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BumRushDaShow

(144,195 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:01 PM Nov 26

Jack Smith Plans to Release Report Before Donald Trump is Sworn In: CNN

Source: Newsweek

Published Nov 26, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST | Updated Nov 26, 2024 at 12:35 PM EST


Special counsel Jack Smith plans to release his final report on the federal investigations into former President Donald Trump before Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a CNN report citing a source close to the matter. The report is expected to detail Smith's findings on key cases involving Trump, including allegations of election subversion and mishandling of classified documents. Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to publicly release the special counsel report.

"Historically, these special counsel reports are quite detailed," CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Tuesday morning in an interview with Jim Acosta. " I think this will be Jack Smith's last and best chance to tell his story in both cases. He's already done that to some extent through his indictments and court filings, but this will be it — this will be the historical record."

On Monday, Smith filed to drop all four felony charges related to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed all charges against Trump in his election fraud case later on Monday.

Smith also moved to dismiss the case regarding Trump's handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left office in January 2021. "These cases were dismissed without prejudice, which technically leaves the door open for future prosecution," Honig explained Tuesday. The analyst also likened the possibility of reviving the cases to the lowly "New York Jets making it to the Super Bowl."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-deadline-final-donald-trump-report-1991904

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Jack Smith Plans to Release Report Before Donald Trump is Sworn In: CNN (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 26 OP
Awesome! FakeNoose Nov 26 #1
He certainly fought the good fight COL Mustard Nov 27 #78
Jack Smith, DENVERPOPS Nov 27 #94
I'll be waiting to see IF we get to see it Deuxcents Nov 26 #2
I doubt we will, Smith can't "release" the report, he can only give it to garland... Think. Again. Nov 26 #27
Got to avoid any suggestion of political motivation Orrex Nov 26 #63
Merrick won't release an un-redacted report. k55f5r Nov 26 #3
Different this Time Aghast Nov 26 #8
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 k55f5r Nov 26 #10
There will be redactions..... lastlib Nov 26 #14
Yeah, the facts will come out... ReRe Nov 26 #47
Seriously!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 27 #74
... orangecrush Nov 26 #15
You mean Merrick Garland, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch's suggestion to Obama for SCOTUS? sop Nov 27 #77
Yeah right. Autumn Nov 27 #86
That's my boy! no_hypocrisy Nov 26 #4
I believe Smith submits a report. "Releasing" suggests it becomes public Raven123 Nov 26 #5
Biden should release it in it's ENTIRELY with no redaction with a F*ck U. And with a p.s.I have immunity. usaf-vet Nov 26 #22
Personally I agree with you Raven123 Nov 26 #41
Mueller & Garland DENVERPOPS Nov 26 #54
You mean do a Daniel Ellsberg. Works for me! He died June 16, 2023 (age 92 years) usaf-vet Nov 26 #62
We had one of those in Colorado!!!!! DENVERPOPS Nov 26 #68
EPA mountain grammy Nov 27 #91
Thank you MG DENVERPOPS Nov 28 #95
You're welcome DP.. mountain grammy Nov 28 #96
Why am I not holding my breath for "the truth to come out"? calimary Nov 27 #81
But cnn has to write attention grabbinG headlines SOMEHOW! Think. Again. Nov 26 #28
Garland should release an unredacted Mueller Report too. SunSeeker Nov 26 #6
Garland julmur Nov 26 #11
I think he did. aka-chmeee Nov 26 #58
I always thought he chose him moonscape Nov 27 #83
Garland is doing everything very secretly, doncha know. Think. Again. Nov 26 #30
ok... and? chernabogg Nov 26 #7
To quote Jim Acosta... ShazzieB Nov 26 #13
We have had a historical record on trump chernabogg Nov 26 #46
half the nation believes in SHIT Skittles Nov 27 #73
