Posted on 06/12/2023 4:09:22 PM PDT by thegagline
People in their right minds who care about the country could never defend the factual details of Donald Trump’s conduct, as alleged in the federal indictment unsealed last week.
No one is going to say, “It makes total sense to me that he was storing the crown jewels of national defense — such as how other countries could go about attacking American military vulnerabilities — next to the toilet at a beach club.”
No one is going to say, “I can certainly see why Trump would refuse to return such top-secret intelligence to government officials, who pleaded with him for over a year to return it before finally resorting to coercive measures.”
No one is going to say, “It was so vitally important for Trump, who had no official government duties in his post-presidency, to retain possession of top-secret government intelligence reports that it made sense for him to defy a subpoena and mislead a grand jury in order to keep them.”
No one is going to say, “If a Democratic former president had done what Trump did, I’d be fine with that.”
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Since Trump’s conduct is indefensible, his apologists have adopted the familiar tactic of making bombastic claims that the prosecution is so fundamentally unfair and un-American that the facts don’t matter. Remarkably, the people asserting these claims never tire of pointing out that Trump is not merely a former president but a current presidential candidate. Putting aside whether he is guilty of crimes (he appears to be, but he’ll get his day in court), what could possibly be more relevant to his fitness for the presidency than the facts of the case?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The Defense Department and U.S. spy agencies all answered to the President of the United States. This preposterous claim by — that the President is somehow subservient to executive branch agencies that are wholly under his authority — is exactly what I would expect to hear from useless career bureaucrats like Andrew McCarthy who have constructed a fourth branch of government out of thin air.
Gee - the national review said the same thing about Russia gate too..
If you pick a scab enough, even an old one, it will bleed.
I wonder just what Obama and Biden said on record that will NEVER hear the light of day nor have an FBI agent furiously copying the recording so he can share it anonymously with the New York Times and ABC News?
I had always thought better of Andrew McCarthy, but this statement by him has changed my mind. He has become nothing but a tool of the deep state. Maybe he always was one.
And sometimes suckers believe the propaganda.
I cannot stand that guy. Once a putz always a putz.
Most importantly, no one is going to say how sloppy other officials have been w/documents.
Because that would actually provide some perspective.
Article 2 - the president can take anything he wishes, share it with anyone he wishes and talk about anything he wishes.
You might want to learn a little more before swallowing the paid opposition nonsense. Watch the Barnes video and learn.
He;s a HACK and not very smart!
One is not mutually exclusive of the other. I’m going to call him stupid and corrupt until further evidence is brought forward.
I hate National Cuck (Review), especially Andrew McCarthy, Rich Lowrey and Ramush Ponorul.
Sometimes people do, but this one is on tape and will be presented/played during proceedings.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/trump-tape-didnt-declassify-secret-information/index.html
The “Crown jewel” of nation defense is Millies plan to invade Iran? I hardly think so. Plus they are Trump’s documents so they were vitally important to him , maybe he was working on a book about his time as President?
And CORRUPT Mark Milley was going to let China know if we were going to go to war with them!! THAT IS TREASON!
The same military who thought it was fine to keep troops in Syria while conspiring to lie to Trump that his orders had been followed and they were all out? At a certain point, all outrage becomes fake.
Self promoting concerns much?
“I’m going to call him stupid and corrupt until further evidence is brought forward.”
They have no evidence against Trump. The indictment is illegitimate, according to dozens of legal experts.
Sure. Go ahead and try to put Trump in prison and see what tens of millions do to the scoundrels.
Need a link if you please...”Barnes video”.
Article II:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/
Rush didn’t live long enough to see the complete beclowning of the National Review and McCarthy.
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