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Breaking nows from ABC--another Trump felony: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Sep 2023 OP
Trump will claim since this was leaked it is inadmissible. Freethinker65 Sep 2023 #1
Lol.. Bluethroughu Sep 2023 #5
yeah he'll try saying that, and fail. Takket Sep 2023 #21
or DENVERPOPS Sep 2023 #31
Did somebody flip ? Beachnutt Sep 2023 #2
It sounds like it from the wording but Cha Sep 2023 #6
See edited OP. Kingofalldems Sep 2023 #16
TY! From your link... Cha Sep 2023 #20
MSM MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2023 #3
PRISON. Bluethroughu Sep 2023 #4
Trump FelineOverlord Sep 2023 #7
how professional NJCher Sep 2023 #25
Lock. Him. Up. Now. iluvtennis Sep 2023 #8
Public Enemy #1 Blue Owl Sep 2023 #9
From what is here it sounds like she is co-operating, senseandsensibility Sep 2023 #10
I'm betting when Michaels was cited as "Employee #2" agingdem Sep 2023 #26
Here is the ABC article blogslug Sep 2023 #11
Thanks blogslug! senseandsensibility Sep 2023 #13
Why am I laughing about the "note card" angle? ALBliberal Sep 2023 #12
Incoming TFG post: johnnyfins Sep 2023 #14
I have beautiful, wonderful note cards! The best note cards anyone ever saw! Captain Zero Sep 2023 #48
LOCK HIM UP. JHC Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #15
K&R. William769 Sep 2023 #17
This is the kind of thing that makes it hard for even the most ardent Trump supporter on a jury to Quixote1818 Sep 2023 #18
Keeping trump out of the White House should be #1 priority over everything. oldsoftie Sep 2023 #19
Deplorables will never hear about any of this but even if they did NoMoreRepugs Sep 2023 #22
What's it going to take? MontanaMama Sep 2023 #23
Lock the bastard up! Emile Sep 2023 #24
Still plenty of time left to poison and intimidate the jury pool. NBachers Sep 2023 #27
kickety kick Recycle_Guru Sep 2023 #28
Git the mofo into Gitmo. Sky Jewels Sep 2023 #29
But First Perhaps A Little R&R Waterboarding On The Mississippi MayReasonRule Sep 2023 #37
Anything about this on MSNBC? senseandsensibility Sep 2023 #30
What are all you liberals complaining about?! herding cats Sep 2023 #32
I'm sure there is much more orangecrush Sep 2023 #33
No question. Kingofalldems Sep 2023 #35
Lock him up. republianmushroom Sep 2023 #34
I thought "you don't know nuthin' about no boxes, see" was just bad dialog NotASurfer Sep 2023 #36
Pretty sure this is just newly disclosed evidence (or a newly disclosed identity) Ms. Toad Sep 2023 #38
I'm sure the trump-placed Florida judge will find a reason to remove this from the trial. C Moon Sep 2023 #39
Trump had the information on our "remote sensing operations" aka spy satellites in some of the .... Botany Sep 2023 #40
Automatic Response of Innocence Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #41
"It's unclear exactly what he meant by that." Beartracks Sep 2023 #42
Keep the charges and solid evidence coming. Martin68 Sep 2023 #43
Sounds like "advice" from some Mafia Don. calimary Sep 2023 #44
And he still walks free. nt Hotler Sep 2023 #45
Did she do it? wryter2000 Sep 2023 #46
Congress needs to pass legislation soldierant Sep 2023 #47

Freethinker65

(10,873 posts)
1. Trump will claim since this was leaked it is inadmissible.
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 05:41 PM
Sep 2023

Would not put it past Trump leaking it.

Or he will say he was joking, or was talking about boxes of skin bronzer and hair dye, or...

Cha

(303,699 posts)
6. It sounds like it from the wording but
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 05:49 PM
Sep 2023

it will be nice to have more Details.

I went to the link and nothing more there.

It's just "breaking" so we'll see.

Cha

(303,699 posts)
20. TY! From your link...
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 06:50 PM
Sep 2023
As ABC News previously reported, Michael is believed to be the person identified in special counsel Jack Smith's indictment as "Trump Employee 2," described in the indictment as someone who handled many of Trump's White House-era boxes at Mar-a-Lago and who provided Trump with photos of those boxes that were then included in the indictment.

Michael's statements to investigators, described to ABC News by sources, shed further light on the breadth of evidence that Smith has amassed to support his case against Trump.

MorbidButterflyTat

(2,557 posts)
3. MSM
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 05:43 PM
Sep 2023

currently clamoring to line up next promotional "interview" with the pathologically lying sack of putrid crap.

FelineOverlord

(3,735 posts)
7. Trump
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 05:57 PM
Sep 2023

Trump often wrote her To Do lists on the back of classified documents.