yes, we know Trump voters don't give a FUCK about the rule of law Skittles Nov 27 #72
Garland will do everything he can... Escape Nov 26 #9
Here is the 10/2/24 filing Linda ladeewolf Nov 26 #12
See #22...... that what we all deserve. usaf-vet Nov 26 #24
After the election.... N/T Tom Dyer Nov 26 #16
"lowly Jets making to the Super Bowl" AverageOldGuy Nov 26 #17
Is he coming out of retirement? cab67 Nov 26 #19
he is too busy grifting for Medicare Advantage scammers Celerity Nov 26 #67
Early Fitzmas. dchill Nov 26 #18
I have never been a Garland complainer, BUT bluestarone Nov 26 #20
You might want to prepare yourself then. Think. Again. Nov 26 #32
Such curious timing! Cirsium Nov 26 #21
Why not before Jan 6 electorial college thing? LiberalArkie Nov 26 #23
The electoral college thing is in three weeks FBaggins Nov 26 #38
So will Trump sue to block this report? Any consequences as that plays out? bucolic_frolic Nov 26 #25
Smith can only give his report to garland.... Think. Again. Nov 26 #26
This... garland will bury it getagrip_already Nov 26 #29
Oh good, I hope Jack Smith's final report,... magicarpet Nov 26 #31
Hopefully, some leaky McLeak Face will come to the rescue and let us know the details/facts... wcmagumba Nov 26 #33
If he is going to announce it, it's not going to happen. Baitball Blogger Nov 26 #34
He knows he is about to lose his job anyway liberal N proud Nov 26 #35
Americans and the world need to see that report. Joinfortmill Nov 26 #36
If this was the 1950s, I'm pretty sure Merrick The Spineless would've gotten the 'Jimmy Hoffa Spa Vacation Special' wolfie001 Nov 26 #37
The lawyers for the moniss Nov 26 #39
Agreed...there will be no report Prairie Gates Nov 26 #44
Taxpayers paid for this report and all expenses occurred getting it. We deserve to see it. Deuxcents Nov 26 #40
Sure hope Jack does it. republianmushroom Nov 26 #42
I'd take bets that this won't happen Prairie Gates Nov 26 #43
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Nov 26 #45
"Garland is expected to publicly release the special counsel report." PSPS Nov 26 #48
Score one for us plebians! stollen Nov 26 #49
Below is the USDOJ portal for the Special Counsel where unclassified information is released. C0RI0LANUS Nov 26 #50
A brave man... WarGamer Nov 26 #51
I expect to see kacekwl Nov 26 #52
Let's telegraph this awesomerwb1 Nov 26 #53
I hope somewhere in Jack Smith's report KS Toronado Nov 26 #55
Maybe we won't have to hear him say "I was completely exonerated". JohnnyRingo Nov 26 #56
At this point Quanto Magnus Nov 26 #57
Oh noes angrychair Nov 26 #59
Trump Escapes Justice Baron2024 Nov 26 #60
Election interfer... oh wait. JoseBalow Nov 26 #61
Releasing the report is all well and good. But it won't really matter. totodeinhere Nov 26 #64
There will be heavy redactions, however Betty Boom Nov 26 #65
Makes sense. After all the time and money, the public deserves a project deliverable. Beartracks Nov 26 #66
Tricks union rep Nov 26 #69
Where did Lawrence Tribe say Joe was complicit? Lulu KC Nov 27 #71
You posted this near midnight. ancianita Nov 27 #75
Don't be surprised if Garland refuses to release it. Kablooie Nov 27 #70
So instead of justice...we get a book? MiHale Nov 27 #76
Yep. Too bad it wasn't done before the election. But Democrats don't play dirty. Freethinker65 Nov 27 #79
I have zero confidence in Garland doing the correct thing. (nt) Paladin Nov 27 #80
A Fitzmas TSF is not going to like. Sneederbunk Nov 27 #82
THIS year Charlie Brown will kick the football... sarisataka Nov 27 #84
1000 days later and several million dollars short JT45242 Nov 27 #85
Please do it before Christmas so we can throw it in MAGAs faces during the holidays. kimbutgar Nov 27 #87
Won't matter HereForTheParty Nov 27 #88
I hope he does. Martin68 Nov 27 #89
It will most likely be buried by Garland. Autumn Nov 27 #90
Another Fitzmas coming up. Eye roll. beaglelover Nov 27 #92
Release it on January 19. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 27 #93

COL Mustard

(6,984 posts)
78. He certainly fought the good fight
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 07:28 AM
Nov 27

The game was rigged, but he still played four hard quarters and would love to win it all, but have to wait until next time.

