• @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      True, but these are not the words of innocent men.

      Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is “unprofessional” to ask if the binder was sold to Russia. “What proof do you have?” he asked.

      • MxM111
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        15 months ago

        I don’t think a spokesman would know one way or another.

      • Matt
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        -145 months ago

        It’s depressing that question is also applicable to the Biden impeachment hearings.

        • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s applicable, but it’s also not being used because Biden didn’t do anything. You don’t say it’s unprofessional to ask the question and then ask what proof do you have, especially as a spokesperson. It’s ‘how to be ridiculous and look like you did it 101’.

    • @circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, I don’t believe it, but only because he’s too incompetent to have kept that kind of high treason a secret.

      I absolutely would believe that he kept it with his poop magazines and it was stolen, or copied, by the Carpet King of Tampa, or a foreign intelligence asset. Either one is just as likely.

  • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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    May have? This guy would sell his own daughter if he could. And I’m not eve talking about the one whose name he doesn’t know, I’m talking about the one he wants to fuck.

  • @IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
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    When Trump hosted the KGB diplomats in the White House, when he confiscated his translators notes after his meeting with Putin, after he betrayed the Kurds, the media would ask, “Why did Trump do this?”

    There were always a range of possible reasons, but only one that explained them all with perfect sense. I suggest everyone read American Kompromat by Craig Unger. There is a trail of circumstantial evidence Trump has been a Russian asset since at least 1986.

    • @Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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      The P in P-tape is pedophilia

      He is known to have raped underage girls and pootin has the goods, just as likely through Epstein

      • MxM111
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        75 months ago

        At this point, do you really think it will damage him?

        • @yOya@lemm.ee
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          55 months ago

          If the description I’ve heard is correct (that he asked two prostitutes to pee on the bed because Obama slept in it once) there is probably going to be a lot of racism, the peeing itself which is gross, and let’s face it the prostitutes were probably underage. I could see that hurting him, give the right is so obsessed with Epstein and grooming, but they’ve already waved every terrible thing he has done away so you’re probably right. The right wouldn’t care.

          • chingadera
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            Rules for thee, not gonna make a fucking dent in how is followers perceive him.

  • @Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    Business is business, isn’t that what he says? Business as usual for a bloke who keeps top secret documents in his spare bathroom.

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Oh so she just learned that he may have sold a binder? She wasn’t just holding onto this little pearl in order to sell another book was she? Any of Trump’s circle, even his ostensibly “nice” niece Mary, is just an opportunist looking to cash in on the chaos.

    • YeetPics
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      Oh thank goodness there is no merit to this headline. Oh wait, it is still a plausible situation no matter where you read the headline. Nevermind.

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          Is the headline false? I think Mary trump said those words. I’d love to hear why you think they faked this quote.

          • @mob@lemmy.world
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            I mean, you can read the article. I don’t see that quote anywhere.

            But you also kind of implied “it’s fine if it’s not true since it’s plausible” that’s more what I was commenting on

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              "One of those possibilities was that the documents inside the binder “were sold or given to Russia,” according to her blog post. "

              -the article I didn’t read, quoting Mary trump’s blog

              So she at least typed this distinct, concise thought. I said it was plausible because they had found a BOATLOAD of classified docs in trump’s possession after he was out of office. Considering this binder the quote is about has not been recovered in any of the raids they performed and with the truth about trump’s financial situation coming to light I can picture a means, motive and opportunity. So sure, ‘plausible’ is the best term I can think of until more solid evidence is presented.

              • @mob@lemmy.world
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                Ha shit, one of those ads must have popped up and made me jump that paragraph or something. I really did read it and didn’t see that the first time through

  • PugJesus
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    It’s obvious that Trump sold out US intelligence assets across the world, leading to major setbacks in our intel community and the deaths of multiple people, so if this is true… will it make any difference? At all? Trump could come out and declare himself a vassal of the New Russian Empire and his followers would still lick his boots, and ‘moderates’ would say “Well, what about the DEMONRATS”

  • gen/Eric
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    May have? It would be more surprising news if he didn’t.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    15 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The binder in question contained raw intelligence that the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies collected on Russia’s alleged election interference in 2016, when Trump beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for the presidency, among other documents, according to Reuters who spoke with a source familiar with the matter.

    “Let me put it this way, if the government ever had evidence Donald Trump purposely handed classified info to a hostile power, he would never see the light of day again,” she wrote, who also added that the documents could have also been destroyed, lost, or kept by someone.

    Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is “unprofessional” to ask if the binder was sold to Russia.

    Trump wanted to declassify materials in the binder related to the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s alleged election interference, according to the source.

    A federal court document filed in August by journalist John Solomon, who Trump appointed to be a representative authorized to access his presidential records in the National Archives, gives some insight into who had their hands on the missing binder.

    On January 19, 2021, just one day before Trump left office, Meadows invited Solomon to the White House to review declassified pages and discuss its public release, according to the court document.


    The original article contains 747 words, the summary contains 219 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • @Godric@lemmy.world
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    Oh geeze, Trump might have done X very bad thing, claims family member with a grudge with 0 actual information. In my personal news, I might sacrifice goats to worship Satan, so claims my religious aunt who recently discovered I’m not religious.

    This is trashy clickbait, Der Orangenführer is an un-American traitor and his crimes need no embellishment.

    • @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Agreed. I despise Trump but we can hold ourselves to a higher standard than getting whipped into a frenzy when someone with a personal vendetta writes a blog post with no new information.