Kimmel Spots Legal Fine Print That Could Keep 'Pathetic' Trump Out Of Office

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night tore into “spectacularly pathetic” Donald Trump over reports he so enjoyed the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol that he kept rewinding and rewatching his favorite moments.

“He probably made Don Jr. and Eric wrestle each other for spaghetti on Friday night,” Kimmel said.

Kimmel also noted news this week that the National Archives had to retrieve 15 boxes of White House documents that Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago, which comes on the heels of reports he routinely tore up official documents.

The late night host noted it was a violation of U.S. code, which not only makes it a crime to “conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, falsify, or destroy” official records, but also sets a very specific penalty: forfeit of office, and disqualification from holding any office.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kimmel-spots-legal-fine-print-060140917.html

[Poiuyt]

1. If that's what it takes!

I wonder if he'll be called out on it in any official way?

[Grasswire2]

2. there's a weasel word in the law

it makes those actions a crime if done "WILLFULLY" -- and that word gives running room to a crooked mobster.

He'll make prosecution prove that the documents were taken WILLFULLY by HIM. Blame it on Melania, or someone.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Melania took an interest in documents?

Yeah, let's hope they try that explanation.

[pnwmom]

9. How is repeatedly ripping up documents -- mutilation -- not willful? n/t

[Grasswire2]

21. But he knew that staff were taping them back together.

They paid staffers well to do that.

Even shredded documents were being restored, except in unusual cases.

There's only one witness to his alleged eating shredded pieces, though.

[pnwmom]

23. If a person slashed someone's face with a knife, and then a doctor stitched it back together,

wouldn't it still be accurate to say the slasher mutilated the person with the scars?

Same with these papers. Taping them didn't restore them to their original condition. They were mutilated.

[lagomorph777]

26. Yup - he didn't accidentally tear up the documents.

[jmowreader]

11. The documents at Mar-a-Lago won't need to enter into this

Trump WILLFULLY tearing up all those documents - all by itself - is enough to activate this law.

[calimary]

3. Let's start making a LOT of noise about this!!!

[gab13by13]

4. I posted the possible crimes he violated,

I didn't watch much cable news today but I saw no mention of the failure to preserve documents.

Should have stayed in the news longer than this.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. It would be ironic

if something of lesser charge like that, found by a non-lawyer or his staff, were the cherry on top

[gab13by13]

10. There are numerous charges Trump can be charged with, and they are not minor.

I'm not even talking about if there was classified information in those boxes at Mar-el-Loco.

[Volaris]

12. That's whipped cream. The CHERRY is if trump decides to pick a whole fight

With late nite comedy, by name.
He will be utterly destroyed lol.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I was going to post a proposed addendum to the Presidential Records Law which did exactly that ...

... looks like it's been nicely anticipated! Way to go, whoever it was that wrote that into law!

[monkeyman1]

8. the media not will bite into this !! they don't want to take a dump on their cash cow !!

[orleans]

13. i don't know....

i think he'll get a pass on this--just like he's gotten a pass on everything else

(god, i hope i'm wrong!)

[usaf-vet]

14. This could work. REMEMBER after all the crimes Al Capone committed he was sent to Federal prison....

..... for tax evasion!

[Hiawatha Pete]

15. K&R for visibility

[Cha]

16. JHC That Better Be ENFORCED!

Bookmarking

[bringthePaine]

17. GRRRRRRRRRREAT place to start!!!!!

[iemanja]

18. Trump would have to be prosecuted

for the penalty to hold.

[Grasswire2]

20. Who will charge him?

Mueller laid out completed investigations of Trump's obstruction of justice, and said under oath that he could charge Trump for those crimes were he not sitting president.

He has not been sitting president now for more than a year, but............... Nothing. We haven't even seen the full report.

[iemanja]

24. exactly

It doesn't look like anyone will prosecute him, except possibly in NY.

[Cha]

19. Mahalo Jimmy Kimmel! Wouldn't it

be Grand if TFCG was Kept from Running for any office because he's a little lily livered Big Bloated Chicken SHIT.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. For this thread

Link to tweet

[scipan]

27. "Can be". Wish it was "shall be". Nt

[ratchiweenie]

25. I agree. Someone like the Lincoln Project has to start making commercials about this now.

How TFG is no longer qualified to be on any ballot in any state because he violated a federal code that disqualifies him from holding any office anywhere ever again. Start piling on.