This dime bag of cocaine is not that big of a deal. It really isn't. We all understand why the right wing needs and wants it to be a big deal. But lets set all that aside for a second.
The bigger issue is that the Secret Service needs some overhaul and some oversight. Seems they should be able to find out who left it there by cameras alone. But we have ample knowledge that the Secret Service is not a well run professional machine and can be corrupted. Yeah, at the top of the list is all those missing text messages the day before Jan 6th and all the various phony excuses why the were deleted. Seems the Secret service is very susceptible to being unprofessional. In their defense, when you follow a family around 24/7 you get to see some family dirt and probably get a little too chummy regardless of who is in office. I am sure they all have pretended "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" as part of their job.
it was a tiny bag of stuff in a high-traffic area. This isn't TV - in real life crimes don't get solved most of the time.
I still call BS. I've been in the White House a few times...cameras, security people...cameras...cameras. Also, if it's a staff person and probably also Hunter, then they would have fingerprints on record...mine are because I taught in government buildings. No fingerprints on that bag?
You don't seem to be backing up your original claim very well here.
You seem to making a tacit admission that the various cameras may well not be enough to ID the perp. Otherwise, why bring in the issue of fingerprints? And if there aren't any fingerprints, or they are not those of Hunter or any staff personnel, then you are basically admitting that it could well be that they have no idea who placed the bag there.
So? The FBI and city police forces are completely different things.
Yes
The FBI is law enforcement for white collar crimes and big league money laundering, racketeering and corruption. (And they help out local police when they need expertise and resources)
City Police is law enforcement for burglary, robbery, domestics and smaller theft.
if you look at those descriptions you should be able to figure out why the Trump GOP in congress wants to defund one and not the other.
Think about it for a while. It should come to you.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former California police chief was convicted on Thursday of joining the riot at the U.S. Capitol with a hatchet in his backpack and plotting to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. A judge in Washington’s federal court heard testimony without a jury before convicting Alan Hostetter, a right-wing activist and vocal critic of COVID-19 restrictions who defended himself at his bench trial with help from a standby attorney.
I'd put this in the crime-ish blotter but if the rubes haven't figured out that they are being milked by the Trumps then they deserve what they get. Victimless crime. Have fun, rubes.
NYT:
A super PAC aligned with former President Donald J. Trump paid Melania Trump $155,000 in late 2021, an unusual payment that was not visible in the group’s initial federal reports and came to light only in a filing by Mr. Trump on Thursday.
The money was listed as pay for a “speaking engagement” by Ms. Trump in the new filing, a personal financial disclosure by Mr. Trump. The $155,000 payment was made in December 2021 by Make America Great Again, Again, which at the time was Mr. Trump’s leading super PAC.
This is not the first time a political committee connected to Mr. Trump has made a payment related to his wife. Ms. Trump’s stylist was paid $132,000 in 2022 by Save America, a political action committee that became the vehicle to park tens of millions of dollars raised by Mr. Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election. As he made false claims of widespread election fraud, he received small-dollar contributions from supporters who wanted to help him fight to stay in office.
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I'd put this in the crime-ish blotter but if the rubes haven't figured out that they are being milked by the Trumps then they deserve what they get. Victimless crime. Have fun, rubes.
NYT:
A super PAC aligned with former President Donald J. Trump paid Melania Trump $155,000 in late 2021, an unusual payment that was not visible in the group’s initial federal reports and came to light only in a filing by Mr. Trump on Thursday.
The money was listed as pay for a “speaking engagement” by Ms. Trump in the new filing, a personal financial disclosure by Mr. Trump. The $155,000 payment was made in December 2021 by Make America Great Again, Again, which at the time was Mr. Trump’s leading super PAC.
This is not the first time a political committee connected to Mr. Trump has made a payment related to his wife. Ms. Trump’s stylist was paid $132,000 in 2022 by Save America, a political action committee that became the vehicle to park tens of millions of dollars raised by Mr. Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election. As he made false claims of widespread election fraud, he received small-dollar contributions from supporters who wanted to help him fight to stay in office.
