Trump’s Incompetent Lawfare Against Comey Will Blow Sky High with Dismissal

Lawyers are amazed at the shocking incompetence of Trump’s Department of Justice.

Legal Bombshell

Under sharp questioning by U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanov, Donald Trump’s former lawyer turned first-time prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitted that the full grand jury never saw the document that became Comey’s indictment.

I hate using the word bombshell because most articles with that word are nothing but hype. I asked my attorney friend if the word applied and he commented …

Yep.  Bombshell. It’s the grand jury’s indictment, not the prosecutor’s.  The grand jury is not only supposed to review the charges, they are supposed to vote on it.

Here, the prosecutor says the grand jury never even saw THEIR indictment.  I’ve never even heard of such a thing.  

I can’t imagine how this indictment can survive.  And now the statute of limitations has run out, so it’s game over.

Huge Flabbergasting Development

There never was an indictment. That’s what it boils down to.

I have never see two people more gleeful to discuss a case than Harry Litman and Adam Klasfeld discussing the question Was James Comey ever actually indicted? Live with Harry Litman

That’s a video link but it’s not a YouTube so I can’t embed it. Please click tp play the video. It’s a real hoot.

Their glee is not over the pending dismissal, but rather the mind-boggling amazing nature of the enormous mistakes by Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ).

Select Quotes

  • Harry: It’s really stunning. … You hear the gasp of the whole silent courtroom that the grand jury never saw the indictment. … Rule 6 is very clear, the 5th amendment is very clear that a grand jury must look at the indictment.
  • Adam: Was James Comey ever indicted?
  • Harry: The excuses here [by the government] were very embarrassing. Not only was the indictment signed by Mickey Mouse, but the grand jury didn’t see it. Now we have a new wrinkle in this case that we are at the end of statute of limitations. The main thing is this was a whoa flabbergasting moment.
  • Adam: I am going to interject here on a particular point. In the first hearing by James Comey, Lindsey Halligan sat at the table and said two words. It was her name, and she got them wrong. She registered her appearance but did not say Lindsey Halligan for the United States. She has not made that mistake again because one of her assistants always introduces her. She usually sits at the table like a mannequin, not saying a word. Today she was forced to say something.
  • Harry: … You get stuck in this job and three days later you’re indicting …It’s not even clear Halligan understood the importance [of what the judge was asking] The government will still say that even if they screwed up 18 different ways that the case should not be dismissed. Everything about this case has been handled in a ridiculous comedy of errors. I have never seen such a completely messed up procedure leading to an indictment. … Is there nobody there to give her [Halligan] the most elementary advice? That part is stunning as well.
  • Adam: [He starts discussing the existence of a declination memo] The eastern district of Virginia did not want this case brought. And they explained the reasons in a declination memo. Judge Nachmanov tried to elicit from the government whether such a memo existed. Government responded they were not authorized to say by the office of Attorney General.
  • Harry: Grievous misstatements of the law.
  • Adam: Lindsey Halligan botched burden of proof. She suggested that Comey had the burden to state his case. Halligan told the grand jury that if they did not believe there was sufficient evidence to prosecute, they could assume there was other evidence, perhaps better evidence. Those were the fundamental misstatements of law.
  • Harry: It’s such elementary blunder. Could even a rookie do this? It’s not just that Halligan does not know the first thing about prosecutorial practice. She signed on to bring him [Trump] the scalp. The stunning false accounts of the law that she gave were in response to grand jury questions.
  • Adam: [incredulous] Halligan after 3 days came to the conclusion that the comments from 2020 by James Comey that referred back to other comments by James Comey from 2017 cried out for prosecution. She was not influenced whatsoever, at all, by the fact that Donald Trump demanded this, publicly and openly. This is a non-parody.
  • Harry: It might not be long before this is dismissed.

‘Should Be Immediately Disbarred’

Next please consider ‘Should Be Immediately Disbarred’: Trump-Picked Prosecutor’s Blunder in Comey Case Leaves Experts Stunned

“Lindsey Halligan should be immediately disbarred,” wrote Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at the Georgia State College School of Law, in a post on X.

