NYT buries lede: Trump has implicitly threatened Garland

[Grasswire2]

End of the NYT story, buried at bottom three paragraphs:

On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland made a public statement saying he had personally authorized a search warrant being executed on Mr. Trump’s property, and he indicated that the Justice Department would only have made such a move after trying less invasive measures.

Shortly before Mr. Garland made the announcement, a person close to Mr. Trump reached out to a Justice Department official to pass along a message from the former president to the attorney general. Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Garland to know he had been checking in with people around the country and found them to be enraged by the search

“The country is on fire,” Mr. Trump said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. “What can I do to reduce the heat?”[/b]


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[malaise]

1. That is precisely what I said

The Slobfather threatened the AG
Lock up this criminal MoFo Ag!
That is all.

[agingdem]

2. Garland trumped Trump...

oh the delicious irony!...and what a bloviating moron..a child knows better than to threaten the Attorney General of the United States and/or the FBI..

[malaise]

22. +1,000

Lock him up!

[magicarpet]

3. The Tangerine Fuhrer,...

.... might be fucking with the wrong guy. Garland will lob the last handgrenade into idiot's lap.

[mopinko]

4. that's the kind of thing that might just flip a few switches.

i dont think it was so much hutchinson's testimony as the fact that she had been threatened that caused the damn to start cracking.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Moron. Keeps adding more fuel to the fire that is surrounding tRUMP and his aides

that are remaining at his side, and I expect before too long, there won't be anyone else left.

An ugly thought, that before too long, he'll (tRUMP) will call out for his 'loyal troops' and WHAM, we'll have chaos in the streets. He's already did this on J6 2021. But this time around, I strongly suspect that Garland and others are keeping a close eye on things down there, and for some reason, Garland moved in as he did into MAL and retrieved the sensitive government documents ... why then all of a sudden? They've been negotiating / talking back and forth...perhaps the authorities knew that tRUMP had a visitor coming to look at, perhaps buy something?

Why else would he have such documents w/ him? The classification (although important) doesn't matter, my question is why in the world would a 76-year old man be doing w/ details on nuclear weapons (a guess IMHO), perhaps some information on our intelligence setups overseas (a guess IMHO), the list goes on. Just why does he still have this crap, he's out of office, he's retired, he's not a nuclear engineer, etc.

Sell, SEll, SELl, SOLD to the highest bidder in the back corner!!

[PufPuf23]

9. The possibility of Trump calling out his "loyal troops" is

why I recommend the FBI scour past and current social media for armed individuals that threaten directly or implicitly political violence.

The FBI should get warrants and go to these individuals complete with SWAT and do the asshats great fear, TAKE their guns and other arms. Even using federal troops would be fine by me.

That would get attention and make us all safer. If not, there will a continuous drum beat of violent acts (like the nail gun guy who attacked the FBI and died in a cornfield) and the potential for much worse.
.

[Nevilledog]

17. Trump "helping to defuse"

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
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Trump fundraising pitch this afternoon: "THEY BROKE INTO MY HOME - the home of the 45th President of the United States. I could really use your help right now. Can I count on YOU to rush in a donation by the end of the day? Your support cannot wait."

1:07 PM · Aug 13, 2022

[Grasswire2]

6. soooooooooooooo MOBBY.

Michael Cohen is right.

[Hstch05]

15. Nice Department of Justice...

It'd be a SHAME if ANYTHING were to happen to it...

He just is incapable of making good decisions, which is good for the rest of us. Can you imagine if he was intelligent and had impulse control?

[DET]

7. Not Sure I Get It

Bear with me here, but is the threat to unleash the hounds (rabid TFG supporters) unless Garland backs off? If so, that seems like an incredibly stupid thing to say.

[EndlessWire]

29. Well, the guy is stupid.

But, I think he was exploring the idea of a bribe. Since Garland did all that stuff from announcements to the raid, I guess the answer was NO. Plus, if the remark was about diffusing the situation, well, we have the example where he sat on his lard butt in the dining room while people were being injured and threatened.

I also think it was a threat to summon his gang. You know, the people who answer Trump's call will probably die. He doesn't care about them.

[poli-junkie]

8. Speaks in code.

[crickets]

10. Yes. There are at least two implicit messages here.

1/ "The country is on fire." - Look out! My base will be angry!

2/ "What can I do to reduce the heat?" - Can't we make a deal?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Ok just read this. Wow I must have taken number two completely differently than everyone else

It sounds to me like he's saying what can I do at this point that would ease the crowd and let them know everything was okay. Like an uncharacteristically good thing??

[crickets]

27. From anyone else? Perhaps. From tfg? Not a chance. It's just not in him. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. No it's not!!!! Some kind of secret code?

[Mr. Ected]

11. OBSTRUCTION

Private Citizen Trump has no official audience with the AG. He should know better than to try to leverage the country's chief prosecutor when he is the target of a dozen federal investigations. The hubris!

[SheltieLover]

12. Lock him up with a gag order.

[SergeStorms]

13. What can you do, Orange Pig?

You can stop throwing gasoline on the fire, you insolent fuckwit.

[dchill]

14. "What can I do to reduce the heat?" ...

... Go away? Confess?

[Justice matters.]

16. When the Feds have their eyes focussed on ya...

"Everything you say can be held against ya..."

I guess shutting his ass-hole up is an impossible task...

[EndlessWire]

31. LOL! n/t

[MarcoZandrini]

18. Herr Drumpfenfuhrer....

….needs to spend some quality time in a medium security federal prison.

Lock him up!

[EndlessWire]

30. Send him to a Super Max.

He should be protected as much as possible, due his status as TFG.

[aggiesal]

19. Pendejo45 asked ''What can I do to reduce the heat?'' ...

I know what answer I would have given if I were Merrick Garland, STFU or come on in and sit down for a nice chit-chat, AKA a deposition under oath. (recorded, of course).

[JanMichael]

20. What the hell is"buries lede"? Oh it is "journo" slang for "lead" for a few people.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-roy-peter-clark-has-the-definitive-answer-at-last/

Interesting history above in the link.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. Thanks for the explanation!

[JanMichael]

24. Thanks. I thought it was a typo.

[NCjack]

26. Reminds me a new dish that appeared on the menu of my favorite Chinese restaurant.

"Heyuguylook, mild or hot"

[Grasswire2]

32. If the story headline was "....buries lead..."

.. a lot of readers would think it had something to do with a bullet.

(and that's an inside joke)

[Brainfodder]

28. Inciting murder of an AG looks real real REAL innocent to me?

Innocent like Trump University, Trump Org., and whatever else this jackass grifter yadda yadda.

/ truthiness!