Donald Trump has been accused of violating federal law by allegedly calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ceasefire deal the U.S. is helping negotiate between Israel and Hamas.
The former president allegedly made the call on August 14, according to Axios, which cited two unnamed “U.S. sources who were briefed on the call.”
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If Trump did make the call, he would potentially be breaking the law as the Logan Act, enacted in 1799, prohibits unauthorized private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments on behalf of the U.S.
American Muckrakers, an organization that states it seeks to hold politicians and officials accountable, has filed a request with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State.
perfect call, it was perfect… everybody says so. it’s actually way, way better than perfect, way higher than 100 percent perfection…
When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Someone helped arrange that call or was present, and are guilty of hiding a crime unless they come forward. They can be prosecuted: loyalty only goes one way in that camp, so it’s not like Le Gran Cheetoh would protect them.
Just put it on the shelf right next to other shit no one will prosecute him for.
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Great? It’s not like Democrats are interested in putting him in jail. They have a living, breathing bogeyman to threaten people with so they can dismiss scrutiny for damned near anything with a “Do you want trump again?”
Good
This means hell run the whole, “Only I had the balls to blah blah blah”
And if the democrats want to continue their strong run, they’ll have to be on top of action toward it as well. He’s a useful idiot sometimes.
will he get MASSIVE nothing as a consequence this time?!
Reagan did the same thing with Iran. Nobody blinked.
People also used to rape their slaves. Times change. Maybe we start holding our ruling class to a higher standard. Perhaps being a shitstain on humanity should be met with disapproval.
More recently, LTG Michael Flynn
He did, but I think it only came to light after his brain was soup. Unless I am wrong and carter was aware earlier.
New bits of evidence have been popping up over the decades, seemingly last in 2020. Much of the physical evidence has been long destroyed, and most of the people involved are now dead and gone and I wouldn’t call many of the people with supposed first-hand accounts reliable people to begin with. I just read through this article to refresh myself on the details and to see the latest updates.
The personal accounts and evidence we do have doesn’t leave much room for the truth to be anything but that the Reagan/Bush campaign was involved, and that Daddy Bush likely had enough evidence he should have turned over to prove it, but today we would still likely not have enough to convict anyone, especially in the current political scene. There wasn’t much there about if Reagan himself was involved, the story made it sound as if he didn’t, but everyone around him certainly did. I don’t feel that negates him from responsibility for his people’s actions, but I do feel that is a difference worth mentioning.
Well at least they got Ollie North on that one. Unless some Republican pardons him…OH WAIT.
And Nixon did the same with Vietnam.
Being an opportunistic, amoral psycho who works to undermine the safety of Americans is practically a Republican presidential tradition at this point.
Facilitated by Kissinger just for some extra crime on the cake
i thought we all collectively realized that reporting on trump actions reported by “unnamed sources” doesn’t do anything to harm his campaign?
He would be “potentially” breaking the law? What a waste of time. Either it is or isn’t against the law. Which is it?
Lots of laws are very fact dependent. For example, if a patient dies during surgery then the doctor potentially committed malpractice.
Generally the courts, not journalists, get to tell you if something is or isn’t against the law.
Logan act has never been prosecuted. Could have gotten Reagan on it.
It was prosecuted twice. Both times before the Civil War. But nobody has ever actually been convicted.
Things are different today. Prosecutors realize that a law criminalizing the act of negotiating is probably going to run into First Amendment issues.
Add it to the pile of crimes that he will likely never be punished for or the Justice system will bend over backwards to give him every available courtesy, while any “normal” person would be rotting in a prison cell already.
Don’t worry merric garland will issue a strongly worded letter of condemnation and then do fuck-all about it.
Mueller can make another lengthy report with no recommendations.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the self-proclaimed party of law and order would see that Trump ends up in prison where he belongs - and not in the white house?
what infuriates me is that eventually if he ends up in prison one way or another, they will all negate even knowing the guy, and act all ignorant of all the atrocities. the same happended here in chile with our dictator and people to this day defend him. one of the biggest defender of the dictator is going to run for president next year and to this day hasn’t recognized her role in the civil - military dictatorship that killed and imprisoned thousands of Chileans… really they act as if it never happened. it will be the same after good ol don is dead or in prison
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A certain someone complains constantly that they’re censored by “Zionists” but even calling them out for their bad faith bs will often get your comments removed…
I’m certain once they’re done screeching about how awful the Dems are in today’s Dem threads, they will then make time to screech in this one. Right?
But of course! They’re always criticizing Trump’s policy on Israel/s
