A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
A new jaw-dropping Washington Post report reveals that FBI agents who executed a raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday were digging for, among other things, classified documents related to nuclear weapons.
Shocking!!! But predictable
Oh F***! Now he has to reveal something even worse.
Oh, and what if they don’t find some of the nuclear documents they know should be there!
That would get interesting.
An acquaintance who is a retired national security employee with a legal background suggested, among the other obvious reasons that Trump would retain nuclear weapons-related secrets (like selling them to our enemies), this: Trump, being a psychopath, is like a serial killer – even though it might incriminate them, they have to retain “trophies” of their exploits.
In any dealing with Donnie, one must start with a known stipulation, i.e. that “he’s an unrepentant and self-serving liar.”
How does some this f**king stupid, get a gig like that?
I think back to that press conference in Oslo, and it makes me ill to think about what Putin might have. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s names of field agents.
There may be someone somewhere more stupid than Brian Kilmeade but…
Very interesting related note govt security on Reddit.
“Stupid” is a Fox feature, not a bug. They don’t want to talk down to their audience.
Who better to communicate with their moronic viewers? Brian Kilmeade may be that stupid, but it’s a lead pipe cinch that much of his audience is that stupid.
Former Huckabee campaign hire:
Legal query: must the clock tick down to 3 this afternoon or did Trump’s statement speed things up? I am old enough to remember when Ginni Thomas said she would be happy to speak with the Jan 6 committee and then her lawyer sent a cute letter declining.
a President like no other before him!
Another content rich news day. Wonder when the President will hold the signing ceremony for the IRA? Every time we get to that stage of any legislation, I think about the Georgia Senate runoffs in January 2021.
I agree that Trump’s enthusiasm for releasing the warrant is part of the process of him stalling to release the warrant, just like Ginni was never going to willingly testify.
Time for trump to update his bragging: “I could steal classified nuclear documents, incite attacks on FBI agents, and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
After sleeping on all of this, if there were nuclear or any other documents that he sold, the transaction has probably already been done.
His holding the LIV golf tournament at Bedminster last week? A very easy transfer of the documents on a flashdrive during a handshake.
Even if the originals were swept up in the ‘raid’, their images may already be in the hands of the enemy. TFG had two months to hand everything over and only a portion were recovered in June. Knowing the rest would be confiscated only expedited the timeline.
It may already be too late.