the DOJ dropped the investigation after smearing him for a couple years, because they had no evidence.

They have plenty of evidence - don't know where you heard that BS. Do you think Gaetz nuked McCarthy over his Ethics investigation because there was "no evidence"? It's just the opposite. There's all kinds of evidence, allegedly the problem is that key witnesses/victims don't want to give open testimony and most of those involved are either participants or have other credibility issues themselves.

Mr Michael Cohen seems to be a main witness. A person with a penchant for lying?

Seems like his convictions for being a co-conspirator sorta overrides his credibility issues. The man spent years in jail for his part in what Trump is charged with and has his Congressional testimony as backup support.

Cohen was under oath in Congress, and to my knowledge no Republicans leveled accusations against his testimony before them being credible and true.

MSNBC is reporting that jury selection is over.

For today only. They've only gone through 10 prospective jurors so far and one of them is a Bronx county prosecutor.

This is the voir dire process. The actual selection and/or striking of prospects hasn't yet begun.

#14

Pump and dump.

Just an observation, but has anyone else but me been unable to find Iran's statement reported anywhere in US media right now?

How isn't that statement the starting point of any debate about Israel's and the US' upcoming response one way or another?

It's important to know NOW that Iran already explained what they've done and why before any reaction. But it seems to be a fact that Iran has already said they're done retaliating.

Iran comes out of this looking like idiots.

We finally agree on something. To informed people, Iran just wasted a few millions of dollars of drones and missiles that landed in the desert (I hope because that means people aren't getting hurt).

To Iran, they retaliated against Israel bombing their consulate and saved face on Shi'i street, put their toys away and called it a successful day.

Hopefully both sides can call this one over even when they have to publicly keep calling each other vile names.

Somebody correct me if you logically see it another way, (if you do, please give evidence to support your opinion) but I'm reading this statement from Iran as basically saying in other words,

Iran here. Based on the UN Charter blah, blah, we took military action in response to what Israel did. The matter can be deemed concluded, IOW, we're not making any claims of damage or casualties, and we're not asking for vengance to rain down on Israel. You hit us, we hit you back. If we leave it at that, as far as we're concerned it's over. And US, keep your butt out of it, this is a neighborhood beef and it's over if you leave it alone.

However, the US joined with Israel in destroying whatever Iran sent so we already showed them the back of our hand for trying to dictate our response. And IF there's no significant damage out of proportion to the Israeli attack on the consulate both Israel and the US are in control of whether this skirmish is over. Iran told the world it is.

And at this point - 4/5 hours in - with this information, exactly what is there to criticize Joe Biden for, and what exactly should he have done beyond help protect Israel and the Israelis, and Iran giving both the US and Israel an out by their publication that their "military response" is over? Iran is basically saying, Hey world, we don't want a war.

Here is Iran's statement posted on X at 6:06 EDT:

... during an ongoing attack I expect our elected officials to offer support to Israel and to our own leader to make the right strategic calls.

Well, call me Mr. Naive. The above ain't happening in the Age of Trump:

... are the end of Iran's attack.

MSNBC is reporting that the Iranian UN spokesperson released an announcement from the Iranian government that whatever waves already launched are end. They're saying "this concludes our operations."

You come around, type a bunch of BS; then when wrong; we don't see you for weeks.

As I suspected, you're unable to read. If you did, I clearly answered your question in my response.

Just because I don't post on threads you read doesn't mean I don't post.

It was a consulate.

I know, I wrote the word in regards to Benghazi about a million times, I'm kind of sick of it, if you can understand.

I apologize for being lazy.

#21

The problem of those like you is that you're only capable of seeing the world one way - binary. In no manner do 80% of Democrats NOT support the country of Israel and its people. At this moment, Democrats - and most of the sane world - are apoplectic about the government run by Netanyahu which has brought a famine upon Gaza.

The point is the vast majority of us can understand that things can be many, many different things driven by many different agendas at the same time. We know that Iran foments and supports terrorists and terrorism that serves its fundamentalist aims.

But we also know that the Iranian people are not the Iranian government. Many keep trying and dying to finally overthrow the ayatollahs, but as yet it hasn't happened.

Shorter point: Democrats will support ANY sensible policy or action in the defense of Israel. But having said that, what Netanyahu has been doing with our bountious assistance should be abhorrent to every American alive.

There are definitely conflicting emotions at work even for those who normally support most military efforts in defense of Israel. The attacks on 10/7 were horrible and barbaric and deserved direct reprisal. But it didn't mean they could virtually destroy the Palestinian civilization and drive millions into famine.

Both of those are very important, but both have to be navigated on the hopes this doesn't blow up into something bigger regardless of what we do. THAT'S what we all should be focused on and try the best to accumulate information on the what's going on and why.

#15

I've never disappeared in 20 years. Just because I don't post on threads you read doesn't mean I don't post. The day you wrote the post about me coming back, in the immediate days prior I'd posted multiple threads and posts. If it means that much to you, then go back and find your post, then visit my homepage and date-check my posting log. It's all right there in black and white.

And FFS, put your projector down! You repeatedly put your own words and thoughts into my mouth and then claim that's how I feel about something.

