So, the FBI served a search warrant on the Mar-A-Lago home of Donald Trump. The premise for the warrant seems to be some documents that the National Archives claim may be classified. Many on the right are outraged, using this as just another example of the political polarization in the country, and another example of the FBI harassing political opponents of the current administration.
Some on the left think that if Donald Trump is convicted of a felony, it will disqualify him from running for another term. I have read the Constitution and see no such impediment. I'm not a lawyer, and I may well have missed something.
I am concerned about the political weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ. The Biden administration seems to have little reticence in jailing their political enemies. These folks are setting up a political climate that they might not want to live in, in the coming years. The pendulum always swings back.
Once again, the FBI seems to be doing the political bidding of the administration. This does not bode well for the agency. So, the question becomes; what is the end game? This cannot have been simply over some classified documents in a box. There must be something else at play, or we have descended into banana-republic territory.
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The Democrats have said, over and over, that they want to disqualify him from running in 2024.
They seem to believe that a conviction will do that, but US law specifically does not do that - too many other countries have used false charges to keep people out of office.
There have been congressman before who had felony convictions. The best example I remember is James Traficant, a flamboyant Rep from Youngstown Ohio who got re elected after spending time in Federal prison, IIRC for bribery.
Section 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it illegal if someone with custody of confidential government records “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys” them.
The code states the person shall “be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States”.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2071
All of the bureaucracies were still held by the left even when the Republicans were in power. The real change will come when enough people realize that voting has no effect.
Interesting, it seems at this point they're throwing everything they can against the wall to see what sticks.
"There have been congressman before who had felony convictions. The best example I remember is James Traficant, a flamboyant Rep from Youngstown Ohio who got re elected after spending time in Federal prison, IIRC for bribery."
Rep= representative, not Republican. Democrat representative.
With a horrible toupee.
A real piece of crooked work.
The Fibbies have always been a 'political' organization, going back to their founding under Hoover. Sigh
at this point we are past banana republic...it's like a sour diaper left in the backseat of a car in the texas summer for a month...end game...make anyone who is white, Christian, patriot, etc suffer...that's the game...they are pissed we didn't fall for their covid joke...
I doubt that they are concerned about the usual " classifird" material. I'd guess tha they know (or suspect) that President Trump has a stash of documents, recordings and photos that will b ring the infleunce game of the "worthies" down in flames. The Biden Regime will never prosecute, but civil suits, divorce and paternity cases can bring the "worthies" to despair. Instead of grift, influence, and the pick of the new Epstein's stables, all they will have is debts to lawyers and ex-wives and no invitations for hi-power meetings. The "results" of elections, at best, determine who gets the grift. Unless President Trump, shares the contents of his stash, the party will go on, as always.
They know that Trump is rogue and the game is already under way. Trump probably hopes that the Fed flunkies will take the trash on their way out. The "real" game will not be in the Democratic Media "reports".
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