I guess my point is, I think the "value" to him could likely be "because they're mine". You are implying that he kept them because he believes that they can be used at a later date as either leverage against someone or to be sold for money / favors.
Right. Again, I agree with you. I’m not asserting he explicitly Took nuclear documents considering their potential value. I’m simply saying he’s not too shallow to have done so. As you point out, there are multiple plausible scenarios for how he arrived at having those boxes. Evidently the FBI didn’t even know for certain that he had nuclear documents. It sounds more like a preventive search and seizure.
I also don't think Trump has the intellectual curiosity to pore through 27+ boxes of documents of any kind, classified or not. But he's been known to tear them up or mark on them. And, he's been able to hire loyalists for his office staff that tend to do what he asks.
Actually, ex-fed prosecutor Elie Honig said yesterday that he doesn't think we'll see the affidavit submitted to support the request for search warrant, unless it is eventually filed in court as part of the prosecution papers in actual criminal charges.
Regardless whether he personally reviewed any of the documents or even opened the boxes, he is still probably responsible. He has staffers on site (apparently including Eric Trump) and attorneys to do his clerical work.
If there was a box at Mar-A-Lago containing documents pertaining to a nuclear arsenal - - ours or anybody else's - - there's no doubt he knew exactly where it was.
If they were previously given full access why wasn't the boxes taken this week given to them earlier and why was a subpoena for the documents issued in June ignored. The "We do know that the DOJ" came under significant political pressure to unload on Trump" is a disregard or the actual facts.
Weapon system locations, response times.
Yeah and a Proud Boy Trumper just tried to shoot up an FBI building in Ohio. Thank god that whack job was taken out.
Perhaps. I think she made a bad political bet. She came out strongly against Trump post Jan 6th on the assumption that the GOP was going to turn against him.
Partisanship aside, do you think Clinton's issue was a big deal?
The very public investigation of that conduct probably cost her the presidency.
And for the love of God, help @mcmurtry66 improve his reaction score. He's so far behind his nemesis Uncle Bulk that I fear he'll never catch up.
Or just hire a hooker (a la Stormy) to stroke his ego (among other things) and turn him into a blabbering blob of orange...
Lol... the fact that they have given him multiple chances to comply doesn't mean that it isn't serious. 45 has gotten the kid glove treatment. Then, apparently, that extraordinary patience ran out.
They didn't wait over a year for anything. They first tried to play nice which is always an exercise in futility because you can't place nice with Trump. He stalls and obfuscates. Then they issued a grand jury subpoena, but later found out from an informant that he didn't fully comply and that he was holding onto some pretty sensitive shit.
I think just the opposite. Most of America is conservative. The problem is not with conservative ideas, the problem is connecting those ideas to people. I have often said I don’t understand anything about ”TRUMPISM” because it has no connection to ideas. It‘s a personality. Yet many people, including smart people on this forum, allow “TRUMPISM” to define politics.
I disagree with this. The fact that Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last 6 elections kinda proves that.
Sad that you cannot conceive of a conservative Democrat. They used to help run the country.
You believe everything he says?
The WSJ says 45 is lying. 11 separate sets of still-classified documents, in 20 boxes removed.
I know - including TS/SCI. I have that clearance and can’t take any TS/SCI documents home. I can’t defend this. I’ll leave that to those that reflexively defend everything he says or does.
