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Trump would go against his own convictions to protect himself from outside threats. Let’s be real about this. There’s never a situation where Trump would be “too nice” to do something that would otherwise hurt his own agenda. I was shocked that he didn’t pardon both of them. But that was also the exact moment that I truly understood who Trump really was.

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It was undercover FBI agents who perpetrated the Jan 6 violence. GG has written about this as well, All of the departments of the US government are totally corrupt.

See the following link:

https://thedissedent.page/2021/07/01/fbi-role-in-1-6-2021/

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I have argued every time the pardons came up on Glenn's forums that it was Trump's second impeachment that held Trump hostage and prevented him from issuing the pardons'.

It is tragic that such heroes as Assange and Snowden are still in danger of prosecuted by the US.

Anatomy of the Deep State

by Mike Lofgren — February 21, 2014

There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.

Entire article:

https://thedissedent.page/2021/10/19/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

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The analyses of why Trump never pardoned either Assange or Snowden confirms what many people had suspected, that the second impeachment and threats from the establishment to convict him were the reason. Greenwald's article also explains why Pelosi was in such a rush to start an impeachment trial when Trump only had two weeks left in office. It's a case of scratch your back and I'll scratch mine between the big government types on both sides of the political isle, as neither wanted the act of their dirty laundry being aired being unpunishable, as that would invite more people to examine it. As a result, I paid for a yearly subscription given Greenwald's consistency and honesty, even though I revile much of the modern day political left, including all whom are infected with 'wokeness,' in short, the CPC types.

I'll admit, I supported Dick Cheney when he was VP and supported the PATRIOT Act with my first vote in 2004 at the age of 19, given the real threat of Jihadists, not only for 9/11, but for previous attempts and other, subsequent attempted attacks like the attempted 'underwear bomber' and Boston Marathon bomber. I suppose that was naive of me, perhaps in part given I was in my late teens/early 20s then and had long looked up to the FBI as the ones whom had the resources to analyze forensic evidence in order to put serial killers behind bars. I did not see the desire for a massive expansion of surveillance, nor did I anticipate the about turn the hard left took when expanding the surveillance under the Obama years, as they had screamed so loudly against it during the Bush years, yet were silent during his successor. I had no idea whatsoever of the politicization of the FBI, or for that matter, the CIA.

Now though, it seems that Trump's election created such a political earthquake that it shook the fake wool off of the authoritarian wolves in politics, revealing them for who they are. People on the right whom I had up until that point respected were revealed to have the same authoritarian tendencies of the massive regulators of the political left. With identity politics and wokeism, it made it even easier to distinguish the wolves from the sheep, especially here in southeast Wisconsin. Love or hate Trump, or be somewhere in between (as I am as I approve of his policies, not his impulsive tweets), I am grateful for his exposing of the statists, and am grateful for Greenwald's tireless efforts to keep them in the spotlight and expose their pasts and dirty laundry.

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I am a life-long Republican and I have utter contempt for the members of the GOP establishment that threatened Trump over this. I admit that I supported the war against Iraq.

I was mistaken. I believed the erroneous information about Saddam. I assume positive intent. If someone does something I disagree with, I look to see why they could be doing this and I don't assume a corrupt or evil intention.

But now I see I was wrong. I wonder how many other people were wrong. Was it Bush 2 who pushed for the war against Iraq or was Bush 2 convinced by a faction in the national security bureaucracy (NSB) to approve the war. I think Bush 2 wanted to do this anyways, but that faction in the NSB told him what he wanted to hear and he did what they wanted. I think the Valerie Plame nonsense was another branch of the NSB taking revenge against Bush 2 and his staff.

I think we have had a dispute between these two branches of the NSB. The irony is that the anti-Bush faction really is not opposed to war; they are just opposed to any war brought by Bush or the GOP. They were quite happy when Obama increased our presence in the Middle East with the Surge.