Political and leadership consultant Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, a former human rights attorney, also believed that Hallingan should face severe consequences for pushing forward with an indictment that had not been voted on by a full grand jury.

“This should result in the interim US Attorney losing her bar license,” she wrote on Bluesky. “Never, in almost 30 years as an attorney, have I heard of this big of an intentional fuck up before a grand jury.”

Maya Sen, a political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, drew a line between the quality of legal competence in the Comey case and a three-judge panel in Texas shooting down the administration’s efforts to redraw Texas’ congressional map as part of a mid-decade gerrymandering scheme.

“High levels of incompetence between this and the DOJ-TX gerrymandering situation,” she wrote on X. “It’s hard to find people with high levels of competence and expertise when maximizing on ideological and personal loyalty, and this is a problem for [Republicans] in the age of educational polarization.”

How Did This Happen?

  • Trump does not give a damn about the law.
  • Scores of justice department lawyers resigned rather than take such cases.
  • US Attorney Pam Bondi finally found someone willing to take the case.
  • That person was Lindsey Halligan who has never prosecuted a case.
  • Trump floated Halligan for the role in an unusual Truth Social post aimed at Bondi, one day after he forced out U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert from the job.
  • Siebert was the lawyer who refused to prosecute Comey, and mentioned in the declination memo.
  • The results are hilarious

Hoot of the Day

Trump Truth Social: It is my honor to appoint Lindsey Halligan, who has been serving as Special Assistant to the President at the White House, as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Lindsey is a tough, smart, and loyal attorney, who has worked with me for a long time, including in the winning fight against the Weaponization of our Justice System by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats, which she witnessed firsthand when she stood up for my rights during the Unconstitutional and UnAmerican raid on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. As a Partner at the biggest Law Firm in Florida, Lindsey proved herself to be a tremendous trial lawyer, and later represented me (and WON!) in the disgraceful Democrat Documents Hoax, as well as MANY other major, high profile cases. She is extremely intelligent, fearless and, working with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, has the strength and determination to be absolutely OUTSTANDING in this new and very important role. Congratulations, Lindsey – You will do GREAT things for JUSTICE, Virginia, and our Country! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump left off her biggest “talent”.

She was willing to risk disbarment by lying to judges and grand juries to win her first case.

What’s Next?

This case will be dismissed. I doubt Halligan lasts long in the administration. Any bets?

Trump does not like losers and she just lost Trump’s big case.

What Halligan did is so grievously absurd that she should be disbarred. We are talking never before in history things. But perhaps the Bar decision-makers will be too wimpy to take the wrath of Trump.

Regardless, this idiot is now professionally ruined. That’s the first bit of justice regarding the DOJ.

Court Accuses Trump’s Justice Dept of “Reckless Disregard of the Law”

Yesterday, I commented Court Accuses Trump’s Justice Dept of “Reckless Disregard of the Law”

Disturbing Pattern

“The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted. However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps.”

I am not defending Comey. I am attacking the blatantly illegal methods Trump is using to get what he wants.

Apologies offered. I seriously understated the case. “Reckless Disregard of the Law” does not do justice to the absurdity of the Department of Justice actions.

Yesterday, I said “All of these political witch hunts by Trump will implode. Some of them may implode due to a recognizable pattern of Judicial overreach even if there is an actual case.”

Well, that did not take long.

Stupid Lawyers Department

Let’s now return to the Texas Gerrymandering case that went against Trump.

“DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering,” Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. The DOJ is appealing to the Supreme Court.

This was my take: Hoot of the Day: Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Texas Gerrymandering

The multiple-irony setup is stunning.

The Law Dork has an important snip that I was not aware of. How the Texas Attorney General described the DOJ letter: Legally unsound, baseless, erroneous, ham-fisted, and a mess. 

