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The Donald Trump Effect – Conservatism Seeking Future Victories

Submitted by Steven Kaszab The American Republican Party may very well welcome back President Trump as Leader. Former President Trump has actually never left the leadership since this past election cycle. Many Americans hoped Trump would pass into the lecture cycle so many ex-legislators do, but people in the know surely believe that Trump will…

Submitted by Steven Kaszab

The American Republican Party may very well welcome back President Trump as Leader. Former President Trump has actually never left the leadership since this past election cycle. Many Americans hoped Trump would pass into the lecture cycle so many ex-legislators do, but people in the know surely believe that Trump will not leave the national stage until he is pressured to do so. 

What makes Donald Trump such a force of political and economic persuasion? Why will he not just go away gracefully? Does Canada’s Pierre Poilievre,  who is seeking The Canadian Conservatives Party Leadership share similar characteristics  with Trump?

-So called grass roots movements that often employ undemocratic means to achieve a win.

-makes promises that are attractive to the electorate but maybe not good for the nation.

-Will appear with just about anyone to promote themselves (Truck Protest in Ottawa).

-Their political platforms are based upon -Make America Great Again – Make Harperism Great Again.

-Both platforms are based on returning to “past moments in time”, lacking new concepts-new promises.

-Both men are tied to The Right Wing politically and economically, dependent upon their wealth and     influence to achieve a political win. 

-Both men are tied to foreign national influences and crisis…Trump to Russia, Pierre to USA.

– Both men are destructionists, tearing down regulations, public organizations and governmental   regimes such as Environmental Protection Agency and CBC.

-“Freedom” has become a state of mind for these men and their followers, not knowing exactly what   that means. A umbrella like statement encompassing a great deal.

– Both men’s ideologies support a greater and more powerful military complex.

If you look for any form of imaginative, creative and new political, economic or public concepts you will be dumb founded to fine any. Remember Conservatism Lives in the Past. Conservatives overall fear change, the unique and different. Well not in Ontario, where The Ford Government has shown a unique ability to seek out and work with all their citizens, Conservatives that spend money when needed(Pandemic) while managing their budgets realistically. Trump simply cancelled many social programs, and redirected the funds to places that satisfied their back room supporters needs. Pierre will certainly do everything he can to bring back Alberta’s Energy Industry, and forget all about Climate Change because “its all about the economy” and the pocket books of his supporters.

In America, President Biden may very well retire and not run due to his health, leaving Vice President Harris to face a up surging Republican crescendo. The primary’s are showing Republicans who do not support Trump are falling by the way side, and Capital Hill may have many more Republicans to deal with, creating a “yellow Brick Road” for Trump onto a Second Presidency. Pierre Poilievre has pretty well decaled himself The Conservatives new leader while still fighting the leadership campaign. 

Liberals. Environmentalists, those dependent upon public funds, those seeking a new frontier may all need to quake where they stand, as Conservatism is on the march towards future victories. 

Conservatism means to conserve what was, not what will be. Conservatism does not present hope for better, new approaches to politics and governance. Oh the good old days eh!

1,000 responses to “The Donald Trump Effect – Conservatism Seeking Future Victories”

  1. GP Avatar
    GP

    THIS ONE IS INTERESTING JOHN
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/08/27/trump-adds-missing-page-to-affidavit-don-jr-posts-a-picture-of-his-dads-redacted-groin-redact-this-1277910/?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get%20Response&utm_term=EMAIL

  2. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Chxjg6AL8mW/

  3. John Avatar
    John

    dpd

    The general consensus I have been seeing on the web is that the general search warrant is illegal and in addition violates Trump’s constitutional rights..

    If this turns out to be true, nothing found can be uses in a court of law.

    This may help explain.

    https://federalcriminallawcenter.com/2017/02/exclusionary-rule-exceptions/

    No wonder Trump laughing and making mock sport with his memes … see GP above!!

    There are however, some exceptions to the exclusionary rule.

  4. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “The general consensus I have been seeing on the web is that the general search warrant is illegal and in addition violates Trump’s constitutional rights.”

    It was done by the book.
    Trump is a known cunt aka slippery motherfucker and that sucker had to be nailed down so he cannot move

    Hawaii 5-0
    book him danno
    You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present, you have the right to stop answering at any time.
    [Miranda warning]
    [Feds shit]

  5. John Avatar
    John

    Have a listen.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/levin-fbis-raid-on-trumps-home-is-greatest-interference-in-political-system

  6. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @BFFs45, your reading needs to be updated post haste if you are seeing such a consensus.

    Quite clearly all MAGA zealots will see the raid as an an illegitimate act done by an rogue politicized FBI.

    But this is NOT a tyrannical FBI of Hoover’s day … the current director was actually appointed by FPOTUS and along with AG Garland has advanced the matters surrounding this investigation with caution and awareness of the political quagmire that will hamper the regardless of the truthfulness of their case.

    So one quote from other sources that offer a more practical analysis of the search.

