Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

looks like he's giving the feds the green light to release the warrant

no no this is gonna be one of those "I will show you my tax returns but I can't because of the AUDIT" things

Wapo

https://i.imgur.com/EfXMARF.png

NYT

https://i.imgur.com/iQoxY3W.png

so now it’s illegal to be interested in physics

Astonishing that there was that doc about NYT fighting for democracy at the start of the Trump era, and it's been pretty appalling at not both-sidesing every step of the way.

xp lol

(realized shortly after posting that i saw that line on twitter late last night and thats why it popped into my head this morning. dont want to get caught being dishonest on the trump thread)

Stealing Twitter valor

So this pretty much confirms the presence of secret nuclear stuff, right?

Trump on Truth Social suggests without evidence that nuclear materials were planted by the FBI during the Mar-a-Lago search pic.twitter.com/EBaY37JZ5O

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 12, 2022

i don't understand why he would want this information

What do you get the man who has everything?

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?

just bizarre and inexplicable like so much else about this guy

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.

He's still @realDonaldTrump on his own social network?

and he uses the same prof pic too. brand consistency.

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"

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.

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

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

Orange Julius Rosenberg

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?

Reminds me of a Christopher Steele dossier!

Trump is an Amazon top reviewer

Trump just admitting the documents were at Mar-a-Lago lmao

could you at least quote the man correctly?

Reminds me of a Christofer Steele Dossier!

xp

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

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

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

here comes president deals again

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.

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.

Let me guess, if he denies it and says the evidence was planted then... nothing happens...again.

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.

I dont buy that he wanted it as a souvenir, dude didn't give a shit about it even when he was in office

like gee willikers didn't he just say a week ago that we haven't gotten to the bottom of 9/11 yet

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.

Am I the only one wondering “what IS nuclear stuff”?

nuclear is unclear

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?

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

Am I the only one wondering “what IS nuclear stuff”?

A set of plutonium golf tees

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

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?

*lord of the rings voice* my precious hehe

Maybe he thought Biden needed the info and that these were the only copies.

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

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.

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

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"