CardinalBacker

My point exactly. When did Hunter get convicted for what Reagan was accusing him of?

She also got more time than Trump got for raping Jean Carroll.

I think the on-field made the off-field indefensible. If BC just had a season like PNG had, they'd hire a para to run the snowcone truck for him.

That's my understanding as well... but the PRA does indicate that Trump should have never had any of those records in the first place. Have you read through a synopsis of the indictment? It doesn't mention the PRA at all. It's mainly about mishandling top secret information, and then lying to the feds about that information. There are some documents that the president simply cannot declassify. Some MUST be declassified by the Department of Defense and some by the Department of Energy. They are alleging that Trump had documents that he couldn't declassify if he still the President, or by just thinking about it. or by executive order, or by grabbing it by the fematalia. It's not a secret... there are some documents that no president can declassify by legislation. If it turns out as it's suggested and Trump did have some docs with that level of classification, he broke the law, Period. But the real question is whether or not Trump lied to investigators by claiming that all classified docs had been returned when he was in fact hiding them away from the feds and even his own counsel. If so, he's in a world of trouble. The problem is that he just keeps contradicting himself. "I don't have any classified docs." "Ok, here's the last of the classified docs." Which is it? You don't have them, or NOW you're giving more back? But then they turn around and find even more stashed all over the place when they finally raid the place. Jeez. He did it. Take your medicine. [Hidden Content]

Hunter Biden is standing tall and taking his medicine like a man. While Trump snivels, cries, whines, and says “it’s not fair!!!” kinda like 2020 all over again.

Some rookie coo didn’t come up with this on his own… “they” could have ignored Hunter’s troubles (these were fairly minor) but the feds pushed on. It’s just really hard to say that the feds are biased when they are obviously prosecuting crimes by both sides.

If he starts gaining any traction in the primaries, the Dems are going to be in a bind. They absolutely won’t want him as the eventual nominee, but if Biden can’t beat him, they’ll have to trot out ANOTHER contender to replace Biden and beat RFKjr. This election cycle is going to be bananas.

Who'd they hire?

I took two positives from the story. Apparently there WAS enough evidence about Hunter’s activities to warrant an investigation and likely score a conviction. I guess it remains to be seen if actual evidence of criminal wrongdoing will be presented in the big investigations regarding corruption. But this should go a long way towards dispelling (or at least disputing) the notion that the DOJ is weaponized purely to attack Trump. They literally just got the current president’s son to cop a plea. That’s ballsy for law enforcement. I don’t expect a presidential pardon for Hunter, either. Here’s something to think about. What happens if Biden then pardons Trump over the pending matter over documents? Talk about shaking things up with the undecideds.

[Hidden Content] Interesting. THIS is how a man handles himself after he gets caught. When you realize that even a crackhead like Hunter has more dignity, integrity, and for lack of a better word, is just a “bigger man” than Trump, but you’re the only person who can admit it. So much for the DOJ being biased.

I've got two theories. First, it's possible that some on the board and the super were beginning to feel the heat over the lack of success after two years under Coach McGuire. It doesn't help that LCM, PNG, and WOS (Yeah, I really did throw WOS in there.... Haters gonna hate, ya know) all had remarkable turnarounds with new coaches.... we didn't really see a marked improvement in the win/loss column. My guess is that the community didn't really give Admin a whole lot of room to wiggle. On the other hand, I also heard that other people were having to step in and perform coaching/AD responsibilities when McGuire would go MIA... I've always wondered why the Baseball Coach wasn't also AD, other than it being impossible to find a HFC without the AD. I wouldn't be surprised if the AD title gets handed off to Landry with a strong coordinator (I dunno, like and OC from a good school) shouldering the load of actual coaching. It's BC... it could be the start of something better for football, or the start of something better for baseball. I guess time will tell.

This troubling… I know it’s just a poll, but jeebus, that’s a bad look. [Hidden Content] Basically put, despite having overwhelming support from his loyal supporters, 56% of the population thinks Trump should drop out of the race. I mean, we already knew that basically half were going to be opposed to Trump running. But this just indicates that he’s lost more of the middle/undecideds who just want and end to the whole sordid affair.

I’d be mad if you were lying.

