I’m not sure who the bigger clowns are here: Trump or the people who still support him

  • Exaggeration207@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    As someone who has held a security clearance with the U.S. Federal government and has handled classified material as part of my official duties, I am reasonably confident in stating that the presence of golf shirts in a container holding classified documents is not sufficient to declassify said documents.

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      3 years ago

      I’ve never held security clearance, but I’m reasonably certain that “I was too busy to give you back those classified documents” isn’t a very good defense. In fact, it’s admitting that you had the classified documents and held onto them despite being told to give them back. It’s especially not a good defense given that he had 15 months from the first “give back the documents request” to the FBI raid.

      If I ever found myself in possession of classified documents which I wasn’t supposed to have (so, any classified documents) and I was asked to give them back, I’d MAKE time. I’d take time off of work and scour my house from the top to the bottom to make sure I got everything. Then, I’d invite the FBI in to do the same to be sure that I didn’t miss anything.

      This would be the biggest priority in my life (absent any live threatening situations) until those classified documents were safely returned. “I was too busy for the past 1.25 years” is not a good defense at all.

  • Elysium@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    I’m not sure who the bigger clowns are here: Trump or the people who still support him

    Why not both? The GOP is basically a circus at this point lmao

  • SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Let’s not forget that no matter what happens with this trial the US military has to regard the plans as being compromise. Whatever plan they had is the best plan they had which offered the best chances of success with the lowest losses of American lives. They now have to assume that Iran has those plans and is actively working on how to defend against precisely that. Therefore the US military would have to go in with a lesser plan that will possibly not be as successful and possibly cause higher losses.

  • g0nz0li0@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    What I’m concerned about, they took everything. I don’t know what they took. They could be stuffing it.

    Classic Trump. “Interpret my intentions generously and interpret theirs as poorly as possible.”

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    3 years ago

    I would like to think there is some level of this nonsense that even his base will not believe. I’m not all that optimistic though.