With friends like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), pretty soon failed one-term, twice-indicted and impeached former president Donald Trump won’t need any enemies.
Jordan felt the need to defend Trump from the 37 federal criminal counts filed against him by a grand jury empaneled by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, but the way he went about that defense resulted in what sounded like an admission that the ex-president is in very big trouble because he broke the law.
Here’s what Jordan posted on Twitter:
“Remember, if the FBI can do it to a presidential candidate, they can do it to you too.”
Remember, if the FBI can do it to a presidential candidate, they can do it to you too.
Well, yeah. The FBI can indeed do the same thing to anyone if they steal classified documents and keep them in an unsecured location at a golf club in Florida. Here’s hoping they prosecute anyone and everyone that engages in such dangerous behavior, especially after being told they need to return the documents and refusing to do so. Lock every last one of them up and throw away the key.
Jordan was quickly hit with a brutal clapback from others on Twitter who reminded him the law is supposed to apply to everyone.
Dear Jim,
Yes, that’s true. No one is above the law. And btw Jim, this tweet makes you sound kind of stupid. You may want to delete it.
Look out! If you too keep top-secret documents about nuclear secrets and refuse for more than a year to return them, even as they spill out of boxes, and hide boxes from investigators, and manipulate your lawyers into lying to authorities–why, you too are at risk! https://t.co/ZRcBB9AQSL
If you steal highly sensitive national security documents, show them to people, hide/move them and obstruct attempts to retrieve them, then yes, the FBI will arrest you. https://t.co/7JfEjvCE06
True. If you steal top secret documents that belong in a SCIF and store them in the bathroom in your gold-leafed pimp palace and then have your sycophantic valet help you evade a subpoena and obstruct the investigation with you, they can do it to you too. https://t.co/M7NjfrxN5R
Remember, if YOU are required to obey the law under penalty of arrest, so are the president and the elected officials of this country.
That is LITERALLY the reason our ancestors broke away from the King of England, formed the United States, and wrote the Constitution. https://t.co/l1oLZKgErX
Yes, if you store classified documents next to a toilet and then refuse to give them back when asked, you, too, can face federal charges. https://t.co/En7hTOZwVB
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki hilariously tolled Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for her recent attempts to impeach President Joe Biden that led to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) calling her a “little bitch” on the House floor.
Psaki was asked by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough about the Boebert-Greene confrontation: “Jen Psaki, again, the chaos continues in the House. I can’t help but think, at the end of the day, all this is going to do is damage the House candidates and turn the House back over to Democrats.”
“Well, exactly,” Psaki responded. “I mean, in some ways, the White House and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee don’t have to do much aside from get out of the way.”
“Their entire message is competence versus chaos,” Psaki added. “As we just heard, kind of the outline from John Heilemann about the back-and-forth fight between Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, Lauren Boebert responded and said, ‘I’m not in middle school.’ It’s like, are you sure you’re not in middle school? That’s how middle schoolers act, you know?”
Psaki noted that the contrast between the House and the White House is clear and could indeed be used against the GOP in 2024.
“If you’re the American public sitting at home, you’re thinking, ‘what a waste of time, what a waste of my time that they are doing there. That is exactly the contrast that the White House, if you’re sitting in the White House right now, my old colleagues there, if you’re sitting in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and you’re working with Democratic candidates, you’re going to run on, ‘We’ll do something. We will fight for you the public. That is chaotic and crazy there, and we will not be that.'”
In a posting on his Truth Social platform today, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump went off on an all-caps rant that a reporter on religious extremism says should be of great concern as the disgraced ex-president faces arraignment Tuesday on federal criminal charges for mishandling classified information.
The post from Trump which was shared earlier this afternoon reads:
NOW THAT THE “SEAL” IS BROKEN, IN ADDITION TO CLOSING THE BORDER & REMOVING ALL OF THE “CRIMINAL” ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED OUR COUNTRY, MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT, & EVEN DOMINANT AGAIN, & IMMEDIATELY ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE, I WILL APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL “PROSECUTOR” TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, JOE BIDEN, THE ENTIRE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, & ALL OTHERS INVOLVED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ELECTIONS, BORDERS, & COUNTRY ITSELF!
Be sure and note mention of the “seal” being broken, religion reporter and extremism expert Jeff Sharlet warns. It has special significance to those in the QAnon conspiracy movement and other right-wing religious extremists.
Sharlet explained his concerns on Twitter.
