The Daily Populous Thursday May 23rd, 2024 morning edition
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baylaust on May 22nd, 2024 at 12:05 UTC »

The most frustrating thing about this is that although this is one of the most damaging cases against him going at the moment, it's also the most obvious that he's guilty of.

A president can take classified documents out of the white house, but once they're no longer president, they must be returned in their entirety. You can't keep them in your house forever. We know this, Trump knows this, he has been recorded saying that he knows he shouldn't have them, and he went out of his way to try and hide them from the FBI.

Of course, if he declassified them, that's a different story. But he didn't. We know he didn't. He knows he didn't. And yet again, he has been recorded saying that he never declassified them. (EDIT: As has been established by the over 50 notifications this comment got me, declassification is actually entirely irrelevant to the discussion. Though many arguments I've seen seem to believe that it does, so I won't delete this section, since Trump contradicts it anyway)

This should be the most obvious open and shut case against him. But because all the stars aligned in his favour (which seems to be a running theme), he got the most comically in-his-pocket judge he could have asked for to handle the case.

dchallenge on May 22nd, 2024 at 11:46 UTC »

Everyone else would be in a holding cell right now. I don’t understand why he isn’t.

moreobviousthings on May 22nd, 2024 at 11:13 UTC »

New evidence = new charges? With new judge?