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Trump is now revealed as a traitor to America. So are his MAGA maggots.

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By DOUG THOMPSON
September 9, 2022


If any of you out there still consider yourself a MAGA supporter of Donald J. Trump, consider yourself also a conspirator traitor to America. MAGA really stands for Malicious Anti-Americans & Goddamn Anarchists. Trump is unmasked as a clear violator of the Espionage Act, which makes him a traitor to this nation and a clear and present danger to our national security.

Legal documents dealing with Trump’s latest crime spree clearly state that this is a case of Donald J. Trump vs. The United States of America.

Apparent co-conspirators include Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca), the House Minority Leader and now the second highest traitor, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the brain-dead Senator who never met a conspiracy he could not embrace, Sen. Marc Rubio ( R-FL), another denier of the valid and legal election that dumped Trump in 2020 and too many others who put party above patriotism and personal greed and lust for power above what is needed for the nation.

Some appear to have seen the light, including Trump’s former Attorney General, William Barr, who says Trump is guilty of sedition and obstruction of justice, and just about every sane person left in what’s left of the nation’s Capitol that Trump tried, and nearly, destroyed.

That’s just part of what Trump is deservedly facing in legal circles. A federal grand jury is probing his fraudulent use of his political action committee to raise badly needed funds to keep himself and his House of Cards real station operations afloat and another grand jury down in Atlanta is closing in on his criminal actions in trying to overturn the election he lost by using fake electors.

Report Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, Adam Goldman, and Kenneth P. Vogel in the New York Times:

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The fact that federal prosecutors are now seeking information about the fund-raising operation is a significant new turn in an already sprawling criminal investigation into the roles that Mr. Trump and some of his allies played in trying to overturn the election, an array of efforts that culminated with the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The expanded Jan. 6 inquiry is playing out even as Mr. Trump is also under federal investigation on an entirely different front: his decision to hold onto hundreds of government documents marked as classified when he left office and his failure to comply with efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to compel their return.

In Trump’s case, so much crime and so little time for him to run and hide,

Trump, as usual, is ranting and raving and lying. Newsweek reports:

The former president on Thursday lashed out in a post to his Truth Social network after the DOJ signaled it would appeal a judge’s approval of a special master that has said it will slow its investigation of Trump’s alleged hoarding of classified documents. The appeal is the latest in the legal wrangling following the FBI‘s court-approved search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August.

“So now the FBI & Biden Department of ‘Justice’ leakers are going to spend Millions of Dollars, & vast amounts of Time & Energy, to appeal the Order on the ‘Raid of Mar-a-Lago Document Hoax,’ by a brilliant and courageous Judge whose words of wisdom rang true throughout our Nation, instead of fighting the record setting corruption and crime that is taking place right before their very eyes,” Trump said in the post.

Trump’s claims of a “brilliant and courageous judge” refers to the inexperienced U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a novice appointed by him in the closing days of his one and only term as president and who has come under fire from legal experts as someone in over her head who has made many mistakes and misjudgment in her brazen attempt to help the man who put her into a job she is clearly not qualified for.

Writes Mark Sumner:

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It should have been possible to see what was coming when Donald Trump’s team of highly unqualified attorneys managed to submit Trump’s complaint incorrectly, and the judge gave them a do-over. Then the complaint came in, missing everything necessary, and the judge sent instructions on exactly what she wanted to see. And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent and written wholly new law in the process, all to give Donald Trump exactly what he wanted: a special master.

Judge Aileen Cannon didn’t stop at saying she intends to appoint a special master, she insists that the federal government provide a more detailed list of the documents taken—a list to be shared with Trump. Only she seems to have missed even more steps in the process than Trump’s attorneys did, like even sending the suit to the supposed “defendant,” or giving any reason why her court can intervene in any way.

The Department of Justice Thursday filed notices of appeal to Cannon’s poorly written order and has given her one week to make changes before they turn the matter over to the 11th District Federal Appeals Judge to restore some order of law to her ramblings.

In the meantime, Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon, facing charges of fraud by stealing funds from a program he ran that was supposed to raise money to help the failed Border Wall before Trump pardoned him in his final days in office, surrendered Thursday to New York authorities for the same crimes, where he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Charges are also expected to come to Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for his role in trying to overturn the legal election in 2020 and trying to coerce local leaders in Georgia to create phony votes in that state.

Time is running out for Trump. The traitor is unmasked for all to see, all except for his co-conspirators who plan to go down with him in disgrace and their own criminal charges for treason, fraud, and obstruction of justice.

About damn time.

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Remember when the GOP claimed to be the "Law & Order" party. Now some Republican voters fight with police, hitting officers with flag poles and fire extinguishers, or hitting cops with bear spray, or they try overturn elections and end democracy.

Don't even get me started with taking a woman's right over her own body away...

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Originally Posted by pdx rick
Don't even get me started with taking a woman's right over her own body away...

