Special counsel Jack Smith slapped back at former President Donald Trump's attempt to keep new evidence in his criminal election interference case from reaching the public before Election Day. Smith this week filed a nine-page argument to Washington D.C. federal Judge Tanya Chutkan in support of...
    • bradinutah@thelemmy.club
      512·
      2 months ago

      “I’m a very innocent man.” - Weird Old Felon Convicted of 34 Counts for Election Interference

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        331·
        2 months ago

        I mean, the entire world watched live on news as the FBI dragged out classified documents.

        The fact that he had them as an EX-president who had no further need to know, in a place where they’re not securely stored, and probably selling them to the Saudis or Putin or whoever was the highest bidder…

        He’s guilty as fuck and, if he were anyone else would have already been convicted and sentenced of that.

        • PunnyName@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 months ago

          And because he installed a judge in the district that charges would be filed, he’s getting off scott fucking free. Because she’s postponing it forever.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            IMO, these charges should have been filed in DC.

            Not to put too fine a point on it, but those documents were stolen in DC, not Florida. Sure there could be “both”, but seriously.

            • vividspecter@lemm.ee
              4·
              2 months ago

              Not to put too fine a point on it, but those documents were stolen in DC, not Florida. Sure there could be “both”, but seriously.

              I believe the idea was that if he was convicted in Florida by a Republican biased jury, there would be fewer claims of it being rigged or whatever. Seems stupid in hindsight since Cannon ended up being assigned the case.

              • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                I’m really curious about this. We know Trump changed his residency from NY to FL and I wonder if that had anything to do with this. To my knowledge Cannon was an unfortunate product of randomized selection.

                • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
                  6·
                  2 months ago

                  Randomized, but with a certain amount of derandomization by senators blocking additional vacancies in the district.

                • Asafum@feddit.nl
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I love how it’s “randomized” yet if I recall correctly this wasn’t the only case she was on for him and pulled the same bullshit…

              • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                So part of it was that he’s being charged with improper storage, rather than actually taking them.

                And he was storing them in Florida.

                As bad as Cannon has been, I don’t know that any of the other justices are any better. Mostly, they’ve let her slide on a lot of shit.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 months ago

      Trump on nothing to hide,

      Campos-Duffy: Would you declassify the Epstein files?

      Trump: Yeah, yeah, I would.

      Campos-Duffy: All right.

      Trump: I guess I would. I think that less so because, you don’t know, you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would, or at least—

      So no.

      • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        You’re putting words into his mouth again. He would totally absolutely 100% declassify them right after publishing his tax returns and presenting his healthcare plan.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    I am getting sick and tired of these dumb headlines … I had take a double take on this one because I thought I read …

    Turnip

    That is how I will write his name from now on