DENVERPOPS

(10,147 posts)
94. Jack Smith,
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 07:58 PM
Nov 27

it would seem to me, had better stay away from buildings more than one story high, and have someone else pick up his food and deliver it to him.....Even if the report isn't released.
I'll bet Smith relocates to another country, and disappears before the inaguration, but Putin has people all over the world......
He has got to be the #1 person, at the top of Trump's list, destined for revenge, by the Psycho Sadist...........

Think. Again.

(19,041 posts)
27. I doubt we will, Smith can't "release" the report, he can only give it to garland...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:36 PM
Nov 26

...and we know full-well that garland won't release it for some pathetic and false reason.

Orrex

(64,323 posts)
63. Got to avoid any suggestion of political motivation
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 10:24 PM
Nov 26

And cue the cheerleaders in 3... 2...

k55f5r

(458 posts)
3. Merrick won't release an un-redacted report.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:07 PM
Nov 26

This report will be blacker than the Mueller report was. What a waste of black ink printing that out.

Aghast

(5 posts)
8. Different this Time
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:15 PM
Nov 26

Very different circumstances compared to Mueller's report. Mueller was reporting to a Trump AG and that's where the redactions came from. In this case, Smith is reporting to Biden's AG and he was the guy who hired Smith. Very, very different.

lastlib

(24,986 posts)
14. There will be redactions.....
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:36 PM
Nov 26

...because of the two remaining defendants. There are still charges against them. But I hope (unrealistically, perhaps) that we will someday see all the facts come out.

ReRe

(10,907 posts)
47. Yeah, the facts will come out...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:27 PM
Nov 26

... after we've been dead 50 years. I'd rather hear them now.

sop

(11,573 posts)
77. You mean Merrick Garland, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch's suggestion to Obama for SCOTUS?
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 07:20 AM
Nov 27

usaf-vet

(7,017 posts)
22. Biden should release it in it's ENTIRELY with no redaction with a F*ck U. And with a p.s.I have immunity.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:26 PM
Nov 26

I would allow for national security redactions.

Raven123

(6,154 posts)
41. Personally I agree with you
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:09 PM
Nov 26

No sense keeping the evidence out of the public eye. Even though the case was dismissed with the caveat it could be reinstated later, the odds of that happening are next to nothing, so why not put it all out in there.

DENVERPOPS

(10,147 posts)
54. Mueller & Garland
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 06:17 PM
Nov 26

have failed miserably.

The reason that I would not be in favor of redacting national security redactions would be that there is hardly anything that Trump hasn't sold to any number of governments already.......I suspect all of those countries had the Top Secret Intel long ago, probably before Biden took office......

If I were Jack Smith, I would send un-redacted copies to WaPo, NYT, and several other legitimate news organizations here and abroad.
And then I would get the hell out of the country, covertly, to some safe location.

Certainly he would be #1 on Trump's list of a thousand he will go after.........

