Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Actually you're wrong, not a chance that the 74 million who voted for him last time will vote for him this time. If he runs he gets 50 million tops.

Several points:

The FBI didn't hand any election victory to Trump - more likely to the GOP - over the longer term way past the term of the 46th and maybe the 47th.

Federal Jail-time and Trump won't sit well together. Ref my mention of a pardon for Trump, that will be needed if Garland sticks to his guns, targets Trump by way of criminal proceedings and gets him on the stand. There've been a few more deaths on the street amongst his followers, which won't sit well with law and order fans. The GOP will quietly go about ensuring the blame falls on him to save the party's ass from further damage by him, even if the Dems keep the house and the presidency.

Trump rolled out his dead-in-the-water "Executive Privilege" claim over the documents, alongside another claim that he had some of his personal Lawyer/Client privileged documents in with the Govt documents the FBI took away, all in a vain attempt to get the whole lot back and keep the contents secret. As I understand it, one thing US law makes clear about declassified documents and that is that anyone who has them can publish the contents to the world without fear of legal consequences, letting the world know what Trump had secretly stored away in his home.

I've been wondering whom the FBI informant is in Trump's Mar-A-Lago home, whether it's one person or two and whether they are more committed to the rule of law than Trump is, for professional reasons. I was surprised to hear one of Trump's lawyers penned a letter to the Archives people saying there were no more documents in Trumps home, only for a knowledgeable person to contact the FBI, tell it about the extra stored-away documents, contradicting Trump's lawyer.

Covid-19 was and is an equal-opportunity disease, not something which expressly targetted GOP voters alone, leaving Dem voters untouched on the voting queues. As for mail-in ballots, they are important to both parties as they have voters working and serving abroad.

Trump has done nothing to motivate swing voters to vote for him, if anything he's alienated some, so to say he'll get the same amount of votes as he did in 2020 is aspirational at best

I found that the US National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] is the agency responsible for the administration of all records of the US Govt and this includes all the US Presidential Libraries, including the Trump Presidential Library. As it's the agency which has been at the front, though very quietly, of the issue Private Citizen Trump has with his desire to retain possession of US Govt records at his private home instead of letting NARA do its job, its worth keyboarding on the net about NARA. If the Admins OK it, I'd like to post links to NARA and the Trump library it administers. The link also has a direct contact with The Trump library, incl details on how to contact him. https://www.trumplibrary.gov/about-us/about-national-archives-and-presidential-libraries.

I actually think his best chance is pleading ignorance. Just keep repeating we gave back everything and throw some poor member of staff under the bus. I’m not even sure that would help him as it’s probably still his responsibility, but it sounds more reasonable then “I declassified these without mentioning it to anyone”, or “I’m allowed to take whatever I want”.

However, that may land him even even hotter water, depending on what fingerprints are on them.