The following is copied from my FB. I read something with several hundred thousand likes which essentially said that a Navy "SEAL", apparently testifying before the committee Comer established to weaponize government , claims that President Biden is guilty and Donald Trump is innocent. Unfortunately or fortunately 😕, as I hastily put this response together to answer it, it no longer appeared on my feed. Below is what I wrote:
Saw something so ignorant that I had to reply to it. Somebody was apparently brought in who wasn't a witness to anything and fell for lies pushed by Comer and repeated them to the committee that is weaponizing government, but this was somehow remarkable because one SEAL said it. Comer himself has admitted that he has nothing. And this poor soul allowed himself to be used and to look like a complete uninformed conspiracy theory believing moron. He deserved better. A handful of Republicans on that committee might believe what Comer is pushing although Comer himself knows better despite how stupid he is.
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The members of the other political party said that ONE of them had ZERO FACTUAL EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM
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Who was declared completely innocent by the other major political party's members?
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Why that was President Joe Biden !
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One of them had SIX VOTES TO CONVICT AND REMOVE FROM HIS OWN DAMN POLITICAL PARTY ONE TIME AND TEN VOTES TO IMPEACH AND SEVEN VOTES TO CONVICT AND REMOVE FROM HIS OWN DAMN POLITICAL PARTY THE OTHER TIME!
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Who was that?
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That was Donald Trump!
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The only reason this went forward was to try to make Trump's opponent look as bad as Trump and because Trump demanded it.
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Representative Dan Goldman said, “Well basically all they have is, right now is, two things they point to. One is an FBI document of an interview a confidential source who spoke to someone we now know to be the head of the Ukranian energy company (Mr. Zlochevsky), Burisma, on whose board Hunter Biden served. In that document, he alleged that he paid five million dollars, I think, it looks like a five million dollar bribe. Either Joe, Hunter or both. The Trump Department of Justice had that information available to them when Bill Barr set up a repository for Rudy Guliani’s conspiracy theory within the Department of Justice to see if anything could be made from that. After a review by the Trump Department, they found clearly that this information was not credible and they did not pursue an investigation. Perhaps part of the reason they found it was not credible is that the source itself after a meeting has gone on record to say that he not only never paid a bribe, but never had a single conversation with Joe Biden.
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"CNN has reported that there are as many as 30 [House] Republicans who don't believe there's enough evidence yet for impeachment "
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Republican Ken Buck (Colorado) said that, 'the time for impeachment is the time when there's evidence linking President Biden, if there's evidence linking President Biden, to a high crime or misdemeanor " but that the evidence "doesn't exist right now " . He also said, " I don't think that evidence has been presented " connecting President Biden to wrongdoing " and that, "I'm not convinced that that evidence exists "
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Republican Republican Dave Joyce (Ohio) told Forbes, he is 'not seeing facts or evidence ' that would merit an impeachment inquiry.
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Republican Rep Dusty Johnson (South Dakota) told CNN that ,' there is a constitutional and legal test that you have to meet with evidence ' when it comes to impeachment and that he ' has not seen that evidence ' .
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Republican Rep Don Bacon (Nebraska) said, 'I think that before we move on to [an] impeachment inquiry , we should there should be a direct link to the president in some evidence. We should have some clear evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor, not just assuming there may be one. I think we need to have more concrete evidence to go down that path'.
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Republican Rep French Hill (Arkansas) told CBS that House Republicans have not even remotely completed their work on the kind of detailed investigations and quality work ' needed to proceed to an impeachment .
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Republican Rep Mike Lawler (New York) , 'With respect to impeachment we're not there yet.'
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Republican Rep Chuck Edwards (North Carolina) said in a House hearing, 'I've heard over and over that President Biden has not been implicated or proven for any wrongdoing here, and I acknowledge that.'
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A Republican lawmaker told CNN, 'There's no evidence that Joe Biden got money [...] There's just no evidence of that . And they can't impeach without that evidence. And I don't think the evidence exists.'
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A senior House Republican aide told Politico, 'We haven't proven the case for impeachment yet. How can you start impeachment? We haven't done what you need to do to start impeachment.' "
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This moron said that they had wires and checks on President Biden. There is no wire to President Biden. The wire is to Hunter Biden being paid for work he did. Well the address is President Biden's. The address doesn't determine whose account it is. The reason Hunter gave that address is that it is his only legal address. It's the one on his driver's license.
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The repayment of the loan given when he was not in any public office said repayment of loan in the memo section. And a Republican idiot, Comer, questioned it. So what Comer is really saying is that James believed that Donald Trump would likely commit a bunch of crimes and so this Republican bullshit dishonest committee would have to try to dirty up his brother who would be president in five years in order to trick the committee.
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Brilliant.
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Devon Archer was present at all of the 20 dinners over a decade during which Hunter would on a holiday host either a friend or a business associate and talk to his father by phone. Devon stated unequivocally and unambiguously that President Biden NEVER discussed any business with Hunter's business associates.
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One of their main witnesses was a guy who was indicted for arms trafficking and serving as a Chinese covert spy.
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The original guy whom I will refer to as the repeater since that's all he did claimed in 2019 that three years previously he had a discussion with a guy who admitted he had no evidence to support this allegation but claimed, again with zero evidence, that a Burisma Holdings executive was being extorted, that Joe and Hunter Biden were demanding $10 million or they would sic the prosecutor general on him.
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There was a large consensus both in both major political parties here in the US and in our State Department and abroad that Shokin was corrupt. He was not prosecuting or investigating anybody.
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Three Senate Republicans wrote a letter including Senator Ron Johnson which told Ukraine to clean up the prosecutor general's office which was corrupt, meaning fire Viktor Shokin. Our European allies also said that Viktor Shokin needed to be fired because he was corrupt. Our experts on Ukraine in the State Department said that Viktor Shokin needed to be fired because he was corrupt.
