It wasn't very long ago that Donald Trump Jr., among others, like the obnoxious Twitter user Cat Shit (AKA: Catturd), considered Jack Teixeira, who leaked valuable information to Putin about his illegal attack on Ukraine, to be a hero. Then details started coming out about the 21-year-old National Guardsman.
He was preparing for a race war. Teixeira had also been observed taking notes on classified intelligence information and putting the notes in his pocket before he was arrested for leaking classified docs. Media figures quickly backed off from heralding him as a hero.
And now, since Donald Trump wasn't detained after his arrest, Teixeira has asked a judge to reconsider his detention, noting that he is charged with the same federal counts as the former President and that prosecutors did not oppose Trump's release.
CNN reports:
In May, a Massachusetts judge ruled that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira would be held in jail while he awaits trial for charges under the Espionage Act after prosecutors argued he callously mishandled highly sensitive national security information during his short tenure in the National Guard. The magistrate judge, David Hennessy, said that Teixeira posed a continued threat to national security.
Teixeira's lawyers argued in a new filing on Monday that a judge should reverse a decision to keep Teixeira detained, pointing to several other criminal defendants who were released while awaiting trial, including Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta.
"The speculation that Mr. Teixeira is a flight risk by virtue of what he knows is squarely undermined by the government's reasoned decision not to seek pretrial detention in other espionage cases, including most recently for either former President Donald Trump or his personal aide, Waltine Nauta, both charged with, among other things, mishandling classified national security information and conspiracy to obstruct justice," Teixeira's lawyers wrote.
His lawyers also said about Trump and Nauta: "The government – without any suggestion that the information known to them could make them a serious risk of flight – determined that their retained knowledge did not pose a serious risk of flight and advocated for their release on personal recognizance and without restriction."
Furthermore, the defense lawyers wrote, both Trump and Nauta "possess extraordinary means to flee the United States. … Yet, the risk of flight posed by their knowledge of national security information, and their abnormal ability to flee, didn't even result in a request that either surrender their passport."
Two traitors are fighting for their freedom. Isn't that cute? He does have a point, though. Trump has been treated with kid gloves since his first arrest, in which he wasn't handcuffed. A mugshot wasn't taken, and he's roaming around the corridors of Mar-a-Lago free as a bird with every luxury imaginable at his disposal.
