IANAL but I’ve served on several juries. From that experience, I’d say that no judge is going to allow the defense to mention any other criminal case. The jury is instructed to only pay attention to what they hear and what they’re shown in the courtroom. Nothing else.
The defense may try for a malicious prosecution argument that mentions Trump, but details of the MAL case won’t be mentioned. If the prosecution’s case is solid, then Bolton is likely to be convicted.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul! The air traffic controllers should be asking “where’s our money?”
They are more essential then most of the troops, after all the only war the adminstratioin is waging is against its oun citizens.
Of the Ten Rules for Managing Government Debt, we currently score zero for ten.
Unfortunately, I guess Trump and his group don’t see any government employees as essential except themselves (Who ya gonna bribe, without them?) and those who stand armed and ready to shoot us all in the face. I mean, who cares if a commercial jet crashes? I’m on Air Force One!
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.
So the Trump DOJ is actually building a case against Bolton. Frankly I am not surprised that he is said to have shared classified information with his family members. Petraeus knows it has happened before.
Exactly. I have encountered a few people like that (very few, thank goodness) in my career. When I figure out who they are, they may still remain on the “likeable” list – but also, never to be trusted. Never to do business with. Or, if warranted, not liked at all.
There’s got to be a whole lot of “No, he isn’t! Nobody fools ME!” combined with maybe the sunk cost fallacy in the maganuts, Trump’s minions. But it can’t go on forever, and Trump is making it hard for them to keep their eyes wide shut.
Also, ironically, he’s “trying to get into Heaven.” What a maroon.
General Petraeus has been on my mind, too. It wasn’t family he shared classified info with but a reporter with whom he was having an affair while commanding U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. All this came to light while he was director of the CIA, from which position he then resigned. From the Wikipedia article on Petraeus:
In January 2015, officials reported that the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors had recommended bringing felony charges against Petraeus for providing classified information to Broadwell while serving as director of the CIA.[21] Eventually, Petraeus pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.[22] He was later sentenced to two years of probation and fined US$100,000 for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material he gave to [the reporter who was his lover].[23]
As I recall, many people at the time were upset with the slap on the wrist Petraeus was given. But what brings him to mind now is that his case did not go to trial, and a plea deal was worked out that saved not only Petraeus but also the American public and U.S. gov’t from the publicity of a trial and possible prison time for a 4-star general.
Will Bolton be given the opportunity for a plea deal, one without prison time, by the federal prosecutors in Maryland? If they make such a deal (and a judge approves it), will Trump fire them or force them to resign? A potential arena for drama I haven’t read or heard anyone discuss yet.
Yeah. I thought a hideously deformed froglike creature was the official emblem of the Groypers.
Pepe the Frog. That’s not what this is about, and I don’t think there is a strategy behind it. One of the first videos with protesters in costumes showed someone in a frog costume dancing in front of ICE goons, and maybe getting pepper sprayed?
Anyway, that clip went viral and so more people wanted frog costumes. If it tweaks the rightwing Pepe enthusiasts, then that’s just a nice bonus.
By no means is this the biggest deal, but in case there’s any confusion, I FIFY. 
…began publicly hand-wringing….