Jack Goldsmith ponders the nuances of classified and declassified information and the deeply diviooded politic behind this. Sadly, both sides have tarbished credibility:
Several sensible commentators—including George Will, Damon Linker, and David Brooks—think Attorney General Garland made a mistake, perhaps a disastrous one, in executing the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. (They made these claims before the federal magistrate unsealed the warrant and the inventory of seized materials.) They worry that the search will, in Will’s sedate words, harm “social comity” and “domestic tranquility.”
They are right in this sense: Trump supporters would have viewed any criminal legal process directed at Trump from the Biden Justice Department as, in Linker’s words, “an illegitimate act undertaken by an alien, tyrannical ‘Regime’ resembling a Third World dictatorship.” Justifiably or not, this reaction—and the further diminution in trust in the Justice Department and FBI by a large chunk of the country—was a directly foreseeable consequence of Garland’s decision.
Which is not to say that Garland made the wrong decision. On that question it is far too early to tell. Will is right to suggest that Garland’s decision, even if scrupulously non-political in intent, is “inherently political” and should be judged by how well he “adjust[s] tidy principles to untidy realities” and “balance[s] competing objectives.” And the bar should be very high before the Justice Department in an administration run by Trump’s former and probably future political opponent, uses unprecedented criminal process against Trump—especially given our cleaved politics, upcoming elections, and the well-documented mistakes and illegalities that the Justice Department and FBI committed in pursuing Trump in the past.
And yet Trump has for all his adult life, and especially during his presidency and post-presidency, shown contempt for law. The FBI’s belief that Trump acted illegally in bringing scores of sensitive documents to Florida, or in not returning them upon request, is very far from shocking. It also appears right now—and this too would not be surprising—that Trump and his advisors did not fully cooperate with the National Archives’ and the Justice Department’s efforts to secure and retrieve this information. There obviously must be a point where information is so sensitive, and Trump’s disregard for law so extreme, to justify legal process against Trump, even in the current milieu. Otherwise the law is entirely hostage to a former president’s (and his supporters’) self-serving veto—something no legal system can tolerate.
Given the media's disastrous performance on the Russiuagate trainwreck (no, the walls were NOT closing in...) its hard to take the anti-Trump leaks with confidence. OTOH, Trump is not Mr. Clean here.
Time may tell.
David French walks down Memory Lane and compares Hillary's mishandling of classified info with Trump's. It's possible Trump is faling to cooperate in a way that breaks new ground.
But we can’t rewind the clock. We can only decide how to go forward. And so the DOJ should go forward with the same rule it applied to Hillary Clinton, including the same level of deference. Any other result wouldn’t simply be unjust—insofar as it would refuse to treat similarly-situated people similarly—it would be profoundly destabilizing. There cannot be one set of standards for Democrats and another for Republicans.
Would applying this same standard mean Trump, too, should not face prosecution? Well, not necessarily. We can’t yet conclude that Trump and Clinton’s misconduct is equivalent, and the reason why may relate not to the mishandling of defense information, but rather to obstruction of justice.
The available reporting indicates that Trump didn’t simply remove clearly marked classified material from the White House, he also retained much of that material in spite of repeated requests that it be returned, retained some of that material in defiance of a subpoena, and then ultimately treated the material as his personal property. Here’s Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, and Charlie Savage, writing in the New York Times:
It is not clear why Mr. Trump apparently chose to hang onto materials that would ignite another legal firestorm around him. But last year, he told close associates that he regarded some presidential documents as his own personal property. When speaking about his friendly correspondence with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Mr. Trump said, “They’re mine,” according to a person familiar with the exchange.
Moreover, there’s additional reporting that Trump’s team may have misled the DOJ. Yesterday morning, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush reported that a “lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government.”
Is the Bad Orange Man in the room with us right now?
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 14, 2022 at 10:12 PM
Welcome to My Nightmare
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 14, 2022 at 10:16 PM
Rosary Extremist Poso 🇺🇸@JackPosobiec
Kari Lake: "Ron DeSantis has BDE. The same kind of BDE that Donald Trump has. I wish all of our Republicans had that BDE"
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 14, 2022 at 10:26 PM
TM, I say this with respect: you are embarrassing yourself here.