    “The FBI has clearly developed significant evidence of criminal activity at Mar-a-Lago related to the handling of classified material, and government property more generally. There is evidence of document tampering. And there is evidence, at a minimum, of willful retention of material that should not have been at the resort … we can infer from the granting of the warrant that a magistrate judge, at least, believes it meets the probable cause standard governing all federal searches and seizures. We can further infer from Garland’s apparent eagerness to have this material made public that the Justice Department is confident of its position, not just in court but in public opinion.”

    ANY case against a FPOTUS will have massive political pitfalls but the US cannot allow this or any FPOTUS to willfully flaunt law and order … it’s very simple really!

  7. John Avatar
    John

    Another opinion.

    Wall Street Journal being taken to task by some game show host because it sees what is going on as rubbish.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/joe-scarborough-slams-wall-street-journal-s-anti-anti-trumpism-op-ed-even-when-national-security-could-be-imperiled/ar-AA11amyI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W069&cvid=72d3ee7659ab94064f1d45e15a45321f

  8. John Avatar
    John

    Check here.

    It is clear Trump is driving his opponents bonkers and he probably has over 100 million Americans at his back!!

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mar-a-lago-affidavit-is-that-all-there-is-donald-trump-fbi-justice-department-merrick-garland-11661547313?mod=djemalertNEWS

  9. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    As a Non-Bajan Scholar (better than any old bajan scholar) and facilitator in conflict resolution

    the obvious win-win solution as a trained conflict management professional whose goal is to drive collaboration between the involved parties to find a solution to the problem at hand, as a completely unbiased, unemotional observer of the situation who does not act according to any hidden agenda or prepared statements, is as follows

    0 Trump in jail would immensely boost his popularity politically with his base even more than if he was running again, die hard fans could still vote for him as a write in, even though he would be excluded from office

    0 he should be pursued and charged the same way Snowdon Assange and Manning were charged for mishandling Classified materials

    0 he should be charged and pursued same way terrorists in Guantanamo Bay were for his Deep State Conspiracy that drove White Proud Boys to storm the Capital in the Jan 6th insurrection

    0 he should be charged and pursued for monies due to tax authorities and made bankrupt and have his properties assets sold off to reimburse tax authorities and creditors

    0 he should not be grated bail as he is a clear flight risk with his own Boeing plane

  10. John Avatar
    John

    The more the crazy Trump Derangement Syndrome people push the harder Trump laughs at them.

  11. John Avatar
    John

    Unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit reveals the government has no case against Trump
    Opinion by Kevin R. Brock, opinion contributor – 54m ago
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    When two dozen or more FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump’s residence three weeks ago, most Americans initially were left wondering what in the world must Trump have done. After all, a prodigious FBI search logically indicates an equally prodigious violation of some federal statute; therefore, it must be really serious. One former Department of Justice (DOJ) official told Politico that the evidence sought “was likely so pulverizing in its force” that it would “eviscerate” the possibility of the optics for such an invasive law enforcement action not being good.

    Unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit reveals the government has no case against Trump
    Unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit reveals the government has no case against Trump
    © Provided by The Hill
    Well, it’s now pretty official: The optics aren’t good.

    Everyone in America, from plumber to president, is constitutionally protected from a government search that lacks adequate cause.

    We now know why the DOJ wanted the affidavit — which is supposed to articulate the probable cause needed for a legitimate search — to be kept under seal. After the magistrate who authorized the search forced the DOJ to unseal a redacted version, two realities came into better focus.

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    First, the affidavit confirmed that the FBI’s investigation was triggered in January 2022 at the request of the National Archives which wanted certain documents, especially classified documents, that it considered to be presidential records to be turned over to it by Trump. Second, from what I have seen, I don’t believe the affidavit articulates how a federal law was or is being broken. For those who hold out hope that the affidavit’s redacted sections fill that gap, there is almost no chance that they do. (More on that below.)

    As to the first point, this matter is, as suspected, nothing more than a document dispute that was chugging along, appropriately, as a negotiation behind the scenes and apparently making some progress. I don’t see anything in the affidavit asserting a refusal by Trump to cooperate.

    Any clinging hope — in certain quarters — that the affidavit possessed “pulverizing” cause to believe Trump was engaged in a truly serious federal violation can — I think — be considered dashed. The pipe dream that Trump was engaged in espionage, actively providing secrets to an enemy I think is as fanciful as the Steele dossier’s Moscow hotel bed reverie. And, no, I don’t believe a smoking gun of espionage or something equally shocking will be in the redacted sections. If the FBI had that, it would have fronted that in the unredacted portions.

    As to the second and more important point, the affidavit’s probable cause statements focus on only half of what is needed to show a possible violation of the federal statutes that are cited in the warrant. The affidavit does a reasonable job of establishing cause to believe Trump possessed a range of classified materials — or at least once-classified materials — and that those materials were located in his residence.

    But that’s not all that’s needed — in this case in particular. A criminal violation of those statutes only exists if it can be established that the person being investigated was not authorized to possess, store, transfer or copy those documents. This is an easy element to establish against anyone in America. Except one person.

    The unredacted parts of the affidavit make no attempt to articulate cause that Trump was not authorized to have these documents in his home. The reason why is that, as president, he had broad, legally intimidating authority, established by law and court determinations, to declassify any and all documents and to determine what is and is not a presidential record. Trump and his legal team have asserted that this authority was exercised while he was still president. Therefore, a violation of these fairly low-level and seldom-prosecuted document-oriented statutes cannot be proven.

