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Alan Baerlocher's avatar

By blurring the lines on the Espionage act and the PRA, the dems are attempting to influence future jurors that might hear this case. Trump better do whatever he can to make sure this thing isn't heard in DC. The J6th trials prove that anyone rooting for team R wont be allowed a fair trial in that swamp.

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Steghorn21's avatar

With respect, Mark, don't you think you're thinking a bit too legalistically here? These are not normal times and maybe the Dems don't give a damn about legality, constitutionality or the rule of law in general. Their aim is to get Trump by any means, fair or foul. Sure, maybe they will wind their necks in when a few honest judges shoot them down on points of law; but then maybe they'll say, damn the legal torpedoes and go full speed ahead to a prosecution in front of a well-prepped DC jury. The Dems have no reverse gear and the fight is for all the marbles.

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Dave's avatar

I think collectively we are all in a state of disbelief as we watch our country literally being dismantled by Communists. I also think there are millions of people in denial to differing degrees, self deluding that the Administrative State and all its flying Marxist monkeys is playing by the same set of rules as they did in, say, 2008.

I am not saying Mark is under any illusions about what is happening: far from it.

These people aren't Democrats, they are Communists, operating straight up out of the same playbooks used by every genocidal regime in history. And they are now standing in the open, no longer hiding their agendas or intentions or their forces.

We are, and have been since Obama hit the scene, unmoored from the Constitution, and you've right: we are playing for keeps now.

Who knows what the spark will be, but its coming. Soon.

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DJL's avatar

When I read Rivkin and Casey's views and their history of expertise on this matter, the federal magistrate judge who authorized this fishing expedition looks very bad, very ideological, and outclassed when it comes to the law. One would think the judge would have bounced this off of some retired judges - preferably non-partisan judges if he knows any - for their view before he signed off on such an 'extraordinary' and dubious FBI warrant. Or perhaps the judge got a call from a DOJ buddy who assured him all was well. How much longer this judge can control what he has released from Pandora's Box is yet to be seen.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Maybe someone just showed him a photo involving some of his previous activities.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Yes!

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Steve Eschenbacher's avatar

I would argue that the entire PRA is just the best cover the FBIs could come up with. If they knew back in May that there were documents that were a threat to the security of the nation (which is the definition of classified material) why wait for August to do anything about it. The argument of the DOJ makes absolutely no sense, unless it it to take other documents that they know would be suppressed in any criminal case because of the overbreadth of the warrant. Combined with their usual habits of trying a case in the media pre-trial, they are not serious about criminal prosecution. I'm going with the idea that Trump declassified documents that will be brought forth at his RICO suit and they wanted to take them out of play because they make the FBI look bad.

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