Yes. See also the tar pit known as IVF that the GOP has wandered into.
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Why don’t they apply that hard work to something legitimate, like real estate brokering.
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I hope these are cat toys. Where’s the cat (in hat or not)?
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One of the main problems with the MAL case is that the way in which documents are deemed “classified” is such an inexact and undefined process that nearly everyone who has ever been authorized to handle such documents has mishandled them in one way or another. The people in charge of classifying documents tend to err so much on the side of caution that they have often classified such ridiculous things as newspaper articles, lunch schedules and other such items that are clearly easily available to the public.
Having a classification system that is so far removed from reality simply means that any prosecution for mishandling such documents involves separating actual deliberate mishandling from everyone else. Trump really is being accused of a crime that virtually everyone authorized to handle classified documents has committed, it’s just that his crimes were worse by degree.
Not knowing what a hot mess the classification system is, though, makes distinguishing what Trump did from what Hillary, Biden or Pence did much harder for the general public.
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One of my all-time favorite films! 
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Speaking of long cons…
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Thing Infinity, when asked his cardinality, said “many, too many”.
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A good question. In the book, the Things leave with the Cat in the Hat once they get the house cleaned up.
@debg, asking the Hard Questions this morning.
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As Rod Serling said, “Submitted for your approval…”
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Bill Clinton gave up his license to practice for similar perjury.
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All they have to do is report the facts:
The facts on Trump are, that he will win the nomination. That he has been adjudicated a rapist, and a defrauder. That he now owes close to $550million to several plaintiffs. That he is quite obviously in the middle stages of dementia. That his first (and the first ever in history of an ex-president) criminal trial begins on March 25th. And that he has three more criminal trials coming. Oh, and he also has several more civil trials on the way, as well.
The facts on Joe Biden are that he is old(er than Trump). The impeachment attempt against him is now a dumpster-fire. And that he continues to kick R-ass.
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I’m sure you’re aware that it’s based on Maurer’s book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. It’s well worth a read–Fred and Charlie Gondorff were real con-men (and the screenplay combined them into Paul Newman’s character, “Henry Gondorff”). The book delves into the psychology of con-men and their victims. One thing from the psychology of victims that’s relevant today is this: victims are very, very, reluctant to recognize that they were caught up in a con-man’s scheme. This is true to the point that many people fall for the same scam repeatedly. Sounds like the base of a particular US political party, doesn’t it?
And yeah, it’s a great, great film.
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That is not true at the level of the documents alleged to have been stolen by this SOB. It does happen that some things that probably shouldn’t be classified get pulled into “Sensitive but Unclassified” which somewhat restricts them, and a few get stamped Confidential or Secret. But at the Top Secret (TS) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), that almost never happens and gets corrected pretty quickly if it does.
Security Classification Guides (SCG) are clearly written and checked by lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing. Deliberate over-classification can have consequences for careers.
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The “both sides” brigade loves to point to supposed “extreme left” Dems as a counterpoint to the extreme right GOP.
Yet progressive policy positions of Bernie Sanders and The Squad consistently find majority support in polls. Are most Americans on the “extreme left” or does the corporate media get this wrong all the time?
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I believe you misspelled several orders of magnitude as degree.
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Texas courts ruled that District Attorneys have jurisdiction over those cases and indicted Trump pal Paxton could not intervene with political prosecutions because that’s not the job of his office. So Trump wants judges who will ignore their Constitution for him, not follow it.
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Perhaps Smith should start filing motions to Judge Cannon, not in more streamlined language, but in crayon and including illustrations. Just throwing that out there.
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Needs to be said on REPEAT!!!
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