US PoliEra 2022 |OT 2| (Nu)Clears the (ex)President Thank You!

TheHunter · Aug 12, 2022

Build Back Fucking Finally

So Biden and the Democrats finally passed their big clean energy and healthcare support act. The IRA(inset the bomb jokes) which just passed the house on August 12th and will head to Biden's desk the following week. Along the way, Joe and co signed the PACT act for veterans of the burn pits, major gun legislation and continuing aid to Ukraine in their war against Russia's aggression. The polls are indicating a far closer matchup for 2022 then first thought, to the point were many pundits and onlookers are suggesting this is not a normal midterm. With Inflation declining, gas prices going down and the jobs reports looking up it's a lot sunnier all of the sudden.

Thank goodness nothing else is going on what so ever.

The former President got raided by the FBI. Trump had his hands on a lot of classified, SIGNET and likely nuclear intel that he shouldn't have had and is now involved in an investigation with the espionage act. Where this goes? No one knows. Only time will tell but it's been a roller coaster year and at the end of it, only one individual can right the ship and steer us through the thunderstorm.

DARK BRANDON

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For real this time.

You will not stop him.

Deleted member 70788 · Aug 12, 2022

Beautiful OP

ibyea · Aug 12, 2022

Lmao great op

JesseEwiak · Aug 12, 2022

400 more pages of TheHunter trolling me about the midterms. :)

(Again, I hope I'm wrong and he gets to make fun of me for the next two years - but I'm not going to be fooled again by dreams of eight point popular vote and 54 Senate seats again).

*insert Hawkeye don't give me hope gif here*

TheHunter · Aug 12, 2022

JesseEwiak said:
400 more pages of TheHunter trolling me about the midterms. :)

(Again, I hope I'm wrong and he gets to make fun of me for the next two years - but I'm not going to be fooled by dreams of eight point popular vote and 54 Senate seats again).

It's all in good fun! :P

platypotamus · Aug 12, 2022

Wow dumping the new OP on a Friday night you thought you could get away with it

PCfromNYC · Aug 12, 2022

Reposting from the end of the last thread, MTG wants Garland impeached

View: https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1558209056505987075

TheHunter · Aug 12, 2022

platypotamus said:
Wow dumping the new OP on a Friday night you thought you could get away with it

My legal team has advised me if I did this all charges will be dropped.

SSF1991 · Aug 12, 2022

How the hell is it August and this is only the second OT to be made this year? lol

Anyway...there is so much happening right now I can't even.

SSF1991 · Aug 12, 2022

And speaking of so much happening, I have to double post because, well...

View: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1558281457768038400

Good thing you made the OT early after all. lol

GardenPepper · Aug 12, 2022

Beautiful Friday night OPpo droppo, TheHunter.

PixelatedDonut · Aug 12, 2022

Weird times 🤣🤣🤣

plagiarize · Aug 12, 2022

Shit is happening.

Loudninja · Aug 12, 2022

View: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1558219114459668480

GardenPepper · Aug 12, 2022

I'm still flummoxed as to why he would have the reported information he had on the president of France. Seems so entirely random.

Foffy · Aug 12, 2022

SSF1991 said:
And speaking of so much happening, I have to double post because, well...

View: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1558281457768038400

Good thing you made the OT early after all. lol

He was dumb enough to think this, and we all know it. He thought of the government as his own personal staff, so of course he thought government documents are personally his.

Kyra · Aug 12, 2022

SilentPanda · Aug 12, 2022

Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Behind Partisan Review of the 2020 Election Has Been Fired After a Judge Said His Probe Came Up Empty

Wisconsin's pricey and taxpayer-funded partisan review of the 2020 election collapsed on Friday, as one of the state's GOP leaders fired the retired judge leading it for providing no results for a lot of money.

Even though President Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by more than 20,000 votes in Wisconsin, in results affirmed by recounts and certified, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) followed in the footsteps of other GOP-dominated state legislatures in questioning the contest.

A little more than a year ago in July 2021, Vos initiated his so-called audit and tapped one of the state's conservative former Supreme Court justices, Michael Gableman, to lead it. One year and more than $1 million taxpayer dollars later, Vos ended the probe after narrowly winning his primary race.

Vos did not wait long after his victory to sack Gableman, whom a Wisconsin judge said found "no evidence" of election fraud while doing little but sitting in a library on the public dime.

