Talkin' Politics | June 12, 2023: "I'm So Indicted..." Missouri GOP model being used by Congressional GOP; Oklahoma paying for religious school; Biden celebrates Pride; Paxton Impeached; #mosen race adds Wesley Bell; Trump Indicted

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Worth noting: Alex Soros taking over from George Soros. He’s 37 and clearly progressive. So, ya know, for any GOP folks who listen to us just a reminder we have no Soros funding sorry to disappoint. But to Alex Soros… [email protected] is the place to start 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soros-heir-son-alexander-soros-e3c4ca13

True or false

National GOP house caucus is about to go full blown Missouri GOP dysfunction and McCarthy is going to lose the seat. True, or False?

Missouri GOP conservative caucus has been behaving for multiple years just like this freedom caucus in DC - hamstring basic legislation, going after culture issues and dragging down basic governance for years. 

Example - from Washington Times story: 

“As part of that effort, Mr. McCarthy has agreed to bring to the floor this week legislation to roll back a new rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on pistol braces.”

GOP freedom caucus story https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/house-gop-mccarthy-freedom-caucus-rebels

Politico spot on GOP choking floor action: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/07/house-conservatives-choke-floor-action-as-revenge-for-debt-deal-00100785

Semafor Take: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/07/2023/the-house-freedom-caucus-is-protesting-but-not-removing-kevin-mccarthy

Sunday update https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/11/speaker-kevin-mccarthy-vexed-conservative-revolt-h/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Yeah no…

Oklahoma give green light on direct public funding for religious school
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-religious-charter-school-application-approved/44098183

Yeah yeah!

Biden admin’s acknowledgment of pride month

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/joe-biden-pride-month-support-lgbtq-community

Ken Paxton - GOP accountability maybe a thing again? 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/texas-republicans-ken-paxton-attorney-general?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Buy or sell

Lucas Kunce for 2024 Mo Senate

Conservatives on the attack: https://freebeacon.com/democrats/missouri-senate-hopefuls-50k-magic-card-collection-earns-him-an-ethics-complaint/

Wesley Bell is in the primary: 

SPFLD News Leader: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/06/07/st-louis-county-prosecutor-wesley-bell-jumps-into-u-s-senate-bid/70296972007/

National attention: https://apnews.com/article/missouri-ferguson-senate-hawley-democrat-wesley-bell-5d294f188b08f7d6f1268c25d9a4e9ab

Bell website https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bell-d2d-230607?ms=gpsGLSad23_20230607_launch_gsd2d_natl&refcode=gpsGLSad23_20230607_launch_gsd2d_natl&source=gpsGLSad23_20230607_launch_gsd2d_natl&utm_campaign=gpsGLSad23_20230607_launch_gsd2d_natl&utm_medium=ads&utm_source=wesley-bell&gclid=CjwKCAjwm4ukBhAuEiwA0zQxk__ZKeqRjVw_lHTA2s9VFQW7VfBZVIAUlGmNA_Glfmbi3DFs8NhG3hoCLikQAvD_BwE

Kunce website: https://lucaskunce.com/

Big one 

Trump Has Been Indicted 

Former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta both face a count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, according to the federal indictment

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/06/politics/annotated-trump-indictment-dg/

What’s in the indictment

Charges (the highlights): 

1. Retention of defense info
2. Conspiracy to obstruct 
3. False statements
4. Concealing documents in fed investigation
   1. Up to 10, up to 20, up to 20 years

• While president Trump stored letters and eventually documents in boxes, banker boxes
• When he left whitehouse he had all of his boxes moved to mar a lago
• Left them out. They were in the ballroom during events. There are pictures of this
• The boxes included 
  • Defense info
  • Nuclear info
  • Attack/retaliation plans
  • Information that could put military personnel at risk
  • Not JUST bad for US but also our allies
• Parg. 22 of indictment - Trump’s own words on enforcing law on classified docs/leaks
• July 2021 Audio recording where he shows off a “Plan of attack”
• Aug 2021 showed a plan of attack to a member of his political action committee 
• March 2022 subpoena for turning over documents
• Told his lawyers to lie
• Told Waltine Nauta to hide boxes - Nauta charged as a co-conspirator
  • Conspiracy requires a simple meeting of the minds with some level of intent and planning
  • Statements made in furtherance of a conspiracy are also 100% admissible in a court of law
• Lied about cooperating
• Filed court certification of cooperation knowing it was false
• Multiple different levels of secrecy included (acronyms)
• Parag. 27 - employees texting about boxes
• Parag 31- boxes just spilling over including secret docs
• Parag. 34 - The holy shit moment
• Parag. 47 - Nauta lies to the FBI
• Pg 21 title of section “The Defendants Concealment Of Boxes”
• Parag. 60-61- Trump hides docs from lawyer with Nauta
• 
   

What Trump is saying: https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1667611298236964874?s=46&t=mukZUfs5M_R3E9tAHIu-GA

DOJ attorney Jack Smith address to public on Friday: “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.” https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1667254036247064576?s=46&t=mukZUfs5M_R3E9tAHIu-GA

Missouri GOP responses - you can guess it without reading it I bet: https://abc17news.com/politics/2023/06/09/local-lawmakers-response-to-former-president-donald-trumps-indictment/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/donald-trump-charged-retention-classified-documents

CNN breakdown https://www.cnn.com/webview/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-classified-documents-06-09-23/index.html

Actual Indictment: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23839627/read-trump-indictment-related-to-mishandling-of-classified-documents.pdf

Noted alleged pervert Alan Dershowitz says it’s a weak case, big surprise there: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-trump-indictment-pass-richard-nixon-test

Judge on case: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4042388-aileen-cannon-who-is-judge-trump-indictment/

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