[Hidden Content] This is one of the best explanations that I’ve seen. Fwiw, it seems fairly unbiased. The rules/regs are all over the place. Executive order by the President actually plays a big part in the rule structure. I think it’s interesting that the last few Presidents created new orders for how information would be declassified, but Trump didn’t modify the standing orders left by Obama. It makes me think that Trump (being a bureaucratic outsider) paid little mind to the rules and that’s how he ended up in this mess. Long story short, every news cycle keeps mentioning that trump had nuclear secrets… I think that’s pointing to the fact that he had classified materials on hand that he wouldn’t have been able to declassify, even as President… the most secret of those can’t be declassified by a president. When you figure in that a) they weren’t his to take b) they were still classified c) he showed them to people who weren’t clearanced to see them and d) he lied to the feds about handing them back over. It’s like every misstep just got him into more peril. If he takes a bunch of records, nobody really cares. Taking a bunch of top secret stuff? That’s a little more serious. Showing it to people who aren’t supposed to see it? Ok, this getting pretty bad. Hiding them away from his own attorneys, then lying to federal investigators about giving them ALL back? He’s in serious trouble at this point. My honest opinion was that it was all likely a big witch hunt-making a mountain out of a molehill. I really didn’t pay a lot of attention until the indictment came out… that’s when it really caught my attention. I think at this point he’s throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, but the reasonable people are starting to back off now. There was a lot of outcry when they raided his house. Then we found out that some of it really was classified, even if that was still ambiguous. We also found out that the feds found docs AFTER he’d supposedly handed them all back. The indictment shows that he was showing secret to reporters, and that he (through his attorneys) had outright lied about having the docs. It’s like what happened to Bill Clinton… it’s not that he boinked an intern, it’s that he lied about boinking an intern that got him in a bind. Martha Stewart didn’t get locked up for insider trading, she got locked up for lying to SEC Investigators about insider trading. It’s the reason that they indicted Trump’s valet, too… he helped hide the documents and is in big trouble. It’s why both of the attorneys who swore that all of the classified materials were returned resigned after the indictment… they realized that trump put them all in harms way by tricking them into lying to the feds. It’s why the arguments are so disingenuous about declassifying. That’s not the problem anymore… the act of hiding them from his attorneys, then lying about giving them back is the smoking gun. There’s nothing wrong with trying to see what the inside of your intern feels like-but you can get into huge trouble for lying about trying to see what the inside of your intern feels like.

Honestly, I posted that link in this thread.... I read it, too. But the MOST is a pretty big one... because obviously not all of the 34 boxes of docs were classified-but some were, and some were of the highest secrecy. And he didn't declassify them, by his own admission, and there are some documents that even a President can't declassify formally, much less by doing his Swami impression... Does he wear a turban like Johnny Carson when he's declassifying docs in his mind? And now you're arguing that Trump himself was wrong when he stated that he (Trump) hadn't (and no longer could) declassify the doc he was showing to the reporter? Your second thought is pure conjecture... The fact that he hasn't yet been tried isn't proof of his innocence. Your argument is "The law says this.... then I did the exact opposite of what the law requires... and even if I get convicted, it doesn't mean what I did is actually wrong because I haven't yet appealed all of the way to the Supreme Court." Have fun in Leavenworth.

BECAUSE HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE THEM HOME. But I'll digress further. 1. Trump was President... he had the authority to declassify lots of docs, but not all. 2. When he was no longer President, his control over his records was gone.... not just classified... all. 3. He left with boxes of records, some of which are classified and of the most serious nature... this violated the Presidential Records Act. 4. Trump met with a reporter and others, showed classified/top secret info to that person, and stated "yeah, I could have declassified these, but I didn't, and now I can't... but it proves blah blah blah." This sure sounds like a violation of the Espionage Act to me. 5. The Feds get wind that Trump is showing top secret docs to reporters and asks that he return all records to the government per the Presidential Records Act. 6. Trump says "i'll have my lawyer look at the records and return all of the top secret docs." 7. Trump hides some of the top secret docs with the help of his valet, then has his attorneys look at the remainder of the docs... The attorneys return some top secret docs, then certify to the feds (based on Trump's misleading of them) that all of the top secrets have been returned. 8. The feds know that all of the top secrets have NOT been returned, because the ones that were shown to civilians weren't included in the ones given back by Trump's attorneys. 9. The feds get a warrant, search Mir a Lago, and find boxes of top secret information scattered about. 10. Trump gets indicted for mishandling of the documents, showing them to civilians, lying to federal investigators, etc... and the attorneys that he misled (and potentially find themselves in trouble for lying to the feds) resign. There is so much going wrong in the facts. Trump wasn't supposed to have any records, much less top secret/classified information. Period. Trump was showing that information to civilians for his own benefit, while confessing that those documents were classified, and he could no longer declassify them. That's hard to defend. Trump lied to his attorneys and the feds about the existence of the documents that were later recovered at Mir A Lago. Does anybody remember why Martha Stewart got locked up? Here's a hint. "In her criminal case, she was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal investigators." Kinda sounds like what Trump is being accused of here, huh?

