.... 'Take Aways' on the Mar-A-Largo affadavit.....

[cnm]

You are of course referring to the war begun by your favorite go to racist President Lyndon Baines Johnson (Dem Tx)

You mean the four presidents involved there were not American? TIL

 

[Mac1958]

Sure, lots of threads and posts about the search and now the publication of the redacted affidavit vis-a-vis Mar-A-Largo documents are on this chatroom.

As has been posted previously on other topics, today's big-league news organizations frequently employ a 'Just-The-Facts-Ma'Am' approach to reporting on complicated and nuanced news. Meaning, they boil down to what they think are the most relevant aspects of a story with the belief that Americans don't want to spend an hour reading a 'deep-dive' piece on a story that is evolving and changing daily. So we see them offering reportage under the rubric of "5 Takeaways on XXX", or "3 Takeaways"....or pared down even further "Takeaways".

And so it is with yeserday's publication of the redacted version of that affidavit.

I will link to four such 'Reader's Digest'-type reportages: The New York Times; The Washington Post; The Hill; and a version offered by Lawfare.

Here are the first two in this post. And then the last two...The Hill, and Lawfare in the next post:

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1. The government tried to retrieve the documents for more than a year.

2. The material included highly classified documents.​

3. Prosecutors are concerned about obstruction and witness intimidation.​

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/trump-search-takeaways.html

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1. 184 classified documents, including some top secret, were once at Mar-a-Lago
2. The Justice Department is suspicious of obstruction by Trump or his allies
3. It’s possible Trump allies were talking to the FBI about all this
4. What’s missing
5. We still don’t know why Trump wanted these documents
6. The full affidavit is a road map to potential prosecution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/26/takeaways-redacted-affidavit-trump-

The question, evidently, is whether Trump had the ability to wave his hand and declare any level of document declassified on a whim. Even after the fact. Some say yes, some say no. I reckon that will get clarified if this goes anywhere.

I do know this: While I had a certain sense of foreboding when he won, I completely underestimated the chaos and damage that one profoundly damaged orange man-child, enabled by a large cadre of craven cowards, could inflict on this country. I wasn't even close. No way could events have unfolded as they have in the last six years. No way.