A lot of the con job has been carried out not by Trump himself but by every television show and every radio show and every podcast and every Facebook page and every website that these people are ever exposed to.
Millions, for example, were not aware that ‘Trump found to have improperly taken boxes of documents when he left the White House’ has been a story for MONTHS. They never heard that this had been determined by the National Archives, nor that the Department of Justice became involved when the N.A. called them in, etc. etc. etc.
NONE of the ‘news’ those people you mention consume, has ever acknowledged that any of this ever happened. (So for them, there was no lead-up to the FBI search that took place Monday. They had NO idea that Trump has been being criticized over the documents-grab for months.)
And it’s the same for virtually every negative thing we know about Trump. Those decent people you encounter have never heard a word about any of those scandals and credible accusations against him.
Wouldn’t this just be another Fifth Amendment show? Not that having all these Trumpers on the record pleading the Fifth would be a bad thing. Simply pair the “I plead the Fifth” with Trumps previous statements about the mob and the Fifth over and over and over again. Still, a waste of time from a prosecutor’s standpoint.
Did Rudy ever make it to Atlanta? I have visions of him standing on the shoulder of the highway, thumb up, hair dye leaking down his face while he sweats in the hot August sun, car after car after car passing him by. Maybe every once in a while someone throws a soft drink cup at him.
As it happens, the NY Times just published this article (probably paywalled), claiming that Rudy has been notified that he “is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers.” (Note: target, not witness).
Mr. Giuliani, who as Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power, emerged in recent weeks as a central figure in the inquiry being conducted by Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., which encompasses most of Atlanta.
Mr. Giuliani is scheduled to appear before the special grand jury on Wednesday at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.
Mr. Giuliani’s postelection activities on Mr. Trump’s behalf have created problems for him on a number of fronts. The House committee in Washington investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has highlighted video footage of Mr. Giuliani’s activities in Georgia, and the scheme to create rival slates of presidential electors is also the subject of an intensifyinginvestigation by the Department of Justice. Mr. Giuliani is among the subjects of civil suits by two makers of voting machines, Dominion and Smartmatic, that seek billions of dollars in damages.
I can see why they’re cutting off Dr. Oz; that campaign has been ridiculous since the start. Blake Masters in Arizona is also a nut, but he can probably just get his master, Peter Thiel, to make up the difference.
The Wisconsin one is an interesting development, given that they have a Republican incumbent running there.
“Nice country you got here. Shame if something happened to it.”
I could be wrong (would hardly be the first time), but I’m reading this as Trump knowing the DOJ has him dead to rights. So his instinctive reaction is to try to bully his way out of it, as he commonly did by countersuing contractors who tried to get him to pay what he owed. I have a feeling Garland is unlikely to back down.
“By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!,” he wrote.
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Trump’s team is arguing that the documents were in fact declassified, citing a “standing order” the former president had while in office that deemed sensitive documents “declassified the moment he removed them” from the White House.
The document were declassified the moment he stole them? Carte blanche, just like that? And anybody thinks he can get away with this in front of a tribunal? I rest my case… even the Gods fight in vain against stupidity.
