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Meaningless charges????

1. Taking highly classified government documents home and storing them in your bathroom is against the law. Ordinary citizens, which is what Trump currently is, are sentenced to prison for keeping even less sensitive classified information and taking it home...

Former FBI analyst who kept classified records in home sentenced to prison

A former intelligence analyst with the FBI’s Kansas City division has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for holding on to classified national defense-related documents at her residence, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.


According to a release from the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs, Kendra Kingsbury “improperly removed and willfully retained” some 386 classified documents, some of which “contained extremely sensitive national defense information,” at her home in Kansas over the course of her more than 12-year FBI tenure.

Kingsbury, 50, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release.

Her sentencing comes weeks after former President Trump was indicted and arraigned on federal criminal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida after his time in the White House had ended.


The Kansas City Star reported that Kingsbury stored some of the documents in her bathroom. Trump’s indictment also detailed that documents were kept in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom, among other places.

Kingsbury held a “TOP SECRET/SCI” security clearance, with access to national defense and classified information, and received training materials that specifically warned her “that she was prohibited from retaining classified information at her personal residence,” the DOJ said in the release.

Among the materials were reportedly documents classified at the “SECRET” level, including details on government counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cyber efforts, as well as specific investigations and “sensitive human-source operations.”

2. Jack Smith is charging Trump with just four criminal acts...

a. It's against the law to conspire to fraudulently obstruct the collection, counting and certification of votes in a federal presidential election.

b. It's against the law to conspire to obstruct a Congressional or other government function or proceeding (specifically the January 6 Congressional Certification of the Presidential election).

c.) It's against the law to conspire to deprive citizens of their right to vote and having their votes properly counted.

d.) It's against the law to actually obstruct a Congressional or other government function or proceeding. (specifically the January 6 Congressional Certification of the Presidential election).

These are violations that can be proven by the actions of the defendant, Donald Trump. They have nothing to do with the first amendment (freedom of speech) or what the defendant believed. You can believe that when you shoot someone in the head it won't kill them but if you actually do the act it won't keep you from being indicted for and convicted of murder.

Smiths case:

1.) Smith produced volumes of evidence that Trump was told, by virtually everyone he had appointed to government positions (all republicans), that he had lost the election and that he himself believed he had (e.g. He told Pence he was "too honest"). The Vice President told him he saw no evidence of fraud, so did the senior leaders of the Justice Department, the Director of National Intelligence, The Department of Homeland Security Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, senior staffers of his 2020 election campaign, state legislators and officials, state and federal courts. Yet he continued to lie that the election was stolen from him so that he could continue to seek to overturn the election by illegal means.
2.) With the support of his co-conspirators, he called the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and lied that non-citizens, non-residents and dead people had voted but provided no proof. He then asked him to call the Arizona legislature into session and illegally have the legislature replace the Biden electors with Trump's electors. This was all documented by Smith under oath and by recordings and contemporaneous notes.
3.) In Georgia, he told the Georgia Secretary of State, in a recorded conversation, that he just needed to "find" 11,780 votes and insinuated that the Georgia Secretary of State and his counsel would be subject to criminal prosecution if they failed to find election fraud as he demanded.
4.) He conspired with his co-conspirators to organize and submit fraudulent slates of electors from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In both # 2.) and # 3.) alone, Trump and his co-conspirators conspired, by false and fraudulent means, to obstruct and defeat the government function by which presidential votes are counted - indictment count a) - and conspired against the right to vote and have one's vote counted - indictment count c.). The evidence that Trump oversaw and kept tabs on the effort to submit fake electors, including a document on how to do it (for dummies) is enough to prove that he conspired to Obstruct the January 6 government function of counting votes and actually did the deed ( by trying to submit the false electors thru Pence) - indictment counts b.) and d.).

SMITH"S CASE IS SOLID!!!