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Viktor Shokin tried to exonerate himself on Fox News. They then had the previous president of Ukraine on, hoping that this guy would back up Viktor. Instead, on LIVE TELEVISION he said why the hell are you putting this crazy dirty guy on who is telling all these lies. You are harming relationships between our two countries.
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Regarding the Classified Documents case, read the Indictment like I have. If you are literate and honest and not a complete moron, you will have zero doubt that Trump is guilty of this.
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In April of 2021, NARA told Donald Trump to return the classified documents that they both knew he had. If he actually believed that he had a legal right to them, then he would have litigated it in court as he is the single most litigious person on the planet. When he lied about having them and hid them, then he was admitting that he KNEW that he had no right to the documents. After six months, NARA turned it over to DOJ just like they told Trump that they were going to. He going to lie about having them. He only returned some of them intentionally keeping the rest and lying by saying that he returned them all. He told his body man Waltine to move the boxes of these classified documents he wanted to keep out of the storage room.
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Again, here's the relevant section of the Presidential Records Act and the relevant section of The Espionage Act and the definition of illegally retaining:
The relevant section of The Espionage Act:
(d)Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation,
or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it
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The relevant section of The Presidential Records Act:
From the Presidential Records Act:
"The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter."
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"Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President"
And the legal definition of retain from a law dictionary:
To hold or keep that which one already has, not to lose, part with or dismiss it.
The decision of Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Judicial Watch vs Clinton:
District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled against Judicial Watch. She wrote that by the act distinguishes official presidential records from personal records.
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So, first let's dismiss with the absurd attempted whataboutisms. Well, Biden did the same thing. False. Wrong. If you believe this, you showed you're either pathetically Ill-informed or stupid. Criminal law revolves around INTENT. Got that? So, what did Trump to show intent? He repeatedly lied and hid the classified documents.
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What happened in President Biden's case? He, seeing what was happening with Trump, had his team search to see if he had any classified documents himself. When some were found, then he had his lawyer call to arrange those documents to be returned to NARA. When the government wanted to search his property, he said go ahead. He gave them full access and he returned everything that his team found.
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See the difference? Biden didn't lie about having them and try to hide them. Trump did. So, Trump WILLFULLY RETAINED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS while Joe Biden returned all classified documents he found and fully cooperated with the search.
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What about the 33,000 whatever documents from his time as US senator that Joe Biden donated ? Simple. There IS NO SENATORS RECORDS ACT. There is a Presidential Records Act. There is no Senators Records Act. He could have used it for toilet paper and it would have been legal. Got that. Done with the Biden whataboutism.
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Hillary. Another fail. James Comey is a REPUBLICAN. Understand? If he could have prosecuted her successfully, I promise you that he would have. Remember what I taught you before? What does criminal law revolve around? That's right INTENT. Same problem. Comey's investigation revealed that Secretary Clinton and her team WERE ALWAYS CAREFUL TO PARAPHRASE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. The logical conclusion that Comey drew was that there was no intent to expose classified information to hostile foreign powers. If he has tried to prosecute her, he would have lost. She only needs reasonable doubt. However, she has evidence that affirmatively demonstrates the exact opposite, namely that she was trying to protect classified information. Again, whether you think it was sufficient or a good attempt does not matter; the burden is upon the prosecution to prove intent. Can't be done.
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The deletion of the 33,000 emails. You need to clear out your emails. Huh. 33,000. That's kind of a lot. It's logistically impossible to do this one by one, reading each and every one to determine which emails are personal and which ones were related to work. So, she gave a reasonable method to distinguish between the two: look at the to and from lines for the emails and the titles and use key word searches. That's reasonable. The people entrusted with carrying out her instructions fucked up. But, again, if you want to successfully prosecute her, you must PROVE INTENT and you can't do that. She can produce evidence that actually shows the opposite of what the prosecutor would need to prove. She can prove she TRIED (effective or a good idea in your opinion doesn't matter- it's again all about intent) to separate work emails from personal emails and gave instructions to only delete personal emails.
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President Bill Clinton. He was going to write an autobiography and notes and recordings for it were in the sock drawer. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that The Presidential Records Act distinguishes between personal documents and presidential records and found that the notes and recordings for the autobiography were personal and thus did not need to be given to NARA. There is no rational universe in which our nuclear weapons secrets and the Iran attack plans are Donald Trump's personal records.
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This should tell you that Donald Trump is clearly guilty of the classified documents felonies. That should be enough to disabuse you if this idea that all of these felony charges are from some conspiracy against him.
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The evidence against Trump for his attempted coup is massive and overwhelming. Again, read the Indictments. Watch the January sixth Committee hearings. All the witnesses were Republicans.
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The other is misnamed. It's really about Campaign Finance Violations. The full legal amount that can be donated for the primary and the general election is $5,800. At Donald Trump's instruction, Cohen paid Stormy Daniels Clifford $130,000. That was done there weeks prior to election day. The payment was to keep the affair quiet so that it would not hurt Donald Trump's probability of winning the 2016 presidential election. Thus, it was CLEARLY A CAMPAIGN DONATION . Cohen went to prison for several crimes, but this was one of them. Cohen and his attorneys admitted that this was a crime, SDNY prosecutors admitted that this was a crime, the judge admitted that this was a crime, and the FEC General Counsel admitted that this was a crime. Michael Cohen did not benefit from this. Donald Trump was the PRINCIPAL. He was the CANDIDATE. He was the one whose PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION was on the line. If Cohen doing this for Donald Trump because he was instructed by Donald Trump to do it and he did it as an employee of Donald Trump and it was to benefit Donald Trump, then Donald Trump should go to prison for this crime just as Michael Cohen did.
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