Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

"Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium last week and strongly indicated that the US central bank would likely raise rates more aggressively than investors expected, and he said that American households can expect "some pain" ahead."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/success/investors-how-to-manage-stock-selloff/index.html
Investors are already feeling "the pain." It's evident Powell, Trump's pick,  won't stop until he pushes the economy into a full blown recession probably before the November elections. This is the same guy who completely misjudged the initial inflation readings as "supply line" issues related solely to covid. I didn't hear any apologies for that during his eight minute speech. I think the only coming out of Jackson Hole should have been his resignation...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/powell-warns-of-some-pain-ahead-as-fed-fights-to-lower-inflation.html

"While Trump has in the past promoted QAnon-inspired accounts and theories, the posts on his Truth Social account were his most explicit, unobscured, QAnon-promoting and QAnon-baiting posts to date."
"The top response on the most visited QAnon forum to one of Trump’s posts about the conspiracy theory read simply, “Wipe them out sir.” Others pleaded with Trump to “nuke them from orbit” and to “sir, please finish them off,” referring to QAnon enemies such as Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden."
"In addition to the QAnon-adjacent posts, Trump shared several conspiracy theories Tuesday on his Truth Social site and he re-posted a picture of Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the words “Your enemy is not in Russia” written in black bars over their eyes."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-shares-barrage-qanon-content-conspiracy-theories-social-media-pl-rcna45465

Originally Posted by James Brown

p.s. Hillary's emails are relevant.  If the government successfully prosecutes Trump, it better be for something more vile than merely having classified information at home.  That sort of prosecution will backfire in my opinion because, as Rich likes to point out, other high level officials, like Hillary, got away with the same crime. 

Forget any nuanced differences.  Remember that at least 40% would vote for Satan over Trump and 40% would vote for Trump over Abraham Lincoln.  Nuanced differences will be lost on the 20% who might consider voting R in '24, especially if inflation and recession are still fresh on the voter's minds.

"p.s. Hillary's emails are relevant.  If the government successfully prosecutes Trump, it better be for something more vile than merely having classified information at home.  That sort of prosecution will backfire in my opinion because, as Rich likes to point out, other high level officials, like Hillary, got away with the same crime."

Jim, you really need to better understand the differences and the false equivalency between the Trump investigation and Hillary's emails:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbis-trump-investigation-hillary-clinton-email-probe-heres/story?id=89069046
and:
"A key difference between the two":
"Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different."
“Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence,” Moss said."
"The presence of classified information in Clinton’s emails was less obvious."
“The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts,” Moss said.
"When classified information was clearly involved, Blanton said Clinton’s “briefings were on a different system, a classified Blackberry that was managed by State Department IT people.”"As for the personal emails that Clinton erased, the FBI said its investigation might have found some of them. Overall, the agency said it was reasonably confident that there was no intentional misconduct."
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/comparing-hillary-clintons-emails-and-donald-trumps-boxes-of-files/

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

I agree that he'd win the nomination.

Here's my problem with your first comment - probable cause does not equal guilt. You don't get arrested when a search warrant is executed for a reason. I realize the following statement is devoid of any political common sense, but why should Trump be treated differently than any other person? If ANYONE had secret documents improperly, they would get a call/knock on the door from the FBI. Hillary did, they just chose not to pursue a case. BTW I'm not defending Clinton having her own server and it was a serious offense in my opinion.

My own guess is that Trump is just an idiot and wanted these things for his own amusement, never thinking anyone would care about it. I 100% agree that if he's prosecuted for an infraction that really had no or little consequence, it would be catastrophic and they should drop the entire matter and essentially reprimand him for improperly handling sensitive information - LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO HILLARY. Unfortunately, this idiot is so careless, he might have taken stuff that goes way beyond harmless, but only the Gov knows - Trump is too stupid to know of course.

