I promised myself I would not comment on the ongoing rumors about Trump indictments BUT THEY'RE HERE! I haven't read any other coverage, so here's my first blush take on the contents. A THREAD /storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
First off - Walt Nauta HOW THE F COULD YOU BE THIS STUPID YOU WERE WARNED SO MANY PEOPLE WERE BURNED BY HIM YOU DUMB SAP.
This is more than the press rumors have been talking about. 793 is gathering and "losing" defense info; 1512s are obstruction of justice; 1001s are false statements; and 2 refers to Trumps role in the conspiracy.
This is just the 3rd paragraph and it bolsters what all of us #blueanon nutters have been saying: Trump is a walking talking national security risk.
Confirmed: Trump took the documents to Bedminster and waived them around while warning people about how confidential and secret they were. THEY WERE RECENT PLAN OF ATTACK DOCUMENTS PREPPED BY THE DOD.
Cover Up Allegations. Several of these will have to be testified to BY HIS FORMER LAWYERS who will be called against him.
The Secret Service was at Mar A Lago, but Trump never told them that there were NATSEC secrets needing protection there.
Trump's own statements used to prove his knowledge that these acts were crimes and to rub MAGAs nose in the importance of these laws.
They used his statement cutting off Obama era officials from clearance to emphasize that he is a lying POS.
MTHRFCKR HE KEPT BOXES IN THE BALLROOM WHERE HE WAS HAVING EVENTS AND NO ONE DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THIS IS A WHOLE SCANDAL UNTO ITSELF.
then they moved them to the shower.
Then they moved them to the storage room (which we've been hearing about) which was open from the pool and lots of other stuff.
FXK. AFTER THEY WERE IN THE STORAGE ROOM, THEY WERE FOUND TOPPLED AND OPEN, WITH FVEY LEVEL T/S DOCS LYING ON THE FLOOR.
Here he is waiving plan of attack documents to a writer and staffer, this time at Mar A Lago. THIS IS ALL VERY BAD ITS EVEN WORSE THAN I IMAGINED
Mr. No Collusion over here showing classified maps of Ukraine to people and talking up the filthy Russians.
When NARA tried to get its boxes back, Trump PERSONALLY chose to give them 15 boxes (knowing there were many more in storage as shown in picture staff gave him)
Walt the stupid did all the lugging of boxes around and then lied about it.
Once the lawyers got involved and were planning to search for more responsive documents, Trump told Nauta to move 64 more boxes out of the storage room and that dolt did it.
Then they put back 30 boxes that Trump had already reviewed and presumably taken the most sensitive stuff out.
The documents turned over with the "certification" that all docs were turned over were just the ones that Trump missed when he reviewed the 30 boxes.
The day that they certified all documents were turned over, some T/S docs flew to NJ with Trump, while the rest were left at Mar A Lago.
The ones that were left behind were the ones that were found with the search warrant.
The rest are charges, and fall in line with the above. Walt Nauta is amazingly stupid and a terrible liar. Its hard to imagine being shocked at how low Trump will go, but I am shocked. Shocked at his lack of care for our national secrets: shocked at how hard he f'd Nauta.
I wanted to celebrate today. And I guess I still will. But right now I feel genuinely upset that we as a society and the law enforcement and national security apparatus that is supposed to stop this could have let it go on so long and so horribly.
Dirk out.
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With time to process, there are also HUGE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS left out of this indictment. My thread on the main issues below. This one on the questions. A THREAD
Here's one: Trump asked Nauta to replace the tops of the first 15 boxes (the ones he gave to NATA) with "new covers" because "they have too much writing on them ... I marked too much." WHAT DID THEY SAY? WERE THEY RECOVERED?
Trump took a hand-selected set of docs to Bedminster before attorney review/search warrant in apparent effort to hide them. At least one FEMALE TRUMP FAMILY MEMBER knew about the plan to hide docs. Which one?
What exactly was Trump charged with? A thread. Not sure if its going to be dark or rosie: haven't read this shxt yet. Wish it was treason, of course. Here goes.
All of the counts are NY Penal Law §175.10. That states:
So we have to first know what: 1) the false business records were; and 2) what the act was that was done with "the intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof."
A couple of days ago, I pointed out that the DC McGonigal indictment contained strong indications that he was in Albania advancing China oil interests against Russia. Tammy's well researched thread adds to that. That is an insane thing for a high ranked FBI counterintell to do.
I mean there is absolutely zero chance that the Russians won't figure out who he is and what he is doing. And it makes sense that he was captured by Deripaska shortly thereafter. All they would need to do is say "we will turn you in if you don't help us."
DARK DIRK READS THE GODDAMN NEWS. A PLEASE PUT RUDI IN JAIL ALREADY THREAD. THIS SMELLS LIKE ATTEMPTED MURDER, ARSON, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND WITNESS TAMPERING.
Ok, in Fall 2016 it was clear that Rudi Giuliani had a contact in the NY Field Office of the FBI and was using that contact in an op to smear HRC and throw the election to Trump. businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-…
For the past 6 years, there has been talk of an investigation into the NYFO/leaks, but the Inspector General apparently couldn't find evidence of leaks. (sure, jan) apnews.com/article/donald…
So McGonigal had a NY girlfriend who got drunk/mad when they split and told his boss about Albania and bags of $ and then she was burned in house fire but Rudi let her stay at his place and she calls his radio show & believes everything he says. Rilly. businessinsider.com/charles-mcgoni…
Sure makes sense
And THIS IS THE WITNESS THAT THE PRESS AND TWITTER PEOPLE I WONT NAME ARE RELYING ON TO SAY THAT MCGONIGAL WAS "APOLITICAL" BECAUSE FFS LET A METEOR END OUR MISERY.
I REALLY have to finish this brief that I am writing, but this week has been full of unnecessary police killings and wildly inappropriate acts by high-ranking FBI people, so here is my off the cuff dreamland wishes for how to reform our deeply flawed law enforcement.
1. Cops should NEVER kill any citizen. A cop that puts him/herself in a position where a life-or-death decision has to be made should be presumed to be at fault. Proper exceptions can be made for hostage situations or equivalent.
2. I know this is a wild-eyed liberal pipe dream, but there should be so few guns in this country that cops don't have to carry guns to feel safe.