BREAKING: Trump Planned to EXTORT DOJ with Trade of Stolen Classified Docs for Russian Docs

[Rhiannon12866]

A new bombshell report cites sources close to Donald Trump that before the August 8 search warrant was executed on Mar-A-Lago he was demanding his team offer the DOJ a trade that he would give back the records he stole if they gave him records relating to the DOJ’s Russian investigation. This absurd offer never was acted upon but can be used to show Trump’s intent in any potential future criminal case. - Meidas Touch.

[JI7]

1. Isn't this admitting to a crime ?

[dchill]

6. Oh big time!

[Rebl2]

17. Sounds like it

to me. How many more crimes does he have to commit before they lock him up?

[area51]

20. This. n/t

[NHvet]

23. you.. me...

but not for TFG

[paleotn]

26. Add it to the list of crimes he's admitted to.

[aggiesal]

37. Add it to this list...

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-staggering-record-of-uncharged-crimes/

[Iggo]

28. It's COMmitting a crime.

[JI7]

29. Yes, admitting to a crime while committing another one

[PatSeg]

31. And apparently still nervous about being exposed

Clearly his involvement with Russia must have been pretty bad if he wants those documents, maybe worse than we'd thought.

[Golden Raisin]

32. Anything with Trump is worse than we thought.

What we see from him in public is the proverbial tip of the iceberg. There is no bottom with Trump.

[PatSeg]

42. That is SO true and it blows my mind

With Trump, "What you see, is what you get" only much, much worse. No matter what you think you can imagine, plan on it being double or triple that.

I remember how people thought the Russian dossier was over-the-top and not believable. Now I believe the reality was probably even worse, which would explain why he freaks out whenever the "Russian Hoax" comes up.

Yes, there truly is no bottom with the man and though we'll never know everything, over time more and more of his ugly life will come to the surface.

[onecaliberal]

2. How many times will he confess before he is arrested?

[Evolve Dammit]

18. really

[skylucy]

3. I only watched the beginning of the video...but if this is true...

WTF! Are you f***ing kidding me? OMG! and

[SCantiGOP]

15. The important words being:

“If this is true”

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Fkg doj... it's all a big club

[brush]

7. Shows he feels some culpabllity and fear of what...

the DOJ has on him in the Russian investigation, but it also shows how dumb trump is in thinking he can blackmail Biden's DOJ.

His bootlicker Barr is not running the DOJ anymore. And him thinking blackmailing the DOJ would never get out is over-the-top stupidity.

[Grins]

8. Where's the link to this "bombshell report"?

Been down this highway too many times.

[skylucy]

9. I understand your skepticism. I thought the same thing when I first read this, however...

It is being reported and discussed on MSNBC right now. The story came from the The New York Times. It just broke a few minutes ago.

[Cha]

35. Mahalo for that,

SkyLucy!

Good to know

[skylucy]

44. Hi Cha!

[Cha]

46. Aloha 🐬🏝🌈❤️

🕊🕯🌺🇺🇸💙💛

[Grins]

52. OK. But...

When I read there was a "bombshell report," I assumed an official document from the DoJ, FBI, USSS, or even the J6 Committee.

But this is not a "report" as much as it is a journalist's "reporting." It has no weight and will be forgotten in a week.

[teach1st]

12. New York Times: How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides

Gifted (no paywall) link to NY Times Article

How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides
New York Times, 10/8

Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal.

Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims.

In exchange for those documents, Mr. Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Mr. Trump’s aides never pursued the idea. But the episode is one in a series that demonstrates how Mr. Trump spent a year and a half deflecting, delaying and sometimes leading aides to dissemble when it came to demands from the National Archives and ultimately the Justice Department to return the material he had taken, interviews and documents show.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Thank you!

[Cha]

36. Mahalo teach!

🏝🌈🍀🇺🇸💙

[reACTIONary]

38. Thanks! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. Thank you for posting this

[Pantagruel]

10. I'm shocked, shocked

the Slobfather would resort to extortion.

Oh wait!

Never mind.

[MontanaMama]

11. Wait. What?

Are we there yet?

