Edward Snowden compromised national security by stealing and leaking top secret information. He had to immediately flee the country and find the most Rube-Goldberg path available to eventually end up in Russia, where he hides as a wanted fugitive to this day and would spend the rest of his days in ADX-Florence if he were ever caught.
Donald Trump compromised national security by stealing top secret information and storing it in a country club bathroom. Rather than having to flee the country to avoid prosecution, he is able to freely fly around the country and around the world as a free man and is now trying to sue the DOJ for conducting the raid in the first place, despite the DOJ not even being able to confirm they even have all the documents back.
Regardless of your opinion of Edward Snowden and his actions, his case is one of many, many examples of the two-tier system of justice in this country.
And IMO, any lawyer willing to file a case this frivilous and meritless should be at the very least censured if not outright disbarred for making a mockery of the judicial system and wasting the court’s time. I get that anyone can sue anyone for anything, but if Trump wants to make a political statement by filing this crap, let him file it his fucking self.
Hillary Clinton had classified emails in a private, password-protected server. Conservatives have spent over a decade frothing at the mouth, calling for her head. The DOJ announced that they would investigate her two weeks before the 2016 election, possibly dooming her campaign.
Donald Trump had classified documents in a box in the shitter at his private residence while a Russian envoy was there, and conservatives think that’s all cool.
It’s easy to understand once you accept a couple of premises about a large part of the republican base:
- They’re fundamentally uneducated and unintelligent.
- They’re essentially brainwashed by their media consumption
- They approach politics like football: “This is my team, and I love my team. My team is good because it’s my team. The other team is bad because it’s not my team.”
Speaking of raids rapes…
Katie Johnson - Sworn Testimony (pdf)
“I first met Donald Trump when I was 13. He asked me to give him a hand job. My recruiter told me I had to do it.”
“He slapped my hand away and said, ‘you need a glove.’ And the recruiter ran over and handed me a glove and said, ‘no one touches Mr. Trump’s penis without a glove.’”
“I gave him a hand job and then immediately after he had an orgasm, he left and I didn’t see him again at that particular party.”
“Donald Trump knew that I was 13 years old. I believe Tiffany, my recruiter told him. He seemed to take a liking to me because I was so young, and also a virgin.”
“He liked getting the whole, you know, white glove treatment, and liked things to be his first before the other guys.”
“Jeffrey Epstein is a billionaire friend of Donald Trump that was responsible for throwing the sex parties.”
“Donald Trump knew that I was 13. I wore a blonde wig and he specifically asked about me because I remind him of his daughter.”
“Tiffany said, “Well, she’s 13 as well,” so he knew the first time that he saw me. But he took a liking to me because I look like his daughter.”
“The reason I’m coming out now is when it happened originally, I just wanted to forget about the whole incident. But I thought it was my responsibility to come out and tell our country what kind of man this person is.”
“I don’t think that he should even be the dog catcher, let alone running the greatest country in the world.”
I wore a blonde wig and he specifically asked about me because I remind him of his daughter."
It all makes sense now
JD reminds him of his daughter.
I hope his lawyers are smart enough to get paid up front
I’m pretty sure any lawyers smart enough to demand that are also smart enough not to work for Donald Trump.
yeah…good luck with that
Guaranteed the Justice Department got everything in order before raiding a former president’s residence. This is just adding to his many public humiliations.
Don’t try to sue the Justice Department. They literally don’t bring cases that they can lose. Plus they’re all top lawyers who can triple their salary elsewhere. Even the FBI is afraid of them.
I know one of these guys. They’re very nice but will rip your throat out (rhetorically). They could convict you of a felony and you would end up agreeing with them.
Trump is not intending to win this. It’s purely performative, to give his voters a reason to believe that all of Trump’s troubles are politically motivated, and to keep his conversation with them on his terms.
The election is only 3 months away. Either he wins the election, and he can appoint a AG who can make this all go away, or he loses, and is likely going to jail regardless of the outcome of this. So this “lawsuit” only has to live until the election is settled, through all the recounts, whining, and Capitol storming. It doesn’t need to reach a conclusion at all.
What difference does an airtight case make when you have a litany of judges, all the way up to the supreme court, that will happily twist the law to rule in your favor?
Hopefully we get the “bad guy falls in poop…classic element of physical comedy” part in November
For anyone wondering this was from a 4th wall breaking moment in the Brendan Frasier movie George of the Jungle
I’m planning on suing Trump for a bajillion dollars for leaving a shit stain on our country.