    I don’t think there’s much chance that the affidavit’s redacted portions contain some novel legal theory undercutting this broad, well-established presidential authority. Affidavits for intrusive searches of a private home — the most extreme action the government can take against a resident of the United States, short of arrest — are not the place for advancing theories. Probable cause must be built on facts.

    The redacted sections are considerable. Redaction is supposed to be utilized only to protect sensitive methods and techniques — in other words, how the government came by its information that it doesn’t want to publicly divulge so it can keep using those tactics or protect providers of information. A good and prudent example would be the use of confidential human and/or technical sources. A bad example would be citing press reports, a la the Carter Page FISA affidavit.

    The redacted portions therefore, normally, will simply cover how the FBI supported its assertions in the unredacted sections that Trump possessed classified materials in his residence — i.e., what confidential or sensitive sources were used to establish those facts. Don’t expect anything more.

    The situation does not look good for the government. The Ivy League-educated attorneys of the DOJ had to know this adventure had little chance of an eventual successful prosecution. The use, therefore, of a highly intrusive search of a home simply as a forcing function to retrieve documents for the National Archives — and then not follow through with actual charges — spikes the potential abuse needle dramatically and will not help quiet the growing suspicion that this was more of a political hit-job to take Trump off the chessboard than it was the pursuit of blind justice.

    I am often asked if the FBI had no choice but to pursue the National Archives request and open a case. Yes, it had a choice and, no, it didn’t have to open this investigation. The FBI declines to initiate cases involving more serious violations all the time.

    The platitudinous justification from Democrats is “No one is above the law” — but we know that’s not true. The last time the Democrats controlled the DOJ, Hillary Clinton was set high aloft and placed out of reach of “reasonable” prosecution by then-FBI director James Comey with the concurrence of the DOJ. Even Comey noted that she was clearly not authorized to possess highly classified documents on a private server.

    Politicians on both the right and left say bombastic things that inflame passions and drive opposition attempts to eliminate competition. But involving our justice system in politically tainted efforts can never be tolerated. No citizen of this land, no matter who they are, should be subjected to a law enforcement action where there is an absence of evidence that anything illegal occurred.

    Kevin R. Brock is a former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He independently consults with private companies and public-safety agencies on strategic mission technologies.

  12. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Amusing… a layman’s simple fact based response to your political narrative above:

    1.“As to the first point, this matter is, as suspected, nothing more than a document dispute that was chugging along, appropriately, as a negotiation behind the scenes and apparently making some progress. I don’t see anything in the affidavit asserting a refusal by Trump to cooperate.”

    That is factual totally inaccurate and a very strange statement from a man described as a former Asst. Director at the FBI. If you take something that does NOT belong to you and thus which you should NOT have in your possession and have to be asked SEVERAL times over a YEAR to return said ‘somethings’ to which you only partially comply and you then assert that you NO LONGER have any of those ‘somethings’ it is legalese semantics to claim you are “cooperating”!

    2.“The unredacted parts of the affidavit make no attempt to articulate cause that Trump was not authorized to have these documents in his home. The reason why is that, as president, he had broad, legally intimidating authority, established by law and court determinations, to declassify any and all documents and to determine what is and is not a presidential record. Trump and his legal team have asserted that this authority was exercised while he was still president. Therefore, a violation of these fairly low-level and seldom-prosecuted document-oriented statutes cannot be proven.”

    The absurdity of this is clear. Any right to have any of those documents CEASED IMMEDIATELY on Jan 20, 2021 when a new POTUS was sworn. If this former FBI agent retired and had kept ANY of the top secret data he readily handled in his leadership roles at the counter-terrorism center after boldly asserting that he had returned them and it was discovered he had NOT done so then surely his house would have been raided and he also arrested and just like former CIA Dir Gen Petraeus he would have been convicted for mishandling classified docs.

    That he yet finds it comforting that this now unelected private citizen would be allowed to mishandle several highly classified docs without sanction is interesting.

    The absurdity of ‘automatic verbal declassification’ has been affirmed by other experts as untenable and unworkable without documented validation; that there is apparently no documentation to validate this claim suggests this will be tested in a court of law and eventually in Congress. Until then such absurd statements can be published !

  13. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Political Analysis

    Republicans are jellyfish with no spine and cannot say boo to Trump

    All a Republican has to do to boost their standing is praise Trump and say Fuck the Feds

    Trump supporters are blindly supporting Trump crying out unconstitutional

    Non-Trump supporters are not

    i.e Numbers and Positions have not changed

    USA is out of balance and divided with the Trump

  14. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Cutting and Pasting is easy peasy pudding and pie ☺️

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    Judge to appoint ‘special master’ to review Mar-a-Lago documents

    ‘Premature disclosure’ of affidavit contents may allow ‘criminal parties an opportunity to flee,’ DOJ says
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    “184 unique documents bearing classification markings,” as well as 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 documents marked as secret, and 25 documents marked as top secret.

