As if Twitter were secret, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office executed a search warrant against Donald Trump’s Twitter account, searching for “evidence of criminal offenses” related to January 6th. Twitter unsuccessfully objected to an attached nondisclosure order that ordered the company not to tell Trump.
Dragnet Ain’t the Same
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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I’ve been watching the headlines — who bothers reading the stories anymore considering how the narrators are unreliable — and I’m still waiting for the article that consists of a firm, declarative statement without qualifier that shows Trump said, texted, emailed, semaphored, Aldis lamped, sign-languaged, or interpretive jazz tapped any statement that shows criminal intent without their being room for argument about what he “really” meant.
The classical law example of this would be the two burglars ransacking a house who are surprised by the home owner. Home owner has a gun, so does the junior burglar. The senior burglar, realizing the jig is up, says, “Give it to him” meaning “surrender the gun to him, we’re caught.” The junior burglar interprets the utterance as “Shoot him.” Or was it that the senior burglar did mean for the junior burglar to shoot the home owner and is claiming the contrary to save his neck?
I suspect the democrats play chess thinking only of the move right in front of them. I can’t wait for the debates: which candidate under investigation for high crimes do you think will have the better performance?
It’s basically a year before any presidential debates will happen. The question remains, what mental condition will Biden be in at that point, if any 98.6°F condition.
Assuming he’s the Dem candidate, Biden’s only chance is to refuse to debate “that vile man under multiple indictments.” This presumes Biden’s own legal problems can rage all they want up to, but not including, indictments.
(But don’t rule out typical Dem’s “OUR monumental hypocrisy don’t stink” behavior.)
If he’s following his presidential mentor, who couldn’t be bothered with immediately flushing out all Cheney-Bush US attorneys, Biden will have to scramble to deal with His Hairness’s hangers-on. Threats of cement booties will abound.
What do you made of the audio of His Hairness’s alleged phone call (Dem AI creation?) to the Georgia Sec State?
Is it the one where he says find 11,000 votes?
That’s exactly what I mean by loopholes. “When I said ‘find’ I didn’t mean break the law. I meant check everywhere because how many times in elections do the numbers change because a few ballots were ‘found’ in filing cabinets and boxes that hadn’t been found the first time?” And then his attorneys will wheel it all the times that that is exactly what happened.
To Alex: Yes, that’s the one. “find 11,000 votes.” I get your point. I see an indictment has been issued in Fulton county, GA. (I guess the report I’d mentioned a while ago were wrong that suggested the percolating GA case was “on hold” until the federal case[s] were resolved.)
This season’s presidential campaign ordeal is shaping up to be a real turbo-, hyper-, exceptional, shit-storm circus, wa … aaay below previously-plumbed depths.
Falco,
As a nihilist who can only find part-time work and who has six digits of student loan debt, I look forward to the coming collapse. It isn’t Trump. It’s the voter base that permits him to exist in the American political domain. We’ve been dumbing down for a long, long time.
Anyone remember being in a high school or college class where you blew off all the work? And here comes the final? Yeah. We need smart, bold, brave leaders who can inspire people to commit to a collective effort at fixing the world. And we’ve got Joe Biden and Donald Trump. We aren’t going to pass, and I look forward to how absolutely eye-rollingly bad this cycle will look because the worse it gets, the more likely it is that just maybe, possibly, someone will activate all the fed-up voters and nonvoters.
> Biden’s only chance is to refuse to debate
Remember George W. Bush and his inability to give a speech? Not exactly the same as Biden’s impediment but definitely far below the orators like early-years Reagan and early-years Obama. GWB got re-elected despite abysmal performances in the debates. Biden could do the same… the ability to make a speech or win a debate evidently don’t amount to much in determining the outcome of an election.
> I’ve been watching the headlines
Perhaps your experience is similar to mine. The headlines on Fox News are almost worthless. Frequently they make some outlandish claim, but the story is closer to reality and doesn’t support the claim. While other media sources have a tighter connection between the headline and the story, I’d nonetheless be wary of just watching the headlines when the goal is to do more than read the room.
Two thoughts: 1) as if Trump wouldn’t have figured they’d do this.
2) NPR claims it’s “conspiracy theory” to believe we live in a surveillance society.