Your irrational and childish hatred of President Trump is pitiful. And your giving credence to NYT writers who have been wrong about every important issue for the last several decades; and “conservative” pundits who oppose every actually conservative candidate and issue, is either willfully blind or just plain idiotic.
Grow up. At least pretend to be a rational adult, and look at the damage done to this country - and to the future prospects of your own children - and get over yourself. Please. You are intelligent and observant and too valuable to go along with the grifters and morons who make up the Trump-haters club. Do better.
Posted by: James D. | August 14, 2022 at 10:36 PM
a mistake, a mistake is ordering the wrong entree, this is an impeachable offense, it's not merely that those who have committed systemic breaches of tsi information, like the chappaqua gang, or the rehoboth gang who traffic with pla princelings, and kazakh overlords are not touched when there is evidence a plenty, thats water under the bridge,
but that this happens on the one year anniversary of the devastating defeat in kabul, most precisely the death of 13 america servicemen, all supervised and rubber stamped by the mandarins like mike hayden and john brennan, and their mouthpieces like dilanian leaves a foul taste in the mouth,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:00 PM
these same figures assured us Russian bounties were being paid to taliban, the mysterious 29155 division, maybe since the fall of kabul, maybe they have been there,
https://www.theblaze.com/news/marine-killed-afghanistan-withdrawal-brother-suicide
when the blood spilled on that gate, what did they say, they moved on to planning another debacle, this is true about covid, when cuomo murdered tens of thousands of elderly and he was given accolades, when does the fbi strike force visit him, rhetorical, how about fauci, I have to envisage hieronymous bosch to consider the proper punishment for him, you can go up the north east and down the west coast,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:10 PM
But this time it'll all be true!
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 14, 2022 at 11:14 PM
because what is happening in ukraine is a debacle, the depletion of our military stores indefinitely, to a dubious clique of oligarchs, the prospect of real hunger and brownouts, not only in Western Europe, but in this country, exacerbated by this sham Inflation bill, which is just more inkind grift to Xi,
the near death of Salman Rushdie is another wakeup call not to negotiate with the revolutionary guard, the ones who have been tormented americans for nearly 43 years now,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:15 PM
when do we stop giving them the benefit of the down,\
https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1558988978271014912?cxt=HHwWgMC-qeiN0qIrAAAA
not only garland, but friend of cop killers kristen clarke, another radical in sheep skin vanita gupta and so and so on,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:18 PM
I buy half her story,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11110905/Mother-alleged-Salman-Rushdie-attacker-says-son-responsible-actions.html
but it is curious when everyone with a maga hat and/or a gadsen flag is monitored, this fellow seem to go to and from a terrorist stronghold, without any consequence,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:21 PM
when did evidence stop mattering, probably around the time barack obama's foul stench entered the oval office, and not for a silly reason like some dubious birth certificate, that was a silly goose chase, which detracted from the main issue, that he and biden, and harris and buttigeg and becerra, are just inimical to the American experiment, because they don't believe in,
Orange man for all his bluster, really does think that America is worth saving, instead of relegating it to a twisted rotten heap, which is their intent, or that of their swiss or hungarian masters, tomato, tomatoe,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:26 PM
this is why they stole the election, because they could not accomplish their goals otherwise, which in short is what kruschev, that ukrainian muzhik threatened 62 years ago, 'we will bury you'
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:30 PM
--And yet Trump has for all his adult life, and especially during his presidency and post-presidency, shown contempt for law.--
LOL
And yet all the crooked queen's and kings' horses and all their crooked men couldn't put a case against Trumpty together again, even when they're making shit up and control the courts.
What he has contempt for, as every thinking American does, is not the law, but the contemptible mandarins who are undermining it and using it to try and destroy him and any other person, organization, traditional value or freedom that gets in the way of their quest for raw power and filthy lucre.