    67 + 92 + 25 = 184 ✔️

    Key Points

    DOJ suspects ‘evidence of obstruction’ with ‘well-founded concerns’ Trump could interfere
Trump: Mar-a-Lago raid was among ‘most egregious assaults on democracy’ in US history
Director of national intelligence reviewing security risk of documents seized
National Defense papers stored at Mar-a-Lago could have compromised US intelligence agents, affidavit reveals
Trump claims of friendly and cooperative communications with DOJ found to be false

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  15. John Avatar
    John

    In 2017, Trump actually gave classified info to the Russian foreign minister.

    Nothing happened because he had absolute authority to do so.

    Just to nudge your memory!!!

    Point is, if Trump decided to take any ffing document he had absolute authority to do so.

    https://www.france24.com/en/20170516-trump-tweet-right-intelligence-russia-islamic-state-group-aviation

  16. GP Avatar
    GP

    MAN TRUMP IS A SINNER

    BIDDEN AND OBUMMER AND THE REST ARE ALL SAINTS…….in some of wunnah eyes

    but I would describe BIDDEN as in TITUS 3:3 THUS foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  17. John Avatar
    John

    Worth a listen.

    FBI and DOJ looking worser and worser.

  18. John Avatar
    John

    Things not going the way of the FBI/DOJ as a real Judge allows the appointment of a special master!!

    Howls of protest as judge is accused of being pro Trump after the Epstein Magistrate granted the search warrant to search Mar A Lago for declassified documents.

    Seems all the documents which paint the FBI in a poor light and detail the Russia Hoax and which everyone knows were declassified may have been taken.

    Looking more and more as though the whole thing was a Cover Your Ass act.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/legal-experts-bash-pandering-judge-running-to-trump-s-defense-and-predict-he-ll-be-charged-with-obstruction/ar-AA11cE3u?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W069&cvid=e8ec1db62814139d9bafa4ce2982b74f

  19. John Avatar
    John

    How did he get away again????????

    This one is from early August!!

  20. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @JohnFellow, I came here to make a note to @David re the threat to democratic elections based on a headline which blared in seemingly scandalous fear-mongering style (from a Democrat): ‘The U.S. Could Lose the Right To Vote Within Months’

    But then I realized …wait a minute there are many Republican Secs. of State (close to 30) running to manage their state elections who actually deny the validity of the 2020 elections despite all the verifying court cases and audits. I further recalled that recently in one county the election board which was chaired by a QAnon fanatic denier actually refused to certify valid election results despite NO VERIFIABLE evidence of fraud and the matter actually went to court to mandate the certification.

    So the realization was WOW …. the democratic candidate was NOT fear mongering in the least: these lies and subterfuges are but a few months away from destabilizing what we tend to accept as the freest large democracy worldwide …

    …. and then I see you here doing your level best at spreading more lies and subterfuge …. SMH… it will NEVER end with you guys, will it.

    1)“In 2017, Trump actually gave classified info to the Russian foreign minister. Nothing happened because he had absolute authority to do so. Just to nudge your memory!!! Point is, if Trump decided to take any ffing document he had absolute authority to do so.”

    I call this line of reasoning ****total absurd stupidity***. A FPOTUS does not by LAW, by TRADITION or by any other custom or method have “absolute authority” to take any govt docs as his personal records. Any and all such records are the property of the US citizens via their government and must be held under it’s direction via the agency so set up. It is STUPID INGRUNCE to assert otherwise. Enough of that.!

    2) “Things not going the way of the FBI/DOJ as a real Judge allows the appointment of a special master!!”

    This is embarrassingly hilarious. All jackasses can bray one surmises; it’s a fundamental aspect of being a jackass. All lawyers are not jackasses but one surmises they do all know the fundamentals of their law processes! 😎

    The matter of a Special Master is NOT a big deal … as it’s a basic fundamental in a matter such as this. The 45 lawyers could and should have (brayed) made that request from day one … the FBI and DOJ were obviously PREPARED for such as they specifically had ‘their own special master’ (review team of folks who had NOTHING to do with the actual investigation) already in place.

    It’s good they finally got around to it though … I’m sure it will provide useless nuggets of right-wing news in coming days.

    Anyhow @David, the rampaging attacks on democracy in US are frightening … the advocacy of Bajans for that process should be an alert particularly as one can again surmise that there are many more like these here who repeatedly assert that the recent elections in Bim were an illegal sham.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    We need to learn to stay focused.

    Remind the blogmaster the process for POTUS to declassify official documents?

  22. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    LOL😎😂 … well @David I would say that the focus here is the fact that this guy has completely exposed in four to six years the divisive fractures of race, immigration, abortion and political tribalism that were badly threatening US and world politics for the last 60 plus years. If that’s what you mean by “focus” then I remain deeply in-tuned.

    On the declassification matter, that’s quite straightforward of course so I interpret your query to really be asking: ‘And remind us why we are so distraught after one man so boldly flouts the laws and processes and is hailed as a victim by so many millions’!

    So on that I would answer: history is replete with martyrs who galvanized their fellow citizens to civil disobedience despite said person being evil and dangerous !

    Hope that helps!

