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kentuck

(115,852 posts) Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:50 AM Aug 2022

If there were national security secrets at Mar-A-Lago...? [View all]

Why did they wait so long to get a search warrant and seize them?

Did they trust Trump with the documents?

If not, did someone go to sleep on the job?

It seems to me that it should not have taken two years to seize the documents?

Which leads to the question: How safe is our nation?

How competent are the people that are supposed to guard our secrets?

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If there were national security secrets at Mar-A-Lago...? [View all] kentuck Aug 2022 OP

IG seems to have been corrupted during drumpfs tenure. lark Aug 2022 #1

I would guess it took quite some time to obtain sufficient proof of what was "missing" or that hlthe2b Aug 2022 #2

I think there was warning of some deal going down. usonian Aug 2022 #3

+1 2naSalit Aug 2022 #6

This, this, this. 1000 times THIS. 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 dixiechiken1 Aug 2022 #9

I bet he offered documents to Orban to rat out his 'enemies' for lots of cash. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #12

That was my thought, as well. Some chicanery was imminent. They had to act. Midnight Writer Aug 2022 #13

How about a three-team trade? usonian Aug 2022 #14

My theory is someone ratted out Trump. Raven123 Aug 2022 #4

They may have just gotten proof, duforsure Aug 2022 #5

I was wondering about that too.... Blue Owl Aug 2022 #7

I wonder if any of these documents have been redacted with ketchup underpants Aug 2022 #8

You always want to say our side did something wrong...but perhaps Trump is selling Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #10

Lets throw the recent Saudi Arabia visit into the conversation while we're at it. Lots of potential dameatball Aug 2022 #11