Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

i think reading any certainty into this latest filing is a fool's errand though

so trump filed a … motion? petition? … to exclude evidence from a proceeding that doesn’t exist?

— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) August 22, 2022

the "he's representing himself" though was definitely bullshit and once again people just believing shit because it's funny

how do experienced lawyers not know how ECF works. nearly 30k likes on a tweet that’s plainly false. https://t.co/t2O8L1uqy5

— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) August 22, 2022

(it was a temporary clerical error)

unless theres evidence he was engaged in actual espionage kinda doubt hell be charged for just trying to keep the documents, could have worse luck in some of the other cases floating around out there tho

should also be noted that Michael Tae Sweeney is a film and tv editor, with little expertise on the issue, and the person he quoted (Marc Joseph Stern, who is an extremely reliable source) didn't have quite the outlook he did. MJS is more baffled at the entire filing and thinks the most Trump will get out of the judge is slow-walking the case.

xpost yeah it's never been a certainty he would be indicted to begin with.

how many times do we have to do this

he IS stupid AND he was the 45th president. we are at the point now where that is demonstrably true.

he’s not a secret genius no matter how much you want that to be true, no matter how much you want to believe that only smart people attain power

he IS stupid and any success he has isnt because he’s a secret genius it’s because there’s a system allowing it to happen

there have been like 500 tell-all books about Donald Trump and the only ones that promote a remotely flattering assessment of his intelligence are the ones he paid to have written. whenever he goes off-prompter he either says the dumbest shit imaginable or acts like he has no clue what he just said 5 seconds ago. hate to be one of the guys who say this kind of bullshit but reality TV really did lead us directly to this, literally and figuratively

we are deep into america in paradise

It continually amazes me how much people rely on the garbage fire that is twitter for their news and facts.

We did not deserve him. pic.twitter.com/lfn1So2kab

— 𝚂𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚓 (@TheSocrateej) August 21, 2022

I'm not sure about "we didn't deserve him" but this cracked me up

Officially Dead 💀😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/LCNfYNObPs

— M-A.Stay’Legit ™️🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@BagdMilkSoWhat) August 22, 2022

"We appreciate it, now it all makes sense" is exactly a sentence any FBI agent would say to a subject of an investigation. pic.twitter.com/YTaRRcifhZ

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) August 22, 2022

They had tears in their eyes, too, I bet.

sir,

the wifi password at mar-a-lago is literally 1122334455 but please say more about your secure document facilities pic.twitter.com/tmYUGLHSQG

— ya girl (@goldengateblond) August 20, 2022

You love to see it

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.