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Incompetent, outrageous.
Will be overturned in a heartbeat. With luck they’ll also toss Cannon. Alas, the case won’t be finished, if even started, before the election. If DJT wins, he’ll order the DOJ to drop the case (his primary reason for running). If he loses, and they get a competent, unbiased judge, he’ll be found guilty and maybe serve some time.
Hey IBJ, how do these “experts” know this, how did you validate this!? “and has entertained defense arguments that experts said other judges would have dismissed without hearings.” If all you are going to do is reprint AP opinions and slanted reporting, I see no need to renew my subscription, I can get this trash anywhere online.
AND, let’s not forget that Biden’s classified documents case was dropped because the special prosecutor on his case considered him a “forgetful old man” who shouldn’t be charged!
Rick S., I see your “Incompetent, outrageous” and say that both cases should have never seen a court room. Hillary, Pence, etc. were all found with documents. The only reason Biden was even investigated was because they had already charged Trump and Biden (and Garland) couldn’t just blow it off.
Rod B., IBJ is like virtually all small news outlets that occasionally pick up a piece from a very large, reasonably middle of the road outlet like AP. I suppose you view the AP to be slanted and slanted since it doesn’t align with Fox News, Newsmax, etc. Why bother reading IBJ if it bothers you so much and doesn’t confirm *your* biases? I doubt the IBJ or many readers/ commentators would care if you dropped your IBJ subscription.
Randy, that’s ironic that you state that I am not getting my “biases” confirmed a sentence after stating that the IBJ “will pick up a piece from a very large, reasonably middle of the road outlet like AP”, think you just showed your biases!
I was specifically stating that the coverage was slanted/incredibly unverifiable because of the “experts said” “other judges” “would dismiss” comment that borders on reporting produced by the National Inquirer! Remember those quotes, “friends say”, “co-workers said?”
If the IBJ wants to reprint this shoddy AP reporting, it has, and will continue to lose subscribers. And yes, I doubt the IBJ will care if I don’t renew, but I am not the only one who has complained, and eventually they will.
Did you catch that I said neither Biden or Trump should have been charged!? At least I can see the issue from both sides unlike most of the commentators here.
Rod: the “somebody else did it too” defense didn’t work when your mom asked you as a child: “if someone jumped off a roof, would you do it too?” It doesn’t fly now, either.
Clinton and Biden were not president when the documents in question, in their possession, were misplaced. The difference is even more stark: in terms of carelessness and volume, the comparisons are not appropriate.
It is perhaps reasonable to assume, that the transfer of thousands of documents from a departing president’s White House file, to his home…a few might get misplaced. The Archives, governor of this process, asked Mr. Trump three separate times, in writing and via lawyers, if he’d transferred all docs to them as required by law. He responded via counsel that he indeed had turned over all docs. It was only when he was called out that he said he had returned all docs…then he said he had declassified the docs in question.
1) A departed president cannot declassify anything. 2) All classified documents are the permanent property of the United States. After they’re declassified copies can be requested through the Archives. That process wasn’t documented by Trump prior to this mess.
He’s a mess. This situation is a mess. And it was avoidable.
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html
Rod, do a little googling to see where the AP rests on the left/right spectrum. It’s pretty much smack dab in the middle. That is not up for debate.
And as a follow up to Rick S.’s comment, Trump’s in hot water not because he accidentally took *some” classified documents – he’s in big trouble since he took hundreds of docs – and, most importantly, he refused to turn them over when notified of his mistake. Denied having them, erroneously said he was entitled to keep them, hid/moved them when he knew they were coming to seize them. None of the others you mention did ANY of that. So… you’re only half right – that *Biden* should not have been charged.
Small biased minds sure breed small biased thinking!
Cannon apparently doesn’t know (or doesn’t care) that Cabinet secretaries appoint many people to major senior positions without the requirement of a Senate confirmation.
If the 11th Circuit overrules this order, then Trump’s little lap dog should do the honorable thing and resign. Her first foray into this case resulted in a blistering order from the 11th Circuit. It’s pretty clear her objective has not been to fairly oversee the process of this case, but to delay it in hopes Trump wins and rewards her with an appellate court appointment.
Her reasoning that other Special Prosecutors were previously approved by Congress for some other role, but not for Special Prosecutor role, is meritless. Being approved for one position doesn’t make you eligible for another. By that logic, if the Congress once appointed someone as a US District Attorney, then that person could be appointed, without further Senate review, to any position requiring Senate approval. Like Attorney General. Or as a judge. Or any one of a number of sub-Cabinet positions. No, that’s not how it works. Special Prosecutors are appointed to prosecute, as appropriate (including the decision to not prosecute) when politics could influence the prosecutorial process. I doubt there was a former US District Attorney appointed by a President of either party who would have been optically acceptable as a prosecutor in this case. Smith was well regarded, and has experience prosecuting difficult cases.
bark, bark, lap poodle. Your time is coming…
All these cases are a sham. When the #2 man at Bidens DOJ leaves to join the New York Prosecutors office which then prosecutes on an inane legal theory is all you need to know. (All these cases will end in the Russian Collusion Box)
Which inane theory are you referencing? That Trump instructed his minions to purchase the silence of a potentially adverse party that would jeopardize his election, lied to everyone about it, and was caught when he stiffed the guy who not only knew where the skeletons were buried, he likely put a few there on Trump’s instruction. That was the evidence, and a jury so found.