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kpete

(72,903 posts)
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 09:43 AM Aug 2022

We are suppose to believe THIS was homework?

Statement from Trump Office: As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time… He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified..


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We are suppose to believe THIS was homework? (Original Post) kpete Aug 2022 OP
Odd, unable to recall anything he's ever mentioned reading before... Kid Berwyn Aug 2022 #1
And Mein Kampf. panader0 Aug 2022 #21
So this is what he was doing with all that "executive time". niyad Aug 2022 #2
Uh, he wasn't president when the boxes were removed from the WH, so no homework. sinkingfeeling Aug 2022 #3
Excellent point! pandr32 Aug 2022 #9
I worry about the timeline Marthe48 Aug 2022 #15
Bingo. School was out for him. paleotn Aug 2022 #16
'Declassified' has a solid paper trail. keithbvadu2 Aug 2022 #4
From the guy who couldn't be bothered to read the daily briefings...Yea, right... Chainfire Aug 2022 #5
He didn't read, needed pictures EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #6
No one believes Trump has ever done "homework." BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #7
This! Hieronymus Phact Aug 2022 #12
Oh, he's good enough at it for having escaped Justice for decades. Justice matters. Aug 2022 #25
That's more about money than talent BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #30
He and his sperm donator (Father???) Traildogbob Aug 2022 #8
ha! awful lot of dead brain cells for teatotaler🥳 bringthePaine Aug 2022 #10
It was declassified homework. sarcasmo Aug 2022 #11
Sorry, I call BS. I had a Top Secret clearance with an XXX special access on top of it while iluvtennis Aug 2022 #13
Yes, but they made it to Mar a Lago somehow... MGKrebs Aug 2022 #26
All valid points @MGKrebs iluvtennis Aug 2022 #27
Man, that's a lot of stuff blogslug Aug 2022 #14
Ummm....no. It doesn't work like that. paleotn Aug 2022 #17
School was out on 1/20/2021, motherfucker Aviation Pro Aug 2022 #18
"But I'm still the president! The election was rigged!" LeftInTX Aug 2022 #28
So Donald would understand an IRS employee taking Donald's tax returns home to work on them. keithbvadu2 Aug 2022 #19
He shares his homework with his buddy Vlad IronLionZion Aug 2022 #20
"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" ... aggiesal Aug 2022 #22
The Obese Orange Outcast can barely maintain his attention span to read one paragraph. LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #23
Based on the numerous descriptions of his work habits (or lack thereof)... 3catwoman3 Aug 2022 #24
Payroll of our spies is enough for me to want a KILL ON SIGHT order & fan of dead or alive posters? Brainfodder Aug 2022 #29

Kid Berwyn

(25,030 posts)
1. Odd, unable to recall anything he's ever mentioned reading before...
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 09:49 AM
Aug 2022

…besides Playboy.

The ever-shifting cover story of plausible deniability might as well be an admission of guilt.

Marthe48

(23,411 posts)
15. I worry about the timeline
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:16 PM
Aug 2022

Some of the stuff was taken when traitor moved out of the White House, but who knows when he started this despicable theft? Did archivists catalog documentation on a regular basis, like weekly or monthly? In other words, when did the papers go missing and when did someone notice?

And specifically, who kept track of the TS and CSI? If someone was making copies and belatedly returning originals to the files, after being asked for them, that could have been going on from day 1, and knowing how low traitor is, I wouldn't doubt it for a second.

EnergizedLib

(3,137 posts)
6. He didn't read, needed pictures
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:55 AM
Aug 2022

He sat on his bottom watching TV and when he didn’t was golfing at trump properties.

You can get away with insulting the intelligence of the base, not so for the rest of us.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
7. No one believes Trump has ever done "homework."
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 11:01 AM
Aug 2022

Not now, not ever in his life. He’s a bullshit artist that simply tries to pull something out of his ass on the spur of the moment. I’m not saying he’s good at it. In fact the opposite is true - evidenced by his many public appearances.

Anything he has stashed away is there because he thought he could use it as ammunition or to generate cash.

Justice matters.

(10,047 posts)
25. Oh, he's good enough at it for having escaped Justice for decades.
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 01:00 PM
Aug 2022

And he's not indicted YET for this latest NS threat of his. Mind Boggling!

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
30. That's more about money than talent
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 07:19 PM
Aug 2022

He has cash to burn and can outlast most civil complainants. With luck we’ll see him finally face his comeuppance.

Traildogbob

(13,154 posts)
8. He and his sperm donator (Father???)
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 11:58 AM
Aug 2022

Paid people to do his homework his entire life. All those documents are written well
Above 3rd grade reading level. With lots of words he Doesn’t know. Not all those BEST ones he claims to know.

iluvtennis

(21,526 posts)
13. Sorry, I call BS. I had a Top Secret clearance with an XXX special access on top of it while
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:10 PM
Aug 2022

working on military weapon systems. You can't take a classified document home to do "homework".

Classified documents had a very, very tight chain of control.

trump is full of sh*t.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
26. Yes, but they made it to Mar a Lago somehow...
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 01:06 PM
Aug 2022

Which leads one to believe that the "chain of control" system was, umm, ineffective. And it is implausible that Donald Trump personally- and only himself- packed and loaded all those boxes onto some truck (or whatever). Which means someone else was involved.

Not only that, it is implausible to think that this is just a random set of Top Secret documents that were somehow just overlooked. So somebody selected these particular documents. But for what purpose? I've seen speculation about Jared and the Saudi's; seems plausible. But even Jared wouldn't have packed and loaded and then unloaded all this stuff personally. So yet another someone else is likely involved.

Also, who else has likely seen this stuff? Rudy? My Pillow guy? Roger Stone? Michael Flynn? Any of those guys are likely to sell anything for a buck.

Can the FBI tell if something has been photocopied? Should they impound Mar A Lago copiers? Don't some of them have image memories?

Would Trump throw Jared under the bus and claim it was all him? What would Ivanka do?

blogslug

(39,210 posts)
14. Man, that's a lot of stuff
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:15 PM
Aug 2022

In normal people terms, that's a whole U-Haul plus the entire bed of your cousin's truck.

UPDATE: Darn it! I didn't do my research. That photo in the OP is from January 14, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-expected-depart-white-house-wednesday-morning-final-time-president-n1254429

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
19. So Donald would understand an IRS employee taking Donald's tax returns home to work on them.
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:33 PM
Aug 2022

So Donald would understand an IRS employee taking Donald's tax returns home to work on them.

aggiesal

(10,911 posts)
22. "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" ...
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:44 PM
Aug 2022

For those not born when this statement was made, you'll have to look it up.

I think Pendejo45 lived by this statement.

LudwigPastorius

(14,982 posts)
23. The Obese Orange Outcast can barely maintain his attention span to read one paragraph.
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:45 PM
Aug 2022

Trump wants us to believe he was poring over boxes of documents when not at the White House?


3catwoman3

(29,766 posts)
24. Based on the numerous descriptions of his work habits (or lack thereof)...
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:51 PM
Aug 2022

...and essentially non-existent attention span, there is no chance in hell that Trump was "doing homework."

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
29. Payroll of our spies is enough for me to want a KILL ON SIGHT order & fan of dead or alive posters?
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 06:38 PM
Aug 2022

Feeling OLD WEST wanted poster vibe?



Are Trump dartboards and targets a thing, he might make a.....


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