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    This is the central issue you should focus and add value to the blog. We will have right, left, centrist ideologies as long as we have humans.

  24. John Avatar
    John

    What you will find is that the Democrats used state courts to change the election rules in 2019/20 to suit them using COVID as the pretext.

    However, the only mechanism for doing so constitutionally is through the State Legislatures whose members are elected by the people.

    The Battleground States thus conducted illegal elections and the electors the Governors and Secretary of States chose are open to challenge …. which Trump did.

    What you may be referring to is the elected State Legislatures are now righting the wrongs of the State Courts and asserting their authority.

    Same principle as Roe V. Wade … incorrectly decided by the Supreme Court in the 70’s but now overturned and power returned to the elected State Legislatures.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    Republicans fighting back!

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/republicans-trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-doj/index.html

  26. John Avatar
    John

    Looks like the Supreme Court will get to rule again.

    Constitution pretty clear, election rules determined by State Legislatures.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-election-rule-oversight.html

  27. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Fair enough @David, I accept that one much cut through the BS and go to the core issue of justice (right or wrong) regardless of the course. Actually in that regard I initially scoffed at the remark (note above) from the Democratic candidate as I considered it “sensational” news bait … but on reflection I realized EXACTLY how right she was!

    A little prolix … but anyhow to your direct query … there is really no mystery or lack of clarity on declassification by a POTUS … it is indeed really simple and straightforward. All evidence and data clearly shows that. … In simple terms the POTUS can by his mere words indeed declassify ANYTHING but it’s absurd, unworkable and asinine to believe that a POTUS can 1) either automatically declassify a series or class (e.g. all documents going to his home office) of documents in perpetuality or 2) can simplistically declassify documents to a foreign power (particularly an adversary) which causes harm to the US or other friendly nations and NOT suffer consequences.

    Firstly broadly and in simple terms, auto declassification only works in practice by DELEGATING the authority to declassify to another official to ensure that 1) there are no legal or other issues which are affected and 2) to ensure that all other agencies and or govts are alerted to the fact that previously top secret data is now open source.

    Good heavens, that concept was PERFECTLY shown when Assange so indiscriminately ‘declassified’ the secret confidential files provided to him by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning (now Chelsea). There was immediate mad scrambling to warn agents and spies to save their lives behind the enemy lines’ and basically protect the secrets as best as possible.

    Can we REALISTICALLY imagine a POTUS being that cavalier with secret info and NOT being sanctioned (in my view with ‘extreme prejudice’) by others … at minimum his cabinet would DEFINITELY invoke the mental health 25th Amendment on his crazy self! And when that happened you can be assured some one would take him out eventually!

    Do we RECALL that under Pres Bush who legally ‘declassified’ (but by a leak) info re the WMD that it eventually led to the perjury conviction of Libby his VP’s Chief of Staff re disclosing identify of CIA agent Valerie Palme. Now let be clear that Libby was convicted for LYING and NOT for disclosing secret info …but any proper and careful analysis of that episode would clearly reflect that it was the ‘careless’ management of said deliberate POTUS released top secret data by the PRIVATE citizen Libby that led to his ‘painful’ conviction. Bush commuted his sentence but did not pardon him (for reasons that made no sense to me).

    Back then a Republican Senator said of his party leader and President: “The president may be entirely in the clear, and it may turn out that he had the authority to make the disclosures which were made, but that it was not the right way to go about it because we ought not to have leaks in government”.

    Can we honestly perceive that any of the absurd behaviors re classified info by this FPOTUS would be considered to be “right way to do it”! …

    So to repeat … it’s facile to say that a POTUS can declassify anything at anytime but it’s NOT as simple as it sounds and ANYONE pretending or advocating otherwise is either totally stupid or being a smart-ass!

  28. GP Avatar
    GP

    JOHN
    YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT TRUMP- THE SINNER- IS ALWAYS WRONG.

    ALL RIGHT WING TRAINED JOURNALIST ARE WRONG AND SPIN.

    THE DUMBOCRATS AND THE LEFT OR SINISTER ARE ALWAYS RIGHT.

    LEFT WING OR SINISTER JOURNALIST ARE ALWAYS WRONG.

    DPD KNOWS THE LAWS AND PROCEEDURES BETTER THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW YOUR HYDROLOGY OR I WILL EVER KNOW BIBLE OR BIOCHEMISTRY OR THE BASIC SCIENCES

    THIS JOKER THINKS HE IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON THE BLOG , SUCH THAT I HAVE HEARD HIM CONTRADICT DERSHOWITZ (AN ARDENT DEM) ON THE LAW ,
    THE MAYO CLINIC ON THE COMPLICATIOS OF CRANIAL AND CERVICAL INJURIES,
    AND LEADING AUTHORS IN PATHOLOGY ROBINS, RUBINS AND ANDERSON THAT WE SHOULD PERFORM POST MORTEMS ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS.