“QAnon & many fundamentalists will read this—& I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine Trump’s people are aware of that—as both the indictment & 7th seal of Revelation, the opening of which heralds the second coming of Christ.”
“This, combined with Saturday’s claim that World War III ‘WILL’ occur if he’s not back, & that he is the ‘only one’ who can stop the obliteration of the world, are claims to divinity.”
“As I write in THE UNDERTOW, Trumpism’s a kind of bastardized American gnosticism, an ecstatic doomsday/utopian faith in secrets & ‘strength.’ Some QAnon followers make the gnostic connection explicit. Here’s some of the most famous gnostic text, ‘The Thunder, Perfect Mind’:
As I write in THE UNDERTOW, Trumpism's a kind of bastardized American gnosticism, an ecstatic doomsday/utopian faith in secrets & "strength." Some QAnon followers make the gnostic connection explicit. Here's some of the most famous gnostic text, "The Thunder, Perfect Mind": pic.twitter.com/YQ6ROPzv6N
For those who have read the Book of Revelation, those lines have the echo of “I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” (Revelation 22:13).
Revelation was David Koresh’s favorite book of the Bible. It was also big with Charles Manson. In other words, it’s a favorite source of dark inspiration for terrorists and mass murderers.
Let’s hope security is airtight tomorrow in Miami when Trump shows up to be arraigned.
Disgraced former Fox “News” host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., wants us all to know that Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith doesn’t understand federal law the way she does, and that means the criminal case against failed former president Donald Trump doesn’t have a chance of succeeding.
On her podcast, Guilfoyle went on for several minutes about the indictment of her future father-in-law, suggesting that presidential power always overrides the law, even after a president leaves the White House and returns to private life.
“You’ve heard a lot about the Espionage Act and all of the bluster from Special Counsel Jack Smith, but there’s another law called the Presidential Records Act that undercuts the entire argument. Any record the president or his staff creates or receives in their official duty or capacity is a presidential record,” Guilfoyle insisted.
“Translation: Donald Trump had the right under the law to maintain custody of his records whether they were classified or not,” she added.
“So what we’re really dealing with is just another example of Democrat prosecutors creating new legal theories to weaponize the law against Donald Trump,” Guilfoyle claimed.
Guilfoyle is confident that Trump is going to beat the case because Jack Smith doesn’t understand the law as well as she does. pic.twitter.com/yDsdAgvUmK
Wow! Is that true? Nope. What Guilfoyle said is a complete crock of shit, as CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale explained in March.
The Presidential Records Act says that, the moment a president leaves office, NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. Nothing in the act says there should be prolonged “talk” or a negotiated “agreement” between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a months-long battle after NARA first contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency.
“Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President.”
Reports are that Trump is looking for a good attorney to represent him in the upcoming documents case. Since Guilfoyle seems to be such an expert, why doesn’t he ask her to be his lawyer?
Probably because he knows she’s a clueless moron and he’d wind up getting a 500-year sentence.
There’s an old saying we’ve all heard that’s attributed to writer and philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
That’s certainly the case when it comes to failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, who has said in the past that all sorts of people should be locked up for what he considers to be horrible crimes.
For example: The 2016 presidential campaign. In that race for the White House, Trump accused his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton of having improperly handled classified information and led his supporters in chants of “lock her up” on the campaign trail.
But as MSNBC host Jen Psaki noted Sunday, now that the shoe is on the other foot and Trump is facing decades behind bars for allegedly taking hundreds of top secret government documents with him and haphazardly storing them at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donnie is singing a different tune.
“I want to take a little trip down memory lane,” Psaki said. “The year is 2016 and Donald Trump is very fired up over Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information.”
Cue the montage of Trump excoriating Clinton and vowing, if elected, “no one will be above the law.”
"I want to take a little trip down memory lane. The year is 2016 and Donald Trump is very fired up over Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information…"@jrpsaki on Trump's hypocrisy over Hillary Clinton and classified information. pic.twitter.com/SHZKTuRDFD
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) June 11, 2023
Ironically, Trump had Congress increase the penalties for mishandling classified government information after he defeated Clinton. And now those increases in the sentencing guidelines could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
How’s that for some brutal karma?
Twitter users then joined the online trolling of the Donald.
He signed the bill that increased punishments for those who mishandle classified information. pic.twitter.com/4CbpZVuYvk
Trump cared/cares as much about classification as he cared/cares about the truth. He is incapable of getting “fired up” over anything other than… Trump.
In other words: Trump was very fired up over his latest scheme to make his opponent look bad.