DENVERPOPS

(10,147 posts)
68. We had one of those in Colorado!!!!!
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 11:38 PM
Nov 26

In the 80's, our Attorney General (Republican) was forced to take on Rockwell. Rockwell had managed Rocky Flats, a large track of land just south of Boulder. They manufactured all the Plutonium Triggers for all the atomic weapons. They were extremely sloppy for decades, with minimal safety controls. The smoke plume from one fire, sent 14 lbs of plutonium powder into the atmosphere downwind across many communities/water reservoirs on the North edge of Denver.
She assembled a Grand Jury that did a great job of discovering all the short cuts as far as safety, and the incredible profits they made from the U.S. Government. (All of that land is still un-inhabitable by anyone, by the way)
Anyways, the Grand Jury completed their study and came up with a guilty verdict, and wanted 60 Billion for clean up.
Gale Norton announced she was issuing a fine of 10-15 Million. Case over.
She quickly was hired by Reagan for her stellar performance in protecting Rockwell, and Reagan appointed her Secretary of Interior so she could carry on her corruption over the entire U.S.
Everything in a Grand Jury is kept secret. The jurors may never talk about what actually went on during their trial. If they do talk, they go to Prison. One man on the Jury was so upset about what she did, and what Rockwell got away with, that he decided he didn't care if he went to prison or not. He kept meticulous notes of the Trial, over six months.......He copied all his notes, made two copies and sent one to the Denver Post another to the Rocky Mtn News, and the whole thing became public knowledge.....However, Rockwell would not face trial again, Gale Norton went to Washington and that was the end of the story......
The Juror was sent to prison.......and there never was a clean up.........

On a side note, Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch's mom, (Uber Rich Republican),while running the same office? under Reagan, was suspected of making a bunch of money for herself, for her decisions to help mineral? or Oil? corporations with decisions in front of her. As I recall, she resigned two days before being charged to escape prosecution. It never went to trial thx to Reagan.....
I can only assume her son is much more respectable and honest in his position on the USSC......and would never favor Corporations or Republican Politicians....

mountain grammy

(27,378 posts)
91. EPA
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 03:50 PM
Nov 27

Between 1981 and 1983, while known as Anne M. Gorsuch, Neil’s mom served as EPA Administrator under Ronald Reagan, the gift that keeps on giving. I moved to Denver in 1984. Remember all this very well. Nice summary!

DENVERPOPS

(10,147 posts)
95. Thank you MG
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 09:59 AM
Nov 28

I am getting old and trying to write from memory......thanks for correcting me.......

Yea, the Gorsuch's were some of the original family in Vail, and beyond mega wealthy as I recall.

Too bad you weren't here in the 70's when Governor Lamm took on Vail for mistreating Colorado skiers!
You would have loved it......He literally took Vail to the wood shed. He also was responsible for leading the way to get the Olympics thrown out of Colorado.......

mountain grammy

(27,378 posts)
96. You're welcome DP..
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 11:01 PM
Nov 28

I lived in Houston for the last part of the 70's.Colorado was just a dream, but I followed the news and admired Dick Lamm. In 1984, after a divorce and a few Texas traumas, I got a job with Frontier Airlines.. been in Colorado ever since, Just moved back to Denver after 30 years in the mountains.

It's fun getting used to Denver again.

calimary

(84,606 posts)
81. Why am I not holding my breath for "the truth to come out"?
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 08:55 AM
Nov 27

YES Mueller and Garland have failed miserably. Disgracefully, as a matter of fact.

As for some big “reveal” to come from Jack Smith that will make us all feel vindicated somehow, I’m not holding my breath on that, either.

SunSeeker

(54,061 posts)
6. Garland should release an unredacted Mueller Report too.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:15 PM
Nov 26

Garland should have done that years ago.

aka-chmeee

(1,178 posts)
58. I think he did.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 07:21 PM
Nov 26

While it was satisfying to elevate him after Moscow Mitch and the rpigs treated him with such disrespect as a supreme court nominee,
I was still concerned when he took over the DOJ because his selection as a supreme court justice nominee was partly due to his perceived acceptability by the rpigs. Biden's AG should have been more like in the spirit of Jack Smith. Without the Garland duplicity to hold him back, he could have made TSF's life really unpleasant.

ShazzieB

(18,925 posts)
13. To quote Jim Acosta...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:36 PM
Nov 26

"This will be the historical record."

