Random Pish-Posh And Dribblety-Poop #12

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

I don't know how you can say he is at the same spot he was a month ago in the polls, when in mid-September he was leading or tied in a lot of battleground states, trending up, and now he the only state that I can see him still leading in that can be considering a battleground state is Iowa. The rest of the states he has either lost the lead or fallen further behind, specifically North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, and even Arizona. And of course, the state he has to win, Pennsylvania, he is back down to almost a 9 point deficit. So I really don't know where you see him being in the same position he was a month ago, even 2 weeks ago.

*enters*


It's fun reading the law.

So, Hillary is disqualified if she wins. Congratulations everyone, please say hello to President Trump, winner of the election by default.

*leaves*

I don't know if it's really true or not, but didn't she claim the deleted emails are "personal"? Then this won't touch her.

Are you behind on your email? This particular chain message was discredited months ago. Despite the inability for Congress to set eligibility requirements outside of a constitutional amendment, the law as stated would require a conviction, which never happened.

People seem to be blowing out of proportion how much his voters are abandoning him for his remarks, when mostly it's just the Republican establishment out to save their own skins.

KN forgets that Trump is also disqualified if he wins.

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

Last I checked, directing Russian hackers to interfere in U.S elections counts as treason.

Seriously CJ.

Why do you continue with your hateful, and very untrue, rhetoric?

Are you seriously trying to rile up people? Because it's not going to work.

But I don't like you calling people who disagree with you names, such as "xenophobic" or "misogynist." I sometimes doubt you understand the meaning of such words, and are just parroting what you candidate says.

Here's a funny, and true, story. A guy I know was a real big Trump supporter... before the tape. He had the lawn signs going down the edge of his property along a main road, had Trump stickers all over his truck, and thought Trump could turn the country around.

After the tape came out? The signs are gone, he's peeled off the stickers from his truck, and he doesn't say a word about Trump. It's like he knows, and has resigned himself to the fact, that Hillary will win.

While I think CJ frequently does a discredit to people who agree with him by stooping to using really dumb internet buzzwords, it's really not untrue to call Trump himself a misogynist -- by his own admission on tape and subsequent non-apology apology -- and while he himself may not actually be xenophobic, his policies and rhetoric appeal to those who are.

It's hard for a white trash xenophobic misogynist to lose the support of other white trash xenophobic misogynists.

Hillary will win

Like sexually assaulting people because you are a "star"?

In a hacked email published by Wikileaks, Democratic National Committee official Donna Brazile appeared to tell Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri that "from time to time I get the questions in advance." The March 12 email foreshadowed a question asked by TV One host Roland Martin at the March 13 town hall.

Brazile was both a DNC vice chair and CNN political commentator at the time. But CNN flatly denied any coordination. "We have never, ever given a town hall question to anyone beforehand," a CNN spokeswoman said.

Martin did not deny sharing information with Brazile. Instead, when asked by CNNMoney, he said "my questions were shared with my executive producer and several members of my TV One team."

When asked in a followup question if he would explicitly rule out any sharing of questions with Brazile, Martin did not respond.

In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Brazile said she was choosing not to view any of the emails stolen by Wikileaks. "This is exactly what the Russians intended to do. And they're doing it," she said.

Brazile emphasized that "I had no access to any questions" for any debate or town hall.

Brazile became the interim chair of the DNC in July after Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned. At that point, her commentator deals with CNN and ABC were suspended.

She now leads both the organization's response to cyberattacks and its campaign efforts.

A political commentator like Brazile would never be in the room during debate or town hall planning sessions.

CNN reporters and producers typically prepare in what is informally known as the "cone of silence." Secrecy is prioritized and access is restricted during the prep sessions.

But Brazile's March 12 email to Palmieri included the text of a potential question about the death penalty. A similarly-worded question was read by Martin at the town hall the next day. He introduced an exonerated former death row inmate who asked Clinton about her view on the matter.

The town hall itself was unusual -- it was a joint production of CNN and TV One, a cable channel targeting African American viewers. Both Clinton and Bernie Sanders participated in Ohio.

Martin moderated for TV One and Jake Tapper moderated for CNN.

Martin said Tuesday that the questions he drafted were "designed for both candidates. It wasn't until we met on Sunday that some of the questions were kept and others discarded."

As for the email itself, Palmieri replied by starting a new email chain to share Clinton's talking points about the topic.

"That sequence suggests that Brazile may have been forwarding the question for her own purposes — that is, to be prepared for some panel discussion about the death penalty. If so, it shows just how faithfully a CNN contributor seeks to toe the Clinton line," Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote Tuesday.

Wemple and other journalists immediately raised questions about Brazile's complicated relationships.

Commentators like Brazile are not journalists, but they appear on the air to share political perspectives and insights.

New York Times reporter Nick Confessore said the email exchange is a "good argument against having campaign surrogates on staff at your network."

Tuesday's revelation came from a trove of hacked emails published by Wikileaks. The emails came from the account of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC has strongly objected to the release of the emails and has blamed Russia for cyberattacks "aimed at interfering with our election."

Other emails published by Wikileaks have shown more mundane interactions between campaign aides and journalists.

In some of the emails, Clinton aides speak bluntly and negatively about journalists from CNN and other outlets.

In a June 23, 2015 email, Podesta asks, "Why is Jake Tapper such a" and uses an explicit term for the male anatomy.

Tapper had asked for an hour-long interview with the candidate.

Palmieri replied and said "That is the right question."

Tapper picked up on the email and shared it with his Twitter followers last week.

Like sexually assaulting people because you are a "star"?

I know that we have been over this before but...

democrats are the majority party. (that means that there are more democrats than republicans since about 1960 or so)..and all they have to do is show up to vote and we (republicans) lose.

the only time we win is when your candidate sucks so bad that nobody votes for them...mcgovern, carter in 1980, mondale, dukakis, gore, kerry

nixon was born crooked, reagan was brain dead, bush the elder is a hunchbacked lunatic and his sons are incompetent dipshits.

but guess what they all had in common? their opponents where SO HORRIBLE NO DECENT PERSON COULD BRING THEMSELVES TO VOTE FOR THEM

If republicans are evil, and we are, then why would we care if our candidates were scumbags!?

conversely democrats being the force for everything good and pure in this world... CAN"T VOTE FOR CRIMINALS

how do you like your chances now?

What the Democrats won't tell you is they all hate Hillary but just not as much as they hate Trump.