Trump Wants Smith Report Quashed

The public has a right to know what its prosecutor has found.

POLITICO (“Trump urges Garland to block release of Jack Smith’s final report“):

Donald Trump and two of his allies are making a last-minute push to block special counsel Jack Smith from issuing his final report on his two dismissed criminal cases against the president-elect.

Trump’s lawyers wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday, urging him not to release Smith’s report — a two-volume document that they were allowed to review in Smith’s office over the past three days.

At the same time, two of Trump’s former co-defendants asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block the Justice Department from releasing any report from the special counsel on the criminal case in Florida where Trump was charged with conspiring to retain a trove of classified documents after leaving office in 2021.

In the letter to Garland, Trump’s attorneys said that releasing a public narrative of the evidence Smith gathered — in the classified documents case as well as the federal election conspiracy case over Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election — would illegally interfere with the presidential transition and be little more than a political attack.

The decision about releasing Smith’s findings, they wrote, should be left to Trump’s administration.

They also called on Garland to immediately fire Smith, who is set to end his tenure by the time Trump is inaugurated.

“Because Smith has proposed an unlawful course of action, you must countermand his plan and remove him promptly,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

As a matter of general principle, Trump’s lawyers have a point. I am foursquare against prosecutors releasing materials or, indeed, even making statements, about those whom they are not going to charge that might be prejudicial or otherwise damaging to their reputations. The job of prosecutors is to prove the guilt of those under investigation beyond reasonable doubt. If they can’t do that, they should STFU.

That principle does not hold, however, in the case of public officials. Despite the fact that I was going to vote for her, I thought the voters had a right to know the details of Hillary Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State in the matter of her illegal efforts to skirt classification procedures. This was especially true as she was asking to be made the chief classification authority.

I have now voted against Trump three straight times; four if you count the 2016 Republican primary. So, I’m hardly an unbiased source here. Still, I think the case for revealing the details of Smith’s investigation is even stronger than it was in Clinton’s case.

Comey’s investigation of Clinton was complete and he had decided, rightly in my then- and current judgment, that, while an ordinary government functionary would likely have been prosecuted for the same actions, the bar is simply higher for the Secretary of State. While that seems to violate the “no person is above the law” precept, the fact of the matter is that high government officials—in this case, a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed policymaker—is rightly accorded much more discretion.

Conversely, Smith’s investigation found that Trump was criminally liable and had already filed to prosecute him. The sole reason that the case is being dropped is that Trump has been re-elected President and it is a longstanding Justice Department policy that sitting Presidents can not be prosecuted. (Given the President’s Constitutional role as head of the Executive branch and therefore Chief Law Enforcement Officer, that’s a reasonable position.) Releasing his findings publicly, then, is the most he can do.

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Comments

  1. JKB says:

    The public also has a right to hear the interview that led the Special Counsel to determine that Biden was incompetent to be taken to trial.

    Special Counsel Robert Hur described multiple occasions where Biden struggled to recall basic facts, such as when his own son died from cancer.

    Even more so given it will reveal that Biden was diminished in office and others had usurped the presidency and operated in a coup state during Biden’s term.

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  2. Sleeping Dog says:

    But of course he does and he wants the sentencing in NY quashed. There’s nothing to see here, all is well when you have your blinders on.

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  3. Kathy says:

    Releasing his findings publicly, then, is the most he can do.

    More like the least he can do.

    What’s damaging to the felon is what he did, not the report letting people know it.

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  4. gVOR10 says:

    Someone said of Jeff Bezos – If you don’t have the stones to own a newspaper, don’t. We’re about to find out if Garland has the stones to have ever been AG. Release the reports and let Trump sue to put the toothpaste back in the tube. If the reports aren’t public by noon of Inauguration Day, they never will be. If all else fails, pull an Alito and let a thumb drive mysteriously appear at Pro Publica.

    This whole situation flows from the rest of the players following rules while Trump doesn’t. Even completely made up rules like the OLC opinion that DoJ can’t prosecute a sitting prez. And SCOTUS that he has immunity. I recall reading that the guy who wrote the OLC opinion asked the then AG which way he wanted it.

