Botany
Botany's JournalRep. Comer, How come the FBI will not turn over a document? (that most likely doesn't exsit?*)
House Oversight chair prepares to hold FBI director in contempt over document in Biden probe
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House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said Tuesday that the committee is moving forward with a vote to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to hand over a document in the panel's investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.
Comer subpoenaed the FBI this month for a FD-1023 form that he and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, claim "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions,” without providing further details. The FBI declined to provide the document, saying that it is bound by Justice Department policy, which “strictly limits when and how confidential human source information can be provided outside of the FBI.”
Comer last week threatened to hold Wray in contempt if the FBI didn't provide the information by Tuesday. In a statement Tuesday, the House Oversight chair said the FBI informed the committee that “it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed” by the panel.
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The acting assistant director of the FBI, Christopher Dunham, on Tuesday sent a letter to Comer, prior to his contempt threat. In the letter, obtained by NBC News, Dunham explains why the bureau can’t comply with the committee’s subpoena due to the need to protect human sources.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-prepares-hold-fbi-director-contempt-document-biden-pro-rcna86992
On this day I remember a childhood friend's older brother. He didn't even make 19.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153373509/james-earl-rudd#view-photo=237210356https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153373509/james-earl-rudd
Please DO NOT post this image on social media platforms
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1662786556309000199I trust Joe & a rant.
Governing in practice is about getting done what you can get done using the hand you were
dealt. End of story and Joe B knows and works with these parameters 24/7 and he is the
best President of my lifetime.*
With that being said boy does that manufactured "debt ceiling crisis" piss me off along with the
media's "let us look at both sides" coverage.
Trump and the republicans ran up our debt with their 3 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich and Trump's
know nothing understanding of government and economics along with his out and out grifting from
the American people's pockets. The mother fucker cost us how much for his golfing and his grifts went
so far as to having US military flights go out of their way so they could land in Scotland, buy fuel from
some company connected to Trump, and have their crew stay @ Trump's money loosing golf place in
N.E. Scotland but Kevin McCarthy still has the balls to talk about having to contain government spending?
Republicans don't give shit one about the debt unless there is a democrat in the White House by 1935 or
1936 FDR's "New Deal" programs had America almost out of the Great Depression but then the GOP started
screaming about the debt and some of the targeted spending by FDR were cut back and then the Great
Depression came right back.
We need to vote these un-American mother fuckers out of office, we need to bring back Howard Dean's 50
state strategy, and we need to push the reality that the Democratic Party is good for the American People.
* And he saved this too. Cooper River/Bristol Bay Alaska.
Who doesn't think that some of the stolen documents @ Merde a Logo wound up in Ivana's grave @ ....
... Trump's N.J./Bedminster golf club? I have seen "internet stories" that boxes of documents were moved
prior to the FBI's search of Merde a Logo and after Ivana's passing that boxes were transported from Trump's
Florida golf properties to his N.J. property @ Bedminster.
That is a lot of people to carry Ivana's ashes which I doubt weigh more than 5 to 10 pounds.
Newsweek: Mark Meadows Flipping on Donald Trump Is 'Game Over'--Legal Expert
(This is all speculation @ this point but Jack Smith flat out "has the goods" on Meadows.
Meadows has to be asking himself now if he wants to die in prison for Trump. Look @ the
time Elmer Rhodes just got and the time Trump Lawyer John Eastmen will most likely get.
See story @ the bottom of my post. Meadows was burning his papers right after a meeting
with a 2020 election outcome doubter Scott Perry and the FBI took Perry's phone.)
Donald Trump would be in serious legal trouble if speculation that his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is co-operating with Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation turned out to be correct, a legal expert has said.
Former Defense Department special counsel Ryan Goodman was reacting to a CNN report on how Meadows is continuing to work his influence in Washington D.C., including by advising GOP lawmakers on the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiation.
The report adds that Meadows is no longer in communication with the former president, even though he is considered a key figure in Smith's criminal probe into Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
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Meadows was with Trump on January 6 as the insurrection was unfolding and he was said to be a key figure in the post-2020 election events.
