Mar-a-Lago raided

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

So, why were they taken? Flight risk., LOL?

And what in the hell possessed them to give them back???

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

And what in the hell possessed them to give them back???

The warrant?

The law?

I dunno.

The question you should be asking is "What in the hell possessed them to take it in the first place?"

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

The question you should be asking is "What in the hell possessed them to take it in the first place?"

I vas making teh joke. If they hadn't taken the passports, maybe he would've left.

Get it?

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

I vas making teh joke.

Sorry, My second (or is it third?) cheap Scotch of the evening made me miss that, LOL.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Catseye3 said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

@George-K said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

So, why were they taken? Flight risk., LOL?

And what in the hell possessed them to give them back???

Maybe they were hoping he'd leave the country.

Edit - I'm as slow as George, and I can't even blame it on the whisky

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

Edit - I'm as slow as George, and I can't even blame it on the whisky

Wait, I'm slow too. The joke only worked if they'd left the passports in place. Duh.

So we all three are just a bunch of doofikins.

[Horace]

@Catseye3 said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

Edit - I'm as slow as George, and I can't even blame it on the whisky

Wait, I'm slow too. The joke only worked if they'd left the passports in place. Duh.

So we all three are just a bunch of doofikins.

I figured it all out but was too classy to mention what doofikins you all were being.

[George K]

@Horace said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

I figured it all out but was too classy to mention what doofikins you all were being.

They weren't taking selfies, so your ability to maintain your professionalism is vindicated - again.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

@Jolly said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

@jon-nyc said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

Trump’s current argument seems untenable. If no documentation were required that would give any former POTUS the ability to declassify things for the rest of his life.

Obama could publish the detailed schematics of the Virginia class nuclear fast attack submarines and say “oh, I declassified these in 2007”

Nope, it only gives POTUS the ability to declassify things while he is in office.

The point is if the decision doesn’t need to be documented there’s be nothing stopping them from doing an ex-post claim. Like Trump is probably doing.

I think all of them do, to one extent or another.

Unless it's something that really affects national security or they took a couple of 8-wheeler loads of documents, let it slide.

[Renauda]

A Tucker Carlson moment….

Trump says they took his three passports. One was expired. How is it that he has two currently valid passports? Is one not American? Or is he issued a Green passport? If so why would he still have a regular passport?

Just asking.

[Copper]

https://www.newsweek.com/why-donald-trump-has-three-passports-1733779

Why Donald Trump Has Three Passports

[Doctor Phibes]

@Renauda said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

A Tucker Carlson moment….

Trump says they took his three passports. One was expired. How is it that he has two currently valid passports? Is one not American? Or is he issued a Green passport? If so why would he still have a regular passport?

Just asking.

Because he’s a wonderful bunch of guys?

Or maybe one for each of the people he loves the most

• me, myself, and I?

[kluurs]

h/t to Quirt for a fairly well-balanced review of the legalities of the seizure of records. There's something for everyone in here.

[Renauda]

@Copper

Thanks. That clears that question.

[Renauda]

@kluurs said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

h/t to Quirt for a fairly well-balanced review of the legalities of the seizure of records. There's something for everyone in here.

Very well presented. Thanks, it addresses a lot of questions.

All I can say is that it is murky pond into which this affair is leading.

[Catseye3]

@kluurs said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

a fairly well-balanced review of the legalities of the seizure of records.

Very clarifying by a writer concerned with evenhandedness in a matter that started out complex and is growing daily more so. Thanks to QT and Kluurs.

Theme sentence, IMO: "There obviously must be a point where information is so sensitive, and Trump’s disregard for law so extreme, to justify legal process against Trump, even in the current milieu."

[Jolly]

That would have to be an awfully extreme point.

To raid an ex-President's home is beyond the pale, especially the way it was done. If Justice doesn't come up with something big, I mean YUGE, Garland has to go. Wray has to go. And a Special Prosecutor needs to shake the bushes for Whitehouse involvement.

[taiwan_girl]

"As President, I will enforce all laws relating to classified information......

Nobody is above the law!"

Who said that? President (then candidate) Trump
LOL

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[Copper]

@taiwan_girl said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

"As President, I will enforce all laws relating to classified information......

Nobody is above the law!"

How did he miss Hillary?

[jon-nyc]

@taiwan_girl said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

"As President, I will enforce all laws relating to classified information......

Nobody is above the law!"

Who said that? President (then candidate) Trump
LOL

To be fair, he did appoint an FBI director who appears to be enforcing that law.

Promise kept! Way to go, Mr Trump!