As a result, there is a genuine chance the Supreme Court agrees but lets the California gerrymandering continue. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

Repeating my statement from yesterday: please reflect on the quality of Trump’s DOJ and Trump’s blatantly illegal lawfare tactics by rookies who have never even prosecuted a case.

New DONJ Acronym Needed

There is no justice, just lawfare. We need to rename the DOJ the DONJ.

DONJ = Department Of No Justice.

Addendum Friend’s Comment

“Across the Board, the DOJ people are idiots.  I watched the Harvard argument in Boston and the clown they sent up — I guess they must have thought he was good — was terrible, making a jury argument to a judge.  I’ve noted that Sauer — the damn SG, the nation’s top appellate advocate — has defects I would cure early in young lawyers.  Bondi is not really a lawyer.  Now, this clown.  They are just terrible, terrible lawyers.   It’s like taking your grocery store’s butcher, giving him a scalpel and telling him to replace that patient’s knee.”

Best Reader Quotes

Quatloo: The incompetence of the Trump administration is breathtaking. But when you have no principles and hire only yes men and women, this is the most likely outcome.

MPO45v2: America voted for a carnival barker as leader and now government is a giant circus run by clowns, carnies, freaks, pretenders, and performers. It makes me wonder if there are any real criminal cases being done at all or is this just Trump’s revenge show.

Dootzie6: He has basically turned the DoJ into his own personal law firm & where competent, credible prosecutors refuse to pursue & resign.

Randocalrissian: Halligan’s willingness to take on this case is more proof for the doubters that this is all happening the way it was predicted. Between this and Bondi in Feb saying no Epstein files need investigating to November saying we are investigating but only Democrats – we have two unfathomably incompetent unforced errors by Trump’s henchpeople.

Leslie: Does anyone really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?

It’s hard to pick the winner from the above but I will go with Leslie, Dootzie6, and a friend’s comment in no particular order.

Correction: I meant to post a comment by Conway. Instead, I posted a comment from a friend, interpreting the article’s comments.

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Avery2
Avery2
19 days ago
Reply to  Mike Shedlock

Mish, please do not delay in filing this post as your Amicus Curiae with the court.

BenW
BenW
19 days ago
Reply to  Mike Shedlock

OMG, now, it looks like things might be turning back towards the DOJ:

“The complete record eliminates any doubt: The foreperson confirmed the vote. The Court acknowledged the vote. The Court docketed the two-count true bill as the operative indictment. Only Count One lacked concurrence; Counts Two and Three were true-billed by at least twelve jurors,” the Trump DOJ said in its new court filing. “Accordingly, any assertion that the grand jury ‘never voted on the two-count indictment’ is contradicted by the official transcript.”

Maybe I don’t understand what’s going on as well as I should. But let’s assume for a moment that this is what really happened, we might actually have us a Bonafide activist judge trying to taint prosecution of Comey. We are talking about the same judge here right? The one who said the vote was only made by the foreperson vs what’s being reported here as something materially different.

How can that be?

JohnF
JohnF
18 days ago

Trump’s Incompetent Lawfare Against Comey
Will Blow Sky High with Dismissal = The Plan

Lock Her Up (2016) – NO ONE At The Top Gone To
Jail/Prison Yet!

Bush Jr ‘War of Terror’ 2001 – Present (Ongoing) – No
Arrests

Russia Gate Hoax – (Clinton Foundation 2016) – No Arrests

Plandemic Medical Tyranny – (Gates & Fauci BioWeapons 2019) – No Arrests

January 6th PSYOP – (Hundreds of Matrix Agent’s Everywhere 2021) – No Arrests

No Epstein Honey Trap Blackmail Sex Scandal Arrests – Ensnaring The World’s Politicians For Pentagon MIC Warmonger$$.

No JFK/RFK/MLK Assassination Arrests – Last Anti-War Group – Permanent War Mode Since

CIA’s USAID = Media Propaganda (Ruse of Terrorism/Drugs to Invade Countries) For Coups – Color
Revolutions – Regime Change (No Arrests).!

