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Dan McLaughlin Profile picture
@baseballcrank
Jun 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Of course, @JackPosobiec is wrong about the law & the facts. Trump did not declassify the documents while he was president, & could not do so in 2021-22 when he was no longer president. He's on tape acknowledging as much.
@JackPosobiec As I will remind new readers, I called BS extensively on the Manhattan DA indictment. While there are ample reasons to bring skepticism to the boxes indictment, it lays out a very strong case against which Trump's legal defenses are quite flimsy. nationalreview.com/2023/06/how-to…
@JackPosobiec As the old lawyer saying goes, when the facts & the law are both against you, just pound the table and yell louder:

@JackPosobiec Yes, Trump could declassify or disclose basically anything *while he was president* which he was in 2017 when I wrote that Tweet but - strap yourself in for the plot twist - was no longer president in 2021-22.
@JackPosobiec Once again, you have caught me believing that Donald Trump was president in 2017, but is no longer president. How could this be?
@JackPosobiec Trump *could* have kept these documents after he was president if he had taken careful steps to do so. He did not take those steps because that's not what Trump does.
@JackPosobiec In case you had any illusions about the level of diligence involved here, this started with @JackPosobiec calling Andy McCarthy - who wrote the "Trump: Yes" column in our 2020 issue & literally wrote the book "Ball of Collusion" - a Never Trumper

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Dan McLaughlin Profile picture
Jun 1
Ah, that special vintage of Humpty Dumpty progressive agitprop where the words are redefined & reality is precisely inverted.

They're not mad that there's a system of schools, journals, firm, and judgeships devoted to promoting an ideology, but that theirs isn't the only one.
LOL, these guys don't even *have* a comprehensible theory of how to read the Constitution or statutes, but they think that asserting "we're the smart guys, actually" is a substitute for one. Also that nobody will notice them rebranding progressivism as "mainstream."
If you actually practice law, you immediately realize what a vast improvement there was in the intellectual rigor of the federal courts from the 1960s-70s to the era since the mid-1980s. nationalreview.com/corner/origina…
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May 17
By the 1980s, racism wasn't gone in America, but it was finished, in the sense of broad public consensus that it was bad & should go away.

That consensus took over a century to build. Tearing it down instead of focusing on completing the job was a horrendous idea.
Not a coincidence at all. The logic of the Democrats' approach to voter groups & their resentments hasn't changed a jot. They just substituted different groups with different resentments.
They keep hoping that if they repeat this often enough, I'll get tired of reminding everyone how thoroughly I've debunked it baseballcrank.com/2016/06/02/pol…

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Dan McLaughlin Profile picture
May 16
The latter part of this is just obvious nonsense. If you know any Russian history, you don't need any sympathy for Putin to know that a revanchist Russia will be paranoid about an encircling alliance in what it sees as its traditional sphere of influence.
Sure, the Russian regime mistrusts the spread of liberal democracy among its neighbors. With the brief exception of a few years in the 1990s, that's been true since 1789. But if NATO transformed into an anti-Russian alliance of fascist states, Putin would still dread it.
Between the 1770s & the 1940s, Russian autocrats spent a *lot* of men & money fighting regimes that were not exactly liberal democracies. "Putin wouldn't mind NATO if it was run by Hitler or Napoleon" is preposterous.
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Dan McLaughlin Profile picture
Mar 25
I was watching terrorists blow up my office.

You really think you can persuade people to vote for Donald Trump by pretending that a guy who changed his whole life plan to join the military after 9/11 cares less about it than Trump?
Were it me, I wouldn't be bragging about writing something this obviously self-discrediting just to try to help Trump win the nomination, then disclaiming the whole point of the ad, but I get that you have bills to pay.

Ah, Rick is selling the notion that the really damning thing is that DeSantis was - hold on to your hankies if you can handle the shock - a high school history teacher. Who could recover from that?
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Dan McLaughlin Profile picture
Nov 29, 2022
It says a lot - none good - that you see your movement as one that requires people to renounce everything they ever believed in & every principle they ever held; to don moral blinders as to every ally vs one man, & to bury one's qualms as to means, tactics, laws, norms & truth.
If you're with the party that's been at war with the Constitution for a century & sees it as a musty relic of old white dudes, you're not actually interested in the Constitution as anything but a slogan with no content & no constraint on raw power.
I mean, when I say I am with the Constitution, I mean the actual written document ratified by the American people, unalterable without a further authentic act of the whole people.
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Nov 15, 2022
LOL
Because we don't strip pensions from military veterans over their political speech?
Challenge the results!
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