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Mark Chidichimo's avatar

Having worked in the NYO, you of all people have been aware from the start of the breadth of the investigation concerning TFG and his accomplices. I was involved in major cases stemming from administrative aspects of RESMURS in 1975 when in Albuquerque and as an SSA for PENTBOM, with many other cases in between - Pitts, Hansen, TWA 800, etc. The scope of DOJs investigation regarding the previous administration is massively - exponentially - more complex. It appears to have been moving steadily along for the years cases of this magnitude warrant, and it must be done right. Some pundits - notably some former SDNY AUSAs - have been whining about the fact that Trump should have been indicted for obstruction on Day 1 of the Biden Administration - and if they got a hung jury, then what? People outside law enforcement are simply used to watching cases play out in television dramas - one hour, including commercials. They really need to chill out.

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Marlene Reil's avatar

I think that stealing & withholding classified documents is part of a larger pattern that started earlier than your timeline. Fred Trump made millions off of housing subsidies from federal & state governments. Father & son used their subsidized housing to discriminate against POC, the very people who are supposed to benefit from housing of this kind. Screwing the government & profiting from government tax abatements & grant $ is the OG pattern of the Trump family. Seen this way, Trump viewed government property as his own particularly since his installation as POTUS. I’m afraid that what we know merely scratches the surface of the Trump Crime Syndicate. The new pattern is using his followers as a cult movement through undue influence campaigns, aided by Fox & the right wing movement that infiltrated all three branches of the federal government along with state legislatures, election officials, sheriffs & police departments. Trump himself is a sociopath & fits in with other cult leaders who commit financial crimes & sex trafficking. Koresh, Moon, Raniere all had sexual relations with minors. This is likely true of Trump as well given his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, his fame & his inflated sense of self. Every relationship is transactional & he has no capacity for empathy. Trump is perhaps the most prolific criminal of the modern era.

One of the things we need to do is to finally put laws pertaining to cult activity on the books. Their pattern is as predictable as Trump is. Fox is not a news outlet or a normal cable channel. It is a PsyOp that drills into their viewer’s’ amygdala the same way that Trump does and that the GOP uses now as well.

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