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My Naive ANGER about Comer's LIES because of his evil motives & the # 20,000, Barr still evil [1]

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Date: 2023-06-20

My anger about what COMER is doing hasn't receded or gone away. Some time ago, I used to believe that there were good people on both sides who both were honest and both only wanted what they felt was best for this country. A lot of events show that this naive view isn't true, but if I still believed it, James Comer would have disabused me of it.

In 2016, some random person without proof or evidence, let's call this person the original bullshitter, supposed came to bullshitter #2 who is called a "highly credible source" and told this tale about now President Biden. In 2019, Donald Trump sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine and this was made public. Now, the Senate REPUBLICAN Report made it clear that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election and there's no reason to believe that changed in 2020. So, it is widely believed that Rudy and bullshitter #2 are simply passing Russian disinformation. In any event, bullshitter #2 passes this unsupported claim to the FBI when Donald Trump was president and Bill Barr was attorney general and Christopher Wray was head of the FBI.

However, bullshitter #2 still hasn't been able to confirm or verify this claim in 2019 and neither could the FBI even with an administrator HOSTILE to President Biden. This investigation died under a REPUBLICAN administration. Now, it's 2023 and nothing has emerged or been found to confirm the claim. The original telling of the tale by bullshitter #1 to bullshitter #2 SUPPOSEDLY took place in 2016, SEVEN YEARS AGO. It's been FOUR YEARS since bullshitter #2 told the FBI the UNSUPPORTED claim.

Since no evidence has emerged in the SEVEN YEARS since the SUPPOSED original telling of the tale or the FOUR YEARS since the FBI was told of the claim by bullshitter #2, then (1) Comer must know that the claim is false or at least (2) Comer must know that he NEVER EVER WILL have any evidence of the claim. This makes it EXTREMELY UNETHICAL to release the FD-1023 documents because it is done for purely political reasons.

Representative Mace claims to be a moderate. Yet she is either dishonest or lying and smart money says she is lying because it would take an awful lot of stupidity to believe what she claimed to believe. She actually claimed that the timing of the indictment was suspicious because it was done at the same time as this bribery allegation.

The stupidity here is absolutely immense. First, the republicans have been pushing this for some time. So, anytime that a true bill was returned, that false allegation could have been made. Second, if she had even bothered to skim the 49 page indictment, then she would have realized that this indictment took a long time to prepare to seek and then to craft.

Third, ZERO, ZILCH, NONE, NOTHING, NADA, NO EVIDENCE HAS EVER BEEN ADDUCED TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN WHILE THE 49 PAGE INDICTMENT IS REPLETE WITH EVIDENCE PROVING THE CHARGES MADE.

THEREFORE, THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE OPPOSITE CONCLUSION: COMER FORCED REPUBLICAN FBI DIRECTOR WRAY TO CONTRARY TO FBI POLICY RELEASE THIS DOCUMENT WITH NO EVIDENTIARY SUPPORT WHATSOEVER TO THE MAGA REPUBLICANS BECAUSE HE WAS CONCERNED THAT THIS SECOND INDICTMENT WOULD RENDER DONALD TRUMP UNABLE TO WIN A GENERAL ELECTION.

What is Comer's goal? He knows that the pro democracy people are too smart to fall for his bullshit. He knows that he himself is too stupid to be able to get this or something similar past us (throwing back in his face another one of his unsubstantiated claims, that MSNBC viewers are "low IQ"). He knows that republicans, by definition, only get their "information" from carefully curated propaganda sources lime OANN, NewsMax, Fixed Propaganda, Breitbart..., and, consequently can be led to believe the wildest, completely unsupported conspiracy be

Pro democracy voters would ask what evidence is there to support the claims and the answer of none leads us to reject the bullshit. However, republican voters watching the propaganda sources will be told that there were witnesses including a Russian oligarch and there were 17 tapes, but criminal mastermind President Biden somehow managed to eliminate.

COMER is hoping that the republicans who are deeply troubled by the second indictment because of the massive evidence in the detailed 49 page indictment will be persuaded to still vote for Trump because of these unsupported allegations against President Biden in this conspiracy theory.

