they retake Congress.
Democratic strategist James Carville previously threatened that “collaborators” may be treated in the same way as they were after World War II.
Trump has to decide who will be the best hand on the wheel in those coming choppy waters.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has the street cred that Trump values. An accomplished litigator and former prosecutor, Blanche is neither flashy nor gregarious. He is a lethal litigator who can gut you like a trout without breaking a sweat. He has been at the president’s side in and out of court. While he will be a lightning rod for Democrats who have attacked him for his role in the release of the Epstein files, his firmness in dealing with a hostile media likely appealed to the President.
Blanche offers a seamless transition for the Department. He literally only has to walk down the hallway to take the reins from Bondi.
Another name reportedly under consideration is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who would likely be the easiest to confirm and the most popular with members of Congress. Zeldin transformed the EPA in short order, including clearing away barriers to increasing energy production. Almost elected governor of New York, Zeldin has cross-over appeal in Washington as someone who cut his teeth in this town.
Other candidates include state attorneys general, as well as wild cards like U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former judge with a tough-as-nails reputation in Washington, D.C. It is a deep bench.
There will be no shortage of applicants for the job. The office of the Attorney General in the Trump Administration has everything that one could want in Washington. Everything, that is, except job security.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
One mandatory requirement for any Trump AG: the candidate must be highly disloyal to their Oath of Office and support foreign models of government.
I think you posted to the wrong site.
Air-Rescue doing their job,.
BREAKING: General Holt Tells WABC That Both Crew Members in F-15 Crash Are Safe, Citing Two High-Level Sources
Thank you for the update.
So you came here just to see that comment. Couldn’t get news accurate and truthful and factual elsewhere?
Prove me wrong.
Noticed you didn’t. I wonder why?
Prove yourself right. Noticed you can’t. Wonder why?
I gave you a new flash from a General…
You gave us what?????????? Zip!
Let me slap you one more time. Do you know how air-rescue works? Like close air support with A-10 or Sandy’s?
I’ll give you a little hint. I was in Air Rescue is the service. I know who it works..
I’m guessing you have no idea.
As president, Kam A La La La has vowed to continue our strong alliance with North Korea. She added that she will prevent the South from further mischief.
Duh, I wish I were a baby bumble bee
Garsh, then my motherd be so proud a me
AOC 4 V.P.!
Unfortunately it looks like a false report Dustoff. They’re reporting to still be looking for one of the crew.
Gee, just 2 days ago, Trump commandeered prime time television to address the nation, claiming that Iran’s air defenses were “completely decimated “. Trump boasted that the US could fly over Iranian air space with impunity and that Iran could do nothing to stop us.
Today, 2 days later, Iran shot down 2 planes and attacked 2 Blackhawk helicopters, wounding several personnel. One pilot is missing and Iran is offering a reward for anyone who finds him or her and turns them over to the authorities. I wonder if Trump will insult that pilot if he or she is captured— just like he insulted John McCain because he was captured in Viet Nam. There are estimates that Iran still has half of its air defenses and thousands of drones. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz and Macron has cut a deal for French tankers to use the Strait.
Now Trump is threatening to commit war crimes by saying that the US will bomb civilian targets like desalination plants and electric power stations. He bombed a bridge that was under construction that was not a military target. Late today he tweeted that the US might try to take Iran’s oil.
Trump is demanding a massive increase in defense spending—and is threatening to cut Medicare and Medicaid spending to pay for it. He claims that the US can’t afford to subsidize childcare. Most developed countries have subsidized childcare. The majority of the American do not approve of the war, of Trump or Hegseth. He just keeps digging in deeper and making a fool of himself.
^^^ STICK TO THE PLAN – MAGA ^^^
– Or Be Banned for Life –
Gee. You are right. Iran devastated us. Mortal combat with Iran led to the utter defeat of America. It’s all over now. Wow. And you predicted this! How did you know? Man! Amazing. Iran shot down a plane!
Wait! I hear something. It’s Iran! They are tearing down my door.
The point is that Trump is lying once again—like he always does —and that we can’t believe anything he says. Either that or the clowns who are advising him are telling him what he wants to hear. Either way, it’s all lies.
Like Turley’s “gut them like a fish” BS bravado to reassure the disciples. Blanche didn’t get Trump acquitted when he represented him. He can’t manufacture facts to try to convict Trump’s enemies either. If he tries to, he may end up losing his law license.
Kambo,
Have one on me. 1, not 23.
Your heartfelt, deepest concern for Laken Riley is greatly appreciated.
Compared to Iraq.
The numbers a very little.
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129 helicopters and 24 fixed-wing aircraft were lost in Iraq between the 2003 invasion and February 2009. Of these incidents, 46 have been attributed to hostile fire, such as anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles. In March 2007, Brig. Gen. Stephen Mundt said that 130 helicopters had been lost in both Iraq and Afghanistan, about a third to hostile fire, and he was concerned that they were not being replaced fast enough.[1] A report published in Aircraft Survivability in Summer 2010 gave a total of 375 U.S. helicopters lost in Iraq and Afghanistan up to 2009. Of these, 70 were downed by hostile fire, while the other 305 losses have been classified as non-hostile or non-combat events.
The numbers a very little? WTF does that mean? Can you even formulate a sentence? Its a ll a lie. Where does this nobody get all that stuff? He lies for attention. Like a hoe.
“decimated”
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
“. . . Iran shot down 2 planes . . .” (I’m surprised you didn’t add a smiley emoji.)
America has conducted some *12,000* successful combat flights over Iran. When B-*52* bombers are flying scot-free over your country, your tyrannical regime is toast.
I wonder why the Left wishes to evade those facts.
As Iran indiscriminately attacks other countries in the region, supports the Houthis to stop international shipping, supports the takeover of Lebanon by Hezbollah, gives money and weapons to Hamas to kill, rape and kidnap women and children, plants roadside bombs to kills our soldiers, throws gays off of buildings, kills their own citizens by the tens of thousands and Mr. Anonymous is concerned that trying to stop these monsters is a “war crime”.
Ask the Anonymous eedjit if he thinks FDR was a war criminal for Dresden, Truman for Japan, IKE for Korea, JFK and Johnson for Vietnam, Clinton for bombing a pill factory, Obama for bombing a wedding or Biden for using a cruise missile to kill a family of ten innocent people in order to change the focus of his Afghan disaster. NOPE, only Republicans will earn the ire of these anti-American traitors.
“As Iran indiscriminately [. . .] is a ‘war crime’.”
Great point, eloquently expressed.
Tragically, the Left is unmoved by such facts or by the plight of the innocent.
