Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Discovery of deleted Mar-a-Lago surveillance video casts a shadow over the Biden White House.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 28, 2023

lmao

the video was of Hunter spilling coke on the documents

The expanded indictment against Trump includes a detailed and incredibly damning articulation of how his team allegedly tried to bury security footage. I walked through it. https://t.co/E2GA0ZMm7B

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 28, 2023

We now come to one of the most intriguing new parts of the indictment.

“Between 1:31 p.m. and 1:50 p.m., DE OLIVEIRA walked through the bushes on the northern edge of The Mar-a-Lago Club property to meet with NAUTA on the adjacent property,” the indictment alleges, “then walked back to the IT office that he had visited that morning; and then walked again through the bushes on the northern edge of The Mar-a-Lago Club property to meet with NAUTA on the adjacent property.”

There are a few possible reasons for this weird (alleged) interaction. One is that Nauta was engaged in some activity off the Mar-a-Lago grounds and simply couldn’t come closer to De Oliveira. Another is that Nauta didn’t want to been recorded as having visited Mar-a-Lago that day, either by Secret Service or other employees. Another is that Nauta and De Oliveira — by now very aware that the federal government was interested in movements at the facility — were eager not to be observed. Remember that De Oliveira’s conversation with the IT staffer took place not in the staffer’s office or a hallway but, instead, in a small nearby room.

That people can gain access to Mar-a-Lago by slipping through the bushes is, of course, a subject that probably deserves more consideration, too.

why did Hunter spill coke on the docs?
No one can read with coke on the docs
After a while, we learn from our talks
He did it
Cos we said "no"

In October of last year, the room were the surveillance footage was stored on a server was flooded as the nearby pool was being drained. This was likely after the subpoenaed footage had been turned over to investigators and it doesn’t appear that the server was damaged...the staffer responsible for draining the pool and accidentally flooding the room was none other than Carlos De Oliveira.

This part reminds me of that commercial where the woman tries to trash her ex's beloved SUV by having it pushed off a cliff, but of course the thing rolls over and over and emerges from a cloud of dust unscathed, to the woman's anguished chagrin.

by the way, "the room were the surveillance footage was stored", "didn't want to been recorded"...does WaPo even read these things before they post them?

If I could have chosen my own name, it would have been "Philip Bump."

The Room Were It Happend

Night of the Hunter Biden

On one hand he has the letters L-O-V-E tattooed.

On the other C-O-K-E.

Would love to see the MAGA crowd turn on Trump the way the angry mob turned on Robert Mitchum. Bluebeard! Hisss! Bluebeard!

I'd like it to be more like the end of Death of Stalin, including the pig roast at the end.

Ah yes

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-jan6-jack-smith-rudy-giuliani-john-eastman-1234798826/

clearly not his fault, it's just a wild coincidence that every single lawyer he ever hired gave him bad advice

Love 2 see Trump's new lawyers lining up to be thrown under the bus in the future by Trump's new new lawyers

Something's up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQQDwsXsA0

Jack Smith is about to announce a stadium tour.

Steve Bannon suggested Sunday that a presidential ticket with former President Trump (R) as president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) as vice president could result in “a massive landslide.”

And it's just weird enough that it might become a reality

The spectacle of MAGA-on-MAGA violence is too good not to post.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-supporters-2662573161/

“Tensions flared…with pro-Trump protesters denouncing the move (to change the delegate-selection process), police getting called and two factions nearly coming to fisticuffs,” the report said.

Fisticuffs!

a massive landslide like a deadly earthquake that ends civilization, sure

UPDATE: It’s happening. Prosecutors have entered the courtroom and a new “grand jury returns” has been added to the docket.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 1, 2023

Court is now closed. We may have to wait for Trump to get the summons and hop on Truth Social to learn what happened.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 1, 2023

_Steve Bannon suggested Sunday that a presidential ticket with former President Trump (R) as president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) as vice president could result in “a massive landslide.” _

And it's just weird enough that it might become a reality

Former President Donald Trump has been informed he has been indicted, a source says.

That source? John Barron.

Breaking: Trump has been indicted — https://t.co/prZhOLzl1v pic.twitter.com/lPA9ys6Yai

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 1, 2023

because he's once...twice...three timmmmmmes indicted

If you'd like some reading material

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.1.0_1.pdf

the big one...for overturning the election. or trying to.

i already told my FB friends that "who cares nothing will happen" posts will be deleted on site. let's do this

Are you allowed to run for president if you're in jail?

yes

It's not only allowed, it's encouraged.

But ex-cons aren't allowed to vote?

gonna be the first President to conduct a meeting with heads of state while shitting in an open cell

"I don't want a max prison, I want SUPERmax, I demand it!"

Apparently Rudy also has a minor role as "indicted co-conspirator 1."

But ex-cons aren't allowed to vote?

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

depends on the state

Most states deprive convicted felons of many of their civil rights, including the right to vote. These rights are usually restored upon release, unless you have the misfortune to live in a state like Florida, which in an example of its endless fuckery won't restore them until the felon pays court costs, restitution, etc.

A felony conviction is no bar to running for President of the United States. The Senate could have convicted Trump in the second impeachment and prohibited from ever running for federal office again. Short of that, he'd have to be found to have engaged in rebellion.

that's the trick, you have to stay convicted, then you can do whatever you want. once you stop being convicted is the problem

Apparently Rudy also has a minor role as "indicted co-conspirator 1."

John Eastman as well... he was the architect of the 'bully Pence' theory

thats just common sense tho

"You're too honest."

— What Trump told Pence on Jan. 1, after the then-VP said he had no constitutional authority to reject or return votes to the states, according to the indictment. https://t.co/zqADs0guFJ pic.twitter.com/swWZ9uWG9G

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) August 1, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2UxuJxWEAIi7sU?format=jpg&name=medium

feeling happy for the eric clapton looking liberal guy again.

As a west coaster, Rehoboth Beach sounds very Lovecraftian to me

He is truly fucked...unless he wins the next election.

Jack Smith speaks:

Smith: The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. It's described in the indictment. It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. Government pic.twitter.com/wj685DpKIy

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 1, 2023

Feel like I've seen Smith in a bunch of B movies as a prolific yet respected character actor