Mihairokov
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Everything conservatives do is projection. It's why there's Grindr outages near large GOP events.
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thettctransitfanatic
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Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton indicted
John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland.
He now faces 18 charges: eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.
Prosecutors wrote in the indictment that during the time he was national security adviser to Trump, Bolton shared “more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities” with two unauthorized individuals. Both of those people were related to Bolton and didn’t have the authority to access classified information, prosecutors said.
Print-outs of “diary” entries were also found in Bolton’s home, according to the indictment.
Bolton is expected to surrender himself, as soon as Friday, to authorities at federal court in Greenbelt. His case was assigned to Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2014.
“The FBI’s investigation revealed that John Bolton allegedly transmitted top secret information using personal online accounts and retained said documents in his house in direct violation of federal law,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “The case was based on meticulous work from dedicated career professionals at the FBI who followed the facts without fear or favor. Weaponization of justice will not be tolerated, and this FBI will stop at nothing to bring to justice anyone who threatens our national security.”
Bolton, who has been under investigation for alleged unlawful handling of classified information, becomes the third high-profile Trump political enemy to be indicted in less than a month.
He allegedly shared highly classified information with his wife and daughter over email, sources told CNN.
Sources previously told CNN that part of the Justice Department’s investigation centers around notes he was making to himself in an AOL email account — at times writing summaries of his activities like diary entries — when he was working for Trump.
FBI agents executed a search warrant on Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, DC, office this summer. The agents seized multiple documents labeled “secret,” “confidential,” and “classified,” including some about weapons of mass destruction, according to court records.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
I am not sure that matters now...
The 2026 Election Is Being Decided at the Supreme Court
A case heard Wednesday will go a long way to determining whether Republicans can gerrymander their way to a near-permanent House majority.
prospect.org
afransen
Senior Member
Putin playbook. Of course, when (if) the Democrats ever regain power, they will turn a blind eye to the cretins associated with this admin.
camdudetenger2018
New Member
vinny mac aka vince mcmahon jr
zang
Senior Member
Nepo babies defend nepo babies.
zang
Senior Member
We're hitting a grey area here. If one was his wife, and the other his daughter, it's certainly not the strongest case for the Trump admin. But then, when have they ever launched a lawsuit that's not flawed?
Mihairokov
Active Member
Well no, of course not. Free and fair elections are a thing of the past in the US.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Trump was elected in a election as free and fair as any other in the US. While voter registration, ID rules and voting can be tough for poorer folks, that's always been the case in the US. That nearly 40% of Americans didn't bother to vote is on them.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Of course, the fundamental question is whether it is legitimate for a democracy to chose to become an autocracy.
AoD
Mihairokov
Active Member
Interesting that you thought I was speaking about 2024 and not 2026/28.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I suppose the ability to voluntarily choose a direction that is fundamentally against your own interests is the ultimate exercise of legitimate democracy. Hungary with Orbán in 2010, Turkey with Erdoğan in 2003, Russia with Putin in 2000, Germany with Hitler in 1933 and Italy with Mussolini in 1922. All examples of the people voting in autocrats through (mostly) legitimate elections. Trump is but the latest example.
old boy
Senior Member
Is autocracy ever on a ballot ? In the US the electorate chooses between two dominant parties and calls itself a democracy.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Now, we can argue about the finer points of what's being a democracy, but fundamentally a two party system (with or without a smattering of small parties) is still a democracy. The issue here isn't the notion of choice; but that choices that are fundamentally democratic vs. a choice that repudiate the very system (separation of powers being a key one) that allowed for it.
AoD
Admiral Beez
Superstar
No country today is a pure democracy, where direct rule is by the people, where citizens vote on every issue. That would be impossible to operate. Switzerland is close, where its citizens regularly vote in national referendums (4 times a year on multiple issues), citizens can propose constitutional changes with enough signatures, and where referendums can overturn laws passed by Parliament. Iceland, while a parliamentary republic is almost close to being a democracy because its small population sees high civil engagement. This reminds me a little of the Nunavut territorial government, where we see an unique, consensus-based system rather than the typical party-based model.