hey donald, do you like apples?

I would wager Trump only eats apples in pie -- just desserts.

i'm sure hillary and her e-mails like THEM apples.

I would wager she's laughing her ass off that retributive justice is now coming for Donald -- just deserts.

that is, if she can first get over her horror at the scope of the national security breach donald's alleged offenses represent.

As anyone familiar with classification markings can tell you, Trump stole nuclear secrets. This ain't rocket science.

i mean, irrespective of the legal ramifications; if there were a hypocrisy olympics... donald spending a whole year-long campaign criticizing his opponent for being careless with national security documents on an e-mail server, and four years later stashing boxes full of secret and top secret documents in his shower just to make conversation at parties... that right there is a gold medal performance.

Yep.

Also, from the recording recovered from Trump's assistant's laptop, in July 2021, private citizen Donald Trump showed highly classified top-secret documents regarding war plans with Iran to the ghostwriters of Mark Meadows' book in order to discredit Mark Milley who believed that Trump might attempt to remain in power (spot on) and that war with Iran might be one of the many avenues he might use to achieve it. So why would Milley (or anyone with two brain cells) hypothesize that scenario?

Because Trump is a not just a self-centered, fame-whoring, aggrandizing, money-grubbing lying grifting con artist, he's also a human projector:

Trump repeatedly claimed in 2011 and 2012 that Obama would start a war with Iran to win reelection

i'm sure hillary and her e-mails like THEM apples.

Hillary shouldn't be even privately chuckling, given that her thumbnail drive with all of her emails and whatever else - the one her office put in the regular mail - never reached its intended destination.

I would wager she gets a huge laugh (and why shouldn't she?) whenever any of these holier-than-thou stuffed shirts and hypocritical bloviating blowholes are discovered to have done the same or infinitely worse after having sat in sanctimonious judgment of her.

Hillary's reaction when James Comey was found to have used his personal email to conduct FBI business on numerous occasions even after having lectured and chastised her:

"But my emails."

Hillary's reaction when a 37-count indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed outlining how he stole thousands of hard copies of highly classified documents belonging to the United States, his refusal to return said stolen documents after 18 months, his hiding their discovery from his own lawyer, his encouraging their destruction of them by his own lawyer... many of them so highly classified that the classification markings were too classified to be included on the list of 31 documents contained in the indictment?

She's brought back her limited edition hat with proceeds going to Onward Together groups working to strengthen democracy in America... which reads: BUT HER EMAILS.

And I wouldn't hesitate to bet a very large chunk of change she's not done laughing yet. Watch this space. :)

Epic fail at moving the goalposts Stucki. :)

Exactly! :)

People in my part of the country have never understood why anybody ever mounts protests aver the doings of the Bureau of Land Management???

I see what you did there, but you also leave me no choice but to assume you've lost your mind and therefore totally forgot that there are multiple morons from your "part of the country" who participated in a standoff wherein they (along with the spawn of Cliven Bundy) had occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in armed protest in 2016... but not before some of those same multiple morons from your "part of the country" had participated in the Cliven Bundy standoff in 2014.

I will assume you don't need instruction regarding which agency (among others) has authority over those federal lands.

Yes, I'm teasing with you while taking you to school. :)

I could be mistaken, but I think there may also have been details from the Special Council's investigation that would be relevant to the remaining 2 cases, so they wanted to wait until after that investigation concluded to proceed the rest of the way.

So Elizabeth, if we have a Trumpian conspiracy that reaches into Congress that explains how long this is taking. I’m pleased that the Feds wrapped up the slam dunk documents case and didn’t wait on the other investigations.

A similar process is probably going on with the Jan 6th investigations, as some people decide that loyalty to Trump will harm them rather than help them, and investigators look to make their case watertight.

This is nothing compared to the months and years that Trump and his ilk generally drag out cases they are involved in. They put off penalties for years, or force other parties to give up because they can't pay legal fees any longer.

We do see judges refusing to play along with Trump now, which is good.

In any case, I nominate Gov Newsom for MIDOW for his attention-grabbing initiative.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/newsom-gun-control-amendment-00100954

It should be clear to anyone with half a brain that the 2nd Amendment is an insurmountable impediment to solving the gun violence crisis in the U.S. While this may be a 'positioning' maneuver for 2028, it's critical that *someone* start the conversation.

So, what's taking so long?

Yeah,you got me there, but the Bureau of Land Management doesn't even operate in most of the places where all the "BLM" protests are being conducted!

And apparently both Trump and Charlie Kirk have called upon the faithful to come to Miami on Tuesday...

Perfect. Nobody remind Trump that Governor "Deeeee" Santis (his good, good friend and political opponent) has signed into law a statute that was intended to punish BLM protesters. The law increased penalties for protesters who block roadways and/or deface public monuments. It also invented a new crime called "mob intimidation" wherein anyone arrested for protesting be denied bail until their first appearance in court... making for a likely overnight jail stay for MAGAts and Trump cult zombies.

The law also makes local officials in Florida liable for lawsuits from injured parties if they are found to have not done enough to respond to control protesters so Miami PD et alia are now therefore required by law to arrest any unruly and/or traffic-impeding MAGAts due to a law designed to punish BLM protesters.

Isn't it ironic? :)

Next Tuesday, we will again see the spectacle of Trump doing a perp walk. This time, however, the breathless door-to-door media chase will be a lot shorter, since it won't involve an airplane flight.

But it's ~68 miles from Mar-a-Lago to Miami! Just saying. :)

This, from a man who demonized his first political opponent for mishandling classified documents by getting his crowds to chant: "Lock her up!"

When does the irony stop?

Wait a minute, let's see here. I just found, isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.... This was done by the military and given to me.

~ Donald Trump

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The irony here is that this totally sinks his case because (lordy) there are tapes.

I said it before, and I'll say it again. Trump's mouth indicts himself. He has the right to remain silent; he just doesn't have the ability.