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Walter Olson Profile picture
@walterolson
Jun 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Trump didn't get charged with illegal possession over the 197 docs he gave back to the archives when asked. That matches up with how Biden, Pence, etc. were treated. Give back voluntarily = no rap.

Trump is facing charges because he chose to lie to the feds and hide documents.
I’ve written up some observations about the Trump indictment in a new @CatoInstitute post: cato.org/blog/notes-cha…
@CatoInstitute One substantial portion of the indictment "lays out the reasons to think that lying to federal law enforcers and hiding documents was Trump’s purposeful course of action, not the result of some sort of carelessness or inattention." /3
Trump has suggested, remarkably, that a President "can declassify documents with legal effect by winking at them or just thinking a mischievous thought, whether or not he then initiates any formal process or documentation to notify others in government." But.... /4
...even this fanciful theory of how declassification takes place (which is itself false) wouldn't provide Trump with a defense in this case. To see why, look at the charges. /5
The counts on willful retention of national security info "do not require that the info be classified; the obstruction & concealment counts do not either (the grand jury had asked for all documents *with classification markings*, whatever their current classification status)." /6
The indictment lays out reason to think Trump not only compromised the security of highly sensitive national security documents but even showed them off to civilian visitors. Hard to think of any parallel to this conduct in the #WhatAbout Hillary, Biden, or Pence episodes. /7
Of all the claims floated by the Trump camp, perhaps the most downright frivolous are those about the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Andrew McCarthy refutes them in a paywalled NRO article, and @EdWhelanEPPC has done so for free on this site: /8
@EdWhelanEPPC Trump had campaigned specifically on issues of document security, and his own Justice Department sent people to prison for conduct much less serious than that described in the new indictment. He is not above the law. /9, end

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Feb 12
Recommended: @ryan_dane @RSI evaluation of how Alaska's new electoral system (universal primary from which four candidates advance, general election using #RCV) worked in its trial run last year. Summary: it worked well. /1 rstreet.org/wp-content/upl…
@ryan_dane @RSI "A review of initial evidence found that races in the state became more civil and competitive overall, and, despite it being a major change in process, the top-four approach caused little disruption in the composition of government." /2
Of note, fewer races were effectively decided in low-turnout party primaries in which only 10-20 percent of a district's voters might participate. "Compared with the previous five election cycles, 2022 marks the highest level of competition for Alaska state legislative seats."/3
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Feb 12
There's a push currently on to make Minnesota the 16th state to sign on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), intended to sidestep the Electoral College and install the election of presidents by popular vote. But.... /1 startribune.com/momentum-build…
As @AndrewRCraig noted in 2021, the NPVIC in present form suffers from unacceptable practical flaws in its mechanics, regardless of what one may think about its aims. /2 cato.org/blog/fatally-f…
Craig: "The Compact’s language simply assumes the existence of a traditional popular vote total in each state but it provides no details on how that is to be ascertained." NPVIC designates no authority to resolve disagreements or reporting gaps regarding that count. /3
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Feb 12
This is just outrageous. The U.S. State Department has funded "disinformation index" @DisinfoIndex, which feeds a blacklist to advertisers to keep ads off sites like @Reason magazine (at which I'm a contributing editor). /1 libertyunyielding.com/2023/02/11/tax…
Others on the blacklist as purported disinformation purveyors: the @nypost and the @dcexaminer. The London-based group describes its mission as "Disrupting the business model of disinformation." You can download one of its relevant reports here: disinformationindex.org/country-studie… /2
The group has received upwards of $300,000 from two State Department-backed entities, the National Endowment for Democracy @NEDemocracy and the Department's own Global Engagement Center @TheGEC, per @gekaminsky at @dcexaminer. /3 washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…
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