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Gettin ya started! LOL

Jennifer Lawrence: 'Get the Government Out of My Snatch, OK?'

The Oscar-winning actor has a long rap sheet of who’s to blame for the current state of the nation. In no particular order: Our two-party political system, which she calls “a failure,” the “white men debat[ing] over uteruses” who “can’t find a clitoris,” and politicians who are “[censored] old. They’re a hundred.” To all of it, the Silver Linings Playbook star has one message: “Get the government out of my snatch. Okay? Full quote! On the record!”

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I'm looking forward to seeing her quote on banners at women's marches on the news. I'd be proud to march behind that banner.


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I'm looking forward to seeing her quote on banners at women's marches on the news. I'd be proud to march behind that banner.

Karen and I would march behind it too but Karen gets the giggles sometimes, so that would be very entertaining.
Today we went to the VA to get a new seat back for her power chair. They fitted it, told us to go to lunch for an hour to see if she still felt like it was comfy after a while, then come back and confirm.
While we were eating a great big grizzly bear of a guy was walking around the cafeteria with a bad case of droopy drawers.

Let's just say "Crack kills"...Karen was literally snorting soda out of her nose.


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Our wives often have the best reaction to things. Because she's half-Lebanese with Arab features, she is singled out at airport checkpoints for "extra search." When one of the Homeland special agents told her to take the felt of her jeans, she looked at him and said: "I usually at least get kissed, first." He laughed, told her to forget it, and let her pass. One the few times either of us saw one of them smile.


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Our wives often have the best reaction to things. Because she's half-Lebanese with Arab features, she is singled out at airport checkpoints for "extra search." When one of the Homeland special agents told her to take the felt of her jeans, she looked at him and said: "I usually at least get kissed, first." He laughed, told her to forget it, and let her pass. One the few times either of us saw one of them smile.

Know that famous internet meme of the sexy gal that shows up at TSA in a long overcoat with nothing but bra and panties underneath? Karen seriously considered it because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. she flies, it's a private room with at least partial strip search and more indignities on top of that.

What's this? (urinary catheter) ---- as if they've never seen a goddamn catheter bag before.
One time they wanted to disassemble her power chair. Could they guarantee in writing that they were able to reassemble it OR offer an equivalent replacement if they damaged hers?
What's in your panties? Unbelievable.

Another time the "helpful" escort team damn near ripped her bladder out by catching her foley on an arm-rest while rolling the narrow aircraft aisle chair down the aisle. They've damaged her power chair twice by basically throwing it in the plane. And on top of all that, the TSA is just RUDE, they're just rude, angry and spoiling for a fight.

She just won't fly anymore.
But the best one was last time we DID fly, she asked if it would help if she just showed up naked with just an overcoat and just gave them a free show.
They didn't have a sense of humor but it made her giggle.


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I haven't flown since the late 90s so I've never had to deal with TSA or the nightmare that flying has become.

I can't even imagine trying it as a wheelchair user.

And I can't imagine any reason I would consider flying anywhere anymore.


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I haven’t flown since 2012 when I retired from FORSCOM at Ft. Bragg. Way too many TDY trips for the Army and way too many hassles. I vowed never to fly again once retired and I never have. If others want to go through the hassles, let them. I don’t have to anymore.


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Kellye SoRelle, one of the lawyers for the Oath Keepers militia group, was indicted by a grand jury for crimes relating to the January 6 Capitol Riot. Kellye joins Stewart Rhodes, in the J6 defendants' club. She didn't quite make it to the sedition tier, but she was apparently with Rhodes the entire day of the Capitol Riot.

Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said during his opening statement for the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four of his merry band of fellow Oaths that began on MO 10/03, had "concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy" by attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

The Oath Keepers' attorneys insisted that their clients hadn't done anything illegal on J6, that they had simply exercised their rights to free speech. They were simply in DC as a "peacekeeping force" that would be ready to back up Donald Trump in case he invoked the Insurrection Act and deputized them to preserve order.

Nestler told the jury that the five defendants "said out loud and in writing what they planned to do,” and that “When the opportunity finally presented itself -they sprang into action" by highlighting calls Rhodes made for "bloody revolution" and used video taken on J6 to identify the defendants and place them at the Capitol, including video of defendant Kelly Meggs wearing a charming patch that read, "I don’t believe in anything, I’m just here for the violence."

Meggs allegedly led a group inside the Capitol that tried to find House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Probably to taunt her, is all.)

Once January 6 arrived and Trump hadn't invoked Martial law, Rhodes and crew went ahead with their plans to invade the Capitol anyway. In a message to his followers that day, Rhodes wrote, referring to Trump, "I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands.”

As Andrew Clyde (R-GA) stated on the floor of The House of Representatives, J6 "more closely resembled a 'normal tourist visit' than a deadly attack." Which of course, is how anti-democracy fascist Republicans view the J6 attack on our nation’s Capitol.


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