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In reply to the discussion: Overlooked by a lot of people in Jack Smith's filing: Trump used burner phone to pressure election officials [View all]LiberalArkie
(16,742 posts)28. I think this has been forgotten but during Trumps time there were a lot of spy cell sites in DC (called Stingers)
Here is just one article. Unless a person was very careful, more than likely every organization and government in the world knew what was been said and who was banging who.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-malicious-use-of-stingrays-is-a-real-and-growing-risk/
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Overlooked by a lot of people in Jack Smith's filing: Trump used burner phone to pressure election officials [View all]
kpete
Oct 27
OP
Or "What Would Justice Do" - Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Coney-Barret, Gorsuch, BeerBongBoy
erronis
Oct 27
#11
Kinda ruins any chance he may have had of trying to argue these were "official acts", doesn't it?
Wiz Imp
Oct 27
#5
When it absolutely, positively needs to be there and then disappeared, burner phone.
DJ Porkchop
Oct 27
#8
Just like the burner phones that Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and others used before ..
Botany
Oct 27
#18
But will the Royal Subversive Court issue an edict that the phones became official by his touch?
Hermit-The-Prog
Oct 27
#37
I think this has been forgotten but during Trumps time there were a lot of spy cell sites in DC (called Stingers)
LiberalArkie
Oct 27
#28