• theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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      Because half of the FBI are Trump Sympathizers. It is why a lot of the bs happening doesn’t get checked when it needs to.

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          Well, we know for sure Cannon and Thomas are, and are willing to do pretty much anything they can get away with.

          But Trump isn’t getting everything he wants in court in most cases. The DC Appeals court is absolutely done with his bullshit at this point.

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            I don’t think SCOTUS has jurisdiction over this trial anyway. Especially since it’s now in the penalty phase, something Trump apparently hasn’t grasped yet, which is why he wanted to give closing arguments.

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          And that’s because a lot of them were appointed by trump because the Senate Republicans under Obama in his last term (when they got control of the Senate) held those seats open until the next Republican president was elected

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            Which they will do again if Joe Biden is re-elected. Although he has managed to get a decent number of judges on the Federal bench.

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            But these people are also very self-serving. They will look out for their own class, which is judges in this case. Even if they think that this particular judge is horrible, they will definitely back taking action to protect judges in general.

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        There has been evidence of this, especially during the police protests a couple years ago. There has also been a great deal of cleanup performed here. I don’t think it’s probably as bad or common as you fear, but I fully understand why you feel that way.

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      Because in some cases they are coming from out of the country and in other cases the call has been made via VOIP behind multiple proxies and a VPN and is basically untraceable.

      In either case, nothing is going to happen in the same week that the crime occurred. It will take that long to investigate & determine if they can even issue a warrant.

      The dumbest criminals do get caught.

      https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194362551/tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-trump-insurrection-trial-shry

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-georgia-case-alabama-man-indicted-for-threatening-fulton-county-da-sheriff/

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      You can pay a guy in another country to call in bomb threats using an untraceable VoIP number. It could reverb be a foreign adversary doing it just to stir the pot.
      Same reason we get so many spam calls and the phone companies won’t do anything about it. It could also be the CIA trying to get more privacy invading laws passed by stirring the pot.

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        Nothing is untraceable, just difficult to trace. There are logs in all the points bounced between and you can follow the trail back if you find the right bit of metadata. In the case of the spam calls, the FCC is working on it, but it’s not as dire a thing as trying to kill a judge, so not too much attention is paid to any specific instance of a spam call.

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        The odds are very high it was a local MAGA dumbfuck calling from his office desk phone.

        Is it possible to do it relatively untraceably? Sure. They absolutely did not do that. They are fucking idiots.