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I have spent most of my professional life as a government attorney, generally handling civil cases involving taxes. But in the middle of my career, I spent a year as a criminal prosecutor. It was a big change from civil litigation. My office was in a county just north of Columbus, Ohio and we were the fastest growing county in Ohio.

The county prosecutor at the time, W. Duncan Whitney, was highly ethical. We never leaked any information to the press...ever. Grand jury proceedings were highly confidential and we practiced great care in keeping them that way. There were disputes between the judges and the prosecutor's office but we handled them all honestly.

We had a choice of how to indict people. We could send the case to grand jury (which was secret) or we could send the case to a magistrate (in our county, the Municipal Court judge) for a preliminary hearing. We avoided prelim hearings as much as possible since they gave defense counsel a peek at our case. Since the grand jury only met a few days every other week, it was a challenge avoiding prelim hearings.

But we had a solid rule: if we got a bill of indictment from the grand jury that was not unanimous, we would not take that case to trial. We NEVER threatened criminal prosecutions in our civil cases. We NEVER threatened prosecutions against family members in order to get a plea agreement. I once read a report about how the US DOJ during the Clinton years had been doing this (especially Deval Patrick). I asked Mr. Whitney about this practice to see his opinion about Deval Patrick's actions. Whitney thought that I was asking about doing this in my cases. He was furious and yelled at me that if he ever caught me doing this, he would charge me with extortion! Well, that was good to know. Too bad Patrick never did his practice in Delaware County, Ohio or I would have recommended felony extortion charges against him.

I am proud of the work I did as a criminal prosecutor. My best memory was of the time when I got a person OUT of jail. It was Thanksgiving week and I had an offender who had been locked up on Saturday for a parole violation - moving out of her home county to Delaware County. She had problems with her home county's probation office; there were non-responsive. She moved to Delaware County and immediately registered with them. Her home county put out an order for her to be arrested and she was. Well, she had 2 cases in our county, one in front of Judge Shaw and one in front of Judge Kreager (who was on vacation that week). I had a hearing to review her request for release and the county probation office was there and supported her release. We got it done in the case in front of Judge Shaw, but the matching hearing in front of Judge Kreager was scheduled for the next week. I moved heaven and earth to get that hearing transferred to Judge Shaw and rescheduled for Tuesday. We got it all done and we got that woman out of prison so that she could work over the Thanksgiving holiday and spend the time with her family.

I feel good about my time as a prosecutor. We were an honest, ethical office. Too bad the DOJ is not that way.

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This was very helpful. I thought Pompeo was the one who was instrumental in talking Trump out of the pardons. Sadly it appears the most effective method to persuade a politician is by means of blackmail.

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I think this pardon or not pardon issue is important because it exposes the split personality of the GOP. This is exactly why they always get steamrolled by the left. Weak, vacillating and cowardly. Notice that The Left hardly ever breaks ranks on important issues and votes as a bloc even when their individual interests are disregarded by the DNC and Party leaders. Republicans should be called out on these positions that are in fact clones of Dem. ideology.

RINO is not an empty insult. Voters must make clear their position on RINO's and their self serving votes against GOP oriented programs and policies.

Trump on this issue was voting for self preservation or to allow him to run in 2024 with the backing of the entire party. Won't happen and he is pretty much done as a candidate and must content himself with being a "King Maker" behind the scenes or a uber-supporter of those he wishes to have elected.

First he is too old. Second he has way too many very powerful enemies who can utilize the "system" to bring him low. His past personal life and business dealings leave him exposed to a corrupt Justice System that is NOT above a frame job to get him out of the way. He knows that and realizes he is NOT an all ;powerful dictator who can just jail his mostly criminally driven, un-balanced haters on the left as well the back stabbers within his own Party. He is in a "no win situation."

Might be time for a reset and to rebuild the Party around a smart and strong leader/leaders who will be able to directly confront the I. C. and place them back in their troll cave by lopping off their leadership and allies in Congress. Tall order that would require a massive plurality in the next few elections. That support can only be assembled if both Parties can come to some type of meeting of the minds on the threats engendered by the Deep State. The catalyst would be a strong independent media that is not compromised by those unelected bureaucrats and war loving neo-cons. Good luck!

