Any distinction between the former president’s White House bid and his criminal defense is vanishing as the charges against him mount.

https://archive.ph/vdWTG

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    I mean, there are so many it’s hard to begin. The one regarding his handling of secret materials is something every single high ranking official has done. To put it this way, if other politicians were treated with the same standards as Trump everyone would be under investigations and prosecuted.

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      Other politicians return those materials when asked rather than try to hide them and lie about what they have.

      Trump was given ample opportunity to return the materials without facing charges.

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      Can you show the class where another “high ranking official” kept top secret documents after the government asked for their return? Is the bathroom a valid storage place? Try to answer without consulting fox news.

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      Read the indictment. It says he specifically went behind his own lawyers’ backs to remove the classified documents from where they were stored and moved them to his personal residence after they had already been subpoenaed. …and then basically lied to his own lawyers. The prosecution is going to make the case that this was obstruction of justice.

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      The secret materials that he refused to give back, even when raided by the FBI? When everyone else who found secret materials fully cooperated with the national archives?

      Trump lied to the archives, lied to his own lawyer, and showed top secret materials to Kid fucking Rock as a way to brag.

      Then there’s the coup attempts.

      The multiple coup attempts.

      And the insurrection when those coup attempts failed.

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      The documents aren’t the big problem, it’s that he hid them after repeated attempts. That’s obstruction. He’s also on tape showing a document to an unauthorized person.