Last edited 18 days ago by JohnF
peter
peter
18 days ago

I can’t get over what an ass Trump is. The man’s a fool. It says a lot about the US edumacation system that voters elected him.

Tony Frank
Tony Frank
19 days ago

I read in a dictionary earlier today that a synonyms for incompetence was trump.

phleep
phleep
19 days ago

I see these lingering problems:
1) Trump still has the sheriff’s badge. who watches the watchman? It’s not like any other branch could, or would, have a remedy here.
2) Not much popular resonance here. Attention spans have collapsed since Watergate. And there is some lingering you-too-ism to aim back at Dems for their sketchy prosecutorial discretion exercised toward Trump, at least in largish segments of the popular mind. This doesn’t play red-hot in media like “elite pedophile” or something. Comey is a dubious hero, based on some murky history with Hillary, etc.

Fred Birnbaum
Fred Birnbaum
19 days ago

I think that you are missing the essential point. Yes, incompetence is embarrassing but it does NOT negate the face that Comey openly committed treason. He knowingly used a false dossier that was Clinton campaign opposition material – and he knew that, to try to damage and even overturn a duly elected President. That is about 10 million times worse than an incompetent DOJ under Trump.

Ed Homonym
Ed Homonym
19 days ago
Reply to  Fred Birnbaum

> He knowingly used a false dossier that was Clinton campaign opposition material

Yes. But that wasn’t “all” it was. To me, it seemed part of a propaganda effort to incite D’s — often the anti-war crowd — to hate Russia enough to support — or at least not oppose — warring against Russia.

In other words, it was not simply Clinton-Trump rivalry. It was…[drum roll] … BI-PARTISAN and TRANSNATIONAL.

Last edited 19 days ago by Ed Homonym
njbr
njbr
19 days ago
Reply to  Fred Birnbaum

Indictment for:

  • False statement: Comey is accused of making a false statement during his September 30, 2020 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  • Obstruction of Congress: He is also charged with obstructing a congressional investigation into the disclosure of sensitive information.
  • Source of the allegation: The charges stem from Comey’s denial of authorizing a leak to the media, which prosecutors allege was false.

Not “treason”

Breathe easier

David Heartland
David Heartland
19 days ago

“Dept of Nonsense Justice.” We have been fed a string of nonsense bull on Tariffs and “The Big Beautiful Bill” and so on. It is tiring and irritating. STILL, better than Special K with her babbling.

Jon
Jon
19 days ago

How so?

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago

better than Special K with her babbling.

Completely preposterous.

BenW
BenW
19 days ago

As I said yesterday, I don’t think it’s lawfare. I believe Comey is guilty of authorizing the release of leaks & then lied about it to Congress.

I don’t think appointing a prosector that doesn’t have the requisite experience to do the job is lawfare.

Lawfare is when you spend 10 years trying to GET a political opponent. IMHO, that’s not what’s happening here.

However, the optics are terrible, and will only add to the growing dissatisfaction with the independents over the job Trump is doing.

Trump & his entire administration is doing a horrible job with communicating what’s going on in terms of tariffs & immigration, H1-B visas etc. He’s never offered a cohesive, big picture strategy of how all of this stuff is supposed to come together & make American Great.

Last edited 19 days ago by BenW
MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago
Reply to  BenW

It brings a tear to my eye to watch you grow. Keep climbing that ladder.

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

Grow? Seasoned prosecutors quit because he’s dead wrong. The only people who agree with him are the dumb blonde trio: Trump, Halligan, and Leavitt.

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

When Ben started posting comments here he was an endless apologist for Trump, never questioning any decision. He’s now starting to question things, that’s growth. Yeah, it’s slow but we were all toddlers at one point learning to crawl.

Creamer
Creamer
19 days ago
Reply to  BenW

>Lawfare is when you spend 10 years trying to GET a political opponent. IMHO, that’s not what’s happening here.
You mean like he’s been promising with Comey for the last, let me check, 8 or so years?

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Creamer

I’m still waiting for him to lock up Hillary and that’s been what 12 years?