A monkeypox on both the house of Dems and the fence straddling mushes who usher them into power.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | August 14, 2022 at 11:31 PM
But I have it on good authority from Sulu and Meathead that they really got him this time.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 14, 2022 at 11:34 PM
and to paraphrase jim morrison 'this is the end' there is nowhere to go from here, we have seen how the bastions of the anglosphere, from the uk to australia, have all become oceania, to cite orwell,
as an immigrant to this country, who came here nearly 53 years ago, I guess I feel it more than most, the Times enabled the circumstances that forced my parents immigrating here, my grandfather was very perceptive in noting what the lawyer from biran, oriente was doing while he wowing audiences on the jack parr show, turning the country into a tropical gulag
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:35 PM
the jibes are bitter, even those being attempted, for this country is being murdered day by day, poisoned, its children taught not to hate their own history, but their actual biology,
zawahiri may be dead, it makes nearly no difference, he has been granted the material of several third world militaries, what he spoke up in 2005, seems true 'to those without understanding'
no I don't give Biden or his coke and otherwise addicted son, the benefit of the doubt, why should anyone do the favor of this atlantic house of usher,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:41 PM
one cannot do anything but assume when it comes to these vaunted officers, like a certain character said of another 'why do they lie, it must like breathing for you' after breathless promises of the steele dossier, the bounties, the way the assasination of an ambassador by al queda operatives, was treated like a bad movie review, the way they covered up the deaths of at least five unarmed trump supporters, and stacked the bulk of those who deign to tread on the House of Dellassandri's special preserve, a right not extended to the front lawn of Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh specially, Gorsuch and Barrett, they are unpeople, let the three stooges and the doorman Roberts have the floor,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:50 PM
thats my humble opinion, for what it's worth, the promises of magic and wonder, that end up in blood and pain, on the streets of the major cities on far off deserts and icy steppes, of children craving baby formula, and other scarce items I won't elaborate on,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:53 PM
I guess I see things too clearly from the Free state of Florida, an imperfect life raft, that the Dems are still trying to capsize, with Charlie Cheetah and the other hapless contestant,
Posted by: Narciso | August 14, 2022 at 11:56 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/chinas-consumer-and-factory-data-miss-expectations-in-july.html
China’s consumer and factory data miss expectations in July
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-s-central-bank-cuts-key-policy-rates-271660527832
China’s central bank cuts key policy rates
Unexpectedly, right?
Posted by: jim nj | August 15, 2022 at 01:27 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/15/china-economy-slows-unexpectedly-as-covid-and-property-crisis-bite
China’s economy slows unexpectedly as Covid outbreaks and property crisis bite
Retail sales and industrial output lower than forecast, with fears that China could miss its annual growth target for first time since 2015
"The property sector, which has been further rocked by a mortgage boycott that weighed on buyers’ sentiment, deteriorated in July. Property investment tumbled 12.3% in July, the fastest rate this year, while the drop in new sales deepened to 28.9%."
I'm starting to look at the Covid lockdowns in China as a means to suppress a revolt and to force people to spend money trying to mitigate the worst effects of the lockdowns.
XI is messing around with Maslow's hierarchy of needs driving it to lower levels of concern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
The jingoistic actions and pronouncements over Taiwan with Pelosi's visit was probably very useful to Xi as a distraction from internal issues.
Posted by: jim nj | August 15, 2022 at 02:03 AM
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/11/biden-administration-abolishes-ice-labor-union/
Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union
While I am not a fan of unions I suspect I should be rooting for them here.
Posted by: jim nj | August 15, 2022 at 02:54 AM
Who to believe? The FBI and media that claim owning a Gadsden Flag is a form of insurrection? An FBI and media that is fine with offspring of current politicians trading on influence for rifling cash (Biden, Kerry, Pelosi et al)? Or a rich ex President that tweets?
Posted by: henry | August 15, 2022 at 04:37 AM
nice people.
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/the-lefts-alarming-push-to-sever?
Posted by: henry | August 15, 2022 at 10:17 AM
Silly,TM. Your critics have a valid point. Iggy has one, too, and then there's this from a former CIA agent who knows more about such things than does Haberman who just before the raid was pimping her book with a picture of a toilet with scraps of paper in it she asserts was taken in the wH and showed destruction of documents by DJT.https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/two-pings-on-the-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-classification-kerfuffle-and-trumps-rico-suit/#more-6972
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 12:35 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/15/heres-another-narrative-for-why-the-fbi-raided-trumps-mar-a-lago-home-its-sti-n2611707?
