Trump is basically exactly the playbook for a typical white collar criminal. So they just keep explaining and typically neatly lay out all the elements of the crime while their lawyer goes "Take the Fifth you moron!" They basically think they're smarter than the law, so it doesn't apply to them they're smarter than the jury and they're smarter than their lawyer. They're nightmare clients because they're deeply convinced that if they just explain their reason, the court will let them go, so they won't shut up about how exactly they committed their crime. They always had a good reason for committing the crime. McGee did white-collar criminal defense for a while, and basically, white collar criminals never think they've done anything wrong. "What I have never understood about white-collar/political criminals is why they *keep* the evidence." It's hard to overstate how things changed in the late 40s and again in the 70s. Unless it was related to ongoing military activity it was fair game if you could get somebody to disclose it. There was no such thing as a classified document. We didn't have FOIA before, but government didn't keep that many secrets until then. We also forget how the culture of secrecy can be traced directly back to the atomic bomb. The PRA and FOIA were both direct responses to Nixon taking the bullshit to the next level. At this remove we often fail to grasp just how pissed off Congress and the people were and how the resulting legislation made it a lot harder for the executive branch to keep secrets. This is yet another thing for which we have Nixon to thank.
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Those will usually end up in party archives and not be available to the public or the federal archive that was supposed to collect them. It is generally accepted that the chancellor will take official documents with them when they leave office. Given how everything the wingnuts do is a grift, my immediate assumption upon learning of the "accidental" release of Alex Jones' text messages and other documents was that it's a ploy to put Jones' attorney's E&O insurer on the hook for some or all of the damages awarded. My overly-conspirated mind will need hard proof that this isn't linked directly to the contents of one Alex Emerick Jones phone data. We should hold the FBI and the judges up to a very high bar here, raiding the home of an ex-president could be the start of a very bad precedent.
This has to be a very unbiased case without even a hint of political influence. I would like to believe that judge wouldn't sign an affidavit and the FBI wouldn't push for this unless they had absolutely an airtight case, but then again remember Waco? Our federal agents do not have the best track record here and have shown they can be under the influence of politics like any other institution.ĭon't get me wrong I want Trump to just go away, but I'm not willing to put blinders on to make that happen. The FBI cannot screw this up, or they'll hand Trump a huge win. I know people will roll their eyes we should take him at face value until we know otherwise, claiming that it is empty to have it not be empty when evidence is presented will be a stretch of truth even for the Trumps. Posted by Iris Gambol at 10:46 PM on August 8 Įric Trump is reporting the safe is empty. (" It's been quite a day," Letters from an American, 8/8/22) Jones’s lawyer had inadvertently sent the messages to opposing counsel during his recent trial. Capitol was also in the news today: CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that two years of text messages to and from conspiracy theorist and January 5 rally speaker Alex Jones have been sent to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Manafort had previously denied this story.Īlso: The January 6 attack on the U.S. In the interview, Manafort admitted what the Senate Intelligence Committee said in their report about Russian interference in the 2016 election: he gave internal polling data from the Trump campaign to Konstantin Kilimnik, who, according to the Senate report, was a Russian intelligence agent.
They went on to be political appointees and colleagues.Īlso: Trump’s 2016 campaign chair, Paul Manafort, has written a book, and to sell it, he gave a long interview to Mattathias Schwartz of Insider. Wray was two years behind Kavanaugh at Yale College, and followed him to Yale Law School. Bush administration, and is a member of the Federalist Society.
Last Thursday, Wray admitted to the Senate Judiciary committee that the Trump White House directed the FBI ( non) investigation of the sexual assault allegations made against SC nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Just your friendly reminder that FBI director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump.
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