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Yeah thats the tell here........AUSA's like high profile scalps....republican or democrate...its a badge of honor in this field to drop the hammer on folks like Comey and put his head in your hunting collection......but AUSA's dont bring cases that have even a 10% chance of not securing a conviction at trial and then at appeal....this Comey case must be literal dog poo for it to have been passed over so many times by competent ambitious prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves. Will turn out to be a boondoggle....a damaging one that cheapens the credibility of the Trump justice system (wasn't he meant to fix it?)

The 'hunt' for Trump.....is not some special episode....it's called election politics and opposition research. You'll remember all the Obama birther stuff before he was President. The dreging of Bush Jnr's alcoholic past. Like it or not....what Trump calls a witchhunt....in DC is simply called bipartisan cutthroat politics....what marks Trump out as special is what a cry baby he is about being smeared. Yeah Steele dossier - as above...welcome to the world of opposition 'research'......making shit up isn't exclusive to the DNC....remember Trump linking Ted Cruz's father to the murder of JFK/Lee Harvey etc....as outragous as golden showers. Now I think you have a point re: various Russia Russia investigations....it was a poison pill that Obama deep state left to put a cloud over Trump's first term....it had undermining effect that was dipropionate to the evidence.....though what I would say is that MAGA consistently conflates investigations into Russia/foreign influence on the 2016 election (which was justified based on the evidence) into some witchhunt into Trump...I'm not saying it didn't serve two purposes but you really did have issues with foreign influence in 2016. It was real, it warranted an investigation. It was a campaign finance proxy and effectively proved that case....I'm not sure how somebody with all their faculties and a median IQ can't decide for themselves that what he did here was nefariously fund his 2016 campaign by routing these payments via Michael Coen. What a beautiful time when special counsel supposedly working for democrats walked away from charging cause the case wasnt there....unlike say Erik Steibart (Mueller in this scenario) who refused to charge Comey cause the case wasn't there being fired and replace with a bimbo to get the charge. I've gone through all the cases.....the New York mortgage fraud case was lawfare....a disgrace.....I guess what I would is the answer to a banana republic....is not to double up on the bananas as Trump is doing now. Lets not forget Flynn plead guilty. Comey had some serious errors of judgement in his role....he had difficult and unprecedented issues to deal with and he fumbled the ball....his most egregious actually helped Trump (the infamous Clinton emails press conference). A bit like Comey's statement.....I've got a whole bunch of faith in the American justice system.....Federal judges first will toss this out and if not then then a jury of his peers....they are going to look at this platry two page indictment then look at pattern of truth social posts & firings/hirings that we're required to bring this indictment send it flying out the door with a clip around the ear for Trump....its gonna be funny to watch.....Trump is moron for attempting this in the ham fisted way he has and frankly it speaks to his poor judgement lack of strategic thinking.......he should stick to decorating the White House, fixing up the Rose Garden and getting that ballroom done.....I will say one thing.......he's doing an amazing job as first lady but a lousy one as President!

Your right - she's basically perfect for job....I'm sure the guys on the Grand Jury we're riveted. Regardless Trump is out over his skis on this one.....couple of my lawyers friends reckon a federal judge will just throw this one out before it even gets to trial due to the pattern of behaviour here (tweets, comments from Trump...then actions...prosecutor firings & installing unqualified albeit bombshell stooges a few days before the statute of limitations runs out)....it all adds up to selective or vindictive prosecution. As I've said a few times.....we are very lucky that America's first tyrant wanna be autocrat President is actually a moron who can't get out of his own way....when he's done the parties would do well to do a postmortem on his abuses & warping of Presidential powers....next time we won't be so blessed with an incompetent like him.

Yeah i think democrats have a lot to answer for.....the reason Trump can talk about lawfare with any credibility is because the New York case (the mortgage fraud one) was a proactive trawl through his business past to 'get him'.....not unlike the Cook mortgage case proactive trawling of documents for 'got yas' is not the way the justice system should work........the Stormy Daniel hush money case has a election integrity angle and Trump clearly knew paying her off directly was problem in terms of inkind campaign finance violations....hence the need to conceal and obfuscate via Michael Cohen payment. Guilty as charged. Classified documents case fair enough....Trump was being a baby and wouldn't give back his toys/ i.e. gov documents.....Georgia election interference yep the tapes we're there the President of the US should not be calling up States looking for officials to find 10,552 votes (end of story)..... Big mistake was this mortgage fraud case in NYC.....it was lawfare....it was poltically motivated and it backfired....Letitia James has a lot to answer for! The difference between Comey and all of the above....is that there is no evidence that Biden was directing these cases from the WH.....these we're fundamentally democrats at a state level playing politics (in the case of mortgage fraud) and/or carrying out their duties (whatever way you look at it).......the Comey indictment....the truth social posts to Bondi....the resignation last week of Eastern Virginia prosecutor to be replaced by blonde bombshell former beauty pageant contestant and Trump's former lawyer is on a whole other level.....that no career prosecutor in that office was willing to stand in front of the grand jury tells you everything....Pamela Anderson just dropped into that office last week had to go up herself (pretty much unheard of) and pitch it to the Grand Jury.

