As soon as Donald Trump “won” the election, that was effectively the end of all of his federal prosecutions. Trump’s unhinged scheme worked – he ran for office to stay out of prison, and now that he’s won, Special Counsel Jack Smith is folding up the multiple federal prosecutions. Smith charged Trump with a wide assortment of felonies in multiple jurisdictions, from Trump’s theft of highly classified documents to Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday filed motions to drop all federal charges against President-elect Donald Trump regarding his mishandling of classified documents and his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol.
Hours later, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted Smith’s motion to dismiss the Jan. 6-related indictment, formally bringing to an end the case that alleged Trump unlawfully conspired to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
Trump was first indicted in June 2023 in a federal court in Miami on 37 felony counts related to mishandling classified documents that he took from the White House to his Florida home. They included willful retention of national defense information, making false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. A Florida judge dismissed the case, but Smith’s office had sought an appeal.
Trump was separately indicted on four felonies in August 2023 for his attempt to reverse the 2020 election results: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
DOJ sources said last week that the classified-docs case is more complicated, because Trump wasn’t the only person facing criminal charges. I suspect that, long-term, not only will the felony charges against Trump get dropped in that case, but Smith will have to end the prosecutions of the other defendants too. I won’t lie – all of this is just an endless d–k-punch loop. I’m so mad at every single person who voted for Trump and every single person who enabled him and wished he would come back.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Marc A. Thiessen and Danielle Pletka in which they argue that President Biden should “pardon” Donald Trump. As in, they think the way to heal the nation is for Joe Biden to capitulate to a white nationalist rapist and pardon Trump for all of his crimes. I hope Biden lets Commander and Major come back to the White House to piss on everything.
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I’m not American, so i am still a bit confused, is he still a felon on 34 counts ? regardless of the federal charges ?
Yes, he’s still a felon. He was convicted in state court, which is why Biden can’t and won’t pardon him for the sake of the nation. Also, the court cases are being dismissed without prejudice, which means the prosecution can re-file the charges if we ever get Trump out of the WH again.
Thank you, I was hoping he would still go down and not sworn in because he is a felon. He doesnt look to be in the most robust health so chances of them picking up when he leaves in 4years is pretty slim IMO
Ah good to know. My first thought was “they’re going to maneuver this in a way to re-charge him again someday” but are pulling everything for now while his goons are in office.
I will be shocked if he survives this term, but who knows.
Yesterday when my dog pooped in a yard with a big MAGA flag hanging from the front porch, I didn’t pick it up. I never do that. This is what that horrible man and his ‘get out of jail’ card has brought out in me. You voted for him, you get to pay for it.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people don’t pick up after their pets, but in this case, it was 100% warranted and I salute you.
I love how those signs point out which lawns the pugs should potty at.
Not picking up after your dog is disgusting. If everyone used the excuse that they don’t like their neighbors flag to have their dog poop in their yard we would all be living in poop filled neighborhoods. Pick up after your dog
If everyone used the excuse that they don’t like their neighbour’s flag to not pick up their dog’s poop then we’d be living in poop filled neighborhoods would be true if the poster simply allowed her dog to leave it due to not liking a flag. But a MAGA flag isn’t just decor. It isn’t even just a different political belief. It’s not even Democrat vs Republican. I see ZERO of what Republicanism is supposed to be with the MAGA cult. It’s not hyperbole to say that MAGA is modern day Nazis. That Trump is a modern day Hitler. The way voters voted in this election is similar to the way they voted in Germany at the end of the 30s. Read the history books. Anyone voting MAGA claiming not to be like a Nazi doesn’t understand what the people who called themselves Nazis in Germany were really like. They were often just “regular” citizens unhappy with the economy, blind to their own internalized racism. Many look back and wish others were brave enough to have challenged them on their slow and measured desensitization to one of the most despicable and atrocious violation of human rights the world has ever seen. MAGA is DANGEROUS. America is in danger. The world is in danger and if a little bit of civil disobedience like not picking up after your dog shits on the lawn if a MAGA supporter (even a nice one. ESPECIALLY the nice ones), serves to wake people the HELL up to what’s coming. To wake people up to the fact this isn’t just a matter of political disagreements, or not liking a flag on a lawn, or even not seeing eye to eye on everything. That this is, in fact, likely the start of even worse human suffering because this isn’t like the first time when he didn’t have inroads already in the Whitehouse and secret service. Then I say poop up the neighborhoods until everyone is forced to wake up and pick up after their President!
