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Methinks something is rotten in the state of Florida...And at Bedminster? Maybe someone should exhume Ivana's coffin?

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It took TEN struggling men to lift the coffin that supposedly contained the cremated remains of an old lady, who is then buried in a temporary-looking, tacky grave on the site where the Saudis hold a fake golf tournament a week later, and then, Jared ends up with a $2B "investment" from the Saudis. So many questions, so many questions. -- https://politizoom.com/what-the-hell-is-in-ivanas-casket/

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Very suspicious for sure.

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I want her dug up. Who even believes she's there.

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I suggest that she be dug up and use that grave for DT!

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Thanks for the reply, but we still really don't know, do we? I have learned that whatever crap Trump is suspected of doing, multiply it by a factor of 1000 and you'll get closer to the truth.

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Good grief, I didn't even think of that, but it's absolutely something he'd do. I wonder what's buried with her?

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Another question is what the casket itself is made of, or might be secreted within casket, with Trump you never know...and they've had plenty of time to dig it up again to remove and replace with reasonably close equivalent-weighted materials, although Trump might not have ever hypothesized any discovery of his very stable genius skullduggery was possible.

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And put the orange traitor in it.

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Look at the photo of classified documents on the floor of Trump’s Mar-a-Lardo office. Some are copies. They have a white border beyond the classification color frame. Original classified cover sheets have color frames that “bleed” off the page. So where are the originals? In Putin’s desk? In MBS’s desk? In Ivanka’s coffin? In Tucker Carlson’s safe?

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Why of course there is a photo copier. That was used for the documents he turned over to the Russians and Saudis and other parties he is doing business with. You really didn't expect him not to have planned ahead for the possibility his stash would be discovered before he had optimized its value to the Trump empire did you?

This is a bottomless pit scenario. We are all going to go down a whole lot of rabbit holes before this is over and nothing, as in not one damn thing, should be surprising to us.

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Without getting too conspiratorial, there must be a profit motive. You know there is. The dollar value of those documents is probably our national debt. Tell that to Republicans. If you're like me, you've known for almost eight years that something like this was going to happen. I just thought there was more to find out about foreign accounts, payments to Trump hotels, and shit like that.

This is not the usual man-child behavior like the press is calling it. I mean it is, and in character with Trump, but this is evil. General Hertling’s words did a good job, but to me, this is an injury to the soul or spirit of anyone who loves their country. I know because I feel it that way myself.

He had or was looking to open up an Amazon Storefront or Shopify for Classified Docs. You know it's true. So does Jack Smith.

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EBay, I think, might be better than Amazon storefront.

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I would not be surprised. I've learned that the man is not dumb at all, but rather just a brazen asshole. That's about it. I believe he thought himself above the law from an early age.

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Well, it was reported that he punched a teacher (!) at about age 14. It was at that time I believe his father decided military school (reform school for rich people).

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I admit that he's a little more cunning than I'd thought, and certainly a brazen asshole. but none of that strikes me as inconsistent with his also being pretty stupid, which he is.

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Not answered in all the fake defense of the indefensible by Republicans is this question? How many more classified documents does Trump have at Bedminster, Trump Tower or squirreled away elsewhere at Mar-a-Lago?

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I do not understand why there were no search warrants issued for those sites. I sure haven’t heard or read anything about why these sites were not searched. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

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I am bone tired of the madman who somehow became President and the attendant outrages he brought with him. I must say it was enormously thoughtful of him, however, to facilitate copying classified docs, making him, I guess, a full service Benedict Arnold. Blech.

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The copier is relevant only insofar as it was plugged in and was mechanically sound, and that printing toner was sufficient for making copies.

Nowadays, every smartphone has a camera. Some may even have image-to-text word processing software. The presence of a copier is somewhat superfluous, but it does underscore th point you're making. There's no question that Trump was criminally negligent in his handling of SCI and other classified documents. The real question is whether the Department of Justice is willing to force District Court Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon out of the case. This is not a debate over institutional prerogatives. If she's helping Trump, she's complicit in his betrayal of our country. And in that respect, Judge Cannon is as guilty of betraying her oath of office as Trump is of violating his oath he took as president to protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to take care that all of the laws of the United States be observed. As of this moment, United States District Court Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon is the one person standing in the way of ensuring that justice be done to Donald J Trump, former President of the United States, for the crimes he has personally committed against the Constitution of the United States, and for which he should be duly punished under the laws of the United States. That cannot be allowed to stand.

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Yeah, but it's a beautiful image, isn't it?

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In poker, this would be an emoji for an image that conveys a moment of truth, known everywhere as a 'tell'.

