The New York Times reported over the weekend that Donald Trump and Mark Meadows had a plan
to get a bunch of FBI documents redacted and declassified right before they left office so that
they could give them to sympathetic conservative journalists. And the reason they wanted to do
this of course, was because these documents they were after were related to crossfire hurricane,
which of course was the investigation in 2016 to find out if Donald Trump or any members of
his campaign were involved in Russian collusion. That investigation of course did get a couple low
level Trumpers, but couldn't link Trump himself to any kind of Russian collusion. And then we
got the Mueller report and now the Durham investigation that's been going on for even
longer than the Mueller investigation, but either way Trump and Meadows were working together and
they were even working with the FBI right before they left office to get these documents redacted.
So they could hand 'em to conservative journalists. Three days, according to the
report, before they left office, they had it all finalized. They were ready to go.
And then suddenly they just decided, you know what? We're not gonna do it. Thanks. But, uh,
no thanks. We're not gonna turn these over to journalists. And the prevailing theory that the
New York Times is putting out there, and this is of course according to everybody close, they were
worried about so-called privacy issues because some of the documents they were gonna send out to
the public were the private text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two individuals
that Donald Trump still to this day loves to talk about, oh, the lovers, Strzok and Page,
as if anybody actually gives a crap. But they said, well, if you release their personal text
messages, right, you're looking at some privacy issues and you could probably get sued for that.
So, you know, you don't want to do it. So allegedly Donald Trump,
because of the threat of a minor civil lawsuit was like, oh God, we can't do it then.
Bull, bull crap. If you believe that, then I've got a bridge over in Brooklyn to sell you folks.
Because Donald Trump never in his life has been afraid of a lawsuit. He has specifically done
things with the goal of being sued in the past. That dude's not afraid of a lawsuit.
He's not afraid to file 'em. He's not afraid to get hit with 'em. He's not afraid to fight 'em,
even with his crappy team of lawyers that he has. So I don't buy that at all. Not for a brief
second do I believe that Trump and Meadows got these FBI documents and looked at them and said,
oh, we could get sued. And even then, by the way, the pro it's the privacy issue
because it's got their text messages in it. But those text messages of course became FBI
documents that were redacted and declassified. They could have been released and you likely
wouldn't have run afoul of privacy laws. So I don't think you could even be sued for that.
So why didn't they release 'em to the conservative journalists like they wanted to, huh?
Do I even need to say it or does everybody understand what likely happened?
They worked with the FBI, they got the documents redacted, they got 'em declassified. They looked
at 'em and they said, ah. We, we can't release this. This doesn't do what we thought it would do.
It doesn't make us look good and them look bad. It probably did the exact opposite folks.
Trump and Meadows were not afraid of a lawsuit that likely wouldn't have happened in the
first place. They were afraid because they realized these documents they thought were
gonna be the smoking gun of a conspiracy against them actually revealed a lot more
information about how dastardly their plans were than they had originally anticipated.