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Jack Smith was not fucking around

OMG! They did it! The grand jury indicted Trump on 7 counts including espionage and obstruction of justice and, as Jeff Tiedrich so succinctly puts it, “the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex, as if on cue, melted straight the fuck down”. All the hardcore Trump supporters...Hawley, Boebert, McCarthy, Cruz, Stefanick, etc...are all accusing Biden of weaponizing the justice department against his “enemy” Trump because the walls are closing in on Biden's own criminality. It's a travesty of justice they scream while beating their chests. Except there isn't any Biden criminality no matter how much they scream about it and try to make it real, all they have are meritless accusations and projections.

Biden, who has prudently stayed out of the whole thing, refusing any comment from the White House on any of the investigations and indictments, and the DOJ did not indict Trump. A grand jury of ordinary Americans who heard all the testimony, saw all the evidence, decided that Trump did indeed break the law and issued the indictment. But his cult, and those who are depending on Trump getting elected again to save their own hides and implement their white nationalist agenda like those mentioned above, are having none of it accusing this administration of doing exactly what Trump has said he will do once he is back in office and what the House republicans are currently doing with their bogus investigations into Biden and his family and the FBI and the DOJ for actually doing their jobs, jobs which Trump prevented them from doing when he was in office. To that end, Trump is currently trying to find out the names of the FBI agents who conducted the search at Mar A Lago so that he can target them for retaliation if he gets reelected.

Hours after the indictment, two of Trump's lawyers resigned so he is now, once again, looking for lawyers in Florida who are willing to throw their careers away to ridicule and probably without being paid.

Predictions are, of course, that this indictment will just boost his ratings like the NY indictment and the E. Jean Carroll trial initially did, and Trump and Stefanick immediately started to fundraise on it, but hold onto your hats folks because Jack Smith is not through with Trump. He's still investigating J6 and Fani Willis is still working on an indictment for his attempt to change the votes in Georgia in the 2020 election. Meanwhile most of the republicans in office haven't had much to say, neither condemning nor supporting the indictment, their silence mostly an attempt to keep their distance while not alienating Trump voters.

The wheels of justice turn slow but maybe they are finally beginning to grind.

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Whoa! Smith just unsealed the indictment, encouraging everyone to read it for themselves, and it's not 7 counts but 37, these being:

31 — Willful Retention of National Defense Information

1 — Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice

1 — Withholding a Document or Record

1 — Corruptly Concealing a Document or Record

1 — Concealing a Document in a Federal Investigation

1 — Scheme to Conceal

2 — False Statements and Representations

They also indicted Walt Nauta, Trump's personal assistant, seen on video moving the boxes of documents, as his co-conspirator.

Well, as they say, innocent until proven guilty, but the 49 page indictment is pretty damning detailing what the documents contained, their importance to our national security and that of our allies, and the lengths to which he went to conceal them from the authorities while showing them off to whoever he wanted to impress.

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More good news, the House Ethics Committee has reopened the investigation into Matt Gaetz concerning the allegations that he had sexual relations with a minor and paid her to travel with him, also investigating possible illicit drug use as well as violations of House rules.