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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...So we have a vote for option 3.....
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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...'We'll give them everything,' Trump says ahead of upcoming vote on Epstein files, adds that he doesn't want it to 'detract' from Republican successes
In the Oval Office, the president said today that he would sign a bill to release the complete tranche of Epstein files if it ends up on his desk.“All I want is, I want for people to recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down,” Trump said. “I just don’t want Epstein to detract from the great success of the Republican Party, including the fact that the Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown.”
He added:
We’ll give them everything. Sure. I would let them, let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us. It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them, and it’s a hoax.
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James ComeyA U.S. judge found on Monday there is evidence of misconduct in how a federal prosecutor closely aligned with President Donald Trump secured criminal charges against James Comey, and ordered that grand jury materials be turned over to the former FBI chief's defense lawyers.
Alexandria, Virginia-based U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzgerald found that Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney leading the case, may have made significant legal errors in presenting evidence and instructing grand jurors who were weighing whether to charge Comey - mistakes that could have tainted the case.
"The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding," Fitzgerald wrote in his ruling.
Grand jury materials are typically protected by strict secrecy rules. Fitzgerald acknowledged that disclosure to the defense was an "extraordinary remedy," but found that Comey had shown a specific need for the records.
"The Court finds the record in this case requires the full disclosure of grand jury materials," the judge wrote.
"In so finding, the Court recognizes this is an extraordinary remedy, but given the factually based challenges the defense has raised to the government's conduct and the prospect that government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings, disclosure of grand jury materials under these unique circumstances is necessary to fully protect the rights of the accused."
Fitzgerald's ruling catalogs a series of what the judge described as investigative blunders in the investigation. These include prosecutors' decision to review evidence the FBI seized years earlier without securing a new warrant and allowing an FBI agent to testify to the grand jury even though the agent may have been exposed to material shielded by attorney-client privilege, a legal doctrine that protects legal advice between lawyers and their clients.
The judge also found that Halligan made statements to grand jurors harmful to Comey's legal rights.
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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...Some possibilities...
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He's looking for veto proof. He threatens senators to keep them from voting yes on it, at least to keep it short of a two-thirds majority.
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He told Bondi to start an investigation into any Democrats mentioned in the files. She'll say she can't release the files because there is an active investigation. Everything goes to court and languishes there.
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The DOJ falsifies or hides documents.
sidebar: The history on this is crazy.
The Biden DOJ never brought any indictments.
The GOP was all "release, release, release". Including Bondi back in February when the documents were on her desk being ready to be released.
FF to July, and Bondi says there's nothing to see, move on.
Now the congresscritters are pushing for it and Mr Donnie Innocence is digging his heels in. He tells her to investigate the Democrats mentioned and she appoints a prosecutor. Which is interesting, because in theory her DOJ would have already looked at this before she said in July that there was nothing to see. Why look again, except to placate Teh Donald?
WHAT THE HELL IS IN THOSE FILES ???
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?@AndyD Nice! You're lucky to actually have flowers in November.
Here everything has died back to the ground except for the odd anemone. Most of the trees and shrubs are devoid of leaves, except for an oak leaf hydrangea that is remaining stubbornly green and a fothergilla which has been slowly changing colors for weeks now.
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Ken BurnsWe watched the first hour of last night's episode this morning while we were having breakfast. Good stuff.
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solar flares and headaches??Can't speak to migraines specifically, but I think that external elements do affect our bodies. A friend with rheumatoid arthritis was as good or better than a weather forecaster when it came to predicting weather changes. Her joints would swell like crazy as the barometric pressure dropped in advance of rain/snow. And I notice changes in my own constitution depending upon what's happening in terms of the seasons. We are creatures of the earth.
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This month's piano recording@ShiroKuro Try a tiny test spot first and see what happens. With the binoculars, they cost us nothing and were so bad that they were basically unusable, so we figured "what the heck". Your Zoom H is probably more valuable.
Be sure to use as lint-free a cloth as possible.
edit: There seem to be a bunch of YT videos you can check out to get a preview of what happens.
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This month's piano recordingWe rescued a pair of binoculars from the house of a friend who was moving to assisted living. They had the sticky rubber problem. We checked around and decided to try cleaning the rubber with a well-worn microfiber cloth soaked with rubbing alcohol. Took the stickies right off. We gave away the binoculars, so I don't know if the fix was lasting, or if the rubber just got sticky again.