Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I imagine it's very possible/likely that Asshole (who was in NY) was told of the search warrant action, lashed out without even knowing what the warrant was about, mobilized his hornets and sycophants, and only then was informed by his lawyers what was in the warrant. And is now in an untenable position. Release the information and reveal the crime he possibly committed, or refuse and look even more guilty.

In other words, *classic* Trump.

if you read Charlie Kirk's twitter feed it's basically just "no u" rn

wait, why would anybody do that

I heard a great quote from someone on the news right now, basically: "The DOJ played this quietly, Donald Trump is the one that made it loud."

he's like Toshiro Mifune when he gets woken up in Seven Samurai

Won't he just say that he would love to release the warrant but can't because he's, uh, being audited?

lol

Trump allies are discussing the possibility of challenging DOJ's motion to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. They've contacted outside lawyers about helping them.
confirmed by me & @maggieNYT https://t.co/7mngDhlAxz

— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) August 11, 2022

fwiw JiC your careful insistence on 'Asshole' is not really any better than going with 'Drumpf'

okay it's actually slightly better, but still

Happy to call him Trump. It's all really the same thing, isn't it?

words are just the same letters in different orders

mio

In about two years people are going to be insisting that Trump was actually Antifa

some were saying that in 2016 when he was polling so badly!

anyway it is clear how this will end, with the Rolling Stones killed

Don't go there, but the Fox News site frames it as "Garland has until 3:00 tomorrow to convince Trump to release the warrant." Dang it, he wriggled out of another one!

My guess is that he agrees to release it, but refers to it as the "unwarrant."

um

FBI searched Trump’s home looking for nuclear documents and other items, according to people familiar with the investigation https://t.co/kbfLiO2veE

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2022

wait the documents are radioactive?

Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.

The people who described some of the material that agents were seeking spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation. Nor did they say if such documents were recovered as part of the search. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.

swear to god, if we tried and failed to get him on so many big things over four years, and him taking home cardboard boxes full of shit out in the open is what does him in....

there were stories about him being super into nukes

its always like that its never the worst thing, tho tbf no one really tried to get him before xp

My Own Private Search Warrant

^Kanye

as much as I'd be excited about Trump being indicted, I probably wouldn't leave my house for a week knowing how his loony-toons base would react

(it should still happen)

maybe he lost a golf game with Putin... pee tape vs. strategic nuclear documentation, winner takes all

Urkel defense is probably all he has going for him

https://c.tenor.com/oQOEF5bfCeIAAAAS/family-matters-did-i-do-that.gif

Gee I wonder who might be interested in classified info about US nukes

We’ll see, but this may help explain why some Republicans are staying mum.

It would have been cool if he’d taken a nuke with him

"woke Americans wanting to arrest the President simply because they "don't want to be nuked". the Constitution provides no express protection against being nuked. get over it."

McConnell's silence is most telling of all... all he fucking cares about is regaining majority and that his blackened, bruised hands don't fall off

Pretty sure he gave a fairly muted, non crazy reaction when news of the raid first dropped.

yeah, that's what I mean by silence.. "let's not rush to judgement, let's see how this plays out etc" = silence

That’s what I was getting at, too.

McConnell's a knob but he's a strategist - while this raid might give a bump for Trump himself, it's really not helpful for the Party going into the midterms

Any benefit might go more to trumpist loons in the primaries, who'll be easily picked off in the general, at least in some districts/states

It would have been cool if he’d taken a nuke with him

https://c.tenor.com/rXVv9jO6MBcAAAAC/check-check-your-butt.gif

so i took a little nuke when i left, who cares, its tiny couldnt hurt a fly, i keep it on my desk, its beautiful perfectly made the type of thing thats so wonderful about this country, i show it to kids the little boys they go crazy for it ask me if they can set it off they say they want to be an army man when they grow up, and now the fbi wants to say im doing something wrong

'I mean, why is everyone so secret about nukes? Why so secret? Let's get it out there, they'll show us theirs, we'll show them ours.. we need transparency about nukes, also about lo-flow shower heads, he's a great guy, he said there's no way he'd ever nuke us, not with me in office... now Sleepy Joe, well, I can't say.. can't guarantee we won't be nuked, if you could see...'

Just thinking about that $2,000,000,000 deal Kushner made with the Saudis

there were a lot of Trumpers saying he had the legal right to take whatever he wanted and that he could declassify documents *after* he left office.

almost as if Trumpers don't actually know how government works.

That has created a sense of dog-catches-the-car whiplash for Trump and his team, who now must decide whether to permit the quick release of the search warrant — which may point to specific crimes that are under investigation — and a receipt detailing the items seized by FBI agents during the search..

'dog catches car' is a great metaphor for the GOP's current plight

Unbelievable

he’s already fundraising pic.twitter.com/LHukDxFJkf

— Mike Scollins (@mikescollins) August 12, 2022

hmm, sky's a bit more orange tonight, let me go outside and ch

Not a peep from the Trumpists right now they must be workshopping a really insane excuse

Pins and needles waiting to hear the spin from the right on this

y'know that tweet is a joke right?