Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

based on what i know about that guy, for him that's vv subtle. he's one of the fringiest fringe dwellers of the admittedly very fringy nu-GOP

you mean this guy? seems fine to me

@RepClayHiggins pushing an activist for asking tough questions is supposed to be normal? pic.twitter.com/CQx6s3PCQ3

— Kristy Fogle PA-C (@kristyfoglePAC) May 17, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/rep-clay-higgins/

Sharlet, whose latest book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, features in-depth reporting on right-wing extremists, warned that the GOP lawmaker appeared to be calling for an insurgency.

"Deep scary: 1/50 k refers to military scale maps & publicly available US Geological Survey maps of areas mostly surrounding military installations," Sharlet said. "This isn’t a metaphor. This isn’t slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing."

"I think this is scary as hell," he added.

More from Costa (good and well-sourced reporter, BTW, would tend to take his threads on-board):

(Thread) learning some new things this morning about WHY this all happened and the motivation, especially for the audio from 2021 discussing classified material. In short, it comes down to one person: *Milley.* Trump loathed his coverage in press, in books, per multiple sources…

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 9, 2023

The question isn't "What is Clay Higgins calling for?" but "Who listens when Clay Higgins opens his stupid fat mouth?" and the answer, I believe, is "nobody."

To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions does Clay Higgins have?

Milley Cyrus

Is also (spoiler alert) Hannity Montannity

Hiding the files like yeah

BREAKING: INDICTMENT UNSEALED @CBSNews https://t.co/UHnXSNF8zJ

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 9, 2023

LOL @ PARA 4.

"the beautiful mind paper boxes"

lol at pgs. 15-16

Mind Paper Boxes is my next band ne

*name

"I don't want anybody looking through my boxes."

Love the little flashbacks to his presidential declarations abt classified info

Handy, really.

https://i.imgur.com/ZXNZ2nt.jpeg

you know, pluck it out

If thy classified document offend thee

Said to his lawyers: “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?”

Is it bad? Good?

Sounds like Jack Smith is due to give general media remarks in a little under an hour.

over/under on how long they've had this sitting in drafts:

Bringing this back in light of recent news:

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— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2023

This isn't worse than expected; if you think it is, then your imagination has been asleep since June 2015. This is what this man was always capable of, too stupid to hide his crimes and too confident about never being caught.

So indicted for 38 counts, not 7 as was previously reported. Oof.

I mean this guy's reputation is that no matter how dumb he appears to be he at least knows how to play "the system", be it show business, political media, the law, tax codes, etc., and yet here he is declaring that he's committed a federal crime, providing proof of said crime, and acknowledging that he knows it's a crime, all while he's being recorded...may be the only time I say this but I really didn't think Donald Trump was that stupid

lmao when matt levine thinks you've done crime in an amusing way, you know you're in trouble

"is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy" etc., but it is kind of great that every time trump sort of hinted to his lawyers that they should do crimes, they took copious notes like "i took this to be a hint that we should do crimes," and handed them right over.

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) June 9, 2023

Don't forget he at one time was saying all the documents were planted

At least this halfwit gets it:

The problem for Trump -- you can "but Hillary" and "but Biden" all you want, but they have Trump on tape admitting he is showing classified documents that have not been declassified and he is showing them to people without proper clearance.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 9, 2023

https://i.imgur.com/eq0BnoG.png

"beautiful mind paper boxes" is such an amazing phrase

you know how everyone searches the Fed transcripts for [laughter] when they come out.

that but for federal indictments pic.twitter.com/PBSqD3AM0m

— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) June 9, 2023

he has the worst attorneys

If only Guided By Voices could write a melody for it

xpost

his florida judge might delay it, or his heart might explode, but ... is this guy going to jail?

Oh, mesh gear fox
Pull out another paper trick from your beautiful mind box

"Now we have a problem" is a good name for a politics thread. Or, you know, Trump thread.

jesus christ

https://i.imgur.com/c3GitK1.png

idk what even to say at this point, I'm starting to believe he actually may go to jail

Leaning towards dud these days.

Wasn't there a quote from fucking Kid Rock about being shown maps and thinking "Should I be seeing this?"

I thought dud up until the indictment was unsealed. now he's definitely classic

Possible candidate for Mount Rushmore of self-pwn.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, June 9, 2023 8:39 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

see what happens when Pat Robertson stops praying for you for one day

Hey, buddy, want to COMMIT SOME CRIMES together? I’m going to show you some stuff that’s COMPLETELY ILLEGAL.

lol

Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment against former President Trump includes photos of documents boxes stored in various places at Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/Mz5zJvJjCM

— Arden Farhi (@ArdenFarhi) June 9, 2023

on a stage and next to a toilet bowl

Well, sure, you need something to read while you're on the can.

"Donald Trump had illegally kept documents concerning U.S. nuclear programs and its potential vulnerabilities to military attack, the 49-page indictment showed."

seems significant that these docs were not just some crank's theory about how to invade iran.

Smith's remarks to be streamed here (and elsewhere I'm sure)

https://www.justice.gov/live

One of a zillion problems for Trump here is that the absolute true believer conspiracy nuts aside, all of the actions described and/or caught on tape align perfectly with the Trump we all know so well. Like, you know exactly what the little self-satisfied smirk on his face was when he was saying these things, and everything described is entirely in character. Even the stuff that seems sort of generically unbelievable — "Nobody would do that!" — becomes completely believable in the context of it being Trump.

Nauta seems like he's fucked and there is no way he is going to go down and not say, "Trump told me to do this."

I could totally see Waltine taking however much heat is needed for Dear Leader.