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(via Jack Smith Has His Say - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo)

Unlike the Mueller Report, which was a troubling but ultimately noncommittal document that a wily and cynical Bill Barr could spin so Trump could misleadingly claim exoneration, Smith’s report is a damning, full-throated condemnation of Trump. It cuts Trump off from falsely claiming his innocence, and it will leave a permanent asterisk by Trump’s name in the history books.

The headliner is this: Smith concluded that Donald Trump would have been found guilty on each of three conspiracy counts, had he not won reelection this year, a result that forced Smith to dismiss the charges per Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president. Despite the required dismissal, the admissible evidence, Smith stated in blunt terms, was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”

Smith addressed a claim by Trump made recently to try and stop the release of the report. His lawyers had written to Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming that dismissal of his criminal cases signified Mr. Trump’s “complete exoneration.”

“That is false,” Smith wrote to Garland.

He added, “The Department’s view that the Constitution prohibits Mr. Trump’s indictment and prosecution while he is in office is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution — all of which the Office stands fully behind.”

From @_Assaf_MD on Twitter / TRT World

LET UTAH READ

Stop Punishing Utah Students for Reading — LET UTAH READ

Sign and share If you agree that we need a return to common sense laws that don't punish students for reading.

"...the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) has taken it a step further. The USBE has issued guidance to schools that not only are books banned from libraries -- students are banned from bringing personal copies of books to school.

"A high school student in Utah with copy of Slaughterhouse Five, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beloved, The Handmaid's Tale, The Bluest Eye, The Kite Runner, Brave New World, or Out of Darkness are now in danger of being disciplined for being in possession of -- not drugs, not weapons, not pornography -- but mainstream, well-reviewed, and even CLASSIC books."

An easily exploitable bit-time mafia real estate fixer suddenly gets into huge casino deals in the 80s and just as suddenly has then all go unstuck in 1991/92 as the Soviet Union collapsed...🤔😏👇🏾

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910/