    BUT GOD IS ON THE THRONE
    HIS WORD IS SOUND AND SURE
    AND IT IS CLEAR HOW THIS IS ALL GOING DOWN

    THE WRITING IS DEFINITELY ON THE WALL
    IT IS ALWAYS GOOD WHEN GOD’S PREDICTIONS COME TOGETHER…AS THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE

  29. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Oh … I forgot @David … gone after this… here is a quote for your esteemed doc who blogs so incessantly to criticize others rather that focus on the facts before him.

    I said last week that Prof Dershowitz is surely entitled to his very learned opinion and that I believe he has overly politicized this affair (in his inimitable smooth style) – considering he represented Trump and strangely gives him a past on some extremely egregious acts – as other legal experts have offered a completely opposite view to his.

    So here is the Prof in recent interviews: “Any grand jury in DC would indict Trump on the evidence that he had classified material in violation of various statutes.”

    BUT there is a BIG caution … the very learned Dershowitz goes on to say that the Justice Department should NOT pursue such a case because (surprise, surprise) the facts did not meet the “test” (political I must presume) of Nixon and Clinton’s situations. Apparently these tests ‘requires establishing “broad bipartisan” support [Nixon] and the latter needs demonstration that Trump’s conduct was materially worse than Hillary Clinton’s own mishandling of classified information.”

    Alright den … sounds like fair and practical legal reasoning to me … to you too. STEEEUPSE!

    Anyhow I gone hear .. no more stating of facts from any data source that anyone can review…cause I think I smarter than the average bear .. or is that jackass… so I dun braying. I gone. Peace out!

  30. John Avatar
    John

    de pedantic DribblerAugust 29, 2022 10:12 AM

    So the realization was WOW …. the democratic candidate was NOT fear mongering in the least: these lies and subterfuges are but a few months away from destabilizing what we tend to accept as the freest large democracy worldwide …

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    dpd

    Democracy in America as a system of Government can’t die because it has never existed.

    America is a Constitutional Republic, governed by rules.

    If the Democrats want a democracy, win elections according to the rules of the Constitutional Republic on that basis and then change or remove the Constitution.

    You can only be talking for the sake of hearing your own voice.

    Your utterances have zero relevance because you have completely missed the simplest most basic point.

    The problem is that for the moment, the Democrats cannot muster 2/3 of the vote so are stuck bellyaching and complaining and conniving.

    If you ask “we the people” who rule if they want to do away with the Constitution, if you get 20% you will get a lot.

  31. John Avatar
    John

    Trump did not cause divisions.

    He exposed them.

    The 20% or so who were methodically undermining the constitution suddenly realised that Trump would nullify any gains they had made over decades and acted through a myriad of hoaxes to get rid of him.

    They had to come into the open to battle Trump.

    But Trump isn’t going no where.

    One or the other will be left standing and my money is on Trump.

  32. John Avatar
    John

    There is no other country in the world that is set up with a Constitution remotely like the United States of America and the Democrats hate it.

    For sure, there is no other country in the world that has peoples from everywhere else breaking down the door to get in.

  33. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, I send this request to you because although I would ask @Artax for the help I suspect that he may miss my cry for help as he may not visit this over here 😎😂… so maybe you could pull the search that highlights @John Fellow’s rather bold assertion some months back that said how quickly the testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson would be impeached by SS agent/POTUS Dep Chief Ornato! 🤣

    I smirked back then as I knew he could ONLY do that if he planned to lie under oath … and then of course we discovered that texts were lost and phones ‘cleaned’ so it was obvious that the ‘fix’ was well set and he would be hard pressed to ‘tell the truth’

    So what do we have today: “Secret Service’s Tony Ornato, who was at center of Jan. 6 hearing, departs agency.” 🥳

    Well I guess that now he is a PRIVATE citizen he no longer is OBLIGATED to sit under oath and speak truthfully about what Hutchinson said or about POTUS lunging for steering wheel or nutting so!

    Iint a well earned retirement he goes after 25 years or so … maybe he will become head of FPOTUS security at Mar-A-GoGo to keep all those other privileged and classified docs safe/ A nice golden parachute along with his pension, yah think!

  34. John Avatar
    John

    And now for a laugh as we get the authoritative word on a President declassifying material comes from Joe Biden who after all should know a thing or two about it!!

    … but don’t laugh too much.

  35. John Avatar
    John

    You realise Biden just blew up the DOJ’s case!!!!

    What he did was to outline the procedure whereby a classified document leaves the White House.

    It is not in the President’s custody, it is in the custody of the military personnel and in a locked box.

    The document is part of an inventory of documents which the Government keeps.

    No way for Biden to waltz out with it UNLESS it is declassified either by him or by the Government!!

    So if a President or former President walks out of the White House with anything, it has to be declassified!!

  36. John Avatar
    John

    Of course a former president could walk out with Furniture the property of the White House and be forced to return it.

    …. like old Bill and Hilary.