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  5. Fortune says:

    Wasn’t Smith’s investigation ruled illegal? If it was a legal investigation they should release the report, but not if it wasn’t.

  6. Paul L. says:

    @Kathy:
    Whataboutism: I remember how the Democrats quashed and voted against any reports for the Clinton administration after Bill Clinton left office.

    “I think it’s good that Hillary Clinton got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, because not a lot of novelists and fiction writers get the award, And yet the Hillary Clinton campaign financed and created one of the greatest works of fiction in living memory in the Steele Dossier, Despite it being total fiction, it enthralled the press, the Intel community, and federal law enforcement for years. And so I applaud her for that work of fiction and am excited about the work she does in the future on her totally fictional presidency,”

    Qualified Immunity for the law enforcement caste
    ‘All Animals Are Equal but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others’

    While that seems to violate the “no person is above the law” precept, the fact of the matter is that high government officials—in this case, a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed policymaker—is rightly accorded much more discretion.

  7. Neil Hudelson says:

    @Paul L.:

    It’s handy of you to list the fallacy you are about to engage in ahead of your message.

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  8. Scott says:

    Everybody focuses on the classified nature of the documents but the facts are even more basic. Trump took the documents, had them at Mar a Lago. When asked by the National Archives to return them, he balked. He eventually returned some documents, certified that he returned all of them. At that point, he was in knowing possession of stolen Government property. He should then have been charged as a common thief, regardless of whether the documents were classified or not. The classified aspect of the charges just added to the damage.

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  9. Scott says:

    @Paul L.: The conservative Washington Free Beacon first hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele. Fact which is conveniently memory holed.

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  10. Scott F. says:

    @gVOR10:

    This whole situation flows from the rest of the players following rules while Trump doesn’t.

    I’d revise to “…while Trump, the Republicans, Fox/Xitter, and the oligarchs don’t.” Otherwise, spot on.

    In your righteous rant in the J6 thread yesterday, you astutely noted that “Each successful violation of norms weakens the norms.” and that struck me as fundamentally true. So, I don’t see how improving this whole situation could come from the rest of the players breaking the rules as Trump does, rather than shining more light on the cheaters.

    So, of course Garland should release the report, because the rules allow it. Garland’s weakness has been his strict adherence to norms in an anti-norm time, so I believe he won’t give Trump what he’s asked for here. Nevertheless (and I admit I struggle with this), putting our whole situation on Garland’s stones as AG, as if he’s the only one with agency, strikes me as misdirected.

    The report gets released, but FOX will still do what it does, the Billionaire Boys Club will still be in charge, and the GOPs will still lie about what the report means with impunity. Sadly, I think we’re stuck to that tar baby until some negative results come in on the MAGA project and enough of the movable middle of the electorate gets wise that they’ve been had.

    TL:DR; The DOJ should release the report. Trump won’t be hurt politically regardless. Nevertheless, it is the right thing to do per what norms still exist.

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  11. Paul L. says:

    @Scott:
    Good for you using the conveniently memory holed talking point that was discredited and debunked.
    The Clinton Campaign paid for the Steele dossier laddering the money using the Perkins Coie law firm lead by Marc Elias to protect it from disclosure as attorney client privilege and work product.
    The Washington Free Beacon never hired or paid Christopher Steele.

    Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton. All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.
    Representatives of the Free Beacon approached the House Intelligence Committee today and offered to answer what questions we can in their ongoing probe of Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier. But to be clear: We stand by our reporting, and we do not apologize for our methods. We consider it our duty to report verifiable information, not falsehoods or slander, and we believe that commitment has been well demonstrated by the quality of the journalism that we produce. The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as we see fit, and we intend to continue doing just that as we have since the day we launched this project.

  12. Michael Reynolds says:

    @JKB:
    Tell you what, I’ll admit Biden is senile if you admit the entire four years of lies about stolen elections was utter bullshit. Bullshit you helped to spread despite knowing it was bullshit. And of course if all the election tampering crap was utter bullshit then the January 6 attack was a coup based entirely on lies. Lies you spread.

