SaintsInDome2006

Does anyone know what this phrase, “the dog that hasn’t barked” means? It’s from Sherlock Holmes.

I’ve seen it pointed out that the reason for using The Situation Room with Boebert & Co. was they could be sure it wouldn’t be recorded, as what happened with the attempt to subvert Georgia vote.

It turns out that the internal legal justification for the military strikes on foreign boats in international waters… is Trump’s own claims. >> The memo, which was completed in late summer, is said to open with a lengthy recitation of claims submitted by the White House, including that drug cartels are intentionally trying to kill Americans and destabilize the Western Hemisphere. The groups are presented not as unscrupulous businesses trying to profit from drug trafficking, but as terrorists who sell narcotics as a means of financing violence. Based on such claims, the memo states that Mr. Trump has legitimate authority to determine that the United States and its allies are legally in a formal state of armed conflict with “narco-terrorist” drug cartels, according to the people who have read the document. The rest of the memo’s reasoning is based on that premise. For example, the people said, the memo asserts that boats believed to be carrying narcotics are lawful military targets because their cargo would otherwise generate revenue that cartels could use to buy military equipment to wage the purported armed conflict.<<

In Ivana Trump’s divorce petition she alleged Donald Trump raped her & that he liked to read Hitler speeches. After she died in a mysterious fall that shouldn’t have killed someone of her age & health Trump buried her on the side of the fairway of one of his country clubs & claimed a tax deduction meant for cemeteries.

True, Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin. Seems like a worthy project.

LOL now he’s telling Bondi to investigate Epstein again. I’m almost starting to feel sympathy for Pam.

Trump has been treating visa holders as illegals. Right now he’s imposing $100,000 charges for the exact sort of workers he’s using at his clubs. Breitbart - Justice Department Official: We’re Focused on Major Violators of H-1B Law

It’s a story - which was previously reported - about how Trump has used illegal aliens at his clubs.

I posted this story further up & you replied to it.

The Trump Org is still using what it calls illegal aligns as labor >>The Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and a Virginia winery through H-2A and H-2B visas, according to data from the Department of Labor. The company’s visa requests have risen steadily in recent years, from 121 in 2021 to a record 184 in 2025. During Trump’s five years in office, the Trump Organization filed to bring in at least 566 foreign workers. The jobs—primarily servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers—pay between $15.58 and $27.91 an hour, per Department of Labor listings. … 2,033: The total number of foreign workers the Trump Organization has sought to hire since 2008, the earliest year for which data is posted on the Labor Department’s website. Three Trump properties among those most frequented by the president—Mar-a-Lago and his golf clubs in Bedminster, New Jersey and West Palm Beach, Florida—sought foreign workers for 2025. The first two properties were at the center of a Justice Department investigation for allegedly improperly storing classified documents, which was dropped after his reelection in November 2024. Trump can earn income from his businesses while in office through the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, the same vehicle he used during his first term. He is its sole donor and beneficiary, while Donald Trump Jr. serves as the trustee. The Trump Organization confirmed in an April regulatory filing in the United Kingdom that Trump retains control over his businesses while in office. The Trump winery is expected to apply in December for visas for 2026, based on its filings in recent years. TANGENT At least two Coast Guard Exchanges—government-run retail stores that provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods—carried Trump wines and ciders before selling out, as Forbes previously reported. …<<

He actually appears to be describing what someone else (Ruemmler) said about Trump. Here’s the email.

“I know how dirty Donald is.”

There is a *lot going on in that email.

This guy is not only the most prolific liar in world history he’s also the worst. This is the 5 year old telling his parents that whatever they do they shouldn’t look at the cookie jar. I’m convinced this guy was uniquely unsocialized as a child.

And Bannon. And the Russians.

IMO this is fair food for thought. Journalists have been after this stuff since before 2015. There was a judge who stayed on the bench into his 90s who repeatedly kept court records sealed. For a long time it was maybe 2-3 journalists pursuing this story wayyy before Trump was ever mentioned & by & large few cared. But by the same token it was maga that drove this, not liberals. The original premise was that Clinton & hyperpowerful people in The Swamp were being covered for. Go see Jon’s posts as he is still at it. Even now the same thing that happened with Epstein - favorable jail conditions - is happening with Maxwell. Exact same pattern. It’s happening now.

“Bannon is with me.”

Margie Greene continues to stay on her medicine.

Are you following how this is going in the James case? It ain’t going good for the DOJ. Fwiw I agree on the residence thing but my guess is a third of Congress at least isn’t adhering to that.

This reminds me of Scott & Dr. Evil ……. why don’t they just indict him for the supposed honey pot spying arrangement???? Instead of, yaknow, subletting his basement or whatever this is going to be.

OMG, any port in a storm & this is going swimmingly.

There have been 20 US military strikes on foreign boats in international waters.

Something really crazy about this - because this question’s been asked & answered a thousand times - Bondi & Patel could just rely on the same reason the files were never released under BushJr, Obama, Trump1, Biden & the DeSantis administrations, that the rules prohibit it. But they won’t. Example, in a hearing Bondi was asked if she had seen a picture of Trump with a girl or girls, like what happened with Prince Andrew. Her response was just gape-mouth silence.

It’s really dark stuff. A teenager, homeless, working min wage, wanting braces. Plied with drugs, booze, pressure from powerful people, paid mere hundreds of dollars.

>>Judge says part of grand jury transcript in Comey case is "missing" Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said Thursday that a section of the grand jury transcript in James Comey’s case is “missing.” Currie said that she did not receive transcripts for part of the proceedings from late September. “It appears there was no court reporter present,” the judge said, or the court reporter had stopped taking notes. The missing section is important because Attorney General Pam Bondi had said she reviewed the presentations as part of the government’s arguments that Lindsey Halligan had the authority to secure an indictment against the former FBI director. “It became obvious to me that the attorney general could not have reviewed” the entire proceeding, Currie said. The “missing” portion of the grand jury transcripts that Currie referred to was from 4:28pm ET until the return of the indictment, which happened much later in the evening. In a testy exchange with Justice Department attorney Henry Whitaker, Currie separately told him Bondi couldn’t have reviewed all grand jury transcripts when she signed a document on October 31 retroactively giving Halligan authority before the grand jury, saying she had. That’s because days later, just last week, the Justice Department told the judge it had gotten additional records of the grand jury proceedings that the department didn’t previously have. In preparation for Thursday’s hearing, Currie privately reviewed the transcripts of what Halligan said to the grand jury. Currie said previously that she thought looking at the transcripts was “necessary to determine the extent of the indictment signer’s involvement in the grand jury proceedings.”<< CNN