"Here, I guess what we found out from this long and tortuous road is that at least for the first part of this investigation, there was no actual work being done," Judge Valerie Bailey–Rihn said in a hearing in late July. "The taxpayers are paying $11,000 for somebody to sit in a New Berlin library to learn about election law because they had no experience in election law."

Gableman traveled out of state on multiple occasions chasing election conspiracy theories, including an excursion to Arizona's so-called "fraudit" by the firm Cyber Ninjas to explore whether the Chinese tampered with election machines.

Finding that theory did not pan out, Gableman went to South Dakota to see the symposium of MyPillow infomercial salesman and CEO Mike Lindell — with little to show from the trip but a COVID-19 diagnosis, according to Bailey-Rihn.

Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Behind Partisan Review of the 2020 Election Has Been Fired After a Judge Said His Probe Came Up Empty

Wisconsin's pricey and taxpayer-funded partisan review of the 2020 election collapsed on Friday, as one of the state's GOP leaders fired the retired judge leading it for providing no results for a lot of money.

lawandcrime.com

Sheepinator · Aug 12, 2022

Nice new OP.

Sheepinator · Aug 12, 2022

He kept info on Macron because he has never forgotten this humiliation.

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GalaxyDive · Aug 12, 2022

Beautiful OP.

Sparkle · Aug 12, 2022

Amazing OP, thanks for creating the thread.

Another thing that gets me about the stupid 'I declassified it all!' defense - it begs the question as to why he would do it. Like, if an observer buys the excuse as true, then it means that Trump has admitted that he took highly sensitive, classified material to his home (which was nowhere near secure). The material was classified for a reason, likely to protect the country, or its federal agents, or its citizenry, or all three. So, by declassifying it, Trump marks himself as either a fucking idiot who made so grave a 'mistake' that he should be disqualified from holding public office forever, or a desperate villain who knowingly sacrificed our safety to save his own skin when the law came down.

It's a terrible excuse to begin with because it isn't true, but even if it was true, he still looks like an incompetent fool or a treasonous failure.

madstarr12 · Aug 12, 2022

Great! A new place to speak about the spiraling doom this country is facing!

Rag · Aug 12, 2022

New thread for what hopefully feels like a new era. So much more hopeful these last few weeks than I've been in years!

discotheque · Aug 12, 2022

Let it be known that I never gave up the faith

US PoliEra 2022 |OT 1| Build Back Later OT

Biden in March 2020: "Number one, I committed that if I'm elected as president & have the opportunity to appoint someone to the courts, I'll appoint the first Black woman to the Court. It's required that they have representation now — it's long overdue."

www.resetera.com

JesseEwiak · Aug 12, 2022

Sheepinator said:
He kept info on Macron because he has never forgotten this humiliation.

I'm stealing this from Twitter, but the dirt on Macron is he is truly un-French - he doesn't have a mistress.

Adder7806 · Aug 13, 2022

Boebert is 100% running for President in 2024 (provided Trump does not).

lenovox1 · Aug 13, 2022

Adder7806 said:
Boebert is 100% running for President in 2024 (provided Trump does not).

With what money?

SilentPanda said:
Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Behind Partisan Review of the 2020 Election Has Been Fired After a Judge Said His Probe Came Up Empty

Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Behind Partisan Review of the 2020 Election Has Been Fired After a Judge Said His Probe Came Up Empty

Wisconsin's pricey and taxpayer-funded partisan review of the 2020 election collapsed on Friday, as one of the state's GOP leaders fired the retired judge leading it for providing no results for a lot of money.

lawandcrime.com

What a complicated way to grift.

Adder7806 · Aug 13, 2022

lenovox1 said:
With what money?

Didn't say it would be a long run

Atom Heart Mother · Aug 13, 2022

let's go dark brandon

ErichWK · Aug 13, 2022

I'm ErichWK and this is my favorite thread on Resetera.

Stath · Aug 13, 2022

I am unable to think about the phrase "Dark Brandon" for more than five seconds without starting to chuckle a bit.

Gurgelhals · Aug 13, 2022

Stath said:
I am unable to think about the phrase "Dark Brandon" for more than five seconds without starting to chuckle a bit.