    Not possible to declassify furniture if you think about it so they had to return it.

    https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/2016/05/21/fact-check-was-hillary-and-bill-clinton-forced-to-return-furniture-they-took-from-white-house/1009481007/

  37. John Avatar
    John

    On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, while the establishment claims that Republican candidates are running on the unconstitutional raid at Mar-a-Lago it simply isn’t true. Despite much talk about it, candidates must run on their records and against President Biden’s. Lamentably, there is no establishment media for the conservative movement so ‘We The People’ must fight like we’re behind, in order to win seats in Congress this November. Then, the media portrays the midterm elections as a national election but not a single candidate will represent the nation. Instead, they will represent individual congressional districts so one should view much of this data as skewed and be skeptical of it. Later, despite the FBI’s prior delays they have now reviewed all of Donald Trump’s documents in record speed before the court could appoint an independent special master to protect privileged information. This program believes that the Judge should request the names of anyone that reviewed any documents, and their chain of custody, after it was announced on Saturday that the Court was leaning toward appointing a special master. Afterward, the FBI Agent that led the investigation into former President Trump, Tim Thibault, has been escorted from the office. Reports suggest he may have resigned for misleading Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray regarding the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/mark-levin-podcast-41762/mark-levin-audio-rewind-82922-1522279967

  38. John Avatar
    John

    Looks like Wray and Garland are setting up a fall guy!!

    https://theparadise.ng/fbi-special-agent-who-opened-trump-investigation-has-been-escorted-out-of-bureau-headquarters/

  39. John Avatar
    John

    FBI getting real licks!!

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/trump-demands-to-be-declared-rightful-winner-of-2020-election-in-new-attack-on-fbi/ar-AA11eOZa?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=ad9fe54ef63f46f09f50a40d757f2289

  40. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    2020 Vision
    Hindsight
    No Brainer
    My People… Hold On

    We the People
    Did not want Trump to have a second term
    He was a Clown and a Disgrace to the Nation

  41. John Avatar
    John

    Legal basis falling apart!!

  42. David Avatar
    David

    The soap continues…

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/mar-a-lago-justice-department-response/index.html

  43. John Avatar
    John

    FBI reputation in tatters.

    No one trusts it anymore to do impartial investigations and it has been falling into disgrace for 70 years!! The DOJ is also behind the eight ball.

    IRS in the ling too!!

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/the-short-life-and-amazingly-fast-death-of-the-fbis-mar-a-lago-play/

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Our country is far from healthy today, but a collective laugh at the FBI’s joke of an affidavit is a long-needed step in the right direction.

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    The FBI’s news cycle just ain’t the same as it once was.

    Mere moments after the Department of Justice and FBI released the near-completely redacted affidavit they used to justify raiding former President Donald Trump’s home, their super-dooper-secrecy was the subject of widespread ridicule.

    They didn’t even catch a full minute’s peace. No Republican senators rushed to their defense (though a few were notably quiet). There was no “let’s wait and see” from the usual deep state apologists.

    Instead, both Republican politicians and center-right media were quick to hit back against what they correctly viewed as a middle finger to both the court that ordered the affidavit’s release, and the American people who expect transparency when the state raids its political opponents.

    It’s good to see. It’s strong and healthy that not all Americans nod along when the FBI targets former presidents, murmuring that he must have done something wrong. This wasn’t always the case, though.

    Just a few short years ago, the Department of Justice would enjoy the benefit of the doubt, from voters and politicians alike. Seven short years ago, we would have wondered what Trump had done that was so bad the straight-shooters at the DOJ couldn’t even tell us.

    Today, however, a plurality of independent voters, a strong majority of Republican voters, and 20 percent of Democrats believe the DOJ and FBI “are too political, corrupt, and not to be trusted,” according to Trafalgar Group polling.

    The impact of this shift — and the boost it brings to the republic’s health — is measurable in the speed of the news cycles covering the latest twists and turns. Years ago, when the attacks on then-candidate Trump first began, with articles the FBI placed in Mother Jones and Yahoo! News (before using those articles to “corroborate” and justify an FBI investigation), Republicans squirmed and called for more time; center-right reporters and pundits cringed and wondered; and the American people worried that Trump might have a dangerous relationship with the Kremlin.

    As the years wore on and the Trump administration came into office, the scandal expanded. General and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned under a cloud of FBI-induced suspicion. A year later, he was framed for allegedly lying to now-disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok. (It would take two years before transcripts were made public that showed Special Investigator Robert Mueller’s team had lied to the public about the very basis of the FBI’s investigation into the general.)

    Weeks after Flynn resigned, the FBI-, Democrat- and media-driven Russian narrative took another head, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the case. Sessions was “a good Republican.” He trusted the FBI and the reporting he’d read in the media. He even wondered if he’d fallen afoul of the law by speaking to the Russian ambassador in a D.C. handshake line.

    The following month, Sessions’ deputy appointed Special Counsel Mueller to lead the investigation of just how treasonous President Donald J. Trump really was.

    His investigation would eventually come to naught (because there was no Russian collusion to be found). But while it went on — while the Steele dossier was exposed as a laughable hoax, while FBI informant Stefan Halper’s lies fell apart, while media report by media report were proven false — the majority of “good Republicans” (and a good number of center-right reporters and pundits) remained silent.

    “Let the investigation run its course!” they said, because they believed the investigators. A decent number among them who hated their new president even hoped the investigators were right.

    The shadow of Mueller hung over the president for two full years before the big day, when the man America had trusted to expose all the evil doings of the president was exposed on national television as a clueless man with no evidence for the charges (and early symptoms of dementia).

