A Dangerous Time, But We Can Recover
COLUMN by Gloria Christie. THE NEWSLETTER FOR INTELLIGENT WOMEN & MEN.
Hi there! So nice to see you! Okay, not see you well. But I find if I make the letters humongous and go really slowly I can do this. Please forgive my typos. I was listening to Tom Nichols The Atlantic contributor on MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports show when this came up regarding Trump. And this is what I took from it.
It’s a dangerous time. At least one man attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati and began a firestorm. He is still surrounded at this time. That violence against the FBI likely tipped the hyper-cautious Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland into making a comment. He is a very traditional judge and is respectful of the office of the president, even when Trump held it.
In the original Civil War in the mid-1800s, one side knew exactly what it wanted. To leave the USA. The attitude of the angry ones now is to go against everyone who isn’t them. They live in an alternate reality. So it’s a matter of anger hormones, stories, and fantasies. But there is no shared fundamental reality. Instead, there is layer after layer of madness by people such as Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson and yes, Donald Trump.
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And those individuals don’t believe in anything except manipulation for profit. Republicans in Congress are not saying anything. They are terrified. They fear and hate their own constituents. And they will do whatever it takes to stay in Washington, D.C., retaining power and money. And that amplifies the craziness. ‘Out of that came a false attack on the FBI, a lie that said it “planted information.” This creates a deadly synergy.’
AG Garland just filed a subpoena to unseal the information leading to the Mar-a-Largo search and seizures. It contains:
An affidavit for the probable cause of a crime,
A subpoena,
And an inventory or list of items seized.
Stay safe, stay well, you & yours,
Gloria
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A Dangerous Time, But We Can Recover
It appears that the ex-president requested an aide haul up one of the ultra-secret boxes and laid some chaos onto the situation, so that the box just went away — somewhere. As it turned out, of course, the boxes went to a very secret room at Mar-a-Lago, the room where they keep the broken pool umbrellas and old golf clubs.
After the National Archives first removed 15 boxes, the keepers of all that is presidential soon realized some things were missing. For example, the map where Trump changed the hurricane weather map, which was dubbed “Sharpie-gate.” Naturally, the former president tried to hide the evidence by stuffing some “personal items like golf balls and a raincoat” on top of it, according to The New York Times.
The National Archives people take their responsibility for preserving “government documents” very seriously. As they should. They tried to negotiate with the great avoider to no avail.
Trump wanted those North Korean President Kim Jung-Un love letters. But he also wanted some boxes containing “sensitive national security information, including some marked classified.” So classified, they could not even be listed.
Who Was It Donald?
'“Who was it, Donald?”' The Lincoln Project whispered. Was it Jarod? Ivanka? Melania? Erick or Don Jr.? Maybe it was Mark Meadows? Another staff member? Was it someone he trusted? Or was there no one he could trust? “There never was.”’
'Actually, it was me, Gloria Christie'
The Department of Justice led by Attorney General Merrick Garland soon discovered that Trump lied. Image that. But the former president greatly misjudged the AG’s still waters. AG Garland sent his people to Mar-a-Lago with his search warrant approved by a federal judge.
The feds checked out the storage room in the basement, Trump’s office, and his home plus a storage unit.
‘The agents were looking for “presidential records or any possibly classified material.”’
Not even the Oval Office was aware of the search warrant. The FBI was not talking nor was AG Garland. The agents showed up without the traditional FBI blue jackets we see televised in other searches. Trump was out of town.
Coincidence? I think not.
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