And to no one's surprise, people are now making an effort to meme "Dark Garland Rises" into existence, lol:

cartoon_soldier · Aug 13, 2022

I feel like it might be a good time for a gang of 8 briefing? Anyway everything was leaked by Trump, good time to let those people know what exactly Trump was holding.

The Chosen One · Aug 13, 2022

SSF1991 said:
How the hell is it August and this is only the second OT to be made this year? lol

Anyway...there is so much happening right now I can't even.

Yeah and I also just looked at the list of threads from 2018, pretty crazy that we had 13 OTs that year. It was wild.

cameron · Aug 13, 2022

View: https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1558290437106016257

Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Fans on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families

Garrett Ziegler posted the personal info of purported FBI agents—along with links to one of their kids’ social media accounts.

www.thedailybeast.com

Just hours after a list began circulating among right-wing media of FBI agents who signed off on the search warrant for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, a former Trump aide tried to sic MAGA fans on the family members of the purported agents.

Garrett Ziegler, who recently went on a sexist tear against former White House colleagues, took to Telegram to post the personal information of men he identified as agents.

"This is one of the two feds who signed the 'Receipt for Property' form, which detailed—at a very high level—the fishing expedition that the FBI performed at Mar-a-Lago," Ziegler said on both Truth Social and Telegram.

The former Trump administration staffer further listed out the FBI agents' date of birth, work emails and linked to alleged family members' social media accounts.

"Hope he doesn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of 2022," Ziegler wrote on Truth Social, responding to another Truth Social user's photos of one of the alleged FBI officials who signed off on the inventory receipts on the warrant.

TheHunter · Aug 13, 2022

View: https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1558317210002669569

SilentPanda · Aug 13, 2022

Judge Denies Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's Motions to Dismiss His Indictment

Denying the former Trump Organization chief financial officer's motions to dismiss, a Manhattan judge set the stage for the upcoming trial of Allen Weisselberg on Friday.

Jury selection is now slated to begin on Monday, Oct. 24.

Former President Donald Trump's trusted accountant for nearly half a century, Weisselberg has been awaiting trial for more than a year on a battery of charges including conspiracy, grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records. The Manhattan District Attorney's office unsealed the 25-page indictment, which also named the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corp. as co-defendant, in July 2021.

Prosecutors accuse Weisselberg of a 15-year scheme to defraud federal, New York State, and New York City tax authorities of $1.76 million in "off-the-books" compensation. These included $359,058 in tuition expenses for multiple family members, $196,245 for leases on his Mercedes Benz automobiles, $29,400 in unreported cash, and an unspecified amount in ad hoc personal expenses, according to his indictment.

On Friday morning, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied Weisselberg's multiple motions to dismiss, rejecting the ex-CFO's claims that the grand jury had insufficient evidence and that he was selectively prosecuted.

Judge Denies Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's Motions to Dismiss His Indictment

Denying the former Trump Organization chief financial officer's motions to dismiss, a Manhattan judge on Friday set the stage for the upcoming trial of Allen Weisselberg.

lawandcrime.com

cameron · Aug 13, 2022

Erick Son of Erick:

View: https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1558194668449439749

The Chosen One · Aug 13, 2022

TheHunter said:
View: https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1558317210002669569

Yeah, it's not an actual legal strategy. It's a media strategy.

Which means, Trump has no one around him that can grasp the seriousness of what he's facing (ie. life in prison). A real lawyer would tell Trump to stop talking and stop making statements immediately. All the statements and ludicrous defenses Trump and his lawyers are making right now can be used against Trump later on and it can undermine a viable defense they might want to use in trial.

Trump Lawyers At Trial: "All those documents were taken and stored away in Mara-a-Lago by Kash Patel. Trump had no knowledge of classified and sensitive documents in his possession. He just told Patel to get important documents. Trump never looked at them."

DoJ Prosecutors: "Didn't your client back in August claim he declassified every single document because he wanted to take his work home?"

Trump Lawyer: "No, Trump was lying then. And we were lying at his direction."

DoJ Prosecutors, "And now you and your cleint are telling the truth?"

Trump Lawyer: "Yes. Yes, I believe so. I haven't asked my client, but I believe so."

TheHunter · Aug 13, 2022

The Chosen One said:
Yeah and I also just looked at the list of threads from 2018, pretty crazy that we had 13 OTs that year. It was wild.