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Doesn't it take a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict an impeached president?

Did Trump really believe they could get - not just Graham and McConnell - but a third of Republicans to go along with conviction?

Maybe.

Or, maybe Trump was threatened with release of other damaging information?

Or maybe just intimidated on a personal level by the ferociousness of the various threats?

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Operation Chaos: Democrats flood America's streets with violent criminals

We all know that George Soros is funding District Attorney (DA) political campaigns across the country, making a mockery of local election integrity while installing radical left-wing Marxists into positions of power. These DAs now routinely release violent criminals back onto the streets while refusing to prosecute left-wing murderers, rapists, arsonists and other violent criminals.

But why? What's the motivation behind the release of criminals onto the streets?

The answer, of course, is that Soros and radical Leftists need to invoke mass chaos across America in 2022.

The mass chaos will be designed to disrupt or halt elections, cover up Biden's disastrous economic policy failure and even bury vaccine deaths that are accelerating by the day.

Get full details in today's feature podcast here.

https://www.brighteon.com/a11a305d-f2d0-4420-aeb0-0c18046a18e3

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Just a tiny bit of feedback: I just realized I've been deleting the emails from you that start with Video Transcript. Because the first word is 'video', I have been skipping them. Kind of dumb, but maybe I'm not the only one? How about Transcript of Video? That I would jump on, as I am one of your devoted subscribers that prefers to read. (BTW, thanks for all the options!!)

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Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022

Not pardoning Julian Assange and/or Edward Snowden would have exposed the perfidy or current government employees so it makes sense that UniParty Establishment would want the information suppressed but why NOT declassify Kennedy files? Personally, I am convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was a committed Stalinist/Bolshevik and murdered the President because JFK was a committed anti-Bolshevik anti-Russian anti-Communist. I think the Warren Commission was thorough. So what would declassifying Kennedy Assassination files reveal? CIA perfidy? or CIA incompetence? It wasn't the last time a terrorist slipped through their surveillance. 911 Boston Bomber Marjorie Stoneman Douglas massacre and so many more.

I remain an unshakeable supporter of President Trump but I do think he caved. Understandable. I like to indulge my political fantasy that Pres. Trump returns and torches all these people whose dishonesty and incompetence have betrayed us all.

Candace Owens is impressive and asked the question I wanted to ask. I do think Pres. Trump was misled and, in this case, intimidated. It is an explanation that makes sense.

I never considered myself a Leftist. I have heard that Glenn Greenwald is a Leftist. I wonder what that means in practical political sense. He seems like an honest and very competent policeman.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/us-election-is-like-choosing-between-cholera-or-gonorrhea/amp/

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/assange-confirms-firm-working-for-trump-campaign-contacted-wikileaks-over-clinton-emails/story-hXQzSVViUTLiiI40KKABgJ.html

I notice that the usual “supporters” of GG are mostly absent, here. Trump, Paul, and Goetz considered pardoning Assange and/or Snowden for one reason only…and that is, their revelations embarrassed the Democrats. That’s it.

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Trump should have done what he knew was right and pardon them. But his narcissism kicked in again and he was out for himself again. Please do not say Trump may have the opportunity in 2024. I am a staunch anti Democratic Party proponent but we CANNOT have Trump running for President again. He is too self destructive.

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"...weak, cucked, and submissive..." These are the main characteristics for all major globalization politicians.

With our duopoly presidential races, the multinationals have hedged their bets with not only both presidential candidates, but also with both Veeps. If a president doesn't behave, then he or she will be replaced and, with a bipartisan duopoly news/entertainment media, probably thrown into jail with no retirement benefits (speaking engagements, offshore bank accounts, library, etc.).

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I suppose one of the most patriotic things a person could do would be to help Assange escape prison and give him a microphone for 24 hours.

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