I don't think Bill Barr will be back on Fox News anytime soon. Fox News anchors aren't happy here. He backed the truck up and ran it over former guy, then backed it up and ran over him a second time for good measure.
Fox knew what Barr was going to say. It's all theater.
There have been signs over the past week that Fox is looking for an exit strategy on Trump. That, I think, is why this time is different than the previous scandals. We've reached the point where enough of the GOP machinery sees Trump as a net liability to their power structure.
In the last decade or so, the country has been broken in a way that can only be mended by the GOP returning to some semblance of sanity and that can't happen unless enough of the party turns against their worst impulses.
Fox knew what Barr was going to say. It's all theater.
There have been signs over the past week that Fox is looking for an exit strategy on Trump. That, I think, is why this time is different than the previous scandals. We've reached the point where enough of the GOP machinery sees Trump as a net liability to their power structure.
I agree on Fox kicking the tires on abandoning Trump. They seem to put something like this out there every few days or so and then go back to avoiding the subject. Newsmax had the same issue which you can read the faces of the reporters when they got a response from one of "their" guys who said they thought Trump would be indicted and probably convicted on an obstruction charge.
The problem for Fox lies in how they ended up in trouble with Dominion which essentially came down to the network trying to lure the base back by backing multiple election conspiracy theories. By not backing Trump they run the risk of the base running elsewhere. I assume OAN stays hard and true to Trump.
"The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic, are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater the number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.” In short, for Madison, democracy meant direct democracy, and republic meant representative government."
Now name a single country that can be considered a democracy using this definition. Literally no one means direct democracy when they call a country a democracy.
Correct. There's no country in which all the citizens vote on every potential piece of legislation.
But let's get down to cases. Redhatters are against democracy, in principle, because there are fewer of them. The trivial example that's always brought up: They're big fans of the electoral college because, at present, one of theirs has a better chance of being elected president through the EC, whereas the last time a GOP candidate mustered a majority of actual votes was 18 years ago.
But it truly goes much deeper than that. Even in a country like ours, with a Constitution that protects the minority from majority rule in many ways (a very good thing IMO), they *still* are against the principle of democracy in the limited areas where majority rule applies--because the majority could very well be "the wrong kind of people." They don't want things decided by a majority vote of all the citizens, because many of those citizens are not like them, and hence cannot be depended on to make the right choices.
This might not be connected, but could this guy have dropped by MaL at some point to do laundry, or maybe get some hot 'gossip' from a certain resident who is also a buddy of Putin?
The properties are allegedly linked to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
"In an inventory from the Justice Department unsealed by a judge Friday, the government detailed that interspersed with Trump’s personal belongings were 48 empty folders with classified banners as well as another 42 empty folders that were labeled “return to staff secretary/military aide,” according to the filing. The majority were found in Trump’s office, rather than the storage room at Mar-a-Lago. It’s not clear if the materials the folders once housed are elsewhere in the boxes of recovered evidence, but experts say the suite of questions the detail raises argues in favor of allowing the Justice Department to continue its investigation, even as Trump seeks to stall its progress. “The ideal scenario that would describe this is that the empty folders are actually for the records that are somewhere else in the boxes — that someone just didn’t keep them in the folder in the way they were supposed to, so they’re not actually out there in the wild somewhere,” said Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, a nonprofit law firm specializing in national security law."
But hey, no big deal, he probably declassified them before leaving them around or losing them.
This might not be connected, but could this guy have dropped by MaL at some point to do laundry, or maybe get some hot 'gossip' from a certain resident who is also a buddy of Putin?
There is absolutely no way DJT (and the GQP) can emerge from this unscathed. There will be a civil war, but it will mostly be within the Party itself. QAnon/MAGA vs The Sane.
The consequences of this is that there will not be a reasonable opposition to the Democrats. Nothing to check them. No alternative. For a decade at least.
If the Trump quotes in this article are true (it's CNN, so accuracy is always questionable), then this is a significant problem for Trump.
If he actually said at one time: "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law." and also "That is the most confidential stuff. Classified. That's classified. You go to prison when you release stuff like that." then his legal problems are a lot worse than have been reported. He is going to see those very words repeated back to him in multiple briefs filed by Federal prosecutors, if this proceeds. In general, there is nothing more damning to a party to litigation than his or her contradictory previous statements. It absolutely destroys all credibility on any issue.
