Former vice president Mike Pence announced yesterday that a search by his lawyers had turned up apparently classified documents at his home in Indiana. And I did a little happy dance. For nearly two weeks, the Biden Administration has been dogged by stories of ever more classified documents turning up in places they shouldn’t. With each new embarrassing revelation, the right seized and built upon the narrative while pummeling Biden. They
The contrasting stories starkly point up that Donald Trump's instinctive first impulse is to lie. He then closely follows on with refusal to acknowledge or cooperate, and instead tell more lies and to hit back with distractions (usually falsehoods or half-truths) and then to litigate, assuming that his money will allow him to wear down his opponents and detractors. He has not deviated from this playbook since the 1980s.
Another positive outcome that we can "thank *trump" for is that there will likely be - with bipartisan support - a re-assessment of the document classification criteria, rules, and procedures. How ironic that there have been so many established "business as usual" government norms that have been shattered in response to the chaotic, calculated, selfish, corrupt, and sometimes criminal and perhaps treasonous actions of this self-avowed swamp drainer.
Here's the depravity of right wing so-called news reporters; Jesse Watters; “I mean, Pence, seriously. We have this great thing going with Joe! Come on, man!”
Jay; loved your "mother" comment. Also a gif this morning of Pence's face during interview where he shifted his eyes... how reliable are the words out of his mouth?
... and a Classified Document for you ... and a Classified Document for you ... and a Classified Document for you ... all God's children get a Classified Document (seemed apropos per Pence ;-).
Please correct me if this isn't the relevant distinction: The National Archives noticed documents missing from the Trump presidency. They were of sufficient importance that there was a database with gaps in it. The documents that Biden and Pence had were not being sought after. So there is a process for tracking classified documents, and perhaps it is working as intended.
I do not believe for a second that Trump is going to get nailed to the wall for this one either. It's the left keeping him in the news and the right making excuses for him. Like it's been all his life...his cronies backing him up and whatever went wrong is everyone else fault. Classic narcissism.
I really needed this! It’s like a day of good news lifting the cloud. I’m ready to join you in a happy dance! Wow. Never thought I’d have grateful feelings towards Pence. 😁
I may be over optimistic but I think Gardner knows perfectly well that Biden’s docs are innocuous but wanted the news broken by someone acceptable to the right. Will he need to do the same with Pence?
The contrasting stories starkly point up that Donald Trump's instinctive first impulse is to lie. He then closely follows on with refusal to acknowledge or cooperate, and instead tell more lies and to hit back with distractions (usually falsehoods or half-truths) and then to litigate, assuming that his money will allow him to wear down his opponents and detractors. He has not deviated from this playbook since the 1980s.
There cheers for VP Pence, who has nicely triangulated the document situation for us, once again casting Trumpy as the noer do well....
Not only did Trump deliberately rrmove them, he demanded them back.
Another positive outcome that we can "thank *trump" for is that there will likely be - with bipartisan support - a re-assessment of the document classification criteria, rules, and procedures. How ironic that there have been so many established "business as usual" government norms that have been shattered in response to the chaotic, calculated, selfish, corrupt, and sometimes criminal and perhaps treasonous actions of this self-avowed swamp drainer.
"And third, what Mother has to do with any of this is beyond me." LMAO!
Here's some insight on how the classification system is supposed to work.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2023/01/23/how-does-the-governments-classification-system-work/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_medium=email&utm_content=243078540&utm_source=hs_email
Here's the depravity of right wing so-called news reporters; Jesse Watters; “I mean, Pence, seriously. We have this great thing going with Joe! Come on, man!”
Jay; loved your "mother" comment. Also a gif this morning of Pence's face during interview where he shifted his eyes... how reliable are the words out of his mouth?
Thank you for the explanation.
... and a Classified Document for you ... and a Classified Document for you ... and a Classified Document for you ... all God's children get a Classified Document (seemed apropos per Pence ;-).
I couldn’t agree with all of this more
Another day. another Daytime Soap Opera episode!!!
Please correct me if this isn't the relevant distinction: The National Archives noticed documents missing from the Trump presidency. They were of sufficient importance that there was a database with gaps in it. The documents that Biden and Pence had were not being sought after. So there is a process for tracking classified documents, and perhaps it is working as intended.
I do not believe for a second that Trump is going to get nailed to the wall for this one either. It's the left keeping him in the news and the right making excuses for him. Like it's been all his life...his cronies backing him up and whatever went wrong is everyone else fault. Classic narcissism.
I really needed this! It’s like a day of good news lifting the cloud. I’m ready to join you in a happy dance! Wow. Never thought I’d have grateful feelings towards Pence. 😁
I may be over optimistic but I think Gardner knows perfectly well that Biden’s docs are innocuous but wanted the news broken by someone acceptable to the right. Will he need to do the same with Pence?
any video of the happy dance?