ROTFLMAO!!!! WOW, Road SCUM 57, there it IS! The CASE CRACKER!!! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
Now, they can file to re-open some of those 60 odd cases where they took it up the ass, right? You don't EVER learn, do you? Any reason you had no comment on the Pillow Guy event? Meanwhile, back on Planet Reality, read it and WEEP, Scumbag:
It’s Over: Trump Will Be Indicted
Brad Moss
Fri, August 26, 2022 at 3:01 PM
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I have finally seen enough. Donald Trump will be indicted by a federal grand jury.
You heard me right: I believe Trump will actually be indicted for a criminal offense. Even with all its redactions, the probable cause affidavit published today by the magistrate judge in Florida makes clear to me three essential points:
(1) Trump was in unauthorized possession of national defense information, namely properly marked classified documents.
(2) He was put on notice by the U.S. Government that he was not permitted to retain those documents at Mar-a-Lago.
(3) He continued to maintain possession of the documents (and allegedly undertook efforts to conceal them in different places throughout the property) up until the FBI finally executed a search warrant earlier this month.
Read the Redacted Mar-a-Lago Affidavit the Feds Just Released
That is the ball game, folks. Absent some unforeseen change in factual or legal circumstances, I believe there is little left for the Justice Department to do but decide whether to wait until after the midterms to formally seek the indictment from the grand jury.
The cruelest irony for Trump is that it never needed to be this way.
Put aside that in the chaos following his election loss Trump’s team never undertook the normal procedure for properly sorting through and archiving his presidential records in coordination with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Put aside that properly marked classified records were shipped to Mar-a-Lago and sat there for months until he began turning stuff over to NARA in late 2021.
If he had fully cooperated at that point, and returned all of the records to NARA last year, this likely never would have become a criminal matter. DOJ would have declined to take any action, notwithstanding the existence of the classified records, and it would have been a “no harm, no foul” situation. Just another minor story in the Trump saga of incompetence.
But Trump just could not bring himself to play by the rules. He turned over 15 boxes last January but did not turn over all the records. Political operatives from conservative organizations started whispering into his ear that he had legal precedent on his side to refuse to turn over the classified records to NARA (he did not). His lawyers surprisingly wrote a rather condescending letter to DOJ in May 2022, effectively arguing that even if there were still classified records at Mar-a-Lago the FBI lacked the authority to take any criminal action against Trump given his former status as president. Then, in June 2022 after the FBI executed a subpoena to recover more records at Mar-a-Lago, two Trump lawyers wrote (and one signed) a sworn affidavit reassuring the government there were no more classified records at the property.
We now know that statement was not true. The FBI found multiple more classified records, including some with markings for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) during the search this month, and not just located in the storage room with the other boxes of records. They found records located in different parts of Mar-a-Lago.
Of course, there are various arguments for why a prosecution might not succeed in this situation.
There is the contention by Trump and his allies that he declassified the documents, whether through a “standing order” or more specific verbal action. No evidence has been produced corroborating that assertion, and there certainly is no indication that the classification markings themselves were ever revised to reflect the declassification. The Trump lawyers in May certainly did not provide any such evidence in their letter to DOJ, and they similarly provided no evidence of it in their “motion” filed earlier this week in district court in Florida seeking a Special Master.
And that is before we even consider if the classification status would matter for an Espionage Act prosecution, which only requires that the information relate to the national defense.
Trump’s Coup Attempt Will Always Be a Way Worse Crime Than Stealing Documents
There is also the issue of selective political prosecution and supposed bad faith by the government in its decision to pursue the case. This is something that has been mentioned ad nauseum by Trump allies on cable news, and was briefly mentioned in the “motion” filed earlier this week in court. Lacking from those arguments is anything beyond rank speculation. That will not fly in court. Just ask Sidney Powell how well it works to try to litigate in court the way you argue on cable news. Hint: it does not go well.
All in all, this case should and in my opinion will result in an indictment. Sure, an indictment does not equal a conviction. Trump is still assumed innocent until proven guilty. There are unknown variables like whether the prosecution would occur in Florida or in D.C. We do not know what evidence Trump might have to substantiate his declassification claim. And we do not know what the courts would say about his various arguments.
Get the popcorn ready either way.
Bradley P. Moss is a Partner and national security attorney at the Washington, D.C. Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C. He can be found on Twitter at @BradMossEsq.
"During the course of probing one such software provider, in early 2021 Gregg and his team stumbled across an IP address for a server that was purportedly associated with a company named Konnech, at least according to the records of services that track IP address ownership and location.
That IP address, it turns out, was located in China—it was evidently used by some instances of the software application for a period of time, before switching to a new IP address in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Geolocation tools that I used suggest that the server that was hosting this address in China was somewhere near Hangzhou, possibly somewhere near Zhejiang University...
While Gregg and his team were investigating, they ran some routine cybersecurity checks to see what services were being used by that Chinese IP address to determine what was behind it. One of these routine “scans” showed a port on that IP address—27017—that is typically used by a database application called “MongoDB”...
A common practice for cybersecurity professionals who are exploring a network is to “test the locks” when they find “open windows or doors” as they walk around a “building” of interest, and in this case, they did a quick check on the MongoDB port (“rattled the windows”) to see if it responded.
When it did, they next tried a pretty basic thing: they tested to see if they could log into it with the default, “out of the box” username and password. That would be a pretty dumb thing for the owner of this machine to have left in place, but it is surprisingly common.
