As the bottom starts to fall out and rat's flee, remember that this is essential. The executive branch needs an audit. We cannot move forward without first knowing the details of the abuses and crimes. I explain here. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/folks-t…
2/ The critical thing - and Trump clearly knows this and it terrifies him - is that all of President Trump's immunity disappears the moment he exits the Presidency. Just as important President's hold over his secrets, the records of his presidency all of that will migrate to ...
3/ the hands of the new President, who now looks likely to be Joe Biden. Every detail, every transcript, every record and the power over them is in the hands of the new President. Presidents often defer to the wishes of former President's. But it's purely a courtesy.
4/ We need an audit. We need to know what happened. The law is coming.

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16 Oct
Seeing lots of folks say, well, no they're just shred all the documents. Not precisely. I do expect document destruction. But the details matter here. Most of the President's biggest crimes are not clearly statutory crimes. Some are, some aren't. It's debatable.
2/ Destruction of federal records is a straight up federal crime with serious penalties. No ambiguity. Just as important, the federal government is very large. The federal govt is a document creation machine. It's quite difficult to shred everything. And the shredding ...
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