Absolutely, I think this is a classic Barr move. Trying to straddle a line between Trump (“he’s been a victim before”) and reality.
Seriously. I’m so fucking tired of these clowns.
A large part of Trump's initial rise was "draining the swamp", right? Cleaning up the corrupt of D.C.
If we can't indict a former President for stealing nuclear secrets, what the fuck are we even doing here?
Same thing with all right-wing "populists". Out with the out-group and their crimes, in with our in-group and our sins.
I'll argue with Barr saying that past allegations were just "political enemies on a witch hunt," but he's right about these allegations being extremely serious. Just one of these charges could put Trump in federal prison for 20 years. For a nearly 77 year old man used to luxury, this might as well be a life sentence. If Trump enters a federal penitentiary, I don't think he'll be exiting alive. (Assuming no Republican president pardons him.)
Jury? There's a non-closeted MAGA cultist on the bench in this sham of a trial.
In theory this is true but this particular judge, Aileen Cannon, already demonstrated excessive fealty to Trump back when the FBI first seized the classified documents from his estate. She granted his request for a special master to go through the documents, despite not having the jurisdiction to do so. This let trump stall the case for a few months until an appeals court overturned her ruling.
Three months ago, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon made the controversial call to appoint an independent expert to examine documents — including classified government materials — seized by FBI agents from former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence.
She did so despite expressing initial doubts in her own ruling about intervening in the politically charged case.
In a scathing ruling issued Thursday night, a federal appellate court in Atlanta found she should have heeded her first legal concerns. A three-judge panel, all Republican-appointees like Cannon, reversed her decision to name a “special master” because she had no authority to do so and effectively killed the case as legal experts consider a potential appeal unlikely to succeed.
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The impact is immediate: Cannon’s decision will not only be thrown out based on her lack of jurisdiction but the special master’s still-unfinished review will be shut down, bringing Trump’s lawsuit to dead end.
On one hand, she's obviously a Trump MAGAhead who wants to put her thumb on the scale, OTOH, she already got a spanking from the appeals court.
Seems like a wash at the moment. We're probably not going to learn much more today - he's just pleading not-guilty and being Officially Informed™ of the charges & his rights & such.
Unfortunately he’s now considered a ‘RINO’ so it doesn’t matter.
It's also how the GOP gets more and more radical. Right now, there are two types of Republicans:
True Believers. These people actually think that globalist socialist Democrats are using rainbows bought by Soros to turn kids trans. (Or whatever their conspiracy of choice is today.) They 100% believe this is true and will fight with everything to prevent it.
Power/Money Seekers. These people know that the Conspiracy Of The Day is total bull. They know that repeating it can be dangerous. However, they see that repeating this can get them more power and money. So they continue to repeat it.
The problem for the Power/Money Seekers, though, is that even they tend to have a line they won't cross. If they hesitate for even a second in crossing a line, then the True Believers will swoop in, call them RINOs, and replace them.
Over time, there will be less and less Power/Money Seekers and more and more True Believers which just will make the GOP even more dangerous. (There is a theoretical third kind of Republican, the Sane Old School Conservative, but spotting one of these in the party is rarer than spotting a unicorn riding a unicycle.)
I feel the 3rd kind have have mostly abandoned the GOP entirely which is unfortunate, because they are typically pragmatic and can be reasoned with. The true believers are definitely concerning since they're typically far more ideologically extreme and reactionary. I feel the power/money seekers are slowly being purged and replaced by the aforementioned true believers which is just a powder keg waiting to be lit.
Hopefully it'll never reach critical mass, but I fear it'll likely occur in the not too distant future...
I agree with a lot of this analysis but I'm not sure there will be fewer power/$ seekers. They seem like weeds, another one will just sprout up. If there's money to be made, well, grifters, like nature, abhor a vacuum.
Barr should be in jail. What a turd.
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Trump enabler trying to cash in on his own notoriety by doing the talk show circuit when he ought to be in prison.
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