    Neither the Democrats nor their media friends were done, however; and less than two months after the final collapse of the Mueller probe, they launched a new round of investigations, this time into the president’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

    For months, the investigations dragged on, while leakers and Democrat politicians rotated through the media dropping false accusations and making terrible predictions.

    “Let the investigation run its course!” a smaller-but-still-prominent number of Republicans and center-right pundits said because once again they believed the investigators. Once again, those among them who hated the president even hoped the investigators were right.

    But five years in, the spell was breaking. In the end, it came down to a vote, where Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic House impeached the president on partisan lines and the Republican Senate acquitted him, with only Republican Mitt Romney joining the Democrats in their guilty votes. Ever-loyal Mitt was still a “good Republican.”

    Along the way, lie after lie and hoax after hoax was thrown Republicans’ way. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rapist; Trump was ignoring Russian murder bounties on American soldiers; and on and on. Each time, fewer and fewer Republicans and center-right pundits went along.

    Each time, the “good Republicans” made more of a mockery of themselves and their much-cited “principles.”

    Each time, the movie was a little shorter. The years the Democrats and the FBI had once had to peddle their lies had turned to mere months.

    The suspicion didn’t stop the lies, of course, but when the FBI finally raided the president’s home, they found those months had turned to mere hours. While Republican leaders who hated Trump, like Sen. Mitch McConnell, were still willing to give the feds a few days, within hours of the raid Republicans as mainstream as Sen. Marco Rubio and as pro-FBI as Sen. Lindsey Graham were denouncing the FBI.

    In this new atmosphere, the movie played in fast-forward. When the DOJ’s accusations of misplaced records met broad scrutiny, they became accusations of nuclear danger. When even those met broad skepticism, they morphed into accusations of active Russian treason. No one was buying a ticket this time, though, and by the time a judge forced the FBI to release the affidavit they’d used to justify the raid, expectations were low.

    When the FBI finally released its joke-of-an-affidavit, its antics had become a full-blown internet meme.

    It’s generally a dangerous thing for a public to distrust its institutions, but in this case, it’s just the opposite. The reality is while the FBI has indeed accomplished a thing or two in the near-century it’s existed in its modern form, it’s always been highly politicized.

    More than 70 years ago, then-Congressman Richard Nixon didn’t trust the FBI with the damning evidence he’d gathered to indict top State Department official Alger Hiss as a Communist spy, because he knew they’d bury the embarrassing facts to protect the administration.

    More than 50 years ago, the FBI bugged Sen. Barry Goldwater’s campaign phones and placed a spy on the team he’d built to defeat President Lyndon Johnson. That same year, they sent a letter to Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, seemingly implying he should commit suicide within 34 days — and threatening to expose tape-recordings of his multiple sexual affairs if he did not.

    By 1975, the FBI had become so politicized, and its use of power so abusive, the Senate launched the bipartisan Church Committee to investigate theirs and other American intelligence community abuses. Among the Senate investigators: Goldwater, and fellow conservative icon Sen. John Tower.

    In the years that followed, a chastised FBI would shift its focus to law enforcement over intelligence gathering — a transformation that was rapidly reversed after the 9/11 attacks. The FBI of today carries the institutional distortion this change brought down on the institution.

    Politicians such as former Vice President Mike Pence might still believe the public’s skepticism of long-politicized law enforcement is a threat to our country, but neither history nor more recent facts bear them out.

    Republican midwits can cite law and order to justify their servility and their ambitions all they like. In a healthy country, the people are deeply skeptical of opaque power — especially when it’s repeatedly used to lie and persecute political opponents. We’re far from healthy today, but a collective laugh at the FBI’s joke of an affidavit is a long-needed step in the right direction.

    Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of “The Art of the Donald.” His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives across the river from D.C. Follow him on Twitter.
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  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I agree! The FBI is corrupt! Black people have said that for DECADES!

    DEFUND THE FBI!

    DEFUND THE POLICE!

    LET’S GO, LET’S GO, LET’S GO!

  45. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    In the meantime, I suggedt that these innocent white people simply COMPLY with the law enforcement officers as they instruct ALL BLACK PEOPLE TO DO.

    Trust the system to correct itself!

    It’ll be alright in the end.

  46. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Just a few bad apples!

  47. John Avatar
    John

    Wow!!!

    There you go, and you got there on your own.

    Besides, exposing the bad apples exposes their masters which needs to happen.

  48. John Avatar
    John

    The sport continues as the corrupt now flail around trying to get Trump before he gets them.

  49. John Avatar
    John

    Talk about flailing, a drowning man clutches at straws!!

    The idea is clearly to cover his ass and put the blame on his underlings.

    So lucky Garland did not end up as Obama’s appointee to the Supreme Court.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/ag-merrick-garland-puts-new-restrictions-on-political-activities-as-2022-midterms-near-and-trump-claims-partisan-bias/ar-AA11hoUu?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W069&cvid=32a659db6ed5495a9d531471da1b21b2

  50. John Avatar
    John

    Time is running out for the democrats!!!

    https://youtu.be/a64xXVKmj38?t=322

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