FBI executed search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

[shadow puppet]

One more time for the slower learners:

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557921440271310850/

 

[Eric]

I was about to ask what the charge would be, sounds like espionage then?

 

[lizkat]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

Nuclear weapons documents. Interesting if true. And very valuable information some countries would love to get their hands on.

Eh...probably something trump wanted to read and learn about knowing he's a voracious reader.

This whole thing must be making the skin crawl among other members of the Five Eyes intel allies.

 

[Citysnaps]

This whole thing must be making the skin crawl among other members of the Five Eyes intel allies.

Especially Great Britain as we collaborate with them on that.

 

[Cmaier]

One more time for the slower learners:

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557921440271310850/

Even if a president could unilaterally declassify this stuff, it would certainly have been reclassified by Biden, and Trump still held onto it, despite being told to return it. The fact that he kept this stuff despite returning other documents he kept in the same place is also evidence of his intent.

 

[Cmaier]

I was about to ask what the charge would be, sounds like espionage then?

Among other things, 18 USC 1924 (Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material). Prison for 5 years for that.

18 USC 641 is another one (10 years).

You don’t even have to get to espionage.

 

[Cmaier]

Oh, and of course 18 USC 2071. 3 years and can’t hold office.

 

[Yoused]

C'mon man, every President keeps souvenirs of their time in office. Look, even Abe got to keep the bullet.

 

[shadow puppet]

If I lived in a conservative neighborhood, I would definitely do this.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557576091555876864/

 

[fooferdoggie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

Nuclear weapons documents. Interesting if true. And very valuable information some countries would love to get their hands on.

Eh...probably something trump wanted to read and learn about knowing he's a voracious reader.

hopefully they have not already. if they are not in Crayon we may be safe.

 

[lizkat]

So now we await the possible nightmares unfolding...

Trump's gonna say he had no idea what was in those boxes, no idea how any classified stuff hadn't been put back wherever it belonged,must have been an aide's fault or a mixup, everything such a rush at the end when he was leaving, who knew, gee, after all he was so busy trying to overturn the 2020 election, how the hell could anyone hold him responsible for crap like some paperwork got misplaced?!

I am so angry at the Republicans for not long ago having taken the early-indicated risk factors seriously with this f'g guy from before day one of his presidency. For not confronting him on inappropriate and sometimes off-record behavior vis a vis Russian officials including Putin. For not removing and disqualifying from future public officeholding when they had two impeachments presented by House and more than adequate presentations of that material in the Senate.

But no... the GOP chose to play it all as party above patria.

We don't even know if the info has already been shared to wrong eyes.

Anyway so now comes the tab for all those dances with a Pied Piper wearing a naked emperor's robes, and it's Biden to be left holding the bag of backlash from allies while Trump gets to skate off saying he had nothing to do with any misplaced information and he hardly knew anyone who worked with or for him and it's all been a witch hunt?

This better not be how it wraps. It's not going to sell in the voting booths. Even early polls show 15% of Rs not happy about the revelations from Mar a Lago. And that poll was taken before the word "nuclear" showed up in the post-search stories.

 

[Runs For Fun]

knowing he's a voracious reader.

Oh yes
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1556789017407983617/

 

[Citysnaps]

Oh yes
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1556789017407983617/

Too good!

 

[Runs For Fun]

If I lived in a conservative neighborhood, I would definitely do this.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557576091555876864/

I totally need to do this. I have an unused RaspberryPi and a wifi dongle. I could totally just broadcast random SSIDs.

 

[Yoused]

We don't even know if the info has already been shared to wrong eyes.

Problem is, there is no valid, legal reason for him to be in possession of those documents. The only legal thing he could do with them is hand them, and any copies he might have made, along with all logs of electronic communications from M-a-L, etc, etc, to the State Department. Any other action must be de facto treason, as defined in the Constitution. Whether or not the wrong eyes were ever laid upon them is immaterial.

 

[Cmaier]

Well, Trump posted on his social media what’s-it that he will not oppose releasing the warrant, and called for it to be released immediately.

He doesn’t explain why he didn’t just release it himself.

 

[lizkat]

Problem is, there is no valid, legal reason for him to be in possession of those documents. The only legal thing he could do with them is hand them, and any copies he might have made, along with all logs of electronic communications from M-a-L, etc, etc, to the State Department. Any other action must be de facto treason, as defined in the Constitution. Whether or not the wrong eyes were ever laid upon them is immaterial.

Of course it's immaterial as far as criminality if such docs were retained. But there would be practical concern about inappropriate dissemination.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

An interesting fine point is that Garland referred to Mar-A-Lago as Trump's property, not his home.

Even better is what Michael Cohen calls it: Mar-A-Lardo.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Trump's lawyer admitted on Laura Ingraham she hadn't talked specifically about nuclear documents to Trump. Quite the exchange... a rare moment of actual journalism on Fox. It was fleeting, they don't deserve a pat on the back, but it was revealing nonetheless.

Go to 1:20..



The lawyer admits she hasn't even spoken to the president about it! Yet, everyone on Fox and in the GOP is getting a mile out ahead of this without knowing any details.

Also, the attempts to insinuate the FBI planted evidence is diminished by the fact that this same lawyer said Trump probably had a better view of the raid than she did, and that Trump and Melania watched the whole thing on their camera feed.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557902585134292992/

 

[Edd]

Trump's lawyer admitted on Laura Ingraham she hadn't talked specifically about nuclear documents to Trump. Quite the exchange... a rare moment of actual journalism on Fox. It was fleeting, they don't deserve a pat on the back, but it was revealing nonetheless.

Go to 1:20..



The lawyer admits she hasn't even spoken to the president about it! Yet, everyone on Fox and in the GOP is getting a mile out ahead of this without knowing any details.

Also, the attempts to insinuate the FBI planted evidence is diminished by the fact that this same lawyer said Trump probably had a better view of the raid than she did, and that Trump and Melania watched the whole thing on their camera feed.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1557902585134292992/

Cameras being off for a short period of time…Trumpers will claim that’s when the fake evidence was planted.