Setting the record straight for history is not everything we would have wished for, but it is still worthwhile in and of itself.

chernabogg

(5 posts)
46. We have had a historical record on trump
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:17 PM
Nov 26

for Decades. At this point, the historical record means shit to half the nation.

Skittles

(160,301 posts)
72. yes, we know Trump voters don't give a FUCK about the rule of law
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 02:06 AM
Nov 27

FUCK anyone who voted for that traitorous ASSHOLE

Celerity

(46,862 posts)
67. he is too busy grifting for Medicare Advantage scammers
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 11:34 PM
Nov 26
Company Behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage Ads Has Long Rap Sheet of Misconduct

The firm formerly known as Benefytt pocketed millions selling sham insurance to seniors and other consumers.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-02-22-company-joe-namath-medicare-advantage-ads-misconduct/



Former New York Jets superstar Joe Namath can be seen every year during Medicare open enrollment hocking plans that tell seniors how great their life would be if only they signed up for a Medicare Advantage plan. From October 15 to December 7 last year alone, Joe Namath ads ran 3,670 times, according to iSpot, which tracks TV advertising.

But the company behind those ads, now called Blue Lantern Health, and their products, HealthInsurance.com and the Medicare Coverage Helpline, have an expansive rap sheet of misconduct, including prosecutions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, and a recent bankruptcy filing that critics say is designed to jettison the substantial legal liabilities the firm has incurred. In September 2023, the company became Blue Lantern; before that, it was called Benefytt; and before that, Health Insurance Innovations. Forty-three state attorneys general had settled with the company in 2018, with it paying a $3.4 million fine. A close associate of the company, Steven Dorfman, has also been prosecuted by the FTC, in addition to the Department of Justice.

Namath himself has a bit of a checkered past when it comes to his business associates—in the early 1970s, he co-owned a bar frequented by members of the Colombo and Lucchese crime families, according to reporting at the time cited in a 2004 biography. Due to the controversy surrounding the bar, Namath was forced by the NFL Commissioner to sell his interest in it. Last year, it was revealed that Namath had employed a prolific pedophile coach at his football camp, also in the 1970s, and the 80-year-old ex-quarterback is now being sued by one of the coach’s victims.

The Namath ads are the main illustration of the behemoth Medicare Advantage marketing industry, which is designed to herd seniors into Medicare Advantage plans that restrict the doctors and hospitals that seniors can go to and the procedures they can access through the onerous “prior authorization” process, and it costs the federal government as much as $140 billion annually compared to traditional Medicare. Over half of seniors—nearly 31 million people—are now in Medicare Advantage, and there is little understanding of the drawbacks of the program. Seniors are aware that they may receive modest gym or food benefits but typically do not realize that they may be giving up their doctors, their specialists, their outpatient clinics, and their hospitals in favor of an in-network alternative that may be lower quality and farther away.

snip

bluestarone

(18,405 posts)
20. I have never been a Garland complainer, BUT
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:16 PM
Nov 26

IF he refuses to release this report my feelings about him will go 180 degrees.

Cirsium

(1,154 posts)
21. Such curious timing!
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:18 PM
Nov 26

Nothing could be done before the election - no, no, these things take time! He is building a case!

LiberalArkie

(16,655 posts)
23. Why not before Jan 6 electorial college thing?
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:28 PM
Nov 26

This is what the electorial college was really designed for at least what I was taught. The electors being able to select the other candidate if they thought the one with the most votes was wrong for the nation.

I know we do not feel that way these days, but in 2000 the rabble thought so.

FBaggins

(27,802 posts)
38. The electoral college thing is in three weeks
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:50 PM
Nov 26

January 6th is when Congress reads/counts those votes

bucolic_frolic

(47,573 posts)
25. So will Trump sue to block this report? Any consequences as that plays out?
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:32 PM
Nov 26

Trump would draw attention to the report and his actions by suing.

