DOJ to Trump, essentially:
“We already vetted these documents and did a risk assessment of them. DOJ has done what a court-appointed Special Master would do. No need for a repeat or re-do. Time’s a wastin’. And further delays in this investigation could further damage our national security. Get outta here.”
“You lack standing in this matter. You are not president and you have no executive privilege. Get outta here.”
“Those documents do not belong to you. They belong to the U.S. government. Get outta here.”
Clearly, Trump doesn’t understand the “ex” in ex-president.
Oh, and that picture of classified documents strewn across that room doesn’t look too good, does it?
Clean up your room or you’re grounded, Son.
He and his lackies will do what they do. They will delay. They will deflect. They will “whatabout?” And, of course, they will lie shamelessly.
Don’t get distracted. Here are the established, confirmed, incontrovertible facts. Hundreds of classified government documents were stolen by the former president and an attempt was made to hide them. That’s a crime. He was repeatedly asked to return them and refused to. That’s a crime. He has engaged in and continues to engage in an effort to obstruct a lawful investigation. That’s a crime.
Many of these stolen documents contain information that could compromise our national security.
Don’t let the Cultists tell you, as they always do, that this is “no big deal.”
It’s a very big deal indeed. It is by a wide margin the most serious crime ever committed by a U.S. president.
Joe got fired up Tuesday, didn’t he?
“I’m determined to ban assault weapons in this country. Determined. I did it once before, and I’ll do it again.”
“More children in American die from guns than active-duty police and active-duty military in the United States combined.”
“You have to act so our kids can learn to read in school, instead of learning to duck and cover.”
“DNA to say, ‘That’s my baby’? What the hell is the matter with us?”
“To this day, MAGA Republicans in Congress defend the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th.”
“So let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress. Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”
“Look, you’re either on the side of the mob or the side of the police. You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6th ‘patriots.’ You can’t do it.”
And yet the Cultists will continue to do exactly that.
