• @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      9511 months ago

      True, but these are not the words of innocent men.

      Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is “unprofessional” to ask if the binder was sold to Russia. “What proof do you have?” he asked.

      • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        6211 months ago

        It sounds like Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung also has no clue, but he’s seen this one enough times to know that his outright denial would probably be contradicted by Trump within the week.

      • @cheese_greater@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        11
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        Ah, the ol’ Criminal reverse burden/onus of proof. Counter with the old motherly trick, why might I have reason to even need to bring this up with you…

        What would Mary do/There’s something off about Mary…

      • @AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        411 months ago

        It sounds like this story originated with Trump to create a fake news story to distract from the real news of his court cases.

      • MxM111
        link
        fedilink
        011 months ago

        I don’t think a spokesman would know one way or another.

      • Matt
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -4111 months ago

        It’s depressing that question is also applicable to the Biden impeachment hearings.

        • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          2111 months ago

          It’s applicable, but it’s also not being used because Biden didn’t do anything. You don’t say it’s unprofessional to ask the question and then ask what proof do you have, especially as a spokesperson. It’s ‘how to be ridiculous and look like you did it 101’.

    • @AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      2211 months ago

      This whole binder story smells like the kind of news stories we were fed during the early years of his presidency. It’s so 2017, throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

      We don’t need any new controversies. We need to see the felonies that have already been charged be prosecuted intelligently and effectively.

    • circuscritic
      link
      fedilink
      1511 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t believe it, but only because he’s too incompetent to have kept that kind of high treason a secret.

      I absolutely would believe that he kept it with his poop magazines and it was stolen, or copied, by the Carpet King of Tampa, or a foreign intelligence asset. Either one is just as likely.

      • @Slwh47696@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        1011 months ago

        He’s honestly stupid enough that he’d be bragging about the money he made from the sale if he did sell it

        • circuscritic
          link
          fedilink
          7
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          “I think NATO is going to be very surprised…I had the best Generals, they wouldn’t be surprised…the traitor generals who supported the election hoax and Joe Biden, they’ll be surprised because they aren’t good, okay, they’re bad, very bad. My dad, very smart, so smart, he always said sell your books when you’re done with them. Did you know binders are books? No one knew, but they are. I’m very smart and very good at deals. I make the deals, I sold a book for 50 million dollars, a book? Can you imagine? Joe Biden wouldn’t of gotten $20, so dumb. I got the most votes, ever, can you believe that?”

          That’s my point. I don’t believe he sold it to the Russians. I can absolutely believe that his actions directly lead to being aquired by foreign agents, or the Carpet King of Tampa.

  • @IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    8011 months ago

    When Trump hosted the KGB diplomats in the White House, when he confiscated his translators notes after his meeting with Putin, after he betrayed the Kurds, the media would ask, “Why did Trump do this?”

    There were always a range of possible reasons, but only one that explained them all with perfect sense. I suggest everyone read American Kompromat by Craig Unger. There is a trail of circumstantial evidence Trump has been a Russian asset since at least 1986.

      • MxM111
        link
        fedilink
        811 months ago

        At this point, do you really think it will damage him?

        • Decoy321
          link
          fedilink
          1411 months ago

          The piss tape had a lot more than just the sex act. It was full of kompromat.

          • ripcord
            link
            fedilink
            15
            edit-2
            11 months ago

            Still, at this point I can’t really see it damaging him.

            Republicans seem to be way way past caring about morality, ethics, or embarrassment of any kind.

          • chingadera
            link
            fedilink
            411 months ago

            Rules for thee, not gonna make a fucking dent in how is followers perceive him.

    • @Pretzilla@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      1011 months ago

      The P in P-tape is pedophilia

      He is known to have raped underage girls and pootin has the goods, just as likely through Epstein

  • gen/Eric
    link
    fedilink
    4211 months ago

    May have? It would be more surprising news if he didn’t.

  • @Greyghoster@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    3011 months ago

    Business is business, isn’t that what he says? Business as usual for a bloke who keeps top secret documents in his spare bathroom.

  • @hOrni@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    2911 months ago

    May have? This guy would sell his own daughter if he could. And I’m not eve talking about the one whose name he doesn’t know, I’m talking about the one he wants to fuck.

  • PugJesus
    link
    fedilink
    2311 months ago

    It’s obvious that Trump sold out US intelligence assets across the world, leading to major setbacks in our intel community and the deaths of multiple people, so if this is true… will it make any difference? At all? Trump could come out and declare himself a vassal of the New Russian Empire and his followers would still lick his boots, and ‘moderates’ would say “Well, what about the DEMONRATS”

    • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      111 months ago

      Oh thank goodness there is no merit to this headline. Oh wait, it is still a plausible situation no matter where you read the headline. Nevermind.

        • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          1
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          Is the headline false? I think Mary trump said those words. I’d love to hear why you think they faked this quote.

          • @mob@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            011 months ago

            I mean, you can read the article. I don’t see that quote anywhere.

            But you also kind of implied “it’s fine if it’s not true since it’s plausible” that’s more what I was commenting on

            • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              1
              edit-2
              11 months ago

              "One of those possibilities was that the documents inside the binder “were sold or given to Russia,” according to her blog post. "

              -the article I didn’t read, quoting Mary trump’s blog

              So she at least typed this distinct, concise thought. I said it was plausible because they had found a BOATLOAD of classified docs in trump’s possession after he was out of office. Considering this binder the quote is about has not been recovered in any of the raids they performed and with the truth about trump’s financial situation coming to light I can picture a means, motive and opportunity. So sure, ‘plausible’ is the best term I can think of until more solid evidence is presented.

              • @mob@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                111 months ago

                Ha shit, one of those ads must have popped up and made me jump that paragraph or something. I really did read it and didn’t see that the first time through

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    1111 months ago

    Oh so she just learned that he may have sold a binder? She wasn’t just holding onto this little pearl in order to sell another book was she? Any of Trump’s circle, even his ostensibly “nice” niece Mary, is just an opportunist looking to cash in on the chaos.

  • AutoTL;DRB
    link
    English
    211 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The binder in question contained raw intelligence that the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies collected on Russia’s alleged election interference in 2016, when Trump beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for the presidency, among other documents, according to Reuters who spoke with a source familiar with the matter.

    “Let me put it this way, if the government ever had evidence Donald Trump purposely handed classified info to a hostile power, he would never see the light of day again,” she wrote, who also added that the documents could have also been destroyed, lost, or kept by someone.

    Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is “unprofessional” to ask if the binder was sold to Russia.

    Trump wanted to declassify materials in the binder related to the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s alleged election interference, according to the source.

    A federal court document filed in August by journalist John Solomon, who Trump appointed to be a representative authorized to access his presidential records in the National Archives, gives some insight into who had their hands on the missing binder.

    On January 19, 2021, just one day before Trump left office, Meadows invited Solomon to the White House to review declassified pages and discuss its public release, according to the court document.


    The original article contains 747 words, the summary contains 219 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

      • @cheese_greater@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        2
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        The only ratings I care about with regard to Donald Trump:

        • Maximum Security
        • 0 Decibels
        • 6 feet under (preferablyest)
        • his genuine leaked Wharton grades + sample submission