Ed Homonym
Ed Homonym
19 days ago
Reply to  El Trumpedo

Haha. I bet you saw and remember him in a post-victory appearance (2017?) saying “[lock her up] played well before the election; now not so much”.

He verbally slaps his supporters and they love him. Truly disappoints me to see his supporters stay in an abusive relationship.

Last edited 19 days ago by Ed Homonym
George
George
19 days ago
Reply to  El Trumpedo

If you take that route all political clowns of all stripes need to be arrested and prosecuted.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  BenW

You love daddy so much, don’t you piggie?

Stu
Stu
19 days ago
Reply to  BenW

I agree with you on that Ben! Trump is a poor communicator as it is, and it’s typically because of His hard time dealing with idiots, and there are so many, but I digress… He has a speaker to do these things, and then take the heat for, or pass the buck on, but never a direct hit. Perhaps having a hard time giving it up, but that or work a lot harder at being effective with it. It’s probably one of his biggest faults (Patience).

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago

We are living in interesting times, the video link below is from The Young Turks, a left leaning youtube channel but the interesting thing is that it spends most of the video referencing Tucker Carlson’s (right leaning) in depth expose into Crooks (the guy who shot Trump) and asks some very important questions about why the whole investigation was shutdown by Trump’s FBI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUAAfiIKAgw

The left and right are coming together more often than not questioning all the crazy nonsense that’s happening out there. I encourage lefties and rightists to watch the video and start asking questions.

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with no one.

George
George
19 days ago

The Super Bowl people….

Mike
Mike
19 days ago

Not being a member of the protected class I am curious.

In Va do Grand Juries review a multitude of cases or individual cases? Was Comey’s specially convened for just his case or part of dozens being reviewed by The Grand Jury as part of their duties that day?

Is every Va Grand Jury case recorded or just Comey’s?

The indictment document is normally prepared by court house administration in my state and presented to the prosecutor before meeting and conferring with the Grand Jury. The prosecutor doesn’t prepare the indictment document. Humans are involved and mistakes can be made.

The Grand Jury does not start reviewing a case without the indictment document as it is needed to vote on by the jury. For example I have observed administration give the wrong indictment document to a prosecutor and that case was rescheduled.

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
19 days ago

Trump’s Incompetent Lawfare Against Comey Will Blow Sky High with Dismissal

There fixed it for you.

SavyinDallas
SavyinDallas
19 days ago

As a former prosecutor of 8 years, including investigating and prosecuting white collar fraud cases for 5 years in which I investigated and sent cases to a grand jury for consideration of indictments, I can only say that this scenario is hard to believe. An inexperienced prosecutor as this in such a high profile case certainly must have had some oversight and guidance from the very top. There had to have been severe political pressure for her to take such actions. Perhaps an independent grand jury under an independent Special Counsel should be impaneled to look very carefully into this matter. If all this is true, looks like Comey may soon be a very rich man from a civil suit for malicious prosecution and any number of other civil claims. Sad, as I despise Comey who deserves to be held accountable for his actions. Looks like after the Democrats retake the House and Senate next year we can again look forward to the spectacle of political investigations and witch-hunts and possible impeachment proceedings. Our nation is in big trouble. The people and forces that pull the strings and select our presidential candidates-all corrupt clowns–for both parties, need to be reined in and taken out of the process.

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago
Reply to  SavyinDallas

close. but no cigar. democracy works. in a representative democracy people elect themselves. hakeem jeffries and mike johnson are exact replicas of their constituents. most, in a war mongering empire that also is a republic, cannot handle this simple and ancient truth.

SavyinDallas
SavyinDallas
19 days ago
Reply to  bmcc

Yes you are correct, but dumbed down, ignorant people elect who they are told to elect. People elected Trump because of MAGA. They should have figured out before they voted that Trump did not serve them and that his MAGA principles were something he never intended to implement.

Mike
Mike
19 days ago
Reply to  SavyinDallas

Siebert resigned as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday, September 19, 2025,

Comey indicted on 25 September on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstructing a congressional proceeding in connection with testimony he gave in 2020 in which he said he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” regarding Hillary Clinton.

