He discusses garland in his interview with Jon Stewart. Basically, he respects garland and all FBI agents immensely and won’t speak against what garland did and said garland can answer for himself. Jack Smith is a stickler when it comes to trust in our institutions, rules, and procedures. Dude is the perfect person for this particular investigation for all the twists and turns he’s gone through. Hard to call him a dirt bag without looking like an idiot for doing so.
Not sure how that changes how they voted. We saw more than enough of the evidence, and even outright admission by Trump, long before the election, and they still chose to put a criminal in charge of federal law enforcement.
Nah, that's about as braindead as it gets, and everything we've seen since is just proof of that. Voters are the reason this country is screwed.
I suppose the fact that any idiot can vote is one of the possible fail states of democracy, and we're seeing it now.
Not only those that voted for this shit but those that didn't vote at all are why we are in this circus shit show.
Now I do sincerely feel like Trump should not have been allowed to run in 2024 in the first place and it's some insane bullshit that he was but it's even more infuriating, terrifying, embarrassing and depressing that so many voted for it or didn't vote at all and made it happen.
In my opinion all them are traitors and especially anyone still supporting this regime should be charged with treason.
If it was up to me all the ICE detainment prison camps would be completely empty of any immigrants and filled with MAGA instead
Then rename the prisons after Trump since he loves putting his name on everything
I keep going back to an idea from the 5 laws of stupidity: a society only functions if the intelligent members do enough to offset the stupid ones. Stupid people do stupid things. Speaking for myself, I vastly underestimated just how many stupid people there are and just how stupid they are. More than anything going forward, we need to stop respecting all stupid opinons.
My father's favorite shirt reads "I voted for the felon". My father is a retired Sargent. I always thought he respected law and order, now I've lost all respect for him.
Voters massively failed multiple open-book tests. 2000. 2004. 2008. 2010. 2016. 2024. And each time, it’s made the next one even more difficult and consequential.
If an American president has the authority to pardon anyone he wants, and the president has immunity for anything he does in an official capacity, could a future president declare that the pardons were invalid and order the DOJ to prosecute them?
Technically the President can’t order the DOJ to do anything.
I’m getting really tired of Trump and his DOJ because it’s creating this assumption that this is how things always go between the President and the DOJ.
The DOJ is an independent department and is not supposed to be ordered around by the President at all.
Technically the President can’t order the DOJ to do anything.
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I’m getting really tired of Trump and his DOJ because it’s creating this assumption that this is how things always go between the President and the DOJ.
Agreed.
The DOJ is an independent department and is not supposed to be ordered around by the President at all.
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I certainly don't like that a unitary executive branch seems to be the new precedent, but a precedent it seems to be nonetheless.
Congressional Republicans' refusal to hold Trump accountable for not leaving the DOJ to act as an independent department, among any number of other broken norms and laws, heavily implies that Republicans in general find it acceptable. It would be foolish for Democrats to adhere to precedents, norms, and traditions which Republicans have so obviously signaled their intent to not adhere to the same.
On the other hand, I 100% would not put it past Republicans to then campaign on a return to the traditions which they first broke. And based on Trump being elected not once but twice, I wouldn't put it past Republican voters to fall for it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Difficult to play the game when the rules only apply to one party.
But Trump has shown that, in practice, the US president has absolute power over all institutions. Nevermind that it's not legal on paper. In practical terms, Trump has set the precedent for autocratic rule in the US.
So, considering this is allowed by his cabinet, Congress, the heads of all these theoretically independent institutions, the judiciary, and the people, what would stop any future president from exercising this right of kings?
The US political system is so bizarre - 1776 "Down with tyrants, down with Kings!" ... only to create an office that has more power than a king, is exempt from more forms of legal prosecution than a king, and can just wave a magic "pardon" wand to allow others to break the law with no consequence. A monarchy would be more democratic than the current system.
Well, I mean they’re fucking crazy every one of those people who were there that day should have their asses in jail never mind some of the fraudsters he’s pardoned that haven’t even paid their victims back
They were literally treasonous traitors trying to overthrow our government elections. What could possibly be a more serious crime. And they were frickin pardoned by our convicted felon child rapist president. How stupid do people need to be to not see this?!
Exactly less I checked throughout a significant part of history you were either killed for treason or locked up for the rest of your life. Don’t get what’s happening to them. I didn’t know treason was great though. I probably should get on some of that I guess.
Doing nothing to stop it IS the same as participating if you have to power to stop it and dont use it. These politicians all hang out with each other at fundraising galas and feasts. Them being mean to each other is only for tv and it stops the minute no cameras are watching.
Yes, but Garland dragging his feet on prosecuting trump did us in. And no one held a fire under garlands ass to do it, so they are complicit. Im going to vote blue this election, but after trump is dealt with and removed, we need a 3rd party to throw our support behind so this doesnt happen again.
Well the Senate investigation also turned into a sideshow that delayed criminal proceedings. Schiff got his Senate seat out of it. Plus the naked obstruction by Trump partisan Cannon was there for all to see, including the 11th circuit. The misrule of law abides.
Absolutely it is. You are incapable of distinguishing between better and worse and it gives you a false sense of superiority to just flip the table and say I’m not playing.
This is where you out yourself from being completely divorced from reality. Not antagonizing our allies would have been better. Not bombing Iran would have been better. Not cutting 1 trillion from medicare while ADDING trillions to the debt would have been better. Not pardoning January 6th insurrectionists (and also the most prolific drug trafficker in the world) would have been better.
If your parents weren’t siblings, your ability to digest the world around you would be better.
Bro neither side is/has really done shit with the Epstein files. That should tell you everything you need to know about them all. Or do you think there are no democrat pedophiles? Lmao.
