just bizarre and inexplicable like so much else about this guy
― treeship., Friday, 12 August 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
Again, this guy reportedly didn't read classified information when it was important to him. I bet whatever he has he took because he thought it looked cool or something stupid. Hell, I could imagine him taking something *because* it had a big red "classified" stamp on it or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
He's still @realDonaldTrump on his own social network?
― jmm, Friday, 12 August 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
and he uses the same prof pic too. brand consistency.
― treeship., Friday, 12 August 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
JiC otm, i can believe that he would take stuff like that just bc he thought it was cool. he was so into the trappings of the presidency - getting visited by sports teams, a superplane, military parades, etc. cool nuclear stuff fits right into that zone of a 10 year olds idea of "badass president stuff"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 12 August 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
It is, how you say, very intersting that Trump is accusing the FBI of planting top secret nuke docs at Mar-a-Lago when AFAICT the presence of top secret nuke docs at Mar-a-Lago has been merely the topic of speculation and in no way confirmed. Until he pretty much did so just now. Dumbest fucking human on earth.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 August 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
Let me get this straight libs. When you laughed at him for not knowing about the nuclear triad he was unpresidential. But then, when he takes time and effort to better himself and study the nukes on his own time in his own home it suddenly becomes a problem? Hypocrisy much…— Conner Hafen (@Conblob) August 12, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
if it was some kind of cunning attempt to sell secrets to another nation, why would he hide them in such a conspicuous place as mar-a-lago?
― treeship., Friday, August 12, 2022 8:10 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
same reason my son stashes Cheez-its in his dresser drawer. the worst thing that's ever happened to him is a 15 minute timeout
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
Orange Julius Rosenberg
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Friday, 12 August 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
this all seems far too credulous. he knew what he had and fought to hide it and keep it. why give him the benefit of the doubt?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 August 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Reminds me of a Christopher Steele dossier!
Trump is an Amazon top reviewer
― President Keyes, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Trump just admitting the documents were at Mar-a-Lago lmao
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
could you at least quote the man correctly? Reminds me of a Christofer Steele Dossier!xp
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
i think he prob just liked having the secret stuff and he has a known interest in nukes but also part of him liking secret stuff is because it could be used in a deal because he likes deals
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
saudis trying to get nukes would be very weird since theyre firmly under the usa protectorate and a big part of that arrangement is not getting nukes, however mbs is an ultra hawk so its possible that he could be trying to take the country in a new direction
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
and if they wanted to get nukes they could surely do it without dealing with the cop magnet donald trump, but that of course doesnt mean they wouldnt do it, or maybe trump just thought they would like it, trying to sweeten the pot on jareds deals or something who knows, none of it makes sense but it wouldnt surprise me
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
here comes president deals again
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
I mean, it also doesn't mean Trump wouldn't try to make a deal with them anyway, which is a problem enough on its own. Doesn't make it less terrible just because he failed to make the deal.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
back when he tried to trade ordinance and codes for greenland and keep it under the salary cap, but couldn't get it done. he needs a win here.
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
Let me guess, if he denies it and says the evidence was planted then... nothing happens...again.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
He's too dumb to be a master criminal, I don't buy the idea of him having this stuff around to sell off to the highest bidder.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
I dont buy that he wanted it as a souvenir, dude didn't give a shit about it even when he was in office
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
like gee willikers didn't he just say a week ago that we haven't gotten to the bottom of 9/11 yet
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
My bet is he was trying to take something to do with ufos or unexplained phenomena and accidentally put some nuclear stuff in the boxes.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Am I the only one wondering “what IS nuclear stuff”?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
nuclear is unclear
― Evan, Friday, 12 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
It’s...how to make a bomb tutorial? No. Passwords? Maybe (?) but hopefully they change them after five-year-olds are president? Locations of secret uranium stocks or refineries? A list of top ten nuclear explosions of all time? Rolodex of nuclear experts that you can just call and they tell you how it all works?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
What is the document that can be sold to another country for billions of dollars
basically every government thing nuclear is classified by default and theres tons of it could be anything
Great little story from @mjgault on classification and the nuclear enterprise. https://t.co/aAF0kpo6a1— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) August 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
A set of plutonium golf tees
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
apparently he handed over 15 boxes of classified material to the national archives a few months ago but specifically declined, i guess, to include whatever these documents are
― treeship., Friday, 12 August 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
also like, if he's had these documents for over a year, how could the fbi "take them away"? wouldn't there likely be copies of whatever it is he wanted?
― treeship., Friday, 12 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
*lord of the rings voice* my precious hehe
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Maybe he thought Biden needed the info and that these were the only copies.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
you work with what youve got
It’s not very good, but the talking point has been established. pic.twitter.com/VB5svffL7z— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) August 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
ok lol I'd missed the part about him making this a felony: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/trump-fbi-search-surveillance-law/
If Trump is found to have violated federal law in removing and retaining classified documents without authorization, he could be convicted of a felony punishable by five years in prison. And that conviction would be a felony carrying that punishment because of a law signed by President Donald Trump.
― rob, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Not sure you just wanna be admitting it like this
New Trump statement just dropped:He heard that his predecessor, who may or may not be a radical Islamic terrorist, kept "lots" of classified nuclear documents. pic.twitter.com/T3scYJcv6o— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 12, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
18 months after trump leaves:
"Hey can you pull me the file on the nuclear gizmo?"
"sure. hmmm, shit!"
"what's up?"
"folder is empty... wait, there's some old french fries at the bottom?"
"...are they moldy?"
"no, but how-"
"mcdonalds"
― Evan, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Guys 33 million pages seems way worse! That’s a lot more boxes just sitting on Martha’s Vineyard!
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
wow that's like 3 copies of infinite jest
― Evan, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
as a side note, the 33 million documents to which you will see many references in the coming days are documents set aside for the Obama presidential library. they are not boxes of documents that Obama is personally holding on to at his private residence.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Wow, if the FBI has waited 1,999 days to get those nuclear documents back from Obama then they're worse at their jobs than I thought. Sad!
― President Keyes, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
this is literally the "The Kennedys did it too" defense
― President Keyes, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
I just googled and there’s even more nuclear documents on the web, Wikipedia alone- tons on nuclear
― Evan, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
snitch
― President Keyes, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Fox News is also going with the sweet innocent baby angle
Fox's Sean Duffy floats a new Trump raid talking point -- Trump didn't pack the boxes from the White House, so he doesn't know what's in them."Do you think that he went through the boxes at Mar-a-Lago? Do you think he knows what he had in those boxes? I don’t think he did." pic.twitter.com/UZOOXbtx8c— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 12, 2022
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
the famously legitimate didnt know i was committing a crime defense
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Melania told him they were Christmas decorations! You know, we say 'Merry Christmas' again...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
the famous I accidentally stole nuclear secrets defense
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
do we actually know they included launch codes? or is launch codes sort of a shorthand for "detailed operational plans" or something?
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link