#espionage act

On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin. On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin, Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being murdered. During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of U.S. informants on them.

A Timeline

• FBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquartered at Trump Tower for two years - March 21, 2017

• Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador - May 15, 2017

• Trump, Putin Meet For 2 Hours In Helsinki - July 16, 2018

• Rand Paul Goes To Russia And Delivers Letter For Trump, Marking Our Era Of Irony - August 9, 2018

• Following the Money: Trump and Russia-Linked Transactions From the Campaign to the Presidential Inauguration - December 17, 2018

• The US extracted a top spy from Russia after Trump revealed classified information to the Russians in an Oval Office meeting - September 10, 2019

• Trump’s Loose Lips Force US to Extract Spy From Kremlin - September 10, 2019

• Was Mar-a-Lago Trespasser a Tourist or a Spy? A Judge Said Her Story Didn’t Hold Up. - November 25, 2019

• Trump downplays massive cyber hack on government after Pompeo links attack to Russia - December 19, 2020

• Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, former KGB spy says - January 29, 2021

• There was Trump-Russia collusion — and Trump pardoned the colluder - April 17, 2021

• Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC - September 20, 2021

• Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants - October 5, 2021

• Files Seized From Trump Are Part of Espionage Act Inquiry - August 12, 2022

• Ex-Clinton aide implies 'President of France' file found at Trump's home during Mar-a-Lago raid could be valuable to Putin as 'kompromat' - August 13, 2022

• Inventing Anna: The tale of a fake heiress, Mar-a-Lago, and an FBI investigation - August 22, 2022

• Russians used a US firm to funnel funds to GOP in 2018. Dems say the FEC let them get away with it - October 30, 2022

• Trump makes shocking comments about trusting Putin over US 'intelligence lowlifes' - January 31, 2023

• Russia's Prigozhin admits links to what US says was election meddling troll farm - February 14, 2023

• GOP operative sentenced to 18 months for funneling Russian money to Trump- February 17, 2023

• Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national after leaving White House: Sources - October 5, 2023

• 'So appalled': What witnesses told special counsel about Trump's handling of classified info while still president - April 24, 2024

Dang. Idk if anyone has ever laid out Donald Trump’s entanglement with Russia sO clearly.

If you’ve had enough of watching the Trump clowns defending Trump & white supremacy, the Sutori link is definitely worth reading. It is a very enlightening, detailed and comprehensive timeline that puts Trump’s very very long history with Russian mobsters into sharp perspective.

👉🏿 https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-you-might-be-interested-in--pTTyLH39r7FsRtF51JZi4BVt

Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is clearly doing her job for an audience of one these days, and you get one guess who that is. Cannon did her real boss, President Donald Trump, a super solid on Monday, blocking the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Mar-a-Lago case. In doing so, she appears to have bought the Trump team’s legal argument that it was somehow unlawful for Smith to even prepare the report after Cannon dismissed the charges against Trump. Yes, you read that right. In the Mar-a-Lago case, where the then-former president of the United States absconded with hundreds of classified documents, stashed them in his gilded bathroom, had his people lie to the FBI about it, and refused to return them, the real bad actor is Smith.  What was Smith’s transgression, exactly? Writing the special counsel report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation, a thing he was required to write under Department of Justice regulations.  But you see, Smith was a villain for doing that because Cannon felt it defied the new rule she invented, one which determined special counsels were super-illegal. Well, special counsels investigating Trump, let’s be honest. Part of why slamming Smith for doing this is ridiculous is that Cannon seems to think that her ruling, as a lowly lower court judge, somehow definitively ended Smith’s job.  Smith, of course, appealed her decision, but that got resolved not because anyone agreed with Cannon, but because Trump’s fully captured DOJ dropped the appeal after Trump won in 2024. 

Cannon also curiously decided Trump’s demand for keeping Smith’s report secret forever was “unopposed” because Trump’s pet DOJ didn’t oppose it. This conveniently overlooks that, for over a year, American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute had been attempting to intervene in the case to compel the release of the report. Cannon dithered so long on even ruling that the groups had to go to the 11th Circuit last November to ask them to make Cannon rule. The 11th Circuit agreed, requiring Cannon to rule in 60 days, a thing she just straight-up ignored. However, she did helpfully—and swiftly—rule to allow Trump to participate and demand that the report be kept secret. 

Trump-appointed judicial activist Aileen Cannon protects 34x Felon-in-Chief’s crimes by blocking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the lawless classified document theft by at Mar-A-Lago.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Judge Blocks Release Of Jack Smith's Report On Trump Classified Documents Case

NCRM:Judge Cannon Permanently Blocks Release of Jack Smith Classified Docs Report

Amid Jimmy Kimmel Controversy, Broadcast TV Lobby Chief Says “Government Pressure On Media” Also Happened Under Obama And Biden

At the same time, LeGeyt notes that government pressure on media “to cover events in a particular way is not new and it has come from both political parties. During the Obama administration, journalists decried the use of the Espionage Act to investigate reporters and demand their confidential sources. Under the Biden administration, reporters faced growing barriers to access, and local affiliate stations were targeted based on the actions of cable news networks. Today, we continue to see veiled threats suggesting broadcasters should be penalized for airing content that is contrary to a particular point of view.

A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted John Bolton, United States President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, over his handling of classified documents, charging him with retaining and transmitting national defence information. The indictment, filed in federal court in Maryland on Thursday, charges Bolton with eight counts of transmission of national defence information and 10 counts of retention of national defence information, all in violation of the Espionage Act.

Not only did drunken rapist Pete Hegseth violate the Espionage Act of 18 U.S. Code Sec. 793, but he also managed to commit a War Crime simultaneously. Talk about Hegseth’s multitasking capabilities. First of all, the NSA had previously issued a WARNING ⚠️ to federal employees, including the Defense Department, to immediately cease using Signal back in February because the FSB had completely hacked that app's security features! 😳 Yet Hegseth ignored the NSA's order and continued to use it for dissemination of highly classified information anyway. Thus, his violations of the Espionage Act were with malicious intent.

During this detailed release of future military strikes about to be unleashed on the Houthis, these christofascist cunts bragged about intentionally “leveling” the entire apartment complex that the girlfriend of one of their target's lived in! Yes, they cheered about murdering countless innocent civilians just to kill the romantic partner of a target. That is a Capital War Crime.

Then you have both the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lying about the entire Signalgate incident where everything the bitch stated has been proven as outright lies along with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard lying to Congress. However, when traitor Tulsi claimed that absolutely NO CLASSIFIED intel was included in the unsecured group chat with Editor in Chief of the Atlantic magazine on the Signal app explicitly forbidden by the NSA, Gabbard was under oath!

Next we have the revelation that Special Envoy to the Middle East and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, was not only in Russia at the time of his participation in this illegal unsecured group chat with Editor in Chief of the Atlantic magazine, but Witkoff was specifically in the Kremlin seated next to war criminal Vladimir Putin during the military strikes chat! He must have been instructed to give Putin full access as the head of Russia declined to be a direct participant of the group chat as he knew first hand how unsafe Signal was and didn't want his name revealed. 😳

WIKILEAKS releases audio recording of Julian Assange speaking with the US judge in Saipan

We recently talked to political activist and Libertarian funny man, Spike Cohen about Julian Assange's recent release and the chilling effect his plea deal means for the future of journalism.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guest-spike-cohen-why-assange-is-free-trumps-5-d-chess/id1439014279?i=1000660801816