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.
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