Standard fascist rationale: "Because we said so, that's why."
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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DOJ really going with the "pleading innocence is totally what a guilty person would say" argument.
The fact that a convicted felon, that would have surely been found guilty in his other cases had he not run out the clock, got to pick the head of the DOJ is mind-boggling. It's putting the guy in a ski mask with a gun in charge of picking the bank security.
Not only did he get to pick the head of the DOJ, but he picked his previous fucking lawyer from his stolen election cases...
Someone he knew would defend him tooth and nail.
But remember Hillary Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac.... Ffs the hypocrisy with these Magoos is infuriating...
Asking for a lawyer will be used against you in a court of law.
I wish sites like this would verify their information better. Yes Trump ignored the judge's orders and spouted insane legal claims, but the article leads off with a false claim that the poor guys got sent to a slave-labor camp. According to CNN, the prison is a different kind of nightmare.
In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men are held for 23.5 hours a day and “the only furniture is tiered metal bunks, with no sheets, pillows or mattresses … an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing and a large jug for drinking water.”
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The CNN team that visited in late 2024 described the deprivation as “deliberate,” noting the men were allowed out of their crowded cells for just 30 minutes a day, that “there is no privacy here, no trace of comfort” and the lights are on 24/7.
“They do not work. They are not allowed books or a deck of cards or letters from home. Plates of food are stacked outside the cells at mealtimes and pulled through the bars. No meat is ever served. The 30-minute daily respite is merely to leave the cell for the central hallway for group exercise or Bible readings,” wrote CNN’s David Culver and his team.
Inmates are not allowed visits from family or friends and some of them must face the possibility that they will never be released.
The prison is an absolute hell, not even considering that some or all of the men sent there by Trump could be innocent of any crime. But calling it slave labor is false and just gives the other side a point of attack to discredit the whole article. We don't need to lie about any of this stuff to make it seem worse. The truth is all we need.
This is how our HHS now approaches science, so sure why not
This is ALSO how we KNOW Trump is INNOCENT! Because he was Found GUILTY and only INNOCENT people are found GUILTY!
“The absence of evidence is NOT the evidence of absence!”
"Only expert criminals could do as much crime as we assume they've done and not leave any evidence!"
Came here looking for this!
This proves my theory that Trump and Bannon orchestrated Lincoln's assassination, along Hitler and Stalins rise to power! The complete lack of proof proves it! Checkmate MAGAts!
Real talk if I had the money to uproot my family and move to another country I would be doing so now. I know its cowardly but shits getting scarier by the day.