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.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Friday, 12 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Am I the only one wondering âwhat IS nuclear stuffâ?
― 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
Itâs...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
― lagân, 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
― lagân, 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
Itâs not very good, but the talking point has been established. pic.twitter.com/VB5svffL7z— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) August 12, 2022
― lagân, 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! Thatâs a lot more boxes just sitting on Marthaâs 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 thereâs 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 donât 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
― lagân, 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
we dont know what was in there all nuclear stuff of which there is tons is default classified and cannot be declassified by the president is my understanding based on reading a few articles and many tweets over the last couple days
― lagân, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
word is now that these may be the NOC lists, which is the thing Tom Cruise stole in Mission Impossible lol
― frogbs, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Anyone consider that maybe Trump just wanted to make nuclear weapons?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
For the moment, I'm just gonna pretend that we live in the world where this shit actually produces results instead of the world where he once again eludes any semblance of consequence before stealing the 2024 election and establishing the Trump dynasty of god emperors.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
i think it could go either way
― lagân, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
The predictability is so tiring..
"I didn't do it, it's a witch hunt"... "Well it was planted, you see"... "OBAMA DID IT TOO"
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
I wonder if he is going to try to retroactively declare Mar- a - Lago as a presidential library and claim anyone could have made an appointment to see the ânuclearâ.
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
opening a library in Florida is also a felony though
― rob, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
Actual photo of the Obama Presidential Libraryhttps://www.mlive.com/resizer/D5R-Xho4kC1djylNedt11omxbww=/1280x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/5ALCNB6YR5CBVL6Y6IT5AGKJPU.JPG
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
2017!https://www.theonion.com/mar-a-lago-assistant-manager-wondering-if-anyone-coming-1819579801
― StanM, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
The Very. First. Issue. Of Spy. 1986. pic.twitter.com/yGEMKwxjoZ— David Kamp (@MrKamp) August 12, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
Actual Politico subhead:
Republicans who days ago were near-united in blasting the Justice Department are allowing that nuclear weapons-related materials at Mar-a-Lago might be problematic.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
he loves nuclear its one of his things
― lagân, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Actual WaPo head:
Event venues (like Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago) are not good places to store nuclear secrets
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
they should be stored at Hobby Lobby
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 August 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
everything is problematic these days, I'll bet DOD even put trigger warnings on these specs for advanced weapons systems
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 August 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't put it past Trump to steal nuclear documents and store them at his resort just to own the libs. "Boo hoo, snowflakes!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
why are you so determined to find a million reasons to let him off the hook for this?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 August 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
This story is lol, but I'm going to guess everyone will have forgotten about it in three weeks (except perhaps as a right-wing talking point).
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Friday, 12 August 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Probably because they will have discovered something even worse. Anyway, he's totally on the hook for this (whatever this turns out to be, exactly). But it is completely in character for Trump to commit a major crime for the stupidest reason possible, vs some sort of ambitious "I'm going to smuggle these nuclear secrets out of the White House and sell them to the Saudis for billions!" scheme. He's such a fuck-up. So it's kind of like the Trump version of Occam's Razor: what is the stupidest possible reason for him to commit a crime?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link