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Breaking: FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by larsv8, Aug 8, 2022.

  1. Invisible Fan

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    Yeeaaaahhbuuttt we should still hang that sumbich Mike Pence.

    Can Both Sides agree to that??
     
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    This made me laugh.............this dude is something else, its bizarro world every dam day. I wonder if he has someone doing his tweets, no ALL caps and decent spelling with no made up words
     
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    In a big surprise, trump asks his judge for another delay...

     
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    Neither of those guys can promise her a ussc justice seat...

     
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    Hmm... I am not a lawyer, but this sure sounds like bribing a witness...

     
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    Copying a Classified Document to a laptop? Good lord. Dementia Don has had zero classified doc handling training. Zero. Or was he too stupid to understand the training? Or did he think his status as God Emperor made him exempt from human laws?
     
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    The familiar irony at the bottom of Trump’s selective prosecution argument

    In a new motion filed Thursday, Trump’s lawyers argue that a Chinese immigrant’s case provides the precedent for throwing out the charges in Florida. It’s hard to think of a famous Supreme Court plaintiff with whom former President Donald Trump has less in common than Lee Yick.

    Yick sued, arguing that San Francisco’s pattern of denying permits to virtually every Chinese applicant while granting them to virtually every white applicant violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court’s 1886 decision in his case, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, still stands today. It says that the application of a race-neutral law, such as San Francisco’s laundry-permitting scheme, can be so obviously discriminatory that it demonstrates an intentional (and actionable) violation of the Constitution.

    A claim for selective prosecution is, in essence, a claim that the government chose to prosecute a defendant for the exact same conduct for which it chose not to prosecute a different individual. Only if the defendant could prove that the government had deliberately and intentionally singled him out from other similarly situated suspects without any good reason would such a claim succeed. In this regard,

    Trump’s uniqueness hurts him, for try as his brief might, it doesn’t identify any other cases with similar claims about affirmative misrepresentations concerning the suspect’s retention of classified information. Because there aren’t any. Trump isn’t the poster child for these reforms; he’s the anti-poster-child. Indeed, he’s in the position he’s in entirely because his behavior went so far beyond the limits of that of any of his predecessors.

    Trump would need to produce examples of government officials who, when specifically asked to return classified information wrongfully in their possession, not only lied about having that information but took steps to obstruct the government’s attempt to recover that information. That’s what the indictment in the Mar-a-Lago case alleges Trump did. That wasn’t true of Lee Yick, and that why Trump’s arguments that he’s just like Lee Yick are doomed to fail.

    https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna150655#amp_tf=From %1$s&aoh=17148247608450&referrer=https://www.google.com
     
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    Biden, Clinton, Obama, Pence… none were prosecuted for mishandling classified info… this is selective prosecution in the extreme.

    Liberals can’t win on policy so they shift the political battle to the courtroom. The opposite of democracy. Shame. I am however fascinated at how liberals twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain and justify their deceitful activity — again, comes back to them not having a moral core. The ends justifies the means, not matter how low they must go.
     
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    Your memory of the differences of the situations is what is twisted. There is no comparison to The depths Trump took in blatantly lying, hiding, and hoarding boxes and boxes and boxes around for months after being told to turn them in. Your problem is that you trust and believe the words of a compulsive lying con man. Until you wake up and smell the coffee he has you right where he wants you. Blinded by facts.
     

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