As it regards this attack, I posted what I thought was egregious in Scalise's statement. Did I criticise him about what you accused me of? F no. I criticised him for alluding that somehow Biden is bowing down to terrorists - which is sheer lunacy.

Iran is a nation state, but a retaliatory strike against the nation that bombed their embassy and killed one of their generals is not terrorism, it's an act of war that Iran already publicly promised.

As I've read it, Biden has likely taken his military chiefs' advice as we not only announced the attack before it started, we also moved assets into positions where it's logical they can be used in Israel's defense and favor.

None of us know what the hell is going on right now unless someone is tied into military intel or knows how to monitor those who get non-public information.

I have no problem with the first part of his statement at all. I have a problem with the second part because during an ongoing attack I expect our elected officials to offer support to Israel and to our own leader to make the right strategic calls. You nor he yet know the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of our response nor the strategic analysis that went into the response.

So zip it until you do.

I wonder what Spkr Johnson gave up to fmr Pres Trump in order to get fmr Pres trump's support?

This. Speaker of the House Johnson just publicly signed on to the Big Lie 2.0 under which Trump and his RNC stand to rake in tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.

IMO the American voting system is closed to inspection.

False. I just provided the details above. Like the usual lizard-brain, instead of actually reading and learning from what others have provided for you, you must want personal attention.

Some states scrambled haphazardly to implement mail in voting at a degree that had never been in place prior.

Which has WHAT to do with the audits in 43 states and DC PROVING that no determinative voter fraud or non-registered voting took place anywhere in the United States?

You clowns get so hyped touting procedural issues that you fail to recognize none of the things being mentioned are methods to fraudulently effect election totals by the corruption of votes from non-registered voters and there is not a shred of evidence that elections were impacted by them.

THATS the issue. No determinative fraud, no non-citizen voting, no corruption of the vote counting, multi-state auditing = SECURE ELECTION.

Only because USPS has their own criminal division and they are damn good at what they do. No reason for the FBI to get involved especially when it ultimately came at the behest of the NSBA whose leadership didn't like Plebe parents questioning their policies in any manner.

Further on USPIS:

As sworn federal law enforcement agents, Postal Inspectors have the power to serve warrants and subpoenas issued under the authority of the United States; make arrests without warrants for postal-related offenses committed in their presence; make arrests without warrants for postal-related felonies cognizable under the
laws of the United States, if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person arrested has committed
or is committing such a felony; carry firearms, and make seizures of property as provided by law.

Overlapping jurisdiction often requires collaboration with other federal, state and local authorities. Postal
Inspectors have developed close working relationships with other agencies that facilitate such cooperation.

So you're perfectly fine with federal law enforcement being called in by local officials if it's not the FBI but USPIS instead? That's still federal law enforcement isn't it?

USPS has their own criminal division and they are damn good at what they do. No reason for the FBI to get involved

You're a moron's moron. It's not USPIS' purview to investigate threatening correspondence delivered in the mail, it's the FBI's. USPIS' charge is mail fraud, theft and other crimes involving the use of the mail. Maybe you should have looked up their charter before exposing your ignorance yet again.

Nevermind Wisconsins illegal use of drop boxes as determined by their own state supreme Court. Pennsylvanias illegally distributed absentee ballots violating their own state constitution. Georgia illegally removing observers and continuing to count votes without them present. Which part of these illegal activities make for a "secure election". What a ------- joke of a lie you fell for.

The only ------- lie around here is you for bringing up anomalies which in and of themselves prove NOTHING as it regards "fraud" or insecurity. The practices you mention were used by registered voters in the attempt to exercise their franchise during a ------- pandemic! They were NOT a coordinated means to fraudulently effect the results.

You try to turn vote processing procedural acts into illegalities, which they are not or you'd be able to name those charged with criminal law violations - including election officials. You have NOTHING. And again, none of the things you mentioned were coordinated attempts to sway the election results. Secure is not synonymous with perfect, nothing is perfect.

Why aren't you banned for spamming this blog with Russian disinformation and lies?

The big lie TRUTH: "it was the most secure election ever"

To back up Danforth let's repeat the underlying numbers of post 1:

*In 2016, North Carolina audited its elections to make sure no one voted improperly. It found that 41 LEGAL immigrants who had not yet become citizens cast ballots. That's out of 4.8 million votes cast. Those illegal votes didn't make a difference in a single election in the state, even the smallest local race, according to the state's election board.

*In 2022, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, conducted an audit of his state's voter rolls specifically looking for noncitizens. His office found that 1,634 had attempted to register, but election officials had caught all the applications and NONE were actually registered to vote.

*The Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal group, surveyed 44 election officials in some of the most populous and immigrant-heavy jurisdictions in the country after 2016, including Arizona, California and Texas. It found only about 30 incidents of a possible noncitizen voting out of 23.5 million votes cast in those places.

No, America, we don't have a problem with ANY non-registered voters impacting our election results whether they're citizens or immigrants. Trump and Republicans like Speaker Johnson are LYING just like they often do when the truth doesn't serve their MAGA agenda.