134 thoughts on “Due Process

  1. UMMP, velcro Depends are beyond Pedo’s capabilities now.

    Sport jacket; straight jacket. It’s all the same to him.

  2. After God only knows how much network and local news stories about the January 6 committee hearings, Monmouth poll finds fewer people find Trump responsible for the January 6 riots than before the hearings began.
    These people are not smart, and they are not good at their job. The people of Wyoming would do well to send Liz Cheney to the political grave yard.

    https://bit.ly/3bOMq1t

  3. Now there are reports that Garland didn’t know about the Mir A Lago raid.
    People are starting to bother Wray about what he knew about the raid. Don’t those cussed journalists know that Wray (Buckley School, then Phillps Academy) is on vacation in the Adirondacs? So disrespectful.
    Wray got his BA (philosophy) and his JD from Yale.
    Seems kind lame to me, In the hard sciences you want to get your grad degree from a different institution than the one that awarded you your undergrad degree. Otherwise it looks parochial, like there is a Yale version of reality and a competing UCB (or whatever) version of reality.

  4. Emery, you continue to amaze me with your stupidity. As a line from a TV cartoon says; “Every time I think that you’ve said the dumbest thing ever, you just keep on going”.

    It’s really funny that you asswipes on the left always dismiss one of your minions pleading the fifth, you know, like Lois Lerner after the Kenyan Klown weaponized the IRS. And, funnier yet, they allowed her to plead it AFTER she made a public statement that she did nothing wrong.

    By the way, the security cameras were not turned off and now, the misdeeds of the FBI, like agents going through her clothes and underwear drawers, are caught on camera. They are wetting themselves trying to get it, but, they are probably screwed. I hope it gets leaked and goes viral, exposing the US version of the Gestapo.

  5. Here’s a couple of other things that make the FBI look like Keystone Cops and proves they have been weaponized against the opposing party:

    Hillary’s house wasn’t raided at 2:00 a.m. by Gestapo agents in tactical gear.

    Diane Weinstein, Leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has a ChiCom driver for over 20 freaking years and her home didn’t get raided. Who vetted the driver?

    Same with Eric Swallwell, on the House Intelligence Committee, banging Feng Feng, a known ChiCom agent for months, yet no raid; no consequences.

    Allegedly, the Gestapo was alerted by an informant, within Mar-a-Lago, that told them where the “documents” were located, yet the incompetent bastards spent 9 FREAKING HOURS inside the house, allegedly looking for them. Going through Melanie’s underwear and sniffing her shoes.

    Oh, and it turns out that the empty safe actually had Trump’s stash of ivermectin and covfefe.

  6. Ann Althouse (no friend of Trump) has had her blog post about the Mar a lago raid published as an editorial in the Wall Street Journal: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/08/we-have-full-access-to-everything-we.html

    Didn’t the previous Dem congress impeach Trump because he hinted that he wanted the Ukrainians (remember them?) to investigate the son of his probable presidential opponent’s son?
    And now the Justice Department of that same presidential contender, Joe Biden, has raided the home & private living space of his likely 2024 opponent, Donald J. Trump.
    The double standard is shocking. Wait, I am beyond being shocked by the antics of the Biden administration.
    Unless they come up with something really, really bad, job one of the next GOP congress should be the impeachment of Joe Biden.

  7. From what been written about — Trump’s office, a room and his safe were filled with documents he was not legally allowed to keep. The DOJ conducted a legal search using a legally obtained search warrant. They worked in “taint teams” which contains a team not connected to the investigation that screen material so that only targeted material and only the targeted material is collected. Even so, 12 boxes of classified national security documents were collected.

    The raid was timed for when Trump was not there. The raid was conducted quietly, so as to minimize the disturbance. And this is what “minimize” looks like.

    The material found is required by law to remain in the government’s hands and not an ex-president’s office or safe unless expressly allowed. That said, the violation is relatively minor, not very different from what Clinton was said to have done. There is no discussion of charging Trump. The government simply did its job. The DOJ would have done this to any other person long ago if they knew they held these documents.

    Still though, this is a no nonsense sign that the DOJ does not consider Trump above the law and that, I suspect is what his followers are angry about.

    For folks ranting about “law and order” and that cops and judges should get tougher on criminals, this complaining really is the icing on the cake.

