#the espionage act

[tomorrowusa]

Most things in life, and especially a basic respect for democracy and the rule of law, have to be cultivated. What is striking about the Republican Party is the extent to which it has, for decades now, cultivated the opposite — a highly instrumental view of our political system, in which rules and laws are legitimate only insofar as they allow for the acquisition and concentration of power in Republican hands.

Most Republicans won’t condemn Trump. There are his millions of ultra-loyal voters, yes. And there are the challenges associated with breaking from the consensus of your political party, yes. But there is also the reality that Trump is the apotheosis of a propensity for lawlessness within the Republican Party. He is what the party and its most prominent figures have been building toward for nearly half a century. I think he knows it and I think they do too.

– Jamelle Bouie at the New York Times on how Donald Trump is likely the natural result of the drift to lawlessness by the GOP over the past half century.

The narcissistic infantile Trump claims that he's being persecuted and has been singled out for political reasons. But if anything, prosecutors have been exceptionally careful about this investigation because of Trump's political standing.

Jamelle Bouie's NYT colleague David Leonhardt describes what happened to three people charged with the same sort of crimes that got Trump indicted.

And of course there the still-pending case of Jack Teixeira.

Trump not only knowingly shipped loads of classified documents, including nuclear secrets, to his home but he apparently used them to show off to his buddies – like Teixeira.

All Republicans can do is prattle false equivalences about Hillary's email server or equate Joe Biden's and Mike Pence's accidental retention of a handful of papers after their vice presidential terms were over.

Many Republicans seem to feel that they should be exempt from the law for life just because they're Republicans.

The GOP cannot call itself the "party of law and order" if they themselves refuse to obey the law.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin. On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin, Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being murdered. During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of U.S. informants on them.

A Timeline

• FBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquartered at Trump Tower for two years - March 21, 2017

• Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador - May 15, 2017

• Trump, Putin Meet For 2 Hours In Helsinki - July 16, 2018

• Rand Paul Goes To Russia And Delivers Letter For Trump, Marking Our Era Of Irony - August 9, 2018

• Following the Money: Trump and Russia-Linked Transactions From the Campaign to the Presidential Inauguration - December 17, 2018

• The US extracted a top spy from Russia after Trump revealed classified information to the Russians in an Oval Office meeting - September 10, 2019

• Trump’s Loose Lips Force US to Extract Spy From Kremlin - September 10, 2019

• Was Mar-a-Lago Trespasser a Tourist or a Spy? A Judge Said Her Story Didn’t Hold Up. - November 25, 2019

• Trump downplays massive cyber hack on government after Pompeo links attack to Russia - December 19, 2020

• Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, former KGB spy says - January 29, 2021

• There was Trump-Russia collusion — and Trump pardoned the colluder - April 17, 2021

• Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC - September 20, 2021

• Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants - October 5, 2021

• Files Seized From Trump Are Part of Espionage Act Inquiry - August 12, 2022

• Ex-Clinton aide implies 'President of France' file found at Trump's home during Mar-a-Lago raid could be valuable to Putin as 'kompromat' - August 13, 2022

• Inventing Anna: The tale of a fake heiress, Mar-a-Lago, and an FBI investigation - August 22, 2022

• Russians used a US firm to funnel funds to GOP in 2018. Dems say the FEC let them get away with it - October 30, 2022

• Trump makes shocking comments about trusting Putin over US 'intelligence lowlifes' - January 31, 2023

• Russia's Prigozhin admits links to what US says was election meddling troll farm - February 14, 2023

• GOP operative sentenced to 18 months for funneling Russian money to Trump- February 17, 2023

• Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national after leaving White House: Sources - October 5, 2023

• 'So appalled': What witnesses told special counsel about Trump's handling of classified info while still president - April 24, 2024

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[odinsblog]

Dang. Idk if anyone has ever laid out Donald Trump’s entanglement with Russia sO clearly.

If you’ve had enough of watching the Trump clowns defending Trump & white supremacy, the Sutori link is definitely worth reading. It is a very enlightening, detailed and comprehensive timeline that puts Trump’s very very long history with Russian mobsters into sharp perspective.

👉🏿 https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-you-might-be-interested-in--pTTyLH39r7FsRtF51JZi4BVt

👉🏿 https://forensicnews.net/trump-deutsche-bank-loans-underwritten-by-russian-state-owned-bank-whistleblower-told-fbi/

[dueling-jesters]

The m-abortion zootopia fancomic spoof wasn't actually accurate. I think White Spy would be supportive, if not more than supportive.

This one's mainly a joke, but done to clear things up. Hope the last bit isn't too suggestive for this site.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

shitpost dispatches from nightless city - incorrect but plausibly canon quotes edition

[reality-detective]

WIKILEAKS releases audio recording of Julian Assange speaking with the US judge in Saipan

“I believe the First Amendment and the Espionage Act are in contradiction with each other. But I accept that it would be difficult to win such a case, given all the circumstances."🤔

[lucydoodlessometimes]

Down the rabbit hole we go!

I know what I said about the rest of the Lunar chronicles art, but have you considered: I wanted to rewrite Miraculous Ladybug to my tastes instead?? so here. have bunny miraculous felix, or better known as Lapin Blanc.

[waitineedaname]

if pidw!binghe is bing-ge and svsss!bing-mei, then would their genderswapped versions be bing-jie and bing-di?

[lenbryant]

Judges Schmudges, who needs any of that highly overrated “experience” when you have friends in high places to protect?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Hannah Rabinowitz at CNN:

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order against Donald Trump in the classified documents case, saying that prosecutors’ efforts to confer with the defendant was “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.”

In a brief order, Cannon slammed prosecutors for not following the court’s rules by failing to meaningfully confer with Trump’s defense lawyers about a potential gag order before making the request. “Because the filing of the Special Counsel’s Motion did not adhere to these basic requirements, it is due to be denied without prejudice,” Cannon wrote, adding, “it should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise.” The judge’s order highlights the cumbersome filing process that has repeatedly plagued the case as it inches towards trial. Prosecutors can ask for a gag order again, Cannon said, once they give “sufficient time” to Trump’s defense team to read the motion and discuss it with prosecutors. The special counsel’s request – the first in the classified documents mishandling case ��� came after Trump repeatedly and misleadingly criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search and seizure of government records at his resort in August 2022.

[...] In a blistering court filing late on Memorial Day, attorneys for Trump said that the gag order request was an “extraordinary, unprecedented, and unconstitutional censorship application” to target Trump’s speech as he runs for president.

The 11th Circuit Court needs to step in and remove Trump-appointed judicial activist Aileen Cannon from the United States v. Trump classified documents theft/Espionage Act violations case.

Donald Trump's claim that FBI agents are out to assassinate him is pure lunacy.

See Also:

The Status Kuo: Nailing Down the Loose Cannon

[bingobongobonko]

working on yves timeskip and imw auegfhheegheeeeghegghh <- flabbergasted

[odinsblog]

Whatever Top Secret documents were at Mar-a-Lago have definitely been compromised already.

Or sold by Trump, to Putin or the highest bidder.

👉🏿 https://www.newsweek.com/spies-may-have-targeted-documents-mishandled-trump-ex-cia-official-1737645

👉🏿 https://www.salon.com/2019/08/03/trumps-white-house-issues-an-ominous-request-for-a-list-of-top-u-s-spies_partner/

👉🏿 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/26/classified-documents-linked-human-spies-found-donald-trumps/

👉🏿 https://www.gq.com/story/cia-pulled-russia-spy-because-trump

[joe-england]

Trump's Bombshell Federal Document Indictment

No, really.  It’s that bad.