Sunday, August 03, 2025

If You Ignore The Numbers…

Says the guy without even a law degree.

In the same vein, the Office of Special Counsel is investigating Jack Smith for violating the Hatch Act (?) by investigating Trump’s theft of government documents.
Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Andrew Weissmann was asked about an investigation into whether Smith violated the Hatch Act when he investigated Donald Trump's crimes against the state that included an attempt to lead an insurrection and stealing government documents and hoarding them in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.

Pressed by the hosts over what to expect, Weissmann said the president better hope it never reaches the point where it ends up in a trial.

"If they were actually to bring a case, this is the last thing that you would think the Trump administration and Trump himself would want," he said with a slight smile.

"He [Trump] spent years trying to avoid, and largely being successful, avoiding any of these cases, going to trial," he pointed out. "And if he's going to have a trial here, that's going to be a forum for Jack Smith and people to put on the evidence that he has tried for so long to avoid."
For background, this is the guy running the Office of Special Counsel:
On May 29, 2025, Trump named Ingrassia as his nominee for special counsel of the United States, succeeding Hampton Dellinger, who was dismissed as special counsel in February. Trump discussed the nomination on social media, and described Ingrassia as an "attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar." His nomination was opposed by more than 20 federal employee unions, professional associations, and good government groups for his prior comments labeling federal workers as "parasites" and "bugmen" who "leech of the diminishing lifeblood of the dying republic" along with prior writings supporting at-will firings of civil servants by the president. On July 24, a senate panel to consider his nomination was postponed following public backlash over his lack of legal experience, association with neo-Nazis, and record of denigrating public workers.

Ingrassia has advocated for the First Amendment, particularly in regards to "dissident voices" within conservative environments. In an essay for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, he criticized the closeness between politics and corporations. Following the 2020 presidential election, Ingrassia called for Trump to declare martial law and called for secession if efforts to overturn the election failed. He denounced Sebastian Gorka for rebuking a post that called for vice president Mike Pence—whom Ingrassia has compared to well-known traitors Marcus Junius Brutus and Judas Iscariot—to be arrested and hanged.

Ingrassia has advocated for the far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes, describing him in a post on Substack as among several "dissident voices" who should be integrated within conservative politics.[8] He has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.

Ingrassia has referred to the October 7 attacks as a psychological operation.

In July 2025, a leaked application memo by Ingrassia to Project 2025 included his support for stopping immigration, imposing voting tests, and cutting down the workforce at federal agencies because of "toxic ideologies".
BTW, he graduated from Cornell Law School in 2022, so he has a wealth of litigation experience. I know law firms that wouldn’t let a third-year associate alone in court, much less in charge of a litigation department. Meaning his inexperience and ideology blind him to the consequences of his actions. And the way the law works in law school or in how you read the statutes, is not the way it works in the courtroom. Experience counts. A lot.

Meanwhile, the beatings will continue until morale improves:
That’s not a “No.” The good parts are, the bad parts aren’t. Nice work, if you can get it. As I said, definitely not a “No.” Getting pantsed on two networks is enough for one morning. The BLS has been doing it this way since 1915. Who knew it was rigged for 110 years? The conspiracy against Trump is old, indeed.
MEHMET OZ: Let's use a model that's worked for external threats. That's what NATO did -- everybody has to pay a little more, we'll pay extra too -- but we won't pay a lot more than everybody else ... we'll pay a little less in America, that way Americans can afford these medications
Ah, yes! Wish in one hand, piss in the other. Which one fills up faster? Thr "pay more, but pay less” plan. Totally not a con job at all! Neither is this! If you ignore the numbers, the economy is best in the history of the world! Con men are always willfully wrong. That’s just Trump! “Hey, you fucked up! You trusted us!” And yeah, I thought of this as soon as Trump complained about the jobs numbers: Otter really would be a better POTUS. The fictional character, or the animal. It doesn’t matter, at this point.
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