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  13. Michael Reynolds says:

    @Paul L.:
    I’m curious: did you intend to create an oligarchy obedient to billionaires and indifferent to peasants like you?

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  14. Mikey says:

    @Michael Reynolds: Lies are all Trump and his braindead cultists have. Lie, lie, lie, then lie some more, it’s a skyscraper-sized shit sandwich of lies.

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  15. Gustopher says:

    Leak it. Leak it today.

    Trump is going to try to sue, try to get a judge to rule that it cannot be released until the suit is decided, and then drag out the clock for two weeks.

    Just leak it or release it. Today.

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  16. reid says:

    @Mikey: Yep. The propaganda machine on the right has gotten a ton of mileage out of lying about their guys’ outrageous negatives while getting their culties to focus on some typically-meaningless negatives of their enemies.

    @Gustopher: Yep, I read that Trump’s personal Judge, Cannon, has “blocked the release” of the report, whatever that means.

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  17. DK says:

    @Scott F.:

    Trump won’t be hurt politically regardless.

    This. No need for felon Trump and his attorneys to Streisand effect Smith’s report. President Musk’s bootlicking slaves don’t care that Trump is an Epstein-bestie rapist and paedo who illegally colluded with Russia, publicly lusted for his daughter, and who incited a terror attack on Congress after trying to stage a coup.

    Most American voters are similarly unperturbed by Trump’s evil antics, for now. So it’s doubtful anything in Smith’s report on Trump’s documents criming would move the needle.

    America frequently backslides into white supremacy after progress; during such moments, like the present, America declines to apply rule of law applies to certain white people — like the J6 terrorists — and especially not to rich white men like thug and fraudster Trump.

    So it seems the traitors down at Moscow-a-Lago would be better off letting the report be dominate the corporate media’s news cycle for a few hours before most people stop noticing.

    By the time history renders its judgment on this era — using the work of Smith and others to identify Trump and his voters as a) dupes for Putin’s propaganda and b) avatars of cowardice, hatred, and anti-Americanism — Trump will be long dead.

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  18. CSK says:

    Judge Cannon has blocked the release of the report.

  19. Franklin says:

    The sole reason that the case is being dropped is …

    Well, let us expand on this. There are multiple reasons why the case hasn’t already been fully prosecuted with Trump already in jail. Many of them have to do with the tortured logic of Judge Cannon blocking any and all progress to swift justice.

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  20. gVOR10 says:

    @Michael Reynolds:

    @Paul L.:
    I’m curious: did you intend to create an oligarchy obedient to billionaires and indifferent to peasants like you

    He believes he’s voting against the elites, when he’s actually voting for the bunch of elites that have held him down over the bunch that try to help.

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  21. Scott F. says:

    @DK:
    I believe it more likely than not that history’s rendered judgement on the Trumpist era can be accelerated such that Trump will live to see it. I hold no illusion that The Donald would ever accept history’s verdict, but we know he is such a narcissist that even modest criticism from his sycophants causes him all kinds of inner turmoil.

    So, when Mass Deportation doesn’t return rural whites to prominence – when tariffs don’t solve inflation and prices go up – when he is no longer necessary/effective in the transfer of power to the oligarchs – when his lame duckness is counterproductive to sustained GOP minority rule, Fox/Xitter et al will turn on him.

    The ketchup is really going to hit the wall when that happens. Believing in this possibility is cold comfort, but it is all I have these days.

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  22. Scott F. says:

    @Michael Reynolds:
    I’ll also admit that Biden is senile, as long as we stipulate that he did better presidenting at diminished capacity than Trump could manage at the height of his abilities.

    Alas, JKB will never agree to our terms. He’s just shouting “squirrel” and hoping he never has to affirmatively defend his support for the Big Lie.

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  23. Fortune says:

    @Scott F.: Have you admitted to Biden’s diminished capacity before? When you say “senile” do you believe the VP and cabinet have or had the responsibility to initiate the process in the 25th Amendment? If not, why not?

