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Previous guy continues to "whatabout" the reality of his crimes including betraying people [1]
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Date: 2022-08-27
Trump confessed to the crime when he said "It's not theirs, it's mine". American Democracy is not democratic, should have been in 2016, but may be on its last legs and might be gone in 2024. He’s still melting down, as the real crime could be the spike in human operative deaths with the theft of classified documents.
Patrick Philbin, deputy counsel, tried to help the National Archives retrieve the material, two of the people familiar with the discussions said. But the former president repeatedly resisted entreaties from his advisers.
“It’s not theirs, it’s mine,” several advisers say Mr. Trump told them.
x 2. Note the witnesses to these communications.
NYT: “The former president repeatedly resisted entreaties from his advisers.
‘It’s not theirs, it’s mine,’ SEVERAL advisers say Mr. Trump told them.”
Several
Plus all the comms with Philbin post Jan 20.
https://t.co/L9oqtveSwu — Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 16, 2022
“He said, 'Look, I’m the president, I can declassify anything,'” the official said.
Senior intelligence officials realized early on that President Donald Trump wasn’t going to read even short written summaries of his regular intelligence briefings. So the CIA officers who prepared the briefings made sure they came to the Oval Office laden with striking images, pared-down charts and slick graphics designed to grab the president’s fleeting interest, several officials familiar with the briefings told NBC News.
“To secure his attention, you had to use images and catchy headlines, even better if they had his name in them,” said Doug London, a former CIA officer who helped assemble the briefing material.
On Aug. 30, 2019, top spies learned the dangers of that approach. What unfolded that day became an infamous moment in the Trump presidency — one that former intelligence officials say perfectly illustrated his approach to dealing with state secrets. A former senior intelligence official with firsthand knowledge told NBC News that Trump did indeed tweet a highly classified image taken by a secret spy satellite, as many experts suspected at the time. And in doing so, the official and others said, Trump gave U.S. adversaries keen insights into the U.S. capabilities to spy from above.
tweeted a picture of an Iranian missile launch site that showed a failed ICBM test launch that everybody acknowledged was a highly classified picture taken from space,” former national security adviser John Bolton, who was in Poland when it happened, told NBC News Monday. “He tweeted it out, and that of course declassified it by definition, but also showed what could happen when such a picture, even on a Twitter attachment, was then able to be analyzed by foreign intelligence services.” “The presidentthat showed a failed ICBM test launch that everybody acknowledged was a highly classified picture taken from space,” former national security adviser John Bolton, who was in Poland when it happened, told NBC News Monday. “He tweeted it out, and that of course declassified it by definition, but also showed what could happen when such a picture, even on a Twitter attachment, was then able to be analyzed by foreign intelligence services.”
Bolton and others familiar with it say the episode is emblematic of a mindset in which Trump or people close to him thought it was permissible to bring and store what the FBI says are highly classified documents to his compound in Mar-a-Lago.
“He spent no time understanding what made something a secret and what we protected,” a second former senior intelligence official said.
x An Oval Office incident from 2019 perfectly illustrates Trump's approach to state secrets, say ex intel officials
https://t.co/jhgoaDNzii pic.twitter.com/dlLCgGjNvQ — The Last Word (@TheLastWord) August 17, 2022
A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in GA as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized & more successful than previously reported, according to emails and other records obtained by The Washington Post.
As they worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 election defeat, the lawyers asked a forensic data firm to access county election systems in at least three battleground states, according to the documents and interviews. The firm charged an upfront retainer fee for each job, which in one case was $26,000.
Attorney Sidney Powell sent the team to Michigan to copy a rural county’s election data and later helped arrange for it to do the same in the Detroit area, according to the records. A Trump campaign attorney engaged the team to travel to Nevada. And the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol the team was in southern Georgia, copying data from a Dominion voting system in rural Coffee County
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x The Republicans who do have clue about this have moved to "we're a Republic, not a democracy." Translation: people in cities (i.e., less white, younger, liberal people) shouldn't have a say in government no matter how much they outnumber exurban older white conservatives. — David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) August 16, 2022
x .@LevinsonJessica: Trump has as much power to declassify documents now that he is out of office as he does to declare Mar-a-Lago a separate country.
https://t.co/hKuqxQplIK — MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 16, 2022
x Even though the Senate is split fifty-fifty, Democratic senators represent forty-two million more people than Republican senators do. the Senate is lopsided . Half the population today is represented by eighteen senators, the other half by eighty-two.
https://t.co/ySb1O9HbXC — john ned (@johndned) August 16, 2022
x Helluva day for the Trump orbit:
* Lindsey Graham ordered to testify in Georgia
* Rudy Giuliani is a target in Georgia
* Alan Weisselberg nears plea deal on tax scheme
* Eric Herschmann subpoenaed by Jan 6 grand jury
* multiple witnesses on Mar-a-Lago
A good day for America! 🇺🇸 — Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 15, 2022
x He said his report did not exonerate trump and he could be charged after he left office. You guys ran around claiming that the Mueller report exonerated him..didn't you?
https://t.co/25yEH2aDwa — Tim (@TimWhatley22) August 17, 2022
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