In other words, as the cyber team rattled the windows and doors, they found a boneheaded error on the MongoDB installation that only a novice would be expected to make. The doors and windows weren’t even locked. In fact, they were wide open.
You see, when MongoDB is freshly installed, it doesn’t have proper security rules set up to restrict who can read and write data into it; unless the person configuring that MongoDB installation takes the extra necessary steps (and knows how to do it), MongoDB either has NO password, or the default password which is… well, you can probably guess. “PASSWORD”.
So Gregg’s team was able to “walk in the front door”, as it were, because there was no lock on the door, and “look around the place.”
What they found was shocking: they found data that included personal details of nearly 1.8 million US poll workers. Details like their names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. Even the names of family members: things that might routinely be collected when you hire someone and issue them a paycheck.
But they also reportedly found rich details about where election machines were located, including floorplans of buildings used in elections. Nominally, this information would be of use by the election agencies, because the application they were using helped them track their election machine inventory.
But none of this should have been left out in the open for just anyone to see; and it sure as hell shouldn’t have been done in China."
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That IP address, it turns out, was located in China—it was evidently used by some instances of the software application for a period of time, before switching to a new IP address in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Geolocation tools that I used suggest that the server that was hosting this address in China was somewhere near Hangzhou, possibly somewhere near Zhejiang University...
While Gregg and his team were investigating, they ran some routine cybersecurity checks to see what services were being used by that Chinese IP address to determine what was behind it. One of these routine “scans” showed a port on that IP address—27017—that is typically used by a database application called “MongoDB”...
A common practice for cybersecurity professionals who are exploring a network is to “test the locks” when they find “open windows or doors” as they walk around a “building” of interest, and in this case, they did a quick check on the MongoDB port (“rattled the windows”) to see if it responded.
When it did, they next tried a pretty basic thing: they tested to see if they could log into it with the default, “out of the box” username and password. That would be a pretty dumb thing for the owner of this machine to have left in place, but it is surprisingly common.
In other words, as the cyber team rattled the windows and doors, they found a boneheaded error on the MongoDB installation that only a novice would be expected to make. The doors and windows weren’t even locked. In fact, they were wide open.
You see, when MongoDB is freshly installed, it doesn’t have proper security rules set up to restrict who can read and write data into it; unless the person configuring that MongoDB installation takes the extra necessary steps (and knows how to do it), MongoDB either has NO password, or the default password which is… well, you can probably guess. “PASSWORD”.
So Gregg’s team was able to “walk in the front door”, as it were, because there was no lock on the door, and “look around the place.”
What they found was shocking: they found data that included personal details of nearly 1.8 million US poll workers. Details like their names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. Even the names of family members: things that might routinely be collected when you hire someone and issue them a paycheck.
But they also reportedly found rich details about where election machines were located, including floorplans of buildings used in elections. Nominally, this information would be of use by the election agencies, because the application they were using helped them track their election machine inventory.
But none of this should have been left out in the open for just anyone to see; and it sure as hell shouldn’t have been done in China."
MongoDB: What is it, and how did it come into play as part of the shocking disclosure that took place at "The Pit"?
On August 13, 2022, Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips described what they found last year on an unsecured server in China: personal information for 1.8 million US election workers...and more
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Lmao. Legally and logically there is no way that can happen. Trump is finished. He’s never gonna be allowed to even get a free White House tour. That 4 year stain is gone.There many roads back to the White House for the current shadow president, but one way or the other, AF1 is wheels down coming in for a landing.
Remember: They stole an election and overthrew the government!
"Law and Order"
I wish I knew how to post Telegram videos..
CNN is panicked that Trump-backed “election deniers” are winning in battleground states:
“Fewer than 10 weeks now before the midterm elections, where election deniers in key battleground states have found themselves in control.” ?
They also whine that in places such as Nye County, Nevada, voting machines have been replaced by hand counted paper ballots for the upcoming midterms ??
Their system of cheating is being dismantled and they are FREAKING OUT! ?
CNN is panicked that Trump-backed “election deniers” are winning in battleground states:
“Fewer than 10 weeks now before the midterm elections, where election deniers in key battleground states have found themselves in control.” ?
They also whine that in places such as Nye County, Nevada, voting machines have been replaced by hand counted paper ballots for the upcoming midterms ??
Their system of cheating is being dismantled and they are FREAKING OUT! ?
Dems backed the election deniers campaigns in primaries. We funneled millions to get those idiots thru the primaries. If you don’t know why, you are really lost.I wish I knew how to post Telegram videos..
CNN is panicked that Trump-backed “election deniers” are winning in battleground states:
“Fewer than 10 weeks now before the midterm elections, where election deniers in key battleground states have found themselves in control.” ?
They also whine that in places such as Nye County, Nevada, voting machines have been replaced by hand counted paper ballots for the upcoming midterms ??
Their system of cheating is being dismantled and they are FREAKING OUT! ?
HUGE EXCLUSIVE: AZ Corporation Commissioner Jim O’Connor Sends Letter Demanding ALL County Supervisors, Recorders, Election Directors, And Sheriffs “Immediately Cease Use Of ALL Electronic Voting Machines”
HUGE EXCLUSIVE: AZ Corporation Commissioner Jim O'Connor Sends Letter Demanding ALL County Supervisors, Recorders, Election Directors, And Sheriffs "Immediately Cease Use Of ALL Electronic Voting Machines" | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Jim O’Connor sent a letter Tuesday to all Arizona County Supervisors, Recorders, Election Directors, and Sheriffs, demanding they immediately cease the use of voting machines in the upcoming 2022 General Election.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
