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In reply to the discussion: Breaking now: House and Senate Intelligence committees have asked DOJ for a classified [View all]jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)I mean, the whole government was pretty much a horribly tasteless joke cum flea market during Trump's term. There wasn't much lower for it to go. Surely those items vulnerable to Trump's well-known tendencies for mischief had been secured or had their potential threats mitigated over the last couple of years. If Trump has succeeded in parlaying some of the nation's intelligence assets into his sche.............
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As I write this it occurs to me those documents may not have been so much for his profit but more as a fallout shelter for protection from his destiny, prosecution. They were a part and parcel of his personal security. He was/is running a tsunami-sized blackmail scenario wherein, until his power was/is neutralized, he was/is held at arm's length from prosecution and exposure as an international criminal of formidable lethality. Now, after much struggle and like a mirage, that power is evaporating. He is finally losing his get-out-of-jail-free card(s).
I wax fantastic (or maybe not) but I foresee an Erik Prince
revelation of complicity or source of incrimination against TFG.
BTW, if it turns out differently it was all just good old
anyway.