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago

the irony of course is Comey went rogue and torpedoed crooked hillary in 2016. crumbling evil empires have many ironies. the people keep voting for themselves. violent warmongering incompetent grifters………long live pax dumbfuckistan.

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago

it was the best grand jury indictment in world history. everyone knows that, including the crown prince of saudi.

threeblindmice
threeblindmice
19 days ago

The system is holding, folks. That’s the good news. The bad news is I don’t think those testing the system will be chastised enough to refrain from testing it again.

Frosty
Frosty
19 days ago
Reply to  threeblindmice

The stock market is starting to see how unstable our leadership team is and about the only commodity to be holding its value is Gold. The mining stocks are taking a beating in spite of $4,075 gold…

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago

I am afraid, that while both the red team and blue team are corrupt and out of
focus, over all the Dem’s have taken governance to a new level of pathetic
leadership.

Tom
Tom
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Quiet. Quiet piggy.

Jon
Jon
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

How so?

Flavia
Flavia
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

The Dems aren’t governing (FYI).

Leslie
Leslie
19 days ago

Do anyone really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Leslie

Absolutely not, but it will be hilarious watching his piggies heads spin as they try to deny how badly they’ve been swindled.

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago
Reply to  Leslie

It’s possible that this DOJ’s incompetence taints all cases for the next few years. I can see judges tossing all the cases brought about this lawless “Justice” department.

Jon
Jon
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

Good comment. When the best people leave the DOJ, only the incompetent and those who lack any integrity are left. It will take a long time to rebuild the DOJ.

Jon
Jon
19 days ago

The difference between California and Texas is that California attorneys carefully reviewed the requirements for gerrymandering, carefully wrote up the language for a state-wide referendum, and presented it to the population for a vote where it passed overwhelmingly. It may still be unconstitutional and get overturned by the Supreme Court, but it will have to go through a very long, drawn out process that probably won’t get completed before the mid-terms. That’s the conservative, American way of changing the law.

In Texas, the governor just had a few guys redraw the boundaries and got the pro-Trump state reps and senators to quickly pass it. Whereupon state dems immediately sued and state courts immediately saw it was illegal. That’s the Trump way. And Trump supporters, left dumbfounded, can only assume the historic American legal system must be part of the evil deep-state, out to destroy their beloved Christian leader.

Naphtali
Naphtali
19 days ago
Reply to  Jon

Democracy. Shade of Socrates. It is interesting that here on the left coast a substantial portion of the population has been voted into powerlessness by the blue cities. It will not end well. “Taxation without representation” will again rise as a catchphrase.

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago
Reply to  Naphtali

Actually, the people of California, unlike the imprisoned people in the blue cities of Texas, are free from the amoral Christian Nationalist dictators from the rural red counties who are running Texas into the ground.

RonJ
RonJ
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

California is being run into the ground. People are leaving the state. A neighbor who grew up under Castro, left 5 years ago, due to what Democrats are doing to the state.

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago
Reply to  RonJ

Lol. No.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Naphtali

Another fascist hater of democracy.

Naphtali
Naphtali
19 days ago
Reply to  El Trumpedo

LOL! Hardly my friend.
The Republic was formed due to the diversity of the constituents and minority fear of repression. Democracy and diversity do not mix well. That is evident today.

Last edited 19 days ago by Naphtali
El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Naphtali

You’re talking about “toddler democracy”. It’s a democracy, where everyone votes the way you want them to, or you throw a tantrum.

Diversity of any sort is treason.

Flavia
Flavia
19 days ago
Reply to  Jon

It’s a shame that there is not more consistency in the way the states handle problems.

Last edited 19 days ago by Flavia
RonJ
RonJ
19 days ago
Reply to  Flavia

California is set to lose 2 refineries, due to the Democrats. This could drive fuel costs up to $8. The state unemployment rate in July was highest in the country, out of 50 states. Just yesterday, learned that the state budget is 18 billion in the red.

