On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 6:59:01 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
> On 2022-08-09 15:53, TomS wrote:
> > On Monday, August 8, 2022 at 6:57:59 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Tell us all, Sunshine:
> >>
> >> Who appointed the current director of the FBI?
> >
> > WTF does that have to do with illegal government behavior?
>
> Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.
>
> That was a crime.
“After calling for Hillary Clinton to be jailed, in 2018 Trump
signed a law that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized
removal and retention of classified documents from one year
to five years, turning it into a felony offense”
<
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/09/why-the-trump-search-warrant-is-nothing-like-hillarys-emails-00050691>
Believe the technical term for this is: "hoisted upon one's own petard".
> A federal judge had to sign the warrant to authorize the search.
Trump's lawyers have a copy of the warrant, for which they are free
to release it to the public. As such, the "keeping secrets" spin attempt
is duplicitous, as the Fed is required to maintain privacy, which is why
a release of the warrant to the public is the purview of the one served.
> And the head of the FBI is someone Trump selected as at least honest,
> and let's face it: probably loyal to him.
>
> What has the government done that is supposedly illegal?
<<crickets>>
Tommy seems to be having problems with the basic US Constitutional
principle that no one is above the law.
Likewise, to assert that a warrant against a former POTUS being
unprecedented needs to be viewed in the context that the relevant
denominator isn't how many total POTUS's the USA has had, but
rather, how many former POTUS's we've had who've tried to overthrow
the US government. As such, the precedent is "1 for 1" (one warrant
for one insurrectionist).
-hh