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The Department of Justice on Friday afternoon unsealed the indictment against Donald Trump and his “body man” Walt Nauta. The contents of those documents include 38 counts, including 31 charges of willful retention of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act. Many of the documents involved appear to be presidential daily briefs that included classified information concerning multiple nations. Many of the documents are so classified that the names are redacted, but one of those not redacted shows that it included classified details about the nuclear arsenal of the United States. It’s an amazing list. The indictment then details a conspiracy between Trump and Nauta to obstruct justice. That conspiracy includes agreeing to provide false information to the FBI, moving boxes to hide them from both the FBI and Trump’s own attorneys, creating a “false certificate” informing the FBI that all classified documents had been produced, and making generally “false and misleading claims.” The next charge involves Trump and Nauta “knowingly corruptly” persuading an unnamed attorney to withhold documents by lying to them about the content of the boxes, expressly so that the FBI would not find the classified documents. That’s followed by two charges of concealing and a charge of conspiracy to conceal involving Trump and Nauta. Trump then collects a charge of false statements to federal investigators concerning statements that a “diligent search” had been conducted and all documents returned, when he was knowingly concealing classified documents. Nauta gets a matching charge to finish off the indictment. The indictment details how Trump allowed classified documents to be stored in open containers, how boxes of classified document tipped over and spilled out onto the floor at Mar-a-Lago, and how workers moved the material from place to place with absolutely no concern for security. That includes having boxes of classified information sitting in a ballroom where hundreds, if not thousands, of people were free to view them during events. Once the FBI opened an investigation, the concern about finding a place to stash the boxes increased, but it’s hard to say they got more “serious” when an effort to keep material hidden from both the DOJ and Trump’s attorneys included the possibility of hiding classified documents in a shower.

FIFY!

If keeping JWP is the difference between promotion or not going up, yes. But that's all hypothetical. We'll never know, and he'll almost certainly be off anyway.

I wouldn't. If rich Arabs with their filthy oil money had bought us, I'd be disgusted, and would tear up my season ticket (if I had one), not to mention unsubscribe from sainstweb and burn all my Saints shirts. Winning the league and FA cup, with a Champions league final to come, would mean nothing. I wouldn't even watch.

41 points needed in La Liga this season. Mental battle between 6 clubs to avoid the drop. Luckily we didn't have to go through that nightmare.

Indeed. It's very amateurish and Mickey Mouse. Same with the county championship.

Sussex 144 all out (tail wagged a bit). Hants off to a solid start, 115-0 after 11 overs. Hopefully they can take it over the line.

The quality of the squad is obviously a big influence, but you cannot underestimate how important a manager is in getting the most out of them. Not just training, tactics, etc., but man management. God knows we've had plenty of piss poor ones, two this last season alone.

"hoping to get up to £40m" Brilliant negotiating skills I see.

£12 billion I heard.

Amazingly all but one of those 6 Spanish teams are already on 40 or 41 points, the other on 39. Compare that to 40 points considered being the safety number for the PL.

Interesting relegation battle at the bottom of La Liga. Six teams from 13th to 18th separated by 2 points going into next week's final round of matches.

... with sideways passing.

We need players who can do a job in the Championship, because that's where we are now. Getting rid of those players before we get promoted is like putting the cart before the horse. We're unlikely to attract PL level players while we are down there anyway. Get promoted if possible, then worry about replacing them with players who can do it at the PL level.

“four more wins for Saints” and “realistic prospect” don’t belong in the same sentence.

Oh shit.

That sounds depressingly familiar.

Cheers Swan's fan for the interesting details of Mr. Martin. The point above is why I've been arguing that we shouldn't be too quick to get rid AArmstrong. He could be our Tony Funnell/Billy Sharp who isn't PL standard, but could do a job in helping us get promoted.

Or a change of manager and playing against Championship defenses.

In fairness he is quite forgettable.

If indeed he's mainly a Wilcox selection, not Rasmus W. Ankersen's, then I'm slightly less pessimistic.

Dear God, that's the first time I've had the misfortune to seen that fraudster's website. It's worse than I could imagine. I'm glad I haven't had my lunch yet, otherwise it would now be on the floor. His gargantuan ego is only matched by his incompetence. Truly a legend in his own mind. An empty vessel makes the loudest sound - Plato

He may not attend matches, don't forget all those reference points behind the scenes he sees that us plebs don't.

And apparently was the mastermind in not bringing in a goal scorer last summer.

I'm not sure about that. He certainly doesn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.