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7 reasons to be highly skeptical of the legitimacy of the indictments of Trump
American Thinker ^ | 06/09/2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/09/2023 7:01:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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The timing of the announcement – controlled by the DOJ's decision to inform President Trump – coincides with evidence of serious allegations of a $5 million bribe of then-Vice President Biden by a foreign national reaching Congress. A perfect way to crowd out news coverage.

The decision to inform Trump of charges came on the same day that members of the House Oversight Committee were granted access to a FBI report into an allegation of bribery, while Biden was vice president.

 

On the day members of Congress learn from an FBI document linking then VP Joe Biden to receiving $5 MILLION from Burisma in a pay-for-play scheme, Biden’s DOJ announces another phony indictment of the leading candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, Biden’s likely opponent,…


pic.twitter.com/PyP6f1kL7y — Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) June 9, 2023

 

 

BREAKING: @mtgreenee reacts to the fraudulent indictment against President Trump

"I filed articles of impeachment on Joe Biden's inauguration exactly for this. Joe Biden should be impeached and prosecuted."


pic.twitter.com/X7TvfffRmB — MTG Battleground (@battlegroundMTG) June 9, 2023

 

 

It's not a coincidence that Biden's Justice Department indicts President Trump the same day as this breaks. "Joe Biden allegedly paid $5M by Burisma executive as part of bribery scheme, according to FBI document" https://t.co/3Gl9RP5GKZ — MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) June 9, 2023

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In marked contrast to the special counsel investigation of President Biden, there have been multiple leaks to, among others, ABC News and the UK Independent, and many others.

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As Julie Kelly put it, “The indictment represents the first time in U.S. history a former president will face criminal charges.”


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; doj; indictments; policestate; post58presidentpower; seepost58; singlepartystate; trump; weaponization
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1 posted on 06/09/2023 7:01:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s obviously intended to prevent Donald Trump from being re-elected in 2024!


2 posted on 06/09/2023 7:03:21 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

“President Obama appointed [in 2009] Ferriero to simultaneously head the new National Declassification Center, which had ‘been given four years to go through 400 million pages of federal documents that remain top secret. They date to World War I.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero


4 posted on 06/09/2023 7:07:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind
Reasons 1-7: reasonable evidence of PROBABLE CAUSE that Trump committed a crime for which he is accused ("indicted"). The U.S. Constitution, Amendment IV.

The U.S. Constitution. Remember that?

5 posted on 06/09/2023 7:07:31 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So true. I talked to my luke warm pub friends and thy know nothing about the Burisma bribes, and they don’t particularly want to know about it.


6 posted on 06/09/2023 7:07:59 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: SeekAndFind

Presidential Records (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22)

§ 2201. Definitions

§ 2202. Ownership of Presidential records

§ 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records

§ 2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records

§ 2205. Exceptions to restricted access

§ 2206. Regulations

§ 2207. Vice-Presidential records

§ Note. Rule of Construction

§ 2208. Claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure

§ 2209. Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
....

§ 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records

(a) Through the implementation of records management controls and other necessary actions, the President shall take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of the President’s constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented and that such records are preserved and maintained as Presidential records pursuant to the requirements of this section and other provisions of law
....

§ 2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records

(a) Prior to the conclusion of a President’s term of office or last consecutive term of office, as the case may be, the President shall specify durations, not to exceed 12 years, for which access shall be restricted with respect to information, in a Presidential record, within one or more of the following categories:

(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and

(B) in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order....

https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html#2203


7 posted on 06/09/2023 7:10:45 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: No name given

yes of course. common sense.
The thing to do now is to watch what the election folks do in the blue states. I feel it’s likely they now have a reason to remove his name from the ballots. This is gut, not based on anything else.


8 posted on 06/09/2023 7:11:13 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: SeekAndFind

Reasons 1-7: reasonable evidence of PROBABLE CAUSE that Trump committed a crime for which he is accused (”indicted”). The U.S. Constitution, Amendment IV.

And without PROBABLE CAUSE, the indictments must be thrown out and very possibly prosecutorial misconduct considered.


9 posted on 06/09/2023 7:11:49 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do they want another civil war? Because this is how you get civil war.


10 posted on 06/09/2023 7:14:26 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind

18 U.S. Code § 793 -
Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(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,
>willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it,
>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; or

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

Note that that is not based on the marking of a document.


11 posted on 06/09/2023 7:15:02 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

Criminal enterprises, e.g. DemonRat Party and Government Tit-lice of every stripe, must destroy any Honest Interloper.


12 posted on 06/09/2023 7:18:17 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Ron, start your own movement - don't try to kidnap Trump's!)
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To: BigFreakinToad

If Americans permit this—they deserve the corrupt Government they will get. The chains of slavery are heavy and will sap the wealth and vitality of the land. Soon there will be only three classes 1) The wealthy in guarded palaces—a new aristocracy of class. 2) The protectors—police, soldiers and they that brutally enforce order and live a comfortable life. and 3) The Commoners who sweat and starve in enforced ignorance. Is this the America we want? And we did it to ourselves!


13 posted on 06/09/2023 7:18:29 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This was posted on freerepublic yesterday:

“According to initial media reports, the DOJ has filed an indictment consisting of seven counts.”

“Model Prosecution” memo analyzes those six federal crimes in depth [1]:

Retention of National Defense Information (18 U.S.C. § 793(e))
Concealing Government Records (18 U.S.C. § 2071)
Conversion of Government Property (18 U.S.C. § 641)
Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1519)
Criminal Contempt (18 U.S.C. § 402)
False Statements to Federal Investigators (18 U.S.C. § 1001)
Other violations maybe:
7.Dissemination (18 U.S.C. §§ 798 and 793(e))
8.Unlawfully removed classified documents from the White House (18 U.S.C. § 1924)

[1] Model Prosecution Memo for Trump Classified Documents (justsecurity.org)

I can’t find the link, but the justsecurity.org site would interest many here.


14 posted on 06/09/2023 7:19:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they’ve been out to get him from day 1.

Even before he ran, the democrats were saying that if he got elected, they’d just impeach him to get him out of office. They didn’t even have anything on him. They were just using it as a tool for insurrection to set up the government they wanted, the people be damned.


15 posted on 06/09/2023 7:20:35 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only 7??


16 posted on 06/09/2023 7:20:53 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: SeekAndFind

ARTICLE II

SECTION 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.


17 posted on 06/09/2023 7:22:06 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

I can see only one outcome from this if it isn’t immediately stopped.


18 posted on 06/09/2023 7:22:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

Government corruption enough to make the chinese and Russians and the Ukrainians and the North Koreans blush.


19 posted on 06/09/2023 7:23:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“The wealthy in guarded palaces”

Mortar shells fly past guards easily.


20 posted on 06/09/2023 7:31:11 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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