Exactly….….Trump wants lots of announcements between now and the midterms….as we all know he cares little for the boring grind of policy implementation and much prefers the glitz and glamour and immediate gratification of PR events and investment announcements with not a page of legal paper behind them!

Yeah but look on the bright side....below is the wholly unqualified US Attorney Trump thrown into the Eastern District of Virginia to indict James Comey on Monday just before the statute of limitations ran out. American democracy & justice system might be melting down....but we're gonna look damn good while it happens!

Everywhere you look its policy to patronage....this time to Trump-esque figures in foreign lands.....Milei in Argentina with this muted $20bn.....literal bilateral terms of trade altered between the USA and Brazil to aid the Brazilian Trump (Bolsonaro) with his Jan 8th tribute insurrection & attempted steal....America first my ass

Now its let them get their land back!?!?.....when before it was they need to give it up and more besides to finish the war. What your watching is upside down diplomacy......Ukraine getting all its land back should have been the Trump opening position upon taking office.....instead he sign posted that he, the US has no attachment nor stomach to assist Ukraine reclaiming any land.....this is moronic proxy war management. I also note at the UN he repeated his recent mantra.....that enhanced US sanctions on Russia are dependent on the Europeans doing them first.......a little bit like the Federal Reserve......Donald is getting his excuses and his fall guy setup for later on......when the economy underperforms its Jay Powells fault......when Ukraine's front line collapses its the European's fault.....as somebody who has been running away from personal responsibility his whole life at 80yrs of age I must admit he has become very skilled at it.

He's a human kite!

Yeah - a mass shooter is someone who has become uniquely untethered from the society and community in which they live.....there is something about American society or lack thereof that produces these monsters more than any other country on earth.....its a deeply unpleasant reality to sit with......so we fight about the 2nd amendment instead.

Very interesting......and somewhat unsurprising........ Kirk was right of course - it is not a sustainable position to argue that incremental gun violence is not driven by increased gun availability the question is whether its a reasonable trade off.....like automobile deaths are relative to the returns to society & the economy. Up thread i think @Castanza was specifically referencing kind of mass shooting events which the US is now famous for....while a small percentage of these are as per the above.....motive meeting frictionless means......I think the FBI report is getting at something else that nobody really wants to talk about re:USA....that the cracks in our society are so wide and so deep that we have seemingly unique ability to manufacture (in greater numbers than anywhere else in the developed world) the type of nihilistic sociopathic misfits that do these heinous acts of mass violence. Which is much more of a sociological political-economy question i think that doesn't fit neatly into the left-right narrative of gun availability.

Listen to this moron.....literally brain farting in public on the childhood vaccine schedule.......a man wholly unqualified to speak on the subject but whom millions listen to all the same.........vibe shit talking from the WH lectern on vaccines for kids ....his main feeling..... any combined vaccine shot is bad and should be given in separate shots at separate times.

Yep everywhere you look policy is being slowly replaced by patronage......its boomtime for K Street and its looks to me like the GOP's new political 'business model'....you can just see the political donations & PACs being formed from tariff protected industries, special export licenses granted from the oval, tariff import exemptions, visa fees waived for special companies the President deems 'good'.

Agree. Both shameful digressions….Trump ever the boundary pusher / innovator & leverage finder has opened up the toolbox for the next scumbag Republican or Democratic President that wants to limit speech….WH libel cases, FCC & FTC….luckily Trump is fundamentally an incompetent…. Hopefully both parties are taking notes and at some point in the future the loopholes Trump is exploiting to act so unilaterally at a federal level are closed. A competent Trump like or AOC figure would be truly dangerous. Trump’s enduring contribution to American democracy will be his shameless drive for expanded executive powers twinned to his complete lack of executive function and competency. If your country is doomed to end up with a wanna be autocrat in charge then we are very lucky to have the buffoon version we ended up with in the WH.

