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241 by JohnnyRy
Changing gears for a minute here... New evidence and findings have recently been exposed from Don The Con's classified documents federal felony trial. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the judge who oversaw Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation, released an unsealed version of a decision as part of Trump’s effort to get the case dismissed.

"The March 2023 ruling by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell pertains to documents found at Mar-a-Lago in December 2022 after Trump’s attorneys told authorities in June there were no classified files at his residence and after the FBI executed a search warrant in August of that year that turned up over 100 classified documents — some marked “secret” and “top secret.”

The post-search documents were found after Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore arranged for personnel to sweep Trump's properties to make sure there were no other sensitive documents. The Justice Department had subpoenaed Trump in May 2022 for the return of such records.

"To be sure, the government has not provided direct evidence that the former president deliberately retained, or was even aware of, the particular classified-marked documents located by his counsel at Mar-a-Lago in December 2022," Howell wrote in her decision.

But "notably," she added, "no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago."

The bedroom items were "one empty folder and another mostly empty folder marked 'Classified Evening Summary,'" the judge noted. The sweep also turned up four other documents that the judge said were misleadingly referred to as "low-level ministerial documents."

"To be clear, the four documents were responsive to the May 2022 subpoena," Howell wrote.

The remark came in a ruling where she granted the prosecution's request to be able to question two of Trump's lawyers by using the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege, finding some of their discussions with Trump were deemed to be in furtherance of a crime."

(https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-BB1mO2NU)
“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

242 by JohnnyRy
Don The Con brought fellow felons to his ongoing criminal felony trial in Manhattan on Monday:

"Donald Trump’s hush-money trial has drawn quite a few of his high-profile supporters, including members of Congress and those hoping to be his vice presidential running mate. Among them also happens to be a onetime leader of the Hells Angels gang.

Chuck Zito, who helped to found the New York Nomads chapter of the outlaw motorcycle gang, was among Trump’s entourage on Monday at the Manhattan courthouse where his trial is being held.

Zito has a criminal record, serving prison time from 1985 to 1998 for drug conspiracy charges. His chapter of the Hells Angels has also been linked to the Gambino Mafia crime family. And the Justice Department considers Hells Angels to be an organized crime syndicate.

Why would Trump want him at his trial in New York? Zito doesn’t have a political career. These days, he’s more famous for his occasional acting. However, The New York Times points out that Trump has an old association with bikers going back to his 2016 campaign, when he addressed a Washington, D.C., biker rally. There’s even a Bikers for Trump group, which took part in several Trump rallies alleging that the 2020 election was stolen.

Zito isn’t the only Trump supporter with a criminal record who appeared at the courtroom on Monday: Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who went to prison on tax charges and was later pardoned by Trump, also showed up for moral support.

And while Zito’s mob ties might appear bad on the surface, Trump has ties to organized crime himself going back decades. Legal experts have expressed concern for the safety of jurors in Trump’s trials. And the former president has even been accused of using “an obvious Mafia tactic” to get around his gag order in the case by having his supporters speak for him. Zito’s attendance in many ways is a boost to Trump’s ego: He has an infamous tough guy show up in his corner at a trial that could send him to prison.

The Republican presidential nominee is facing 34 felony charges for allegedly falsifying business records with the intent to further an underlying crime by using his former fixer, Michael Cohen, to pay off adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an affair before the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges."

(https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-newest ... 11542.html)
“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

243 by JohnnyRy
Here's Don The Con with his illegitimate brother:
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“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

244 by JohnnyRy
So much for ReTrumplicans supporting free speech of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. First, they banned books like Hitler. Now, they're doctoring the official record of the U.S. House of Representatives and trying to muzzle a House member who speaks the plain truth:

“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

246 by JohnnyRy
boytoy wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 4:46 pm Would you like trump more if he had a beard?
Holyfuckinshit!😱 You brought my late cousin, Whitfield, back from the dead. Thanks. I'm traumatized for life.
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“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

247 by JohnnyRy
Here's footage of a 1/6 Insurgent firing a handgun at the U.S. Capitol, which I have not seen before:

“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Re: Best of Don The Con

250 by JohnnyRy
Recent polling indicates that a majority of Americans believe that Don The Con is, at least, probably guilty of having committed a crime:

“[A]s we know, there are known knowns—there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns—that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

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