Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of any “standing order” from Trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the Oval Office, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact of the entire trump disaster is that the American political and legal system was never designed to support such a colossal fucking moron like him. There are a lot of gaps in what should be done because no one has ever been this stupid and managed to get elected before. And as a result, we’re charting new territory.

    It’s almost like trying to legally bind a monkey from throwing its shit. We all know it shouldn’t throw it- but it’s a dumb animal, so… how exactly do you proceed to explain to it that people don’t want shit hurled at them, that it’s being punished for tossing shit, and simultaneously ensuring that whatever is done, at the end of the day…. No more shit gets yeet’d at innocent people.