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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump had just handed over the documents when they asked for them
the orange Mussolini wouldn't be going through this. It wasn't necessary at all.
Remember the break-in at the Watergate was entirely unnecessary also. Nixon won in 1972 with 49 states in the Electoral College. He would have easily won the election without any information whatsoever out of the DNC.
Imagine the hubris of these men who believe they can do whatever they wish, cover it up and get away with it. It boggles the imagination.
Do they have a secret wish to harm themselves?
Personally I think Trump is delusional and is in serious mental danger.
no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)I don't want Trump to get off on insanity.
Irish_Dem
(47,058 posts)He obviously premeditated his crimes, and he lied and hid the documents.
This shows he knew right from wrong.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,807 posts)outlasting the Justice Department of the United States of America. They have more brains resources and tools than those contractors he stiffed, or the painters, or the thousands of other people that should have busted his ass for his whole life.
Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)Kennah
(14,265 posts)Marius25
(3,213 posts)Those documents weren't just going to sell themselves!
EndlessWire
(6,529 posts)He thought he was smarter and could manipulate the disposition of the docs so that he could keep most of them. He probably sold some of these docs to the highest bidder. Who would go through this just to be able to show power to his club members?
tetedur
(820 posts)He had the nerve to say Nixon got $18 million for the tapes. As if there wasn't a law passed after Nixon that decreed that documents are the property of the US. If he couldn't get money from the American government, maybe he thought he could get money from his authoritarian buddies.
He wanted to monetize his mug shot for the NYC arrest.
Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)he's already fundraising on the charges.
Thinks he can bullshit his way out of anything. No lack of arrogance and audacity in Donny.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)...........they would have seen that some of them were missing. Guess where they went. Maybe we should ask Jared Kushner and his $2 billion of Saudi money if they have any idea where those documents went.
So he went to his standard playbook for everything. Deny and delay.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)I think it's nothing but ego. They think they can get away with anything.
democratsruletheday
(504 posts)narcissists and as Garland has repeatedly stated: no one is above the law
BWdem4life
(1,667 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)He couldn't understand why what Trump did was a crime, while Biden did "the exact same thing" and nothing happened to him. I explained to him in excruciating detail how completely different the situations were, and guess what happened!
Nothing. He still thinks Trump is being persecuted. There's no point in talking to these people.