I was surprised by the sensitivity of those documents and their matrix of numbers. . . And I think the fees under the Espionage Act that intentionally kept those documents are forged accounts. . . If at least part of this is true, then you are making a toast.
I’m not so sure about the “toast” part. The court, adding two other Trump appointees, overturned its ruling in a sweeping trial. And a Florida jury increases the chances that a panel member will simply refuse to convict, no matter how strong the case. Steve Bannon, who received a last-minute reprieve from Trump, responded to Barr’s comments with a warning: “We’re going to shove this up your ass, okay?”)
Let’s just say I’d be pleasantly surprised if Trump ever faces anything worse than a few rounds of golf with an ankle monitor. the accusation itself.
First, these are the claims Trump brought to Florida:
The classified documents that TRUMP stored in his boxes included data on the defense and weapons functions of the United States and foreign countries; U. S. nuclear programsUSA; the potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attacks; and imaginable retaliatory plans in reaction to a foreign attack. Unauthorized disclosure of such classified documents may jeopardize U. S. national security. U. S. military, foreign affairs, U. S. military security, U. S. military, U. The continued viability of sensitive intelligence-gathering methods.
Remember, no one on Trump’s team disputes that. Some Republicans, in a desperate struggle with reality, recommend that Trump did nothing wrong, but Trump, who can’t help but speak out, says he had the right to take whatever he wanted, especially after making the documents innocent by employing Kreskin’s declassification method.
But perhaps the fabrics were at least in one place:
Between January 2021 and August 2022, Mar-a-Lago Club hosted more than 150 social events, in addition to weddings, film premieres and fundraisers that, combined, attracted tens of thousands of guests.
But Trump has a detail from the Secret Service; Could the assistance documents?
[The Secret Service] is not guilty of protecting Trump’s boxes or their contents. Trump did not tell the Secret Service that he was storing boxes containing classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago Club.
Oh.
Meanwhile, Trump’s aides, plus his alleged co-conspirator, Walt Nauta, were moving these things along. (Nauta has been charged with six counts, adding obstruction and making false statements, and has yet to plead guilty; he has asked for an extension of his arraignment, now set for June 27. ) When some of the boxes were overturned, Nauta took a photo of the classified material:
On December 7, 2021, NAUTA discovered several of Trump’s fallen boxes and their contents spilled on the garage room floor, and added a document marked “SECRET // RELATIONSHIP TO THE U. S. “to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance composed of Australia. Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. NAUTA texted Trump Employee 2: “I opened the door and found out this. . . “NAUTA also attached two photos it took of the spill. Trump’s Employee 2 responded, “Oh, no oh no” and “I’m sorry POTUS got my phone. “
What’s missing here is “Yakety Sax” as a soundtrack.
But perhaps Trump misunderstood or didn’t realize what he had, and sought to cooperate with the government to put the papers back in place. Unfortunately, one of Trump’s own lawyers made sure to record Trump’s comments on this issue, because lawyers, despite the Stringer Bell rule, know when to take notes:
Well, what if we don’t respond at all or play ball with them?
Wouldn’t it be better if we simply told them we don’t have anything here?Well, is it better if there are no documents?
In one of the most high-profile moments described in the indictment, Trump was allegedly recorded, a meeting with a publisher working with an e-book (who was accompanied by his publisher) and two Trump staffers, saying he had a U. S. war plan for the U. S. The U. S. is fighting a foreign country (read: Iran) in its hand. It is recorded that you accept that the document is classified and that you no longer have the authority to declassify it. But for those of us who have worked with classified information, Smith adds a vital detail:
At the time of this exchange, the writer, the publisher and two members of TRUMP had no security clearances or classified data on a plan of attack in country A.
If that happened, Trump would leak classified data to other people who see the classified data.
This incident is a violation because one of the president’s former lawyers, Robert Ray, argued that while the prosecution fees are serious, they show no evidence of undermining U. S. national security. UU. Es a laughable claim: No one, at this point, can say for sure whether U. S. national security is a major issue. Whether the U. S. has been damaged or not. We don’t live in a movie where data breaches produce clear, instant disasters.
But more specifically, even Ray admitted that the government did not want to cause such harm; That’s not how everything works. Trump faces 31 counts of “intentional concealment of national defense data,” not a fictitious rate of “flagrantly defaming American security. “As a former Ministry of Defense worker, I can only believe what would have happened if I had taken boxes of classified data from my home and then after my arrest, I said, “Well, of course I took them, but there is no evidence that it harmed national security. At least not yet. “
Donald Trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, it will most likely be a long time before we know whether our judicial formula is capable of holding a former president accountable. it would be, in Bill Barr’s words, a toast.
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Review of Killer Mike’s awakening
By Spencer Kornhaber
Killer Mike is a kind of contradiction. He campaigned for Bernie Sanders and rapped at Ronald Reagan’s death birthday party; he also supports gun ownership and speaks warmly of Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp. Over the years, he renounced the Christian religion he grew up with, but his first solo album in a decade, Michael, whose canopy is a photo of Mike’s formative years, adorned with Satan’s horns and a halo, is loaded with passspel choruses and biblical references. to pass to the church with me You are passing to pass to the Blue Flame with me.
This flexibility has rarely been controversial. Last year, a HuffPost column called the rapper “more politically damaging than Kanye West” because he praised Kemp’s outreach to the black electorate, while the incumbent governor supported policies Democrats say make it harder for voters to vote. Although many of his songs foresee a violent revolution, he went viral for asking protesters not to burn buildings at George Floyd protests, leading some commentators to accuse him of betting too much on the sides.
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Read. “Fieldnotes”, a new poem by Zoe Hitzig.
“You can tell through the gait, the way the frame moved, and/or when and how they approached. “
Hans and Franz’s episodes of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast remind us that a very stupid premise can make the movie as fun as possible.
Play our crossword puzzles.
Summer is here (almost) and I started diving into ebooks. Now I’m done with Washington Post reporter Ben Terris’ new ebook, The Big Break. If you ask me what it is, I will wave my hands. in the hot mess of American politics and saying, “All of this,” however, is a wonderfully rendered series of portrayals of people, as the subtitle says, who are “the gamblers, the partygoers, and the true believers looking to win in Washington. “while the United States loses its mind. It’s my favorite kind of eBook on politics: informative but fun.
If you need to get an idea, the Post published an excerpt a few months ago about the rise and fall of Sean McElwee, a political operative in his thirties. It’s a captivating read, and in one of his last conversations with Terris, McElwee sums up everything that can make a young man’s head spin in our nation’s capital: “You know what’s the craziest thing?” said McElwee. “Before all this, I think everyone enjoyed me. “
I appreciate the book, and so do you, if only because it will make you satisfied not to paint in Washington.
-Thomas
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Katherine Hu contributed to this newsletter.