Stogie1020 wrote:I mean, there's always the chance that he was arguing that he had a legitimate claim to the stuff... I mean, they took his passport. Was that a national secret that had to be protected? Clearly the oval office was packed up and moved in a hasty fashion (his passports were in the damn boxes), but there were easy ways to compell compliance with the subpoena. Why didn't the judge order daily damages to begin acruing until the items were returned? Why didn't the team that went there in February take all the stuff that was so highly sensitive?
So many "whys" and all we got were 30-40 pages of redacted black ink...
this stuff that was haphazardly packed at the last minute (again, Trump ignoring the counsel of experts on his way out) and wasn't post cards, China and silverware.
As usual, I see your concerns and certainly would share in the fear of an overheated gov no matter if a supporter or not of its policies, but offensive slick TV production aside, have you allowed for the facts of what is happening and why to sift through?
Focusing on stuff like passports (actually 3 I heard!) that were swiftly returned is similar, to me, of focusing on the story of lunging for the driver that became the issue du jour for no strong reason.
There is unemotional info out as to what was recovered and when which set off alarms.
Robert is correct, he could have avoided all this...except I believe (once again) that this is what he wanted to happen.
I think he's always been exactly that person.
After this I'm not gonna say again...none of which means anyone will be charged with anything.