https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trumps-latest-grift-may-be-his-most-cynical-yet
The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s Latest Grift May Be His Most Cynical Yet
By John Cassidy
December 3, 2020
In appeals to supporters, the Trump campaign is asking for donations to continue challenging the election results. But the bulk of the money appears to be going elsewhere.
Racketeering
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In the United States, racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
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Associated Press
Justice Department says Jack Smith report on Trump investigation 'belongs in dustbin of history'
ERIC TUCKER
Fri, January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM PST 2 min read
But Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge in Florida who issued multiple favorable rulings for Trump and his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, last year granted a defense request to at least temporarily halt the release of the report dealing with that case. That edict meant that Smith could not discuss the substance of that investigation when he testified Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee.
The injunction is set to lift on February 24.
But Jason Reding Quinones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where the case was filed, said in a three-page court filing that the report should remain sealed. He and another prosecutor in that office, Manolo Reboso, wrote that Smith's investigation was “unlawful from its inception.”
“Smith not only weaponized the Department of Justice against a leading presidential candidate in pursuit of an anti-democratic end, but he did so without legal authority and while targeting constitutionally protected activity,”
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: A missile complex? ...The date? Mister Data, I need to know the exact date.
DATA: April fourth, two thousand sixty-three.
PICARD: April fourth?
RIKER: The day before First Contact.
DATA: Precisely.
CRUSHER: Then the missile complex must be the one where Zefram Cochrane is building his warp ship.
PICARD: That's what they came here to do. Stop First Contact.
[Titan V silo]
PICARD: Isn't it amazing? This ship used to be a nuclear missile.
DATA: It is an historical irony that Doctor Cochrane would use an instrument of mass-destruction to inaugurate an era of peace.
Dr. Zefram COCHRANE: So, what is it you want me to do?
RIKER: Simple. Conduct your warp flight tomorrow morning just as you planned.
COCHRANE: Why tomorrow morning?
RIKER: Because at eleven o'clock an alien ship will begin passing through this solar system.
COCHRANE: Alien? You mean extra-terrestrials. More bad guys?
TROI: Good guys. They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. ...Too primitive.
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 2/24/2026 ( ) is 10690 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/1995 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Scientific American Frontiers"::"Prime Time Primates" ) is 10690 days
From 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) To 2/24/2026 ( ) is 13826 days
13826 = 6913 + 6913
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/6/1984 ( premiere USA TV series "Smithsonian World"::series premiere "Time and Light" ) is 6913 days
From 4/27/2021 ( ) To 2/24/2026 ( ) is 1764 days
1764 = 882 + 882
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/2/1968 ( premiere USA film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) is 882 days
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.651411/gov.uscourts.flsd.651411.772.0.pdf
Case 9:23-cr-80101-AMC Document 772 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/20/2026 Page 1 of 19
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
vs.
DONALD J. TRUMP, WALTINE NAUTA,
and CARLOS DE OLIVEIRA,
Defendants.
Case No. 23-80101-CR
CANNON/REINHART
EXPEDITED MOTION
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’S UNOPPOSED EXPEDITED MOTION FOR
AN ORDER PROHIBITING THE RELEASE OF VOLUME II OF THE FINAL
REPORT UNLAWFULLY PREPARED BY JACK SMITH AND HIS OFFICE
President Donald J. Trump respectfully moves, in his individual capacity and as a former
defendant in this since-dismissed criminal action, for an order prohibiting the release of Volume II
of the Final Report prepared by so-called “Special Counsel” Jack Smith and his office (hereafter
“Volume II”). This expedited motion is filed in response to the Court’s December 22, 2025, order
permitting current and former parties to seek appropriate relief before the February 24, 2026,
expiration of the current injunction barring release.
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WarGames (1983)
Quotes
McKittrick: I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.
General Beringer: Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.
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Associated Press
Justice Department says Jack Smith report on Trump investigation 'belongs in dustbin of history'
ERIC TUCKER
Fri, January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM PST 2 min read
WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history" and should remain sealed, the Justice Department said in a sharply worded court filing Friday.
“The illicit product of an unlawful investigation and prosecution belongs in the dustbin of history. The United States will leave it there,” prosecutors wrote.
The department's position echoes that of Trump, whose lawyers this week asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to permanently block the release of the Smith report. It adds to the likelihood that a detailed report on a criminal investigation once seen as posing significant legal peril to Trump might continue to remain hidden from public view.
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Smith and his team produced a two-volume report on investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election after he lost to Biden and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House following his first term.
Both investigations produced indictments that were abandoned by Smith's team after Trump's November 2024 election win in light of longstanding Justice Department legal opinions that say siting presidents cannot face federal prosecution.
The volume on the election investigation was released in the final days of the Biden administration. But Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge in Florida who issued multiple favorable rulings for Trump and his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, last year granted a defense request to at least temporarily halt the release of the report dealing with that case. That edict meant that Smith could not discuss the substance of that investigation when he testified Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee.
The injunction is set to lift on February 24.
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But Jason Reding Quinones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where the case was filed, said in a three-page court filing that the report should remain sealed. He and another prosecutor in that office, Manolo Reboso, wrote that Smith's investigation was “unlawful from its inception.”
“Smith not only weaponized the Department of Justice against a leading presidential candidate in pursuit of an anti-democratic end, but he did so without legal authority and while targeting constitutionally protected activity,” the prosecutors wrote.
Smith during his testimony Thursday defended his investigations of Trump and insisted that he had acted without regard to politics and had no second thoughts about the criminal charges he brought.
“No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did,” Smith said of Trump.
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