Free idea for a Dem ad: a series of brief somber interviews with people who worked with classified documents explaining what the consequences would be for the most minor infraction. Then just show these photos
There are a million ways to go after Trump that are completely legitimate and don't involve threats of violence, or even comparing him to Hitler (although if his VP saw the likeness, I don't know why we should be prohibited from pointing it out). The shooting should make no difference.
I feel like Democrats don't understand how Republicans have turned a lot of network news into the old political style papers of the early period of the country.
I ran a classified computer room in the 80s, and while the storage rules have probably changed a bit, documents have to be kept in locked containers, in secure enough rooms that are registered with DoD and have alarms and usually guards.
This isn't enough for CONFIDENTIAL, much less TOP SECRET.
CONFIDENTIAL docs can be kept in locked filing cabinets (with DoD-approved locks.) SECRET needs safes.
And you have to have a clearance or cleared escort to go in the room, which Trump doesn't have, much less Nauta and the other defendant.
Also the unbarred window in the Classified Documents Bathroom annoys me even more than the pile of boxes on the stage, though that was probably less secure and more temporary.
Remind me of the topic Khashoggi was investigating? That’s right. Kushners transfer of info to Saudi. Then trump sold them a bunch of weapons without congressional approval.
as @mtsw.bsky.social points out, overstated claims don’t hurt - get press to push back “in fact, it was only hundreds of highly classified documents and we don’t know how many were sold”
Lots more Republican judges who don't care about national security will get lifetime positions on the federal bench if Trump is elected again (looking at you Hillary Clinton haters (because of national security), Republican prosecutor chose not to charge Biden because it wasn't the same as Trump).
Some Republicans said they wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because of her email server. They considered her a national security threat (no documents marked classified were on her server). What Trump did is a million times worse, yet those same fuckers will probably vote for Trump.
I hope ProPublica does a deep dive into Aileen “Loose” Cannon. There’s no way she’s making her prejudicial rulings without being either compensated or guided by someone supporting Trump.
But “Nothing to see here,” said the judge.
Appeals at the ready, but it’s all about slowing prosecution down until he’s protected by the office of the presidency.
Yep. A friend of mine works for a gvt contractor where they have to leave their phone outside because security is that tight. They have to go through several days of training and recertification every year, even though they've been doing this for nearly 30 years.
Unless their goal is to make a complete mockery of themselves and our legal justice system. I’d strongly suggests not making this into an advertisement since there apparently isn’t any consequence. Just my thought.
I saw a video once upon a time that was the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark where it gets put in a crate marked top secret, but then it ends up in that room at Mar-a-Lago
