(Reposted trailer:) A movie that every American voter should find a way to watch ...soon

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..FWIW, the film will be screened in Washington DC on 9/24/24: https://dcdoxfest.com/films/from-russia-with-lev/

..Otherwise (for the moment), perhaps it will be shown again soon on MSNBC, as it was last night (Friday)...

A tiny comment: Excellent content in the film, but this viewer got a little dizzy at times with the constant quick switching/flashing to new screens during much of the movie. ..Perhaps might have been slowed things down a little but (in fairness) there was a lot of good content to present (..e.g.: Lev's many photos..). 

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The unforgiven... updated: Today's rouges' gallery image from the disastrous, soon-to-be-tossed-out Trump regime

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Never to be 'forgiven': We're going to start an occasional series here of the people of the Trump regime who in some way tried to damage or hinder the republic. Or brought harm to fellow citizens (anyway) via sheer ineptitude, lying, obnoxiousness or similar. ...Along with a brief indication of (some of) what they (allegedly, in some cases) did.

Update: ↓Today's featured offender (embedded image copy):

what is going on here pic.twitter.com/KxZSlmcbrs

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 25, 2020

For reference. ..10/30/20 news analysis article link. All that you really ever need to know about this guy...: "Donald Trump Jr. claims U.S. COVID deaths are 'almost nothing' on day over 1,000 people die"

....EXCEPT also this, this and this.....

↓A fact -- for the fact-free. (Source link):

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↓Today's featured offender (embedded image copy):

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For reference: 10/28/20 news report (link):

"Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'"

For reference: 3/18/20 news analysis report (link):

"Jared Kushner Is Running ‘Shadow’ Coronavirus Task Force and Causing Confusion, Officials Say"

For reference: 10/28/20 news article (link):

"Barack Obama Slams Jared Kushner's Suggestion That Some Black Americans Need to 'Want' to Be Successful"

(Excerpted article quotation:) "The irony is that the person who will defund the police is Donald Trump."

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Reposted 8/10/20 source story link: "No federal relief leaves states, cities facing big deficits"

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'Alarm bells': Being menaced every day by the corrupt, autocratic Trump regime is a crisis. But this one may be particularly disturbing.. (Updated 2x)

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2/20/20 news/analysis report↓ (link, subscription):

"Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump

A classified briefing to House members is said to have angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure."

One brief excerpt:

"...Though intelligence officials have previously told lawmakers that Russia’s interference campaign was continuing, last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intended to interfere with the 2020 Democratic primaries as well as the general election.

The intelligence official who delivered the briefing, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The president announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter."

More (copy):

The day after, Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing director of national intelligence for allowing it to take place, people familiar said. Trump cited Rep. Adam Schiff's presence in the briefing as a particular irritant.https://t.co/HYxousN8JF

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 20, 2020

Also, of some significance (link, subscription): "Trump’s New Intelligence Director Faces a Legal Countdown Clock on His Tenure"

>>>2/21/20 update/article link: (Comment:) ↓If true -- along with the above -- it's just about all you need to understand about the autocratic, vindictive, sycophantic, corrupt Trump regime (..including its 'henchmen' + enablers):

"President's new personnel head tells agencies to look out for disloyal staffers"

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This report should sound an ear-splitting alarm—on both sides of the aisle. I didn’t receive this House Intel Committee briefing, but all Congress should hear about Russia’s repeat interference. More important, all Americans need to know. https://t.co/t5EdaM97QC

— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) February 21, 2020

Russia is interfering in our election again to help elect Trump.

After members of Congress were briefed about this threat, Trump fired the acting Director of National Intelligence.

Trump is shredding the rule of law—and the integrity of our democracy.https://t.co/0P3A4dDueJ

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 20, 2020

Americans — not Vladimir Putin — should decide our elections. pic.twitter.com/vwHk1ELdjF

— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 21, 2020

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Countdown to Susan Collins being disappointed in 3... 2... 1...https://t.co/TLinkk1aRu

— Adam Rifkin 🐼 (@ifindkarma) February 21, 2020

"...To make the point as plain as possible ... with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist."

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11/25/19 source article link for the post title's quotation:

"Federal judge says former White House counsel Don McGahn must speak to House: 'Presidents are not kings'"

....An excerpt from another article describing the district court judge's ruling today:

"Jackson called absolute immunity “a fiction” that has been propagated by a succession of presidential administrations by simply repeating it as a fact while avoiding testing the principle in court."

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(>>>Link to the actual court ruling ('memorandum opinion'), .pdf file viewer needed: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016e-a4c4-d442-a5ef-fee4e04c0000)

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......An additional excerpt from the ruling, linked above. Emphasis has been added here:

"...It also plainly advances constitutional separation-of-powers principles, rather than subverts them, when a federal court decides the question of whether a legislative subpoena that a duly authorized committee of the House of Representatives has issued to a senior-level aide of the President is valid and enforceable, or, alternatively, is subject to the President’s invocation of absolute testimonial immunity. Furthermore, Miers was correct to conclude that, given the indisputable Article I power of the House of Representatives to conduct investigations of potential abuses of power and subpoena witnesses to testify at hearings concerning such investigations, the Judiciary Committee has both standing and a cause of action to file an enforcement lawsuit in federal court if the Executive branch blocks a current or former presidential aides’ performance of his duty to respond to a legislative subpoena. See id. at 65–75, 78–94.

DOJ’s arguments to the contrary are rooted in “the Executive’s interest in
‘autonomy[,]’” and, therefore, “rest[] upon a discredited notion of executive power and privilege.” Id. at 103. Indeed, when DOJ insists that Presidents can lawfully prevent their senior-level aides from responding to compelled congressional process and that neither the federal courts nor Congress has the power to do anything about it, DOJ promotes a conception of separation-of-powers principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards. In reality, it is a core tenet of this Nation’s founding that the powers of a monarch must be split between the branches of the government to prevent tyranny. See The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison); see also Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 120 (1976). Thus, when presented with a case or controversy, it is the Judiciary’s duty under the Constitution to interpret the law and to declare government overreaches unlawful. Similarly, the House of Representatives has the constitutionally vested responsibility to conduct investigations of suspected abuses of power within the government, and to act to curb those improprieties, if required... "

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..From House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (11/25/19 news story excerpt (link)):

"...“Today’s McGahn ruling is a very significant victory for congressional oversight, and for the American people,” Schiff said in a statement. 

He added: “To those witnesses who hide behind fallacious claims of absolute immunity, this ruling shows again how meritless their position remains. The witnesses who have defied Congress at the behest of the president will have to decide whether their duty is to the country, or to a president who believes that he is above the law.”"

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A song for Donald, this beginning week of a now-inevitable impeachment judgment by the House of Representatives (..before too long)

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A couple of 9/26/19 news/analysis articles + released transcript for quick reference. (Links, subscription may be required for some:)

"Read: Whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump and Ukraine"

"White House Knew of Whistle-Blower’s Allegations Soon After Trump’s Call With Ukraine Leader"

"White House Tried to ‘Lock Down’ Ukraine Call Records, Whistle-Blower Says"

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