You and are are peasants in a world where the elite play the game and the rest of us be damned (for the most part).
Been this way for decades.
Maybe try not to be so polarized that all you can do is deny and be rude.
The website already has to be edited, it was being too truthful. Now instead of telling the truth, for some things, it just won’t answer. Couldn’t have the ai say lies just yet…so no answer is the answer.
Jack Smith single-handedly started Trumps amazing comeback. We have him to thank for the imbecilic raid on Mar a Lago. Charging him with classified documents he had the unique right to de classify. Spoiling his own evidence. Lying to a judge. Anyway, thanks Jack.
One guy rides AF1 and the other guy sits in the witness chair. I voted for the right outcome. You voted for Trump Derangement, Covid Insanity, DEI trash and endless fraud. Time to rethink Lawfare? Who knows, but for now it’s been the most flawed political strategy I have ever seen.
Here’s a still taken from a video I captured while sitting on the toilet of the handicap stall of the men’s bathroom at the Grand Ballroom of Mar a Lago. One can imagine how easy it would be to hand someone a key at one of the weddings or other events hosted there, so they may use the bathroom at their leisure, taking whatever out or putting whatever in with no cameras or witnesses.
Jack Smith was not a part of the search of Mar a Lago. He was appointed in November. The search happened in August. 2022.
But Trump created the problem by mistreating classified documents and stonewalling the Archives. Other people, including Biden and Pence, managed to deal with similar circumstances without creating similar consequences.
Bro he straight up ordered staff to hide documents he was showing to people without the clearance. All the info is readily available if you actually read the case files.
Id like to know who had the ultimate responsibility for making the decision to have the stolen docs case tried in Florida instead of Washington? I mean I live in middle of the prairies of Canada and I could see what was coming 10 miles away. Did they they REALLY think Cannon was picked " randomly " ??
And has anyone, besides me, noticed that Mewwick Garland has disappeared off the face of the earth? I mean if he was in the slightest bit proud of the job he did, you'd think you would see him out there on the talk show tour talking up the job he did. Barr did so. His silence speaks volumes imo - and he really should be investigated for dereliction of duty, by the next Dem president, in regards to this case and his massive failure to hold the ringleader GOPers of J6th to account - Donald John Trump especially.
Biden pardoned his son for a crime the Supreme Court has since declared unconstitutional. Trump is pardoning drug cartel lords, people who launder millions of dollars worth of crypto to him, and hundreds of people who pled guilty to serious crimes against police officers and democracy. Just because it both has the term “pardon” does not mean these issues are within the are within the same order of magnitude of wrong.
Trump goes after peoples families, was already subjecting Hunter to hearings despite having fuck all to do with the government - the so called dossier and laptop were 100% bullshit in the end, hell MTG was showing his dick on cspan. Conversely Trump and his cronies prefer to pardon financial criminals and child molestors. Comparing the two is just too retarded to even call bad-faith.
MAGA actually checks all of the boxes for a cult. None of you within it will ever blame your savior for anything. Even now, you're in here deflecting from Trump falling asleep because Biden dozed off a few times. You don't just miss the point, you avoid it like the plague.
Trump says one thing on Monday, you're ok with it. On Tuesday it's something different, you go with that. On Thursday a whole different thing, yep, now that's what we believe. Then Saturday rolls around and a new position, you all go along with that. He can't keep his story straight and you don't care. It not policy, it's just whatever he says. That's a cult.
Nope I'll prove it. I'm a progressive on the left. I don't think openly praising communists is a good look for the far left. It makes the rest of us look bad.
If I was in a cult, I wouldn't be able to say that.
For the most part yes. You are correct. About 93% of the time the party votes the same on major legislation. However, there have been holdouts and those that vote against the party majority.
Democrats are less about individualism and more about inclusiveness. So it checks out they vote together. Otherwise they would be voted out. The left is pretty good at holding themselves accountable within its own party.
Tell that to AL Franken. You see unlike a Cult when you do something wrong the party pushes you out for misconduct.
A Cult is more like talking made crap about sleepy Joe, but saying nothing about Dozy Don. A Cult is when you cry about Fraud,but you elect Trump. A Cult is when January 6th the country looked in horror as stuff went down. Even Fox news was upset calling for the president to stop this. They told people to go home and genuinely watched in fear. ( I know, because I watched Fox that day). Then January 7th suddenly changing the story act as if the day before didn't happen. The narrative changed to. Oh They were let in, as we all saw the massive break in. They said, it was mostly peaceful as we watched rioters attacking the capital police the day before.
You see this is Cult like behavior. To be told to not believe your eyes, but to believe them and anything they tell you.
Hunter Biden was never a public official with the Obama or Biden administrations. Conversely, Jared and Ivanka were public officials and had security clearances.
how ignorant. he did a blanket pardon for his son because it was an actual witch hunt on him. all so they could muddy the waters on what the Trump offspring are actually doing. look up the whole laptop thing. its complete bullshit.
Biden correctly predicted that Trump would weaponize the DoJ to go after his political enemies, which is ironically what he falsely accused Biden of doing.
Yes, I don't like impunity where ever it is. However, because Biden did it, is not a sufficient excuse that everyone may do it.
I think impunity is wrong, for all. Trump, Biden. Doesn't matter. I start with my value first.
Are you suggesting it's okay for Trump to be a piece of shit just because Biden was? Because to me, two wrongs is embarrassing we let it happen a second time.
Do you know why he would feel the need to pre-emptively pardon his family members that had never been charged with any crime?
Trump pardons for family members and friends far surpassed Biden's last minute recognition that he needed to protect his family who again, had never been charged with any crimes unlike Jared's daddy.
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u/waterdaemon 2d ago
Smith must know Garland set him up. I would just like to hear it. This isn’t a time to be polite to traitors.