Could SCOTUS rule on the content in any way? They have the "official acts" baton, and that's something they can't walk away from.

getagrip_already

(17,537 posts)
29. This... garland will bury it
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:39 PM
Nov 26

Out of an abundance of fairness..... gag

He will issue an empty summary and no more.

The rest will be sealed.

magicarpet

(16,955 posts)
31. Oh good, I hope Jack Smith's final report,...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:40 PM
Nov 26

.... leaves Humpty trDumpee's skin covered in syphlitic boils head to toe.
With gonorrhea pustules all over his face.

wcmagumba

(3,247 posts)
33. Hopefully, some leaky McLeak Face will come to the rescue and let us know the details/facts...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:42 PM
Nov 26

Everyone and I mean everyone knows that The Trump Beast is guilty and dirty as Hell...may he suffer sometime, somewhere please....

Baitball Blogger

(48,427 posts)
34. If he is going to announce it, it's not going to happen.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:47 PM
Nov 26

Someone is going to stop it.

He should have just done it.

Hope Biden gives him immunity.

wolfie001

(3,844 posts)
37. If this was the 1950s, I'm pretty sure Merrick The Spineless would've gotten the 'Jimmy Hoffa Spa Vacation Special'
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:50 PM
Nov 26

He's a worm.

moniss

(6,150 posts)
39. The lawyers for the
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 04:58 PM
Nov 26

Orange Ruski will rush to the courts asking for a temporary injunction against releasing it. They'll find a friendly judge even if they have to race to every courtroom on the East Coast with some made up story to twist jurisdiction etc. so that judge can play "dumb" and issue what they need. Of course a hearing will be scheduled to conveniently take place after the Inauguration and then a "new" AG can handle making sure the report never sees the light of day.

Prairie Gates

(3,568 posts)
44. Agreed...there will be no report
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:13 PM
Nov 26

Just another in a series of things that should happen that won't.

PSPS

(14,194 posts)
48. "Garland is expected to publicly release the special counsel report."
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:31 PM
Nov 26

Assuming that Garland has truly been reanimated, will he intentionally slow-walk this so that he won't get around to it until his firing, and then it will be "too late" or some heretofore unknown "special made-up rule?"

C0RI0LANUS

(1,858 posts)
50. Below is the USDOJ portal for the Special Counsel where unclassified information is released.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:50 PM
Nov 26
https://www.justice.gov/sco-smith


Undated portrait of Jack Smith at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. One of his colleagues, Karim Khan (King's Counsel), successfully indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

WarGamer

(15,749 posts)
51. A brave man...
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:51 PM
Nov 26

Bondi has already said the investigators "will all be the target of investigation"

awesomerwb1

(4,605 posts)
53. Let's telegraph this
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 05:58 PM
Nov 26

so that trump's army of lawyers has enough time to submit lawsuit after lawsuit to stop any releases.

And if that weren't enough, our heroic and fearless AG Garland will bury it if needed.

KS Toronado

(19,703 posts)
55. I hope somewhere in Jack Smith's report
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 06:33 PM
Nov 26

he has solid proof TSF is a Foreign Agent working for Putin who has some of the missing Top Secret
documents from Mar-A-Largo and maybe just maybe Biden could throw him in jail and keep him away
from the levers of power.

Quanto Magnus

(1,034 posts)
57. At this point
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 07:08 PM
Nov 26

I expect Garland to quash the report, because he doesn't want to appear to be politically motivated.

angrychair

(9,889 posts)
59. Oh noes
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 08:50 PM
Nov 26

A report. How will the felon, rapist and pedophile insurrectionist who has never spent a second in jail for all his crimes, possibly recover from a "report" ?!?

Baron2024

(262 posts)
60. Trump Escapes Justice
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 08:54 PM
Nov 26

Many January 6th Criminals have been prosecuted and convicted. The real crime is that the ringleader, Trump, has escaped justice. Which is entirely Merrick Garland's fault for slow-walking the cases against Trump. Trump is a traitor to justice and democracy.

totodeinhere

(13,353 posts)
64. Releasing the report is all well and good. But it won't really matter.
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 10:35 PM
Nov 26

The report will have no effect on Trump. He will just brush it off and his supporters won't care. And it won't stop Trump from doing terrible damage to our country.