When MAGA chose to support the awful orange one they basically took a big dump on our country. They deserve everything they get. YOU are a true patriot and hero for calling them out. Carry on.
Smith didn’t have to ask to drop the cases; as Robert Reich has pointed out, he could have asked to *stay* them. I hate when they show Sarah Kendsior to be right.
These cases will never go to trial. Trump got away with everything and was rewarded with four more years to destroy this country.
“Dismiss without prejudice” means it can be refiled later.
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How can so many people in government act like putting a convicted felon, rapist, insurrectionist beholden to Russian oligarchs back in the White House is normal? And the sane washing from the mainstream media is disturbing. Can we please thoroughly check the election results in every state?? Wtf.
In one of her last interviews before the election, MVP was asked if she would pardon Trump. She looked visibly disgusted and said she wasn’t going to get into hypotheticals. When pressed by the interviewer who said it would help the nation move on, she literally snapped at her (not something she often does), “The nation will move on when I am president.” Now he’ll never be held accountable and we have idiots wanting Biden to pardon him. Biden should pardon his son and let Trump rot. Where is the Justice? ⚖️
No, but he really should pardon Hunter. He has nothing left to lose at this point and the charges against his son were always stupid AF anyway.
If he doesn’t pardon Hunter, he’s an f’n coward.
As an American this makes me sick. Trump got away with answering for the Jan 6 insurrection and the mishandling of classified documents in those court cases. I blame Merrick Garland; as AG he didn’t bring the charges until 2 years after he was sworn in. Now he, Jack Smith and career DOJ lawyers who worked the cases will be targets for retribution by Trump:s AG. I blame the GOP Senate for not voting to convict Trump during his impeachment trials. Convictions for impeachment meant Trump would have been constitutionally barred from running for POTUS. Now Trump thinks he owns the Senate. The GOP senators pushed back on Matt Gaetz for AG, but Trump can end run his garbage Cabinet picks with recess appointments, which don’t require input from the Senate. And the Supreme Court majority who ruled a president has immunity on really bad stuff if they are “official acts”. A court would have to determine if the act is official; but DOJ policy, not law, states a sitting president is not prosecuted. This is so heartbreaking.
It is heartbreaking. I guess I always held out a bit of hope that justice would finally come for Trump but this sure seems like the final nail in the coffin for any accountability whatsoever. Equally bad to me is knowing that his kids, notably the abhorrent punk Don Junior, are probably feeling gleefully vindicated. Disgusting.
All of this concerns me a great deal. But what really concerns me is wondering where JD Vance has been — and what he’s been up to — since the election. While everyone has been focused on what Trump is planning, there’s a very good chance that Vance will be president sooner rather than later.
This just adds to the mythological figure that Trump has become: good ol’ Teflon Don can escape anything.
And a reminder to buy what you need now as Trump Tariffs are about to cripple trade.
Supposedly the way the case was dismissed makes it possible to pick it up again in 2029? But we can’t get a final report because the cases against Nauta and De Oliviera are still open? So, Donald’s gonna pardon all his coconspirators and then himself and then have whatever predator he gets as AG to destroy all the evidence so he gets away with everything, again. Nothing matters. [sob]
I hate everything.
WOW, am I glad that I unsubscribed to the WaPo. There is nothing healing about allowing crime to go unpunished.
I’m devastated about these charges being dropped.
I also unsubscribed to WaPo. They had a long history of endorsing Democratic candidates, but when Bezos refused to allow an endorsement of Kamala, well that’s all I needed to confirm that Bezos was all-in for Trump this time around.
This is what so many wanted. A criminal to run the country and blame it on democrats instead of holding republicans to any standards at all.
You built this white American.
Why not? Apparently a majority want for classified documents to be available to anyone and everyone when DT sells them.
