Trump Demands DOJ Return All His Documents

[gab13by13]

On Friday, Trump made a post on his Truth Social platform calling the "taking of documents" by FBI agents "ILLEGAL."

"Under the Presidential Records Act and the very well established Clinton Socks Case, the raid of Mar-a-Lago by the FBI, and the taking of documents and many other items, was ILLEGAL," Trump said. "Everything should be returned, at once!"

I think this doubling down was a yuuge mistake. A district judge is deciding whether to hold Trump in contempt. This should make his decision easier, and the fine larger.

[Emile]

1. This BS has gone on too long, arrest the SOB!

[Biophilic]

2. But bluster is all the orange toad has left.

[Freethinker65]

3. At once, or in two weeks, or by Easter, or when in gets warm out...

[wryter2000]

4. We'll get right on that

Right after we suspend the Constitution.

[fightforfreedom]

5. Keep on talking Traitor Trump.

Keep on digging your own grave.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Fewer MAGATs every day to eat up the lies.

See how many visit you in prison, Dimdonnie.

[chriscan64]

7. Sorry, we can't do that now.

It's Infrastructure Week.

[MyOwnPeace]

45. I see what you did there!

Good one!!!

[RobinA]

8. It May Be A Mistake

but it has always worked for him, so he's going to do it every time.

[Tetrachloride]

9. All talk. He doesn't want to testify.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Is this a real quote or are you just sarcasm-ing?

[gab13by13]

15. Real quote, I will go get the link.

I don't usually do Newsweek;

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-demands-items-be-returned-at-once-after-more-documents-discovered/ar-AA155Om1

[Wounded Bear]

16. OK, thanks...nt

[Ocelot II]

11. I thought this was a headline from The Onion.

Satire is dead; TFG killed it.

[Marcuse]

12. Come and get them.

[PCIntern]

13. Clinton's cat:Socks?

Am I missing something?

[malthaussen]

23. Yeah. It's not about the cat.

Nor is it a "well-established case."

Mr Clinton at one point stored some taped records of an interview he had with somebody-or-other in his sock drawer. The RW got wind of the existence of the tapes and "demanded" their release, and it was ruled they were private documents. In Mr Trump's mind, thus, the records he stole and Mr Clinton's private tapes are equatable.

-- Mal

[Rebl2]

36. That's what I thought

[70sEraVet]

14. So I take it, he is no longer claiming that staffers packed the documents without his knowledge?

Now he's just going for the classic 'Mine, Mine, Mine!' defense.

[gab13by13]

18. Yup, full out fascist.

[patricia92243]

17. They could return what was "his." Medical records, etc. The remainder belong to the USA

[NowISeetheLight]

19. So He Admits He Took Them

Good... read him his rights and LOCK HIM UP.

[Emile]

22. That's what he does. As long as he continues to get away with

breaking laws he will continue too.

[Eyeball_Kid]

20. Trumpy-Boy figures that he has to carry on with his big lie for his worshippers.

This has nothing to do with common sense or logic or reasoning. It's all got to do with Trumpy-Boy trying his best to keep his worshippers believing his lies. Posture that the government documents are his because he's the supreme authority and future dictator who can demand anything and get it. His authoritarian lemmings will march behind him.

[GreenWave]

21. Sure! Just report to the last known "residence" of Mr. Epstein.

[peppertree]

24. It should be the OTHER WAY AROUND, I'd say

But then, so much in Republican brain farts are.

[kentuck]

25. And then, they should drive him down to Dairy Queen...

...and get him two scoops of his favorite ice cream.

[onenote]

26. The 11th Circuit disagreed and Trump didn't appeal

[kentuck]

28. He is rationing his trips to the Supreme Court...

He doesn't want to be like the little boy that cried "Wolf!" too many times...

[Aviation Pro]

27. Hey, Bloated Tick, c'mere

Go fuck yourself.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Traitor Tot said WUT?

[Takket]

30. anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law

kind of hard to claim you've been wronged when you lost a case and didn't even appeal the 11th circuit ruling.

isn't it kind of standard policy for any decent lawyer to tell a client to, and pardon my french, shut the fuck up? you would think he'd be advised to keep quiet.

[gab13by13]

32. Is the RNC still paying his lawyers?

I thought the RNC would stop paying once Trump announced he is running?

