Audio has allegedly captured a conversation in which Donald Trump appeared to discuss classified military documents that he knows he wasn’t supposed to have. Trump’s spokesperson claimed that he was “speaking rhetorically and also quite humorously.”
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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I’m surprised Ted is falling for the bait on this one. The whole thing is a mass of jackstraws.
Ask any reporter who ever filed a FOIA request for documents, waited six months, and then gotten 120 pages with everything but the prepositions blacked out. Everything is classified. It’s a way to block real journalists.
A lot of people duck it, but Trump actually is a genius grifter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Trump deliberately took out something completely unclassified (a phone book, a Burger King place mat) and delivered his spiel to his aide, knowing he was being recorded, and then deliberately had it leaked to the opposition. Does anyone really think this can get into a courtroom and survive the prelims.
We’re 16 months out, and the dems are still engaged in a full-out circle jerk. Biden’s imploding. The Supreme Court just took him out into the weeds and bent him over, and that was for a do-nothing $10K forgiveness gimmick. And his response? He’s going to Plan B, which, in all versions of reality, by definition, is not as likely to succeed as Plan A. So that’s another defeat for Biden.
And please, is anyone going to tell me that Hunter Biden’s laptop isn’t going to keep getting worse for Biden? Isn’t this how Watergate went? Two years of drip-drip-drip?
This is like the “grab ’em by the p—y” comment — he doesn’t seem to remember (or care) that if he breaks the law he can’t talk about it, to anyone, anywhere. Trump lives in a perpetual Now — the past is dead (unless he can score points off it), all that matters is future deals and surviving yet another week.