I’m gonna pull a wok move. I honestly and sincerely believe in and call for the arrest and incarceration of any/all people predisposed to support wok. They are the greatest, most evil opponent we face.
You obviously have no clue, America military flies Iranian airspace unchallenged by an Iranian Air Force. Today’s weaponry includes shoulder and ground launched missiles like the Stinger are never eradicated completely. They are highly mobile and can be employed by anyone that has something of that nature.
I am not for war but Trump just did what Jimmy Peanut Butter should’ve done long ago. Iran is directly responsible for thousands of deaths of civilians as well as US Servicemen through proxies.
No matter how far these people have come they still ALL have one foot in the Torah or Quran and one in foot in the desert.
[?] IF Trump were to be given a 1-Triilon Dollar Pay-Off Package (One-T to match Elon Musk’s) to resign and let Vance Take over.
Do you think the master of The Art of The Deal would do it?
What Say Ye: Yea or Nay
I say:
BAN FOR LIFE!
If ANON was given $5 would Anon stop posting?? Sure hope so!!!
1 TRIILON??? WTF IS THAT??? ANON flunked special ed. 2 times!!
a typo: 1TRILLON $$$
Yea, You bet he would – Trump would take it and run!
HEY ANON A TYPO AGAIN DF!! It is spelled Trillion Go back to school!! BOZO!
Tell you what, I will chip in $100 to get you to never come to this site again.
“Suppose They Gave A War And Nobody Came”
The Great Persian People of the Great Persian Empire begged, pleaded, and goaded for help from President Donald J. Trump and then vanished when he sent it to them.
Who the —- authorized low level flight?
Search and Rescue
Motto: “So that others may live”
Turley– Blanche “is a lethal litigator who can gut you like a trout without breaking a sweat. ”
Great article in whole but I particularly liked the “gut you like a trout” phrase.
Sounds like Blanche is precisely what Trump and the country need in the coming battles with those who say they are inclined to tear down law and civilization.
I hope whole-heartedly that there are full prosecutions for the Deeds that the Democrats have done.
but everyone knows that: THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Bill and Hillary got off (the Epstein collusion), so the rest will certainly walk free … unfortunately.
Anon– ” I hope whole-heartedly that there are full prosecutions for the Deeds that the Democrats have done.”
ME TOO!
It is an illusion to hope that any AG will drain the swamps that have esrablished over decades:
Even those who only superficially observe the political landscape will be familiar with Democrat fundraising giant ActBlue: Three years ago, OMG reported that ActBlue fraudukantly breaking up large donations into smaler peces by using senior citizens as vehicles to launder millions of dollars from abroad into DNC. Congressional investigators and TX-AG Ken Paxton submitted criminal referral to the DOJ without any consequences.
IS this the same Ken Paxton who was indicted on two counts of first-degree felony securities fraud and one count of failing to register as an investment adviser in 2015, and was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in 2023 for bribery, abuse of office and obstruction of justice and then was investigated by Federal prosecutors? That Ken Paxton?
That Ken Paxton?
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No, wrong⬆️ Ken Paxton 😺😺😺
To make any headway and support the Constitution, you will need to drain the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, which is rife with communist corruption.
The prime maxim of the judicial branch is, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
“Drain The Swamp”
To make any headway and support the Constitution, you will need to drain the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, which is rife with communist corruption.
The prime maxim of the judicial branch is, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Next up in the barrel is WH spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. Reports are that Trump is blaming her for the public backlash against his war with Iran. Thoughts and prayers, Karoline. Maybe you and Pamcakes can go get jobs with Kristi Noem.
Doctor can you help me
I need some medicaid
I seen the kingdoms of the world
And it’s making me feel afraid
Medicaid is unconstitutional as it is not general welfare but individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, favor, or charity, which may not be taxed for or funded.
And our noble, heroic, virtuous media has spent thousands of hours researching how a million innocent citizens were slaughtered as Bill Clinton shied away from lifting a finger to save even one child from having her legs shot off, soaked in gasoline, and torched, as her parents were forced to watch. Even though they have had to dig in to what Trump might have done 20 years ago, somehow, someway they have persisted in making sure no stone goes unturned to uncover Trumps possible hanky-panky decades ago.
I just don’t get it. Why, tell me, how is it possible the big media is THE MOST HATED and DESPISED INSTITUTION IN AMERICA?
Was that “Crazy Abe” Lincoln’s “Reign of Terror” as his boy “Sherman’s March to the Sea?”
LONGINUS “ON THE SUBLIME’ XXXVIII:
Such absurdities as, “Unless you carry your brains next to the ground in your heels.”87 Hence it is necessary to know where to draw the line; for if ever it is overstepped the effect of the hyperbole is spoilt, being in such cases relaxed by overstraining, and producing the very opposite to the effect desired. 2 Isocrates, for instance, from an ambitious desire of lending everything a strong rhetorical colouring, shows himself in quite a childish light. Having in his Panegyrical Oration set himself to prove that the Athenian state has surpassed that of Sparta in her services to Hellas, he starts off at the very outset with these words: “Such is the power of language that it can extenuate what is great, and lend greatness to what is little, give freshness to what is antiquated, and describe what is recent so that it seems to be of the past.”88 Come, Isocrates (it might be asked), is it thus that you are going to tamper with the facts about Sparta and Athens? This flourish about the power of language is like a signal hung out to warn his audience not to believe him. 3 We may repeat here what we said about figures, and say that the hyperbole is then most effective when it appears in disguise.89 And this effect is produced when a writer, impelled by strong feeling, speaks in the accents of some tremendous crisis; as Thucydides does in describing the massacre in Sicily. “The Syracusans,” he says, “went down after them, and slew those especially who were in the river, and the water was at once defiled, yet still they went on drinking it, though mingled with mud and gore, most of them even fighting for it.”90 The drinking of mud and gore, and even the fighting for it, is made credible by the awful horror of the scene described. 4 Similarly Herodotus on those who fell at Thermopylae: “Here as they fought, those who still had them, with daggers, the rest with hands and teeth, the barbarians buried them under their javelins.”91 That they fought with the teeth against heavy-armed assailants, and that they were buried with javelins, are perhaps hard sayings, but not incredible, for the reasons already explained. We can see that these circumstances have not been dragged in to produce a hyperbole, but that the hyperbole has grown naturally out of the circumstances. 5 For, as I am never tired of explaining, in actions and passions verging on frenzy there lies a kind of remission and palliation of any licence of language. Hence some comic extravagances, however improbable, gain credence by their humour, such as
“He had a farm, a little farm, where space severely pinches;
’Twas smaller than the last despatch from Sparta by some inches.”
