Also Donald Trump:
"As follow-through on his campaign promise to 'lock up' Hillary Clinton, Trump signed a law in 2018 stiffening penalties for improper removal of classified documents — from one year in jail to five years, turning it into a felony offense."
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DJT "Taking the Fifth so you're not prosecuted, is disgraceful; If you're not guilty of a crime why do you need immunity; You see the Mob takes the Fifth".
Trump took the Fifth today in NYC. Slimey little hood!
Dave, I took down that post to leave room for the older ones. Here's your comment, which is relevant to this post:
Dave Miller commented on "This is the guy the current Republican Party supports:"
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Is it ever off topic with Trump??? Here's a quote of his from an Iowa campaign stop in 2016... "You see the mob takes the Fifth... If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" Today former President Donald J Trump refused to answer questions in a civil deposition, claiming the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self incrimination. Let's remember that former President Clinton sat for hours at his deposition and answered all questions, albeit strategically parsing sentences, but answering the questions nonetheless. And Trump? He took the "mob" way out. The way out a guilty man, according to him, takes.
Trump is the one who changed the law regarding presidential documents, making it a felony instead of a misdemeanor!
He keeps trapping himself with his own criminal behavior!
trump was in NYC which should have been easy to figure out for the FBI. Instead of doing something rational like presenting the search warrant in the day time they storm the castle in the middle of the night. This seems to be the norm when it comes to FBI serving search warrants on trump and associates. All they had to do was show up at the resident and present their warrant but that would have been far less spectacular. What they did was guarantee trump would run against the nominated democrat for 2024. Couldn't be a worse mistake for everyone just to get publicity.
Any attorney will tell you to just shut up when talking to law enforcement if you are being suspected of anything so claiming the 5th makes sense.
I’m getting peeks into the Republican lunacy and their asinine response. I’m horrified. I thought that someone like Stephen Ayres, an insurrectionist testifying about how he was duped not just by Donald Trump but by Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson and all these morons parroting things they knew were lies. We know those three knew they were lies, or at least Ingraham and Sean because we saw what they were texting the chief of staff.”
Wallace added, “If they parrot lies about DOJ, which is pursuing an incredibly aggressive investigation into Hunter Biden, more aggressive than anything Bill Barr did, they will be peddling more lies. The kinds of lies that ruined Stephen Ayres’ life. I don’t have any sympathy for Stephen Ayres, but I think it’s instructive to watch the base call for protest or chaos or disrespect for the FBI is a new horror and a new low for the right, which is so far down on the low road, they can’t see the sky anymore. I think their reaction the last 24 hours has been disgusting.”
Wallace forgets that the present Trumpublican Party admires a man who incited an insurrection against his own government and encouraged his thugs to kill his vice president. Yes. That is a fact.
Trump is a weak, lawless individual who has beguiled Americans who are easily beguiled by his lies and criminal acts.
Trump has the legal option of releasing the warrant so that the American people can actually see what the Feds were looking for. He hasn't done so.
This could mean that what the warrant is about is so damning, so shocking, that Trump is too frightened to let the American people see what new crimes he was up to.
Today, he took the 5th in his New York deposition -- EXACTLY what HE said a mobster does when a mobster is guilty.
Trump indicts himself every time he opens his mouth!
skudrunner wrote: "trump was in NYC which should have been easy to figure out for the FBI. Instead of doing something rational like presenting the search warrant in the day time they storm the castle in the middle of the night.
WRONG! again, skud! Where do you get your info from? The Pillow Guy? Eric Trump?
"Agents at the FBI, the US federal crime agency, executed a search warrant at Trump’s home at the Mar-a-Lago resort, Florida, at about 9am on Monday. Sources familiar with the matter told the Guardian that the raid was part of an investigation into the former president’s removal and destruction of White House records after he left office in 2021."
skud: "Any attorney will tell you to just shut up when talking to law enforcement if you are being suspected of anything so claiming the 5th makes sense."
Not according to Trump. In his own words, which he repeated on many occasions, Trump claims only MOBSTERS and people who have something to hide from the police take the 5th. His words, not mine. Q.E.D.
Trump, his Trumpublican arty, party, and the dimwits who continue to support him (as well as those who continue to excuse his egregious hypocrisy and disgraceful behaviors) are the largest problem of a VERY BIG national problem.
They, not the immigrants, are the ones who ought to leave the country and move to a country where personality rather than the rule of law is what is honored and protected. IOW let the dimwits go to the authoritarian of their choice.
Heather Cox Richardson sez:
“Legal analyst Andrew Weissmann, who spent 20 years at the Department of Justice, pointed out on Twitter that the law requires the FBI to give Trump an inventory of what they found. If indeed he wants to claim the search was a witch hunt and he had no government property in his home, he should release the search inventory. “
Trump called the FBI search a "witch hunt" of course, because Trump is a lying liar. As long as he withholds the inventory of what the Feds took, we know that he's lying. He's also fundraising off of this, like the cheap little grifter that he is.
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BREAKING: Two senior government officials reveal that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was based on intelligence provided by an inside informant who identified the classified documents that Trump stole and told agents where to find them. RT TO THANK THE BRAVE INFORMANT
skud, care to tell us what Biden did? I am struggling with this. Trump took the documents right? He didn't return all of them right? He was asked for the last few months to return them right? He wasn't arrested for stealing highly classified information right? He could show us the warrant right?
The government went and took them back because Trump wouldn't return them.
How will Trump's stubborness to illegally keep government property that doesn't belong to him hurt the Dems? Does it mean that most of America approves of an ex-president breaking the law?
You tell me.
Keep clutching your pearls, Skidmark. You might eventually get someone to believe your bizarre fables. I saw it on local TV as I live less than 5 miles from Mar a Lago. The FBI was led through the compound by the secret service assigned to that club. There was no storming the walls or breaking down doors as you'd like us to believe. Also, this happened at 9 am not the middle of the night as you claimed. You must be a Trumper given how easily you make up crap (lie).
Ray, What classified information did he take? I didn't accuse biden of anything but he did state he knew nothing about the raid. Although it is likely he was told he just doesn't remember. If he wasn't told something like this he should have been. There are phones in Delaware so he could have been reached.
As to the timeline of the RAID I may have been confused. By the time I saw it on MSDNC it was night, I was out trying to use my EV credit but didn't have any luck.
Skud, speaking of the FBI crazily stated...
"instead of doing something rational like presenting the search warrant in the day time they storm the castle in the middle of the night.
No Skud, they did not. The politely arrived at 9:00am in the morning and knocked on the door.
All they [the FBI] had to do was show up at the resident and present their warrant but that would have been far less spectacular. Couldn't be a worse mistake for everyone just to get publicity.
Again Skud, you are 100% wrong. because what you advocate is exactly what they did. They presented their warrant at the door, the original of the warrant that had been sent to Trump's lawyer before they executed that search warrant. They did not wear the typical blue jackets with FBI emblazoned on the back and even coordinated the search with the Secret Service protecting the former president residence.
What mistake did they make?
Any attorney will tell you to just shut up when talking to law enforcement if you are being suspected of anything so claiming the 5th makes sense.
But Skud, Trump himself, as Shaw has pointed out, said only criminals claim the Fifth. What changed?
You see, your breathless mostly fact free post is exactly what is wrong with conservative America. Rather than converse in facts and ideas, they, like you, just make stuff up, speculate and engage in hyperbole and spin.
The FBI carried out their search when Trump was in NY so as not to publicly embarrass the former president and to avoid the spectacle you wrongly claim happened.
Maybe you, as well as those calling to defund and abolish the FBI, should get your facts straight before going public with easily fact checked drivel.
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