  24. Chip Daniels says:

    @Mikey:
    I keep repeating it:
    Trumpists are by necessity liars.
    When they scream “What about the children?” they are lying;
    When they scream “What about the deficit?” they are lying;
    When they scream “What about Crime/ Morality/ Justice/ Small government/ etc.?” they are lying.

    This is why I refuse to even engage with them, because they never mean what they say and always engage in bad faith lying.

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  25. Just nutha ignint cracker says:

    @Fortune: For my own situation, I’m waiting for evidence of diminished capacity for both Biden and Trump. Then again, I’ve never accused Trump of having lost any edge over the past 4 years. My complaint about Trump was that he never had any “edge” to begin with. You, of course, are free to disagree, but to convince me, you’d have to show something from 2017-2020 where Trump, as opposed to Congress or situation, made a positive difference in the nation. “The economy was great” (an argument offered by one of your fellows) is overly broad to work as an argument.

    Take up the challenge or not. You’re still entitled to your opinion. With Trump back in office, it may well be better to not take up such challenges given that we’re now entitled to our own “alternative facts” again. Fun times coming!

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  26. Gustopher says:

    @Just nutha ignint cracker:

    Then again, I’ve never accused Trump of having lost any edge over the past 4 years. My complaint about Trump was that he never had any “edge” to begin with.

    Suggesting that he might use force to take Greenland and the Panama Canal might show a decline in his ability to filter.

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  27. Scott F. says:

    @Fortune:
    No one has asked for my diagnosis of Biden’s mental acuity, so why would any admission from me matter in the slightest? I’m just a reasonably well informed political hobbyist posting on the Internet. Biden’s old, he shows the wear & tear of a long life of public service, and he is less able than previously to overcome his life long stutter when communicating. There – that’s my diagnosis. I haven’t the expertise to determine clinically whether he is, was, or will be senile, so I take no position there. (I’d advise the same for you, but you be you.)

    What I can say with certainty though is that the Biden administration delivered a massive and long overdue infrastructure bill that is driving employment and updated highways, bridges, rail, etc. in both urban and rural locales. Biden shepherded the CHIPS and Science Act that will benefit semiconductor manufacturing in the US and the Inflation Reduction Act that aims to reduce the deficit, lower drug prices, and invest in domestic energy production while promoting clean energy. Biden named Kentanji Brown Jackson to the SCOTUS and set up a Cabinet with the likes of Pete Buttigieg, Deb Haaland, and Gina Raimondo. Biden spurred NATO’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I’m going to give him credit for ending the US long slog in Afghanistan (in spite of the f’d up exit plan Trump saddled him) while fully acknowledging the unfortunate casualties. Biden has been the best president for Labor in my lifetime.

    If Biden could do all that (and it’s an incomplete list) in a diminished capacity, why should I or any citizen care whether Biden did these things himself or whether Jill Biden had her hand up his back making his lips move? Even if Biden were completely propped up, why would I want the VP and Biden Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment if Zombie Biden was delivering the goods for the American People? Are you really suggesting that adhering to some constitutional provision should supersede results when you are an apologist for MAGA? Are you saying good governance is less important to the US citizenry than transparency and truthfulness in all things when you are an anonymous sock-puppet spouting Republican talking points at OTB? Spare me…

    No, what I’d really like is for you to now do Trump. Make the affirmative case instead of your incessant whataboutism.

    Explain why the Big Lie and a coup attempt and a botched COVID response and the international embarrassment of a felonious, mendacious, puerile Trump as US President (that’s an incomplete list BTW) – explain why all that is acceptable in order to get the big tax cut for rich people Trump actually accomplished and the myriad promises he’s made that were never delivered and never will be.

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  28. Liberal Capitalist says:

    Trump Wants Smith Report Quashed

    As Balki Bartokomous would say:

    Well, OF COURSE he does! Don’t be ridiculous!

    Any traitor would want to keep their treasons acts secret. But we all know that a person is only as sick as their secrets.

    And Trump is a very sick man.

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  29. gVOR10 says:

    @Chip Daniels:

    Trumpists are by necessity liars.

