What We Learned From The Pathetic Defenses Of/Excuses For Trump's Classified Documents Crimes: Kevin McCarthy Has No Clue How A Bathroom Door Works

Lindsey Graham: Well, at least Trump is not a spy, right?

Donald Trump’s sycophants (or psychofans?) in the Snowflake Party have tried floating some excuses for why their Orange Master was hoarding (and most certainly copying and probably selling) stollen ‘top secret’ documents, then lying about whether he possessed classified documents, refusing to return the stollen materials, and obstructing the government’s attempt to retrieve the stollen documents, and making his (now ex-) lawyers do illegal things on his behalf.

Kevin McCarthy, who earlier this year handed Marjorie Nazi Greene his gift-wrapped balls in order to be a puppet speaker, was shown a photograph of one of Mar-a-Lago’s chandeliered bathrooms (“his dynasty in a microcosm: something opulent and gaudy, a caricature of wealth that screamed for our attention”). The tub contained numerous document boxes and there was an open window clearly visible. McCarthy was asked if this was a “good look”. “I don’t know,” McCarthy replied. “Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks.”

I’ll bet Qevin was proud of himself for that a zinger — a reference to the fact that some classified documents were found in Joe Biden’s garage. (Of course, Biden promptly gave those documents back without lying; he also did not steal 60 boxes of documents and he did not obstruct their return.) Is McCarthy aware that garage doors can also be locked? And . . . every single bathroom door with a lock that I have ever seen in my nearly six decades of time on Earth locks from the inside. Should we assume the bathroom doors in McCarthy’s house lock from the outside?

How is Lindsay Graham not completely embarrassed to ever publicly mention Trump’s name, after swearing he was done with Trump following the seditious insurrection only to crawl back to Trump and debase himself even further? On Sunday, Graham’s defense of Daddy T was: At least Trump is not a spy.

Whether you like Trump or not, he did not commit espionage. He did not disseminate, leak or provide information to a foreign power or to a news organization to damage this country. He is not a spy.

There is no possible way Graham knows that Trump “did not disseminate, leak or provide information to a foreign power”. Frankly, it’s more likely than not that Trump has given U.S. secrets to Putin and/or other authoritarian leaders. “Donald Trump — you may hate his guts, but he is not a spy,” Graham argued. Well, the KGB would disagree.

Graham claims: “No, I’m not in a cult.”

Members of a cult never think they are members of a cult.

Another clown by the name of Byron Donalds (a Florida representative) said the DOJ indictment is “plain ridiculous” and wanted to share his deep thoughts on Trump storing documents in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

As somebody who has been to Mar-a-Lago, you can’t walk through Mar-a-Lago of your own accord because Secret Service is all over the place. So if the documents are in a place, they are in a room, depending on the time of year, you can’t even get into said room. There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago! So don’t act like it’s in some random bathroom that the guests can go into. That’s not true!

National security attorney Bradley Moss assured us: “Needless to say, this is not an argument Trump’s lawyers will make in court.” George Washington University Professor Jeffrey Bingenheimer pointd out: “No one ever talks about the 32 bathrooms that didn’t have boxes of classified documents in them.”

In 2017, Politico reported that Mar-a-Lago was “heaven for spies”. In 2019, Vox reported that “[c]oncerns about security [at] Mar-a-Lago have been swirling since [Trump] was elected”; a hinese woman carrying four cellphones and a malware-infected thumb drive was arrested at Mar-a-Lago in April 2019. In 2022, a former FBI official said Mar-a-Lago was a “magnet for spies”. Also in 2022, Vice reported:

Trump’s club was once blasted by a former FBI agent as arguably “the worst counterintelligence nightmare the country has faced since the Cold War.” . . .

Members sat close enough to Trump, for example, to overhear him discuss a North Korean missile launch with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in February 2017. 

“Trump turned his table into an al fresco situation room,” a reporter for the Washington Post noted at the time. . . .

