I don't think, at this point, any more damage can be done to Trump that what has already been done or said, or what the man has done to himself. The people who support him right now, at this very minute, will do so no matter what else happens. The people that do not, will never.
Which reminds me of the other dimension that Cheney brings to this scenario. She is co-chair of the January 6 Scamittee and is about to make referrals to the Justice Department to prosecute Trump. So there is another avenue she is pursuing to earn her Abraham Lincoln merit badge. Indeed, one can argue that they have damaged Trump as much as they can, but it is also true that they are raiding his home with scams and trying to put him in jail. So he may not be damaged more but it is a full time effort to keep the witch-hunters from achieving more. These loons are dangerous.
I think H.W. Bush self-immolated when he broke his tax pledge of "read my lips no new taxes". He was pretty much toast at that point. People were also not happy that he pre-maturely stopped the Iraq invasion because of some tough optics on the "road of death". That left a mess that had to be cleaned up later. I kind of liked Perot though. He had the sand to say exactly what was on his mind.
If I had a pile of top secret documents stacked up in my house they would lock me up for decades. The law should equally apply to all -- and Trump should face indictment and conviction (when proven) for his crimes. This is not a "witch hunt" -- it is a very clear matter of national security law.
gwb, you, yes. President Obama, no he has a trove of documents that make trumpy's look like the sunday comics section. So go round up Trumpy, Barry Soetoro Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton and deliver the whole damn lot over to the crossbar hotel. No fucking loss. Grow the hell up gwb. Ever hear of presidential libray? What you think they put in there? You think Obama did not abuse that priv? He said he'd post his Online! How many pages 5 years later? Guess ZERO? Good Boy. Now you're catching on. Please Fight the urge to be an authoritarian apologist lying democrat hypocrat, or move back to America's refrigerator with Trudy the Nazi tyrant and be happy with the rest of your family. It's just the Inherited Control Freak Trait coming out in you. Obvious a mile away. Relax have a homebrew, or get laid, or whatever you control freaks do to unwind. Please, lol. Face it. Ya got nothin way too often for adult conversation. Go try to lord that crap off on some grade schoolers, lol They'll tell you to fuck off too prolly, lol.
Oh yeh. Perot was a complete home entertainment system. He got on Clinton's arse for being from Arkansas and his "economic development" programs.ie chicken processing. So he would put up that slide with a picture of a chicken on it and say that you should elect Clinton if you wanted a chicken-based economy. Good stuff that.
Sure, because you are not President and cannot declassify them. C'mon. You have the script from the DNC that tells you what you are supposed to say to that. Go for it.
How's that sucking sound workin out for you frog? Perot got "the talK" and ended up doing no more than pissing on the wheels of progress, just like he was intended to do. Up your game frog. Do you know some shit or not?
Actually as outlined in my previous posts -- there is a clearly defined declassification process for documents that the President needs to follow. He can not magically wave his hand over a document and declare it declassified.
Not necessarily. Much litigation required to look at the facts and law of such occurrences. Classification and declassification processes and procedures are for the purpose of giving proper and orderly notice to the executive branch employees and/or to the public so that it is properly communicated and so that the underlings may know how to treat it and what classification status they can rely upon. That does not apply to the president. He can declassify immediately it for his own usage per his ultimate authority under the Constitution even though it may take much longer for the bureaucracy to go through every thing and reclassify it for the public or the bureaucracy. Similarly he may declassify and - as we seen under Wray and Garland they may refuse or foot drag to carry out the declassification of certain material that Trump declassified because they figure he is gone and they do not need to release material that makes the FBI and the DOJ look bad. That does not mean it was not under order to be declassified or that Trump was not entitled to treat it as such for himself. Garland - after his Mar-A-Lago- needs to try the case now. Go for it. I don't know, and neither do you, exactly what documents he had and how they related to his alleged declassification. But there is no turning back if Garland knows what's good for him. He can't just say, "well we got some boxes back" so we are done. Nope. Let's see the indictments and get on with it. The legal issues will be fully addressed in that process. If Garland backs down, well, can you spell "witch-hunt" boys and girls?