Er, ah,  not only did he take the classified material and leave it haphazardly laying around, as per the FBI photos of it released today, he also claimed that he returned it via his lawyer's signed claim to that effect. That's not all he did, and the rest is just as serious, but I wanted to clarify your statement.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Cool, I hope you are right and they nail him to the wall.  I also hope you understand that this in not just a routine criminal investigation.  The political optics are of overwhelming importance and the messaging matters.  If the government can not "nail him to the wall" this will backfire.  Jim  

" I also hope you understand that this in not just a routine criminal investigation.  The political optics are of overwhelming importance and the messaging matters."
If anything, the DOJ and the FBI has already bent over backwards trying to get the classified material without resorting to what has now transpired so while it's not important if I understand or not, THEY DO. Additionally, if that idiot Trump appointed judge actually goes ahead and appoints a "special master", as per Trump's request, that'll be the icing on the cake to appease him and his BS delaying tactic. I also don;t agree with your assertion that there's just a "nuanced" difference between what Trump has done and, again, the false equivalence with Hillary's emails...

Ya just gotta see this former FBI agents' discussion on the images of the classified material left in a magazine holder at Mar a Lago:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/08/31/trump-classified-documents-photo-fbi-campbell-newday-vpx.cnn

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

I heard that Ben Shapiro is now trying to talk sense into the GOP by stating the obvious: Trump is hurting the conservative movement and the party needs to get past him.

https://www.thewrap.com/ben-shapiro-trump-republicans-cruising-for-a-bruising-midterm-elections/

“the more Republicans talk about Trump, the worse they do electorally.”

"President Biden would defeat former President Trump if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday."
"Biden holds a 6-point lead over Trump in a hypothetical rematch, with 50 percent of registered voters saying they would probably or definitely vote for Biden and 44 percent saying the same of Trump." 
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3623980-biden-leads-trump-in-hypothetical-rematch-poll/

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Greg's a delusional cult member? 

No, I think you're a mental midget, and I doubt very seriously that you ever held a sec'y clearance.

Not to mention that you have ZERO idea whether or not those photos of the binders had one damned document inside them.

They were staged there for the dumbass leftist cult of morons to salivate over, just as Greg pointed out.  It doesn't take much to get a rise out of a group of morons who are easily duped, just as you were with your Russian Collusion horseshit which turned out to be a complete fabrication of lies and innuendo to appease the meathead squad both in our society and on this forum.  

Jonathan Turley, Georgetown Law professor addressed the photos earlier and as he said, it was all staged for political purposes, and here's the caveat I'll add.

It was done to deceive the abject morons out there who instantly saw it, and clutched their chests and gasped like the brain dead idiots that they are and thought "OMG, he had NUCLEAR SECRETS".

The sad thing for you is that you don't even realize what a complete idiot you are.  

"Jonathan Turley, Georgetown Law professor addressed the photos earlier and as he said, it was all staged for political purposes..."
That's total HS on his part and proves he doesn't know what he's talking about here. The FBI typically takes images like these during the course on an investigation involving seized materials in a search warrant. That's way you see measurement indicators alongside some of the documents as well as exhibit numbers:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/heres-learned-dojs-photo-classified-documents-mar-lago/story?id=89161286
and:
"The FBI's photo of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago was standard procedure, despite Trump's claims it was staged to make him look bad"
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-evidence-photo-standard-practice-trump-mar-a-lago-search-2022-9

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Well, the special master is no more. Appeals court slaps down Judge Cannon’s order appointing the SM. Trump got a delay of three months, but it was only three months, very quick for an appeal like this. Took Congress three years to get his tax returns.

The appeals court really wailed on Trump's judge and two out of three on the appeals court were Trump appointees!(The third was a Dubya pick). Trump's team went out of their way to get their judge in Florida and she bent over backwards with her whacko reasonings to support them but in the end, she's clearly been made a fool of by the appeals court and she certainly deserves it...
PS: Can't wait for the indictment!

Originally Posted by James Brown

I wonder if the DOJ has the case and has the backbone to pull the trigger if they do have the case.  We will see!

Dude, trust me, the special prosecutor does!