Because every week was like this past week.

Jeffapp · Aug 13, 2022

The Chosen One said:
Yeah, it's not an actual legal strategy. It's a media strategy.

Which means, Trump has no one around him that can grasp the seriousness of what he's facing (ie. life in prison). A real lawyer would tell Trump to stop talking and stop making statements immediately. All the statements and ludicrous defenses Trump and his lawyers are making right now can be used against Trump later on and it can undermine a viable defense they might want to use in trial.

Trump Lawyers At Trial: "All those documents were taken and stored away in Mara-a-Lago by Kash Patel. Trump had no knowledge of classified and sensitive documents in his possession. He just told Patel to get important documents. Trump never looked at them."

DoJ Prosecutors: "Didn't your client back in August claim he declassified every single document because he wanted to take his work home?"

Trump Lawyer: "No, Trump was lying then. And we were lying at his direction."

DoJ Prosecutors, "And now you and your cleint are telling the truth?"

Trump Lawyer: "Yes. Yes, I believe so. I haven't asked my client, but I believe so."

I think this is the strategy he was taught by his former lawyer he looked up to lawyer roy cohn. He's thing was always be on offense and fight in the public realm.
It does not work here at all. Works on personal lawsuit but not state crimes

cameron · Aug 13, 2022

CBS News reporter at Fetterman's rally:

View: https://twitter.com/EwallWice/status/1558220495509766146

Captain_Vyse · Aug 13, 2022

Nice OT! That's for putting it together!

cartoon_soldier · Aug 13, 2022

cameron said:
CBS News reporter at Fetterman's rally:

View: https://twitter.com/EwallWice/status/1558220495509766146

Fingers crossed everything remains good with him and this will be Dems best pickup opportunity

Maxim726x · Aug 13, 2022

TheHunter said:
Because every week was like this past week.

They were the best of times... They were the worst of times.

Mostly, the worst of times.

Amazing OP, by the way.

Thordinson · Aug 13, 2022

The Chosen One said:
Yeah, it's not an actual legal strategy. It's a media strategy.

Which means, Trump has no one around him that can grasp the seriousness of what he's facing (ie. life in prison). A real lawyer would tell Trump to stop talking and stop making statements immediately. All the statements and ludicrous defenses Trump and his lawyers are making right now can be used against Trump later on and it can undermine a viable defense they might want to use in trial.

Trump Lawyers At Trial: "All those documents were taken and stored away in Mara-a-Lago by Kash Patel. Trump had no knowledge of classified and sensitive documents in his possession. He just told Patel to get important documents. Trump never looked at them."

DoJ Prosecutors: "Didn't your client back in August claim he declassified every single document because he wanted to take his work home?"

Trump Lawyer: "No, Trump was lying then. And we were lying at his direction."

DoJ Prosecutors, "And now you and your cleint are telling the truth?"

Trump Lawyer: "Yes. Yes, I believe so. I haven't asked my client, but I believe so."

Even if he had better lawyers around him, a good lawyer can tell a client to stop talking and the client can completely ignore the advice. It's the same with the defense that a lawyer uses. If the lawyer presents a good defense to Trump on these charges but Trump says "No! I wanna say I declassified it in my head!" then the lawyer has to follow what the client wants.

The best lawyers in the world can't do much with terrible clients.

GardenPepper · Aug 13, 2022

TheHunter said:
View: https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1558317210002669569

No good lawyers want to represent him. He ran through the rest.

Chaos Legion · Aug 13, 2022

cameron said:
CBS News reporter at Fetterman's rally:

View: https://twitter.com/EwallWice/status/1558220495509766146

You know, definitely not my type of candidate, but if he can dominate PA, definitely should be of consideration for a future presidential run for the Dems.

Great OT!

Sheepinator · Aug 13, 2022

The Chosen One said:
Yeah and I also just looked at the list of threads from 2018, pretty crazy that we had 13 OTs that year. It was wild.

Remember we lost a lot of regulars when they abandoned Era after the Tara Reade situation.

US PoliEra 2022 |OT 2| (Nu)Clears the (ex)President Thank You!

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Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Behind Partisan Review of the 2020 Election Has Been Fired After a Judge Said His Probe Came Up Empty

Saw the truth behind the copied door

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Judge Denies Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's Motions to Dismiss His Indictment

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