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FOX News: The Trump Mar-a-Lago search was justified.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by tilly, Aug 22, 2022.

  1. danmanne65

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    You are assuming the worst possible thing about Garland and the best possible thing about Trump. I think one of these men deserves respect and the other one is a scuzball. Trump has always thought that anything he touched belonged to him. This is not the case. Garland has always acted within the law.
     
  2. QGator2414

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    Not gong to argue that he comes off that way. With that said…he is not representing the Church. And he has done more for the things you believe in than any President in see decades. All while not asking you to act like him.

    You can make the same argument for the other side. In fact it is worse when you consider some of the policies they want to push.
     
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  3. QGator2414

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    I can understand that…o_O:D:)
     
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  4. WC53

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    And they all have radio shows.
     
  5. philnotfil

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    Last time I looked at the schedule, a few years ago now, they had two hours of hard news per day.
     
  6. duchen

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    As I think about it, The question you asked illustrates a huge problem, which is your view of this through a political lens. Normal presidents turn their documents over to the national archives.
     
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  7. gatorchamps960608

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    Like all save for one.
     
  8. tilly

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    Agree to an extent, but you'll be hard pressed to find such a scathing shot at Trump on anything under their brand.
     
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  9. tilly

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    He doesnt represent the church, but I am called to.

    "Abstain from all appearance of evil" applies to my vote too.

    And I dont mean that in a self righteous way, that is just where I have landed recently. He's just that bad.
     
  10. QGator2414

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    We certainly disagree on this one.

    David had a similar life. Yet I suspect you view him differently…
     
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  11. l_boy

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    I have to say the religious right embrace of Trump is one of the most damning indictments of American Christianity I have seen.
     
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  12. ursidman

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    Apparently because trump kept obstructing the archive people and was belligerent towards requests for him to turn the documents over. Who among us would have a hard time believing that kind of attitude from trump?
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/
    Some material recovered in the search is considered extraordinarily sensitive, two people familiar with the search said, because it could reveal carefully guarded secrets about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods. One of them said the information is “among the most sensitive secrets we hold.”

    This account of Trump’s effort to keep the FBI from reviewing the classified material is drawn from newly released correspondence and court filings, as well the recollections of multiple people with direct knowledge of the investigation or who were briefed on events. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing criminal probe.

    In a legal filing on Monday, Trump’s lawyers insisted that he had been cooperating with Justice Department requests. In fact, however, the narrative they laid out, as well as other documents and interviews, show that Trump ignored multiple opportunities to quietly resolve the FBI concerns by handing over all classified material in his possession — including a grand jury subpoena that Trump’s team accepted May 11. Again and again, he reacted with a familiar mix of obstinance and outrage, causing some in his orbit to fear he was essentially daring the FBI to come after him.

    In a May 10 letter to Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran that was released Tuesday, acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall outlined weeks of resistance that followed the April 12 email. Trump tried to delay and thwart the FBI’s review of the records he had turned over to the Archives in January, Steidel Wall wrote, despite a finding by the Justice Department that the records included 100 classified documents comprising 700 pages of material, some of it extraordinarily sensitive information related to secret operations and programs with very limited access, on a need-to-know basis.
     
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