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Rhiannon12866

(258,758 posts)
Wed May 31, 2023, 09:26 PM May 2023

Donald Trump caught on tape, PROVING he lied about declassifying national security documents




CNN just reported that Special Counsel Jack Smith has an audiotape of Donald Trump - months after he left the presidency - waiving around a classified document about a possible US attack on a foreign country and saying that the document remains classified. This recording puts the lie to Trump's earlier claim that he declassified everything when he took the documents with him to Mar-a-Lago.

Here is how this sharply incriminating evidence will be used by prosecutors at the eventual trial of Donald Trump. - Glenn Kirschner - 05/31/2023.



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Donald Trump caught on tape, PROVING he lied about declassifying national security documents (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2023 OP
The evidence has just been sitting there in Meadows' book 👀 LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #1
Wow! Thanks! But Meadows, like Pence, refused to testify - and Pence also revealed a lot in his book Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #2
I think the salient point made stopdiggin May 2023 #3
Well said. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2023 #4

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,006 posts)
1. The evidence has just been sitting there in Meadows' book 👀
Wed May 31, 2023, 10:10 PM
May 2023

I understand that this book was a complete flop and only sold 22,000 copies


Rhiannon12866

(258,758 posts)
2. Wow! Thanks! But Meadows, like Pence, refused to testify - and Pence also revealed a lot in his book
Wed May 31, 2023, 10:33 PM
May 2023

stopdiggin

(15,636 posts)
3. I think the salient point made
Wed May 31, 2023, 11:05 PM
May 2023

by this piece of evidence is that Trump is acknowledging in his own words that there are legal constraints on what he can do with these materials, post WH. And that leads to the further a priori conclusion - that they have not been declassified (either by protocol or mental wizardry) - again, by his own admission

Now we still have to get around the niggling detail that the dipshit doesn't know what he's saying half the time - and is lying the other half. Again, stack this up against the hundreds of other times when he has said. "I can do whatever I want." Which time did he truly believe his own words? Or did he never believe ... Or conversely, is he so delusional that he always believes whatever drivel is coming out of his mouth?

In a way it circles back around to the old 'not cognizant enough to be criminal' defense.

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