rd<\/sup>, 2022<\/i><\/p>\nEver since the FBI served a subpoena on Trump at his residence at Mar-A-Lago, things have just looked worse and worse for the disgraced former president. The New York Times reported yesterday that the FBI secured more than 300 documents that were classified \u2018secret\u2019 or \u2018top secret\u2019, totaling some 600 pages. Trump had no business having them in the first place, and it has now come to light, according to the Times, that \u201cthe 15 boxes Mr. Trump turned over to the archives in January, nearly a year after he left office, included documents from the C.I.A., the National Security Agency and the F.B.I. spanning a variety of topics of national security interest.\u201d The Times goes on to say that Trump went through the boxes himself in \u201clate 2021\u201d which means he had to know what the contents were. Even if he wasn\u2019t bright enough to understand the nuances of what he was stealing, he could clearly see the security designations on each one.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s guilt is evident. His latest filing admits he knowingly took the documents. He lied about having the documents. When he finally turned some over in January, he lied again and said he didn\u2019t have any more. He admits that he went through them personally. I can\u2019t help but marvel at the aching silence of Republicans who screamed for years about Sandy Berger, who took secure documents home but with no malign intent and was tried and punished, or Hillary Clinton, who had some emails on an unsecured server. Neither was 1% as serious as what Trump did.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t help that Trump is making veiled threats both on his ridiculous Twitter knock-off, and on Faux News. He said, \u201cPeople are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help\u2014 because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s support is eroding quickly, so it may be an increasingly empty threat. Even the must rabid cult followers have to realize that if Trump is, in fact, a traitor, supporting him could damage reputations. As if being a MAGAt doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Nice country youse got here. It would be a shame if SOMETHING should happen to it.<\/p>\n
Given Trump\u2019s level of literacy and intellectual laziness, I think we can dismiss the explanation offered by some Trump apologists that he took the documents (illegally) in order to do research for his memoirs. The man would be held back in the third grade, for Pete\u2019s sake! He is no writer; one of his most vocal critics is the fellow who actually wrote \u201cThe Art of the Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump loved the trappings of office, and it\u2019s been suggested that he wanted mementos of his time in power. But Trump loves the gaudy, the crass. He wouldn\u2019t steal dry double-spaced documents; he would steal the White House cutlery, White House statuary, pictures of himself with world leaders.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also been suggested that he took the documents in hopes of selling them to foreign powers. Certainly there is a market there; China, possibly, and almost certainly Russia. Trump may well have GIVEN Putin national secrets as a quid pro quo for the Russian involvement in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
But I think Michael Powell, former Trump personal lawyer and torpedo, a man who has spent decades immersed in the absolute depravity, dishonesty and cruelty of Trumpworld, has the right idea. He thinks Trump is planning to extort America. It\u2019s his \u2018get out of jail free\u2019 card.<\/p>\n
That makes sense. Beyond all the \u201cstolen election\u201d bluster, Trump had to know he lost, and that the Republicans had lost the House, as well. He still had the Senate, but as the January 6th<\/sup> primary drew near, his advisors had to know there was a chance that Democrats might win both special elections in Georgia (which they did) and at that point, he would be open to Congressional investigations. After his failed coup attempt, he probably took some chances, stealing documents that could cripple America.<\/p>\nThe FBI taking those boxes hasn\u2019t ended that threat: we don\u2019t know they got everything he stole, or how much he scanned and put in a safe spot on the internet for release In The Event Of.<\/p>\n
He suspects (with good cause) that he might be able to threaten the legal system into dropping the matter. Should the voters give Republicans control of the House, any pretense of serving national interest will vanish overnight and the January 6th<\/sup> Committee disbanded and its members, along with the DOJ, at the mercy of some of the scummiest creatures in America in a parade of endless showcase \u2018investigation.\u2019 Republican have already openly made that threat.<\/p>\nCapitalism, which Trump epitomizes, and a degraded form of Christianity have corrupted the judicial system just enough that Trump could get convictions overturned there. Do you really think THIS Supreme Court would uphold convictions for Insurrection or even Treason?<\/p>\n
The remaining question is how badly Trump has corrupted the intelligence services. We know the Secret Service is corrupt. There is strong evidence that the Homeland Security Inspector-General is corrupt. But is it corrupt enough?<\/p>\n
Well, Trump might be betting his life on that. If the CIA is still true to its mission, and believes that Trump is willfully extorting or profiting from national secrets, then they might just respond in the time-honored fashion of spy agencies, and engage in some black ops against Trump. I doubt the Secret Service would want to face that particular threat. And the MAGA crowd, no matter how loyal to Trump, wouldn\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the far better recourse is to have Trump stand trial, fair and open and scrupulously honest, and if convicted, go to jail. That beats the hell out of seeing a former President assassinated by the government, which no matter what the circumstances, is a horrible route for America to take. But Trump isn\u2019t in the habit of offering reasonable options, so this has to be on someone\u2019s mind at DHS headquarters.<\/p>\n
Hopefully, Trump will consider that\u2014and take his chances with an honest trial without threats against the country.<\/p>\n
Will that happen? Well, this IS Trump.<\/p>\n
Prepare for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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