#BYEDON 2020 - The End Better Fucking Be Near

[Veritable Quandry]

Yes. But specifically after impeachment and conviction. It does not appear that a common court can bar a person from running for president under Article Two.

Under the 14th Amendment, rebellion or insurrection in office can disqualify a person (although the list of offices does not specifically mention President), and presumably an ordinary court conviction would count.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Some of my libertarian friends are losing their heads over the recent addition of funding and agents to the IRS... which is adorable since these are all working class people who really think taxation is theft...

Sadly, I worry this will be a very unpopular move no matter how justifiable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/06/inflation-reduction-act-irs/

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Some of my libertarian friends are losing their heads over the recent addition of funding and agents to the IRS... which is adorable since these are all working class people who really think taxation is theft...

Sadly, I worry this will be a very unpopular move no matter how justifiable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/06/inflation-reduction-act-irs/

Libertarian as in party, or libertarian as in political inclination?

And yes, Americans are pretty stupid about how economics and taxes; and seem to think they are just one lucky break from being billionaires.

 

[Free]

Holy crap, what did they find?!?!

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Holy crap, what did they find?!?!

I'm just wondering how he has found so many lawyers who will risk their license to practice law for him.

 

[Free]

I'm just wondering how he has found so many lawyers who will risk their license to practice law for him.

Really? Every profession is clamoring with grifters. And Trump is nothing if not a industrial-sized magnet for them.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

They can always live off the book deal. Publishers are more likely to pay up than Trump.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Holy crap, what did they find?!?!

A treasure trove of hamberders and covfefe. And ketchup. Lots and lots of ketchup.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Holy crap, what did they find?!?!

It would not surprise me if Junior, at least, keeps a supply of cocaine on the premises.

As I understand it, the FBI will have provided Trump with a copy of the search warrant and with an itemised list of all the articles they removed.

Trump could, if he wanted to, easily clear up a lot of questions simply by releasing copies of these documents.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Khamon]

His attorneys do have copies of all of those documents and, yes, they could release information accompanied with statements of clarification if they wanted to; but they don't want to, because, damn.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

His attorneys may not have copies (although the court will) depending on security clearances and how sensitive the documents are. Most are probably routine but I am sure there are classified documents mixed in.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I've been wondering why he'd keep these sensitive documents in his safe rather than simply destroy them, and it occurs to me that an obvious reason for so doing would be that they provide potential kompromat on other people that he thought might one day come in useful.

This would also explain some of the panic in Republican circles right now.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

This is brilliant.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Not saying the raid was for this reason. But.

 

[Free]

Yeah, the FBI raid was probably about classified documents in Trump's possession.

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where

The FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago was carried out while Donald Trump was absent in the hope it would be low-profile. The plan was a "spectacular" failure.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Govi]

Yeah, the FBI raid was probably about classified documents in Trump's possession.

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where

The FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago was carried out while Donald Trump was absent in the hope it would be low-profile. The plan was a "spectacular" failure.

www.newsweek.com

The article discusses several persons' thoughts about the timing of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lardo; that DOJ's thinking was to avoid a storm of denunciations by performing the raid while El Lardo was absent from his pen. Certainly, they've failed to avoid a storm, but the Newsweek writer fails to estimate how much worse the storm would have been had El Lardo been wallowing at home when the raid took place. Doing what the FBI properly did, it was impossible to avoid intensive GOP ire: their pig was squealing, so of course they joined in without regard to the actual facts. The Trump wing of the GOP functions without facts, anyway.