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The J6 trial promises to be a doozy 

https://newrepublic.com/post/177606/binder-highly-classified-russian-intel-went-missing-trump

A 10-inch thick binder of highly classified raw data regarding Russian election interference went missing in the final days of the Trump administration, a new report reveals.

The loss of the massive binder, which has yet to be found two years after it was first reported missing, included details on Russian agents that informed the government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election, according to a sprawling CNN investigation…

…In the waning hours of the administration, Trump ordered a host of documents, including the binder, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for mass declassification in a scheme to prove that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation into his 2016 campaign ties was a hoax.

Republican aides spent days scrubbing the binder, redacting the most sensitive details so that an abridged version could be released to the public, even against the behest of other top Trump administration officials who repeatedly attempted to block the former president from releasing its contents, according to the outlet.

A day before his term was set to end, Trump issued an order to preemptively declassify most of the binder’s contents well before it was ready and regardless of some of the redactions. Multiple copies of the redacted version had been created inside the White House, with plans to hand them off to Republicans and right-wing journalists. But that’s not what happened. Instead, White House lawyers scrambled, forcing an immediate retrieval of some documents that had already been sent off, and demanding that the documents be stripped down more…

“The Crossfire Hurricane binders are a complete disaster. They’re still full of classified information,” White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled a White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, telling her. “Those binders need to come back to the White House. Like, now.”

With minutes to spare before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hand-delivered a redacted copy of the binder to the Justice Department for a final review… 

…“I personally went through every page, to make sure that the President’s declassification would not inadvertently disclose sources and methods,” he wrote in his book detailing his time as Trump’s chief.

 

Meanwhile, the original, unredacted version had gone missing.

But Hutchinson believed she had a clue as to its location. In a closed-door testimony before the January 6 committee, Hutchinson pointed a finger directly at her old boss in relation to the possible whereabouts of the original binder.

“I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson said, according to transcripts.

I can't believe we don't already have a thread or 2 about this guy.

None of that is currently the subject of trump's criminal cases. 

29 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

None of that is currently the subject of trump's criminal cases. 

 

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

None of that is currently the subject of trump's criminal cases. 

you sure you're a lawyer?

26 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Hang the motherfucker.

Hold on now. Starting another thread about Dotard is ridiculous, but I don't know if it deserves the death penalty.

I wouldn't mind having a separate game thread for each trial. Some of the catch-all threads get hard to follow after a few hundred pages and 90whatever indictments. 

5 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I wouldn't mind having a separate game thread for each trial. Some of the catch-all threads get hard to follow after a few hundred pages and 90whatever indictments. 

Agreed.  It's hard to keep the many and varied treasonous activities straight. 

43 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Hang the motherfucker.

I agree, anyone who copies and pasts and doesn’t select post as plain text deserves the rope.

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So, they won’t get a chance to explore the possibility of Trump’s involvement in the disappearance of these classified docs?

18 minutes ago, Covri said:

I agree, anyone who copies and pasts and doesn’t select post as plain text deserves the rope.

My phone doesn’t offer that option.

15 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

My phone doesn’t offer that option.

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

So, they won’t get a chance to explore the possibility of Trump’s involvement in the disappearance of these classified docs?

Not in one of the pending criminal cases, no.  Unless the Mar A Lago indictment is amended/superseded again, which probably won't happen because that would delay things still further.

Obviously, they are investigating, but the reportage indicates this is far away from any indictable offense against Donald J. Trump.

And, in criminal cases (especially, but civil too), you don't get to wander around unindicted/unplead miscellaneous "other bad acts" in an attempt to prove the indicted or plead bad acts, except in very limited circumstances.

One way some small amount of this might come in on the Mar A Lago case would be if he tried to contend he mentally declassified all this stuff.  His efforts to declassify Crossfire Hurricane material would demonstrate that he knows that is neither true nor actually possible.

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3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Hang the motherfucker.

Gonna need big bertha for that fat fucker....

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Changing the focus momentarily, what must our allies  be thinking that a 10” binder of shared secret Intel is missing and nobody will admit to having it or knowing where it is?

1 hour ago, Satchel said:

Changing the focus momentarily, what must our allies  be thinking that a 10” binder of shared secret Intel is missing and nobody will admit to having it or knowing where it is?

It's not only secret intel, it's the UNREDACTED version of that secret intel.  The blame is being pointed at Meadows . . . personally, I'd search Mar-A-Lago more carefully.

I'd gather everyone that came within 100 ft of that binder in the days leading up to its disappearance, ask them nicely one time, who has it and where is it currently?

Then I'd start shooting each person in the knee until someone cracked. Probably get an answer by the third blown out knee.

6 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

I'd gather everyone that came within 100 ft of that binder in the days leading up to its disappearance, ask them nicely one time, who has it and where is it currently?

Then I'd start shooting each person in the knee until someone cracked. Probably get an answer by the third blown out knee.

"Ok stop! Check Ivana's coffin!"

It's a binder full of treason.

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