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BREAKING: Former Trump secretary Molly Michael told federal investigators that Trump often wrote her “To-Do”-Lists on the back of classified documents(!)—using them as if they were scrap paper. This is the man Republicans want back in the White House.

agingdem

(8,484 posts)
26. I'm betting when Michaels was cited as "Employee #2"
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 07:09 PM
Sep 2023

in Jack Smith's indictment she had an OH SHIT moment and flipped like a pancake

blogslug

(38,519 posts)
11. Here is the ABC article
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 06:07 PM
Sep 2023
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

One of former President Donald Trump's long-time assistants told federal investigators that Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House that were marked classified, according to sources familiar with her statements.

As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials -- with visible classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.

The notecards with classification markings were at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate when FBI agents searched the property on Aug. 8, 2022 -- but the materials were not taken by the FBI, according to sources familiar with what Michael told investigators.
MORE: Top Trump campaign aide identified as key individual in classified docs indictment: Sources

When Michael, who was not present for the search, returned to Mar-a-Lago the next day to clean up her office space, she found the documents underneath a drawer organizer and helped transfer them to the FBI that same day, sources told ABC News...


Treating classified documents as if they were scrap paper.

ALBliberal

(2,793 posts)
12. Why am I laughing about the "note card" angle?
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 06:15 PM
Sep 2023

Why does it seem juvenile? At best collegiate? Certainly not presidential.

Captain Zero

(7,351 posts)
48. I have beautiful, wonderful note cards! The best note cards anyone ever saw!
Tue Sep 19, 2023, 05:32 PM
Sep 2023

what? a guy can't have his note cards anymore?

Quixote1818

(29,986 posts)
18. This is the kind of thing that makes it hard for even the most ardent Trump supporter on a jury to
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 06:42 PM
Sep 2023

ignore. If he did this he's fucking guilty. Simple as that. And if he is guilty on this then he is guilty on everything related to it.

oldsoftie

(13,442 posts)
19. Keeping trump out of the White House should be #1 priority over everything.
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 06:48 PM
Sep 2023

He is a massive threat not just to order in the US but the entire free world.

MayReasonRule

(1,558 posts)
37. But First Perhaps A Little R&R Waterboarding On The Mississippi
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 10:48 PM
Sep 2023

Bounce him off the waves in Maui just for fun?
‘Course I’m pretending is all, I’m sure that he’d have a ball getting golden on a beach in Coba, chained to a wall…

herding cats

(19,585 posts)
32. What are all you liberals complaining about?!
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 08:38 PM
Sep 2023

He was recycling the classified documents to live again as note paper. You're never satisfied!!



If needed. 👆

NotASurfer

(2,293 posts)
36. I thought "you don't know nuthin' about no boxes, see" was just bad dialog
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 09:32 PM
Sep 2023

from bad gangster movies

So now it's up there with "ask not what you can do for your country..." and "Four score and seven years ago..." in terms of presidential oratory?

Ms. Toad

(35,260 posts)
38. Pretty sure this is just newly disclosed evidence (or a newly disclosed identity)
Mon Sep 18, 2023, 11:21 PM
Sep 2023

for existing felony charges.

Botany

(72,047 posts)
40. Trump had the information on our "remote sensing operations" aka spy satellites in some of the ....
Tue Sep 19, 2023, 08:13 AM
Sep 2023

... documents he stole and no doubt was sharing that information with Vlad about what we had
looking down on Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and most likely was doing that as POTUS too why
he is still walking free is beyond me. America has had 4 people who sold out us out to the Russians
(Soviet Union) @ the level Trump was most likely @. The Rosenbergs (executed), FBI Agent Robert
Hansen (just died in the US Super-max doing 16 life terms), and Aldrich Ames who is doing life w/out
parole in a federal prison in Terre Haute, IN. Despite all his bull shit that he (Trump) had declassified
the information he stole or something about the Presidential Records Act he has known all along that
he was breaking the law in having those documents i.e. why did tell Ms. Michael to lie about "the boxes?"

I hope Ms. Michael has told the FBI everything and that Trump dies in prison.

calimary

(83,688 posts)
44. Sounds like "advice" from some Mafia Don.
Tue Sep 19, 2023, 01:35 PM
Sep 2023

He was telling her what to say. What he expected her to say.

Sick and tired of this cheap-ass conman. I want him LOCKED UP.

soldierant

(7,703 posts)
47. Congress needs to pass legislation
Tue Sep 19, 2023, 04:38 PM
Sep 2023

which takes away both Secret Service protection and pension from a President (former President) who is convicted in a court of law of felony crimes committed while in office.

It's the mandatory Secret Service protection that is in the way of his being locked up in an actual prison. They can't figure out how to provide that protectio and also lock him up at the same time.

Certainly if there is anyone who does not deserve a pension, it's Trump**. But the Secret SErvice part is even more important. Not only does he not deserve protection, but he is likely to corrupt any agents assigned to him. And that could corrupt the entire Secret Service over time (if it isn't already.)

And yes, I know, this Congress is not going to do that. Which is simply another reason that we must vote, nd get out the vote, and do everything we can to get enough GQP out of Congress to pass such legislation.

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