  8. “Expressly allowed”? By whom? The president?
    By your lights, Emery, Trump’s JD should have gone hard on putting Hunter & Joe Biden in jail because, you know, no one is above the law, not even an ex vice president and his son.

    More blowing smoke, now with a whiff of panic since the whole thing has backfired, hard.

  9. Ha! Wrong again, Emery!

    They didn’t want to give Trump a photo op, but, they gave him the equivalent of a political ad.

    Face it, crack smoker, your party is sinking fast.

  10. Witch hunt: one day spent looking for documents — that found documents

    Not a witch hunt: seven years of Republican Kenneth Starr’s multi-million dollar investigation of Clinton and real estate fraud — that found a dress.

  11. This is the diversion tactic.
    Won’t work.
    Whiff of panic is becoming a stench.
    What’s gotta be driving Biden crazy is that while Hunter was working as Biden’s bag man, he was a non compos mentis crack fiend. No telling what kind of evidence is out there. H had multiple laptops because he’d lose one or leave it somewhere he couldn’t remember, and then he’d buy another one. Hunter has said he doesn’t know how many laptops he had or where they all are.

  12. Hillary’s emails mattered and Trump’s documents matter and the secret service’s texts matter and Hunter Biden’s laptop matters. All potential threats to our democracy and abuse of power matter. Trump hiding the details of the FBI search warrant and pleading the 5th isn’t America first, it’s using his transgressions to whip up fanatics against American institutions in order to save himself. That’s Trump first.

  13. The New York Times has filed a motion to intervene to get access to the FBI search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. There is clear public interest. Plus, Trump has said the search was an “assault.” ~ NYT
    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.8.0.pdf

    What’s great about this motion is that, even if it is ultimately denied, it will force both the government and Trump to respond. And we’ll learn things from that. If Trump really thinks there’s a ‘witch hunt’ going on with these documents he might want show us the search warrant to help support his claims.

  14. Trump’s office, a room and his safe were filled with documents he was not legally allowed to keep.

    Uh…. how about the 30 million pages of illegally kept documents that Obama admits to be holding?

    See Fact Sheet: The Obama Presidential Archives

    The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Foundation’s joint endeavor with NARA to digitize nearly 30 million pages of unclassified paper records of the Obama presidency on an accelerated timeline. The Foundation is engaged in discussions with NARA to revise our path to support digitization of the unclassified textual records and to collaborate on expanded digital access. We will continue to update the public on developments related to these efforts and our partnership with NARA as our work continues.

    With Obama, one must always read between the lines. The Presidential Records Act (PRA) requires a president to hand over their records upon leaving office. This ostensibly is what they are going after Trump for, but Obama also has refused to comply with the law, instead he is hanging onto the records and digitalizing them at his own pace then turning the the copies over to the National Archives.

    The exact opposite of what the law requires.

    Rumor has it that hundreds of armed FBI agents and a fleet of eighteen wheelers are headed for Chicago.

  15. ^ Politicians aren’t above the law, and neither is federal law enforcement. That’s why there is civilian oversight over them. The FBI should have no problem answering questions about why they raid the homes and offices of elected officials.

  16. The FBI should have no problem answering questions about why they raid the homes and offices of elected officials.

    Let’s change that from “should have no problem” to “will have a massive problem”.

    The first question they need to answer is: why haven’t you raided Obama’s stash of 30 million pages of documents that have not been handed over to the National Archive in compliance with federal statuary mandates?

  17. Subpoena Preceded Search Warrant in Push to Retrieve Material From Trump ~ NYT

    /Former President Donald J. Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier in the year, when he returned boxes of material he had improperly taken with him upon moving out of the White House, three people familiar with the matter said.

    The existence of the subpoena helps to flesh out the sequence of events that led to the search of Mr. Trump’s Florida home on Monday by F.B.I. agents seeking classified material they believed might still be there, even after efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to ensure that it had been returned.

    The subpoena suggests that the Justice Department tried methods short of a search warrant to account for the material before taking the politically explosive step of sending F.B.I. agents unannounced to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and members-only club.

    Two people briefed on the classified documents that investigators believe remained at Mar-a-Lago indicated that they were so sensitive in nature, and related to national security, that the Justice Department had to act./ ~ NYT

    The existence of the subpoena is significant. Rather than complying 100% with the subpoena and turning over all the documents as asked, Trump tried to manage the subpoena in his usual way (similar to congressional subpoenas), either fighting it out or negotiating. The fact that he didn’t turn over “top secret and national security” documents is significant. No wonder DOJ took the extreme action of retrieving National Security documents by search warrant. DOJ is justified in enforcing the law.

