DOJ announces special counsel for Trump-related Mar-a-Lago and January 6 criminal investigations

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  1. Independent4ever

    Independent4ever Well-Known Member

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    He will be the nominee
    He won't be in jail

    So my statement stands. I did not say that he would win, but with the disaster of the Biden admin, it remains a realistic possibility
     
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    It is not a written policy. It's more of an understanding. A courtesy. And you know for certain the DOJ would have done this how?
     
  3. Golem

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    Of course it's a written policy!

    Because Trump is a proven criminal.
     
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    He may get away with no jail time, but even GA is gunning for him, in addition, he has lost almost all of his political protection and even support.
     
  5. Independent4ever

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    The support will all come back by 2024 as "owning the libs" is much more important to the GOP then nominating a quality candidate
     
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    This decision by the AG is purely political in nature. He did this to place obstacles in Trump’s campaign and assist Biden’s. It was unnecessary. Trump is not nor was he going win the nomination. Trump’s support is eroding.
     
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    It was purely political in nature . . . for the DOJ to step further back from the Trump campaign, not to place imaginary new "obstacles." No new obstacles were added. That's complete nonsense.
     
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    His strategy has failed the last 2 elections.
     
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    I am not taking your word about who Jack Smith is. You did not post any link to back up your claim. So, no one knows how much is not fact.

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    Who is special counsel Jack Smith?
    Smith has had a long career as a prosecutor.


    In New York, Smith prosecuted matters ranging from gang murders of police officers to civil rights violations, according to the Department of Justice. From 2008 to 2010, he served with the International Criminal Court, where he supervised "sensitive investigations of foreign government officials and militia for war crimes," according to a Department of Justice biography.

    In 2010, Smith returned to the Justice Department to serve as chief of the Public Integrity Section, where he led a team of more than 30 prosecutors who handled public corruption and election crimes cases across the United States, the Justice Department said. In 2015, he served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, later becoming the Acting United States Attorney.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...nted-to-lead-trump-investigations/ar-AA14htaO
     
  10. dixon76710

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    Nonsense. The policies are vague generalizations, but if you insist investigations of people not up for an election can effect an election, THE POLICY applies equally to "the timing of statements, investigative steps, charges, or other actions near the time of a primary or general election,". Equally To Garlands Prime time announcement of his warrant and raid on Marlago before the election and an announcement of a Special Counsel before an election.
     
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    So she cant have it, but she needs to discuss her server with cyber officials ? Which is it ?

    FTR, I have already said it was dumb that she did it. But . When it comes to policies, the precedent was set by Colin Powell, just like I claimed
     
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    when the GOP gets full control in the future, Garland most likely is going to be indicted
     
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    dixon76710 Well-Known Member

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    I have on other threads. On his harassment of the tea party

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/irs-tea-party-lawsuit-settlement.html

    https://justthenews.com/accountabil...whistleblower-complaint-involved-earlier-lois

    As far as

    This prosecutor is the same guy who prosecuted the first term Virginia governor, got convictions and prevented him from becoming a second term Governor..... and then the Supreme Court of the United States threw out all the convictions, after their purpose had been served. Thats what they are going for here.

    Who is newest Trump special counsel Jack Smith? (nypost.com)
     
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    2 linked articles, his name is mentioned 1 time.

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    Emails showed Pilger's boss in the Public Integrity Section, Jack Smith, started the entire process when he reacted to a New York Times article.

    "Check out [the] article on front page of ny times [sic] regarding misuse of non-profits for indirectly funding campaigns," Smith wrote. "This seems egregious to me — could we ever charge a [18 U.S.C. §] 371 conspiracy to violate laws of the USA for misuse of such nonprofits to get around existing campaign finance laws + limits? I know 501s are legal but if they are knowingly using them beyond what they are allowed to use them for (and we could prove that factually)? IRS Commissioner sarah ingram [sic] oversees these groups.
     
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    NONSENSE. Powell had Government email with 99% of his emails on the government email system and the other 1% on Yahoo. Yahoo where they are forever stored and able to retrieve. Hillary had no government email, 100% of her official email was on her server. When she leaves office she is required to turn over all her official emails, she turned over none. Year and half later she turned over 12 cases of 30,00 emails printed on paper and kept the other 30,000 she did not.
     
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    Did you have a point you wanted to make? Thats the part I quoted on the other thread.
     
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    I doubt it, but he should be forced to resign.
     
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    well thank God that turd is not on the supreme court. as much as some people hate Turtleman (no relation) he did a great job stonewalling that clown
     
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    Yes. To counter any point you were making.
     
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    If there's an opening in the next two years, I wouldn't be surprised if Biden nominated him. After all he has a demonstrated lack of respect for the constitution and the law.
     
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    Meaning she never even ask if her set up was authorized. Clinton never told anyone she had which IMO means she was intentionally trying to hide it. Everyone who holds a security clearance goes through annual training and the topic on how to handle classified information is thoroughly covered. But I'm guessing the privileged queen never attended Communications Security training.
     
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    Uhhh, thats the part the confirms my point. Obviously you did not grasp the meaning of my point.
     
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    Purely political? Nothing to do with the boxes of classified docs he kept in his golf course bathroom?
     
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    So, instead of arguments, you opt for just attacking policies in general. Policies are policies. Either they follow them or they don't. And the policy to not do anything that might affect the results of an election has been followed by all DOJ's since it was established, except when Comey made Trump President by not abiding by it... TWICE. Before that, and since then, they have been followed to the letter.
     
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