Oversight Committee Will Probe How Trump Got Away With Taking WH Docs To Mar-A-Lago

House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) promised on Monday night to look into how ex-President Donald Trump was able to take at least 15 boxes of White House records, that he was supposed to give to the National Archives, to his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida instead.


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This is a big deal, absolutely, but I donā€™t see anything coming of it. Yes, ā€˜mostā€™ of the documents have been returned, but this is just another violation that wonā€™t see any prosecution or penalty.

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For the sake of humanity, we must recover the Hurricane Dorian Sharpie exhibit.

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When one is an idiot, a shirker, and someone who has something to hide, well yeah letā€™s elect him POTUS.

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Criming by the minuteā€¦

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Over time, thieves perfect their craft. At our peril.

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Wonder if they have to store all the blank piece of paper props they used?

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He probably intended it to hang over the entry to his presidential library. You know, the one that will never be built - like Trump Tower Moscow - because heā€™s torn up most of what little might have gone into it.

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I can save the committee a lot of timeā€¦ when you surround yourself with sycophants, they will fight over the chance to do your bidding.

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Seriously? He just took them.

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THey SHOULD be LOOKing INTO whY PELOsi allOWED this to haPPEN in the FIRSt place.

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tfg really likes that one because it puts his contempt for the nationā€™s citizens (and humanity at large) on full display. It basically says ā€˜fuck you all, I decide the way things are, not some pointy-headed know-it-all expert. If I say itā€™s so, then itā€™s so!ā€™

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Biden needs to sponsor another bill called PDT (Prosecute Donald Trump) in order to have the manpower to fully investigate him.

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The Democrat described the revelations as ā€œdeeply troubling ā€” but not surprising.ā€

Democrats can be their own worst enemy with their messaging.
Saying ā€œbut not surprisingā€ is an unnecessary dig that minimizes this as, ā€˜gosh, there he goes againā€™.

Focus on the rules violated and drop the commentary that deflects from the point.

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They should also check into missing golf clubs, golf carts, china, silverware, paintings and those ever popular red Christmas trees Melania graced the WH with. You know this guy took lots of stuff.

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One important step is to make it clear that if thereā€™s anything else out there, it must be returned, and that anyone having knowledge of it is culpable unless they do so immediately.

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how ex-President Donald Trump was able to take at least 15 boxes of White House records

Former president Donald J. Trump respondsā€¦

Well, youse foist put one box onna truck, then youse put anudda box onna truck. When youse is done, you have a lotta boxes onna truck. Whose knows wats inna dose boxes. It jest gets confoosin ya knows? Just a buncha boxes. Whys everybuddy upset overs a buncha of boxes?

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ā€œTrumpā€™s staffers are ā€œcontinuing to searchā€

Oh, goody. Iā€™m sure theyā€™ll find them all.

Whatever happened to the FBI? Donā€™t they do this kind of thing anymore?

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Senate. Filibuster. DOA.

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Letā€™s just call it another in a continuing group of criminal acts.

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