Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Who hated Hitler.

perhaps he just wanted Kelly to wear a monocle and carry a riding crop

Trying to imagine any other major politician in American history getting away with complete disdain for the troops.

Holy shit — the FBI went to Mar-A-Lago with a search warrant! This image is real; Trump posted it on Truth Social.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZrHfURWYAE1Xbz.jpg

I hope they checked the toilets.

Whoa!!! Any idea what they were looking for??

Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.

Harsh assessment of Florida, but I get it

The difference between 'this and Watergate' would be the search warrant

lol, seriously.

Fed's Raided Mar-A-Lago. Oh shit.... Shit's poppin off.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 8, 2022

"And now we're joined by Ice T for his analysis of this breaking story..."

Reminds me of Chapelle's "Fuck Ja Rule!" bit

nobody seems to know shit

The raid began early Monday morning and law enforcement personnel appeared to be focused on the area of the club where Trump's offices and personal quarters are, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department declined to comment, as did the White House. A White House official said it was not notified about the raid.

did all that toilet talk in the news this morning have to do with this?

There is some reporting that it was related to classified documents taken from the White House. I could have sworn we went through this already, but maybe it's just the wheels of justice moving slowly and finally catching up to what was reported months ago.

That was my guess as well.. probably china, silverware, linen too

they were given plenty of time to flush them

Reminds me of Chapelle's "Fuck Ja Rule!" bit

Nah, I'd absolutely want Ice-T liveblogging a Trump perp walk.

The guy’s still got it. He knocked away all those headlines about wanting Hitler’s generals. Well done.

I voted quite a few days ago, but will be working through this playlist for a long while

gotta say, I'm leaning towards Classic

The warrant came with a playlist?

i bet it beats Obama's

Track 1:

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

Lol whoops - wrong thread ha ha!

The fbi just broke into your safe - what’s on your playlist?!

So turns out violating the Presidential Records Act, which was passed after Watergate, disqualifies you from holding elected office.

PLease don't tease me like that

Trump safe full of fraudulent steaks

Kevin McCarthy vowing revenge when the GOP regains power, seems bad

You know they’re going to impeach Biden three times if they take the House and Trump will try to call in a nuke on Delaware if he wins in ‘24.

There's going to be stupid stuff like this either way, why worry?

There's going to be stupid stuff like this either way, why worry?

the whole shit drives me nuts, I mean I know conservatives have baby brains so I get that they might think the President can just order FBI raids for no reason but it's literally the previous fucking President, if there's anyone who ought to know what the POTUS can and can't do it's fucking him!! if he could order raids to settle personal vendettas he would've done it nonstop while he was in office!! he literally appointed the guy who approved the raid because he was a Trump loyalist!! do they stop and think for a single fucking second or is this another one of those things they say constantly but don't actually believe???

1/3
Per sources: search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was related to retention of classified docs. FBI showed up at 9am and left at 6:30pm. They were in plain clothes -- so club staff likely thought they were secret service. That is why it didn't leak earlier.

— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) August 9, 2022

They’re mad cause an elite might actually answer for his crimes.

Unfortunately, I think will probably be forgotten in 10 days

And even if they find some really good shit in his safe, really juicy stuff, it may not be covered in the narrow scope of the warrant

No one had a problem when the FBI was investigating Hilary Clinton when she was the Democratic nominee.

Unfortunately, I think will probably be forgotten in 10 days

I mean, he won't.

There was communication between the FBI and US Secret Service before the search warrant was executed Monday, a person familiar with the matter said, allowing for the FBI to access the estate without any complications. There is only a small Secret Service footprint at Mar-a-Lago when Trump is not there.

...The National Archives, charged with collecting and sorting presidential material, has previously said at least 15 boxes of White House records were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort – including some that were classified.

In early June, a handful of investigators made a rare visit to the property seeking more information about potentially classified material from Trump’s time in the White House that had been taken to Florida.
...The source said some of the documents shown to investigators had top secret markings.
Five days later, on June 8, Trump’s attorneys received a letter from investigators asking them to further secure the room where the documents were stored. Aides subsequently added a padlock to the room.
...“It is a federal crime to remove classified documents wrongly. And so if you are filling out that affidavit and you have to list the crime, you can list that as the crime,” said Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor and a CNN senior legal analyst.

Honig told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” that the timing of the search held with the longstanding department rule not to execute politically sensitive moves within 90 days of an election.

“Today is just about 90 days out exactly from the midterms, I think maybe 91 or 92 days out. That policy, that may be a reason why they did it today because they want to stay clear of that if they’re interpreting that as a 90 day rule,” he said.

Honig told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” that the timing of the search held with the longstanding department rule not to execute politically sensitive moves within 90 days of an election.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/64/c4/cd/64c4cd722e929636b1b156934e9a8632.gif

There are clear laws that protect federal records – with varying degrees of likelihood in their application.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/politics/trump-legal-risk-explainer/index.html

The only reason they would have to open the safe would be if someone told them what was likely in the safe, no?

I like the detail that it wasn't, like, some vault, it was just some shitty standard hotel safe.

I am curious why this Asshole who had no attachment to the office or job or White House or really much at all would take 15 boxes of *anything* with him, let alone 15 boxes of documents. He seems like the type of Asshole that would just leave all his shit behind. Also, 15 boxes is a lot. There is no way this dickhead knows what is in those boxes, right? He probably just told some underling to dump everything from the Oval Office into some boxes and ship it down to Florida, like someone who stays in hotels and compulsively takes home all the free pens, paper, soaps, shampoos, anything that's not nailed down.

he's probably selling information to other countries

That's what I was thinking it was about, not stealing incriminating documents to protect himself, we already know he flushes those down the toilet, but stealing top secret documents to sell or blackmail, that sounds like something he wouldn't be able to resist on his way out of the white house.

We’ve gotten so used to the cartoon villainy of Trump and his people—but it is refreshing to see the FBI treating him with no deference.

One of Asshole's supporters tweeted some ridiculous defense about Asshole declassifying a bunch of shit and taking it with him because the American people deserve to know all these secrets, or some such shit. Which would imply intent to distribute or make public, if it weren't such obvious bullshit.

/22 This is a good suggestion by Andrew Weissmann. There’s reporting that a DoJ team recently visited Mar-a-Lago and talked to people including Trump himself about the documents. If he lied, that would be a classic FBI trap. Still seems light to justify that search. https://t.co/ppVVvIr5RD

— DarkTimesHat (@Popehat) August 9, 2022

Thomas Schwartz, a professor at Vanderbilt University who studies and writes about the presidency, said Nixon wasn’t allowed to take tapes or other materials from the White House when he resigned in 1974.

Many of Nixon's papers remained in Washington for years before being transferred to his presidential library in California, Schwartz said.

“This is different and it is a sign of how unique the Trump period was... how his behaviour was so unusual," Schwartz told the Associated Press news agency.

So Nixon wasn't 'allowed,' and Trump was allowed to remove stuff.. who is on site to make this call? Is there was non-partisan White House overseer?

I mean, pretty clearly he *wasn't* allowed. Now able, that's a different question, but this Asshole has been able to do all sorts of shit his whole life.