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Think it paves the way for DeSantis until….?

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Sure makes voting irrelevant.

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CTH posted this, for some context and background. Worth your time reading this doc from Trump legal team.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trump-Classified-docs-response-to-hpsci.pdf

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Worth a read. Margot Cleveland doesn't usually use strong rhetoric. One caveat. The FBI and DoJ don't run this country. The Power Elite uses them as instruments to enforce their will.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/09/doj-declares-war-on-2024-with-trump-indictment-hours-after-biden-bribery-news/

But what is clear now — abundantly so given the last month of revelations related to the FBI’s non-investigation of Biden — is our federal overlords have abandoned the rule of law.

It isn’t merely that there is one law for the rich and powerful and one for the rest of us. No, the FBI and DOJ have proven they are “the powerful” and will decide which law applies and to whom. Even more devastatingly, they have proved they control the fate of which politicians we are allowed to elect.

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The big story today is - there is no story. Nobody is talking about it, although this is the news that would likely cost our current regime the remains of its legitimacy. Do they know something that we don't know? The realistic solution would be to craft a resolution with Trump's lawyers to abort this, yet allow the claim that Trump was indicted but released on a technicality. The optics are so bad. Trump is not accused of selling West Point to the British like Benedict Arnold or accepting bribes from foreign countries like Joe. He is not even accused of compromising the secrecy of documents like Hillary. There seems to be a dispute over protocol, something sure to fire up aversion to Trump by his millions of fans. Whatever they might accomplish in the future, the Regime has already lost it in the Court of Public Opinion.

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The French must be saying “déjà vu all over again” - Dominique Strauss-Kahn and then François Fillon were conveniently removed from two elections. I wonder, without Trump, what do the Dems have - in terms of strategy? For two elections now, he’s all they’ve ever had! And surely our noble elites don’t want to see RFK Jr in the WH - he’s dangerous for the MIC and Big Pharma - a regular 60’s radical! What happened to them? Oh! They’re busy waging a European war in the killing fields of Ukraine.

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Their strategy has been in plain sight: GOP is the party of White supremacy and Insurrection.

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Yes, and apparently half the country is just fine with a civil war…

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Except nobody is going to fight it. We face a bigger danger. What if most citizens do not accept the authority of the government and only comply just enough not to get in trouble? Ask what your country can do for you. Give zilch in return.

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Won't pretrial and discovery be fun? Methinks the DOJ will have a real problem on their hands if it moves forward.

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I don’t see how DOJ show all their cards here. Look at Jan 6th and Durham special counsel as examples.

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Discovery in a criminal trial is very different and is likely to be more restricted than in a civil lawsuit.

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The United States of America, was once a great nation, in spite of her relative youth. The USA has gone on one binge after another of destruction, she has become a power mad drunken harlot. The all corrupting, utterly insane influence of the USA sows seeds of death and destruction throughout the whole world. Those seeds sprout domestically and abroad and the results are always the same, nothing but misery. Shame on the American people for being fools and dupes, willing tools for the evildoers to use. That which cannot continue will inevitably end, I fear that hell on earth is coming soon.

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We no longer have a Country. They no longer have a Country. Unless some cooler heads in the SC or Congress shut this thing down quickly this will spiral into a non-governable mess. Trump has held back on attacking his attackers for the good of the Country. We no longer have a Country. Even assuming they could get away with this, who would respect, trust or give allegiance to them in the future?

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Like everyone here at MiH, these events weigh heavily on my mind. I continue to be reminded of a passage from Nikolai Berdyaev's work "Slavery and Freedom," a portion of which reads in part below. The last paragraph is particularly poignant and seems relevant to the events transpiring:

“A radical break has taken place between personal morality, especially the morality of the Christian Gospel, and state morality, the morality of sovereignty, the moral practice of the 'Prince of this world'. That which has been considered immoral for a person has been considered entirely moral for the state. The state has always used evil means - espionage, falsehood, violence, murder; there have been distinctions in this respect in degree only; these methods, indisputably very evil, have always been justified by a good and exalted end in view. But not to speak for the moment of the quality of that end, it must be said that this so-called good and exalted end has never been realized."

