Flynn case dropped!!! Democrats revealed as LIARS!!!
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UPDATED: Friday, August 4, 2023 18:48
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Quote:Why blame Trump for what he does not have complete or nearly complete control over? For example he has no control over what goes into the budget, but he can and has been an ass by not signing bills and thereby causing government shutdowns. One example:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Why don't you ever criticize Trump for something real, like his inability to withdraw troops from the Mideast, or his reliance on The Fed (which is the biggest driver of wealth inequality in the USA) and the stock market bubble, or the deficits?
www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/trump-shutdown-announcement-1125529
Trump does NOT have control over treaties negotiated by previous Presidents but he has complete control over negotiations for new nuclear treaties with Russia and Iran. What happened? He let them expire and there is nothing Congress or Obama can do about it.
www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/politics/nuclear-treaty-inf-us-withdraws-russia
/index.html
www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/USRussiaNuclearAgreements
Trump has little control over what civil servants say about Covid-19, but Trump has complete control over what he says about it and he has been a dithering ass:
https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/04/18/59-worst-lies-trump-told-corona
virus-past-month/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:I have to disagree with Taibbi on this one. Any pretense the democrats had at being pro civil liberties evaporated with the PATRIOT Act.
Taibbi: Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties
Pundits are cheering. A trio of former law enforcement and judicial officials saluted Sullivan in the Washington Post, chirping, “The Flynn case isn’t over until a judge says it’s over.” Yuppie icon Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and the New Yorker, one of the #Resistance crowd’s favored legal authorities, described Sullivan’s appointment of Judge John Gleeson as “brilliant.” MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said Americans owe Sullivan a “debt of gratitude.”
One had to search far and wide to find a non-conservative legal analyst willing to say the obvious, i.e. that Sullivan’s decision was the kind of thing one would expect from a judge in Belarus. George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley was one of the few willing to say Sullivan’s move could “could create a threat of a judicial charge even when prosecutors agree with defendants.”
Whatever one’s opinion of Flynn, his relations with Turkey, his “Lock her up!” chants, his haircut, or anything, this case was never about much. There’s no longer pretense that prosecution would lead to the unspooling of a massive Trump-Russia conspiracy, as pundits once breathlessly expected. In fact, news that Flynn was cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller inspired many of the “Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?” stories that will someday fill whole chapters of Journalism Fucks Up 101 textbooks.
The acts at issue are calls Flynn made to Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak on December 29th, 2016 in which he told the Russians not to overreact to sanctions. That’s it. The investigation was about to be dropped, but someone got the idea of using electronic surveillance of the calls to leverage a case into existence.
In a secrets-laundering maneuver straight out of the Dick Cheney playbook, some bright person first illegally leaked classified details to David Ignatius at the Washington Post, then agents rushed to interview Flynn about the “news.”
A Laurel-and-Hardy team of agents conducted the interview, then took three weeks to write and re-write multiple versions of the interview notes used as evidence (because why record it?). They were supervised by a counterintelligence chief who then memorialized on paper his uncertainty over whether the FBI was trying to “get him to lie” or “get him fired,” worrying that they’d be accused of “playing games.” After another leak to the Washington Post in early February, 2017, Flynn actually was fired, and later pleaded guilty to lying about sanctions in the Kislyak call, the transcript of which was of course never released to either the defense or the public.
Warrantless surveillance, multiple illegal leaks of classified information, a false statements charge constructed on the razor’s edge of Miranda, and the use of never-produced, secret counterintelligence evidence in a domestic criminal proceeding – this is the “rule of law” we’re being asked to cheer.
https://taibbi.substack.com/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-democrats-have-abandoned-ci
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It's just gonna get worse from here on out for the Democrats.
Hold onto your butts.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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Michael Flynn case: Justice Department actions are 'a gross abuse of prosecutorial power,' court-appointed lawyer says
The court-appointed lawyer John Gleeson also argued that Flynn should be sentenced for lying, including for perjuring himself in court for admitting his crimes then disavowing them.