6 For mirth is one of the passions, having its seat in pleasure. And hyperboles may be employed either to increase or to lessen—since exaggeration is common to both uses. Thus in extenuating an opponent’s argument we try to make it seem smaller than it is.
God help us All.
above from GW
God help us All.
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Koo Koo for Coco Puffs⬆️
As much as Trump likes Pam, as a CEO, the ‘firing’ was justified. It is clear that Bondi was trying to walk in 2 Directions and couldn’t make enough headway in either. Being a Good Lawyer. Being a Good Politician. Yes, those who performed ILLEGALLY to interfere and/or bring down a POTUS, producing extraordinary lies to build false cases, etc, like Schiff, Comey and even Obama and his Inner Circle, e.g., Blinken, Brennan, need to be Legally Defrocked.. The fake Russian Collusion Hoax interfered with Trump’s first term and cost the taxpayers $35M+ fior Mueller’s ‘Investigation.’ Left-wing ‘clowns’ are still free to operate in the same circus they masterminded then, now building another epic Hoax using the ‘Hidden Epstein Files.’ It is here that Bondi left the door wide open for all kinds of wild speculations to be repeated over & over & over again via the MSM (lies repeated often enough..), making POTUS look guilty for whatever, when, indeed, he is most likely Completely innocent.. while Epstein’s real Pal, Bill Clinton, just sits there, untouched, much like Hillary remained untouched by the Very Real email scandal…. Bondi was not a skilled enough Politician to shut it down and make it clear that the Dems were Building the ‘Hidden Epstein Files’ into another Hoax. Garland & Wray had the Files and could have used them in the 2024 Election against Trump if there were material there for that. And, Yes, Being a skilled Politican is required in ANY LEADERSHIP ROLE, in addition to being skilled at ‘your trade….’ Sadly, not quite Bondi.
‘There are growing predictions that the Republicans will lose the House and could also lose the Senate.’
Sure. Just as algorithms are literally programmed to tell us to trust algorithms and that algorithms are the wave of the future. Spare me, and us. The same dems are now, in their fabricated narrative, telling us 75% of the people that voted for precisely what the administration is doing have somehow changed our minds.
No, we haven’t. If only the gaslighting could solve our energy crisis. For those old enough to remember, it’s about as serious as running the world on the excess crude oil produced by the pores of teenagers in ‘Kentucky Fried Movie’. Again, spare, us modern left, you are ridiculous literally on the level of parody at this point, fomented by a party that knows they do not have the fattest chance in hell with the actual thinking of those among us, thankfully, still a majority of voters.
They couldn’t see this in the echo chambers of their hubris in 2016, they can’t see it now, nor can they see how the further insulting of said intelligence from within their own confines does not help them. It’s as exhausting as dealing with an actual group of toddlers, or herding cats, take your pick.
First of all: Trump received LESS THAN HALF of votes cast in 2024–he and his syncophants keep lying about a nonexistent “landslide victory”. Trump LIED about not starting any new wars, so 75% of Americans could not have voted for what he is doing. He lied about bringing down the cost of groceries. The stupid war he agreed to start to help out Israel because wealthy Jews gave him multiple millions of dollars to take orders from Netanyhu is driving up the cost of everything–especially groceries. There’s no “fabricated narrative”, except from Trump. At first, after claiming last June that he “totally and completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, now he’s lying by saying that Iran was ready to nuke us–our own intelligence and the IAE say that is a lie. He said he wanted to bring about “regime change”, and then lied about that. Now, he says that he DID bring about “regime change”–the new Iranian leader is the son of the former one, and he is even more radical than his father was–and, because Trump killed a school full of little girls and lied about that, trying to blame Iran–he has even more reason to hate the US. The reasons keep changing. Trump is ALWAYS “2 weeks away” from everything–but he had no clearly-defined reason that he openly expressed for starting this war, no clearly-defined objective and no exit plan. The not expressed reasons include wealthy Jews who gave Trump millions in campaign contributions, Iran’s rivals giving gifts to Trump–UAE purchasing billions in worthless Trump cryptocurrency, Qatar giving Trump a luxury jet and Saudi Arabia bailing out Jared Kushner’s failing real estate busines.
You MAGAs do NOT speak for “us” or “we”. In fact, most of us disapprove of Trump and what he is doing, proven by the millions of us who take to the streets to protest Trump. In US history, there have been marches for civil rights, voting rights, womens’ rights, to support the ADA, but never before marches opposing a US President. Trump’s approval rating is in the low thirties. His disapproval rating is above the mid-sixties, so you MAGA are NOT the “majority of voters”, and weren’t the “majority of voters” in 2024 either. The “dems” aren’t driving any narrative–even Fox News polls are consistent and show that Trump is way underwater. And, if that’s not enough proof for you, how about all of the formerly Republican local and federal seats that went for Democrats? Keep living in your MAGA bubble. The rest of us know better.
bottle-brownie, the landslide was the Electoral College, 312 to 226. Had nothing to do with those MAGA voters but they were apparently smarter and less gullible than “chump” like you that swallowed the “slop.”
to the Anon. who specializes in Hate Reports above .. we don’t need your insipid opinions, your regurgitated Fake News and Fake Polls ‘proof..’ …. i.e., play with it in your own space.
james please spare us echoing the ‘growing predictions’ from the MSM wit all their Fake News and Fake Polls… we don’t need to feed that energetic.. Thank you.
Trump said that Iran’s military capability has been 100% destroyed.
So how did they manage to shoot down an F-15 fighter.
We all know that Trump never lies, so who shot down the jet ??????????
It can’t have been Iran.
So who did it ????????
After Germany finally admitted defeat and surrendered unconditionally, crazed nazis killed allied forces, wore their uniforms and sabotaged our efforts to rebuild their society from the ashes we left behind. We shot them on sight.
You r just way too smart for us, natasha.
@Anonymous
Going to guess they have some missiles left. If shooting down one jet is the best they can do, I’d say we are at the close.
The peaceful people in the Muslim world are grateful – women can start showing their faces and driving in public again.
The sauce you all have is so weak, the rest of us would swear it’s just water, because it is. That is a metaphor. Hopefully your tiny mind can grasp it. Even gruel is more substantive than the goat water you serve up. If you don’t know what goat water is, you are not nearly as cultured, worldly, or geopolitical as you imagine yourself to be, even being that you are likely, as I suspect, overseas somewhere, and not a dreaded ‘American’.
James
If they have some missiles left then their military capability cannot have been 100% destroyed.
Do you think it is possible that Trump is lying ????
@Anonymous
If you are really that pedantic, I’m going to make sure someone has brought you a new drool cup and spinner, and thank my lucky stars no one trusts you with anything of any consequence.
