Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds

"If Fox News doesnt report it, it didnt happen." *Fox News reports it* "Well... if NewsMax doesnt report it, it didnt happen." *NewsMax reports it* "If it wasn't on Truth Social, it didnt happen." All part of the ever moving goalpost MAGA uses to define an "acceptable" candidate.

Trump would sell the US to Russia if he thought he could get away with it.

Yep. He thought he could sell copies to the highest bidder in secret and sell the 'originals' back to the US government. He should have been in prison for that alone.

Harry Harrison gave one of his characters the best capsule description of the autocrat: *"I want all the money, all the power and all the women, and I want them right now."* ^(1) ^('The Stainless Steel Rat For President' Bantam/Doubleday,1982)

No, I think it's the other way around. He's interested in money insomuch that it gets him more power. He just wants to be able to tell people what to do. Give me this. Do that. Don't do that. It just so happens that in our current social structure money readily converts to power.

They thought they were voting for that when they elected him 😂

Yo agreed! I, too, am a Kamala voter and I didn’t sign up for any of this BS

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag carrying the Bible." 

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120323225/why-the-dojs-photo-of-top-secret-documents-held-by-trump-matters https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html

But why "as well"? They had 4 years!!!!

Everyone’s mad at democrats for not doing more and wants to hold republican accountable but we also fired the candidate who was a prosector. Whoops!

No, and this is a complete misunderstanding of how the Justice system works, and the monumental task ahead of Garland and Jack Smith. Why do people make the assumption that Garland simply didn't run a tight ship. Do you honestly believe the DOJ in investigating a former US President wouldn't keep such an investigation incredibly secret and behind closed doors until they understood the evidence and approach? Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Trump just losing the election, everyone seeing Jan 6th with their own eyes, why wouldn't Garland let the hearings play out to see what they uncovered for themselves? Need I remind you that because of the public pressure of these hearings and the evidence presented, and voluntary testimonials brought forward in front of the public's eyes (that in itself would be necessary to help persuade the general public who would then be picked as jurors), they in themselves managed to flip even MORE testimonials over — chief among them being Trump's final Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, whose plea deal with immunity (meaning he was a key witness) came as late as mid-2023. Put simply, I don't buy the claim whatsoever that Garland wasn't building a case form the bottom-up to begin with. So moreover, were you or were you not aware within the purview of that bottom-up approach that Garland from the moment of assuming office and acquainting himself therewith was overseeing literally the largest criminal investigation and prosecution in the DOJ's history by successfully going after the January 6th insurrectionists? You know, the very people whose testimonies would build the case against Trump by saying, "Yeah I thought Trump was telling me to storm the Capitol!"? So while Garland was focusing on that, Congress was exposing more evidence and priming the public for the legitimate criminal charges to come. Finally, while Garland would rather not have to deal with a middle-man and appoint another Special Counsel after seeing the disaster of Mueller, I imagine, his hand was forced when Trump announces he'll run for President again. Need I remind you that by this point the Federal courts and especially scotus has already been stacked by Trump stooges. Garland isn't dumb; he's got a deep resume and was a scotus nominee of Obama no less. So now he has to ensure he gives no room for some technicality on political bias or objectivity and passes the case to Jack Smith. But then certainly, if it was so obvious then surely the American People wouldn't have reelected Trump in the first place having seen J6 with their own eyes, right... ? To this end, I much prefer Garland and Smith not botch the trial and get one dissenting Juror who returns a Not Guilty. I have thus have no problem with this timeline: - January 2021: Garland assumes office post-inauguration. - Remainder of 2021: DOJ begins investigating and prosecuting the January 6th beginning from the bottom-up. - June-October, 2022: House of Representatives holds a bipartisan House Select Committee on the January 6 attack. (so naturally, Garland would wait to see what this committee finds). - November 18th, 2022: Garland announces appointing Special Council Jack Smith. - March (non-Smith), June, August 2023 come the indictments. This all seems very reasonable and quite the rapid pace given the scope of these crimes. Garland has thus become a convenient scapegoat to throw under the bus for all our frustrations, but it's extremely unjustified how much hate he gets. Again, blame the American people if you're really that upset since they put him back in office just as they'd return a Not Guilty verdict in a rigged court with a rigged judge and a jury half-chosen by the defense.