This isn't over.

DIY-HP-LED

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It isn't Trump I am worried about. I don't believe he will play a part in what I fear much more than he already has. The country is in an epistemological crisis and I fear that it will get worse.
Yeah strong biases are turning into beliefs on both sides, on one side it leads to violence on, the other it leads to persistent consistent action. Sure you will see terrorism and violence, people become angry when they are holding life's stick by the shit end. You won't and can't compromise with these people, to do so would mean selling someone down the river, perhaps yourself. Most are misguided, but many are evil, their minds poisoned by parents, local culture and right wing media confirming their biases and radicalizing them. They are being told that they live among enemies, they are now, of their own creation, they made many more when they tried to destroy the constitution by supporting someone who they knew would. That was the point, to cut through "red tape", regulation, law and the constitution, you can't "get" these people inside the constitution these days like in the past, you must go outside the rule of law, to them this is war.

I speak some of the same language, but because liberals in America have had war made upon them for a number of years now. Since Trump that war has become overt and since the election obvious to anybody with eyes, they support the destruction of the constitution. One man rule, with no rules, just the power to get and destroy those they fear. This is what an unchecked first amendment looks like in the age of mass media, this is what it looked like in the past, before the government regulated it out of existence.
Father Coughlin, this one was from Canada, but made it big in America, Catholic antisemitism was his thing, as he went from religion to demagoguery.

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schuylaar

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It isn't Trump I am worried about. I don't believe he will play a part in what I fear much more than he already has. The country is in an epistemological crisis and I fear that it will get worse.
as the math told us it would be back in April..while we all sat home, he did everything in his power to shank the blue states best he could. in his self absorbedness and true to tradition of not planning anything, he didn't consider what would happen when the hoax and 'but boy if you're the right person', went red.

just wish it away.

remember when texas got a whole stadium of people to pray for rain?
 
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captainmorgan

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It's looking like the origin of a lot of this current fuckery is Nixon and Reagan. Not only is Barr front and center but it turns out Rudy is also tied back to these same crooks. Turns out Rudy got a job at the justice department at the start of the Reagan admin and one of the very first things he's involved with is foreign election interference, the CIA and the Russian mob, gee that's strange.
 

smokinrav

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There were details about the Flynn pardon released tonight. Why would the justice department say anything? They are not his lawyers, he can produce it in court in person, a pardon is an admission of guilt. Pardoning future crimes cannot be done, nothing is protected after the pardon is issued.
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Trump pardon: Justice Department releases pardon of Michael Flynn and asks court for dismissal - CNNPolitics

Justice Department releases Trump's pardon of Flynn and asks court for dismissal
(CNN)The Justice Department on Monday released a copy of President Donald Trump's pardon of former national security adviser Michael Flynn -- giving Flynn far-reaching absolution from lying and foreign lobbying crimes he admitted to in 2017 and any other possible related crimes.

The Department also formally asked a federal court to dismiss the case against him.
Trump's pardon, announced last week, clears Flynn from anything related to the investigation the FBI conducted into his contacts with Russia; his cooperation during the Mueller investigation and other cases Mueller could have investigated; and his disclosures about secretly lobbying for Turkey in 2016 before becoming Trump's first national security adviser.
The specifics of Trump's pardon for Flynn are written very broadly.

The pardon also appears to excuse Flynn from telling the federal court under oath that he is guilty of his crimes and, later, claiming he is innocent, which could have resulted in a contempt proceeding, the Justice Department said in a filing with Judge Emmet Sullivan.

The pardon absolves Flynn from "any possible future perjury or contempt charge in connection with General Flynn's sworn statements and any other possible future charge that this Court or the court-appointed amicus has suggested might somehow keep this criminal case alive over the government's objection," the Justice Department wrote.
Sullivan has not responded yet in court. What the judge will say after years of dizzying legal proceedings for Flynn has been long-awaited.

Flynn's pardon and the dismissal of the case will bring to a close a saga that has become emblematic of the Trump presidency's scandals.

It started with Trump campaign adviser Flynn under investigation for his contacts with Russia. After lying to the FBI and to members of Trump's administration in early 2017, Flynn lost his job as national security adviser, setting in motion a series of events that led to Trump firing FBI Director James Comey and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian interference in the election and the President obstructing justice.

Then, at the end of December 2017, Flynn became one of the most significant and earliest defendants to plead guilty and cooperate in the Mueller investigation. His cooperation led to the indictment of his lobbying partner Bijan Kian for work their firm did for Turkey in 2016, though a judge overturned a jury's conviction of Kian and the DOJ is still fighting for the Turkish lobbying case in an appeal.

This year, Flynn, represented by a new set of lawyers, and the Justice Department attempted to undo his guilty plea in court.

