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Trump will most likely be charged by Manhattan's pro-crime Soros DA Alvin Bragg, the New York Times reports, based on Bragg inviting Trump to testify before the grand jury to defend himself.

I keep reading about this case and keep noticing an complete absence of discussion of something rather important: What are the charges supposed to be? What crime is he supposedly suspected of?

They seem to treat this as an irrelevant question. The important thing is that he'll be charged criminally -- what crime he actually is supposed to have committed is a detail that only Far Right Internet Extremists would quibble about.

It's not illegal to pay someone hush money. It's illegal to pay a witness in a court case, but Stormy Daniels was not a witness in a court case. She's just a stupid whore Trump allegedly (probably) had sex with.

So? It's not illegal for a rich man to pay a woman he slept with to keep quiet. NDAs are secured and paid for every single day. If this is somehow against the law -- will all the rich men in New York City who have paid mistresses to Go Away and Keep Quiet now be prosecuted?

Or is this yet another Trump-Only "law"?

Spoiler: It's the latter.

Even leftwing NYT propagandist (and someone Trump still leaks to) Maggie Haberman admit that Alvin Bragg's attempt to criminalize that which is not a crime makes for an "exotic case" which will be difficult to prosecute.

Also note that Anderson Cooper doesn't seem to really care what crime we're talking about. Those are just details! He just wants Trump jailed for literally anything. He's not choosy.

Oh -- They're claiming that Trump paying Stormy Daniels off was... a campaign finance violation. Claiming that paying her off was part of his campaign and so should have been disclosed.

Insane.

Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in 2018 for making the payments "at the direction" of Trump, which violated campaign finance laws and was allegedly meant to cover up Trump's extramarital affair with Daniels."

Oh, and that's a misdemeanor to boot.

But yeah, whatever, let's use some Soros DA legerdemain to turn a misdemeanor, which is already a bullsh!t charge as it is, into a felony and prosecute a former president because the Democrat Party doesn't want him to run again and has decided to suspend the Constitution to make sure he doesn't.

Remember when Hillary Clinton fraudulently listed her payments to FusionGPS to push the fake Steele Dossier as payments to her lawyer for "legal services"? That was direct fraud in campaign finance reporting, to disguise a payment to someone she didn't want to be connected to. (Remember, it took years of legal process to get someone to finally acknowledge that the payment had come from Hillary Clinton.)

No charges there!

Great thread about the media's neverending Science Denialism of the mere possibility of a lab leak from Drew Holden, here.

Just two of the many examples:

Via Twitchy, Margaret Sullivan, who was let go by the Washington Post, probably for being too ludicrous a leftwing hysteric, now writes for the Guardian -- water finds its own level, including sewer water.

This mental patient opines that the US leftwing media is too "fawning" in their praise of... Governor Ron DeSantis.

That's why it's appalling to see the media lavish him with so much fawning coverage. Fox News has put its calamitous love affair with Donald Trump on ice while it swoons over his younger rival.

DeSantis enjoys glowing treatment from the mainstream press, too. All too predictably, many of the headlines from his recent State of the State speech not only centered on presidential politics but also magnified his boasts. Here's a skepticism-free example from CNBC:

"'You ain't seen nothing yet': Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touts state record and fuels 2024 speculation."

The media should be delving into the substance of that record, including the kitchen-table economic issues that have nothing to do with performative anti-woke nonsense. Instead of letting DeSantis play at will on his favorite field of divisive social issues, reporters should dig into his war on teachers' unions, like trying to limit how they can collect dues and where they conduct union business. Reporters might even point out that this runs counter to Republican claims that they are now the workers' party.

She thinks that regulating how teachers unions extract dues from their members is a "kitchen-table economic issue" that animates voters generally? Ay Dios mio, no wonder the Washington Post sh!tcanned her fat stupid ass.

Yair Rosenberg @Yair_Rosenberg

The solitary examples in this article of the the media "fawning" over DeSantis are... Fox News and a single headline from CNBC.

Meanwhile, in the real world: A "journalist" asks DeSantis for comment on his "anti-black," "anti-immigrant," and "anti-woman" agenda;

and NBC "reports" that DeSantis is an authoritarian fascist dictator for having nothing at all to do with a proposed bill to make bloggers admit if they're secretly paid by politicians or political groups or not. DeSantis had nothing to do with this bill, offered by a single legislator, and later stated that he opposed it.

Those are just two examples of DeSantis' "fawning" media coverage from the past week.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews reveals that the military had a perfect description of the terrorist bomber who would blow up the gate and kill 13 Marines and rip the limbs off many others -- and in fact spotted him and identified him.

They asked for permission to kill him. They were denied that authority.

And then that terrorist blew up American Marines.

"I requested engagement authority when my team leader was ready on the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System," Vargas-Andrews said, testifying in his personal capacity. "The response: leadership did not have the engagement authority for us -- do not engage."

Vargas-Andrews said he requested that his battalion commander "come to the tower to see what we did. While we waited for him, psychological operations individuals came to our tower immediately and confirmed the suspect met the suicide bomber description," Vargas-Andrews recounted. When the battalion commander "eventually arrived," he was presented with the evidence and photos of two men, one who met the description of a suicide bomber. "Pointedly, we asked him for engagement authority and permission -- we asked him if we could shoot," Vargas-Andrews told lawmakers. "Our battalion commander said, and I quote, 'I don't know.'"

"Myself and my team leader asked very harshly, 'Well, who does? Because this is your responsibility, sir," Vargas-Andrews explained. "He again replied he did not know but would find out. We received no update and never got our answer."

"Eventually the individual disappeared," Vargas-Andrews continued. "To this day, we believe he was the suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground aware," he said. "Operations had briefly halted but then started again. Plain and simple, we were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded -- no one was held accountable for our safety."

After being denied engagement authority by the battalion commander, Vargas-Andrews explained that at "about 17:30, Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover" -- one of the 13 service members killed during the withdrawal who Vargas-Andrews described as a "friend and mentor" before getting choked up -- "came to get me from the tower to go help find an Afghan interpreter in the crowd."

"We found the interpreter and his brother," Vargas-Andrews recounted. "They told us of five family members still in the canal" along the HKIA perimeter. "I stayed there waiting for the family members, standing against the two-foot canal wall," he said. "Ten minutes passed, then a flash and a massive wave of pressure -- I'm thrown 12 feet onto the ground but instantly knew what had happened," Vargas-Andrews explained. "I opened my eyes to Marines dead or unconscious around me."

Colin Kaepernik's hatred of white people now extends to... the kindhearted couple who adopted him.

There are a lot of woke black racists who are denouncing their adoptive white parents and demanding that whites no longer be permitted to adopt black children.

I suspect that this horrid behavior will cause the adoption rates of black orphans by white (or any non-black) couples to fall precipitously, so -- Well done, guys! You're condemning abandoned black kids to remain in the orphanage until they're 18.

But you got a lot of clicks and likes, right?

posted by Ace at 05:45 PM

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