The Trump Espionage Scandal Grows Worse



As we learn today that dozens of secret cover sheets were discovered in Trump's hoard, unattached to their former contents.  As usual, the best treatment of what we know can be found at Marcy Wheeler's blog, which has become virtually essential reading for anyone trying to filter their way through Trump's endless legal scandals. 


"RETURN TO SENDER: DOJ SEIZED EVIDENCE THAT UP TO 90 HIGHLY SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS MAY HAVE DISAPPEARED" 


As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell from the cover sheets exactly what was in these folders, so we may never know exactly what information Trump treasonously stole, and we may never be able to discover what he did with it.  


I have referred to this problem before.  How do we know how much more vital security information he took with him, and exactly what he did with it?  We know this is a totally lawless man, who would do anything for profit, for revenge, and just for petty spite.  He has a Presidential record of selling out our country's interests to foreign dictators.  How can we possibly believe that he has not done the same thing here?


As a secondary issue, I would like you to consider the issue of reasonable doubt in prosecuting Trump.  There are legal protections against unjust conviction for ordinary defendants, but no ordinary defendant has ever had this opportunity to destroy efforts to pursue the truth, to destroy evidence, to corrupt the people charged with enforcing the law.  And we know that, for his entire adult life, he has done exactly that at every turn, including his criminalizing the upper reaches of the Justice Department and the national security apparatus. It is not a fair trial when he has been allowed to rig the proceedings year after year.  How do we deal with this?  At this point, I have no idea how to see that the obvious truth becomes the basis for his treatment, rather than the perverted process that he has been able to create.

Comments

Grung_e_Gene said…
As a Marine Intelligence analyst finding classified documents and cover sheets in my possession would have resulted in a "Big Chicken Dinner" and prison time. While I think Traitor Trump was waving these documents around his replica Resolute Desk in Merde-A-Lardo to impress people I grant that pustule no leeway and conclude he was selling them straight out of their classification folders.
September 2, 2022 at 8:19 PM
Green Eagle said…
The guy is a traitor who has already committed many acts of known espionage, and I think it is only reasonable to believe that what he has done with the material he has stolen is far worse than what is now known. He needs to be placed in solitary confinement for the rest of his life, forbidden contact with anyone but his lawyers. This is necessary to protect this country from the greatest internal threat to our security that we have ever known- yes, likely far greater than the Civil War was, because it does present the real possibility that our country could be destroyed forever, or turned into a fascist dictatorship which, possessing thousands of nuclear weapons, would be a vehicle for worse than Adolf Hitler himself ever accomplished.
September 4, 2022 at 1:10 PM
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