Paul Bouchard

Wood Products Mfg and Trade Globally, Creative Disruptor, from the Okanagan Valley of BC/Canada. Moved to as of 2.1.2025

[Acyn @Acyn]

Smith: For nearly three decades I have been a career prosecutor. I have served during both Republican and Democratic administrations and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022.

The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.
Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.

I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities. I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases. These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs.

I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 Presidential election. We took our actions based on the facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor. We followed Justice Department policies and observed legal requirements.

The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial. If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

As Zelensky visits the White House and gets bullied again, remember this clip of Marco Rubio explaining the U.S. promised to defend Ukraine FOREVER if they gave up their nukes when the USSR fell.

That’s why Lil Marco hides. He hoped we wouldn’t find it. Don’t share it right now.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

The Russians got everything they wanted out of Trump to continue their genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine. They even got Trump to make this insane statement: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed."

What a humiliating day for Americans! What a terrible day for the world!

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

Serial BC Govt Liquor Store (Vancouver) ads served to me…in Penticton(!) in my newspaper ap. Note to the media buyer.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

― Carl Sagan

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump administration sanctions five foreigners it considers at odds with American values: Russians? Chinese? Iranians? No, Europeans who fight disinformation and online abuse but stand accused by Trump officials of censorship. @satariano https://t.co/FSOB28ezqI

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@JasJohalBC You’re a journalist spreading AI Slop… a meme. https://t.co/dOzIUDX2nT (bad form, But I agree with the meme.)

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

How do we get maga to understand this?

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

The Blues Brothers, James Brown & ZZ Top performing at Super Bowl XXXI (1997)

Those were the days...

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

WOW.

Fox News BLAMES RFK Jr. for RISING MEASLES RATES across the country.

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

The End of Night signoff of CBC in the 1990s in Canada

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Garry Kasparov is 100% correct. Thank you for always telling it like it is, @Kasparov63. Listen before it's too late.

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@blackties_laker One of my favourite spots.

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

Geometry Solves Gerrymandering https://t.co/NwQR6ydeYx via @NYTOpinion

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@blackties_laker Did this Super ride from Lillooet some 5-8 yrs ago. Arduous and technical and glorious country few see. Cheers

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@blackties_laker That was a fire. U guys were hero’s

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@blackties_laker Nice!! Swing by Oliver on your way back? We’re camping at our place. Buzz me on cel if u do. Cheers

[Paul Bouchard @WoodTrader]

@blackties_laker @PEIPolNews @stu_neatby did they?