Rationalize this one for me MAGA peeps......so the license is now dependent on saying nice things about Trump.....un-American and pathetic....what a thin skinned crybaby victim

Business infected by overt political cronyism. Cause you want to live in a free country......ratings should kill shows.......not the guy in the WH I would say the same thing if Biden/Kamala/AOC was in the White House...had a stooge in the FTC...and say Gutfield got axed cause Rupert need his deal with Disney to get approval.

ABC business decision which had what factors at play underpinning it?.... clear as day that again (like Paramount)....that Nexstar/Tegna merger deal was in jeopardy by Kimmel making fun of Trump....hence why Nexstar pulled carriage of the show on their affiliates....all done to please/not offend the King/FTC, which in effect doomed the economics of the show at an ABC level....if you want to ignore the causation here....and just lean into some weird correlation of events thesis I think your bending reality a bit too far.

Dont care for Colbert or Kimmel....just not my kinda funny....and think political comedy is the lowest form of comedy......but there is something wrong in the Republic when the court jesters have to be axed to please the King.

let me guess camp Trump response…. everyone does this, it’s like J-walking…time to move on…….this is not the administration IMO to start throwing around holier than thou moral lectures…it’s populated with a group of folks with VERY let’s call them colorful pasts up to and including the President himself

Yeah its amazing in a way the lack of acknowledgment around what he did re:Cook.....the slander, the targeting of public servant and by extension Fed independence........the lack of reaction from his supporters, an acknowledgment of wrong doing or lines being crossed is quite telling......Trump supporters IMO have as low an opinion of him as anyone else......he's a shyster, they know he's a shyster but I guess he's 'their' shyster and that makes it ok.

It’s an unspeakable crime and tragedy what happened to Charlie Kirk. I think the above is right…the volume has been turned up, the level of rhetoric is through the roof….i don’t need to show examples from both sides….but when the language and emotive name calling reaches a certain level (as we are now) you can see how the next level up is violence and in America that means guns and by extension fatalities. We are way better than this as country….i don’t care who you vote for but we should all be voting for folks who bring the temperature down not up. Politics should be a competition of ideas not insults….in debates when your opponent resorts to ad hominem attacks you’ve kind of won the debate…too often America’s political leadership do just this on both sides. Sad time for the country I think.

I suppose the big question for MAGA - is why did the President double down and triple down on the lie about birthday card not being real???........and why is he also stonewalling his own supporters & indeed party and the American public by holding back the Epstein files. The answer - as per above - is not because he's peado! But him and Epstein we're buddies for a decade plus. Epstein, to the extent we know, made his money by advising rich people how and where to hide their money and restructure their business in a way that would avoid (& likely evade taxes). Everybody knows the game....PWC, Eisnar Amper sell the standard issue for the plebs tax avoidance solutions likely to get shut down in time cause everybody ends being sold them.....Jeffrey it seems.....sold avoidance schemes that would only be sold to a select few UUHNW....and evasion schemes so secret/robust they might as well be avoidance scheme. Its not inconceivable to think he helped Donald (his best friend) with some very shady financial shenanigans in that period especialy a period where Donald was constantly going bankrupt and looking no doubt to stuff a few hundred million under the mattress.....indeed Jeffrey as Donald's best friend finance guy in the 80's and 90's was probably quite intimately knowledgeable of Donald's finances and that might be reflected in files the Government has. The simplest explanation is likely the best here.......contained in the Epstein files are breadcrumbs around Donald Trump's aggressive tax evasion history aided and abetted by Epstein....everything from plain vanilla schemes.....to really shady defacto money laundering ones for sanctioned OFAC folks....see Mar-a-Lago Russian Oligarch property deal that just doesn't pass the smell test even a little bit.

Correction - “best worst candidate” …..and we’ll find that out for sure in 3.25yrs time who that was….what I do know is this Presidency is going to have binary outcome….his radicalism will prove inspired or totally and utterly idiotic….in the latter scenario an empty suit like Harris with her technocratic but fundamentally competent Harvard and Yale alum puppet masters preaching orthodoxy would have turned out to be an inspired choice. The status quo might have ‘sucked’ to some…but not beyond the realms of possibility that people will look back fondly at 2021-2024 period and think jeez that wasn’t so terrible why did we vote for such an aggressive right hand turn!

+1 your 100% correct….its TDS to think Donald might be peodo…back to 1st principals…..dude has had 10yrs plus of every person he ever crossed coming out against him plus 10yrs plus of vigorous opposition research. He’s not a secret peado.….but he is liar….a congenital one.