But you must admit, if someone, who was not President in July of 2022, committed a crime in July of 2022, then that individual would not have the qualified immunity you claim the President has.
Because in that case, Joe Biden was President when the actions took place.
Yes, this is why trials are in the public record.
Now, if it never goes to trial, we might never know exactly what happened.
Don’t forget how much of a narcissist he is. Let’s say there’s a missive from Putin congratulating him on all he’s done. He’d be flush with joy. No way he’d get rid of that record.
There is no evidence whatsoever that this took place. There are procedures for declassifying documents. The procedures do not include Mr. Trump waving a magic wand over them in private.
Flushing an individual page of notes down the toilet is something Trump can do personally, and subsequently there may be no evidence the notes ever existed.
But destroying multiple boxes of (said to be) classified documents - that are well known to exist - is on a different level. Destroying them would in itself be a crime. “Losing them” is completely implausible. And they are too voluminous for His Royal Trumpness to personally flush, so it would have to involve minions. Those minions are going to be reluctant to be involved.
I don’t think it’s so easy.
Can you point out the laws that apply here? I think the president has the authority to declassify materials at any time. I think they could do it by voice, over the phone, or in a text. The president has to be able to do that without delay to maintain the security of the country. They do not even have to inform anyone of the decision at the time, the material becomes declassified at the time the president intends it to be.
Unfortunately Mr. Trump could wave a magic wand over material in private to declassify it.
This reminds me of a question that I had in mind early on. If the boxes that Trump took were classified (and thus presumably important), then wouldn’t they already be copied and stored somewhere; e.g.microfiche? I find it hard to understand how any evidence or record of an illegal act that Trump committed could possibly make its way into these boxes. If there was a video of Trump playing Russian water sports, who would be the one to put the DVD into the box? Surely not Trump, or his 100 million lackeys. White I assume that Trump didn’t pack the boxes himself, and just the fact that the contents of the boxes are already known, suggests to me that this really was all about retrieving original documents.
Sure.
Irrelevant, that only applies to the content of the documents, the information. Not to the physical documents themselves.
The current President decides whether or not the former President’s claims of immunity are valid. That was the precedent set when Nixon tried to claim immunity after he resigned. So it depends on how much Biden wants to protect Trump.
Complete headline: House GOP Candidate Carl Paladino Said Merrick Garland ‘Probably Should Be Executed’
Republican House candidate Carl Paladino suggested on a radio show that Attorney General Merrick Garland “probably should be executed” following the FBI search of President Donald Trump’s Florida estate last week, according to The Buffalo News.
Garland “should not only be impeached, he probably should be executed,” Paladino said in an interview with a Breitbart radio host last week, according to the outlet.
“The guy is just lost. He’s a lost soul. He’s trying to get an image, and his methodology is just terrible,” he added. “To raid the home of a former president is just … people are scratching their heads and they’re saying, ‘What is wrong with this guy?’”
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Carl seems to think Garland is up to something.
Rich Lowry also thinks Garland is ready to pounce on Donnie but only because he doesn’t have the balls to stand up to Joe Biden.
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The Jan. 6 committee, elected Democrats and the media have been braying for Garland to move against Trump. President Joe Biden himself has reportedly told aides in private that Garland should indict Trump. “Garland Faces Growing Pressure as Jan. 6 Investigation Widens,” the New York Times reported earlier this year.It would take truly cussed independence and enormous moral and political courage not to take the path of least resistance and give in to these voices. Garland appears to be bending, presumably on his way to breaking.
…The fact of the matter is that while Trump’s moral blameworthiness for Jan. 6 is not in doubt, his legal culpability is. It’s easy to write an opinion column or say on cable TV that Trump incited an insurrection. As a legal matter, though, Trump didn’t come close to crossing the line to incitement, which has very specific and high standards under law.
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So… Rich concedes that trump’s big mouth makes him morally culpable for Jan 6, but he is not legally liable. And if Garland nails trump in spite of this, it will be because of pressure from Democrats.
I hope the FBI has a nice looonnnngggg talk with this asshole. They should also toss his house and take any weapons too.
Yes it will enrage the MAGAt’s even more, but fuck 'em. They can’t be reached.
Apparently, a few minutes later in the interview, he said he was being facetious, so, no harm/no foul? I’m assuming there was a commercial break and one of his aides explained to him that that was a bad thing to say.
Read: “indictable offense well outside any protection under the First Amendment.”
Suggesting that anyone should be executed is a no no. The top official of the DOJ? Doing it on the radio? Um, dude, what where you thinking. Oh, right, you can’t think.
They think everyone listening agrees.
They don’t think that, if one public figure they don’t like can be executed, the same thing can happen to them.
Horse porn guy said something inappropriate? No way!
Back in the days of three channels, my did used to watch news religiously and scream at the television. His favorite scream was “they should be lined up against a wall and shot.” It became background noise. It was only after I’d moved away and come back to visit that I felt the full impact of it.
I asked him not to do that in front of my kids and he sort of stormed off. My mom took me to task for hurting his feelings. I tried to explain, including that she was just used too used to it to fully hear it. She thought for a bit, then said, “well, you wouldn’t want him not to care.” I had no words.
Some people have been saying these things for so long that it just feels normal to them.
Carl said he was being facetious. Close Carl, but the word your looking for is fascist.
Not that this maroon would know what either word means.
New Randy Rainbow video!