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 12:44 PM
yes that seems plausible, they gave it away when the two documents they actually mentioned were the kim jon il letter, and one to macron, the rest is just vaporware,
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:27 PM
dejavu all over again,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/mar-a-lago-raid-swimming-in-a-sea-of-anti-trump-media-bombshell-hype-again/
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:29 PM
You're "humble opinion" is on point, narciso. No reason to be humble about it.
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 01:32 PM
five years later, roy moore was rewarded 8.2 million dollars, do any of those publications who ran with this, apologize,
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:32 PM
jim, I think Zu clearly sees the rising rich and middle class as a threat to his rule and is happy to crush them.
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 01:34 PM
there were sage emperors and evil ones, in the 5,000 year history of history,
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:36 PM
locking down the provinces again, and then stealing their money, is not a recipe for success
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:41 PM
It's about time!https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/jim-jordan-14-fbi-whistleblowers
The field officers versus the 7th floor partisans at the FBI
The most generous view I can offer for the AG--is that he is a dope who was hornswoggled by the 7th floor.
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 01:41 PM
when the clowns all ride in the same car,
https://mobile.twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1558980023247314944?cxt=HHwWgICxmciEzqIrAAAA
but as mentioned before, the jokes stop when good men and women, die, because the jokers are not paying attention,
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 01:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1559169950551400451
This is the 13th hoax..and I'm not counting the one's about Bush just about DJT.
Remember when they were going to duck walk Bush's crew out of the WH?
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 02:01 PM
smallest violin
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-khive-retreats-as-kamala-harris-popularity-vanishes?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Posted by: Narciso | August 15, 2022 at 02:10 PM
because typepad won't take the link--Garland crosses the Rubicon:https://tinyurl.com/mrunuvw6
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 03:25 PM
“For years a crack political unit was threatened with prison by jealous Ds, frustrated Rs and a DOJ weasel for crimes they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped capture to a MAGA Florida compound. Today, still hounded by Biden's government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can re-hire… the Trump-Team….” 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucLb7ZDv8e8&t=63s
Posted by: DCSCA | August 15, 2022 at 05:35 PM
The most generous view I can offer for the AG--is that he is a dope who was hornswoggled by the 7th floor.
Why is that Stasi wannabe deserving of the slightest consideration or generosity in assessing his behavior?
Posted by: James D. | August 15, 2022 at 05:43 PM
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1556982137009700864
He's done, we tell you, done
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 05:58 PM
I never saw any of this coming.
Tom is a most gracious host.
Posted by: GUS | August 15, 2022 at 06:39 PM
ANDREW McCARTHY: the Mar a Lago warrant was essentially a General Warrant
“A general warrant is a document issued by the executive branch, or a court. It is not based on any prior evidence of wrongdoing. It lacks particularity regarding the person or place to be searched, or the papers or records to be seized. It is not supported by oath or affirmation. It is used to find evidence of wrongdoing. For centuries prior to the U.S. founding, English jurists and legal scholars rejected general warrants as the worst exercise of tyrannical power.”
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 06:44 PM
It's a fishing expedition. Throw 5 million lines in the water and HOPE to catch something.
It is dishonest, disgusting and evil.
This is about NOVEMBER 8.
Posted by: GUS | August 15, 2022 at 06:50 PM
Sad!
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 15, 2022 at 07:07 PM
Don't know if this will work
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 07:54 PM
It didn't--top secret doc:https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/298609714_5680247778666557_7915265586283240313_n.jpg
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 07:56 PM
VDH:https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/14/why-merrick-garland-is-losing-the-people/
Posted by: clarice | August 15, 2022 at 08:36 PM
Anyway, Lehman’s Fifth Law of Politics (there are laws of politics, warfare, tool use, and life.) states: “Never create a political weapon that you don’t want to hand to your enemy to use against you. You will not be in power forever no matter what, and they will do unto you as you have done unto them, only they’ll have had the time to perfect it.”
Posted by: Neo | August 16, 2022 at 06:55 AM
Yep.
Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸
@sandyleevincent
.@elonmusk is going to win this case against twitter
National Security Division, U.S. Dept of Justice @DOJNatSec
Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government and Unlawfully Sharing Twitter User Information
justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
https://twitter.com/sandyleevincent/status/1559507062706638849
Posted by: Melinda | August 16, 2022 at 07:49 AM
he's a Saudi looking out for his government's interests, against Qatar, who owns the board, every player China doesn't own the first time, how many Xi loyal employees, you'd have to fumigate the building,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 10:49 AM
not for turning
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/uk-cops-accuse-wrong-guys-wrong-think-bruce-bawer/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 10:52 AM
as I remarked elsewhere, why did we need the Espionage Act, wasn't the Treason statute sufficient,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 10:53 AM
oh really now,
https://mobile.twitter.com/JayWeber3/status/1559527881704980483?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Gerstein hasn't recovered from the thumbscrews, sarc,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 10:56 AM
a dog returns to his vomit
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/dan-rather-whoops-joy-over-fbi-raid-humberto-fontova/
that was the dejavu I got even before he bellowed,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 10:58 AM
he could have gone with outrage, but he has the facts behind him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lDvZ1IPj4
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 11:00 AM
par for the course
https://honestreporting.com/honestreporting-expose-prompts-new-york-times-to-fire-gaza-stringer-who-called-for-the-murder-of-jews/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 11:17 AM
HotAir asks some great questions:https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/16/hmmm-fbi-returns-trump-passports-that-never-appeared-on-search-inventory-n489959
Posted by: clarice | August 16, 2022 at 11:38 AM
there was no justification for any of this, not the fisa warrant, not the first impeachment, not the second, to quibble about technicalities is a pointless exercise, they picked rheinhart, after the 6 judges recused because thats what he does,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 11:43 AM
Just as I predicted:https://www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-fbi-raid-surveillance-tape-mar-lago-1733965
And the timing of the release will be perfect and HUUUUUGE
Posted by: clarice | August 16, 2022 at 11:48 AM
i would have thought this event would be a sinequanon, (that was the name of a good blog years ago) but possums still do what they do
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 12:09 PM
hand the city back to the indians,
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/16/science/boston-wants-ban-fossil-fuels-new-buildings/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 12:24 PM
this just in,
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/08/islamic-state-conducts-second-major-prison-break-in-congo.php
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 01:05 PM
they have become much more arrogant since the san diego city manager case,
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/doj-admits-it-took-trumps-passports-offers-return-them
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 01:58 PM
sure they did
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/recall-effort-for-l-a-county-da-george-gascon-fails-to-clear-signature-hurdle/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 02:01 PM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/merrick-garland-the-washington-post-and-the-nuclear-story-11660671636?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb
Posted by: clarice | August 16, 2022 at 02:06 PM
it sounded too much like this in kind contribution
https://freebeacon.com/media/trump-derangement-porn/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 02:10 PM
but of course,
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/new-york-times-suddenly-discovers-the-importance-of-the-freedom-of-speech-even-regarding-islam
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 02:30 PM
a critter from the last go around
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/white-house-climate-official-sanctioned
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 03:14 PM
https://www.revolver.news/2022/08/jan-6-pipe-bombers-mechanical-timer-detonates-fedsurrection-lie/
Posted by: clarice | August 16, 2022 at 03:22 PM
with announcing they have the tapes of the search and will release them at the time of their choosing--the Trump team has just pulled a J Edgar Hoover on the FBI itself:Pretend you're the AG-You already know the clowns who conducted the search overreached. Imagine how tightly wound you are imagining what the videos will show..Agents fingering Melania's Undies? Laughing as they grabbed the passports and deciding not to inventory them? Oh my
Posted by: clarice | August 16, 2022 at 03:24 PM
When your cat crashes his bicycle during his dream.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1559294958707818499
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 05:14 PM
to think that sullivan might have been their high water mark
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/08/15/the-atlantic-is-bad-really-bad-redsteeze-takes-the-atlantic-apart-for-a-plethora-of-crap-articles-attacking-the-rosary-in-brutal-thread/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 05:41 PM
Latest Trump Raid Development Totally Shreds the FBI's Narrative
Aug 16, 2022 3:00 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/16/latest-development-about-ag-merrick-garland-shreds-the-fbis-narrative-on-trump-r-n2611810?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=ac90aae15dceaaaacf24aa6a230cf21eb21f5e01e951821dcd42379
Posted by: Rocco | August 16, 2022 at 05:56 PM
as if they care, lets remember it's not garland who runs the department, it's friend of cop killers clarke, it's russian truther monaco, it's vanita gupta, who is like minded, and that sounds extreme but there is evidence,
a year ago, they attacked parents as terrorists, now they are a looting party under law,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 06:06 PM
tom wolfe would be surprised how low things have gotten to the point where mau mauing is the goal
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-kristen-clarke-conference-cop-killers
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 06:08 PM
its a floor wax and a desert topping,
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/16/democrats-media-seized-on-saudi-role-in-khashoggi-murder-downplay-irans-role-in-rushdie-attack/
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 06:56 PM
twenty years ago we should have listened to him
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-on-the-russian-way-of-war
it would have saved us much pain,
Posted by: Narciso | August 16, 2022 at 07:15 PM
Russia was once just the Duchy of Moscow. A small, burgh of ill educated smelly unimportant tributaries of the Golden Horde.