Betty Boom

(223 posts)
65. There will be heavy redactions, however
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 10:41 PM
Nov 26

Last edited Thu Nov 28, 2024, 03:03 AM - Edit history (1)

There are still two cases pending against other people that are still open so anything that references those two cases will have to be redacted.

union rep

(20 posts)
69. Tricks
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 11:52 PM
Nov 26

To bad the only people that are going to read it are those of us that know what the real deal is. the stupid will remain stupid. it will be fake news and the ignoramus's who believe that will cosign this guys bulshit all the way to the bank. Look at Gulliani! Crying like the little bitch he is. Lawrence Tribbe constitutional professor says were fucked and that Merrick Garland and Biden are complicit and enabled the whole of the insane developments of the past 4 years anyway. By being so naive and going by the book, meanwhile the book of law has been dismantled to the point of no return, to bad Biden didn't pick Jack Smith instead of making good with Garland. If were going to revolt it better happen real soon, I remember when Nixon was about to get impeached one could not find anyone that voted for him! These are different times sorry to say the american public drank the Kool Aid. God help us all.

ancianita

(38,871 posts)
75. You posted this near midnight.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 07:02 AM
Nov 27

Last edited Sun Dec 1, 2024, 10:49 AM - Edit history (1)

1. Explain your header, "Tricks"

2. Prove "Tribe...says" with a link that shows that. Soon.

Lawrence Tribbe constitutional professor says were fucked and that Merrick Garland and Biden are complicit and enabled the whole of the insane developments of the past 4 years anyway.


Because you're too new on DU to be allowed to make shit up.

Kablooie

(18,793 posts)
70. Don't be surprised if Garland refuses to release it.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 12:21 AM
Nov 27

Because it's too damning for the incoming president and might harm his ability to rule.

I don't trust Garland at all and have suspected for a long time he is a secret Trump admirer.
I hope I'm terribly wrong.

MiHale

(10,891 posts)
76. So instead of justice...we get a book?
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 07:15 AM
Nov 27

Yeah, ok, a ‘report’. When’s the Hallmark movie coming out?

Freethinker65

(11,165 posts)
79. Yep. Too bad it wasn't done before the election. But Democrats don't play dirty.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 08:36 AM
Nov 27

Dems should release the report on Gaetz too,

sarisataka

(21,268 posts)
84. THIS year Charlie Brown will kick the football...
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 10:20 AM
Nov 27

How many releases of x have we been promised by so many people over the past eight years?

JT45242

(2,993 posts)
85. 1000 days later and several million dollars short
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 10:49 AM
Nov 27

The espionage case alone at up to $10k per document and ten years per classified document should have been pushed through the courts. He should have forced the recusal of loose canon who will shortly be on the supreme court for life due to his unwillingness to do what should have been done -- either of his volition or under orders of the feckless Garland.

The fire is started and he and the rest of the DOJ FAILED at their jobs.

The report does absolutely nothing now.

The dirty DOJ memo from the dirty Nixon administration was there. He knew the timeline. He should have listened to Bagman by Rachel Maddow to understand how important it is to move quickly when the real possibility of a criminal in the oval office is the threat.

He can bring his hands with Susan Collins and others as he is sent to a prison camp.

93. Release it on January 19.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 04:01 PM
Nov 27

Let's suck of the oxygen out of the room before Dear Leader basks in his glory and announces to his minions just exactly how screwed they are.

T***p's lawyers will rush to the T***p Supreme Court between now and inauguration to get a permanent injunction because he's president-elect and SCOTUS gave him near-total immunity and he got the biggest mandate ever (it wasn't even close) and it's election interference and "Nobody likes me, I think I'll go eat worms."

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