Gleeson, looking at Flynn's full case record, reasoned that the Justice Department's recent support of Flynn is so politically advantageous to President Donald Trump and atypical for prosecutors, it's undermined the public's trust in the rule of law.
"The facts surrounding the filing of the Government's motion constitute clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse. They reveal an unconvincing effort to disguise as legitimate a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that Flynn is a political ally of President Trump," Gleeson wrote to US District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Wednesday.
The Justice Department "abdicated that responsibility" to prosecute defendants without fear or favor, Gleeson wrote, by "attempting to provide special treatment to a favored friend and political ally of the President of the United States," capturing what many critics of Attorney General William Barr and Trump, especially in the legal community, have alleged.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-flynn-case-justice-dep
artment-actions-are-a-gross-abuse-of-prosecutorial-power-court-appointed-lawyer-says/ar-BB15ja34?ocid=msedgntp
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Bolton claims Trump asked China to help him win re-election
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SO, to recap the Flynn case ...
Flynn was maneuvered by the FIB into misstating his conversations with Russian ambassador. Their plan was to either get him to admit he had discussed sanctions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, or force him to lie. He did not say that he didn't discuss sanctions with Kislyak, only that he didn't remember if he had.
The FIB who were interviewing him at the time believed that HE believed he was telling the truth. Nonetheless, they pressure Flynn into pleading guilty by swarming him with an army of lawyers and threatening his son, withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense, and engaged in other prosecutorial misconduct.
When this internal FIB collusion was discovered via handwritten notes, and the exculpatory evidence unearthed by Flynn's new legal team, the DOJ withdrew its case.
The Judge hearing the case, Emmett Sullivan, refused to dismiss the case and instead appointed what was, in essence, ANOTHER prosecutor, Gleeson. This is so far outside of Constitutional authority of any judge- whose duty it is to rule on the procedural fairness of a trial and sentencing, not to act as either prosecutor or defense- that Sullivan himself hired his own lawyer to defend his own actions.
Since Gleeson (a private practice lawyer) was hired to, in essence, re-prosecute the case, he did what he was hired to do and made the strongest possible argument, not only arguing that Flynn should be jailed for the original crime (which he did not commit) but also that he should be jailed for perjury because he falsely plead guilty.
Now, in order to realize how fucked up this is, you have to understand that since Flynn had not been accused of, tried for, or found guilty of perjury, Gleeson is recommending that someone be sentenced for a crime that has has not even been tried, so there is no due process. This would be an extremely dangerous precedent a perversion of justice, and a reversal of all of the Constitutional protections that are supposed to be afforded ANYONE who is accused of a crime. Also, this would mean that ANYONE having been pressured to plead guilty who then attempts to reverse the plea would be considered to have committed perjury.
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Flynn's lawyers accuse outside counsel of 'flagrant personal and partisan assault'
By Harper Neidig - 06/17/20 02:09 PM EDT
Flynn's lawyers accuse outside counsel of 'flagrant personal and partisan assault'
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Michael Flynn's lawyers on Wednesday accused a former federal judge appointed to argue against the Department of Justice's (DOJ) effort to drop its charges against the former national security adviser of engaging in a "flagrant personal and partisan assault."
John Gleeson, who was tapped to serve as an amicus to offer a counter-argument against the DOJ's unusual reversal, last week urged the court not to allow the DOJ to drop the charges and accused Flynn of perjury.
"The irony and sheer duplicity of Amicus’s accusations against the Justice Department now—which is finally exposing the truth—is stunning," Flynn's lawyers wrote in a court filing. "Amicus’s filing is a 'wrap-up smear.' It is an affront to the Rule of Law and a raging insult to the citizens of this country who see the abject corruption in this assassination by political prosecution of General Flynn. This court exuviated any appearance of neutrality when it unlawfully appointed Amicus as its own adversary to make these scurrilous arguments."
Gleeson, through a spokesman, declined to comment.
Gleeson, who is now in private practice, laid out his case last week against the DOJ's surprising move to withdraw its charges. He accused the department of "gross abuse of prosecutorial power" in seeking to help President Trump's political ally and argued that Judge Emmet Sullivan is within his authority to reject the move.
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THUGR: John Bolt-on is a liar.
