It is a scandal of the magnitude that would ordinarily define a presidency.
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Trump says he will not seek authorization for cartel strikes.
President Trump said on Thursday that he would bypass Congress rather than seek its approval to carry out military strikes against drug cartels that traffic narcotics to the United States, even as he vowed to expand the operation from attacks at sea to targets on land.“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” Mr. Trump told reporters of his campaign of deadly strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea near Colombia and Venezuela. “I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be like, dead.”
Clearly he'd rather go on killing people without the legal right to do so while not providing anyone with evidence the killings are justified.
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Its pretty dry.
This story has mystique
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There isn't any way to prove it.... No amount of evidence would be acceptable to those who are against it. It would only become a way to facilitate the drug trafficking.
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President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had previously pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering while heading the cryptocurrency exchange, the White House said Thursday.
The pardon of Zhao, widely known as CZ, came two months after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated about $4.5 billion since the 2024 election, has been helped by “a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance.”
NBC News, citing a public disclosure filing from Monday, reported that Binance in September had retained the services of the lobbyist Charles McDowell, who is a friend of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
McDowell’s lobbying firm, Checkmate Government Relations, disclosed that it was paid $450,000 for the prior month’s work, which included lobbying the White House and Treasury Department for “executive relief” and “financial services policy issues relating to digital assets and cryptocurrency.”
Overt corruption and minions love it.
The pardon of Zhao, widely known as CZ, came two months after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated about $4.5 billion since the 2024 election, has been helped by “a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance.”
NBC News, citing a public disclosure filing from Monday, reported that Binance in September had retained the services of the lobbyist Charles McDowell, who is a friend of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
McDowell’s lobbying firm, Checkmate Government Relations, disclosed that it was paid $450,000 for the prior month’s work, which included lobbying the White House and Treasury Department for “executive relief” and “financial services policy issues relating to digital assets and cryptocurrency.”
Overt corruption and minions love it.
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Your Trump Devotion Syndrome is strong.
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What about the fake Steele Doctrine? Where was the AP at that time? How about overwhelming evidence that the Biden administration was spying on republican congresspeople? The AP has become so biased that they wouldn't know "overwhelming evidence" if they tripped over it.
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Do you mean the Steele dossier? I assume this lie.........overwhelming evidence that the Biden administration was spying on republican congresspeople.........refers to Smith using a subpoena to obtain phones records of Repubs?
Jack Smith Destroys GOP Senators’ Claim He Was Spying on Them
Jack Smith Destroys GOP Senators’ Claim He Was Spying on Them
Republicans have accused Jack Smith of wiretapping their phones.
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He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
Last year, Mr. Hernández was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. It was one of the most sweeping drug-trafficking cases to come before a U.S. court since the trial of the Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega three decades before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html
This is the most baffling pardon of all. Unless trump is being paid.
The lack of outrage over it is more evidence of how we have slipped in to complacency due to the overwhelming frequency with acts that would normally bring down a presidency.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
Last year, Mr. Hernández was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. It was one of the most sweeping drug-trafficking cases to come before a U.S. court since the trial of the Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega three decades before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html
This is the most baffling pardon of all. Unless trump is being paid.
The lack of outrage over it is more evidence of how we have slipped in to complacency due to the overwhelming frequency with acts that would normally bring down a presidency.
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Welcome to my world.
This is obama's father...
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Mmm. Define magnitude...An act of subservience by Senate Repubs on a scale of the two impeachment acquittals when they simply ignored overwhelming evidence of trump's guilt. When dealing with a potentially career threatening political scandal, there is a standard playbook trump's team has used repeatedly. Issue a broad denial. Attack the accuser. Then declare the controversy over and tell everyone to move on.
Bove was involved in not one but three incidents while working at the DoJ worthy of disciplinary action and dismissal. First, he supervised the unjustified firing of DoJ and FBI officials who participated in investigations of trump's crimes as well as though of the violent criminals involved in the j6 riot.
Trump administration fires prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and moves toward ousting FBI agents
Trump administration fires prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and moves toward ousting FBI agents
The Trump administration has fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so that they can possibly be ousted.apnews.com
Secondly...........Bove pressured top prosecutors in the US attorneys office in Manhattan to drop the case against Eric Adams. He claimed that the charges had been brought by an overzealous U.S. attorney appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and he argued that the case would hinder Mr. Adams’s capacity to cooperate with the White House on immigration enforcement.
The Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than sign off on Mr. Bove’s command. Other career prosecutors in the public integrity section resigned rather than accede to his demands.
One of the whistleblowers to come forward has provided audio tapes proving Bove perjured himself during his sworn congressional confirmation testimony. That incident included Bove offering promotions to anyone who would go before a judge in the southern district of NY and ask for charges against Adams to be dismissed.
Whistleblowers cite evidence against Bove
Democrats have also cited evidence from whistleblowers, a fired department lawyer who said last month that Bove had suggested the Trump administration may need to ignore judicial commands — a claim that Bove denies — and new evidence from a whistleblower who did not go public. That whistleblower recently provided an audio recording of Bove that runs contrary to some of his testimony at his confirmation hearing last month, according to two people familiar with the recording.
The audio is from a private video conference call at the Department of Justice in February in which Bove, a top official at the department, discussed his handling of the dismissed case against Adams, according to transcribed quotes from the audio reviewed by The Associated Press.
Senate confirms Trump lawyer Emil Bove for appeals court, pushing past whistleblower claims
The Senate has confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.
Finally, there's......
Trump judicial nominee suggested ignoring court orders on deportations, whistleblower claims
Trump judicial nominee suggested ignoring court orders on deportations, whistleblower claims
A top Justice Department official suggested the Trump administration might have to ignore court orders as it prepared to deport Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members, a fired department lawyer alleged in a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday.
.........an accusation the whistleblower substantiated by providing text messages proving Bove did exactly what he claimed he did.
Does Bove possess the qualifications of a person nominated for a powerful position on the appellate court? Arguably yes, based on his time as a federal prosecutor. Is he fit to serve in that capacity. The unequivocal answer is no. Because he has so brazenly violated laws he has sworn to uphold.
What now? Declare the controversy over and tell everyone to move on of course. And that's what will happen. Move on to the next scandal, and the next one, and the one after that. It's what autocratic governments do.
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Medical examiner likely to classify death of ICE detainee as homicide, recorded call says
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.Santos Jesus Flores and Antonio Ascon Frometa, two detainees at Camp East Montana who both have criminal convictions, said in phone interviews with The Washington Post this week that they witnessed Lunas Campos engaged in a struggle with guards before his death. Flores claimed he saw guards choking Lunas Campos to death.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/17/detainee-death-witnesses-deported-dhsa/
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An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.
In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”
I'm betting the doctor will be pressured in to changing the characterization.
In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”
I'm betting the doctor will be pressured in to changing the characterization.
I guess, we will have to wait and see what the toxicology report.....the story seems a little premature, and pointless since it's about a report that hasn't even been done yet.
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Any thoughts about..............
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.They are here illegally, why wouldn't DHS seek to deport them?