So you agree that Trump is lying, but you just can’t admit it.
And yes, I really am pedantic about expecting people to tell the truth, especially the President of the United States, but apparently in MAGA fantasy land that is a bad thing.
POTUS telling the truth like Obama and Biden? LOL
Trump is talking in generalities. He destroyed their missiles, launchers, anti-aircraft, etc, but intelligent people know there are a few left. It is extremely difficult to get 100%, and people who are not ignorant know that is true because they are still firing missiles.
When Trump tells you the missiles were destroyed, recognize that one estimate states around 100 launchers are left. No one really knows, with the fog of war preventing precise details. Leftists like the leftist media that reports we are losing the war. That drives clicks, but it is totally untrue, and you believe it. It is the left that provides hope for the IRGC because they think the media will make us give up and those thoughts are responsible for the deaths of many people.
The next step is to stop the movement and communications of the IRGC. The first major bridge was intentionally bombed, and more will follow. If the IRGC can’t communicate or move, one hope is that we can open sufficient internet to the people. We won the war, but must ensure the peace.
The destruction was as complete as possible. The missiles were waiting for nuclear weapons to be attached. We know they are willing to use them on anyone. They can hit Europe. Do you want Europe and later us to live under the risk of nuclear weapons from Iran that is a culture of death?
@S. Meyer
So Trump is talking in “generalities” you say. An interesting turn of phrase.
That is just an obtuse way of saying that he is not telling the whole truth, which in my world means he is lying. But in MAGA fantasy land that apparently means he is telling the truth.
And you seem to think that if we knock out the ability of the IRGC to communicate, then we can “open sufficient internet to the people”.
Really, how exactly would that work? Do you think that the IRGC doesn’t use the internet? How exactly can we knock out IRGC communications without knocking out the internet? If we then “open sufficient internet to the people”, why couldn’t the IRGC also use it after we “open” it?
And if we have already won the war as you claim, then why do we need to bother trying to knock out communications of the IRGC at all?
If we have already won, what exactly would the IRGC be communicating about?
You seem to be talking in “generalities”, apparently a common practice in MAGA fantasy land.
Obviously, since we are talking in “generalities”, what you probably mean is that “in general” we have not actually won the war, and that “in general” the IRGC is still active, and that “in general” they can still shoot down our fighters. But nevertheless, “in general” we have already won the war in your opinion.
And this apparently makes sense to you. The term for this type of thinking is delusional.
Don’t you think it that in time of war it would be better to talk in terms of specifics, rather than “generalities” and wishful thinking?
It sounds as if the grandiloquent one is responding in his pedantic forensic analysis because he lacks an understanding of asymmetric warfare. That is to be expected from a Fraud who confuses tactics from strategic objectives.
For anyone to provide the whole truth to wide audiences, they must speak to a general audience with some generalities. That is not good enough for this fraud whose doctor, lawyer, and everyone else is lying to him. Yes, the internet of the IRGC was better formed than that for the people, and yes, we can limit communications for the IRGC while improving it for the people. Yes, we can win the war while the enemy still exists.
Your ignorance stands out because it seems despite all your words, long after WWII, some of the Japanese were still in their positions and ready to fight. It was in the early 1970s before the last Japanese surrendered. You are too short on facts and too long on words to make an interesting debate.
Final Grade: Self-confessed Liar and Puerile, Pedantic Gasbag.
Apparently, we can limit communications for the IRGC and keep it open for the people. Sounds an awful lot like a vague generality and wishful thinking.
How exactly would that be done?
How could we distinguish between the IRGC and “the people” in terms of usage?
Are the IRGC not “people”?
If we “open the internet” to the people, then why can’t the IRGC use it as well?
If we CAN degrade IRGC communication and open the internet to the people, then why haven’t we already DONE it?
The answer is very simple – we can’t do it.
Iran has only two internet connections to the outside world. The government has total control of internet access and their systems are designed to have those two choke points that allow them to kill the entire connection for the public. The government and military use a system that relies on Russian systems. Russia has provided connectivity for the military through its satellites, making it almost impossible to degrade without taking out Russian satellites.
Your assertion that we can degrade IRGC communication while opening the internet for the people is absurd wishful thinking.
And your analogy about the Japanese soldiers is simply insane.
The Japanese soldiers were mostly in hiding and in survival mode. Any fighting that took place occurred when they raided villages for food and supplies they needed to simply to survive. They also fought in defense when discovered by local authorities but they were never involved in active aggressive combat. They certainly did not shoot down allied aircraft.
You are just like Trump, engaging in absurd generalities and wishful thinking that is completely untethered from reality.
Since you are apparently an expert in how the internet works, perhaps you can provide a few specifics about how we can degrade IRGC communication and open the internet to the people. instead of vague generalities.
Sigmund the Fraud, your focus on “two internet connections” is the height of technological illiteracy. You think the internet is a psychiatric tool and that ECT is the wave of the future. As such a bumbler, did you turn the paddles on yourself? Your responses reveal significant memory loss. The Japanese War lasted almost 4 years, and this war is only 5 weeks old.
Jamming locally to the IRGC exists, and opening limited internet areas for the people isn’t that hard. For your simple brain, think of Telstar, how you access the internet while traveling, and what happens when control of the internet is removed from the government, which is concentrated in the Tehran area, where the IRGC exists.
You are too long on words and too short on knowledge to discuss these things intelligently.
Final Grade: Self-confessed Liar and Technologically Illiterate, Puerile Gasbag.
So the President had to say 100 percent destroyed because the American people would not have understood 90 percent destroyed (or another percentage?
The President is trying to make things clear. Numbers such as this cannot be 100% accurate, so we round off. I agree with you that using the 100% round-off isn’t the best description, but he has used better numbers as well, and people can see the missiles that Iran is firing.
Trump’s style sometimes leaves him open to your type of criticism. However, since his numbers are leagues better than the media’s, why aren’t you complaining about the media’s? I guess you aren’t that much of a Concerned Citizen.
100% isn’t a round off, you idiot.
100% is EVERYTHING.
How can the President be making things clear by using rounded numbers. That is making things LESS clear, aka lying.
If, as you say, he “has used BETTER numbers as well”, then why is he now using less better numbers?
If he has BETTER numbers that he has previously used, then why doesn’t he continue to use the BETTER numbers?
And if, as you say, “people can see the missiles that Iran is firing”, then that irrefutably proves that 100% of Iran’s military capacity has NOT been destroyed. So what is the point of of “rounding off” to 100% if that cannot possibly reflect reality, unless he is deliberately lying.
Apparently you share Trump’s almost total innumeracy. Perhaps innumeracy is a required attribute to join the MAGA cult.