That's because Comer, as stupid and dishonest as he is, knows that if he can keep all republican voters voting for Trump, they actually have a legitimate chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. If Trump had won Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, then the electoral college vote would have been tied 269-269. The tiebreaker is who holds the most state delegations in the House of Representatives. Suppose Georgia has 15 electoral college votes, then it has 13 congressional districts (& 2 US Senators-13+2=15). How many of the 13 are members of the Democratic Party and how many are republicans? Suppose 7 are members of the Republican Party and 6 are members of the Democratic Party. Then Georgia's state delegation is counted as ’1 for the republicans. Then we move to the next step until we have covered all 50 states. The Republican Party would have won the tiebreaker in 2020. That's likely to be true in 2024 as well. So, if approximately 20,000 votes had been for Trump instead of, as they actually were cast, for President Biden, in the right amounts in the right states, then Trump would have won Wisconsin (approximately 20,000 vote difference so if approximately 10,000 Biden votes were Trump votes, then Trump would have won Wisconsin) and Georgia (approximately 10,000 vote difference, so if approximately 5,000 Biden votes were Trump votes, then Trump would have won Georgia) and Arizona ( approximately 10,000 vote difference, so if approximately 5,000 Biden votes were Trump votes, then Trump would have won Arizona) , thereby, winning the 2020 presidential election by virtue of winning the tiebreaker.

Hence, 20,000 votes out of 156 MILLION VOTES CAST determined the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

20,000 votes , that's nothing. So, Comer's strategy is to throw allegations at President Biden that he almost certainly knows are false and that he absolutely knows for a fact that he will NEVER BE ABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE in order to keep all republican voters voting for Trump in the 2024 presidential election because he knows that if he can hold all republicans together by doing this, then they can win the 2024 presidential election.

This shows that Comer like pretty much every republican in Congress is a SHIT PERSON WITH ZERO INTEGRITY OR CHARACTER. He is willing to slander President Biden's character with allegations that he knows he will NEVER BE ABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE WITH EVIDENCE in order to win a presidential election.

SHIT PERSON.

Barr while admitting the second indictment is legitimate and damning tries to paint Trump as a victim of witch hunts in other cases (utterly inconsistent logically) and to prop up the unsupported claims against President Biden.

Robert Mueller said that if he thought Donald Trump was innocent, he would have said so. He showed that Trump and Russia did attempt to work together. In May of 2015, on the third floor of Trump Tower, Donald Trump Jr. met with Natalia Veselnitskaya a Russian lawyer with ties to Vladimir Putin in order to discuss offering to alter hostile legislation that hurts Russian oligarchs if Veselnitskaya will provide opposition research on Secretary Clinton. The FEC has made it crystal clear that opposition research is a thing of value. All of this is mentioned in the Mueller Report. The Mueller Report also documents TEN INSTANCES OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. The Senate REPUBLICAN REPORT shows that Russia did interfere in our 2016 presidential election, trying to help their preferred candidate, Donald Trump, win. It's serious because we don't want a president to be in office who secretly is motivated to help a foreign, possibly hostile, power without the American voters knowing this. This is clearly NOT A WITCH HUNT.

Donald Trump tried to pressure Ukrainian President Zelenskyy into ANNOUNCING an investigation into Hunter and Joe Biden by making that a condition of receiving the foreign aid already approved by Congress even though he had ZERO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO ANY SUCH THING. The phone call has been TRANSCRIBED. WE KNOW WHAT HE SAID. SO, THERE'S SIMPLY NO DOUBT ABOUT WHAT HE SAID AND WHAT HE WAS DOING. It was ABUSE OF POWER since he had, again, ZERO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO ANY SUCH THING. It was extortion. It could also be considered SOLICITING A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION FROM A FOREIGN NATIONAL since the ONLY REASON HE WOULD DO THIS IF HE THOUGHT IT WOULD MOVE POLLS AND VOTES in the 2020 presidential election. THIS IS CLEARLY NOT A WITCH HUNT.

Many people on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE support adding an amendment to the constitution that overturns the Citizens United ruling. Corporations and people are allowed to donate an UNLIMITED amount of money to PACS and Super PACS. As bad as that is, however, it would be far worse if they could do the same directly to the campaigns of candidates. PACS and Super PACS are not allowed to coordinate with Candidates' campaigns. This is of vital importance. Candidates' campaigns develop a theory of the case, they have a messaging strategy, they have a timeline, they know who their target voters are, whose voted they must win to win the election, what demographic groups they need to target to win and where the voters live whom they need in order to win, and they almost all have a quality pollster. None of that is known to friendly PACS and Super PACS. PACS and Super PACS can try to divine this information and create similar ads on the same media and the same channels with the same markets, but they would likely be late and they would be guessing. Thus, the distinction between being allowed to donate unlimited sums of money to PACS and Super PACS and only being allowed to donate $2,900 per candidate in the primary and $2,900 per candidate in the general election is real and important.

