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Trump prosecutions consume campaign funds and messaging as charges mount
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I mean, there are so many it's hard to begin. The one regarding his handling of secret materials is something every single high ranking official has done. To put it this way, if other politicians were treated with the same standards as Trump everyone would be under investigations and prosecuted.
Other politicians return those materials when asked rather than try to hide them and lie about what they have.
Trump was given ample opportunity to return the materials without facing charges.
Is that true? What do you mean given ample opportunity
The National Archives were contacting him requesting the documents back for months before any charges were brought forth.
I'll read up on that
If you haven't read the indictment document you don't have any basis for claiming bogus charges.
Can you show the class where another "high ranking official" kept top secret documents after the government asked for their return? Is the bathroom a valid storage place? Try to answer without consulting fox news.
Heh
Hillary Clinton's private server was stored in a bathroom closet
https://theweek.com/speedreads/572465/hillary-clintons-private-server-stored-bathroom-closet
Also had her aides smash electronic devices with hammers and wipe computer hard drives with bleachbit. Even despite that the Comey investigation found classified stuff on the devices that they could get their hands on.
You do know that destroying electronics is common and procedural for government device and data storage right? When they’re done with it there is a typical process involved for members of government to clean out the old equipment as required.
This unclassified NSA document details incineration of hard drives.
This is common, this is procedure.
They did it after getting subpoenaed, iirc.
That's not an accurate assessment of what happened. See here for a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Deletion_of_emails
Is it illegal to have a private server? Guess I don't remember that part of the 600 investigations the Republicans tried running on her. Okay now do the election rigging one. Or how about the one where he's being accused of insurrection and treason for Jan 6?
It's illegal keeping classified stuff on it. Besides, they use it to avoid FOI and other nefarious purposes
The secret materials that he refused to give back, even when raided by the FBI? When everyone else who found secret materials fully cooperated with the national archives?
Trump lied to the archives, lied to his own lawyer, and showed top secret materials to Kid fucking Rock as a way to brag.
Then there's the coup attempts.
The multiple coup attempts.
And the insurrection when those coup attempts failed.
Read the indictment. It says he specifically went behind his own lawyers' backs to remove the classified documents from where they were stored and moved them to his personal residence after they had already been subpoenaed. ...and then basically lied to his own lawyers. The prosecution is going to make the case that this was obstruction of justice.
Interesting
The documents aren't the big problem, it's that he hid them after repeated attempts. That's obstruction. He's also on tape showing a document to an unauthorized person.