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Candis's avatar

Trump has truly pulled the curtain back.

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Adam Nedman's avatar

The Deep State exposed itself by going after Trump. They would still be hidden had they been more patient.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

The Jan 6th committee to Get Trump failed.

So the Trump Haters doubled down.

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realitycheck's avatar

IMO this raises the odds that the elections this year will not take place due to a "national emergency"

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I don't think they'll try to cancel the elections, but it's clear that they're trying their hardest to gin up a national emergency that will enable continued fraud through mail. My hope is that there will be a majority on the SCOTUS this time around who will be more prepared.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

They are making Trump into a martyr.

And giving Trump a huge lever against the DOJ and FBI.

Did Trump play rope a dope, perhaps through his continued irritations if the elites by focusing on election corruption and his huge success pushing candidates against Rinos, That caused the opposition / deep state to over react?

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perle's avatar

This will not end well. These people are out of their minds. There are many Trump-haters who will see the rule of law evaporating before their eyes, the dollar and the Country collapsing and a regime totally out of control, and will decide it is time to stop this. It won't be a Democrat-Republican thing. The counter-revolution will come from the Supreme Court, elements of the DOJ and even members of Congress of both parties. How will these imbeciles justify this? Trump himself would not use the military to enforce election law, but now they will voluntarily come to his support. They have crossed the Rubicon and even a servile media may be having second thoughts. All Washington was amenable to covering up a stolen election to avoid a Constitutional crisis. Now they have provoked a full-blown Constitutional crisis that cannot be covered up.

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Jim Lung's avatar

I wish. TDS, lies re: election, Jan 6 mean locks for dems 2024 if Trump is nominee.

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dissonant1's avatar

Actually I think it is important to realize they are not out of their minds. That is what is scary. Their actions are quite purposeful. It is also important that people recognize that they will do anything to retain power and they do not recognize any limits to their actions in doing so. Constitutional? They laugh at the Constitution. They use it when it is in their interests and ignore it when it is not. Now a lot of people outside of DC are waking up to the seriousness of what we are really up against in DC (and no it is not strictly a partisan problem).

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perle's avatar

I would add that a lot of people inside of DC are waking up to the seriousness of what is happening, and it is not strictly a partisan problem.

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

That is the wonder of the Orange Man, even if you disdain him, still he wakes you up.

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dissonant1's avatar

I hope...

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

I mean can't they see the hardest hit by the persecution of the former president are .. Pence...pompeo... Barr, McCarthy, McConnell, McDaniel, etc al? Maybe the dem wing is burning the Republican wing in a panic. Powells putting the squeeze on and it's back to every political party for itself, to hell with the plan?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I went for a walk this evening and along the way I saw a guy sitting in front of his house. On his lawn was an old Trump/Pence campaign sign. We had a nice chat. I'm hoping that's a sign of reactions to come.

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

Trump holds all the cards. This is a panic move. A former president is raided and the FBI Director isn't even in the office for it? Yeah real national emergency stuff. Clowns. The only people this will hurt are Republican wing unipartarians.

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Lance Gatling's avatar

Part of the story lies here:

The Congressional Research Service answers questions from Congress.

This report was apparently prompted by the House Oversight Committee.

Chaired by #CarolynMaloney NY-12

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12056

CarolynMaloney is in a death struggle with Rep Jerry Nadler for their newly consolidated district.

He specifically bragged in their debate that he had impeached 'Bush' twice, apparently touting his botched clown show impeachment hearings.

With the J6 faux hearings failed

& the NY investigation fiasco collapsed,

is the Presidential Records Act the Dimms last hope?

(18 U.S.C.§2071).

"Anyone ... convicted... in addition to fines and possible imprisonment

..be disqualified from holding federal office in the future."

Let's see how long it takes Carolyn Maloney to crow about this.

By trying this she probably hopes to become a hero to the New York libs in her new district that loath Trump, and puts Nadler in his place because he couldn't hang anything on Trump.

@LanceAoyama on Twitter

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D F Barr's avatar

Trump will be arrested and perp walked by Halloween.

We have descended into madness.

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

If so, Trump wins, they lose.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

They will kill him before he’s allowed to be president again

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

Yeah I didn't mean he wins the next election. I don't believe it actually matters where he ends up. If you've paid attention to the guy, I mean really paid attention he is UNCOMMONLY disciplined, I know that sounds strange but it's precisely because it goes so completely unnoticed in the man that it's remarkable. How much have the corrupt establishment of this country revealed themselves because of Trump? Where would you or I be in our awareness and understanding of the corruption absent Orange Man's dive into politics? Same for millions upon millions upon millions I'd wager.

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DJL's avatar

Not a coincidence this happens after Trump begins to campaign on draining the swamp by firing federal bureaucrats. I can only imagine the firestorm that will follow this impudence by the FBI/DOJ. You can't rebuild this bridge. All trust is lost in this government.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

As I said yesterday, I believe a platform like that is a surefire loser. However, I agree with your concluding observation:

"the Dems will do everything in their power to preserve mail in voting, and all of the other election tactics used in 2020 to obtain more 'votes'."

Again, I don't want to keep quoting myself, but I believe we're seeing all sorts of trial balloons in that regard--Monkeypox as a national emergency? Federal agencies promoting elections? The drumbeat of Republicans as domestic terrorists. This obviously way over the top raid on Trump. It's all pointing toward a "national emergency" solution to popular disillusion.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Yes, it's directly on point. This should be settled by negotiating and/or court action, not by a search warrant.

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