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"Based on everything you know about him, why do you think he wanted to keep those top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago," host s Steele asked.

"He's gonna use it as a get out of jail free card," Cohen immediately shot back. "It's a way to extort America turn around to say if you put me in jail, if you go after me -- he'll even say his children -- I will have my loyal supporters who you do not know who has copies of information that may have been, and again this is my conjecture, that i would take those documents, I will release them to Iran, to China, to North Korea, to Russia.

"You want to take me down, I'll take the whole country down," he added.

"Remember, and I've said this with you 1000 times, Mike, Donald Trump doesn't care about this country," he continued. "He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself."
 
fishonjazz said:

"Based on everything you know about him, why do you think he wanted to keep those top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago," host s Steele asked.

"He's gonna use it as a get out of jail free card," Cohen immediately shot back. "It's a way to extort America turn around to say if you put me in jail, if you go after me -- he'll even say his children -- I will have my loyal supporters who you do not know who has copies of information that may have been, and again this is my conjecture, that i would take those documents, I will release them to Iran, to China, to North Korea, to Russia.

"You want to take me down, I'll take the whole country down," he added.

"Remember, and I've said this with you 1000 times, Mike, Donald Trump doesn't care about this country," he continued. "He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself."
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Michael Cohen is right. And sadly Donald’s supporters still wouldn’t give a damn. They’d cheer if he gave nuclear secrets to Putin.
 
The Thriller said:
Watching the Trump apologists make excuses and excuses for him in this thread over the last two weeks has been just *Chef’s kiss*

The goalposts move almost on an hourly basis. Just hilarious!

I mean, we all know that they wouldn’t care if he ate a baby on live tv. But the way they pretend objectivity gives this such a delicious taste.
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I love babies but I don't think I could eat a whole one.
 
Trump is very concerned that the FBI has some of his documents that they are not entitled to...

Meanwhile he continues to make an assortment of unrelated and/or completely contradictory excuses as to why he had a large stash of our nation's documents that he was not entitled to. Documents that don't just violate the American peoples' privacy, but that potentially endanger every single one of us.

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Trump's legal team asks for 'special master' to go through Mar-a-Lago evidence and determine if some should be returned

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.
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Gameface said:
Trump is very concerned that the FBI has some of his documents that they are not entitled to...

Meanwhile he continues to make an assortment of unrelated and/or completely contradictory excuses as to why he had a large stash of our nation's documents that he was not entitled to. Documents that don't just violate the American peoples' privacy, but that potentially endanger every single one of us.

www.cnn.com

Trump's legal team asks for 'special master' to go through Mar-a-Lago evidence and determine if some should be returned

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.
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I understand that “special master” request was quite the laughable screed….

www.independent.co.uk

300 classified documents have been seized from Mar-a-lago, report claims

The former president reportedly went through the documents himself.
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Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows

In the letter, posted on a Trump-aligned journalist's website, the National Archives pushed back on Trump's privilege claims.
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Red said:
Somewhat unhinged capo in the Trump crime family…..


View: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1561799477081645058
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One of the saddest and strangest consequences of the leftward dash of progressives who now cry that everything constitutes violence that hurts them while demanding trigger warnings is that the left no longer understand humor. I know I've brought this up before but it is still sad and strange. Don Jr was telling a joke. I have to change my password at work every 30 days and verify my identity with a fob number code that changes every few seconds. It is weird to explain jokes, but Don Jr was using the ridiculousness of it being launch codes Trump could have used at any moment to fire off nuclear missiles for humor because it is ridiculous.

Never mind. Go watch Hannah Gadsby's stunning and brave and stunning comedy show Nanette again. It is stunning and brave.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
Don Jr was telling a joke
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Like I didn’t know that! You silly guy….

I wasn’t really kidding about the capo part, though. Trump is the head of a crime family. Although, don’t want to sell Jr. short. I imagine he could be the underboss, and not just a capo…..
 
Gameface said:
This guy is telling jokes also...

There's a difference between telling jokes and being humorous.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUoydjPyZOQ
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Wow the closed captioning for that is just a tiny bit better than random words. I can't really listen to it at work so I was trying to read it. Didn't quite work out.

"hey right bring your little kids he used to do bad things remember your tanks used right my momma they like I'm gonna get the belt right"

Wow.