[llmart]

35. I doubt there's anyone on this green earth that could shut him up.

They know that he'll never take their advice from past experience with the bevy of lawyers he's already gone through.

[randr]

31. Maybe a campaign to mail him all of our junk mail

would soothe his ego. Boxes and boxes of stuff for him to horde arriving daily from all over the place.

[Captain Zero]

44. fill out web forms for him to get mail?

Help him out?

[tinrobot]

33. So he openly admits the documents were in his possesion. Does he even listen to his lawyers?

This is going to make for a quick trial.

[barbtries]

34. it's funny in a way.

he's like the black knight

like WTF is he talking about? he appears to truly believe that the law does not apply to him, and he's not going to learn that it does too except by the hardest way. which is just fine by me. lock him up

[Cheviteau]

37. They're Mine (and Putin's), Says Trump.

Trump: I have an agreement to sell that secret stuff. I've already collected half of the payment, and if I don't deliver, my sorry ass is grass. Just look what's happening to Putin's henchmen lately. Please, oh please, return Putin's stuff to me. Wait!! I demand the return.

[bigtree]

38. blah, blah, blah

...why do people still repeat his propaganda like it's some revelation?

Literally word for word. Who cares what he says on his propaganda site? Even these posts full of concern 'catapult the propaganda,' as Bush succinctly put it. It's baked into the design of these types of posts, intended to generate enough outrage to elevate their nonsense to the point of broader discussion beyond their followers.

[twodogsbarking]

39. Trump is drowning throw him an anchor.

[Orrex]

40. He should fuck himself so hard that his prostate turns to diamond

[Mr. Ected]

41. Trump's self-determination of guilt and innocence, of legal and illegal, is sufficient to disinform

his supporters.

Time for the DOJ to formally prove to the flock that Trump is neither a lawyer nor an innocent man.

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. There's a reason why he never backs down, never says sorry, never admits guilt

There seems to be a glitch in the human brain that is susceptible to the "big lie", as first introduced in Nazi Germany.

At least in the least educated and cognitively developed. If they never actually hear the person they have invested years of their lives in, never say he was in the wrong. And that its all Other's fault and they are all lying about him, somehow these people's minds can be convinced that he is right about everything.

I really think that going forward in America, the most important issue is not Trump, or the SCOTUS or Sinema, or any number of problems, its how to deprogram a huge sector but more importantly, stop disinformation. Unfortunately Musk has just exacerbated it.

Like children testing their parents limitations, Fox News as only one example, has become a purveyor of misinformation disguised as "news". Pushing more and more radical bizarre conspiracies to their "open minded" audiences. Alternative facts have become the norm. You have your facts, and I have mine. This is what will tear apart the country.

[Botany]

43. And I want to go back in time and stop Brian Sipe from "the Red Right 88" play for the Browns

[Wonder Why]

46. The DOJ should hand him an arrest warrant instead then take him in handcuffs. Ever see an exploding

orange?

[Stuart G]

47. K and R...Thanks for posting.

[msfiddlestix]

48. The well established Clinton Socks Case?? WTF is he blathering about?

dude is pathetic psycho job.

what the eff else is new?

[NotASurfer]

49. I officially can't tell that the quote is not from The Onion

If it had something about cats keeping documents after "Clinton Socks Case" it would absolutely have been The Onion, but a short excerpt might not have gotten to it

[Kablooie]

50. Posting statements have little effect on legal decisions

He is probably free to have whatever opinion he wants as long as his lawyers don’t express them in court.

[MontanaMama]

51. I seriously thought this was The Onion.

Absolutely bonkers.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

52. They aren't YOUR documents dumbass

They belong to the American people.

He's quite the narcissist.

[Hekate]

53. "The very well established Clinton Socks Case" really makes me think of their pet cat...

What did poor Socks do? Kick sand out of his litter box? (yeah, I know this is something else, but really)

Donald: please go the hell away.

[KS Toronado]

54. Give the toddler back his crayons and coloring books

[sinkingfeeling]

55. I have rocks along my driveway smarter than TFG.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. This is NOT going to happen

[D23MIURG23]

57. He still thinks he can bully the federal government.

It didnt work on Jan. 6 and it wont work this time. His refusal to drop the fucking Mussolini act is going to get him locked up faster than if he'd just shut his fucking face.

[Emile]

58. He must have more buyers of our top secret documents!

[librechik]

59. We'll give them back as soon as he learns to read them.

not holding my breath.