    No need to be generous, Republicans generally are by necessity liars. And have been for decades. Their only real program is tax cuts for the rich and freedom from regulation for corporations, what else can they do but lie? And they’re lying to the MAGA voters more than anyone else.

    Remember, Mitt Romney lied like a rug.

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  30. Fortune says:

    @Scott F.:

    I haven’t the expertise to determine clinically whether he is, was, or will be senile, so I take no position there. (I’d advise the same for you, but you be you.)

    I’ll also admit that Biden is senile

  31. DK says:

    @Scott F.:

    No, what I’d really like is for you to now do Trump. Make the affirmative case instead of your incessant whataboutism.

    There is no such affirmative case and anyway, obedient Trumpers like Fortune are too stupid to make one. He knows Joe Biden will always be a more successful president than his rapist, pedo hero Trump — hence why he can only push irrelevant ageist attacks. What else are these unthinking MAGA robots going to complain about?

    Republicans were too incompetent to agree on a budget a few weeks back, and now they’re busy fighting each other over President Musk’s crackerjack plan to replace high-skilled American workers with H1-B immigrants.

    So naturally Trump sycophants have nothing to offer atm except lies and hate: racism, ageism, sexism, homophobia/ transphobia, etc. MAGA sheep like Fortune, JKB, Paul, and their ilk are too dumb, too dishonest, too depressed, and too controlled by Trump to do much else.

    It’s also why the demented, bloated orange criminal himself is focused on threatening war with Panama and Denmark. Trump knows his tarriff and mass deportation bs is stupid, so what else can he do in his diminished state but distract and bluster?

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  32. Scott F. says:

    @Fortune:
    That’s cute.

    How tiresome. I should have known better than engage with you. You really are an epic coward.

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  33. Fortune says:

    @DK: I stooped to your level a dozen times yesterday and it hurt my mind, so I won’t bother to reply today. I could really feel it though so now I understand how you can’t engage intelligently anymore.

    That was a funny quote from Scott though. “Enough of your whataboutism, what about Trump” sounds like something Homer Simpson would say.

  34. Scott F. says:

    @DK:
    Yep. My mistake feeding the troll.

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  35. DK says:

    @Fortune:

    so I won’t bother to reply today

    But you just replied to me, didn’t you?

    Like I said, you and the other buttlicking MAGA slaves are too stupid to even attempt to write a positive, affirmative, detailed case for document-stealing criminal abd thug Trump, like the one Scott F just wrote on Biden’s ability to serve with distinction and success. You cannot refute Scott’s logic, so you retreat to a juvenile non-sequitor about a cartoon character. Matches yours and Trump’s shared immaturity.

    You literally have nothing to offer but robotically repeating the same lane Fox News propaganda ageism you blindly echo every day — as you are programmed to do by your rightwing oligarch masters.

    One more time for the road: it’s because you’re a Trump-worshipping fraud not smart enough to come up with an original thought. As the rapist himself said of y’all, “We won with poorly educated, I love the poorly educated.”

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  36. Just nutha ignint cracker says:

    @Gustopher: I’ll count that as part of “take him seriously but not literally”* pending tangible evidence of preparations for an invasion.

    *or do I have that backwards?

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  37. Fortune says:

    @Scott F.: You asked me to defend a position I haven’t taken, but you won’t defend the position you did take, and you conceded you don’t care about the Constitution. Was I supposed to take your comment in good faith?

  38. DK says:

    @Scott F.:

    My mistake feeding the troll.

    No mistake. What you wrote was intelligent, persuasive, and obviously proffered in good faith. It needs repeating from time to time, even in response to clowns like Fortune — crooked imbeciles who slavishly worship warmongering dotard Trump almost as much as Aileen Cannon.

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  39. Scott F. says:

    @DK:
    That’s kind of you to write, but I ought not have engaged. I admit I find myself in a bit of a quandary with the trolls and I might as well share with you as I have a cocktail in hand now and some time before dinner.

