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@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 What other president or politician has ever sold a product in office from which they personally profit that gives big buyers special access? Or entrusted Middle East diplomacy to someone who profits from personally managing billions from the House of Saud?

Right. Buying large amounts of the $TRUMP meme coin doesn’t buy special access to official government decisions or policy favors. It buys event access to private, branded promotional gatherings hosted by the coin's affiliated entities. Networking dinners, luncheons, and galas at Trump properties like Mar-a-Lago or golf clubs.

Adam Schiff wasn't stupid. He knew exactly what he was doing when he classified and buried the Atkinson transcript. He knew what it would take to unbury it. ♦ The PROCESS: First, you need a republican President in the White House √. Second, you need an aligned Intelligence Community DNI √, and third you need a Republican controlled HPSCI √: [¹] • To extract the transcript the Executive would first need to understand its value. • Then the Executive would need to know where it was. • Then the Executive would need a qualified stakeholder, with appropriate clearances, to request to review the transcript in the HPSCI secure compartmented intelligence facility (scif).  • If the HPSCI approved, the Executive would be given an appointment date to read it (no notes, no copying, just reading).  • Then, after reading, the Executive stakeholder would then need to request the HPSCI Chair and Ranking Member for a classified copy.  • The Chair and Ranking Member would need to agree to the value of the sunlight on the Legislative Branch controlled information. • To get a copy the entire House Intelligence Committee would need to vote on the release to the Executive.  • The vote would need to be scheduled on the committee calendar.  • A HPSCI vote would then take place:

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 Not the son - the President. The meme coin that he owns. If you buy a lot, you get access.

@WeakGameForever @TheLastRefuge2 If large crypto holders get to network at a dinner, that's capitalism not the obvious corruption of a VP's son monetizing dad’s office. Supporters funding his ecosystem via tokens are voting with their wallets

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 Why do you think so much money is flowing in via every way that Trump can let it flow in? The people who buy the most of his meme coins, do they get special access?

@WeakGameForever @TheLastRefuge2 You’re right that the Trump kids’ deals in a sector Trump deregulates aren’t the same as influence peddling.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 So, the Biden-specific corruption in Ukraine was so serious that he was forced to pay for the investigation himself, but not important enough to fire Barr for not pursuing. Schrodinger’s Corruption?

Trump did fire or force out prior AGs (Sessions, acting Whitaker) when they wouldn't align. He publicly blasted Barr as a big disappointment for not revealing the Hunter probe or doing more on election integrity. Barr resigned in December 2020 after the damage was done. Presidents don't have unlimited at-will power over Senate-confirmed Cabinet without massive backlash; it's why Schedule F reforms in the second term exist—to make policy roles accountable.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 None of it has to do with the moribund Trump Organization. Crypto, investment funds, media companies, etc…

@WeakGameForever @TheLastRefuge2 You’re conflating private business deals with Biden-style influence peddling. Trump's adult sons run the Trump Organization. Private investments and branding deals aren’t government payoffs or board seats tied to U.S. policy.

@pijamamagi @CynicalPublius A sitting president cannot be prosecuted. The fuck is your dumb ass mumbling?

@WeakGameForever @CynicalPublius “Trump’s DOJ” prosecuted Trump as well.

In the Soviet Union innocent people would plead guilty to crimes they never committed so that their family would not be murdered. And if you think that analogy is too far over the top, then you have not been paying attention.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 If Trump was so desperate to investigate the corruption in 2019, why wouldn’t he fire Barr then and put in someone who would investigate the corruption? why did he allow himself to be stopped? He knows it’s shit. Foreign governments currently give his children money.

Trump pushed Barr publicly and privately. In the July 25 transcript Trump explicitly told Zelensky: "There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son... so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great" and that Barr would follow up. Trump called on Barr to appoint a special counsel for Hunter Biden's foreign dealings. Barr refused. Why not fire him? The damage was done and optics of axing your own AG weeks before leaving office would've fueled more obstruction hysteria from the media/Democrats. This was institutional resistance. Unlike when Biden’s family raked in millions from foreign entities (Burisma, China, etc.) when he was VP. Trump had no personal financial stake in Ukraine probes. He wanted accountability for potential influence peddling. Tough New York real estate deals, casinos, branding aren't relentless corruption like selling access via family members. No foreign government funneled millions to Trump's kids while he shaped policy

@GTaylor23500135 @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok For someone like Flynn, it is. He was a sophisticated, wealthy defendant who had other crimes he wanted to keep under wraps. He was a corrupt foreign agent while advising POTUS. But hey, WWG1WGA, right? A storm is approaching!