You probably believed Trump when he said he was going to reduce prescription drug prices by 500%.
You are making a complete fool of yourself with these incoherent, self-contradictory ramblings.
And here is what Trump said on Wednesday.
“They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force,”
48 hours later the F-15 was shot down.
The next day an A-10 was shot down.
So much for having destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capacity.
The two anonymi have a flimsy complaint. I already acknowledged that using the 100% figure isn’t the best description, but I think we can call it hyperbole, certainly not a lie. The anonymi are engineered to whine, and whine they did. You are inveterate liars; it is interwoven into your lives and value systems.
If you actually craved accuracy, you’d scrutinize the Pentagon reports and then confront the leftist MSM’s chronic inability to tell the truth. You won’t do that because you harbor no genuine care about lies; you possess the moral fortitude of a jellyfish and are simply suffering from terminal TDS. Your indignation is as hollow as your integrity.
I want to make one thing clear. The two of you hate America. Whenever an American is killed by an illegal, you are responsible. You are complicit in the war and its prolongation; willful blindness has caused you to side against reality. Iran was a threat permitted to become potent under successive Democrat leadership. You, as a friend of Iran, support a predatory culture of death; you support the murder of ~30,000 Iranians in ~1 day. You hate women, gays, Jews, Catholics, and of course, Americans.
Another seriously flawed analysis–Bondi was fired because she didn’t get the RESULTS Trump wanted–to wit: convictions of his perceived enemies. The REASON she didn’t get convictions is because there was never any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Comey, James, Smith, Schiff and the others Trump ordered her to prosecute. Indictments were consistently seriously flawed. In some cases, Trump loyalists like Halligan and Habba were signing documents pretending to be US Attorneys even though their temporary status had expired. Pirro couldn’t indict a ham sandwich (thrower) as a felony, so she tried to prosecute him for a misdemeanor, and he was acquitted. Court after court threw out the baseless lawsuits, which were purely politically-motivated. Under Trump/Bondi, US attorneys routinely lied to courts and flaunted court orders.
And Blanche isn’t the supreme butt-kicker Turley is paid to promote either–he didn’t get Trump acquitted in his criminal case because Trump WAS guilty. If Blanche continues the pattern established by Bondi–of lying to courts, flaunting court orders and pursuing criminal prosecutions of Trump’s perceived enemies without evidence of criminality, the results will be the same. So, what does Turley do? Make it sound like Democrats are going to go on some kind of unwarranted vengeance campaign. The conduct of the FBI and DOJ under Trump needs to be investigated. Trump needs to be investigated–why did he pardon that drug dealer who imported literally tons of cocaine into the US? Why did he pardon that fraudster and order that he was no longer required to make restitution to his victims as the court ordered? What about accepting $2 B for his worthless cryptocurrency from UAE, the $2 B to Kushner to bail him out of that real estate mess and the flying palace from Qatar? Did he start this war as a quid pro quo because UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are rivals of Iran? What about Jack Smith’s report (ordered sealed by Trump’ favorite judge) making the case that the reason Trump stole those classified documents is that he intended to use them to further his business interests?
The DOJ is in tatters now. Experienced prosecutors have left or were fired. They are literally begging for help on social media–which is unheard of because young attorneys usually find a term as a US attorney a desirable addtion to their resume. Not any more. No one wants the stench of Trump on their resume.
Then, there’s the Epstein files–not even half of which have been disclosed. The names of the pedophile perpetrators were protected, victims were outed by name, and in some cases, nude photos of them were released. Bondi lied over and over again, saying there was a list of the pedophiles on her desk, then walked that back, claimed there was no such list and no evidence of further criminality– without even conducting any basic investigation. She never once spoke with any victim, couldn’t even look at them at the hearing in which she tried to change the subject when asked about what the files contained about Trump. That appearance before the Committee was shameful. Instead of answering questions, she took a page from the Trump playbook—attack the questioner and don’t answer questions. She had a notebook full of oppo research. Literally everyone knows that there must be some very seriously bad things about Trump in the Epstein files or they wouldn’t work so hard to try to cover it up. We know that some foreign hackers have accessed the Epstein files. There are those who say that Putin has the goods on Trump and that’s why Trump is so deferential to him, removing sanctions so that Russia can make billions more selling petrol since Trump’s stupidity in starting a war without any clear reason or focus, much less exit strategy, has caused oil prices to skyrocket.
Bondi won’t be missed, but the fundamental problem behind her disasterous term as AG remains–Trump. He won’t have another Bill Barr in the job who will quit before doing his illegal or unwise bidding. The job of the Attorney General is to advocate for the Constitution and the American people. Trump doesn’t care–to him, it’s his personal law firm to be used to punish those he doesn’t like. Nothing’s going to change, but the DOJ will not recover from the damage done for many years after he’s gone.
bottle-brownie says, “What about Jack Smith’s report (ordered sealed by Trump’ favorite judge) making the case that the reason Trump stole those classified documents is that he intended to use them to further his business interests? ”
gee, how did you know whatwas in that”sealed” report, and how did you conclude that he “made the case:”
reading all those dimestore rags again, more “slop” for gullible “chumps” like you?
I got that from a “Forbes” article:
“President Donald Trump retained classified documents after his first term that could have helped his business interests, former Special Counsel Jack Smith said in 2023 according to a newly released memo, further intensifying scrutiny into the yearslong controversy over Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents—even though he no longer faces criminal charges.”
The memo is not the same as Jack Smith’s report Trump’s favorite judge ordered sealed.
bottle-brownie, do you get it? youare so gullible that you swallow the media slop and believe every word you believe. If you were the lawyer you told us you were, you would know that EACH party tells the jury “facts’ that are so conclusive that a win is inevitable. Too bad when they lose, eh?
Yeah, like anyone actually read your 1000 word insane rant.
Obongo should have been sent to prison for “Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America” and for the Obama Coup D’etat in America, among other prosecutions for insurrection against the first Trump administration that should have been successfully concluded by now.
Hung for treason.
Asidefrom the Seditious Conspiracy, Obama provided a financial benefit to a listed terrorist country (Iran) during a time of war.
Article 3, Section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Obama directly released to Iran billions of dollars in currency and precious metals that were by the most part untraceable. This was effectuated during the time period of the Afghanistan war where the Iranian Republican Guard was providing training and components to Taliban militia groups for making IEDs. These IEDs were used to kill and maim hundreds of American soldiers. I believe that pretty much equates to a basis for treason for Obama and Valerie Jarrett.
