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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the confirming information is in from the Jack Smith investigation
that Crumb the 1st was using the classified documents to further his business. A scenario like "If you sell me the land cheap for my new golf course and hotel I could let you know something very worthwhile to you."
When you stack that information together with his recent fundraising scheme of giving mega donors special "security briefings" you have the confirmation he is trading inside information in exchange for money.
When you consider the fascists push to rid the government of watchdogs/officials who might investigate such activity you see where this is going.
When you consider the attack and plunder of Venezuela you see where this is going. When you see the extortion of Ukraine over resources you see where this is going. When you see the "mob council" set up to "run Gaza" you see where this is going. When you see the extortion of Denmark/Greenland for minerals by way of implied use of force you see where this is going.
When you see Crumb The 1st whipsaw the global stock markets with his "on again/off again" pronouncements and trades made just before the announcements you see where this is going.
We see the fascist President use his position to enrich himself and his family and we see where this is going. We see his cronies enriching themselves as well.
When you see him deploy his armed goons at the airports you see it's coming to elections and political conventions as well. We see where this is going.
When we see them shoot and kill innocent protesters we see where this is going. When we see them defy court orders we see where this is going. When we see them openly go after their adversaries using the justice system we see where this is going.
We've seen them go after people based on race. We've seen them go after the teachers, professors, administrators, librarians, lawyers, doctors, scientists, allies, students, judges, activists and more. We see where this is going.,
We see them using their billionaire friends to buy up the major media in the country in order to alter the news coverage of the fascists and their deeds. We see where this is going.
We have seen that media take all of the forgoing things this fascist and crumb of a human being has done and largely treat these things as just individual acts rather than an obvious pattern and plan.
For a very long time so many millions of us have seen where this is going and we have called it out. What we warned about has come to pass and is ongoing.
The lady in the harbor has had the torch in her hand repurposed to be a weapon to harm people rather than guide them to freedom. Lady justice has had her blindfold removed and her hand that held the scales now holds a club and the sword in her other hand now drips with the blood of citizens.
The ones who came before us warned us that fascism would come as one act and then another as a "march" of sorts rather than in one big pronouncement. They were right.
KPN
(17,363 posts)We See Where This Is Going!
Coldwater
(1,267 posts)Special counsel Jack Smith compiled evidence suggesting Donald Trump selectively retained hundreds of classified documents tied directly to his global business ventures after leaving the White House in January 2021, and investigators identified personal financial gain as a likely motive for his refusal to return them, according to newly released case records reviewed by congressional investigators.
Among the most alarming revelations: Trump allegedly showed a classified map to passengers aboard a private aircraft, including his future chief of staff Susie Wiles, and held at least one document so sensitive that only six people in the entire federal government were legally authorized to view it.
A January 2023 internal progress memo from Smith's office stated plainly that Trump held onto classified materials connected to his business interests, framing it as an established motive. When FBI agents conducted an unannounced search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, they discovered hundreds of additional top secret pages Trump and his legal team had sworn were already returned to the government.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, cited the memo in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi this week, demanding answers about what he called a deliberate cover-up of the evidence behind Trump's document hoarding. Raskin wrote that the newly surfaced disclosures point to a sitting president who may have compromised national security for personal enrichment.
tavernier
(14,434 posts)Ill probably never recover.
Skittles
(171,613 posts)let me know when something is actually DONE about it
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markodochartaigh
(5,529 posts)because there is a large percentage of the population who genuinely have no idea what is going on and we need to bring as many of them as possible into the light to vote against the one third of the electorate who approve of Trump's behavior.

Attilatheblond
(8,851 posts)* Donald J. Trump to a Mar a Lago ballroom full of donors during the 2024 campaign.
proud patriot
(102,483 posts)very well written