Remember the stolen documents?
This Afternoon
And I'm sure 4 is just the beginning.
Full Text of Trump's January 6 Indictment Document
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/01/indictment-document-trump-jan-6-pdf/
Vomiting It All Up
Sit Down and Shut Up
Winter is Coming
LOCK HIM UP
I Am SO SICK Of This Daughterfucker!
I Ask That EVERY. DAMN. DAY.
Sometimes I even scream it at the television or my computer screen!
Just Sayin'
The Germans had no warning of what was about to happen. WE do.
AND WHY IS HE NOT BEHIND BARS AWAITING TRIAL?!?
So Tired.
After the Last Seven Years…
Tick, Tock, Motherfucker!
But Maybe Can We Hurry It Up a Bit?
Who's With Me?
The Modern Republican Party
Vomiting It All Up
Right?
Amen!
You Know You're Winning When…
How to know you're on the right side of history? When a petulant criminal tyrant hates your guts. pic.twitter.com/RpetkAfzLi
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 17, 2023
Really? He Did That?
Just Like His Supporters
The Reality of Trump Supporters
From Green Eagle:
We are hearing from everyone that there is a difference of world-view between Democrats and Republicans. The current version of this is between Democrats, who believe that massive evidence exists that the lawless Trump has brazenly broken endless laws- financial laws, laws against sexual abuse, and the grossest misuse of his position of the power of the Presidency, and Republican, who believe the whole thing is a manufactured witch-hunt over insignificant acts, while true Democratic criminals are allowed to roam free.
Well, I've got news for you, buddies: that is completely false. In fact, except for a vanishingly small collection of the terminally ignorant, no one in the Republican base believes Trump is innocent. They all know what he did and is continuing to do, just like we do. And it is not just that they don't care. They care with every fiber of their being. It's that for this frighteningly large group of white haters, being a criminal monster that puts Al Capone to shame is exactly what they want in a President.
You see, we have talked about something for years, but they have incorporated it into their souls. That is the fact that White people are on the edge of no longer being a majority in this country; in fact in many parts of it, they already do not have the votes to win elections without gerrymandering, cheating, violent intimidation and every other tactic of dictators. They know that they are about to lose power in this country if it continues to uphold the principles that have set it apart from other countries for two and a half centuries, and they know that, if they have to chose between power and principles, they will not hesitate to make the same decision that Hitler and Mussolini and Franco and Pol Pot and Idi Amin have made before them.
And now let me be blunt, and speak in their language and Trump's language. White supremacists have maintained their power since the beginning of this country by stomping on the necks of the niggers and spics and kikes and chinks, and on the necks of any white race traitors who give a damn about those people. Now that they cannot win elections fairly any more, they intend to go right on stomping, just stomping harder. That demands a leader who does not give a damn about democracy or majority rule or fairness or common human decency; who does not care in any way about the lives and welfare of different kinds of people, no more than Hitler cared about Jews and Slavs and Gypsies. That is why they have reduced their Presidential race to the two most morally hateful candidates in their field, Trump and De Santis, our current versions of Hitler and Stalin, one of whom will slaughter his enemies with glee, the other with a blank, empty countenance. The contest between these two does not appeal to an electorate that merely ignores their deficiencies, because their voters glorify in criminality, in contempt for right and wrong. They know this moral debasement in their leaders is the only way they can keep power, and they have committed themselves to move in that direction as fast as they can. The Republican voting base is consciously auditioning to find the lowest criminal they can put into the White House, because only the lowest criminal can be counted on to give them what they want.
Do these people know that Trump lies to the country every time he opens his mouth? Sure they do, but they don't care, because they know he is telling them the truth about the only issue that they really care about- crushing all opposition to white minority rule. They think, stupidly, that this will usher in a paradise in which they will all be rich and powerful, and all own the mansions and yachts and private jets that they have always deserved, while their perceived enemies will grovel in misery in situations little better than the slums of Victorian Europe. And they will adore their leader for giving them this victory, just as Germans adored Hitler, until he started losing. They are looking for the worst person on earth to lead them to this promised land, and they have found him in Trump.
I have been shocked at how many of my fellow Americans have been willing to sign on to this hateful agenda, but maybe I should have read Richard Evans and William Shirer a little closer, and opened my eyes a little wider to what they were really telling us. Well, it is upon us now. Thankfully, the bastard has lost the last two electoral cycles, and his understudy De Santis seems more suited for a bureaucratic role like Himmler, than to be the Fuehrer or Duce himself. Maybe we can hold the fort until demographics completes its work, and it is they who are getting drowned in the bathtub instead of the rest of us. But it is hardly certain. If we had been told twenty years ago that we would see in this world an outbreak of white race hatred as malignant as the Nazis, let alone see it right here in the United States, very few of us would have accepted the truth, but here we are. God have mercy on us.
I'm Pretty Sure…
Today
It's Worse Than It Appears
A few more semi-quick thoughts about the Comrade Trump indictments. First, I'm a criminal defense guy. I spent several years as a private investigator specializing in criminal defense work. So I'm in the habit of looking at criminal cases brought by the State and trying to find weaknesses. This may be the most solid indictment I've ever seen, largely because Trump is such a reckless, unthinking criminal.
Second, there's a discrepancy between the number of classified documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago and the number of documents listed in the indictment. There are at least a dozen documents identified as top secret that were seized but not included in the indictment. The assumption is that the information in those documents was too sensitive to even be mentioned in passing in a public trial. That suggests Trump's crimes were even worse than those included in the indictment.
Third, what isn't being discussed (or at least isn't being discussed enough) is the actual harm brought by Trump's crimes. This isn't just a matter of Trump taking classified documents he had no right to take, and lying about them, and hiding them from the FBI. It's an actual matter of national security AND of human lives.
Having seen how cavalier Trump was with highly sensitive information provided to the US by the intelligence agencies of our allies, those allies have NO reason to ever trust us with sensitive information again. That's especially true if Trump isn't held accountable for this. Our credibility in the international intelligence community has turned to shit.
Beyond that, there's the very real risk to the intelligence agents and/or assets who have risked their liberty, safety, and lives to gather and collect the information contained in those documents. We KNOW that some of the Mar-a-Lago material was classified as HCS (HUMINT Control Systems). We're talking clandestine human intelligence, serious spy stuff–the activities, capabilities, techniques, processes, and procedures spies use. If our enemies know WHAT information we have, they can start figuring out WHERE that information came from, and WHO provided it.
We also KNOW that a few months after Trump took that material to Mar-a-Lago, there was a 'covcom' breach. Covcom refers to the classified covert communications systems used by the CIA. The breach exposed a number of agency assets, especially in China and Iran. A number of informants had to be extracted; others were reportedly captured and executed. US counterintelligence officials warned every CIA station about the breach. Back in October of 2021, the London Times reported the suspicion that there was a 'super mole' in the US government betraying CIA assets. We have no way of knowing if that 'covcom' breach was a result of Trump's egregiously lackadaisical treatment of classified material. But it's possible.
The thing is, this scandal is far worse than it appears in news coverage. The actual harm to our intelligence community is severe and will be long-lasting. The damage will be even worse if Trump isn't held accountable.
Also? Why is there a fucking chandelier in that bathroom? I mean…why?