Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Of course -- he used "with respect to" and "vis-a-vis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Shitter's full https://t.co/dfxIK8sOe1

— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) May 31, 2023

This is just a real nice surprise, a real nice surprise

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At the very least, he's not paying for a blue checkmark

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/trump-tape-classified-document-iran-milley/index.html

New: Trump acknowledged he retained a classified Pentagon document in an audio tape obtained by Special Counsel Jack Smith — confirming CNN. Our sources indicate this doc was classified at the SECRET level, the kind of doc DOJ would be inclined to charge.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) May 31, 2023

The classification of this document is important — if it was too important to acknowledge and release publicly, DOJ might not be able to use it at trial.

As @secretsandlaws discusses often, NatSec prosecutors look for documents that are classified but not *too* important. https://t.co/NQZccUfKpE

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 31, 2023

In other words, he's right on track to be charged in ... 2027 or something.

Seems like the legal woes are really closing in on him pt.94, meanwhile he's about to run for President again

they finally got him

Increasingly isolated

They also had him on tape with a foreign president threatening to withhold aid unless he interfered in the US election. Still remained president after that one, lmao

This is the most maddening part of the durham report. Like—ok, it seems he didn’t solicit election interference from russia, which is what mueller concluded anyway. (If that investigation was a set up it didn’t work very well). But he still did solicit help from ukraine, using taxpayer money as leverage. It’s like the false accusation gave him the idea to do it for real.

Yeah, but he was, like, totally impeached for that.

I know but like

totally impeached

Relax folks, he’s gonna pull something in the third year in his second term, most likely involving bribing state officials to ratify the proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits, that he is like going to totally get actually punished for.

More like during his third term.

Meantime in the snakepit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/trump-lawyers-resign-criminal-investigation

"some of the lawyers started to believe the biggest impediment to defending Trump might just be the distrust and interpersonal conflict Trump."

Fixed

hahaha covering their fair & balanced ass

Notably, Thursday night’s town hall with Trump in the Des Moines suburb of Clive will be pre-taped, giving Fox News the option of editing out egregious lies about the 2020 election in general or Dominion and Smartmatic in particular before its broadcast at 9pm.

Once they edit out all the insane bullshit, it'll be 10 minutes of actual Trump Q&A, and 45 minutes of Hannity and whoever else is still on board that sinking ship talking about what a genius he is.

really starting to wish the republicans had followed suit and decided to change the order of states in their primary

heh

The word/byline ratio on this story is 34/6. https://t.co/sRrygfQLuO

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) June 6, 2023

34:1, technically, but hey, don't let that get in the way of a funny tweet

Mar-a-Lago ketchup reserves are about to go through some things pic.twitter.com/IhaUPKtKQ2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2023

Congrats to Truth Social for getting this scoop

I saw someone post an even more aggrieved than usual rant of his right after his team was done meeting with the DOJ, and that was seen by some as confirmation that they came back and told him, "Sorry, dude, you're getting indicted. Again."

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BREAKING per @AndrewFeinberg :

MARK MEADOWS has agreed to plead guilty to several lesser federal crimes in exchange for his testimony under a limited grant of immunity. It is believed Trump will be indicted as soon as tomorrow on obstruction & Espionage Act charges.

— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) June 7, 2023

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

didn't you do the exact same thing with the last indictment?

Holy fuck.

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

is there really any doubt this will happen soon very soon? obv most are skeptical of what becomes of it all but come on

The idea of Meadows pleading to lesser crimes and flipping is pretty astonishing. Of course, his lawyer says it's complete bullshit.

note from a british person: if the independent is reporting it as an exclusive, it's probably not true.

Yeah I'm treating everything as rumor mill stuff unless/until it actually happens.

Yeah so far I'm only seeing the independent as a source for those specifics.

Yeah I think it’s happening, maybe not this week or even this month but this is the exact way he was publicly freaking out before the first one

what the hell is a spiro's ghost

My guess is someone trying to ride the Richard M. Nixon twitter account vibe.

This is a bit more reputable, at least the byline:

NEW: Special Counsel formally told Trump’s lawyers last week that the former president is a target in the Mar-a-Lago docs investigation, per people familiar. @guardian confirming https://t.co/U71nLjZ1x8

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 7, 2023

well I guess we finally got him now

yes, a target

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHW33NjVRMQ

who else would be the target of the investigation into him stealing documents?

Anyone involved in helping him directly/assisting with hiding them further.

this is a good explanation of what it means when they say that he is the target of the investigation

Trump has been informed he is the target of a special counsel investigation over classified docs, sources say.@AshaRangappa_: "This means that they are basically at the end of the investigation, at least the one that is the subject of the target letter."https://t.co/iohAbVemwd pic.twitter.com/Bm0VVMBFwo

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) June 7, 2023

in other words, this is not just stating an obvious fact that we've known all along, it is a formal step in the process towards an indictment

ah gotcha. thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, it's always nice to be reminded that "target" is a formal legal term.

also a store that worships satan

Hmm...

The coup-attempting former president says he has been indicted, and has to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/thlCH5wwxi

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 8, 2023