California is not smart.

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago
Reply to  RonJ

Way smarter than most white-run states.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  RonJ

California has too many fools on the road, Taking moronic journeys to places they don’t need to be.

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
19 days ago
Reply to  Jon

To put it succinctly, California voted on it. Texas didn’t. California will only go through if Texas does. Trump is a real estate developer and isn’t very smart about anything else. He has the most incompetent lawyers the system has ever seen.

FWIW, the way for the Supreme Court to resolve the gerrymandering issue is to force all states to draw lines a certain way. Given this is a question of how to read a map, it should be north/south/east/west lines. There could also be a formula for how large each district should be. Right now there are some districts where less than a 100 people live getting the same representation as some places where millions of people live. That isn’t a representative democracy or republic.

Naphtali
Naphtali
19 days ago

It is something of a travesty that political parties can manipulate districts in order to sway representation to their favor. Perhaps state governments were ill-formed at their outset. State senatorial districts should have been set by county in imitation of that at the federal level with states. With such structure I would imagine that legislation would be more carefully constructed to appeal more broadly within states. At the time that most western states were formed, the population was more widely distributed and large population centers did not exist. A pity they did not read Plato

Albert
Albert
19 days ago

This looks like a serious case of undue deference to political authority under time pressure. If this conduct was politically motivated, disbarring both Bondi and Halligan might well be the correct remedy.

randocalrissian
randocalrissian
19 days ago

Trump has intentionally hired the most incompetent people, as we have all been reminded, because they will go along with his treachery. Halligan’s willingness to take on this case is more proof for the doubters that this is all happening the way it was predicted.

Between this and Bondi in Feb saying no Epstein files need investigating to November saying we are investigating but only Democrats – we have two unfathomably incompetent unforced errors by Trump’s henchpeople.

Please someone take a stab at defending Trump’s side these situations, I’ll wet myself laughing.

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago

As a red-blooded American man, I fully endorse hiring as many hot chicks with whom I would like to have sexual relations as possible.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

Another (1) DJTS , my this is a place for the brainwashed

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

There are porn sites for that stuff, FFS. Masturbating during the news is just icky.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago

Treachery? wow DJTS to the max, unreal

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

But you can still vote your own posts, so you have that.

Quatloo
Quatloo
19 days ago

The incompetence of the Trump administration is breathtaking. But when you have no principles and hire only yes men and women, this is the most likely outcome. It is the leadership style of Kim Jong UN and Saddam Hussein; unfortunately for Trump, he doesn’t have the kind of totalitarian power needed to maintain leadership in that environment. The DOJ is particularly abominable—Bondi and Halligan were appointed solely because Trump thought they looked attractive, not because they were the best and the brightest. The open revolt of members of his party in the House on the Epstein files was successful, so expect Republican criticism to increase as his favorability rating declines. Trump is becoming the lamest of lame ducks.

Neil
Neil
19 days ago
Reply to  Quatloo

A small addition to your post: they were hired because they looked attractive and are willing to do anything asked of them, no matter how illegal or immoral it is.

Quatloo
Quatloo
19 days ago
Reply to  Neil

Yes, that was the point of my comment that he hires only ‘yes men and women’. Anyone who tells him it can’t be done operationally, legally, or ethically is fired.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago
Reply to  Quatloo

You must be a dreamer card hopeful?

randocalrissian
randocalrissian
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

No wonder you’re anonymous, as your posts lack any arguments at all, just sniping at others. Typical depressed person.

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago

he is probably engel. who is also on wolfstreet. time to ignore anonymous soon.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago
Reply to  Quatloo

Wow… # 3 we are winning in the DJTS column…………. Holy cow what 4 years of

Liberal college life does for one’s predisposition

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

It’s pretty rare to see someone triggered as badly as you are.

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago

America voted for a carnival barker as leader and now government is a giant circus run by clowns, carnies, freaks, pretenders, and performers. It’s all entertaining but the tragedy is all the people that are suffering because of these idiots.

