What’s not a thing that can happen? Is there a way to figure out what this is in response to that I’m not aware of?
But her emails…!
Several reports I saw today mention that the Sharpie Hurricane Map was also there.
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One of her [Hillary’s] most persistent critics was Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who used his powerful perch as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to keep on the case of Clinton’s emails.But on Tuesday, Johnson had no comment when HuffPost asked him about revelations that Trump literally ripped up government documents that he was supposed to preserve as president. He said he’d need to read up more on the issue.
The Presidential Records Act requires the White House to preserve documents related to a president’s official duties. Those materials should have been handed over to the National Archives when Trump left office.
But last month, the agency retrieved 15 boxes from his Mar-a-Lago residence, according to The Washington Post. Trump’s team continues to search for more documents.
Trump also frequently ripped up documents as president ― actions that could be criminal. Some of the records received by the National Archives had been torn and taped back together.
Republican senators were far less willing to go after Trump Tuesday than they had been against Clinton for her private email server.
“I know there are legal requirements, but I really don’t know enough to comment,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.
Yet in 2015, Cornyn was very concerned about Clinton’s server, saying it “raises serious concerns for Americans who believe in open government and the accountability of our highest officials.”
“I can’t comment on that. I don’t know about that,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) similarly said Tuesday. He, too, was deeply concerned about the proper handling of government information when it came to Clinton.
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What? Republicans are hypocrites? Who knew?
Shocking.
Well, they’re not saying that they actually approve of Trump destroying records.
They’re just saying that they are too stupid to understand the simply legal requirements, or that they cannot read, or that they don’t know anything. So their argument is that they don’t know anything because they’re dumb as a sack of hammers.
And besides, “Donald, who?”
It’s vanishingly rare for Republican arguments to exhibit such undeniable plausibility.
I almost did myself an injury laughing so hard at the story of Tan the Conman’s destruction of official records. When Congresswoman Pelosi tore up a copy of the speech, Tan the Conman bleated that she broke the law by tearing up an official record. Well, no, not at all. What she tore up was a copy of an official record. What the Tan the Conman tore up were actual records.
I like it. And it inspired me to come up with a unit for orangeness: 100 lies would be completely orange.
Is that like 100 cents in a dollar? I can see it now:
Republican A: Can you loan me an orange?
Republican B: Sorry, I’ve only got 75 lies.
Republican A: Darn! Hey, Republican C, can you loan me an orange…?
He didn’t just tear up documents, he flushed them down the White House toilet:
As ever, appalling but not all that surprising.
Suddenly it all makes sense.
I had the exact same thought! And then I banished it from my mind as it brought forth images of Trump on the toilet.
Blech
Trump: “Scotty, I need more water pressure! My embarrassing/incriminating documents won’t flush!”
Scotty: “I’m giving her all I got sir!”
(Note: Funnier if read with the voice of Willie from The Simpsons. Couldn’t figure out verbiage. Also there’s a Penguin from Batman joke somewhere in here.)
Goddamn when did reality turn into a SNL sketch?
Maybe in some Dantean afterlife, where the punishment fits the crime, demons will be tearing the soul of Donald Trump into confetti-sized pieces and flushing him down Hell’s own toilet, over and over and over again.
The existence of Trump does pose a philosophical problem for those theologians supporting the idea of ironic punishment in the afterlife. He has so many sins of such variety that it will be difficult to punish him ironically for all of them at the same time. I suppose he could be torn up and flushed down a toilet while in front of a crowd of people laughing at his tiny mushroom, at the same time a giant pile of money lies tantalizingly out of reach…
But it all gets a bit complicated.