If true, the facts in this CNN article pose huge problems for Trump, and his bush league lawyers don't have the ability to handle them. He is going to be bludgeoned with his own words. Bludgeoned like a plate of mashed potatoes.
If the Trump quotes in this article are true (it's CNN, so accuracy is always questionable), then this is a significant problem for Trump.
If he actually said at one time: "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law." and also "That is the most confidential stuff. Classified. That's classified. You go to prison when you release stuff like that." then his legal problems are a lot worse than have been reported. He is going to see those very words repeated back to him in multiple briefs filed by Federal prosecutors, if this proceeds. In general, there is nothing more damning to a party to litigation than his or her contradictory previous statements. It absolutely destroys all credibility on any issue.
If true, the facts in this CNN article pose huge problems for Trump, and his bush league lawyers don't have the ability to handle them. He is going to be bludgeoned with his own words. Bludgeoned like a plate of mashed potatoes.
Add the fact that he is the President who signed the law making the punishment for these crimes stiffer (mishandling a classified document is not a felony punishable by up to five years per charge, when previously it was one year), so he can't escape the fact that HE thinks this kind of crime is serious and must be punished severely. Of course, he thought he was being cute and making it all about Hillary, but it's going to bite him.
If the Trump quotes in this article are true (it's CNN, so accuracy is always questionable), then this is a significant problem for Trump.
If he actually said at one time: "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law." and also "That is the most confidential stuff. Classified. That's classified. You go to prison when you release stuff like that." then his legal problems are a lot worse than have been reported. He is going to see those very words repeated back to him in multiple briefs filed by Federal prosecutors, if this proceeds. In general, there is nothing more damning to a party to litigation than his or her contradictory previous statements. It absolutely destroys all credibility on any issue.
If true, the facts in this CNN article pose huge problems for Trump, and his bush league lawyers don't have the ability to handle them. He is going to be bludgeoned with his own words. Bludgeoned like a plate of mashed potatoes.
Add the fact that he is the President who signed the law making the punishment for these crimes stiffer (mishandling a classified document is not a felony punishable by up to five years per charge, when previously it was one year), so he can't escape the fact that HE thinks this kind of crime is serious and must be punished severely. Of course, he thought he was being cute and making it all about Hillary, but it's going to bite him.
Add the fact that he is the President who signed the law making the punishment for these crimes stiffer (mishandling a classified document is not a felony punishable by up to five years per charge, when previously it was one year), so he can't escape the fact that HE thinks this kind of crime is serious and must be punished severely. Of course, he thought he was being cute and making it all about Hillary, but it's going to bite him.
He's going to be hoisted on his own petard.
"Luckily, I declassified!"
He is so screwed
Yes.
Just like the phony he's a Russian agent and there is a pee tape story.
And he spoke with Ukraine so much be impeached.
How can you fall for the lies over and over and over again?
How can you fall for the lies over and over and over again?
So he did declassify those documents? Where is the paper trail? Why do they not say, "DECLASSIFIED" across them? Why are the other copies of these documents still classified? Why was this not widely disseminated within government?
...and as others have pointed out, it doesn't matter at all whether or not Trump declassified documents that he took and refused to return and hid. It's still the same charges, the same serious nature.
So he did declassify those documents? Where is the paper trail? Why do they not say, "DECLASSIFIED" across them? Why are the other copies of these documents still classified? Why was this not widely disseminated within government?
BREAKING NEWS! Trump provides map he personally declassified showing that he moved Mar-a-Lago into international waters!
How can you fall for the lies over and over and over again?
So he did declassify those documents? Where is the paper trail? Why do they not say, "DECLASSIFIED" across them? Why are the other copies of these documents still classified? Why was this not widely disseminated within government?
Are you really this clueless? Classified documents don't have to have "classified" on them. The nature of the documents determines whether the documents are classified or not classified. Similarly, documents don't have to have "declassified" splashed across them. It is really embarrassing that you would even think that.
So he did declassify those documents? Where is the paper trail? Why do they not say, "DECLASSIFIED" across them? Why are the other copies of these documents still classified? Why was this not widely disseminated within government?
Are you really this clueless? Classified documents don't have to have "classified" on them. The nature of the documents determines whether the documents are classified or not classified. Similarly, documents don't have to have "declassified" splashed across them. It is really embarrassing that you would even think that.
Security clearance both as a public and private employee. All classified documents have their classification stamped on them. It is glaringly obvious when handling them.
