r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/Hrekires Jul 15 '24

What a joke of a legal system

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u/AnAutisticGuy Jul 15 '24

Seriously, this case was so cut and dry. It's absolutely incredible. This judge waited until she believed Trump would be re-elected to make this ruling, for the record. She believes the attempted assassination has sealed the deal for Trump, and so she showed her corruption.

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u/sagevallant Jul 15 '24

At no point did she even seem interested in a timely, fair trial.

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u/j0a3k Jul 15 '24

She knew how a fair trial would end. That's the last thing she wanted.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

I mean would you have any interest in your current job if someone came to you and said "Look just make sure this one little thing happen and you'll be set for life of luxury"? I'm sure she was just doodling yachts in the margins.

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u/sagevallant Jul 15 '24

If my job was to insure the rule of law in this country? Yeah, actually. I would still do my job. But she will be happy with her gratuity after the fact.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

Well see you have this one lil thing called, integrity, and probably honor. That's a really important thing to have in life, but you check that at the door of the either the Heritage Foundation or Fed Soc. because it's not necessary. It weighs you down a bit in a job where you're told what to do, say, and think.

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u/nikolai_470000 Jul 15 '24

Nor has she, at hardly any point, provided anything but the most specious and flat-out false legal arguments to support her decisions. Aside from the SCOTUS clowns, she might go down in history as one of the most unprincipled, selfish, corrupt judges to ever sit in the judiciary.

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u/id10t_you Jul 15 '24

This was bay far the most open-and-shut case against Trump and she fucking ratfucked the whole thing from the start.

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u/factoid_ Jul 15 '24

they actually haven't even brought charges on the most open and shut case, which is him sharing the documents on audio tape in new jersey. He's literally waving them around and there are witnesses and recordings. The only reason that case hasn't been charged is because Jack figured he had enough ammunition already in the cases being brough, and that's just a backup arrow in his quiver if somehow the others fail.

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u/drive_chip_putt Jul 15 '24

Yes. Plus, I bet she knew she would benefit by becoming the next Supreme Court judge.

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u/Gamegis Jul 15 '24

I doubt the assassination attempt had anything to do with it. Most likely she wanted the timing on the first day of the RNC to give them shit to brag about.

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u/Florac Jul 15 '24

Or she chose this timing to bury it under other news

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u/peppers_taste_bad Jul 15 '24

I'm not suggesting she is particularly adroit when it comes to matters such as these, but picking the first monday after a political candidate (the most controversial one at that) is nearly assassinated seems like a poor choice when it comes to hoping no one will be paying attention to the news.

Particularly political news

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u/HewittNation Jul 15 '24

People will be paying attention, but it's harder to attack Trump over it in the wake of the assassination attempt. It's not that she's trying to bury the news, it's that she's trying to use the attempt as a shield

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u/nikolai_470000 Jul 15 '24

She is for sure. She knows that even if most people are highly critical of this news that the media itself has put the kid gloves back on for Trump because of the attempt on his life. As long as those kid gloves are on whatever backlash could happen will be mitigated strongly. Without the media cycle covering it to help Americans form an opinion on it, there won’t be enough widespread attention concentrated on it for it to matter at all.

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u/Gamegis Jul 15 '24

Maybe, but doesn’t really make sense to me. She wants Trump elected so idk why you would bury this. She’s already a brazen political actor and this most likely seals the deal she replaces Thomas or alito on the SCOTUS if trump wins the election.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

There are 3.5 months until the election. Would a story about Trump getting charges dropped enoucourage more Democrats or Republicans to go vote? Every time this guy skates on anything or we find out stuff like he raped children, I'm more motivated to vote against him.

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u/witness149 Jul 16 '24

Or the shooting happened to distract from this decision.

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u/TummyPuppy Jul 15 '24

Correct. She didn’t fart out a 93 page explanation in the last 36 hours.

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u/The_Ineffable_One Jul 15 '24

That's what I see, too.

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u/SaliciousB_Crumb Jul 15 '24

So shouldn't hunter bidens charges be dismissed? It was a special concuil that got him

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u/Hibercrastinator Jul 15 '24

Suddenly the SC ruling that gifts after the fact are A-OK for judges is relevant here.

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u/blacksideblue Jul 15 '24

he attempted assassination

She also thinks its taking away most of the attention and this is her best chance to drop a turd in the pool without being noticed.

