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Alexis 🇨🇦's avatar

I certainly hope this puts paid to all those who are screaming about Garland doing “nothing”. As always the man has been a very quiet, meticulous, and thorough in his investigations towards any case he has brought as a Prosecutor. I would have expected nothing less from him as the Attorney General!

It seems he has far more things in the works than anyone is aware of.

Ada M Prill's avatar

Trump lawyer(s) were present, so anything planted would have to have been planted with their complicity.

Robert Goldstein's avatar

The right wing pundits are accusing the FBI of planting materials after they brought the boxes out. Which of course is just another conspiracy theory they like to float.

Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

The right wing echo chamber has dropped "planted documents" for "just made it up". They are TSCI documents and must be inspected in special room with a need to know. The Lemmings are jumping into a sea mendacity.

David Bishop's avatar

It's always amazing to me the implicit trust we place in elected officials and how that trust can be abused and how defenseless one can feel watching as it happens. I think this is the main feeling I got over the last decade.

Steve Villano's avatar

Far, far worse, Jay. Roy Cohn successfully advocated for the death penalty for Ethel & Julius Rosenberg for posing far less a nationally security threat than Donald Trump--Cohn’s former client--poses. You might enjoy my last Substack piece on the subject: https://villano.substack.com/p/ethel-rosenberg-roy-cohn-and-donald

Barbara Mathews's avatar

It is way beyond my understanding why anyone who has knowledge of Trump's actions could possibly still be his followers. He is a deranged human being and cannot, must not be allowed anywhere near our White House ever again.

Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

Superb chronology Jay; the Florida Magistrate Judge will likely handle top secret, the T S C I documents, appropriately. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists may be a good source in the days ahead. www.thebulletin.org. Check in with David Laufman for risk of what the law defines as grave damage in Counterintelligence matters.

EcstaticRationalist's avatar

The people who would be most interested in information about US nuclear weapons are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

jb101's avatar

Don't forget Kim Jong-un!

Linda Orlick's avatar

No words for these acts of treason of the highest order! I see orange in his future! Hope this is a wake up call for his GOP followers!

B Jones's avatar

Boxes of paper files? Any chance they have copy machines at Mar-a-Lago?

Pam McCullough's avatar

That's what I was thinking. He's had all this for so long how do we know it hasn't been copied and moved off the premises? Or copied and given to the Saudis or whomever? The damage is likely already done

Alistair's avatar

I assume despite all this he’s still getting his daily security briefings though? That’s a worrying thought.

Pam McCullough's avatar

If he indeed had these nuclear documents and has been given several opportunities to give them back without doing so, is this enough to keep him out of office forever? Even if they can't prove he's done anything with them (which I would not believe, he's had them for too long) is just his keeping of said documents enough to ban him?

DEM Supporter's avatar

Trump espionage is possible with his removal of BOXES OF CLANDESTINE MATERIALS. This might be the final Trump Stake to lethally affect him.

Karen Hayes's avatar

Thank you. Sooo many questions. If you catch this on fb read Howard Smith and Lori Mann in the comments section. Very informative.

Hal Grossman's avatar

How do we know whether Trump has already sold access to nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia or to someone else? Will we ever know?

What about sensitive information in computer files? It's not 1953, you know.