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.
Republicans and ratfucking peace talks during an inhumane war of territorial expansion to make their political opponent look bad. Name a more iconic duo.
That’s completely unfair, you couldn’t name
onetwoseven…let’s go with seven other examples of that!/s
I’m pretty sure Bush junior could fulfill your list all by himself.
Until I see a picture of Trump behind bars I will continue to assume he will continue to get away with everything forever.
The only truthful thing he has ever said was “I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose supporters.”
Implied is that he also wouldn’t get arrested for it.
Tie his bullshit with the recent articles about the pathetic FBI being afraid to go after Republican domestic terrorists and it’s just beyond absurd. “Home of the brave” my ass.
Worth pointing out how much this is also a republican thing. Nixon did it. Reagan pretty much did the same to sour Carter.
H.W. Bush agreed.(?) The world shrugged…
I believed for a couple of months that the us justice system wasn’t completely compromised, but I was stupid to do so.
Yeah convicted, sentance, and in prison are very different states of things.
Nah, that could be AI generated. I won’t know it’s real until his first instinct is to immediately say that it should have been Hillary behind bars in a video clip, then I’ll know it’s really him
People said he wouldn’t be prosecuted, and he was.
People said he wouldn’t get indicted, and he was.
People said he wouldn’t get convicted, and he was.
Now we’re waiting on sentencing and carrying out that sentence, and people say that won’t happen, either.
The justice system is slow, especially at the federal level. Some of that is due to deliberation, some of that is due to federal judges having too high of a case load, and some of that is due to the fact that Trump is a former President, and prosecutors and judges have to handle that very carefully. If acquitted, that’s it, prosecutors rarely have grounds for appeal. They need to walk into the court room with an airtight case.
If you follow other federal cases, this kind of timeline is completely expected.
Except for Judge Cannon. She’s just blatantly pulling things in Trump’s favor. The rest are doing their job. Edit: oh, and the Supreme Court, of course. They just fucked a lot of things.
Except for Judge Cannon (…) Edit: oh, and the Supreme Court, of course.
So what I’m hearing is… he’s getting away with everything forever?
Look on a more serious note, I do think if he fails to become president again his luck probably has run out. The bad news is, between winning legitimately and stealing the election through House vote, Trump still is probably odds even to become president again - if not better.
I know there is a chance sentencing and carrying out of it happens before the election, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
If the USA had the balls to enforce the laws as they have in the past this idiot would be executed for treason. Turns out fascism is a great tool you can use to avoid consequences as the State shudders at the terrorist following you’ve gathered and refuses to take action.
FTFY Donald Trump
Accused of Commitedtingcommited ‘Massive Crime’With Reported Phone CallDonald Trump
Accused of Commitedtingcommited ‘Massive Crime’With Reported Phone CallAgain.I look forward to him receiving absolutely zero consequences because why would anything he did ever result in the slightest inconvenience for him?
I don’t believe in god, but Trump makes me think that crossroads demons could be real.
You don’t need to cross off phone for that one. There have been a couple high profile crimes on the phone and who knows how many others.
And it isn’t just Israel, also Poland and Hungary at least.
Massive Crime… in his pants. The biggest crime. Yuuuge.
Donald Trump
Accused of Commitedting‘Massive Criminal’With Reported Phone Call
Dear right-wing dipshits who like to use the name Genocide Joe. Your orange turd wanna be emperor is actively sabotaging ceasefires and potential peace of said-genocide just to make current administration look bad. Donnie Death
Right wingers don’t call him Genocide Joe, they LOVE the Palestinian deaths. It’s the “he’s not far enough left” people like .ml folks who use the name Genocide Joe
Of course a mask off MAGA will say not enough people are being killed. But what’s the difference between what a farthest left .ml leftist would write and what a MAGA cosplaying as a leftist would write? Genuinely curious how to tell them apart.
They’re generally the same picture.
Still waiting for tokenboomer, linkerbaan, return2ozma et al to say anything about this. I’ll just hold my breath for a second…
“Well, the nickname is Genocide Joe, not Genocide Don, so obviously it’s Biden’s fault that Trump is sabotaging the ceasefire deals!”
Of COURSE! It’s so obvious, how could i miss it?!
I think one of them went with “it’s an unconfirmed report, not a transcript of the call” or some other weasel-y bullshit like that.
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.
Reagan did the same thing with Iran. Nobody blinked.
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
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.
More recently, LTG Michael Flynn
Israel is already denying it so unless phones are bugged (they won’t admit this) there won’t be any physical evidence unfortunately
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.
Nixon and Reagan did it, this is normal for a GOP presidential candidate.
Trump is a walking hate crime so no surprise here.
will he get MASSIVE nothing as a consequence this time?!
When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Ah man. I can only wish that the Orange Idiot and Netanyahu somehow, eventually, reap what they’ve been sowing for decades now. Not holding my breath of course, but the amount of schadenfreude I’d feel would probably verge on orgasmic.