Because it doesn't. That's not in the constitution. There are a series of laws like the Presidential Records Act that are the laws pertaining to document handling... and Trump is accused of being in violation of that/those laws. And you're right... if constitutionality is challenged, then so be it. Isn't it funny how a few months ago y'all were all yelling "The Supreme Court can't legislate law! That's the job of Congress! Roe v Wade was a mistake!" And today when trumps orange bee-hind is on the line, y'all are like... "so what, Congress made a law... let's just see what the Supreme Court has to say about that!" By your argument, Joe Biden could just think to himself "you know, I, ummmm.... classifieds are hard, ya know.... " and POOF.... no more secrets, anywhere, period. No classifieds, no top secret, no "for your eyes only> Because Joe Biden thought it. You're smarter than this argument.

That’s what I see as the problem. If trump’s problem is his lack of likability from constantly bashing people, then what are we gaining by trying to find someone (like Christie) who thinks he can out-bash trump? In a perfect world someone would say “if you’re tired of this (nod at Trump), vote for me. It’s time to bring civility and decency back to US politics. The sad thing is that a large chunk of the electorate is too stupid to support anybody who’s not just out fightin’ Rinos and Libtards.

From the ABA... [Hidden Content] government has%2C however%2C prosecuted,through use of executive orders. To summarize, it gives the President a broad range of powers to declassify a lot of documents, but not all. And there's a procedure that has to be followed so that all agencies know which information has been declassified. A president can't just "think it" and a doc is declassified. And I think the argument now is that the documents ARE still classified, but Trump COULD have declassified them (maybe), so "no harm, no foul." That's not a good argument in my opinion. The President himself even admitted that some of the docs he displayed were classified, and that he could no longer declassify them. My understanding is that the Presidential Records Act just details how the records belong to and what's supposed to happen to them after a President leaves office. I think the Espionage Act charges are related to Trump's showing of top secret materials to people who don't have clearances. And you're right... the law was never intended to apply to Presidents because nobody ever envisioned a former President violating the Presidential Records Act by keeping top secret information, then showing it to reporters and other people without clearance for his own personal benefit... money, influence, or just to "clear his name." I guess a better question is this.... if Staff Sergeant Reagan had clearance and then left the service, but held onto classified docs, then showed them to a reporter (or anyone else), then denied to the powers that be that he, in fact, still had those documents, hid them out, then got caught red-handed with boxes of classified documents.... what do you think would happen to Staff Sergeant Reagan? He'd be in federal prison, that's what. And to say, "oh, he was the President and could have declassified them if he wanted to" is just not a defense to all of those violations. I guess I'm saying that there's a difference between hanging onto old menus from the time Stevie Wonder played at a White House Dinner and showing our top secret military operations to a reporter from some right-wing hack website. Do I think that every president left with momentos? Heck, Bill Clinton's staff stole the "Ws" off of white house keyboards on their way out the door as an affront to George W Bush. I halfway expected this to be a big to-do about nothing, except it's not. They're really bad allegations and just dismissing them because of who's spearheading the investigation is not sound thinking. If it turns out that Trump didn't have Top Secret records in his possession after his attorneys certified that all of the top secret materials had been returned to the National Archivist, then he's got nothing to worry about.

Yep… when the Bible is considered “hate speech” we’ve got big problems.

What a clever way of saying “inflation today is the lowest it’s been in two years.”

“Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that nobody’s out to get me” is the old saying. The Dems ARE out to get Trump… but that doesn’t mean that Trump hasn’t committed any crimes. That seems to be the only reasoning that y’all can come up with.

“LOCK HER UP!!!! LOCK HER UP!!!!” Y’all were begging for political prosecutions… as long as it was the other guys getting investigated.

If you swap "Hunter" for "Rudy' and "Biden for "Trump," you get literally the same story... You don't even have to change the country... [Hidden Content] And for what it's worth, I call my you-know-what "The Big Guy."

Well, this is going swimmingly. [Hidden Content] I can't imagine why attorneys aren't just lining up to take Trump's case (and money) on a slam-dunk acquittal like y'all expect.