Republicans are twisting themselves into knots, just to war reality enough to make it seem
like everything Trump did is totally okay.
And they love every second of it.
Right?
Folks, uh, the latest person to do this of course, is, uh, Sean Duffy, a Fox news contributor,
whoever the weekend appeared on the Fox and friends weekend program.
And he said this, the view of the FBI and DOJ seeing evidence of crime is very broad.
I mean, the fact that they win and took top secret classified documents, by the way, remember
Hillary Clinton had classified documents on her server that weren't marked classified.
Donald Trump can take a classified document marked, classified and say, this is now unclassified.
I'm taking it with me.
So just because it has a marking on it doesn't mean that it's classified.
So I love how every time there is a Trump scandal, right?
There is this whole like checklist, like the stages of grief, I guess, of a Trump scandal
for Republicans.
And we have now reached what I call the, the phase of, you know, if Trump does it, it's
not illegal, which I guess is acceptance.
Right?
They're accepting the fact that, okay, he did it.
We have no other way to defend it.
So let's just say that it's technically not illegal.
That is the acceptance stage of these Republicans.
And of course, Mr. Duffy here is not the only Republican out there saying it.
We have seen plenty of other Republicans say, oh no, he totally declassified.
'em because he has the authority to do that.
He can point to anything and say declassified.
And it's like a Harry Potter spell and suddenly it's magically declassified, which of course
is not actually how the declassification process works.
There is a process by the way, like Trump just can't stand over a document and be like,
well, this is declassified now coming with me.
Thank you very much.
I'm gonna put this in my pocket.
No, because here's the thing Republicans always seem to forget when talking about this specific
scandal that it's not just that he had classified documents, it's that he had anything from
the white house to begin with.
Because when we're talking about classified documents, we're probably looking at violations
of the espionage act.
But let's assume for a moment that these Republicans are correct, which they're not.
And Trump declassified, all of it.
Cool.
He's still got what a couple hundred violations of the presidential records act on his hands
at that point.
Right.
which would mean he could face up to three years in prison and be permanently
barred from ever holding office in the United States ever again.
So even saying like, no, no, no, it's cool.
Cuz he declassified them.
Okay, cool.
He's still broken a law, just a different law.
At this point, you defending him this way.
Doesn't change the fact that he can still be criminal
Criminally prosecuted under federal law.
You idiots, but they don't seem to realize that.
Right.
They're just trying to say, well, the ESP espionage act is obviously the bigger one,
but really it's not really.
It is not because the presidential records act violation is the one that comes with the
permanent barring of ever holding office again in the United States.
So I would say that that one's probably a little bit more intense, right?
Smaller prison sentence, but he can never run for office again ever.
So depends on which way you wanna slice at Republicans.
You can keep on with your little Trump did nothing wrong, even though he did all the
things that we know he did.
But I gotta ask too, if your talking point is now that he declassified all of these documents,
how did he know to declassify them?
If the FBI was the ones who planted them there, right?
You see that's where things get a little murky because you've thrown out so many conspiracy
theories that now none of them can mesh with one another.
So you're gonna have to consolidate, you're gonna have to, you know, narrow it down to
just the one conspiracy theory because I gotta tell you right now, they can't all exist simultaneously.
So it's time to pick just one and run with it from there.