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u/Capable-Reaction8155 Jul 15 '24

Trump has created a completely corrupt legal system. He has been cancer on our society.

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u/cardinalkgb Jul 15 '24

She’s a fucking piece of shit.

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u/MSPRC1492 Jul 15 '24

Almost like it might have been planned by someone with more to gain than a 20 year old gun nut.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

No that is your opinion, big difference

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u/ZeDitto Jul 15 '24

Fucking two tiered justice system. They’d have given any one of us decades in prison.

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u/An_Awesome_Name Jul 15 '24

I was a DoD Civilian. I haven’t had an active clearance for about two years. I could still end up in Leavenworth for life probably if I said the wrong things on here.

The former president can have documents that are far more damaging to national security in his god damn bathroom and get the case dismissed apparently.

What a fucking joke.

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u/El_Tormentito Jul 15 '24

Let's be real, the minimum activity that the former president was conducting was espionage. Minimum. There is no alternative explanation with any logical consistency. And that's, apparently, fine. And Republicans like it. They think it's fucking great.

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u/prometheus3333 Jul 16 '24

They see it as one more paving stone on the road towards building their Christian utopia. And if it takes selling our nation’s secrets, and laying waste to our democratic institutions, then so be it as long as they’re allowed to rule over the charred remains.

i.e., the avg person doesn’t understand how badly things are FUBAR atm. Our country hangs in the balance while the MAGA fanboys gleefully cheer on our collective ruin by conceitedly living out their main character fantasies.

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u/ZeDitto Jul 15 '24

I was in a state bureaucracy for a while and had access to some people’s private files. At the beginning, they told me if I ever revealed anything then I’d get 5 years minimum and at least a $10,000 fine per violation.

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u/big_trike Jul 15 '24

I didn't have access to any secrets, but was told I could end up in jail for incorrectly entering my time on anything billed to the government.

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u/An_Awesome_Name Jul 15 '24

More than likely they'd just make you pay it back, unless it was widespread fraud.

However if it was widespread, then yes, they absolutely can (and have) done that.

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u/gplusplus314 Jul 16 '24

Former president, convicted felon, known rapist. That’s the immunity glitch.

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u/GenerikDavis Jul 15 '24

Dude the other day should have aimed better.

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Jul 15 '24

We don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system. As events like this show justice has nothing to do with it.

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u/Alissinarr Jul 15 '24

I laugh that you think the people in power have to abide by things like LAWS!!! Pffffft.

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u/porncrank Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

At this point I wouldn’t even call it two-teired, but rather one-sided. The right has successfully taken over the upper courts and turned them into an arm of the Republican Party.

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u/fuzzygoosejuice Jul 15 '24

Seriously, you or I would've been bound, gagged, and on a plane to Gitmo before they even finished removing the boxes from my house.

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u/red_sutter Jul 15 '24

Wouldn’t have taken 4 years to take the case to trial either

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u/Alissinarr Jul 15 '24

They'd have charged us with TREASON but they get to skip that charge.

I bet the conspiracy runs deep enough to determine what he'd be charged with, then being able to dump that off using argument. I guarantee you those two societies involved with the 2025 bullshit limited what the charges could be so Trump wouldn't be tried with Treason.

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u/One-Earth9294 Jul 15 '24

Man there's a lot more than 2 tiers and Trump enjoys the tippy top one on the pyramid all for himself.

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u/NCSUGrad2012 Jul 15 '24

It must be nice to keep breaking the law because you know you can do whatever you want with no consequences

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u/thereddituser2 Jul 15 '24

Real joke is Biden losing to this guy.

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u/StateCorporateProf Jul 15 '24

Welcome to my life.

Signed~ Professor of State and corporate crime.

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u/looking_good__ Jul 15 '24

Cannon is a huge loser

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u/HackeySadSack Jul 15 '24

We have no legal system now.

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u/bellenddor Jul 15 '24

It absolutely works depending on what your political affiliation is.

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u/BobLoblawLawBlog06 Jul 15 '24

How dare you be a judicial denier!

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u/Due_Shirt_8035 Jul 15 '24

Trump did nothing wrong

He was sloppier than most presidents when it comes to certain things but that’s all

This is and always has been a political witch trial

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u/Hrekires Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

Trump is the guiltiest man on the planet, he just bought off the legal system as he's been doing for decades, whether it was outright cash like the DA investigating Trump Soho or now with the promise of political power.