Therefore, it is very important when Donald Trump pays Stormy Daniels to be silent about their affair 10 days before the 2016 election day for the 2016 presidential election through his fixer and attorney Michael Cohen when the amount is far more than the legal campaign contribution limit. The previous paragraph made it clear why campaign contribution limits are important. It gives Donald Trump a large and unfair advantage when his fixer can donate however much he wants to his campaign on orders from Donald Trump who also reimbursed Michael Cohen. Now this affair was from ten years ago and the agreement and the payment was made ten days before election day of the 2016 presidential election and he paid another porn star, Karen McDougal, for an affair PRIOR TO THE RELATIONSHIP WITH MELANIA. Thus, the Melania defense is done. Furthermore, Michael Cohen admitted that this was an illegal campaign contribution, Michael Cohen's attorney admitted the same, SDNY prosecutors agreed with this, the judge hearing the case agreed, and the general counsel of the FEC agreed that this was an illegal campaign. Now, Michael Cohen didn't have the affair and Michael Cohen wasn't the candidate, so since Michael Cohen served time for this, then so should Donald Trump. Thus, this is not a witch hunt either.

Presumably, Bill Barr is okay with the Fulton County D.A. bringing charges for the "fellas, give me a break, I just need (an extra) 11,780 votes..." case and with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith bringing charges against Donald Trump for all the means by which he attempted a coup including inciting the insurrection. So, neither of those are products of a witch hunt either.

ALL of these cases are simply the result of Donald Trump finally, for the first time in his life, being held accountable for his crimes.

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Again, here's the relevant section of the Presidential Records Act and the relevant section of The Espionage Act and the definition of illegally retaining:

The relevant section of The Espionage Act:

(d)Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation,

or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it

The relevant section of The Presidential Records Act:

From the Presidential Records Act:

"The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter."

And:

"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"

And the legal definition of retain from a law dictionary:

To hold or keep that which one already has, not to lose, part with or dismiss it.

The decision of Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Judicial Watch vs Clinton:

District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled against Judicial Watch. She wrote that the act distinguishes official presidential records from personal records. So, she ruled that former President Bill Clinton didn't have to return the notes and recordings for his autobiography because they were personal, not Presidential Records which are documents produced by the federal government or for the federal government and/or come across the president's desk in the performance of his duties of his public office.

There is NO UNIVERSE in which the classified documents Donald Trump had were his personal documents.

It is not a Presidential Records Act violation because he was not charged for documents that he wrongfully possessed, but which were eventually returned. It IS an Espionage Act violation because he did ILLEGALLY RETAIN classified national defense documents.

The whatsboutisms all fail because they all lack intent unlike Donald Trump. Donald Trump lied which shows consciousness of guilt. If he really believed that he thought that he could keep them legally, then he would have fought them in court. His lies and moving them to hide them from his attorneys who were trying to comply with the subpoena and from federal government investigators show intent unlike the whataboutism people named.

Secretary Clinton used a private server as did Secretary Powell. The .gov kind of gives away the fact that a website is government owned and, thus, hacking it could yield classified documents. Government websites were hacked. There is zero evidence that her private server ever was hacked. As secretary of state, she, naturally enough, received emails with classified documents on her private server. However, she never sent emails with classified documents attached using that server. Republican FBI Director James Comey found (1) Secretary Clinton and her aides were CAREFUL to paraphrase any classified information from classified documents in their emails which shows LACK OF INTENT to expose classified documents to risk (2) Secretary Clinton's aides used a word search because they INTENDED to ONLY DELETE PERSONAL EMAILS, not work emails. You can't go through 30,000 emails one by one. Thus, they attempted to find a method to differentiate personal emails from work emails more efficiently. Three years in a row, when Donald Trump was president, he tried to push his DOJ to prosecute Secretary Clinton and each time they told him that there is no intent there, and, hence, there is no crime to prosecute. If Trump's DOJ determined that, then you can be certain that Secretary Clinton had no intent, and, thus, did not commit a crime. Hence, there is no intent in the case of Secretary Clinton.

There is a Presidential Records Act. There is NO SENATOR RECORDS ACT. Thus, Senator Biden went through proper protocols when donating the 1850 boxes of documents and none were classified.

President Biden, contemplating Trump's illegal retention of classified national defense documents, took the initiative and searched for any classified documents he might have. If he wanted to illegally retain them, then he would not have performed such a search. Immediately, through his attorneys, President Biden contacted NARA and informed them that he had classified documents which belonged to them. If he wanted to illegally retain these documents, he would not have done this. He voluntarily consented to searches. He worked out of several locations and buildings. Each time, he or they found the documents, he consented to searches and agreed to return the documents. He NEVER LIED ABOUT HAVING THEM. HE NEVER HID THEM FROM NARA AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATORS. Hence, President Biden NEVER ILLEGALLY RETAINED THEM. AGAIN, IT MUST BE NOTED THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT CHARGED FOR ANY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT HE EVENTUALLY RETURNED.

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