The good:
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.
The bad:
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.
The ugly:
... “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).