    As I’ve shared here at OTB, I don’t think there’s much at all to be done to avert the coming sh!tshow – the MAGAts have the government trifecta and a SCOTUS majority willing to unshackle Trumpism – so the best the opposition can do is to let them enact their agenda, shine sunlight on the sordid results, and hope for enough ineptitude to minimize the damage to all the people they will hurt either inadvertently or on purpose. As it all plays out, there is something to be said for grabbing the popcorn and coming to a forum such as this to make observations or read those of other smart people as the dumpster burns.

    OTB is one of the few sites I visit and comment on, because I find our hosts to be thoughtful, well-informed experts with an earnest interest in understanding this political moment in US history. For me at least, I’m particularly interested in what Steven and James are thinking, because they are center-rightists who find themselves currently without a natural home in a party. How better to learn the path out of tribalism I believe it necessary for a healthy body politic than from people who have thought their way out of the GOP cult we have today? I find the commentariat here is diverse in background and perspective which is interesting as well.

    Thus, my quandary… I wouldn’t propose that the current OTB trolls be banned, because I’d prefer to not be sequestered in an echo chamber and sometimes even freak shows can be entertaining, if not enlightening. But, my God, our local trolls are so predictably boring, misinformed, and cowardly, while they hijack the threads like nobody’s business.

    I’m hopeful I can continue to visit here to learn from the OTB hosts and commenters, while offering the occasional opinion of my own. But, I’m afraid that will depend on OTB’s ability in the coming months to attract a better class of trolls than those presently available or on my ability to ignore the drivel and thus encourage the sad-sacks we’ve been left with to take their vacuous whining somewhere else. I’m certainly not going to hold out hope that they might raise their game in good faith, informed debate. As you’ve noted, they don’t have that in themselves.

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  40. Fortune says:

    @Just nutha ignint cracker: The Department of Justice declined to proceed with a case against Biden on the basis of his appearance of failing in memory. The WSJ and the NYT have covered Biden’s decline, talking to dozens of staffers. Matt Yglesias, Josh Barro, and Jan Crawford have recently characterized the president as being in cognitive decline, with Barro comparing his handlers’ treatment of him to elder abuse.

    Biden has had the fewest press conferences since Reagan. On the other hand, Reagan had regular cabinet meetings. I think Biden has held one per year, pre-scripted. He refused to take a cognitive test. If someone refuses to take a cognitive test, and you’re not willing to consider their behavior and statements, what evidence would you accept?

  41. DK says:

    @Fortune: And the dumb MAGA sheep is back, blindly repeating the same white male establishment talking point he’s been repeating daily, because he’d still touch of a stupid slave to do anything else.

    Biden’s age, Biden’s age, Biden’s age. And still no affirmative, positive, detailed case for rapist and felon Trump.

    Baaaaaaa.

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  42. Fortune says:

    @DK: If you want to keep the conversation rude I’ll try to be as rude as you, and I think I can be as persistent, but don’t expect me to be as stupid as you. Scott and Michael said Biden was senile so I followed up. always remember I am the wind beneath your wings.

  43. DK says:

    The reasons for media white people’s ageist smear campaign against Joe Biden are illuminated in comments our lazy, venal, Quisling pundit class shared a few yesrs back with Julia Ioffe, per her old newsletter Tomorrow Will Be Worse:

    “The mechanics of reporting have changed so much. It was just this really aberrant period in which you could almost guarantee that, with enough effort, you could find out what’s going on in the Situation Room. Now you can’t — and it’s infuriating.”

    “I mean, it wasn’t just the fact that Trump was a gravy train. It’s also juxtaposed (against) the most boring administration in modern history. You go from a circus with flaming chainsaws to … what? An old man watching his dog?”

    “I loved covering Trump. It was a great and fascinating story. It wasn’t just about him; it was about his movement and the institutions and America. The story was always so dramatic and had these larger-than-life characters. The stakes often felt very high. I like covering Biden, too, but it just doesn’t feel as dramatic.”

    The press couldn’t bother to stand up for liberal democracy against the empirical evil of Trump’s fascist white supremacy and Trojan Horse warmongering, because they were angry Biden’s successful competence was boring. They lose to lie about Biden’s job performance and portray him as too feeble to do the job he continues to do better than any younger man because they wanted Trump’s “exciting” reality TV buffoonery back in office.