[SheltieLover]

13. Lock. The. Slob. Up!

[Rhiannon12866]

14. The violent insurrectionists he called to the Capitol are now in jail - what is taking so long?!

Not only did he steal classified documents and hid them at his "properties," he's guilty of tax evasion in New York and accused of election interference in Georgia - what is taking so long??

[SheltieLover]

16. I don't know

[Evolve Dammit]

19. We're flailing in the dark. Not even a Mueller report yet. Something smells really bad.

It's been 21 months since the COUP FCS.

[Enoki33]

22. The burning question to be answered is

what is he so afraid of? Espionage maybe a reasonable guess - assuming it's true.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Lawrence Tribe thinks he's going to be indicted for obstruction of justice

And for mishandling/stealing highly classified documents and keeping them in an insecure place - and violation of the Espionage Act. Now he was Merrick Garland's law professor, so I'm counting on him to be right!

[Joinfortmill]

24. How many people has he extorted in his life?

[elleng]

27. NATURALLY!!!

[Tetrachloride]

30. this kind of deal would be a win for Putin

wonder where TFG thought up this scheme

[Pas-de-Calais]

33. Can he be jailed yet

[Cha]

34. Of Course the Domestic

Terrorist did he has a simple mind.

brain Challenge

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Trump pushed DOJ beyond 'tipping point' as Garland considers indictments: legal expert

Last edited Sun Oct 9, 2022, 12:54 AM - Edit history (1)

TFG has in effect admitted to obstruction and other crimes. This may push AG Garland to bring charges

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/doj-trump-indictments/

Donald Trump has created nightmares for his legal team and may have pushed the Department of Justice beyond the tipping point as Attorney General Merrick Garland considers indictments.

"Tonight, what is he still hiding?" asked MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. "New allegations that Trump might have kept more documents from the National Archives."

He explained the difficult situation facing Trump's lawyers, "because it's not just the mess he's in right now, it's that, as we learn on a near daily basis with this guy, there is always more with Trump. More scandal, more illegality, and more pain for his lawyers.".....

"This is the very kind of activity, of obstruction, that is the tipping point, many times, for the Justice Department, after they already accumulated the evidence sufficient for indictment, as to whether or not to prosecute," Goodman said. "I think this is just outrageous and outlandish that he would still have documents."

[usonian]

41. No foolin. He always had a hard-on for the Russian Influence Investigation.

Quite possibly the only hard-on he can manage. But that rankled him enormously. Enough to corrupt every official including Bill Barr, who deserves a flogging, confession or not.



Obsessed, bothered and bewildered.

[sarcasmo]

43. The man is still free, traveling the country spewing hate.

[OAITW r.2.0]

45. I thought the whole Russian investigation was a hoax? nt

[Mr. Ected]

47. He colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election

The entire GOP is complicit.

The continuing cover-up is another crime in itself.

DOJ isn't just faced with coming after Trump.

The evidence likely clearly shows the above to be true.

Their decisions are based on whether our government can withstand one of its halves being an actual crime syndicate.

[Duppers]

48. This is tantamount to treason. 👹

Of course, he could have stolen some cigarettes.


My broken record:
Repubs will not/ cannot accept that they are delusional about this crook. And the p.t.b. don't care about anything but their wealth.


Thanks, Miss R.

[Rhiannon12866]

49. It makes me nutz, too! Why is he still out there causing more trouble by the day?!

What I don't get is how hundreds of the violent insurrectionists he called to the Capitol on January 6th have been identified, charged, tried, convicted and jailed - yet the one who called them there to overthrow the U.S. government is still out there, holding his "rallies," spreading his lies about the 2020 election and grifting more "campaign donations," telling them that he intends to run for a third time!

[Blue Owl]

50. To all those in the DOJ who are hemming, hawing, and sitting on their hands regarding charging tRump

If the table were turned, do you think he'd extend you the same courtesy???

[Scrivener7]

51. This boils down to him admitting that Russia stole the election for him.

And he is saying that the proof of that is in the records of the DOJ's Russian investigation.

And that investigation was 6 years ago.

And the DOJ has had those records for all that time.

It also proves that tfg is guilty and cognizant of breaking the law with the documents he stole.

That was 2 years ago.

And tfg is still walking around.