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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlanted docs myth
As much as I'd like to believe this conspiracy theory, they'd actually have to plant docs from 2016 or older. Any classified docs would be dated.
So trump or his lackies wouldn't have had access to Obama Era documents to even plant them.
kentuck
(115,620 posts)Although I am unable to find a link for it?
Chakaconcarne
(2,799 posts)Would they not have access to any of these Biden locations?
intheflow
(30,249 posts)We know MAGA has infiltrated all levels of government, why not the National Archives?
Wounded Bear
(64,628 posts)If that was the case, how was it that the National Archives were the ones to blow the whistle on Trump.
People are stretching to bizarre lengths to back up this ridiculous conspiracy theory.
These super agents of NARA managed to take some classified documents from the Obama era and plant them in two secure storage locations. And then wait until the Biden lawyers would find them.
Right.....
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,744 posts)Even though they were found before the election...
intheflow
(30,249 posts)That's the first useful debunking I've encountered. Of course, MAGA's aren't always the clearest-thinking folk, so maybe they planted the evidence and figured the news would leak before the election, but because they're MAGA, it turned into a fail.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,744 posts)Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani were teasing a big leak about Hillary. Then Comey's announcement (which I think was more to deflect from Stone/Giuliani).
Nothing of the sort this time.
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)uponit7771
(93,532 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(12,744 posts)But IF they were planted by Republican operatives, why wouldn't they use them?
The whole basis of this conspiracy is that Republicans planted the docs to damage Biden. Why didn't they use them to affect the election?
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)... puts this on MAGA hands also.
That's easy, MAGA had to keep a 100 mile distance from anything related to this story
intheflow
(30,249 posts)so they couldn't possibly blow the whistle on Trump and plant stuff on Biden. While unlikely, I find it equally unlikely that no one looked in a desk drawer in an unused office space on a college campus... for three years. I've worked at many colleges and universities and when a office is vacated it is often raided for things like a working stapler or a comfortable, adjustable chair, if not the desk itself.
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)H2O Man
(79,250 posts)Let me think, darn it! ....... Maybe Nixon planted them?
MichMan
(17,390 posts)rubbersole
(11,277 posts)Jew-ish space lasers to be exact.
W_HAMILTON
(10,435 posts)fescuerescue
(4,475 posts)We don't know that they are clean.
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)The POTUS is there, but they would ABSOLUTELY have access to the garage.
Polybius
(22,117 posts)The SS doesn't just roam the WH and walk into an archives area. They would be caught easily. Someone would have had to have given them to them.
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)Polybius
(22,117 posts)No idea if Trump had access to them, but if he did, he would have to be in contact with a SS agent on Biden's team now. It's a bit too much for me to believe at this moment.
GoCubsGo
(34,998 posts)fescuerescue
(4,475 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 12, 2023, 02:52 PM - Edit history (1)
Gotta remember. Trump had access to all these for 4 years. And we know he was sharing classified information from the Russians.
Putin managed to influence an entire nationwide election 2016.
Surely his agents would be capable planting some documents in rarely used storage spaces.
(edit: thanks for pointing out the error)
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)sarisataka
(22,835 posts)fescuerescue
(4,475 posts)When it comes to forum posting. I'm kind of a "fire and forget" typist.
thanks.
sarisataka
(22,835 posts)I learned the hard way not to trust voice to text
NotASurfer
(2,371 posts)If anything was planted I'd expect it to have been created or classified sometime between February 2017 and January 2021. And maybe have put in some time in a file box in a closet in Florida.
I don't expect that anything was planted, mind you, I just think that's the level of stupid we'd see if anything was planted
Irish_Dem
(82,312 posts)The US gov't is full of GOP loyalists going back to when Joe was VP.
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)
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