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Chump is technologically unsophisticated enough to still use a copier

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Beautifully stated, Arthur. Mr. Smith needs to find a way to get the Loose Cannon off this case ASAP.

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After reading this, I'm less sanguine. It's just in time for Flag Day … and trump's birthday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/us/politics/aileen-cannon-judge-trump-documents.html I guess Smith had to know all this, but, well, wow. Every word.

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Classified documents must be stored in a GSA-approved safe. That’s the law.

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Arthur, if you have learned nothing yet from the Trump years it is "We don't need no stinking laws." Any man who can divine declassifying documents with his brain is well beyond the laws of mortal man.

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😉😂

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Of course there was a copier. One would not be foolish to think that someone had the idea of printing copies of such documents for the reason of 'souvenirs' for certain select guests or friends.

Is it all right now to call it treason? Is it all right now to call Donald Trump a traitor, officially?

The only example I can relate to this picture is my own-due to some disturbing life events that I won't go into here, we had a few of these type of storage boxes in my apartment for a while. They were full of legal documents that detailed certain serious happenings of the past, and I had long wanted to get rid of them, desperately.

One day a fine opportunity set itself up and I was able to do so-by tossing every single piece of paper and box into a large garbage bin. My landlord was irate but I told him I'd split the cost of the bin. (one of construction type) I cannot imagine ever keeping that stuff again-and I just wonder who the hell would ever do so, especially stuff you're not even ALLOWED to have.

Trump is mentally ill, that much I can vouch for. Anyone who keeps government documents of their own free will as 'keepsakes' is crazy, greedy, mentally ill or all of the above.

He was pissed when the government wanted it all back.

What a fucking twit.

Lock him up and throw away the key, please.

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Re your own storage boxes, I met a woman in Cambrdige who was from Israel. Under her bed

her father (or grandfather) had parked the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hones to God.

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Agreed, just make sure the lock isn't a bathroom door lock - no key required.

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Everything he does is transactional.

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I am trying not to overthink this indictment and trial thing but keep coming up with scenarios that are terrifying and likely not to happen but who knows? I don't see how Donald Trump could ever be POTUS given what has happened and is happening. I have read that he could even serve this position from prison if it would ever come to that. How could he ever receive top secret clearance for his job as POTUS? How could he ever be given the nuclear codes? There are states where a convicted felon cannot even vote ffs. Our Constitution sure does need revising when it is legal for a man or anyone with his troubled legal history to be legally able to run again for the highest government job in the land.

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I just shuddered at what has, and will come in the future, as a result of that copier being there. No wonder Trump reportedly lost his shit over this image. Such darkness. I'd say the man was wheeling and dealing. Otherwise, why would he risk gaming the DOJ? And in the Global chess game, the US strategies have been revealed. Once one bad player gets his mitts on the info, it goes on from there unabated. Civilians and military personal will probably die or lives ruined.

Trump is easy to predict. Because he is a sadistic narcissist. We knew he was going to create Hell January 6th and he would not help with peaceful transfer of power and that he would not show up at Biden's inauguration. He is completely bereft of honor. And his Lord and prize is Greed. Of course, he sold secrets for money. Duh.

Finally, what I can't believe is that anyone, esp. a former President, was able to physically just load up top secret files and fly away. How is that lack of checks and balances and security even possible? Duh number 2.

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We knew on January 20, 2017 that his reign of terror was just beginning.

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This line made me laugh out loud "I didn’t see anyone in the bathroom photo in there with the boxes keeping them safe by having locked himself or herself in with them." Too bad some quick witted reporter didn't say that Was it McCarthy or Jordan that made the original statement about bathroom doors have locks? Regardless, it was a stupid thing to say for the reason as mentioned, only on the inside.These people never think before they speak (Like MTG to Walensky, director of the CDC re covid vaccines killing people and causing miscarriages. What a piece of work she is. How do such stupid laky people get elected in the first place? https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-fights-keep-135518706.html

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Awww, come on-- you KNOW how they get elected! There are people just as vicious, stupid, willfully ignorant and bigoted as she is who enthusiastically vote for her and love every one of her outbursts, because they are as evil and morally worthless as she is!

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Harsh words, Judith, but absolutely true. And those who are not like that are very naive, or as you say as dumb and as stupid as as she is. If most of the GOP House legislators especially the Freedom Caucus members were one person, he or she would be basically like her, saying all kinds of outrageous things to get the donations rolling in from the ignorant masses. Lindsey Graham now is saying he's going after the Justice department, cutting off their funds if they indict Trump over Jan 6. What happened to the separation of powerY also wouldn't that in itself be obstructing justice? If he does that POTUS should order his arrest. If I were president I'm afraid I'd call in the army to arrest the whole bunch of them and disolve the Republican party as enemies of the state.