Meadows was also said to have been in direct communication with organizers of "stop the steal" protest, which took place in D.C. on January 6 in 2021, prior to the riot.
https://www.newsweek.com/mark-meadows-trump-special-counsel-jan6-1802571
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Meadows burned papers after meeting with Scott Perry, Jan. 6 panel told
The unusual move came after a meeting between then-President Donald Trump’s then-chief of staff and the Pennsylvania Republican, according to recent testimony.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers in his office after meeting with a House Republican who was working to challenge the 2020 election, according to testimony the Jan. 6 select committee has heard from one of his former aides.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked under Meadows when he was former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, told the panel investigating the Capitol attack that she saw Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). A person familiar with the testimony described it on condition of anonymity.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/26/meadows-burned-papers-meeting-scott-perry-00035411
Mark Meadows Flipping on Donald Trump Is 'Game Over'--Legal Expert
Source: Newsweek
Donald Trump would be in serious legal trouble if speculation that his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is co-operating with Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation turned out to be correct, a legal expert has said.
Former Defense Department special counsel Ryan Goodman was reacting to a CNN report on how Meadows is continuing to work his influence in Washington D.C., including by advising GOP lawmakers on the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiation.
The report adds that Meadows is no longer in communication with the former president, even though he is considered a key figure in Smith's criminal probe into Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
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Meadows has long been thought of as a potential key witness in the federal probe looking into Trump's actions in and around January 6 and the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020 Election.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/mark-meadows-trump-special-counsel-jan6-1802571
Oh please may this be true. I don't think Meadows wants to spend the next decade in prison.
Judge to Trump for the 500th time the answer is no so fuck off and get ready for your trial
Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Friday denied a request from Trump’s lawyers seeking 21 days to file a reply brief.
McBurney in a statement obtained by NBC News wrote that, "To date the Court has received well over five hundred pages of briefing, argument and exhibits on the issues raised by former President Trump."
"That is plenty," McBurney added, noting that if he needed additional information, he’d ask.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143078766
Trump Attorney Warned Him Against Defying Secret Documents Subpoena
Former President Donald Trump was warned last year that holding onto classified documents after he was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for their return to the National Archives could amount to obstruction of justice, according to records shared exclusively with The Guardian over the weekend.
"The previously unreported warning conveyed to Trump by his lawyer Evan Corcoran could be significant in the criminal investigation surrounding Trump's handling of classified materials given it shows he knew about his subpoena obligations," the outlet reports.
Noting special counsel Jack Smith's probe into why "Trump World" failed to return the requested materials, "prosecutors have fixated on Trump's valet Walt Nauta, after he told the Justice Department that Trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. The activity was captured on subpoenaed surveillance footage, though there were gaps in the tapes," The Guardian reveals.
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"The notes revealed how Trump and Nauta had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where Corcoran intended to search and not search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as when Corcoran was actually doing his search," Lowell continues, adding that "the notes ended up before the grand jury in Washington hearing evidence in the case after a US appeals court allowed attorney-client privilege to be pierced because judges believed Trump might have used Corcoran's legal advice in furtherance of a crime."
https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-subpoena
Yesterday was one of if not the worst day of Trump's life and it will just get worse.
* Neal Katyal: Trump DOJ spied electronically on Congressional enemies
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017830399
What laws didn't he break?
Cattle Rustling or maybe illegal gill net fishing for salmon?
And was he trying to cover up his work for and with Russia/Putin?
Did Bill Barr know about this? And who did this work for him? Where are the warrants for the alleged wire tapping?
If Garland and the DoJ have proof of this illegal spying by TFG on people like Adam Schiff Trump, needs
to brought in for questioning ASAP.
* E. Jean Carroll moves to amend defamation lawsuit to include Trump's statements to CNN
E. Jean Carrol is going to sue Trump for another $10 million for the shit he said on his CNN Townhall
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217935690
* Did Trump start selling out America and America's secrets from the moment he got into the White House?
"Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143077645
"The subpoena — drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith — sought details on the Trump Organization’s real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter. The subpoena sought the records for deals reached since 2017, when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president."
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I will take mid July in the pool as to when TFG flees America.
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