He lied about Saddam's WMD.
He lied about Cuba. (He accused them of developing advanced chemical weapons to use against the USA.)
He lied to Trump about N Korea and botched negotiations on purpose.
And he SAID he would lie to the American public in an interview on FOX News.
He is known to be a vindictive man who would bully, harass, intimidate, and defame anyone who crossed him, and considering how he's lied in the past, why believe anything that he writes now?
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John Bolton’s bombshell Trump book: eight of its most stunning claims
1. Trump pleaded with China to help win the 2020 election
According to the excerpt of Bolton’s book published by the Wall Street Journal, Trump asked China to use its economic power to help him win a second election.
In one instance, Trump and President Xi Jinping were discussing hostility to China in the US. “Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
2. Trump suggested he was open to serving more than two terms
In another eye-opening exchange published in the Wall Street Journal, Trump also seems to support Xi’s idea of eliminating presidential term limits. “Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him,” Bolton writes. “Xi said the US had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.”
3. Trump offered favors to dictators
Bolton’s book reportedly details cases where Trump tried to kill criminal investigations as favors to dictators. One incident published in the Washington Post includes a 2018 discussion with the Turkish president, Recep Erdogan. Bolton says Erdogan gave Trump a memo claiming that a Turkish firm under investigation in the US was innocent. “Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the southern district prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people.”
4. Trump praised President Xi for China’s concentration camps
According to Bolton, Trump was also approving when Xi defended China’s internment of Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.” According to leaked Communist party documents published in November, at least 1 million Uighur Muslims are detained in the camps.
5. Trump defended Saudi Arabia to distract from a story about Ivanka
Trump made headlines in November 2018 when he released a bizarre statement defending the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. It included lines such as “The world is a very dangerous place!” and “maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”
According to Bolton’s book, making headlines was the point. A story about his daughter Ivanka using her personal email for government business was also in the news at the time. After waging war on Hilary Clinton during the 2016 campaign for doing the same thing, Trump need a distraction.
“This will divert from Ivanka,” Trump reportedly said. “If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing.”
6. Trump’s top staff mocked him behind his back
From what has been reported, it sounds like Bolton’s book provides one of the clearest insights into the despair of Trump’s top officials behind the scenes.
In one example given by the New York Times, Bolton claims he received a note from the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, after Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, simply saying, “He is so full of s**t.” On top of this, Pompeo also allegedly said a month later that Trump’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea had “zero probability of success”.
7. Trump thought Finland was part of Russia
Bolton’s book reportedly details some g
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Quote:Let's recap: you are a Russian Troll, Signym.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SO, to recap the Flynn case ...
On December 29, 2016, then-President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for having interfered in the election. Incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn called Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and asked Russia not to escalate the situation in response to the sanctions. The following day, Putin announced that Russia would not take retaliatory measures in response to the sanctions at that time. Hours later, President-Elect Trump tweeted, “Great move on delay (by V. Putin).” The next day, on December 31, 2016, Kislyak called Flynn and told him the request had been received at the highest levels and Russia had chosen not to retaliate as a result of Flynn’s request.
Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. The Office charged some of those lies as violations of the federal false-statements statute. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his interactions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period. George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor during the campaign period, pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about, inter alia, the nature and timing of his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, the professor who told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on candidate Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. Former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about the Trump Moscow project.
From the Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Volume I of II
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III
www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Only one of which can be verified.
Originally posted by THG:
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John Bolton’s bombshell Trump book: eight of its most stunning claims
Anybody can claim anything. Bolt-on wrote passionately about Saddam's WMD, and Cuba's WMD program. Madcow spoke passionately... and continuously!... about collusion which never happened. The NYT published endless column-inches about a "dossier" which was a complete joke, and about how Russia "hacked" our elections which never happened.
But THUGR believed every single piece of garbage, and apparently STILL hasn't figured out that political, deep state, media figures lie- and lie shamelessly - because he still believes liars.
What a dupe.
Hey, THUGR: The Mueller "investagation" is still over, and there was STILL no collusion. So wrap your head around THAT before you promulgate more hype and hysteria.
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