It is unhinged that he had all those boxes stored in a bathroom. How is he not guilty for that alone? Man the US government setup is beyond strange and to think it was set up this way for checks and balances so one person couldn’t have all the power…except now you have handed absolute power to a narcissistic psycho 😳
I just got done reading an article on the Rosenbergs who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius Rosenberg shared classified reports with the Soviet Union. This guy tries to do it in front of everyone and he faces no consequences.
This was always Trump’s legal team plan. To run the clock and bank he would win the Presidency again.
Trump just used the trials as fodder for his re-election using PACs to fund his defense. He probably made money on the trials selling his stupid sneakers.
I am sad and disgusted by my country. But racists gotta racist.
The day our little experiment died.
Trump conned 76 million people into giving him a get out of jail free card. He conned them. He was never in this to help them out. He has never helped another person in his life. If he has, it has only been to help himself.
Honestly, I think one of his own MAGAts is going to go after him. He convinced them that it’s appropriate to act out on their own violent tendencies. His con is only going to get him so far. I don’t see this ending well for him and I really don’t care, do u?
I was heartened, months ago, when I saw an interview with someone who had participated in the Jan. 6 violence. The man seemed to have sincerely believed that he was patriotically following the instructions of his president— and he felt both betrayed and duped.
Once Trump’s promised tariffs kick in, there will be a lot of pent up, incel-fueled MAGA energy with no place to go. I hope it gets channeled in Trump’s direction— where it rightfully belongs. Count down to late winter — and its discontents.
Yep. And if he does free the J6 domestic terrorists, which I hope he doesn’t, that could very likely backfire on him. I doubt all of them are super happy they were incarcerated.
I can’t believe they couldn’t get this through the courts faster.
Also Gaetz’ report.
The Jan 6 case would’ve gone to trial if not for the ethically bankrupt Scotus stopping everything to think about immunity, then play with their food, then think about immunity some more. Then finally coming back with a bonkers immunity ruling that defied precedent and preventing a timely trial.
Trials this big and without precedent in our country at the presidential level are an enormous amount of time to prepare. I remember when Garland appointed a guy early on to coordinate the Trump investigations and the DC FBI bureau chief just said no, we’re not doing that. Trump placed so many loyalists and contrarians just for that purpose.
Anticipatory obedience.
It’s disgusting and depressing.
Smith didn’t do what Trump would’ve wanted. What Smith did was pause the litigation for 4 years. Trump’s DOJ would want to end it forever. That’s an important distinction, it wasn’t obedience.
The Democrats are playing a Gentleman’s Game while the Republicans run rough shod over our laws. I’m deeply saddened.
A young guy in his twenties in the Air National Guard in Massachusetts, took some classified documents from the base and leaked them on line. He is now serving 15 years in prison. The two tiers of justice in this country is absolutely insane.
Why can’t Biden pull something out of his ass while he is the sitting president — he has total control and immunity can’t he make everyones civil rights law and make sure asshat doesn’t change the constitution it ANGERS me how hard everyone worked in the 60s and 70s when I was born to make every American equal—I was very young but I remember all of it, my Mom was a big civil rights advocate as I am, she passed in 1982 and would be heartbroken if she saw what is happening in 2024 — trying to strip us of ERA, trying to take POC and minorities civil rights away and silencing LGBTQ communities and trying to take marriage rights away from people and have taken women’s reproductive rights away in many states now they are trying to limit birth control – not everyone wants children so you can’t punish grown married women saying if you have sex we are going to ruin it so you worry over pregnancy Vile cu*ts make stupid shit like that up get a life!! It’s like America is a bad dream now this BS has to be reversed one day soon I don’t believe the majority of sane women will stand for this horseshit!! Biden needs to get nasty he has nothing to lose now!!! I never thought a complete idiot that is old fat and unattractive that’s a felon ,racist ,a rapist could fuck our wonderful country up so bad and some Americans fall for all his lies!! God Bless us!!!!!
We are in the darkest timeline.
I hate it here.
Signed,
A gay man living in Texas.
I am so sorry, Grant…. ❤️
Grant, 💜
You’ve wandered a path one of my kids has started on. I hope you have some wonderful people around you for support. Wishing you lots of strength and that you’re treated properly and with caring.
I can’t really follow much real news at the moment, and just about everything is such a horror this time around.