Associated Press- FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said.
Scott Jennings- If you find yourself freaking out about the FBI’s John Bolton raid, I’d like to offer you the guidance John Bolton offered after the raid on Mar-a-Lago:
“Everybody ought to just calm down, whether you’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump and let the process work its way through.”
Donald Trump Jr. on X: “Someone’s gonna have to explain why George Conway was already at John Bolton’s house at the crack of dawn ” / X
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Roger Stone queried “…where is CNN?”
Uhhhh … “calm down … and let the process work its way through.”
You mean like when Biden harbored classified information? You like that … “process”?
The special counsel asserted at the time that the president would be unlikely to be convicted by a jury in the event he ever went to trial, writing that he would “likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Well since Trump has certified Bolton as a “low life” … I guess Bolton will argue he needs the Biden treatment. Just walk free. Nothing to see here. I’m just an old, well-meaning man with a poor memory …
There was an ex-CIA person speaking on Real America’s Voice this afternoon who said Bolton was given the option of having his book reviewed for matters which were secret prior to publication, and he declined this.
The investigation into Bolton started near the beginning of Biden’s term.
So, I think it’s all on Bolton, and I think he’s going to get far longer than the 90 days which Bannon got.
And I doubt very much that he’s going to get a Presidential Pardon at any time.
I don’t know … Biden’s autopen issued >1,500 pardons, including cop-killer, injun, Leonard Peltier. Surely Gavin Newsom will be handing out pardons at least as generously as…
I don’t think the executive office should be using an autopen at all.. at some point it may be made into officialdom that one must show proof of competency so most of Biden’s Presidency won’t happen again, even for this case when a Harris Presidency may be even worse. (If Biden had to be removed for incompetence).
Leonard Pelltier was in jail for 49 years. I think that’s a long time.
Yeah, yeah … FREE FREE Leonard Peltier!! A very fashionable slogan among California leftists.
My opinion is that the leftists in California may hate the freedoms enshrined within the USA and I know it was a rallying cry for them. That isn’t why I think Peltier should have been freed.
I think that 49 years is a very long time, separate from the loony bin of Calif.
and I accept that many people may disagree with me on this point, more so if they knew the 2 agents who were murdered in 1975. I think capital punishment is the better way for people convicted of murdering, if the evidence supports the finding of guilt, and without measure of doubt. After x years, the holding of someone in prison isn’t effective as a means of ensuring others won’t murder, nor of retribution for the dead. There’s no purpose to it, eventually. They become a cost to taxpayers, without any upside.
I’ll concede one point to you, that 49 years is almost unheard of for murder convictions. With 2nd degree murder rarely seeing more than 10 years in jail. THAT is a tragic shortcoming of our “Justice” system which appears to only focus on the rights of “the living” … even if the only one left living is the perpetrator.
However, premeditated murder of government Officials should fall into a more severe category.
It used to be that way in Canada, there was “non-capital murder” = life in jail, and “capital-murder” (of a police officer for example) whereby they were hanged by the neck until dead. That hasn’t happened here since December 1962 in the Toronto Don Jail.
Now it’s life in jail, but for 2nd Degree Murder (just a random everyday murder) one is eligible for parole after 10, and 1st Degree Murder (able to prove the murderer had premeditated intent) and eligible for parole after 25. If someone’s an asshole in prison they may not be paroled, ever, regardless of it being 10 or 25. Statute says one gets a parole hearing after 10 or 25, but It’s up to the parole board if you’re released, not the judge.
After being paroled, they’ll have to visit the parole officer once every 6 months or every year until they die, and abide by whatever rules they’ve set. It’s a life sentence, never fully free, kinda.
The justice systems in our countries are broken. Nobody agrees on anything, recidivism is above an acceptable level. Crime in prisons rules the roost, and in Canada people are often able to sidestep a sentence based upon their race.
and far too often the revolving door of the Betty Ford Clinic comes to mind…
There was a bit more to Peltier’s case. The fake evidence they used to extradite him from Canada was never used at trial. Peltier had some bad luck. While he was evading authorities, his co-defendants were found not guilty.
Bail set at $0.01 … not even a real $0.01 … but only a Canadian $0.01 which is only about 70% of a real American $0.01 … if it makes a difference.
LONDON, ONTARIO – A Toronto man is accused of firing shots at a Scarborough movie theatre two weeks before he’s alleged to have fired a handgun at a London pot shop.
Amare Walters-Lyte, 18, is one of two Toronto-area men facing charges in relation to shots fired at an unsanctioned cannabis dispensary in downtown London on Nov. 24, 2024.
Walters-Lyte was released on bail this week after promising to pay one cent – while his three sureties pledged a combined $35,000 – if he breaks any of his release conditions, court records show.
Documents filed at the Toronto courthouse show Walters-Lyte faces charges in two separate cases involving a gun, including a shooting at the Woodside Cinema in Scarborough on Nov. 9.
Walters-Lyte and two other Toronto men were arrested on Dec. 22 and jointly charged with nine offences, including carrying a concealed weapon (a handgun), possession of a weapon dangerous to the public and possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking, according to court documents.
Walters-Lyte was released from custody two days later.
He was arrested again in Toronto on Jan. 21 and charged with discharging a firearm with intent to wound or injure, occupying a vehicle with a firearm, possession of a firearm without a licence in relation to the theatre shooting.
Walters-Lyte was additionally charged with two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon while prohibited (a Glock handgun) and two counts of possession of a prohibited device (an overcapacity magazine) for alleged offences on the day of his arrest, the documents say.
He was freed on bail on Jan. 28 after his three sureties pledged to pay a combined $30,000 if he broke any of his release conditions.
But Walters-Lyte was back in custody less than six months later after the OPP arrested him and Joshua Kalombo, 20, of Brampton, on July 10 in the Greater Toronto Area and charged them with five offences in relation to London dispensary shooting.
etc… or at least until the Canadian revolution takes hold.
I know you’ve got plenty of examples from The Bay Area. It’s not supposed to be a competition between the error of our respective judicial systems idiocy.