Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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Trump wants to lock up his longtime Transportation Secretary. #ettd pic.twitter.com/pqNmDpmwGY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 24, 2022

Enjoy an affidavit

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000182-daea-d289-a3bb-daef43180000

Or this may be a supporting document -- in any event, whole lotta redactions!

Note that Reinhart has not unsealed 89 yet, so he may actually still be reviewing the affy. pic.twitter.com/nhtw8j2kbP

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 26, 2022

Sums it up!

Here's a redacted list of the iteimzed redactions with one exception: "Agent safety." https://t.co/buDmDZYl5o

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 26, 2022

Okay the actual affidavit

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000182-daec-dfd1-adef-dafe79d30000

The stretch from about page 23 to 28 makes for very gripping reading.

Even bypassing the redactions, it's immediately clear that there is very narrowly written statutory language describing what you're allowed to do with classified and secret documents, whether you're an ex-president or a janitor, and that this fuck broke every rule of document security. He should already be in prison.

vibe pic.twitter.com/vIignkU6ra

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 26, 2022

http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/anna-de-rothschild-trump-mar-a-lago-security-fbi-investigation/

“What I’m trying to understand is how did they allow this?” said Mr. Lawrence. “How could someone keep coming back — at that level? This is Mar-a-Lago.”

going to imagine this was Joey Lawrence

Famously secure fortress Mar-a-Lago

Neando you should buy a cheap knockoff Trump shirt and just show up and wander around for us.

...Cannon, who was nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate about a week after his defeat in 2020, said she plans to hold a hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach on the former president’s request for a special master. She typically convenes court in Fort Pierce, Fla., about an hour’s drive north of there.

The judge’s two-page order giving “notice of [her] preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case” came less than a day after Trump’s attorneys late Friday made a pitch for an independent review of the materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate and before prosecutors filed any reply.

Cannon gave no indication how she viewed Trump’s claims that the search was unnecessary and extreme. Instead, she asked Trump to file a brief responding to the Justice Department’s produced list of seized materials. She also asked both sides to describe specifically the role they envision for a special master. And she asked DOJ to reveal the status of its filter review, and whether any investigators outside of the review team had seen the seized materials.

The Department of Justice declined to comment on the ruling.

Appointments of special masters to oversee the handling of evidence seized in federal criminal investigations are unusual, but typically have occurred when prosecutors seize records from an attorney’s office. Judges in Manhattan used the mechanism in recent years in connection with investigations into two Trump attorneys: Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani.

If the special master she appoints is Rudy Guiliani, we'll know the fix is in.

Leaving aside how far Judge Cannon is going to accommodate Trump, it’s not like appointing a special master changes anything about Trump’s potential liability or the legitimacy of DOJ’s search. It’s about the possible return of *some* of the seized materials — and nothing more. https://t.co/MrWQdacvfi

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 27, 2022

No. At some point she’s going to have to address her authority to do any of this — and whatever she says will presumably be subject to appeal.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 27, 2022

Yes lol

Trump made some outrageous claims about German energy at the UN — and the German delegation’s reaction was priceless pic.twitter.com/izpa2fKC3B

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 26, 2018

haa

Lots of crowing from the right online about that (MAGAbots obv but not exclusively), like a bandwagon attack on Germany for rejecting nuclear and approach to renewable. But Germany is now on 40% less gas from Russia than it was a year ago and whatever Germans are paying for energy I get the impression Brits will actually pay more.

Actually came to the thread to post Jamie Foxx's new-to-me extremely good Trump impression but nm

I know it's been said but the Mussolini parallels in the asshole's mannerisms in that video are overwhelming

Jamie Foxx does a better vocal mimic of Trump than that "comedy professional" from R4 who does it very badly

He's a pretty good mimic overall. Cf. his appearance on Fallon's "Wheel of Musical Impressions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGidYBqBHVw

that's unbelievable

what the fuck

Trump demands he be declared the rightful winner of the 2020 election or that a re-do election be held “immediately” pic.twitter.com/tlWM60ar7p

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) August 29, 2022

EMBOLISM NOW! EMBOLISM NOW!

Meanwhile, there's a parallel universe where everyone scratches their chins and thinks that's a compelling argument.

He must constantly act like his lies and his crazy demands are the only valid reality lest his cult following fall prey to the other reality in which he is a loser, a fraud and and a blowhard.

I say we have a new election, eventually!

once again - trump was kicked off twitter, and I don't see the point of tweeting his 'truths', just let him yell at the TV in peace

The part that I find really breathtaking is that he genuinely believes that if there was a new election held today, he would win.

I think he will refuse to run in the 2024 election until after they sort out the 2020 election

The part that I find really breathtaking is that he genuinely believes that if there was a new election held today, he would win.

I think there's a greater than outside chance he would.

once again - trump was kicked off twitter, and I don't see the point of tweeting his 'truths', just let him yell at the TV in peace

xp

he totally could win

to me the crazy part is admitting he lost because the FBI (that he presided over) didn't publicly pursue his political opponents aggressively enough and that amounts to election interference.

I wonder if there's a small percentage of Trump supporters who didn't even vote, confident that he couldn't possibly lose to Sleepy Joe who NEVER HELD RALLIES!

once again - trump was kicked off twitter, and I don't see the point of tweeting his 'truths', just let him yell at the TV in peace

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, August 29, 2022 12:37 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's still by far the most popular figure in the Republican party and, until recently, pretty much everyone on this board assumed he was gonna win in 2024

I think he still could, and it’s not a small chance. Source: the history of the United States

Don't blame the voters. If he's the only racist on the ballot then who else can they vote for?

I think there's a greater than outside chance he would.

So what you (and the other folks who agree with you) think is that Donald Trump is more popular now than he was in November 2016, when he squeaked out the most statistically improbable barely-a-win in US political history. More popular now than he was in November 2020, when he lost by seven million votes. More popular after January 6. More popular after the Mar-A-Lago raid and all the news stories about mishandling of classified national security documents. Joe Biden has shitty approval ratings, but his approval/disapproval numbers are ten points above Trump's. But sure, Trump could win.

Have you seen a gas prices?

2020 was pretty close right? And the electoral machinery in some swing states is now firmly held by election deniers?

At this point we're conditioned to expect the stupidest outcome imaginable, all of which were unimaginable pre-2016

there is entirely valid reasons to worry about the fuckery that might happen in the elections in 2024. with that being said, giving myself a brain tumor over it now when I can't do anything about it isn't going to help things, so I'm waiting til closer to that time and I'm sure demonstrations are gonna ramp up anticipating the sabotage.

we should be doing that for the midterms as well.

xxpost Seriously. I don't know how much 'popularity' is going to really factor in with respect to whichever GOP psycho 'wins' the '24 presidential election.

xp

nope

if he wins, it would be because he stole it. they're going to try to steal it again. it's great that america's institutions stood up to it in 2020. hopefully they do enough in 2024 as well.

i don't think this is likely. i'm just saying, when tens of millions of angry people decide to openly steal an election together, they do have a chance, even if they're outnumbered and make no sense and everyone hates them

2020 was pretty close right?

― death generator (lukas), Monday, August 29, 2022 2:26 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc ~50k votes across three states wouldve swung the election to trump

https://i.imgur.com/4g1FwSv.png

anyway, not trying to be negative nancy over here, i know it's very annoying when someone is worried about that kind of shit. i felt that way in the month before january 6, too, when trump and everyone around him were also openly saying they were going to try to steal the election and it was like sure, but rudy giuliani's hair dye is running down his cheek lol