  18. NYT

    Enough said.

    Say, weren’t these the same people who worked with the FBI brass to legitimize the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing?

    And we are supposed to trust them again?

    Why not use a source with a bit more integrity….. perhaps The National Enquirer?

  19. And oh, about those 30 million pages of documents that Obama “improperly” took….and still has yet to turn over to the National Archive.

    When can we expect the FBI raid on him?

  20. Well, the game’s up… “JUST NOW: ABC guest blames FBI raid anger on Neo-Nazis because Merrick Garland is Jewish”.

  21. The fact that the usual collection of aging megaphone-equipped and Trump retirees and part-time employed have turned out on SiTD comments doesn’t actually seem to amount to a significant development.

    I do wish the Deep State would sort them out. After all what do I pay my Deep State subscriptions for?

  22. After all what do I pay my Deep State subscriptions for?

    That tingly warm feeling you get from being smug?

  23. The fact that the usual collection of aging megaphone-equipped and Trump retirees and part-time employed have turned out on SiTD comments doesn’t actually seem to amount to a significant development.

    More lunatic babbling from the little weasel. It’s like reading political commentary from a really bad AI programs with a database of words and phrases that are just thrown together.

  24. SiTD’s Trump followers and MAGA Republicans do seem to need someone to explain to them, in as simple terms as possible, the meaning and consequences of the rule of law. However, no matter how much Garland dumbs it down for them they will not get it, because it’s obviously about something else entirely.

    Trump has the legal right to list the documents. If they were not confidential or damaging would he not of done so?

  25. ^^ Looking forward to Garland’s prosecution of Hunter Biden for his illegal gun buy.
    You are a joke, Emery.

  26. Greg demands Obama return what he took — ignoring the fact it was all cleared and packaged by the National Archives for him to present in his library. Funny that.

    Woolly—I’m looking forward to watching you and the other SiTD Trumpalos contort and debase yourselves explaining all the legitimate reasons Trump needed to take top secret nuclear documents and store them at his upscale Ramada Inn.

  27. ^^ I just want equal treatment under the law, Emery. Where is the indictment for H Biden’s illegal gun purchase. It is extremely well documented.

  28. Emery will have us believe that the National Archives examined and cleared 30 million pages of documents as Obama left the White House.

    But that is not the issue here.

    Presidents are allowed to hold onto their records until such time as their presidential libraries are built. It has been six years and Obama’s library has not been built nor have the records been turned over to the National Archives nor have they been digitized as agreed upon.

    It has only been less than two years for Trump who intends to build his library in Florida where the documents now reside.

    If demanding that presidential papers be in the physical possession of the National Archives then Obama must be equally asked to return his.

    So when can we expect an FBI raid on Obama’s warehouse in Chicago?

  29. From WSJ:

    Mr. Garland’s raid has made even the highest political figures fair prosecutorial game, and the media’s new standard is that the department can’t be questioned as it goes about ensuring “no one is above the law.” Let’s see how that holds when a future Republican Justice Department starts raiding the homes of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, James Comey and John Brennan.

  30. Again from WSJ:

    Payback could come even sooner. Democrats set a new low with their Ukrainian impeachment circus, and a GOP House next year might be up for a reprise. Get ready for a few more select committees—perhaps excluding the minority party, as the Democrats effectively did with the Jan. 6 committee—to investigate Mr. Garland’s politicized department or Hunter Biden’s finances. Watch them subpoena sitting Democratic representatives, as the Jan. 6 committee did to Republicans. Reps. Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell may find themselves on the back bench with a new Republican majority eager to follow Mrs. Pelosi’s example and strip the opposing team’s members of committee assignments.

  31. Oh, I can’t wait for “The Committee on Congressional Members Who Married Their Brothers”.

  32. Well, so much for Trump’s BS claim that he “never got the warrant” —now the DOJ is offering to publish the warrant Trump is lying about it. And the beat goes on..

    Given that Trump himself increased the sentence for one of the very crimes he’s alleged to have committed, because he intended to frame Hillary, it looks as if he’s beating himself…

  33. I fully expect Trump and his supporters to now oppose unsealing the search warrant, even though yesterday they wanted all of the information released. Everyday is opposite day in Trump world.

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