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am_Unition  ·  857 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post:

I'm still blowing this thread up because this truly is a momentous thing to watch unfold. The way Trump and his defenders are reacting has me both very afraid and howling in laughter.

Trump's now asking for some of the seized material to be returned, citing attorney client privilege:

    Sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Saturday that the former president’s team was informed that boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents—all seen on the final page of the FBI’s property receipt —contained information covered by attorney-client privilege.

Yeah, I checked the warrant, and UPDATE: Nvm, I had confused one of those, A-13, with 13A. The attorney-client privilege claims may not involve top secret info like I had initially thought.

I bet he announces his candidacy this week. He intends to use it as a shield against prosecution(s), and I think his time may almost be up. This is a very cut-and-dry case. Intent matters not. If you "accidentally" took nuclear secrets home with you, you're just as guilty as if you did it on purpose. If they indict him, I think more than one or two FBI field offices are gonna have some problems. DeSantis is also doing his best to aid in domestic terrorism, of course.

Speaking of which, there is almost certainly an investigation already underway into who leaked those FBI agents' names to Breitbart. Am I supposed to believe Trump wasn't involved in that? He had the only other unredacted copy of the warrant. The desperation is palpable.

edit: some of these takes are just hilarious. Fox’s Doocy: ‘It would be great’ if Trump called for end to threats against feds. LOLOL.

Shortly thereafter:

    “Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country,” he added. “If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”

How the hell is there any way to interpret that except as a threat??? He'll never outright condemn violence and threats against the FBI, Doocey, you dumbass, it's one of his last remaining bargaining chips.

edit2: Apparently, after the above quote about wanting to help lower the temperature, Trump went on to make additional lies-based attacks on the FBI. Classic!