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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 23, 2022 at 4:08 am
(September 22, 2022 at 9:28 pm)Boru h4ym4n Wrote: (September 22, 2022 at 5:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trump has said the he can declassify documents by simply thinking about doing so. He seems to be missing a very important point.
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That the current president can reclassify the files?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 23, 2022 at 9:25 am
Trump says he was able to declassify documents by thinking about doing it.
Get it? The man actually thinks that his thoughts = action.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 23, 2022 at 9:32 am
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(September 22, 2022 at 6:59 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (September 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: It's from all that covfeve. Muddles what's left of his mind.
It's amusing to me that some of the same people who thought Chelsea Manning was a hero find Donald Trump a traitor - when they are guilty of essentially the same thing ----
Discounting Trump had the authority to declassify anything - and Manning didn' t.
Manning served over six years in prison for her crime, and there's no evidence Trump delassified any of the documents illegally in his possession.
Edit: This was really obvious and therefore ninja'd multiple times before I rejoined this conversation. Apologies.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 23, 2022 at 9:42 am
Manning was a whistleblower who paid the price for publicizing classified documents that showed US wrongdoing. That seems different in important ways from stealing and hoarding (hopefully) documents that belong to the government. But YMMV, I guess.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 23, 2022 at 10:50 am
Indeed if come into possession of stuff that says the US is both breaking its own laws and international law and is covering it up from the public avoid scrutiny. The legal or not a person is morally justified in exposing it. But should also be willing to bare the legal consequences for doing so. Manning is a hero because that's what she did. Trump, by contrast, hoarded government documents after his presidency and has yet to offer any justification for doing so on top of that lied multiple times about returning said documents and may have in fact destroyed some of them. That soundly makes him a villain. So no motivation and acceptance consequence matter in this case.
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