@WeakGameForever @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok Immaterial! Your claim was a that a confession is absolute proof of guilt. You're a whiny little bitch!

@WeakGameForever @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok A large percentage of the people who were cleared by the DNA project had confessed.

@GTaylor23500135 @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok My computer doesn’t seem to have that installed - can you grok how Flynn compares to the average PI inmate or average burned “witch”. Were the processes in which they engaged similar. Were their rights protected in similar ways? Did they have funds (or access) to $$$ lawyers?

@WeakGameForever @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok You got the grok button right there dumb fuck.

@theficouple Another rare good point. I wouldn’t go $4300 until over $220k. Unless it’s a duplex, you live in half and put zero money into it.

When your friend says they finally bought their "dream home". The payment is $4,300/mo & they make $155,000/yr. They’re also pregnant with twins & unsure of how much full time day care will cost...

@GTaylor23500135 @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok So, confession is worthless? What about the evidence showing that he lied?

@WeakGameForever @KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok I guess the 40,000-60,000 people executed for witchcraft during the European witch hunts must have actually been witches because they confessed. Your logic is unassailable obviously because you are so smart.

The day after Flynn was fired over a false Washington Post hit piece, the New York Times rushed in with another completely fabricated story, falsely claiming Trump aides had contact with Russian intelligence. That smear wasn’t improvised in the hours after Flynn’s firing. It had been prepared in advance and timed to go out the moment Flynn was ousted, setting the Road to Mueller in motion. Leaving aside how galling it is that the New York Times is now whining that one of the main victims of their own smears is finally getting compensated, it bears emphasizing just how painstaking and meticulous the coordination between deep state operatives and the media was. All these smears were planned in advance with careful attention to both the timing and the content of each attack. Yet no one has faced consequences, and the whole operation is barely ever talked about.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 That’s impossibly naive. Trump has evinced corruption his entire adult life - relentlessly. He controlled the DOJ. Why wouldn’t he fire Barr or whoever if they are not willing to investigate? Why would POTUS be so powerless and impotent that DOJ ignores him on a valid matter?

Trump was frustrated with selective blindness. The crowd that cheered Biden’s public boast called any scrutiny of his family dealings “conspiracy”. Official channels had aligned on firing Shokin amid Hunter's Burisma gig; Trump used parallel (but not secret) channels to probe resulting questions. One side had clear family financial benefit tied to official power. The other had a request for accountability with no personal gain for Trump.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 “Reason Trump has purged”

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 There is a reason that Trump has courage the career people. There is a reason that inept people from his inner circle now dealing with all of that stuff. It though there’s no pushback. He can use them as human etch-a-sketches (Witkoff, Kushner, etc..)

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 He’s doing the same thing installing nuts like Ted Oleson and Heather Honey to election posts. He does not want talented people with integrity in the room when decisions are made.

@justincase_dfw @TheLastRefuge2 So, one situation - where the benefit to the criminal is obvious and shows obvious corruption - is actually fine because of rationalization that happens in a vacuum. The other situation shows no signs of corruption, or benefit, but desperation required desperate claims.

No, the transcript doesn't show a quid pro quo, and Sondland's later testimony doesn't change that. Sondland told Sen. Johnson there was a potential quid pro quo linking aid to investigations, and he later testified he came to "believe" the aid hold was connected. But Sondland admitted under oath he had no direct evidence from Trump tying security assistance to probes. Sondland asked Trump point-blank what he wanted from Ukraine. Trump replied: "I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo." Sondland’s conclusion was an inference, but Volker & Morrison pushed back on the idea of linkage. The hold on aid was bureaucratic delay over corruption concerns in Ukraine. Democrats turned diplomatic horse-trading and frustration with endless U.S. aid into an impeachable "abuse of power" because the transcript itself was too clean for their narrative. On Ruby Freeman and 2020 skepticism: It's not "naive" to note documented irregularities. Expanded mail-in rules rushed through courts (often bypassing legislatures), private funding of election offices, chain-of-custody issues and observer restrictions in key urban centers (including Atlanta's State Farm Arena late-night counting), statistical anomalies, and procedural lapses in places like Fulton County. The Freeman video looked suspicious on its face (ballots handled after observers left, alleged "suitcases"). We had unprecedented procedural changes during COVID, Big Tech/media censorship of stories like Hunter's laptop, and uneven enforcement of rules. Dems mocking anyone mentioning those problems as naive is just another red flag

@KolymaTales @HansMahncke @grok He confessed. He clearly did it.

@HansMahncke @grok , was it revealed at some point that General Flynn‘s defense attorneys had not provided him with exculpatory evidence of which they were aware?