Johnathan Turley is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of Rick Wilson’s axiom that “Everything That Trump Touches Dies”.
The distinguished professor of law at George Washington University Law School has a checkered past, having supported and served as a Republican witness during the Clinton Impeachment but, I also vividly remember his many appearances on The Keith Olbermann Show where he vociferously opposed George W. Bush’s use of torture as a weapon of war and American Military Adventurism in The Middle East in general.
Turley was a critic of Presidential overreach during both the Bush and Obama years, and I have some sympathy for that point of view.
But, even though he supported the impeachment of Clinton, he argued against both impeachments of drumpf, for much graver offenses – a stance oft noted as contradictory by his critics.
But now, the good professor appears to just have rocks in his head:
Turley: This was a very chaotic time – you had the January 6 riot, all the controversies, and then all these boxes being removed with the president. The ? is whether there was enough time to go through this process where you have to communicate with the IC to declassify material pic.twitter.com/3ZGDvtn8KV
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 12, 2022
The crazy thing is that Turley was very vocal in his opposition to Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
But once one takes the road of defending Donald Trump in any fashion Wilson’s Law seems to catch up.
Intriguing since Trump found the time to properly declassify documents related to the Russia investigation. But but they were already declassified right because anything Trump took to work from home is considered declassified.https://t.co/rkkgKZmPEO pic.twitter.com/hShT0vOh2G
— KD (@Fly_Sistah) August 13, 2022
But KD he only declassified certain information. All the damning stuff he left classified. 🤣🤣🤣
It's like that time I had to leave for a business trip on short notice and accidentally packed a nuclear submarine.
I'm sure we all have stories like that.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) August 12, 2022
Yup. Happens all the time.
lol…so his attempted coup/treason interfered with the espionage/treason? is that where we're landing?
— 🔥LAM❄ (@LauraMcAfee1) August 13, 2022
Looks like.
Yes and the photo of dozens of document type boxes, that even at the time trended a possibly being a National Security risk! It’s not as if he hadn’t already been a problem, that stuff should have been known at the time !! Heads need to roll
— Jennifer Greene (@Mondakwe) August 13, 2022
Or this https://t.co/BjL6krxnHi
— Go.Do.Be. (@ktnislosingit) August 13, 2022
Lots and lots of boxes.
👇👇👇
— Grace Alexander (@GraceAl38236563) August 13, 2022
I have left enough jobs to know exactly what I can, and cannot take, before I walk out the door! Any excuse is a 🐂💩excuse!
— Miragee @🏡💉💉💉💉😷 🌻🇺🇦🌻 (@eegarim) August 14, 2022
Busy, busy bee.
NO.
"There is no provision in law that allows the president to take boxes of records, whether they are classified or not, into his private residence."
https://t.co/MLsJLOzPF5— Laura Apollo (@lauraapollo) August 12, 2022
Yup
I guess attempting a coup does take up a lot of time, especially when he had to devote so many hours to pouting about losing, but that’s a bold strategy. Still doesn’t answer the question of why he didn’t return the documents for over a year and forced a search warrant.🤔
— 🌅 Lori 🐝 Trump LOST🥳 (@LoriSuzanne3) August 13, 2022
Obviously we've all had tons where we wanted to sell critical national secrets to the Saudis and just gotten ahead of ourselves, and before you know it, it's 6 pm Friday and the declassification folks are all gone home until Monday.
— Equal Opp Cynic [Philip] (@EqualOppCynic) August 13, 2022
I hate when that happens.
Ya know, you're leaving the office in a hurry, and you accidentally take all your company's confidential docs with you and anything looks like it might hawk, no bigs. Bring that stuff back whenever you like, maybe in a year and a half or so, lots of companies would understand pic.twitter.com/KmHGim1ldD
— Ieatspam666 (@ieatspam666) August 12, 2022
🤣🤣🤣
You know Johnathan, you got a couple of pretty good gigs going between George Washington U. And resident Faux News legal Chia Pet, maybe it’s time to jump off the Trump Train while you still have a shred of dignity left.
A lot of us remember your glory days flaying George W. and Darth Cheney with Olbermann and just might be prone to forgive your struggles with ETTD.
After all it is a disease.
The fact that he thought it A-OK to impeach Clinton (for a bj) but not impeach TFG for trying to extort Ukraine or the J6 insurrection tells me everything I need to know about how well this man processes information. I hope he doesn’t teach constitutional law but rather something more black and white like tax law or contracts.
Agree totally except if you support treason you should be disbarred. When is THE LAW gonna have some fucking standards for their goddamn club?
Almost every lawyer would rather set their junk on the comedian Gallagher’s table and let him pound down with that big mallet than go after a fellow lawyer.
Don’t think he should be teaching anything.
Agree totally except if you support treason you should be disbarred. When is THE LAW gonna have some fucking standards for their goddamn club?
He was warned by people he knew actually knew about this stuff not to pack up and take those boxes to FL instead of sending them (or at least leaving them to be collected) by the National Archives. He had the stuff transported to FL anyway. With forethought and knowledge not only that he wasn’t supposed to do so, but that doing so was illegal.
IF he felt some of that should be made available to or even shipped to him then there is an actual procedure he could have followed via making a formal request to the National Archives describing why he wanted certain materials right away instead of waiting until the process of his establishing a Presidential Library and acquiring a suitable building where National Archives staff would be present to provide proper custody and security for said materials as NO Presidential Papers belong to a President or former President but to the people via their designated by LAW authority – the National Archives.
Hey, it’s understandable a former President might want this or that set of records for a book, or if they are taking part in some matter at the request/approval of a current President. But a former President has NO authority to make the decision on what they get or when.
You’d think a legal scholar like Turley would know that. He’s devolved into a Trump fluffing hack.
Scholar. Yeah, I like that. lol
Denis I think it’s pixie dust. Some got on Alan Dersoritch as well. Totally whack a doodle.
Pixie dust eh? Plausible, assuming some 1960s grade, bought on the street acid was mixed in. Perhaps with an additional pinch of PCP!
😛
ok the dumbest thing is that every one of those document boxes could be stored on a single thumb drive. So what if these boxes are located. stop talking about 20 boxes of documents, talk about one thumb drive. trump wasn’t going to read any of them, I don’t think he read anything ever. I suspect our intelligence agencies have been scrambling for years to figure out what trump/jared already sold.
I believe getting your M.D. in TX and getting your J.D. anywhere have got to be the easiest fucking things to get in this country if Rand Paul and this yahoo are anything to go by.
Paul got his MD in North Carolina, actually (Duke University which, at the time, didn’t require an undergraduate degree for admission in its graduate programs).