Timeline: How Trump’s Effort To Hold Onto Federal Records Gradually Became Public - TPM – Talking Points Memo

The scandal that erupted last week over former President Trump taking, secreting, and refusing to hand Presidential and classified records back to the government was based in a dispute that had been ongoing since he left office.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1428449
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Ultimately, Trump’s people will have to work with NARA on getting docs & records for his library, much as Obama, most recently, has.

Is there anything more oxymoronic than a Trump Presidential Library?

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Trump had stashed 11 sets of classified documents away in the bowels of Mar-a-Lago. …

…which he had previously eaten.

There is something wrong with his bowels.

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Toximoronic!

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A gutsy move!

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How is it Trump has multiple passports? A dual citizen can only have two. As an ambassador he could have two as well, a blue one and a red one. Does the third passport mean he is also a foreign national or ambassador?

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His father was from Kenya.

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One might be a “brown” diplomatic passport in addition to the regular “blue” one.

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" Kash Patel, the former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Trump DoD staffer, floats for the first time to Breitbart the excuse that Trump had already declassified federal records held at Mar-a-Lago, claiming that the markings on the documents had not been updated to note the declassification."

Such a ‘reliable source’. His name alone should make us all suspicious. And, where is Devin these days? Hiding in the the ‘bowels’ of Mar-a-logo? (Up someone’s ass reference fully intended)

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One of them look like this…

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The man is the worst criminal (in terms of human damage) in this country’s history.

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Mолоде́ц

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Politico reports that Trump made Solomon and Patel his National Archives designates partly out of a desire to have Solomon publicize information about the Trump-Russia investigation.

We might need the Oversight committee to have a look at how National Archives designates can be…designated. It seems bad if it can be handed out to anyone, no qualifications or credentials necessary. Giving a “journalist” complete access so that he can launder the archives into favorable articles seems like a blatant abuse of the system.

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And why doesn’t TPM still not have an official Kash section? Certainly, Duke Cunningham got his fair share of space.

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“Having three valid U.S. passports is incredibly unusual and normally would raise a red flag,” said Valentina Meehan, owner of New York-based passport and visa expediting service Passport Plus.

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The third one was an expired one, was it not?

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Seems like there is a lot of incredible unusual happening with Trump. I mean, how many of us ask “Honey, have you seen my boosted thermal-primary nuclear device designs? I thought I left them out by the pool.”

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Borderline prophetic

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President Trump?

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When renewing they punch and void it. Also it would be obvious on its face that the passport was invalid. The government would have little reason to seize such a passport unless he was e.g. running a passport forgery business.

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