Trump demands return of seized documents - by order of social media

[Jilly_in_VA]

Donald Trump has demanded the return of some documents seized by the US justice department in an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida last week – apparently under the impression that posts on his Truth Social platform carry legal weight.

In a post on Sunday, the former president wrote: “By copy of this Truth, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!”

It is generally held that social media posts are not legal documents.

According to an actual legal document, a search warrant unsealed on Friday, records concerning top secret national security matters were among those seized by the FBI. It has been reported that some such documents concerned nuclear weapons.

Trump has called the nuclear weapons report a “hoax” and claimed to have had authority to declassify top secret records while in office. No evidence has been produced that he did declassify the records in question.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/15/trump-demands-return-documents-fbi-truth-social

I'm dying here.....

[MiniMe]

1. No way tRump wrote that

He would never say Thank you!

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

2. Not only that, but he would never be so grammatically-correct

as to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition -- " . . . from which they were taken."

[Turbineguy]

3. Garland should arrest Trump

and then offer him immunity to testify against all those who helped him.

[Mr. Ected]

12. In a way, this would be the dream scenario

Strip Trump of any benefits afforded him as an ex-president and disallow him from ever holding office again. In return, have him turn states' evidence against the entire ring of co-conspirators, every fucking last one of them, which provide as great a threat to our republic collectively as he does.

[JuJuChen]

4. " I hereby decree!"

lol stfu Trump, you're going down hard

[sop]

5. By order of Democratic Underground...we respectfully request Trump be imprisoned.

There, how's that?

[Jilly_in_VA]

23. Good one!

[ecstatic]

6. lol. An official request through an attorney would cost money and we all know he doesn't pay

his bills.

[Wonder Why]

9. But didn't his lawyer pay off his Jills?

[SheilaAnn]

7. His passports would greatly upset him if they were taken,one can hope..LOL. n/t

[Skittles]

8. IS THERE NO END TO THIS FUCKING NIGHTMARE

WHY IS THAT PIECE OF SHIT ALLOWED TO EMBARRASS AMERICA EVERY FUCKING DAY

[ZonkerHarris]

10. By copy of this Truth!

[D_Master81]

11. But but but

He and his minions repeatedly said all last week that the FBI could’ve just asked and he would’ve happily worked with them to get them back.

[demtenjeep]

13. hey dotard

by "order of social media" I order you to FOAD

[EarnestPutz]

14. It's the "respectfully" that cracks me up. He's never been respectful of......

.....anything in his entire life.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. He thinks he is God Emperor.

He's completely, barking insane.

[BlueIdaho]

16. The king of Dumbfuckistan has spoken

TFG is unraveling before our eyes.

[Brainfodder]

17. I demand he be arrested and fed to hungry gators; let's see how this wishing fer stuff works?

Let's Go Gators!

[LeftInTX]

18. He is entitled to items that were not relevant to the investigation

The warrant is a dragnet and it includes items that may or may not be relevant. It says that in the warrant. All boxes are seized. Boxes near boxes are also seized. Personal items are returned, but complaining on SM will not speed up the process.

[BWdem4life]

19. Yer killin' me, small fingers

[Patterson]

20. He didn't say "hereby." Everyone knows you have to say "hereby" for it to be official.

[Corgigal]

21. He is the smartest man

he knows, cause some uncle attended MIT. I’m sure he has a legal degree hanging around somewhere. Only the be best brains, and all that.

[Coventina]

22. For a guy whose spent his life in the courts, he sure is stupid.

Even a dullard would know a tantrum will do nothing.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. By authority vested in me by AARP membership, I hereby order TFG to shut the hell up.

KY........ ......