This went just like clockwork because, as well you know, Donald Trump is nothing if not predictable. I first checked Truth Social around 6:30 a.m. PT. Bupkis. About an hour later news broke that Trump’s lawyers were entering the Department of Justice. A few hours later the Wall Street Journal updated a previous post and unless I miss my guess, that’s when the lawyers called, and the ketchup flew.
Lawyers got the bad news. Roll out the indictment. Hide the ketchup. pic.twitter.com/XuVQbAbx6K
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 5, 2023
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, what fun I’m going to have watching The Last Days Of Trump! And this ketchup tantrum is going to be a bigly one. Think of that scene in The Shining when all the blood came out of the elevator and you’ve got the idea.
Let’s see what the Journal said that drove him nuts.
Trump lawyers John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan were seen arriving at the Justice Department around 10 a.m. Monday, CBS News reported. They left less than two hours later without speaking to reporters. Trump’s lawyers had previously requested a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, but neither he nor Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco attended the Monday meeting.
Meanwhile, questioning in Smith’s other prong of inquiry—into potential White House involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol—is broadening, people familiar with that probe say, heightening the prospect that Trump’s legal uncertainty will persist up to and beyond the 2024 election.
As they say, “sad.”
After losing two other lawyers advising him on Smith’s document inquiry, Trump added former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche to his legal team in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with his involvement. Blanche is already defending the former president against criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney.
Blanche’s role expanded following the resignation of lawyer Timothy Parlatore from the legal team working on Trump’s response to Smith’s investigation into the handling of documents at Mar-a-Lago and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Another member of Trump’s legal team, Evan Corcoran, recused himself from the Mar-a-Lago investigation after testifying in March before the federal grand jury in that probe. He is continuing to represent Trump in Smith’s separate inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The changes on Trump’s legal team come as prosecutors appear to have gathered the evidence they need to bring charges in the Mar-a-Lago investigation. The recording in which Trump discussed the Iran document in particular appears to help prosecutors show he understood classification requirements and was apparently willing to share the information, people familiar with it said.
The people said the recording predated the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s August 2022 search of Trump’s Florida home, at which agents recovered hundreds of classified and other government documents and said in a search warrant that they were gathering evidence of whether anyone had obstructed their investigation. […]
If the special-counsel team can prove Trump knew information was classified but talked about it with people not cleared to receive it, that could bolster a criminal case, former prosecutors said. In a memo based on public information, several former prosecutors said Trump should be prosecuted and pointed to repeated warnings Trump received from his lawyers and U.S. government officials that he needed to safeguard classified information and return such documents at the end of his presidency.
A separate case last week offered one sign of the potential legal peril Trump could face. An Air Force veteran was sentenced to three years in prison last week in Tampa after law-enforcement officers found more than 300 classified files or documents, including more than 30 items marked top secret, at his home, on a hard drive and a storage pod in his driveway.
Prosecutors said the man, Robert Birchum, also had two documents on a thumb drive that had information about the National Security Agency’s capabilities and methods of collection and targets’ vulnerabilities.
We’ll see how long Birchum goes away for and how long Trump does.
Time for a survey.
- Trump will decide to plea bargain?
- More of Trump’s lawyers will leave?
- Trump will maintain he’s completely innocent?
- Something else.
Stay tuned.
I’m guessing that no one ever told him not to play with his food. Not that he would listen to them. I’m voting for 2&3, maybe even 1. We will have to see on that.
My guess would be that he is being told to plea bargain and is resisting it. This will be fascinating to watch because he’s turning 77 in less than ten days and he’s never been accountable. I’m sure he can’t wrap his head around the fact that now he has to be accountable. What I wouldn’t give to have surveillance equipment in Mar-a-Lago.
Two & three definitely. One is not an option, his ego won’t allow it.
Not ruling out number four.
If we see number 2, that will tell you a lot. That will tell me, at least, that the lawyers are saying bargain and he is saying no, no, no, and pounding his tiny fists and throwing ketchup.
He’ll take a plea AFTER he loses the election.
I wonder if he will have that luxury?
I really hope he won’t.
Thanks Ursula for keeping tabs 0n Trump Social for us, that’s not a pool I’d dip a toe in.
My wife and I gag whenever we see his face on the tube, much less are snookered into listening to anything he says. I’m with you. Actually, to be fair, we feel that way with ALL the Repubs, but so much worse with Trump
Agree. I can’t stand any of ’em, but Trump takes the cake! I can’t stand to LOOK at him, let alone HEAR his voice. Please!
Time to charge this common criminal.
The best minds in this business are saying that a charge will happen this week, and it will be in D.C.
Oh, I forgot. 2 way more than likely. 3, 100%. He will insist on being completely innocent til the day he dies, even if he spends 10 years in jail on that trip (which I personally hope he does). People will have supreme levels of schdenfreude to see him in jail protesting his innocence. I truly wonder if Hillary “Lock her Up” Rodham will. She’s such a ridiculously decent human being, I kinda think she’ll be more focussed on feeling sorry for what a wasted life he’s led than any schadefreude for whom ended up “locked up” I wish I could be that good a person, but I can’t. Hillary IS better than me!
I am honestly curious about your description of Hillary being “such a ridiculously decent human being”. I have never thought of her in that light as I think a majority of the people in politics are corrupt; however, I did think she was the best candidate when she ran. What makes you believe this? Promise I am not trying to argue I am genuinely interested.
With the exception of when she ran for President (both in 2008 and 2016) even Republicans were almost unanimous in saying she was personable and gracious off camera. A tough negotiator to be sure, but fair and trustworthy. And not someone to tap dance on them when she won out. People (regular voters) who attended SMALL, intimate campaign gatherings also said she was warm and engaging. However, like Al Gore who was the same in private she projected a wooden demeanor at large events/gatherings and most of the time in interviews with journalists. I think she was never able to get past her upbringing where she and others in her family’s circle were careful about how they presented themselves in public. To be guarded and reserved. Add in her feeling that she didn’t just want to make history by being the first female President but that it was her due and the image of her you’re familiar with is what the country saw.
My survey response considers it’s subject (Trump) and my high level of New York City native snark:
5. All of the above!
We’ve already had incidences of (2) and (3), with more of both surely to come, and I have NO doubt Trump will go for option 4 before finally settling on option 1, which by that time may well have been withdrawn (we can only hope!). You KNOW he’ll use every possible delaying tactic, as well as dream up a few new ones, but what worked in NYC 40 or so years ago will hopefully NOT work now.
(I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope…)🤞🤞🤞✌️✌️