It is Saturday morning, 13 August 2022, and I am contemplating my workload around the house.
I also make myself safe from having the FBI retrieve classified documents at my house.
Yesterday afternoon the warrant was unsealed for the search of the Trump residence, and an inventory of documents was released with the classification data. If the average American had been found with the documents listed in the manifest, they would be looking at a very long time in prison. If a 78-year-old was found with them, he would likely be looking at the rest of his life in prison.
Several rebuttals have come out of the Trump camp. One that might carry a little weight was a statement by Trump saying that they were all declassified by him, as he had the authority to do so, and that there was a standing policy that anytime Trump took documents to his residence they were declassified as a policy.
OK… that policy was documented where?
If it wasn’t written down, it didn’t happen.
The other more humorous allegation by Trump was a shot at his predecessor, Barack Obama. Trump stated that Obama took home 30 million pages of classified content home to Chicago. That lie was so blatantly false that the National Archive provided a press release describing their archival process for the Obama Presidential Library and how classified documents were never outside their control.
It’s all pretty ridiculous. Trump thinks the law doesn’t apply to him, but in reality, it applies to him just as much as it does Reality Winner and anybody else that mishandled classified information.
The FBI is dusting the files for prints.
My oh my.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