The case often has fueled Trump's campaign-time smears of Mueller as a "witch hunt."
Ultimately, Flynn scored the pardon after his legal team attacked the FBI, Mueller prosecutors and his prior defense team in court -- even after a federal judge had rejected the theory of Flynn's team that the FBI had entrapped him when its agents interviewed him in January 2017 about his contacts with Russia. Trump had also folded regular tweets about Flynn into his continued railings about Comey, the FBI, the courts and "Obamagate," a vague moniker of right-wing conspiracy theory.

Three sources told CNN on Tuesday that the White House had discussed a possible pardon, but cautioned that Trump could change his mind about making such a move. CNN previously reported that Flynn was among those likeliest to receive a pardon given his history as a Trump campaign associate who was convicted following special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

While the President has continued to falsely insist publicly that he won the presidential election rather than President-elect Joe Biden, the pardon of Flynn is a sign Trump understands his time in office is coming to a close. He's expected to issue a string of additional pardons before leaving the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussion.
Preemptive pardons CAN be done. Ford pardoned Nixon before charges were brought. Pardons don't work for state charges tho. Looking at you SDNY.
 

captainmorgan

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Some of the most recognized names in todays fuckery like Barr,Rudy and Dershowitz have interesting history. In the past they were involved in things like Nixons mess, Reagan election interference, Iran-Contra, Jonathon Pollard, Epstein, the Russian mob and Israeli intelligence. I'm sure that this is all just a coincidence.
 

TacoMac

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Preemptive pardons CAN be done. Ford pardoned Nixon before charges were brought. Pardons don't work for state charges tho. Looking at you SDNY.
SDNY is a federal entity.

You should be looking at the District Attorney of New York. She's the one that will wind up burying Trump in court over income tax evasion, falsifying loan documents and money laundering.
 

TacoMac

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Some of the most recognized names in todays fuckery like Barr,Rudy and Dershowitz have interesting history. In the past they were involved in things like Nixons mess, Reagan election interference, Iran-Contra, Jonathon Pollard, Epstein, the Russian mob and Israeli intelligence. I'm sure that this is all just a coincidence.
Yep. It's the same people doing the same crap just using a different vehicle to do it.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Preemptive pardons CAN be done. Ford pardoned Nixon before charges were brought. Pardons don't work for state charges tho. Looking at you SDNY.
The pardon can only be applied to the past not the future, only up to the date on the pardon. They can't indict anybody who is pardoned for the crime, but they can be called to testify and since they cannot incriminate themselves they have to answer or be held in contempt and jailed until they do or be imprisoned for perjury if they lie. That's what makes them so incredibly dangerous to those they were in criminals conspiracies with, those Trump forgot to pardon.

Trump can't pardon himself and the SDNY will indict individual #1 very quickly, if they delay, people will want to know why.
 

Herb & Suds

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SDNY is a federal entity.

You should be looking at the District Attorney of New York. She's the one that will wind up burying Trump in court over income tax evasion, falsifying loan documents and money laundering.
My money says he will go down on Illegal campaign financing and R.I.C.O

We shall see
 

DIY-HP-LED

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After the SC rules pardoning yourself is unconstitutional....
The trial judge can set the pardon aside and let Trump appeal it right up to the SCOTUS, pardons can be contested, there is nothing unconstitutional about trying for legitimate reasons. The FBI or a grand jury can take the pardon at face value and clean Trump out, since he can't supposedly incriminate himself, at least until they get around to challenging it for something else, like individual #1. Pardon's are a Trap for people like Trump and his kids, while they are doing state time, they can be completely cleaned out by grand juries, putting hundreds or even thousands of others under legal jeopardy. There is another kind of jeopardy too, assassination by a foreign power that wants to avoid trouble or lawsuits and Jared might have a target on his back for instance. We'll see, the future might not go as they think, many legal experts are largely silent on these aspects of pardons on TV and perhaps for a reason. Trump's own legal counsel must have warned him repeatedly about the dangers of pardoning associates and potential witnesses, but remember, he does not listen to wise counsel, he never has and is technically a moron.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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The Washington Post surveyed 249 Republicans on capital hill, only 25 say that Biden won, if the courts side with tRUmp somehow the GOP will gladly go along with stealing the election.
Georgia and fear of Trump, they would end up dead or in prison, if they tried such a thing at this point in time. There would be civil war and it is very clear the military will intervene on Biden's side. I dunno if you have the death penalty for sedition, but long sentences would apply and if you are gonna frog march these cocksuckers out of the congress, you might as well turf the Trump appointed SCOTUS justices, the rest will just have to live with it in the aftermath of a broken constitution.
 

topcat

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SDNY is a federal entity.

You should be looking at the District Attorney of New York. She's the one that will wind up burying Trump in court over income tax evasion, falsifying loan documents and money laundering.
Like Al Capone, tax evasion is serious stuff, accessory to mass murder, not so much.
 
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