USA has this really neat feature where if you’re a minority and it’s SCOTUS opinion season, you get to wake up each morning like it’s Xmas to find out what constitutional rights you no longer have 🤬
That bit about nuclear secrets is no joke. Donald Trump was, and still is, a danger to national security.
‘Devastating': Current and former officials shocked over military secrets found at Mar-a-Lago
The unsealed indictment on former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents has current and former national security officials claiming the case is “devastating” against him and that “damage” may have been done to U.S. national security.
Trump is facing 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act through “willful retention” of classified records and six counts related to his alleged effort to obstruct the investigation, according to the 49-page document released Friday.
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The more than 100 documents seized from Trump’s office in a storage room at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida ranged from Confidential to Top Secret. Images released along with the indictment showed stacks of boxes in open areas, with one showing them lining the walls of a bathroom.
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The latest legal woe for Trump has his former aides fuming. “The indictment is devastating. Those who defended Trump before the charges were made public, or those who have not yet spoken, should very carefully weigh how history will consider their statements,” John Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser, told POLITICO.
Others are more worried about what it means for the United States to have had such sensitive papers out in the open. “The classified documents described in the indictment are some of the most sensitive information we possess,” said Mick Mulroy, a senior Pentagon official in the Trump administration. “This type of information should never be removed from a secured facility and once discovered should have been immediately returned.”
Mulroy suspects that an intelligence and security review may be conducted alongside the criminal proceedings to discover “any potential damage that may have been done to our national security.”
All that far right lickspittles of Trump can do is try to revive their lame chant "but her emails!".
At least Hillary deleted emails instead of sharing them with Russian assets. And she probably didn't keep that famous email server in her bathroom. 😆🚽
Yum. Buttery males.
Any way, emails that were duly sent as copies to The National Archives, where all gov shit goes to get dusty.
Shh, very secret, these public gov archives.
And I'm like Pish, only three other email addresses!
Are you even trying!
I have nine just for practice.
"They want emails sent by then-VP Biden associated with several alias accounts, including [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]."
{special credit for the dot gov account in the gov archive, sneaky}
National Archives said We feel your pain, and put it on the complex waiting list. Buh Bye.
As Trump’s own remarks have made plain, any effort to elude Mueller, including by pleading the Fifth, could have political repercussions. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment,” Trump said as a candidate in 2016, complaining about aides to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who faced inquires over the use of a private email service when she was secretary of state.
it has been a salve for my soul to watch the people who told me to "cope and seethe" for four years sobbing and hyperventilating on social media today because their precious orange disaster is being indicted again and their republican faves aren't waving a magic wand to reverse things
In 2020 I was going out with a woman who said, “ya know, I might vote for trump, just because if bernie or Biden gets in they will tax me more.” She was a physical therapist.
After I got over my shock I said, “what about what he is doing to the courts and how hard he is working against our right to marry and just, ya know, exist.”
She replied that once rights were given they didn’t get taken away.