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Trump and his clan of traitors to America and our Constitution
The legal net is tightening around the most corrupt, criminal traitor to ever occupy the White House.

By DOUG THOMPSON
October 15, 2022


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The one word says it all.

In what is expected to be the final public meeting of the Congressional Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that trashed the nation’s legislative branch, killed people, and threatened to hang Vice President Mike Pence, more revelations of the corrupt, criminal, and fraudulent actions of now former president Donald Trump on that fateful day are expected to uncover more lies and illegal actions by him.

The hearing Thursday afternoon comes on the heels of another revelation by the Washington Post, which reports:

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A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material.

The witness description and footage described to The Washington Post offer the most direct account to date of Trump’s actions and instructions leading up to the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of the Florida residence and private club, in which agents were looking for evidence of potential crimes including obstruction, destruction of government records or mishandling classified information.

The people familiar with the investigation said agents have gathered witness accounts indicating that, after Trump advisers received a subpoena in May for any classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told people to move boxes to his residence at the property. That description of events was corroborated by the security-camera footage…

The legal net that has enveloped the con man, reality-show host, and self-claimed (and disproven) real estate “success,” is tightening but it still does not keep most of the brain-dead Republican Party from claiming he “did nothing wrong.”

The Justice Department says otherwise and, unlike Trump or his party of sycophants, the federal law has the evidence to put him behind bars for violation of the nation’s Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and outright fraud in his business and dealings as a corrupt president.

Trump, sinking to even lower depths of lies and depravity, claims he “declassified” the top secret documents by “just thinking about doing so” while doing nothing as prescribed by the law.

The Post also reports that it was a Trump aide who told the Justice Department that Trump tried to conceal moving the documents to his office and residence at Mar-a-Lago to try and avoid discovery that he still had them illegally.

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The witness is now considered a key part of the Mar-a-Lago investigation, these people said, offering details about the former president’s alleged actions and instructions to subordinates that could have been an attempt to thwart federal officials’ demands for the return of classified and government documents.

Multiple witnesses have told the FBI they tried to talk Trump into cooperating with the National Archives and Records Administration and the Justice Department as those agencies for months sought the return of sensitive or historical government records, people familiar with the situation said.

But entreaties from advisers and lawyers who pushed for Trump to hand the documents back fell on deaf ears with Trump, these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Trump grew angry this spring after a House Oversight Committee investigation was launched, telling aides they’d “screwed up” the situation, according to people who heard his comments. “They’re my documents,” Trump said,

Of course, they are not “his documents.” Numerous court rulings, including some by the Supreme Court now packed with his right-wing appointees, The documents belong to the government of the United States, which he tried to destroy as president, and now must face severe punishment for his unwillingness to follow the law, the Constitution, and the vast number of Americans who feel betrayed and conned by what he really is: A confidence man who conned the nation.

He’s a traitor to America. No doubts should exist. He is an immoral, unethical, treasonous man who should be thrown into the most toxic rathole in the federal prison system to rot and die. The same fate should befall other traitors like House Minority Leader Keven McCarthy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and the many others who continue to embrace his treasonous lies and felonious actions.

It’s past time to clean up the real toxic swamp of Donald John Trump and his band of felons and traitors in the Republican Party.

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Originally Posted by Doug Thompson
...unlike Trump or his party of sycophants...
...and left-leaning nay-sayers.

I'm convinced the DoJ must hold Trump accountable and make him serve time - else our democratic republic ceases to exist, because the Republican will be successful the next time.

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The reason why THIS mid-term is so important is because two-thirds of the Republicans on the ballot in November 2022 are election deniers and the Republican plan is to install as SecStates into office so that no matter what the will of the voters is, the Republican will win no matter what, which will set off a Constitutional crisis, the likes of which we’ve never seen.

This mid-term is a setup for the Republican grand finale of taking control of America in 2024 and forcing Republican "democracy" onto all of America. Forcing Republican "democracy" onto red state Americans has already happened in many red states where Republicans have taken the right of a woman to have a say over her own body and to incarcerate her if she makes a decision counter to what Republicans want.

...but as most Republican voters and many left-leaning nay-says think, the above "ain't no big thang - politics is politics."


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Originally Posted by pdx rick
The reason why THIS mid-term is so important is because the Republican plan is to install election deniers as SecStates into office so that no matter what the will of the voters is, the Republican will win no matter what, which will set off a Constitutional crisis, the likes of which we’ve never seen.

