Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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Because of course it was. They live in their own, separate and entirely distinct reality from reality. It doesn't matter what was found, how it got there, or why it happened: none of this news is for THEM, and frankly it never was. They are simply waiting for someone, anyone they consider to be in a position of authority over them, to call for violence, or mutter a string of words they can interpret as a call for violence.
You drop that "the" in there so casually like this was common knowledge, but it's news to me. Or maybe I just forgot because I was too distracted by all the other terrible things he did on the way out? I feel like Trump absconding with papers related to nuclear weapons would be both a big deal and a weird twist even by Trump standards. Who exactly was he planning on sharing those with? The only foreign power he's known to be in bed with is already a nuclear power and has been for as long as anyone besides us.
Then again, knowing Trump, there's also a decent chance he didn't even have any plans, and just casually grabbed them on the way out because they were there, too dumb to realize he wasn't supposed to do that or how much trouble it could get him into.
FB friend:
..............................ESPIANOGE ACT!? THEY GOT HIM WITH THAT!?
Ironbite-HOLY HELL!
Ironbite-HOLY HELL!
Let's put it this way:
Found hoarding government documents under the archives act: criminal act and felony
Found hoarding government documents under the espionage act: it's treason.
Found hoarding government documents under the archives act: criminal act and felony
Found hoarding government documents under the espionage act: it's treason.
These two were executed under the Espionage Act.
While it will remain a very, very distant possibility, that this is now known to be a Espionage Act investigation, capital punishment is legitimately on the table. Especially since Barr restarted Federal executions.
I think a lot of that depends on WHAT he was planning on doing (or had already done) with said documents. Being that it's Trump, there's about 4 options of what he was keeping them for, each probably as likely as the others.
1) Someone told him he couldn't keep them so he kept them out of spite.
2) He was planing to sell/had sold said information to foreign actors.
3) He was using the documents as blackmail.
4) He thought they were actually his property, not the governments.
1) Someone told him he couldn't keep them so he kept them out of spite.
2) He was planing to sell/had sold said information to foreign actors.
3) He was using the documents as blackmail.
4) He thought they were actually his property, not the governments.
1 and 4 are my picks, because I don't think he is smart or clever enough to do 2 or 3 without involving more people than able to keep such an act secret.
There's also the old standby of "he just grabbed jive and didn't know what he took". After all, people had to restore shredded documents he was supposed to retain for the National Records.
However, it probably doesn't look good that he seemed to ignore repeated requests for those documents to the point the FBI had to execute a search warrant, so that kicks it up to intentional obstruction of some sort.
There's also the old standby of "he just grabbed jive and didn't know what he took". After all, people had to restore shredded documents he was supposed to retain for the National Records.
However, it probably doesn't look good that he seemed to ignore repeated requests for those documents to the point the FBI had to execute a search warrant, so that kicks it up to intentional obstruction of some sort.
A tweet for everything, as always.
I kinda want his russian handler to drop a tweet that says "you're fired", just as the DOJ moves to arrest him. I would be the sweetest schadenfreude.