Day 593 – Let’s Clear Up a Few Things

Friday, September 2, 2022

Okay, the Trump Legal Team has said the classified documents thing is like an overdue book at the library.

It’s not, but let’s run with it. If the book is overdue you pay the fine. In this case the fine is espionage, which is twenty years or death. I prefer death, but if it’s twenty years it’s solitary confinement. I’d be okay with that.

There are claims that the FBI is some sort of left wing Dem agency. Really? People making that claim seem to forget it was the FBI that put Trump in office, and that they are, and have always been considered, a conservative, mostly white male enclave.

There are claims that this is like Hillary’s server. Those making the claim seem to forget that she was Secretary of State at the time and had access to any and all documents on that server. There were some “C” marked documents that mean “Classified” and she said she didn’t realize that was so. Trump had documents with big red stamps on them marked “SECRET”, “TOP-SECRET” etc.

The “C” items she had on the server were visits by foreign officials and mention of a drone program that had already been exposed by The Washington Post.

And, let’s not forget, that everyone of those Republicans outraged that she was using a private email server were doing the same thing! So was Trump and his family.

Now Trump went sixty some miles up the road to find a judge he hoped would be more amenable to his case. He got the judge he wanted. A young woman approved by The Federalist Society that he had appointed in the last month of his presidency. This judge has no experience with classified documents. She said she was inclined to grant Trump what he wanted. What did he want? Well, a full copy of everything the prosecutors have. And his legal team argued that he had not done anything that violated the Presidential Records Act, which is an interesting defense because that was not part of the complaint. It’s like aruging that you didn’t murder anyone when you are accused of blackmail.

Okay, so now we get to the courtroom. The judge did a some unusual procedural things. She banned wi-fi so we don’t really know exactly what was said. But after the ace Trump legal team argued about laws he was not accused of violating the #2 lawyer in the DOJ for this kind of case presented his argument and analysis. I present it here:

“He is no longer the president, and because he is no longer the president he had no right to those documents. . . that ends the analysis.”

But then we get into those hinky little things, most of them presented on the internet as memes with Peter Falk as Columbo asking a question. The one I like the best is:

“If you say the documents were planted by the FBI why do you say you want them back?”

Okay kids, I’m a little late in posting this – lots going on here.