Don’t blame Bondi for the Epstein fiasco—she was just the cleanup crew for Trump’s mouth. He promised the files, realized his name was all over them, and left Bondi to play ‘hide the evidence’ while he played ‘stable genius.’ It’s what happens when a President hires based on a headshot rather than a law degree: you get a DOJ that’s all optics and zero ‘scalps.
I don’t understand this insistence that Trump must be one of Epstein’s clients. Every bit of data we have shows that they despised each other going back even before Epstein’s first prosecution (the one that was a slap on the wrist). Trump banned him from all of his properties well before this all came out, and we have him on record thanking the Sheriff that arrested Epstein and asking the Sheriff to also go after Maxwell.
The only photos anyone have found of the two of them together were in large groups at cocktail parties in the 1990s well before this came out. No evidence has ever come to light of any financial ties. Why do so many people believe that Trump is tied to Epstein?
If Trump was “all over” the Epstein files, why did no one in the Biden administration perform a strategic release? Why, after multiple politically motivated FBI investigations, was nothing ever found?
Hey now, don’t talk common sense to the left. They hate it.
Communist propaganda requires no basis in fact.
Only half of the Epstein files has been released, so we don’t know what else is in there, but anyone with a brain would reasonably conclude that the reason Bondi worked so hard to prevent the release was to shield Trump and the wealthy and powerful men who victimized those young girls. Trump publicly said that Epstein was “a terrific guy”. Trump has been described as Epstein’s “best friend” for 10 years. Trump publicly said that Epstein loved beautiful women almost as much has he did, but he liked them “on the younger side”. Trump sent Epstein a birthday card with the outline of a nude woman and his signature in the location of pubic hair, that referenced a every day bringing a”wonderful secret”. That birthday card was described by a victim who helped put together the birthday book long before it was made public. Handwriting experts have opined that the signature is genuine. There are more than 5,300 references to Trump in the Epstein files that have been released so far.
You say that Trump “banned” Epstein–that claim has been refuted. Trump and Epstein had a falling out over a real estate deal that Epstein beat Trump out of. Trump is quoted as saying that “everyone knows” what went on with Epstein. And, Trump is the one, when running for office, who promised full disclosure. Then, there’s the Epstein Transparency Act that Bondi flaunted over and over again. She deliberately outed the identities of victims and released nude photos of some of them, but protected the perpetrators. That was for intimidation purposes–Bondi and her staff aren’t very good, but you wouldn’t have to work very hard to cull out nude photos and names of victims before releasing the information.
The MAGA spin isn’t working–everyone knows there’s really bad things in there about Trump that will eventually come out. Trump is on record bragging about grabbing womens’ genitals. He has been adjudicated to be a sexual assaulter. One victim said that he tried to rape her when she was 13, by trying to force her to submit to oral sex, and she bit him. He punched her in the the head. Also, before Trump forced an NDA on Ivana in the divorce settlement, she testified, in a deposition in their divorce case, that Trump raped her because she wasn’t sympathetic enough to his post-op pain following scalp reduction surgery by a plastic surgeon she had recommended. There are other women who claim that Trump sexually assaulted them, too. And trying to blame the Biden DOJ won’t work. There weren’t “multiple politically-motivated FBI investigations”, either.
> Trump has been described as Epstein’s “best friend” for 10 years
By whom? If they were best friends, why has no evidence of any financial ties between them appeared? (For instance, Bill Gates had many financial ties with Epstein, and this is how Gates’ initial involvement with Epstein Island was uncovered.) If they were best friends, why did Trump never visit Epstein Island? If they were best friends, why are there no photos of just the two of them together? I’ve seen no evidence at all that they were friends. From what I’ve seen, back in the 90s, Epstein tried to worm his way into Trump’s circle the same was he had done with Gates, but Trump declined.
> You say that Trump “banned” Epstein–that claim has been refuted.
Is there any evidence Epstein stepped foot in any Trump property after the initial accusal? It would seem to be an easy thing to refute if there is evidence of Epstein with Trump after the point that Trump is supposed to have banned him. Can you provide such evidence?
> She deliberately outed the identities of victims and released nude photos of some of them, but protected the perpetrators.
There is no evidence of that. From what I can tell, what happened is that Congress passed the law for full transparency, and the Justice dept began redacting and releasing. This process, since it had to be done by a full lawyer was slow and many accused the Dept of failing to follow the law to release the documents. In response, the Justice Dept went into Warp Speed to release files as quickly as possible. However, this warp speed naturally led to errors in the redaction, which you now also jump on. You deliberately put the Justice Dept in a Catch-22. If they carefully redact, you accuse them of failing to release. If they release as quickly as possible, you accuse them of failing to redact properly.
> And trying to blame the Biden DOJ won’t work.
The claim is that Trump is “All Over” the Epstein files. Surely that would mean that finding some evidence of malfeasance by Trump in those files would be simple and strategically leaking said portion would be simple. For instance, the Democrats leaked a photo found in the Epstein files of Trump in a picture with a dozen of so young women whose faces were blacked out. It looked pretty bad, but someone did a quick reverse image search and it turned out to be a suntan oil commercial shoot at Mar-A-Lago, all of the participants were full adults, and in an interview, the women in question said that nothing untoward happened. If there was real bad stuff in there, why does it seem that every time they try to leak something, it turns out to be a nothingburger?
> There weren’t “multiple politically-motivated FBI investigations”, either.
Crossfire Hurricane was 100% politically motivated, and it wasn’t the only one. We have the texts of FBI agents talking about how they will prevent Trump from becoming president. And that’s not even going into the insanity of the second run attempts to stop Trump that were utterly absurd, like the Rico case in Georgia.
1. Closest friend: in November, 2024, author Michael Wolff released a taped interview with Epstein in which he described Trump as his “closest friend” for 10 years;
2. falling out between Trump and Epstein: “In 2019, The Washington Post reported about a 2004 bidding war over a Palm Beach oceanfront mansion as driving a wedge between Trump and Epstein. The dispute happened months before Palm Beach police began investigating allegations that Epstein was sexually abusing minors. The mansion entered the market after previous owner and healthcare tycoon-turned-philanthropist Abraham Gosman declared bankruptcy, Palm Beach Daily News reported. Bankruptcy court acquired the home — dubbed Maison de l’Amitie, or House of Friendship — and put it on the auction block. Trump outbid Epstein, securing the 62,000-square-foot mansion for $41.35 million.
Before the auction, the trustee in the case, Joseph Luzinski, described the showdown as “two very large Palm Beach egos going at it,” said The Washington Post’s report.”