They then got big headed after the fall of Constantinople and began calling themselves czars. Since then they have been a constant search for legitimacy. Massacres, executions and treachery were all a part of doing business.
As the West progressed, a massive inferiority complex also grew.
Not much has changed since.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | August 16, 2022 at 07:55 PM
Lisbon (Lisboa), By Alberto Saebra
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/lisboaportugalAlbertoSaebra.jpg
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 07:58 PM
One ornery snake
https://twitter.com/i/status/1557111152743784448
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 07:59 PM
Fire in the hole (Lets move over here)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1556044013010124801
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:00 PM
Sleeping turtle
https://twitter.com/i/status/1558465800046055424
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:01 PM
Cat discovers her mistress' tattoo, considers eating it.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1558365472978075649
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:05 PM
This will brighten your day
https://twitter.com/i/status/1558356806082109442
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:06 PM
Guess what type of snake
https://twitter.com/i/status/1558549859422158848
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:07 PM
There's always one when it's time for a picture.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1558164316427264005
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:13 PM
everybody raise their shoes 😍♥️🤣
https://twitter.com/i/status/1559573525849116674
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:14 PM
Don't worry, the fawn is just frightened and playing dead. The mother comes to tell him it's time to hoof it.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1559295596552491008
Posted by: Davod | August 16, 2022 at 08:16 PM
I'm going to hit the hay and crash out for the night.
According to all news outlets, Cheney is projected to lose tonight.
If there is a 'delay' in vote counting while I sleep and I get up in the morning and she has won, I will only be moderately surprised.
Posted by: bubarooni | August 16, 2022 at 10:52 PM
The Feds grabbed Trump's passports - his expired one, as well as his super-duper-I-was-Prez passport. Then they handed them back. It's tempting to say, "OK, we're square, since the feds returned the passports." I wonder why they grabbed the passports in the first place. Was it because raiders can't help but raid? Or, maybe, all the feds wanted was to see the stamps on Trump's passports (do some Feds believe there really were secret Russia trips that would be recorded in a passport stamp that no Fed has seen before and that will finally bring Trump down?) ...
Posted by: jimb | August 16, 2022 at 11:32 PM
They wanted to assure he couldn't leave the country without having to get a court order to do that, jimb.
Posted by: clarice | August 17, 2022 at 09:38 AM
Yes, narciso.
Posted by: clarice | August 17, 2022 at 09:39 AM
https://resistthemainstream.org/fbi-asked-cops-to-let-protesters-into-michigan-state-capitol-building-informant-says/?utm_source=newsletter2
Posted by: clarice | August 17, 2022 at 09:56 AM
Tucker outlined the level of manufacturing the coen bros militia, the so called whitmer plot, breaking every rule in the book,
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 10:30 AM
despite the cards stacked against her:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11118351/Polls-close-Alaska-races-featuring-Sarah-Palin-Lisa-Murkowski.html
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 10:36 AM
the rest of the story,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OWBVtqa6flQ&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 10:37 AM
youtube wan't to keep the illusion alive:
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1559735127554539522?cxt=HHwWhICy2bW1paUrAAAA
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 10:42 AM
gotham is not supposed to be a how to manual
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/read-letter-from-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-threatening-church-hosting-trump-friendly-event/
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM
the truth comes out:
https://twitter.com/FOOL_NELSON
in dribs and drabs,
Posted by: Narciso | August 17, 2022 at 11:21 AM