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4th amendment: steal government documents, hide them in your house, and refuse to return them [1]

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Date: 2022-08-22

It’s not helping that case for pardoning previous guy. Trump is running out of ploys and excuses to recycle those disinforming deflections and diversions.

Eric Trump posts Mar-a-Lago WiFi network and password because security is so tight there.

Donald Trump hints at legal action over Mar-a-Lago raid. Lawyers are already finding fault with his Fourth Amendment defense. https://t.co/ZiLUhM43d6 You steal top-secret government documents, hide them in your house, and refuse to return them when asked--- using the 4th is moot

Sometimes the most obvious thing is the easiest to overlook. So repeat over and over: Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs. Trump STOLE the docs.

your reminder that Donald Trump stole classified intel that any foreign government would pay a fuckload of money to see, and then out of nowhere Bone Saw Arabia hands 2 billion dollars to Jared Kushner. come on, do I have to draw you a picture

The idea of pardoning trump is so funny. By the time you try to pardon him he’d already have committed like 6 more crimes anyway. No possible way to keep up.

The news for Donald Trump gets worse every day. Objectively worse. The search and seizure of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has revealed that he may be facing criminal exposure in a host of ways. Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO of the Trump Organization, just pleaded guilty to 15 charges of participating in a tax fraud scheme, and has agreed to testify against the Trump Organization at a criminal trial slated for October. The investigation into Trump’s attempts to pressure Georgia state election officials to set aside the state’s 2020 results is ramping up rapidly, this week sweeping in Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. I suppose if you’re inclined to believe that this is all great news for Trump, and that—to paraphrase Steve Bannon—the whole nation is on the brink of being red pilled then yes, this is all quickly coming to a head.

The story of Trump’s civil and criminal woes will—at this juncture—all go either one of two ways. It’s now amply clear—and Liz Cheney’s shellacking this week is proof beyond any reasonable doubt—that election denialism, Q-Anon conspiracy talk, and vigilantism is the coin of the realm in the Republican Party, and that no matter what may happen to Trump himself, the hundreds of 2.0 election-stealers and pedophile chasers that have sprung up in his image will live on beyond him and thrive. On the other hand, it’s also possible that the more Trump is revealed to be a loser and a fraud, the more inclined his followers and imitators will be to back off of supporting him, if not his authoritarian ways. Meanwhile, after the Mar-a-Lago search, last week saw a spate of violent episodes and arrests of Trump supporters threatening violence on social media. Whatever happens to Trump, the threat of imminent, uncontainable violence is either exigent, or diminishing.

Juliette Kayyem, who always looks at these questions through the lens of deradicalization and counter-terrorism argues for this second view here.

Kayyem posits that “[a] violent movement either grows or shrinks. Its ideology is not defeated; it simply stops motivating people to action.” She further argues that that the more Trump looks like a loser, the more his followers begin to turn on one another. Kayyem writes that, as the ominous circle of accountability closes around Trump, the fever may break, and his remaining followers will be left to “end up cosplaying a civil war.” As she puts it, “the decline of MAGA looks something like that—just a smattering of people respond[ing] to the overheated rhetoric of Trump and his allies.”

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