    And of course the politically stupid and politically gullible fell for it.

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  44. Fortune says:

    @DK: See there it is. I mock you and you find it in yourself to try a big boy comment. It didn’t work because your premises are wrong but it was a good effort.

    Did you ever know that I’m your hero? I’m everything you want to be. You can fly higher than an eagle because I am the wind beneath your wings.

  45. DK says:

    @Fortune:

    and I think I can be as persistent, but don’t expect me to be as stupid as you.

    But I thought you weren’t replying to me? What happened? The truth triggered you?

    We know you MAGA slaves can be persistent. Your ability to repeat the exact same pre-programmed rightwing propaganda talking point over and over every day proves that.

    That you never have anything else to add because you’re not allowed to say anything more than what Trump tells you to say is proof of your stupidity.

    Scott F offered a detailed, thorough explication of Biden’s excellent job performance, disproving your white male establishment propaganda and proving Biden’s fitness for the job. The proof of the pudding, after all, is in the eating.

    You can’t refute anything he wrote, or do same for Trump. All you can do is blea Biden’s age Biden’s age Biden’s age over and over again because you are a dumb Trump-owned robot with no thoughts of your own.

    Baaaaaaa.

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  46. DK says:

    @Fortune: See? I exposed you as a fraud with truth bombs about your inability to anything more than blindly repeat your one preprogrammed Trump slave talking point — because you’re a dumb sheep — and your promise to not reply to me goes out the window.

    At least you tried not to be triggered. Truth hurts, don’t it?

    Still waiting on you to refute anything Scott F wrote about Biden’s job performance, or do the same for your owner Trump

    *crickets* lol

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  47. Fortune says:

    @DK: I took a day off from replying to you to let my brain tissue grow back. Scott brought up Biden’s senility and I wanted to talk about it. When he immediately backed away from his position then said it didn’t matter if Biden was senile because the Constitution means nothing to him, I lost interest., understand?

  48. Fortune says:

    @DK: My first comment was “Wasn’t Smith’s investigation ruled illegal? If it was a legal investigation they should release the report, but not if it wasn’t.” Probably not FOX- approved, and an open question asked with an open mind. Everyone else here is repeating their party’s talking points, or in your case grunting futilely.

  49. DK says:

    @Fortune:

    I lost interest., understand?

    No. If you lost interest, you wouldn’t still be here for yet another day, obediently repeating the pre-programmed, robotic Biden’s age Biden’s Biden’s age MAGA talking point you pushed the day before, and the day before that — in lieu of refuting Scott’s detailed, thorough explication of Biden’s successful job performance.

    Then again you Trump sycophants can’t refute the truth. Especially as you’re not smart enough to do to anything but robotically repeated your fascist, racist, criminal party’s lies.

    Scott brought up many things. Predictable you have no comment on most of it, because he exposed you as lazy and asinine.

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  50. DK says:

    @Fortune:

    Probably not FOX- approved, and an open question asked with an open mind.

    Except it was baseless, FOX-approved “just asking questions” concern trolling. A red herring query asked in bad faith by a closed-minded fabulist — from your obvious lying about your support of document-stealing thug Trump, to the desperate lie you just weakly spun on how Scott obliterating your one and only talking point triggered you into replying to me.

    Hence why nobody bothered to dignify your silly Putin-approved question with an answer.

    You’re clearly a dedicated Republican footsoldier for President Musk, blindly defending any- and everything Trump does, just like Aileen Cannon. You’re transparent as a sheet of glass and not fooling anybody but yourself, boo.

    Everyone else here is repeating their party’s talking points, or in your case grunting futilely.

    And yet here you are, day after day, triggered and depressed. We are the wind beneath your MAGA hat.

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  51. steve says:

    My tax money was used to pay for the investigations. Let me see the results. I dont think we should be protecting politicians. They arent royalty. If they want to go back and release investigations on both Clintons, Obama, Bush, Reagan… George Washington, that’s fine with me.

    Steve

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