“No-one can ever clearly explain and justify the fact that undoubted vices and sins in an individual person - pride, self-conceit, egoism, cupidity, hatred, blood-thirstiness, brutality, lying and theft should assume the appearance of virtues and gallantry in the state and nation, nor can anyone justify their doing so. This is the very greatest falsity in world history."

“It has been left unintelligible in what way a nearer approach to the Kingdom of God comes about, and in what way the Kingdom of God benefits, from organized lying, from organized espionage, from executions, from predatory wars, the seizure of foreign lands and brutality to their peoples, from the growth of national egoism and national hatred, from monstrous social inequalities and from the power of money. If it is good for individual people to repent and be humbled, it would be still better for communities, states, nations, and churches, to enter upon the path of repentance and humility."

“The arrogance of an individual person is not so terrible as the arrogance of a nation, a state, a class, or of an ecclesiastical confession. The self-assertion of a group is the form of self-assertion from which there is least hope of escape."

“The moral and religious question which faces the personal conscience can be put in a very simple and elementary way: is it permissible to execute a single innocent person for the sake of the safety and well-being of the state? In the Gospel this question was put in the words of Caiaphas. 'It is better for us that one man should die for the people than that the whole nation should perish.' It is well known what sentence was decided by these words. The state always repeats the words of Caiaphas; it is the state's confession of faith. Statesmen have always given the answer that in the interests of the safety of the state and the increase of its strength, an innocent man may and should be put to death. And every time that happens a voice is raised in favor of the crucifixion of Christ. The demoniacal stamp which is imprinted upon the state is due to the fact that the state always gives its vote for the execution of Christ: it is its destiny.”

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There is not a snow ball’s chance in hell that trump will be allowed to be a candidate for president let alone elected. He will be arrested tried convicted and executed by one means or another before that happens. May God help us!

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I weep for this country.

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This is NOT the

Rule of Law,

it is the

Law of Rule.

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In a perfect world Scotus would slap this down hard and fast.

And the house of reps would impeach garland, smith, etc. for the over reach.

I guess as long as the left controls the media / internet / vote counting then

Rule of law, blind fair justice, and institutional trust are not concerns.

And the eGOP aids and abetts.

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SCOTUS does not have original jurisdiction over this case and can’t do a thing until the case comes to them on an appeal.

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Unless it’s fast tracked

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I have no idea where this is going.

It will be important to watch the actual actions, not words, of gop elected officials and the court system, including Scotus.

My gut feeling is the courts and majority of the gop will go along with this railroading of Trump, but I hope I’m wrong.

The impact on Trumps Voters is one to watch. Maybe it will inflame them enough to guarantee his reelection, overcoming the Democratic and eGOP Voter Fraud. I don’t know if it’s possible to overcome.

Will Trump become another Goldwater, losing, but rebirthing the gop to create another Reagan?

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Ok, it’ll probably get me banned from MIH, but this is such bullshit!! I’m sick of these corrupt assholes making a mockery of this country and everything it stands and trying to pass it off as “saving democracy”. A vile festering pox on all their houses.

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Does anyone else find it amazing that Trump is investigated for less than a year before charges are brought forward, while Hunter Biden has been under investigation for three years or more and not one charge has been filed? All with much more evidence than the questionable evidence and charges being filed against Trump. Then there is FJB who as VP had classified material which he had no authority to declassify, much less have in his possession - but not a charge.

It is this disproportional application of the 'law' that will poison these remoras in the eyes of the American people in a country founded on equality under the law.

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What you observe is not a bug but a feature of how our country is ruled today. It’s a classic Alinskyite (i.e., Satanic) tactic to accuse your opponent of doing exactly what you are guilty of. It not only distracts from your own guilt but, as a form of gaslighting, it also has the delicious potential of driving your opponent crazy. Think of the many ways the demonic Weston psychologically toyed with Ransom in CS Lewis’s novel Perelandra. Chilling.

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Not to mention that there is a wealth of evidence that shows Biden took many millions of dollars (and coincidently supports China EVERY way he can) from our #1 worldwide adversary. 10 million dollars for one thing and another 5 million for another China exploit. From China's intelligence agencies of course.

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Nothing is “amazing” anymore. There are no more superlatives to describe where we are as a nation.

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