(06-15-2023, 06:42 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: From Karl Rove via the Wall Street Journal:

Trump Invited This Indictment


"The blame for this calamity rests solely on Mr. Trump and his childish impulse to keep mementos from his time in the Oval Office, no matter what the law says.  One of the relevant statutes is the Presidential Records Act, which states that “the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of presidential records.” The PRA defines these in the most expansive way imaginable. Essentially every scrap of paper, text or email the president or his staff creates or receives is a presidential record, except his personal diary, private political materials unrelated to the presidency, and campaign papers."

"Mr. Trump says there’s no criminal penalty for violating the Presidential Records Act. That’s true, but it only highlights how damning his behavior was. Congress thought a law so simple and clear would be honored by anyone entrusted with the presidency. Instead of living up to his office, Mr. Trump treated it and America’s national security flippantly, taking thousands of presidential records, among them hundreds of highly classified documents. It should have been evident to anyone who once occupied the Oval Office that documents containing some of the nation’s most important secrets shouldn’t be treated as trophies, shared with private guests, discussed with political associates or stored in bathrooms or ballrooms. Any staffer found guilty of doing that would go to prison for breaking the laws protecting the nation’s secrets, as Mr Trump is now charged."

This is the most reasonable comment that I've seen as of yet. Trump seriously feels that He's Above the Law to which he can/will throw money at the court system and get away w/all or most of his Ridiculousness. He continues to push the envelope of which so far he's gotten away w/this rhetoric. He's the first in U.S. History to be indicted as an former President let alone the indictments as a Sitting President.

No Man or Woman is above the law and if/when the law states that you'll be convicted, then so be it.

Time Will Tell.

NH3...

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