COBB: I think that this case is ready to go. I think there is a possibility that the obstruction case may be broadened to go ahead and include the Espionage Act and counts and the possession, illegal possession of the classified documents, given the extent that, and solely because of the fact that Trump keeps lying about what the law is.
And they may -- they may decide that it's important enough for the country to fully grasp that. They don't need that to prove the obstruction. Trump could be right that he can declassify these things between foot massages, but the reality is that's just -- that's just not the truth.
The simple truth is there is a process, apparently, 16 different government officials reminded him of the process at least that impacted them. And he totally ignored that and believed that the mere fact he took them declassifies them. It's not the law.
BURNETT: What's interesting you're saying obstruction, but they could also include espionage to make the point.
COBB: Yeah --
(CROSSTALK)
BURNETT: So what do you think the actual charges will be, and in them, would Trump be looking at jail time?
COBB: So, I wouldn't if it was me, based on my own prosecutorial career, I would not necessarily expand the case to try to prove the Espionage Act piece of it because there's so much evidence of guilty knowledge on the espionage piece that all they really have to do is show that Trump moved these documents at various times when DOJ was either demanding them or actually present, that he filed falsely with the Justice Department, had his lawyers file falsely with the Justice Department and affidavit to the effect that not existed, which was shattered by the documents that they then discovered after the search.
And the many other misrepresentations that he and others have made on his behalf with regard to his possession of classified documents. So, I think this is -- I think this obstruction case is a tight case. And, yes, I do think he'll go to jail on it. (our emphasis)
This is part of the transcript of CNN's Erin Burnett interviewing former Malignant Loser White House lawyer Ty Cobb, specifically about the case that Special Counsel Jack Smith is assembling on the Malignant Loser's handling of classified documents. We like the sound of that last sentence.
Another advocacy group is warning people of color about traveling to Florida – but for different reasons.
The NAACP issued a travel advisory for the state “in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools,” the group said in a written statement Saturday.
The announcement came days after LULAC – the League of United Latin American Citizens – issued a travel advisory for Florida after DeSantis signed a new immigration law that will go into effect in July.
Both LULAC and the NAACP say actions under the DeSantis administration are “hostile” to their communities.
“Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals,” the NAACP said. “Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.”
Under DeSantis, Florida has banned the teaching of critical race theory – which acknowledges systemic racism is a part of American history and challenges the beliefs that allowed it to flourish. [snip]
The NAACP said DeSantis’ actions are “in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon.”
“Let me be clear – failing to teach an accurate representation of the horrors and inequalities that Black Americans have faced and continue to face is a disservice to students and a dereliction of duty to all,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said.
About the only community Bootsie hasn't been hostile to is white Christofascists.
... “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers,” in title, cover and content, is essentially a troll of former president Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father,” which recounted Obama’s upbringing and young adulthood before he entered Harvard Law School.
In his book, DeSantis, who has moved to stop history lessons in Florida that might make students uncomfortable and who attacked an AP African American Studies course he said “lacks historical value,” dismisses slavery as a “personal flaw” of the Founding Fathers, irrelevant to the really important stuff: context-free, cherry-picked quotes from James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. [snip]
The premise of “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers” devolves as it goes on. A later chapter claims the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville would also have hated Obamacare. It’s an odd inclusion in a book purportedly about the Founding Fathers, considering Tocqueville was not one of them.
There are long asides about Supreme Court cases, and even a nod to Martin Luther King Jr. — the sanitized version trotted out in annual tweets, anyway. DeSantis quotes King as complimenting the Constitution’s “magnificent words.” According to DeSantis’s footnotes, he grabbed it not from its context — pushing for civil rights legislation in the “I Have a Dream” speech — but from the Yale Book of Quotations.
DeSantis’s book depicts history as Useful Quotes from Great Men, not a rigorous study of the past in all its complexities, contexts, perspectives and, yes, hypocrisies. His attacks on history education should come as no surprise; given the chance to literally write history here, he took great pains to ignore African American history up until it could produce King’s quote...
Continuing with Bootsie, that excerpt is from a review by Gillian Brockell of Bootsie's 2011 book, which has now mysteriously disappeared as an e-book. We'd be embarrassed, too, if our name was attached to something this puerile and hollow (but, then again, it's a perfect symbol of Bootsie himself -- puerile and hollow).
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