3. Did Bondi deliberately disclose nude photos and the identites of the victims? How does one prove intent versus inadvertence? The answer is, in the absence of a confession of intent–is to look at circumstantial evidence. Bondi claimed there was something like 100 AUSAs working on the Epstein files around the clock. Isn’t it strange that ALL of the alleged perpetrators’ identites were redacted, but the names, phone numbers, addresses and even nude photos of several victims WERE disclosed? Many of these women had never before gone public with their accusations. How hard would it be to pull out nude photos or redact names and other identifying information of victims if there were “hundreds” of attorneys working around the clock? Your argument might have some heft if Bondi had ever expressed anything resembling sympathy for the victims, if she had ever responded to requests by them for interviews, if she had conducted investigations of at least some of the allegations (which she steadfastly refused to do, declaring there was no evidence of criminality) if she had not lied about the list of perpetrators being on her desk, and if she had at least looked at them during the congressional oversight hearings, instead of turning her back on them and using her book of oppo research to attack the Senators who questioned her. No rational jury would conclude that what she did was not intentional. AND, the reason is so very obvious.
4. Trump tried to rig the vote in Georgia–he was on tape demanding that Raffensberger “find” enough votes to give him Georgia. He took a victory lap before all of the votes were counted. He got Republican loyalists to falsify Electoral College documents. He tried to prevent Biden from becoming President by lying to his fans and encouraging them to invade the Capitol to prevent Pence from certifying the vote. Trump LOST in 2020–that is a fact, proven over and over again by multiple audits, recounts and investgations. Polls predicted he would lose. The country was in shambles, with COVID out of control, businesses shut down, schools on distance learning only, no vacations, unemployment was up. He was not going to get re-elected, but he still tried every trick in the book to overcome the will of the American people. Over 60 court cases were thrown out for lack of evidence. He stole classified documents to help his business interests. From “Forbes”:
“President Donald Trump retained classified documents after his first term that could have helped his business interests, former Special Counsel Jack Smith said in 2023 according to a newly released memo, further intensifying scrutiny into the yearslong controversy over Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents—even though he no longer faces criminal charges.”
Was the DOJ supposed to ignore the insurrection, based on a lie that Trump KNEW was a lie? His own head of cybersecurity, Chris Krebs, told him 2020 was the most-secure election in US history. Bill Barr resigned because he refused to go along with Trump’s Big Lie. Russian hackers helped him–a Republican-led Senate investigation proved that. Are we just supposed to overlook that? Was the DOJ just supposed to overlook Trump’s deliberate theft of classified documents, lying about returning them, returning some, retaining many, including some that only 6 people in the United States were allowed to view?
The MAGA lies aren’t working. Polls prove that.
> 1. Closest friend: in November, 2024, author Michael Wolff released a taped interview with Epstein in which he described Trump as his “closest friend” for 10 years;
So it’s Epstein telling a journalist in a jailhouse interview. That’s who you are going to believe without evidence, and many pieces of evidence against it. Your position is “You should believe everything Jeffrey Epstein says”. I would submit to you that is not firm ground to base any judgments upon. And, consider, Epstein and Trump were enemies, and Epstein might just have a motivate reason to try and tar Trump.
> “In 2019, The Washington Post reported about a 2004 bidding war over a Palm Beach oceanfront mansion as driving a wedge between Trump and Epstein.
Firstly, the Washington Post is hardly a neutral arbitrator for characterizing anything related to Trump, but moreover, you claimed that Trump did NOT ban Epstein from his properties. You now claim he did so, but because of a real estate dispute. Which is it?
> in the absence of a confession of intent–is to look at circumstantial evidence
I would prefer Occam’s Razor. You are predisposed to believe malintent. I will follow the evidence. Which is more likely? 1. The head of the DoJ orchestrated and elaborate system to hide perpetrators and expose victims in a tiny percentage of the files released in order to… what? Shame the victims that had not accused Trump of anything? Or 2. The Government cut corners to release as fast as possible and just screwed up? Incompetence over malice seems far more likely.
Again, none of the public accusers of Epstein has brought forth any evidence of Trump involvement, so why would Trump’s cronies try to out victims that had not come forward, because, at best, outing them would only give them motivation to bring forth an accusation. This makes no sense at all. Who are they trying to “intimidate”? And wouldn’t outing them just have the opposite effect, since once they’re outed, they can no longer be intimidated by threatening to out them….
> Isn’t it strange that ALL of the alleged perpetrators’ identites were redacted
This is simply false. Many of the perpetrators were not redacted. Gates, Summers, the Duke of England (or whatever the scumbag was), and a trove of other perpetrators have been outed in those files. And btw, some of the places where supposed perpetrators were redacted were looked into, and it was found that they were not perpetrators in any way. Just because a male was redacted doesn’t mean that were a perpetrator.
> the names, phone numbers, addresses and even nude photos of several victims WERE disclosed?
They were going through literally millions of documents. You find it so unlikely that in a very few places things were missed? You believe that government lawyers are always competent, diligent, and thorough?
> Trump tried to rig the vote in Georgia–he was on tape demanding that Raffensberger “find” enough votes to give him Georgia.
That is false. He said that if there was a recount, those votes would be found. Anyone that believes Trump is lying about his belief that he won the 2020 election has never met his ego before. If there is one contest that Trump is the world champion on, it is certainly ego. Regardless, even if he had done everything he has been accused of in this regard, it is not a RICO case. Charging RICO for lobbying a state government to conduct a recount is not RICO material in any sane universe.
> “President Donald Trump retained classified documents after his first term that could have helped his business interests, former Special Counsel Jack Smith said
An accusation by a politically motivated prosecutor is not evidence.
> His own head of cybersecurity, Chris Krebs, told him 2020 was the most-secure election in US history.
The statement is absolutely absurd on its face. Everyone knows that mail-in ballots are VASTLY less secure than in-person voting. This is a fact. And the 2020 election, due to covid insanity, had a vastly larger percentage of less secure mail in voting. The very notion that it was the most secure election deserves nothing but pure derision.
NOBODY believes anything Trump says. Why is Trump all over the Epstein files, and why, after promising to disclose them, has he required the DOJ to keep obfuscating them and to release less than half of them? I believe Epstein–why would he lie to Michael Wolff?
Trump is a chronic, habitual liar. I believe the story about the bidding war because it makes sense. Trump himself disrespects women and was Epstein’s “closest friend” for 10 years. Trump has sexually assaulted women and bragged about doing it. So, why would he be offended by Epstein allegedly being a “creep”?
