Trump clearly has had designs to turn the Department of Justice into his private legal team and to turn the FBI into his strong-arm force. Beyond that, with his personal attacks on McCabe and Mueller, he's behaving more like a New York mob boss who knows that he's guilty as sin, so his only recourse is to get the people trying to prosecute him.
If Trump were as innocent as he proclaims to be, about all you'd hear from him would be, well, nothing. Maybe a few initial comments about "full cooperation" and such, for that's what the innocent do.
Doctors used to do initial examinations by touching suspected areas: "Does it hurt when I press here?" If the patient winced, then that was something that needed to be looked into.
Mueller's been probing Trump and Trump has been squealing like a stuck pig. That should indicate, to a casual observer, that Trump is hiding something. Something that might cost him the presidency. Something that, more likely, will end with indictments of his family members and associates.
Meanwhile, this:
Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a stern warning Sunday to President Donald Trump against firing special counsel Robert Mueller.I'll bet that Trump believes none of it. When has Lindsey Graham actually done anything? He is the Cowardly Lion of the Senate: All roar and no tooth.
"As I said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," the South Carolina Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."
And then there is this: Jared Kushner's company filed false documents so they could push out long-standing tenants. What they did was lie about what tenants were in their buildings, so that they could make life miserable for them and encourage them to leave. It's a well-known tactic of scumbag landlords like Kushner and, yes, his father-in-law.
Kushner's probably going to end up like his father: A multi-year "guest" of the Bureau of Prisons.
I haven't exactly made a list, but there seem to be quite a few instances of Jared screwing up necessary paperwork, with omissions and falsehoods and the like.
ReplyDeleteI understand that we live under 'the Cheetolini' now, but is the Justice Department only there to Investigate and Prosecute Democrats?
Is all that legalese at the bottoms of official forms just spam?
just a wondering
w3ski
My reading is that you may file, and then 'correct' the form within a certain amount of time.
ReplyDeleteSo this might be at least quasi-legal fuckery.
Does this rule carry a penalty for violation?
Well, the old SF-86 is now e-QIP. Punishment for omissions is up to 5 years per. There is an ability to update, however, generally that is in the context of simple omissions realized during the investigation or interview. That being said, the nature and amount of the “updates” is a factor considered in a Security Background Check. A massive failure like Jared’s makes it extremely unlikely that applicant would be approved for anything other than a Confidential or Secret clearance, at least until a LOT more investigation was done. “Forgetting” to report millions in wealth and hundreds of reportable connections is literally unheard of.
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