Trump Got Some Explaining To Do?

[FatticusInch]

How will his lawyers spin the latest chapter in this saga?

https://news.sky.com/story/mar-a-lago-search-25-documents-retrieved-in-fbi-raid-on-florida-estate-were-marked-top-secret-affidavit-shows-12682231

I’d reckon you’re gonna need a pretty cast-iron excuse for being in possession of documents marked Top Secret?

[Hopkirk]

Probably claim that the FBI stamped them after finding them.

Or that the papers don't exist and it's al fake news

[davebro]

just win in 2024 & pardon yourself

[Peter Pedant]

Hi fatticus-fabulous
Trump wanted the affidavit because
it might betray the identity of the MOOOOOOOLE
that is buried in the Trump camp

YEEEEEEESSSS - hence the redactions.

( this was done in the Guantanamo cases where the doctors were identified by sloppy redaction. Activists applied to the doctors' registration boards to strike them off for torture - - - -and they were!)

[tomus42]

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation - ie Trump is corrupt, lazy, treacherous, and not very bright.

[Peter Pedant]

// just win in 2024 & pardon yourself//
well the jurists ( well some of them) say he cant.
Something to do with the barber who shaves everyone who doesnt have himself - - - who shaves the barber?

he also tried a future pardon - for future cases
nope - same answer - see above

excuse me did you just say, a pardon for say indictments in 2022?

yup - - - so he knew that he was liable, might be charged......

you might think that - I cdnt possibly comment

[Peter Pedant]

// Probably claim that the FBI stamped them after finding them.//
commonplace to photocopy them just after seizure- chain of custody etc

NOW - a doctor got the notes back from the coroner and er "improved them" by filling in various impt missing bits - and my god wasnt there trouble over that one!

I got a gold star for my fridge by documenting bruises on a child within 5 mins of arrival so that the parents cdnt say - the hospital staff have beaten him up - not us!

it has dear reader all been done before

(yes I seem to know an awful lot about falsification of medical notes)

[Buenchico]

DT has already offered the excuse that the documents had automatically ceased to be classified when he, as the US President at the time, used his authority to declassify them. It will be interesting to see whether or not his excuse is found to be valid though!

[Deskdiary]

“…and not very bright”

The billionaire businessman and former POTUS is not very bright?

Really?

You may not like him or his politics (I’m not a huge fan), but to describe him as not very bright is well wide of the mark.

You don’t become a billionaire by not being very bright.

[tomus42]

He inherited his wealth dd.

Sorry, but I can't think of any other way to explain all the stupid things he says and does, (like keeping top secret documents lying around his house and expecting to get away with it) other than stupidity.

[Deskdiary]

He inherited millions and turned it into billions.

I doubt there’s many people that could do that.

I entirely agree that he doesn’t come across as bright, and some of the things he’s uttered I shudder at, but he’s no fool.

[Peter Pedant]

einstein was bright and didnt have billions ergo

It will be interesting to see whether or not his excuse is found to be valid though!


FPOTUS waves wand over classified docs and says to himself - you are not classified anymore
He was warned about that little jaunt in his presidency apparently.

no - known not to be valid. - forms to be filled out

This pig is a dog, why - because the president says so
are we really at this stage?

[Peter Pedant]

// (like keeping top secret documents lying around his house and expecting to get away with it) other than stupidity.//

er no
"rules are for little people" - woman who lived in her husbands hotel and the staff clapped her out the building on the way to serve time for tax evasion - that wasnt the first Mrs trump was it

[Deskdiary]

Tomus as 7.21pm - I’d suggest that’s arrogance rather than stupidity.

[JDavis]

I don't think Trump's very bright , eg disinfectant and sunlight as a cure for Covid. He boasts that he's bigger and better than everyone else - the biggest, best wall in the world, the highest ever crowd assembled for his inauguration etc etc. Critics and opponents are ironically dismissed as low IQ individuals (bit like this site, actually).

His supporters don't seem to be the sharpest either - Marjorie Taylor
Greene anyone?

I do agree that it's a close-run thing between his arrogance and stupidity though.

[Deskdiary]

As you’re brighter than him JDavis, how are you spending your billions?

[JDavis]

DD,

What a stupid reply worthy of Trump himself!

See PP at 19.41.

[Peter Pedant]

hi boys ( and gurlz)
I am disappointed - deeply disappointed that none of yo wondered what the text of the released redacted affidavit was

it is here

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2022/08/gov.uscourts.flsd_.617854.102.1-2.pdf

happy reading

[Canary42]

///He inherited millions and turned it into billions.
///

Not so - his accumulation rate about matched the average savings account.

[Deskdiary]

Not really JDavis - you say he’s not very bright, but he’s more successful, rich and powerful than you or I could ever imagine or hope to achieve.

So what makes you brighter than Trump?

You really don’t have an answer or an argument.

If it was that easy we’d all be as rich and powerful as he is, but you and I (and everybody on AB) do not have his acumen.

It may salve your hatred that you think you’re cleverer than him, but I hate to break it to you…you ain’t.

Like me, you’re a no mark on a poorly supported anonymous Q&A site.

[JDavis]

Interesting, Canary. Wikipedia does say he typically downplays the amount he inherited in order to appear a self-made man.

Not hard to believe.