This was on Facebook, it's about Trump and the top secret documents.
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THE TRUMP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THEFT: A Dramedy in Twelve Acts (so far)
1. FBI executes search of Mar-a-Lago.
Trumpologists: It's a raid!
2. Actually, it's not—the FBI had a legal warrant to search.
Trumpologists: What liberal judge issued that?
3. A Trump-appointed federal judge.
Trumpologists: What left-wing socialist Antifa-loving woke Biden appointee dared to execute such an invasive warrant?
4. Actually it was FBI director Chris Wray, whom Trump appointed and boasted is a man of "impeccable credentials." We all know Trump only appoints the best people, as he promised.
Trumpologists: Doesn't matter, because the president can take any documents he wants.
5. Not true, according to both National Archives and Records Administration protocols, and the Presidential Records Act. Also, check your watches: As of noon January 20, 2021, Trump was and is no longer the president, even if many of you still believe in your heart he is.
Trumpologists: But he declassified the docs by magical fiat, as is his right.
6. No he didn't. If he had, his lawyers would have documented those declassifications in their legal brief requesting a special master be appointed to oversee the case. They made no such claims.
Trumpologists: Fine, but why didn't the government just ask for the documents back long ago and be done with this irrelevant episode?
7. They did ask for them, repeatedly, but Trump refused.
Trumpologists: Then they should have issued him a subpoena formally requesting that the documents be returned.
8. They did, quietly and without announcing it publicly (that's why you never heard about it!) back in May 2022. Trump and his attorney signed a legal statement asserting at that time that they returned all relevant documents in their possession. Given what happened in the legally-warranted search in August, those claims now amount to perjury, obstruction of justice, and probably both.
Trumpologists: Whatever, this is really just about mucking up Trump's chances to win re-election in 2024.
9. Funny you say that now, given that none of you said anything when the FBI publicly declared it had seized Anthony Weiner's laptop *11 days before the 2016 presidential election*, by which time Hillary Clinton had announced her candidacy, won the Democratic nomination, chose her running mate, held her national convention, and debated Trump three times. As of the August 2022 legally-executed search warrant following the violated subpoena requesting the stolen classified materials, Trump has neither declared and certainly has not won the 2024 GOP nomination. Besides, to repeat: This whole process began fully 27 months before the next presidential election. That's 810 days out, which seems a wee bit farther out than 11 days to go before people vote--but please feel free to check our math. Also, a reminder about that Weiner laptop: It contained *zero* information related to anything involving Clinton's email server. That was what you folks tend to describe as a "witch hunt."
Trumpologists: But there's nothing of major consequence in the documents the former guy kept.
10. Not even close to true. The classified materials are marked top secret for either human intelligence, signal intelligence and satellite-gathered intelligence, and sometimes two or three of these at once. In short, they are among our most coveted national security secrets, and protect some of our most at-risk spies. They are only supposed to be read in a special "SCIF" (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) and only by people with required security clearances. At least three documents were found in Trump's desk drawer, unattended and unsecured.
Trumpologists: But at least the documents are all returned to the proper authorities now.
11. Nope, again. There were 48 folders marked classified and recovered during the August FBI search that were found empty. Empty! Where are those documents? To paraphrase Trump from 2016, "Russia, if you're listening, please help us find those missing classified documents. I think you will be rewarded mightily by our press."
Trumpologists: Well, whatever. Merrick Garland should be impeached as Attorney General. This is just all about making sure Trump can't be president again.
12. Garland wouldn't even be Attorney General if you folks had not stolen a Supreme Court seat from Obama.
Trumpologists: Erm, uh. We want our mommies.
- Thomas SimpsonAll the evidence says he was a spy.It's crazy.Anyone else found in these circumstances would tried for espionage.
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- Sara RobinsonThe circumstantial evidence is just overwhelming. The contacts between Michael Flynn and the Kremlin between the 2016 election and inauguration. The private meeting with the Russian ambassadors in the White House, and the one with Putin in Reykjavik (neither of which we have any records for). The fawning over MBS. The fact that we've been losing intelligence assets over the past few years at an unprecedented rate.It goes on and on. And now this.2
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