This mid-term is a setup for the Republican grand finale of taking control of America in 2024 and forcing Republican "democracy" onto all of America. Forcing Republican "democracy" onto red state Americans has already happened in many red states where Republicans have taken the right of a woman to have a say over her own body and to incarcerate her if she makes a decision counter to what Republicans want.

...but as most Republican voters and many left-leaning nay-says think, the above "ain't no big thang - politics is politics."

If the above was a real thing, I'd consider it a very big deal...

But the above is nothing but fiction. Cooked up in the fevered imaginations of paranoid Democrats.

"the Republican plan is to install election deniers as SecStates into office so that no matter what the will of the voters is, the Republican will win no matter what,"

Is that an actual plan or one you just made up?

"This mid-term is a setup for the Republican grand finale of taking control of America in 2024 and forcing Republican "democracy" onto all of America."

Is it now...? Has this plan been released to the public? Or is it also a complete fabrication?


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If one believes the fact that two-thirds of the Republican candidates are 2020 election deniers is “cooked-up,” one might be a left-leaning nay-sayer.

If one believes the fact that some red state legislature have already taken a woman’s choice over her own body away and have criminalized reproductive choice is “cooked-up,” one might be a left-leaning nay-sayer.

If one chooses not be believe the Republican fascism right in front of their face, one might be a left-leaning nay-sayer. Yes, the Republican plan is in plain sight - it always has been.

Reality doesn’t seem to be a friend to those who hold such nay-say views.


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They may or may not believe what you tell me they believe.
I think you're extrapolating beyond the evidence.

i.e. making sh*t up. For a moment, every Republican believed there was something wrong with the election. The President of the United States TOLD them there was something wrong with the election. Most know it was hogwash now but because of their low-brow constituency, they can't actually say it out loud...

If Democrats are to win and to maintain power they need to do it on their own merits. Not by fearmongering

They can only ride Trump's coattails for so long before their own record comes under scrutiny.

The same holds true for his sycophants. The election lie only holds water with a handful of critical Republican voters. The hardcore partisans, the primary voters. The deplorables.

Once his glory and his majesty fail to reveal themselves with a Christlike second-coming Marge Greene and her cohorts will gradually be replaced by serious legislators...

But that's all common sense and I know you don't like staying within those guidelines either. laugh


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Originally Posted by Greger
If Democrats are to win and to maintain power they need to do it on their own merits. Not by fearmongering.
They have, but apparently, it's not good enough.

  • Lowered med prices for Medicare
  • Allocated funds for infrastructure improvement - which Repubs voted against
  • Allocated funds to make the US a microchip manufacturing leader
  • Passed legislation in helping America move from fossil fuel and allocated money for training and schooling in new energy jobs
  • Provided critical funding for families during COVID, including free meals for school-aged children at their schools
  • Reduced the deficit


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Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by Doug Thompson
...unlike Trump or his party of sycophants...
...and left-leaning nay-sayers.

I'm convinced the DoJ must hold Trump accountable and make him serve time - else our democratic republic ceases to exist, because the Republican will be successful the next time.

And what if things don't turn out the way you want and Garland chooses not to prosecute.

Does that mean a Democrat is responsible for the downfall of our republic? Irony...I love it.


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Originally Posted by Doug Thompson
...unlike Trump or his party of sycophants...
...and left-leaning nay-sayers.

I'm convinced the DoJ must hold Trump accountable and make him serve time - else our democratic republic ceases to exist, because the Republican will be successful the next time.

And what if things don't turn out the way you want and Garland chooses not to prosecute.

Does that mean a Democrat is responsible for the downfall of our republic? Irony...I love it.
Things WILL turn out that way - else we no longer live on a democracy and the American Experiment failed. You and the Republicans seem to think that justice is political, why is that? Is because you see the Republicans doing and you agree?


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They have, but apparently, it's not good enough.

They're set to perform historically well in the midterms given the parameters of this election.

I'm not sure how much more you have any hope to ask for.

You're right about the goals of the Republican party, They want to win the presidency in '24.

They want to re-capture the Senate and the House, DeSantis wants to be your next president and there's a good chance he will be.

Even if all this happens, I don't believe our democratic republic will cease to exist. Or that elections will no longer be fair. DeSantis will serve his two terms and step down, a Democrat will likely replace him.


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