It makes me wonder if there are any real criminal cases being done at all or is this just Trump’s revenge show.

The only hope is midterms, impeachment and return to sanity. Alternatively, leave the circus with an exit strategy.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

Oh wow, Like you ever pay real attention to the reality of the Dem’s legislative

destruction of the real economy since the Clintons / Boma / Biden?

You need to take some time past the brainwashed media and investigate

randocalrissian
randocalrissian
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Wow your repetitive, vacuous drivel has you on the hide list faster than Michael Engel. That’s a real accomplishment in kuckleheadedness.

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Baby alert! Whah! Whah! Whah! Clinton/Boma/Biden pacifier activated!

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

the donkey v elephant fan boys and pom pom girls just crack me up. never change.

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

you are half way there. the truth is democracy works. the people vote for folks just like themselves. always have. always will. give The Republic, penned by Plato a long slow read. also buried in the book is 3 pages better than adam smith’s doorstop, wealth of nations. total plagiarized. imho.

Edv
Edv
19 days ago
Reply to  MPO45v2

Will you be keeping your USA citizenship when you finally exit the country? Will you be securing your citizenship in your new country? And, finally, will you continue to add your opinion to this site?

MPO45v2
MPO45v2
19 days ago
Reply to  Edv

It depends, it depends, yes.

dootzie6
dootzie6
19 days ago

I hope this opens a door to the whole lawfare strategy against his political opponents to collapse. He has basically turned the DoJ into his own personal law firm & where competent, credible prosecutors refuse to pursue & resign, he appoints inexperienced or downright incapable, inexperienced or worse (unethical) prosecutors to do his bidding.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
19 days ago
Reply to  dootzie6

I don’t think lawyers matter nearly as much as the private army. He’s built and trained to snatch people off the street and ship them off to shit hole countries. Those guys seem to be with him pretty solidly.

All they have to do is snatch a couple of lawyers for shooting their mouth off and the rest will shut up.

All this judicial foolishness is just a prelude.

TEF
TEF
19 days ago

DOJ .. Department of Joke …

Ty Cobb, former Trump WH attorney, also thinks Bondi should be is disbarred … https://youtu.be/63rEjIPTczY

  • Initial ratification: Bondi initially dated a ratification on October 31, 2025, stating she had reviewed the grand jury proceedings and was ratifying the actions of Lindsey Halligan.
  • Incomplete information: By November 5, the government conceded that it had not had the complete grand jury minutes for the Comey case when Bondi made her initial review. The same was later acknowledged for the James case.
  • Corrected ratification: Bondi issued a new ratification on November 7, 2025, confirming that she had now reviewed the entire record, making the ratification based on the complete information. 
Avery2
Avery2
19 days ago
Reply to  TEF

Mish, what would your property taxes be if you were still in Illinois?

JCH1952
JCH1952
19 days ago
Reply to  Avery2

My property taxes in Texas are $17,000 per year.

Anonymous
Anonymous
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

and unfortunately back Muni Bonds to keep the Blue machine schools
Public employee retirement accounts whole… Some day soon its going to
blow up and will spectacular…………

bmcc
bmcc
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

glad, i figured out as a young r/e investor to avoid TX like the plague. shit weather, too.

Rogerroger
Rogerroger
19 days ago
Reply to  JCH1952

Im in ca. talked to my tax person. Asked her about ca verses other states. She basically said it about the same. Just how they collect it.
Fidelity has a good read ( the best states for taxes)
When it comes down to it govment gonna get theres

Flavia
Flavia
19 days ago
Reply to  Rogerroger

The best states for taxes tend to be ones that no one wants to move to.

Last edited 19 days ago by Flavia
Pokercat
Pokercat
18 days ago
Reply to  Mike Shedlock

In TN on a $400+ home I pay both city and county tax about $1600 total combined.
Eastern TN is lovely, please don’t move here and screw it up. This last is meant for most everyone, MISH you are welcome. lol

Last edited 18 days ago by Pokercat

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