That said, different people find different things funny, it's true. But most often, like in comedy clubs, people laugh to be part of the joke. Nothing worse than not being "in" on the joke, so it is a form of group-think or something. We laugh to fit in socially, not always because something is actually funny. And sometimes we laugh at things that we otherwise wouldn't, to be part of the social group.

And sometimes offensive things are funny, simply due to shock value, at least to some people. I love Anthony Jeselnik but my wife straight up hates him, even though I think his brand of shock humor is more absurdist than socially deviant or anything. I just find him funny.

I kind of agree we are at an age where we are hyper-critical of everything, including or maybe even especially humor. I don't think Donald Jr.'s comments were particularly funny, but that's me. Obviously enough people did find it funny that he has a following of sorts, I guess. But I am one of those who feel that constant censorship is a bad thing. Sometimes we hear offensive things when we espouse freedom of speech. It is part and parcel with the highest right we have as a people in the US. But I think far too often people who don't want to hear anything offensive, make a real effort to squash anyone with differing ideas and opinions, including on what is humorous, and I think that is wrong, in general. We can argue specifics of what is said and what group is offended all day long, but by and large I am not in favor of censorship, or "cancel culture" or whatever we want to label it. If I do not like what a comedian says, I just avoid them. I vote with my dollars and I do not buy their tickets or albums or watch their youtube videos. But I do not feel the need to destroy their career so I am protected from hearing something offensive. But that's just me.


Guess I kind of deviated from the topic, apologies. This has been a point of discussion in some of my friends and co-workers and this seemed as good a place as any to get it out. I get this same subject brought up on both sides of the political spectrum, that we cannot allow people to say offensive things, offensive for liberals and conservatives means different things, but I have friends/colleagues on both ends of the spectrum an on this they seem to agree: let's stop anyone from saying anything offensive. It is kind of weird actually.
 
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Wow the closed captioning for that is just a tiny bit better than random words. I can't really listen to it at work so I was trying to read it. Didn't quite work out.

"hey right bring your little kids he used to do bad things remember your tanks used right my momma they like I'm gonna get the belt right"

Wow.
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Too bad the CC is so bad. His comedy is just a bit better than random words too, so you're not missing too much.
 

When Hayes asked Swalwell, “What do you make of that number?” the California Democrat responded, “That’s a lot. Just for your viewers’ sake, the reason that they’re marked ‘top secret’ means that it often relates to force protection for our troops. So, information about where our troops are that we would not want anyone to know because it could put them in harm’s way. It could relate to our nuclear posture or the nuclear posture of our adversaries. It could relate to the technical means that we use to collect information to protect our troops and to protect Americans, or the work that we’re doing to combat terrorism.”

Swalwell, continued, “And so, 300 pages — you know, just a basement stairway away in an open beach house is not where you would want that information
 
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‘Incredibly Damning’: Ex-FBI General Counsel Declares Mar-a-Lago Classified Docs Reveal a ‘Substantial Criminal Case’ Against Trump

Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman explained in great detail why Monday was a momentous news day for the allegedly purloined classified documents retrieved from former President Donald Trump from his Mar-a-Lago home two weeks ago. In a Tuesday morning appearance on Morning Joe, the...
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Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows

In the letter, posted on a Trump-aligned journalist's website, the National Archives pushed back on Trump's privilege claims.
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U.S. officials in the national security community expressed shock and concern at the former president’s cavalier treatment of classified material. One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, said they were astonished at the “recklessness” of the move.

It’s an “affront” to “those people who’ve spent their lives protecting and enforcing a rules-based order only to have someone come along and use his special access to unlawfully collect and retain highly classified documents,” the person said.

It can take up to a decade to declassify certain information, said one former defense official who still holds a security clearance, so the fact that Trump took hundreds of pages of classified material is “one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.”

“There’s no gray area here. I’m just appalled,” the person said…..

……It was reported earlier this month that some of the documents in Trump’s possession related to nuclear weapons and “special access program” materials, as Wall’s letter reveals. But at the time, Trump’s GOP allies held their fire until they could hear directly from NARA.

At least one Republican lawmaker noted that this specific scenario would be problematic.

“I mean, if he had actual special access programs — do you know how extraordinarily sensitive that is? That’s very, very sensitive. If that were actually at his residence, that would be a problem,” said Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
 
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