Shortly after Trump assumed the presidency, a team of journalists from ProPublica and Gizmodo piloted a 17-foot motorboat up to the back lawn of Mar-a-Lago and aimed “a 2-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club.”

“Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained,” they concluded. 

Any foreign country that didn’t have at least one spy at Mar-a-Lago during Trump’s time in office is being run by a moron.

Anyhoo, here’s something from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal:

However cavalier he was with classified files, Mr. Trump did not accept a bribe or betray secrets to Russia. The FBI recovered the missing documents when it raided Mar-a-Lago, so presumably there are no more secret attack plans for Mr. Trump to show off.

At least one senator tweeted his approval of this statement and Mark Levin of Fox said much the same thing: “There’s not one syllable of evidence in here, that any information under the Espionage Act was passed to any spies, to any enemies, to any foreign countries — not one.”

Again, there is no way to know if Trump sold U.S. secrets to Russia, but based on everything I have heard about him, I would not be surprised if he did. In fact, I would be surprised if he had not given classified information to Russian officials.

Amanda Marcotte of Salon writes in her Standing Room Only newsletter:

In the least surprising results ever, a new poll from CBS shows only 12% of Republican voters think it’s a crime now to steal nuclear secrets and put them in a ballroom for Russian and Chinese spies to thumb through.

12%.

Aaron Blake of the Post writes:

The indictment makes no mention of the idea that there are still classified documents out there. But the document Trump described in one instance of his allegedly showing them off — the one for which he's on tape, involving a potential attack on Iran — reportedly hasn’t turned up.

The Justice Department also said in September, even after the Mar-a-Lago search, that more classified records might remain missing. It specifically cited 48 folders bearing classified markings that were nonetheless empty. It's possible those folders had been separated from the documents they contained when they were still in the White House, but the issue hasn't been publicly resolved.

There's also the fact that we found out in December that two more documents with classified markings had turned up in a search of a Trump storage unit conducted by an outside team hired by Trump's lawyers.

But as important is something else we learned in the indictment: Trump on multiple occasions appears to have suggested to his lawyer, not very subtly, that certain documents not be returned or even that they disappear.

Notes taken by Trump attorney Evan Corcoran after the May 2022 subpoena describe Trump approvingly citing a Hillary Clinton aide who deleted emails from her private server. Trump also allegedly told Corcoran something to the effect of, “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” and, “Well, look, isn't it better if there are no documents?”

Russian state TV is cracking jokes that the Kremlin possesses all of the information from Trump’s pilfered documents. As Julia Davis of The Daily Beast reports:

In Moscow, the possibility that former President Donald Trump might end up in prison or even seek asylum in Russia has long been a topic of discussion on the Kremlin-controlled state television. . . .

Troubled by the magnitude of the criminal jeopardy their favored candidate is facing, the Kremlin’s mouthpieces on state media’s airwaves are openly brainstorming how to help Trump by undermining President Joe Biden—reflecting the efforts that are likely taking place behind the scenes. . . .

Russian state TV host Evgeny Popov mockingly noted: “Turns out that the investigation against Trump has to do with the disappearance of secret documents from the White House, related to the development of new nuclear weapons by the United States... Obviously, if there were any important documents, they’ve been studying them in Moscow for a while. What’s the point of searching?”

Fox Refers To Biden As “Wannabe Dicitator” While Calling Trump “President Of The United States”

Trump called for an army of his supporters to flood the Manhattan streets on the day he was arrested and charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Hardly anyone bothered to show up. And so Trump stopped talking about his defenders publicly supporting him. Until he was about to be arrested and charged with 37 federal crimes in Miami. Again he called for a huge show of support. And again, the MAGA militia didn’t fucking appear. #SAD

On June 4, Colorado representative Ken Buck claimed the multiple criminal investigations into Trump — and the fact of him being indicted twice in 10 weeks ands arrestyed twice — give him “credibility”. Yup. He said that. On television. CNN, in fact.

Matt Gaetz wears unisex blazers.