Epstein’s victims want the files released, especially their statements, before going public or taking legal action, because it backs them up. It is contemporaneous proof close in time to the crimes. The 13 year old who accused Trump of trying to force her to perform oral sex was interviewed by the FBI 4 times–so they must have found her credible. There is photographic proof in those files. Any sentient person understands why the victims are waiting for the files to be released before going public–Trump uses the DOJ to go after perceived enemies and those of his cronies. His DOJ outed several of the victims already, and disclosed nude photos of them, along with names, addresses and other identifying information, but managed to fully redact information about most of the perpetrators. The reasons are obvious. The contemporaneous reports victims made to the FBI and the results of FBI interviews and other investigations would back up their claims, which is WHY the documents are not being released–so Trump and MAGA media can call them liars. AND, Bondi has never expressed any interest in seeking justice for those victims. She has refused their requests to meet with them. She refused to even look at them when invited to do so at that Congressional oversight hearing. THAT says more than anything else.
Virginia Giuffre is the one who disclosed the photo of her with former Prince Andrew–not the DOJ. The photo was given to her as a souvenir. There are numerous photos of her holding that picture. The same is true of some of the other men who were outed, but the names of most of them have been shielded by the DOJ.
From NPR:
“Trump asked Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won this state.”
“What I knew is that we didn’t have any votes to find,” Raffensperger said. “That was an accurate count that had been certified.”” Stop lying about this call.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Jack Smith was “politically-motivated”. The details of WHY he believed that some of the documents Trump stole would benefit his business interests are detailed in the report sealed by Judge Cannon—and that’s WHY she sealed the document. Special counsels’ reports have all been made public before now. There’s no dispute that more classified documents were found at MAL after Trump claimed to have returned them–the search warrant proved that to be the case.
The endless lying about mail in ballots has to stop. There has never been anything resembling proof of widespread voter fraud from mail in ballots. MAGA lying about that does not constitute proof.
> Why is Trump all over the Epstein files
This is the core of your problem: Trump isn’t all over the Epstein files.
You desperately wish he was, but he simply isn’t. If he was “all over” the Epstein files, Biden’s DOJ or the Democrats in Congress would have leaked it long ago. All evidence points to Trump not being in bed with Epstein. You desperately wish he was, but everything points in the opposite direction. The does not mean Trump is sinless, he clearly is not. But he was not part of Epstein’s debauchery the way that people like Gates was.
> I believe Epstein–why would he lie to Michael Wolff?
Would you listen to yourself. You believe Epstein. The man was a sociopathic child rapist. Why would he lie? He was trying to curry favor with the people who hated Trump in order to get a lighter sentence for himself. There are reports that the DOJ had offered him a sweetheart plea deal if he could provide concrete evidence on Trump, and he couldn’t do it, because he did not have that evidence.
> Trump is a chronic, habitual liar.
Yes. You’ll notice above that nowhere did I ever accept what Trump says without evidence. This is something you should learn to do. Trust no one. Look for the evidence and follow where it leads.
> There is photographic proof in those files.
Then why didn’t the Biden DOJ leak them? They were willing to leak anything else that could possibly tar Trump on the thinnest of foundations. Why not this one? I submit to you that, as of now, it certainly looks like there is no such proof and you are convincing yourself of phantoms. You WANT this to exist, so you have convinced yourself of it. But the evidence just isn’t there.
Like most conspiracy theorists, you believe that absence of evidence is proof of coverup. It is far more likely that Trump has done many bad things, but this ain’t one of them.
> “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won this state.”
Read the whole transcript. It’s Trump saying that there is more than 11,780 votes to be found in a recount. Raffensperger disagreed. But Trump did not even intimate the idea that they should create 11,780 votes. He begged Raffensperger to do a recount because he believed the votes were already there to find. If there were not 11,780 more votes to find, then a recount would not have found those votes, and Trump’s request to Raffensperger would have been in vain.
> There is no evidence whatsoever that Jack Smith was “politically-motivated”
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! Oh, wow, that’s a good one!
> The endless lying about mail in ballots has to stop. There has never been anything resembling proof of widespread voter fraud from mail in ballots. MAGA lying about that does not constitute proof.
I did not write that there was proof of widespread voter fraud. I wrote that mail-in ballots are inherently less secure than in-person voting. That is a fact. It applies to every election everywhere. In-person is more secure than mail-in, period. There is no time or place when this is not the case. It is a universal fact. During the 2020 election, there was a vastly higher percentage of mail-in voting than normally occurs. Therefore, by definition, it CANNOT be the “MOST” secure election in history. Due to all the covid rule changes, one-offs, and other irregularities, it was inherently less secure than the elections before and after. It was, if fact, singularly the least secure election in modern US history, due to the irregular manner in which it was conducted.
Harry Truman maintained his loyalty to Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast, who launched his career, even after Pendergast’s 1939 conviction for tax evasion. Despite the political risk and Pendergast’s corrupt reputation, Truman famously attended his funeral in 1945, stating they were still friends despite disagreeing with his methods
So you have proof, or just more lies.
Nothing is really new. Presidents have always appointed loyalists and friends and then jettisoned them when it became expedient.
What President has ever tried to prosecute: 1. the Chair of the Federal Reserve to try to force him to lower interest rates? 2. Senator Kelly and other members of Congress for correctly advising service members of their duty not to follow illegal orders?; 3. Went after the NY AG because she successfully prosecuted him?; 4. The former head of the FBI because it investigated him?; 5. Went after the former CIA director; 6. Members of Congress–Adam Schiff?
The MAGA spin won’t work–Trump is uniquely bad.
What President has ever been subjected to the unlimited attacks, persecution and frivolous prosecutions before in our nation’s history?
What Supreme Court Justice has ever been unable to define a woman?
The prosecutions of Trump were NOT “frivolous”. He did the crimes. He was convicted of 34 felonies and deserved to be convicted of theft of classified documents.
Justice Jackson wisely refused to take the bait from Marshal Blackburn, the home-ec major from Tennessee who was trying to set her up for some conflict when a future appeal involving transgender people came before the SCOTUS. She’s smart enough to know when someone is trying to bait her.
Now do the Clinton Crime family, and the Biden Crime family../…..
Is there a nexus at the DJT attendance at SCOTUS and Bondi leaving? DJT thinks national security is of the greatest
interest . Did DJT have any statements re arguments presented?
She was and is brave, courageous.
Bondi was, and is: unethical, weak, and a very poor attorney. She ignored her oath to protect and defend the Constitution and vindicate the victims of law breakers, instead choosing to take her orders from a chronic, habitual liar who abuses the power he cheated to get to try to punish his perceived enemies. She refused to investigate the claims of victims of the worst pedophile ring in modern history and has protected the perpetrators. She outed some of them by name and even nude images, she couldn’t even look at them, much less interview them or express any sympathy. She will go down in history as one of the worst Attorneys General in US History, just as her boss has already taken the spot as the worst President in US History.
oh, gawd. gigi, try better.