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My belief is that George Washington would have hanged the lot of them!

As for Miz Lindsey's threat: I don't think he has anything like the power to to that.

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I agree.

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As a carpenter for 55 years the first thing I thought of when i heard McCarthys inane statement was that i have Never seen a bathroom door that locked from the outside!!

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Wouldn't surprise me if the Speaker had the locksets throughout his house installed backward.

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Too bad someone like you wasn't allowed to explain that to Gerald Posner, author of the notorious Case Closed (1991):

"General Walker was not the only political figure whom Marina claimed her husband had designs on killing. During her second appearance before the commission, she said that on April 22, 1963, Oswald had grabbed his pistol and headed for the door after learning that Richard Nixon was coming to Dallas. To thwart his plan, Marina called Lee into the bathroom and, after he entered, she jumped out of the room and kept the door shut until he calmed down. Even the Warren Commission struggled to swallow this whopper. Not only because records showed that Nixon did not visit Dallas that day but also because the bathroom door to the Oswald’s home, like most bathroom doors, closed and locked from the inside, requiring Marina to physically overpower her husband for several minutes.

None of this is a problem for Posner. He repeats the whole story as if it were written in stone. He quotes Marina as saying that Lee was “not a big man…and when I collect all my forces and want to do something very badly I am stronger than he is.” (p. 120) Of course, Posner does not question where this superior strength was during the numerous, savage beatings he described Oswald giving Marina over the preceding months. Nor does he consider it a problem that Nixon was not in Dallas that day. He solves this little issue by lamely suggesting that the supposedly dyslexic Oswald could have confused Nixon with Lyndon Johnson. (p. 120n) Which, quite frankly, is absurd. In the end, it must be said that if Marina’s story of Oswald attempting to shoot Walker is questionable, then the whole Nixon tale is downright ridiculous and entirely unworthy of belief."

www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/case-closed-30-years-on-even-worse-part-2

See the entire 5-part series, starting with Part 1, here:

Thursday, 04 May 2023 07:58

Case Closed 30 Years On: Even Worse - Part 1/5: Gerald Posner's Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald

Written by Martin Hay

British researcher Martin Hay does a complete review of Gerald Posner's 1993 book Case Closed. After a very long examination he concludes that, in light of new evidence, the book is even worse now than it was then. This is likely the most complete critique of Posner in the literature. This is Part 1 of 5.

www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/case-closed-30-years-on-even-worse "When Gerald Posner’s Case Closed was first published in August 1993, it was greeted with a level of acclaim that likely had never been enjoyed by any other work dealing with President Kennedy’s assassination. U.S. News and World Report devoted dozens of pages to promoting the book while Posner himself was featured on a variety of high-profile television shows including the Today show, 20/20, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Meanwhile, mainstream reviews of Case Closed were almost uniformly positive, with many commentators calling the book “definitive” and praising Posner for having “solved” the case. In fact, as award-winning columnist Rob Zaleski noted in The Capital Times, “…the response from critics has been so overwhelmingly positive that some historians are suggesting it’s time for many Americans to give up their obsession with the assassination and get on with their lives.” Not surprisingly, the book became a New York Times bestseller and was subsequently nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History."

Martin Hay absolutely eviscerates Posner's book, you can also find any number of other extensive debunkings of its claims posted online, search "Gerald Posner and his critics" or similar - but the mainstream "establishment/legacy media" will have none of it, for them, Posner and Vincent Bugliosi (whose massive tome, 1612 pages not counting the included CD-ROM with Endnotes, Reclaiming History : The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (2007) is, if possible, even more preposterous, albeit in a more subtle and devious manner) remain the gold standard for summing up the JFK assassination.

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Holy merde! How is he permitted to continue his lies? And put our democracy in such danger. And...ummm....where’s Melania? Summering in Trieste?

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Spotted in NYC.......

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Really????? Not by me!

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It just gets piled deeper and deeper---the boxes and the bs! I think/hope Jack Smith has a hammer-lock on the orange monster......

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I’ve never had any doubt tRump used classified documents for personal gain, bargaining power or profit. When I first heard of Jared’s “work” at the White House, pulling records from the Archives, it was APPARENT what these crooks intended.

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Speaker McCarthy has a point about bathroom locks, though they are usually opened with a credit card or a special screw driver. Fire departments and EMT’s often open bath doors to rescue people—or little children all the time. They are “privacy” locks, not 1 1/2” dead bolts.

But, not to worry, because while the double window in the photo shows a fixed pane on the left the right one is a vent which is unlocked. Note the angle of the sash.

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