@juddlegum Link to a free copy of the unsealed indictment.
Public court documents are available with a PACER account for $0.10/page. The Free Law Project republishes these for free with a network donating PACER users.
The most common argument is that HILLARY CLINTON did the same thing as Secretary of State when she discussed classified information on a private email server.
Clinton should not have used a private email server, but the situation was VERY different
@juddlegum Clinton also 100% cooperated w/ investigation. trump lied, played cat-and-mouse w/ documents, hid them from his lawyers AND the FBI--for MONTHS.
Trump defenders like the WSJ editorial board note that former FBI Director James Comey said that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case” against Clinton.
But they leave out WHY Comey said prosectors wouldn't bring a case
In Trump's case there is literally an audio tape where he admits he knows a document is classified national defense information and shows it to people with no security clearances anyway
But the FBI checked to see if relevant materials were intentionally withheld by reviewing the email accounts of the gov't officials Clinton corresponded with.
The FBI found no evidence that any "work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them."
But, like Clinton, Biden is unlikely to be charged because he has been cooperative. The investigation began not because of any request but because Biden voluntarily reported that classified documents were found at Biden's UPenn office.
The line frequently cited by right-wing media is: "The Presidential Records Act does not confer any mandatory or even discretionary authority on the Archivist to classify records. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the President"
But the case against Trump does not involve determining whether the documents at issue are personal records that Trump can retain or a presidential record that should be in possession of the Archivist.
Under the Espionage Act, the issue is Trump shared NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION with unauthorized persons and failed to return the documents containing the information to government officials.
Either decision made by special counsel Jack Smith would set a precedent. Declining to prosecute, even after uncovering substantial evidence that Trump committed crimes, would set the precedent that a former president is exempt from federal criminal laws after leaving office.
@juddlegum Hillary's private email server was private because there were no public, secure options at the time (early 2000s) and it was set up by the secret service. It's always been a red herring.
> The guy who owns this site is infatuated with right-wing propaganda
You made 17 posts that all seemed well researched. Then you made it clear that you don't even know which website you're on and you're just trying to drive traffic to your own site.
Maybe you should change your usual last post to, "PLEASE do not rely on Twitter ..." It causes some confusion when you write "this site" when crossposting to journa.host.
@juddlegum Jusy my opinion but you really need to get on an instance that will let you post all your thoughts in one post instead of breaking your thoughts into chunks of 500 characters or less. Your multi-part post today came in almost completely random order, with parts missing and interspaced with other posts. I could not have followed it all unless I copied every post to a text editor and then rearranged them in order, assuming I could even find all the pieces.
Just FYI, infosec.exchange (the instance I am currently using) allows posts of up to 11,000 characters. But there are other instances that allow long posts as well.
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Nothing else matters, some people fully believe that the pure pursuit of profit produces positive moral results.
They are wrong.
@juddlegum “if they can do this to him, they can do it to anybody!” Yeah that’s kinda the point of this idea of “nobody is above the law.”
And let’s just, for now, ignore the fact that, if trump hadn’t been president and wasn’t the presumptive Republican nominee, he’d have been prosecuted for this (and probably J6) much, much quicker than he has been.
A New York Post op-ed suggests that Trump's best defense might be Bill Clinton's sock drawer.
Clinton's dresser was the subject of a 13-year-old case filed by Judicial Watch which sought access to 79 audio tapes of Clinton interviews conducted by historian Taylor Branch
@juddlegum She never discussed classified info on her server. As SoS she used Cables. People don’t know wha those are so they default to ‘email’. She could not send nor receive cables on her server.
Every SoS used a off site servers. Hers was secured. Powell used Gmail and destroyed every part of his account. She preserved everything.
@juddlegum No one wants to focus on the private mail server detail because that would implicate the Bush White House, the Trump White House and the entire GOP.
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