This is such BS.
Perhaps the goal is to get the Biden corruption off the radar with this media diversion.
Lastly, the broader timing of all this should infuriate Republicans. The DOJ is about to do what many feared and predicted (including myself), which is to wait around to indict Trump so that the trial takes place after he’s already possibly gained the Republican nomination. Given that a conviction would then be probable (especially if the case is tried in an unfriendly jurisdiction), this could turn out to be the biggest example of election interference in American history. It’s unconscionable, no matter what one thinks of the general merits of the case.
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will reportedly plead guilty as part of a plan to indict former President Donald Trump.
Sources told Andrew Feinberg of The Independent that Meadows' decision to plead guilty was connected to his testimony to a grand jury hearing evidence about Jan. 6 and the mishandling of classified documents.
"It is understood that the former North Carolina congressman will plead guilty to several federal charges as part of a deal for which he has already received limited immunity in exchange for his testimony," Feinberg wrote.
A corrupt DOJ is the end of the Republic. It is fundamental to its function.
If the GOP isn't willing to die on this hill then they are just as responsible for the consequences.
Prosecutors ready to ask for Trump indictment on obstruction and Espionage Act charges
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are prepared to ask grand jurors to vote on charges as early as Thursday
Andrew Feinberg
20 minutes
The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury to indict former president Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice as soon as Thursday, adding further weight to the legal baggage facing Mr Trump as he campaigns for his party’s nomination in next year’s presidential election.
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.
The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.
That section of US criminal law is written in a way that could encompass Mr Trump’s conduct even if he was authorised to possess the information as president because it states that anyone who “lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document ...relating to the national defence,” and “willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” can be punished by as many as 10 years in prison.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-indictment-espionage-prosecution-charges-b2353397.html
Meaning what? Exactly what are we supposed to do?
If the charges are meritless and just "Trumped up", Trump's lawyers can force a trial much sooner than next July-August.
If they're not meritless...what exactly is the rest of the GOP supposed to do if Trump was dumb/careless enough to commit a felony? And again, that's assuming that the only charge against him isn't just "you had classified documents."
I'm not talking about Trump per se. I'm talking about the very corrupt very political DOJ. The in-your-face Clinton Foundation receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from foreigners while she was secretary of state, her private Email server with government classified documents on it that were clearly leaked and Hunter's laptop that all show the extreme corruption of the DOJ. The GOPs response to it all is critical. Which so far hasn't been much. We will not survive a deeply corrupt DOJ.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
They would not indict Trump if he wasn’t running for President in 2024.
This is election interference.
3:46 PM · Jun 7, 2023
https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1666552093644304385
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If the charges are meritless and just "Trumped up"
Well...the only Republican Administration since all that stuff happened was Trump's. If the DOJ didn't get cleaned out, or wrongdoers weren't prosecuted...he's the guy most responsible for that.
This was just sent to me..
First 1/3 - 1/2 of this video is worth the watch. He goes through and very clearly explains why the upcoming indictments of Trump is serious and likely to get traction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA273kfglIo&ab_channel=JudgeNapolitano-JudgingFreedom
Anyone think that the leftists/globalists/marxists aren't going to keep Trump from running, regardless of what they have to do to him is dreaming.
They are after him, they've been after him and their corruption is so deep that I just don't see how he's going to escape charges. Witch hunt or no witch hunt, right or wrong, they aren't going to stop.
Trump has money to fight them now, but his past lawyers and defense team have been less than adequate. At best the leftists are going to try to exhaust most of his money and keep him tied up in court.
Prayers up for President Trump and may God have mercy on this country.
He's got plenty of money to fight these charges. If he can't hire good lawyers, that's on him.
He's got plenty of money to fight these charges. If he can't hire good lawyers, that's on him.
BREAKING: Biden DOJ notifies President Trump that he will be indicted next week.
It's really frightening that there are those who walk among us masquerading as "constitutional conservatives" blaming the target for not having the legal or political right to fire those across all federal agencies and Congress who are investigating him ---- and to do so dripping with such moral superiority.
That does sound bad for Trump.
Indicted for what? What crime are they charging him with?
The posted video above: https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,502029.msg2845267.html#msg2845267
Spells it out pretty clearly. It sounds like Trump blew himself up breaking his attorney client privilege.
That is a very tall stretch. If I am following it correctly, he told someone on tape back in July 2021 that he had a top secret document. But later, he told his lawyers that there were no more classified documents in his possession. Not seeing a problem here. In order to compel his lawyers to testify, one would have to prove first of all that Trump was telling the truth in 2021 which is going to be quite a feat for any prosecutor insisting that Trump is a liar. And secondly, one must prove that the referenced document was still in his possession after he informed his lawyers that no more classified documents were in his possession.
Keep in mind that Trump already acknowledged to the National Archives that he did in fact have classified documents at the Mar-A-Lago residence, which is why he had to get the special locks and store room. So there is nothing here that would force his lawyers to testify against him.
And of course that still doesn't answer the question. What crime is he being indicted for?
For America Firsters (Video)So much for his 20 point lead.
https://twitter.com/MagaMemeWizard/status/1643043690565255170
Apparently NDI documents are illegal to be in possession of outside a government secure area period. The law is different for NDI documents verses classified documents. The government was asking for it while Trump was saying he didn't have it through his lawyers. And then on tape he claimed to have it. If you lie to your lawyers putting them in legal jeopardy, attorney client privilege is lost. That's the overall claim. Obviously I'm not a lawyer...
Yes, it does. Trump's mouth was his undoing.
There's a problem with that timeline. It wasn't until later that year that Trump's lawyers responded to the original National Archives request, and in that response, they admitted that Trump had some of the documents they were receiving. Thus there is no contradiction between the July 2021 taped conversation and what his lawyers told the National Archives after the Mar-A-Lago raid.
So now we're back to the original 'charge' that Trump had classified documents in his possession at his Mar-A-Lago residence - documents delivered to his residence by the GSA. Trump's counsel admitted this circumstance to the National Archives. The National Archives sent their representatives to Mar-A-Lago to catalog those records. They instructed Trump and his Secret Service detail to safeguard the room they were stored in with an extra layer of security (which they did). So can they charge him with possessing classified documents outside of the White House? Sure, they could have done that two years ago, just as with Biden, Pence, etc. But that would place focus on Biden who is far more guilty of it than Trump.
The NDI documents may have nothing to do with the National Archives.
Speaking only for myself, I can tell you that the more $%*t they conjure up to throw at him the more likely my vote for Trump becomes!
I understand, but voting emotions is always a bad plan with long term consequences.
https://twitter.com/RealAmVoice/status/1666515921412792321
Well, shucks.
I thought Grand Jury proceedings were held in secret until the Grand Jury made an announcement.
SO WTF IS THE BIDEN DOJ DOING ANNOUNCING ANYTHING THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET?
I understand, but voting emotions is always a bad plan with long term consequences.
Isn’t Biden doing what Trump was impeached for?
Yep. As a general rule, if Democrats accuse you of wrongdoing, it is only because they are already doing it themselves.To a much greater degree, at that.
When Trump was impeached the first time for the Ukraine call he allegedly made regarding the firing of a prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating the hiring of Hunter Biden by a Ukrainian energy company, wasn’t one of the charges was that he was using the power of the presidency to investigate a potential political rival in the 2020 election?
Isn’t Biden doing what Trump was impeached for?