Presidents have to pay for a lot of things out of pocket. Do you think Obama was able to pay for all these things out of his own pocket? He was not worth very much when he was elected. Of course he is riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich now. His supporters had to bankroll him too.
I'm not sure where you live. But the thing is that especially in NYC, the victims aren't just criminals anymore. I'm sure you heard of the nurse killed by being pushed onto the subway, but there's far more random crime as well: Jordan Neely would be another example of that. His behavior was so erratic that the NYC commuters felt threatened enough to call 911. It's not just gang crime in Brownsville anymore.
Chicago is similar - carjackings and normal people being shot were almost unheard of. But now it's not just gang members in Englewood anymore. Multiple people I know (of) have been mugged and/or carjacked in "nice" areas. And just look at the chaos downtown in April
The FBI has always been an arm of the Dems, but their partisanship is even more pronounced today. While crime spiked, they called concerned parents at school board meetings 'terrorists'.
the chickens are coming home to roost for the seditious and the liars
Judge Beryl Howell orders Rudy Giuliani to pay $89,172.50 in attorneys fees to Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman…and threatens to hold him in contempt of court if he doesn’t comply with obligations to turn over more documents.
The FBI has always been an arm of the Dems, but their partisanship is even more pronounced today. While crime spiked, they called concerned parents at school board meetings 'terrorists'.
‘The FBI has always been an arm of the Dems.’
the writer of that sentence is blindingly ignorant. I mean to think that…dude has a wild lack of historical knowledge. A candidate for ‘worst post ever’ on lrc.
So? The FBI and city police forces are completely different things.
Yes
The FBI is law enforcement for white collar crimes and big league money laundering, racketeering and corruption. (And they help out local police when they need expertise and resources)
City Police is law enforcement for burglary, robbery, domestics and smaller theft.
if you look at those descriptions you should be able to figure out why the Trump GOP in congress wants to defund one and not the other.
Think about it for a while. It should come to you.
White collar crime like surveiling parents at school board meetings?
Or falsely telling social media companies the Hunter laptop story was Russian disinfo so they would censor it? That white collar crime?
Or how about their plot to infiltrate "extreme" Catholic churches. That was a fun one. So much "white collar crime."
The January 6 Insurrectionist who caused a “career-ending and life-altering” shoulder injury to Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell has just been sentenced to over 7 YEARS in prison. Kyle Fitzsimons, who wearing a white butcher’s coat embroidered with his first name when he stormed the Capitol, assaulted at least five officers near a tunnel as police desperately tried to protect an entrance to the Capitol from the angry mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters, prosecutors said. The federal judge who sentenced Fitzsimons also convicted him of 11 charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. Fitzsimons was one of the most violent and aggressive participants in the riot.
I'm not sure where you live. But the thing is that especially in NYC, the victims aren't just criminals anymore. I'm sure you heard of the nurse killed by being pushed onto the subway, but there's far more random crime as well: Jordan Neely would be another example of that. His behavior was so erratic that the NYC commuters felt threatened enough to call 911. It's not just gang crime in Brownsville anymore.
Wow. Well, thank goodness NYC has a lower homicide rate than does the state of Florida. I've lived in both places but now hesitate to visit family in FL.
I'm not sure where you live. But the thing is that especially in NYC, the victims aren't just criminals anymore. I'm sure you heard of the nurse killed by being pushed onto the subway, but there's far more random crime as well: Jordan Neely would be another example of that. His behavior was so erratic that the NYC commuters felt threatened enough to call 911. It's not just gang crime in Brownsville anymore.
Wow. Well, thank goodness NYC has a lower homicide rate than does the state of Florida. I've lived in both places but now hesitate to visit family in FL.
You stay home then. Most people are not afraid to visit the great state of Florida. They just had another RECORD TOURIST SEASON.
The NAACP declared a travel ban for Florida. Yet they didn't do the same for Baltimore – where their headquarters are – despite it being far more dangerous.
Also, why did AOC vacation there despite her complaining about covid and DeSantis' policies?
