OK, here's a helluva hypothetical about Trump's extortion

[misanthrope]

What if Trump sent communication to Garland that said if he is indicted, the disgraced FPOTUS would immediately share every top secret in his position with our worst enemies? How do you handle that scenario?

I suspect one reason DOJ is taking their time is more than just waiting until after the midterms, but also to make sure what they have retrieved thus far and what is no longer accounted for. That would give them a good idea of what cards Trump holds in his tiny hands. If those are seriously deadly cards, if they endanger millions of Americans to a degree we've not seen since the Atomic Age began, how does the federal government handle it?

Trump could share that material with little warning. How do you isolate him to prevent it? Were he a foreign actor, we would just kill him, but you can't do that with a former POTUS.

How does the presence of his Secret Service detail complicate all of this?

[Bread and Circuses]

1. Hmmm

I don't think would signal his 'options' to Garland. Chances are high that tRump has sold some of the intelligence information on human assets because that IS what our adversaries what to know and some have been arrested or killed.

Saudi and Israel have been sold files, too. It's a frigging garage sale.

The SS detail are his guys and probably are deep russian spies.

Pure Evil. Bad, bad, bad. I do think the country is done for. Crazy Christian-Fascists all over the place and republicans have jumped the shark. Hillary Clinton told us what he was and what would happen.

[misanthrope]

2. I get it, however

the hypothetical is about the specific scenario I described. Not would he, but what if he did?

It doesn't have to be the smart move for Trump to give it a go.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Michael Cohen speculates that this is exactly what Trump is doing.

Cohen knows Trump very well and has been quite accurate all along.

The answer to your question on how to handle Trump's deadly game of blackmail:
If Trump is not careful, he is going to be handled by the CIA and M16.

[misanthrope]

9. That is what prompted me to ponder it

It would certainly be a sticky wicket.

[Scrivener7]

4. You take him in immediately and shut down all his properties

and search all of them and all his family's properties TODAY. That is how you handle that.

We don't leave rogue spies out in the wild.

[2naSalit]

7. Have to round up...

The kids at the same time along with certain cronies who may have materials in hand to release if he gets arrested.

That along with everything you said.

[misanthrope]

10. I'm on the same page

It would take a wide and precisely coordinated effort.

[2naSalit]

11. Perhaps...

That may explain the length of time it's taking to get 'er done.

[Walleye]

5. I think the CIA will have to assume that every spy is burned, every secret blown

I’m sure they are already scrambling around trying to secure assets knowing full well that trumps been spreading around secrets like glitter

[Girard442]

6. It's important to remember that this pot has been simmering on the stove...

...since Biden took office. In that year and a half, chances are that any dramatic action you can imagine has either already happened or will probably never happen.

What you're seeing now is all about the midterms. (Not that that's bad.)

TFG being Epsteined or being behind bars -- if it was gonna happen, it woulda happened by now.

[Brainfodder]

8. He'd be arrested in early hours that next AM is what would happen?

Black ops site for advanced enhanced interrogation immediately.

10 secs of something something involving bamboo later, singing like a birdie!

SO yeah TFG, BRING IT ON!



Meanwhile, I suspect TFG would die of heart attack if you twisted his arm a little.