I like your "bait" analogy. Trump is surely on a fishing expedition for an excuse that won't be shot down or blown up by his own people within an hour.
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In Trump's initial Monday Aug 8 full statement, he said:
"These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." but the FBI had left hours earlier.
"this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct," except, of course, it was a search authorized by a warrant approved by a Federal court.
"After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate." Except that it has since come out that Trump continued to withhold documents, ignore subpoenas, and that his lawyers may have lied to the FBI about additional classified documents being kept at Mar-a-Lago.
"What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?" Well, Watergate was criminal activity and the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago was a legal, court approved action.
And so on and so on for his entire rant.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-maralago-documents-excuses-b2145650.html
"Trump’s head-spinning excuses for Mar-a-Lago documents are already piling up. Insiders warn that’s bad news for him."
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"The shifting litany of excuses and explanations that former president Donald Trump and his allies have offered to justify the presence of highly classified documents at his Palm Beach, Florida, home reflect his inability to understand the legal peril he could be facing, according to current and former associates of the ex-president. ..."
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"Trump suggests evidence was ‘planted’: The next day, Mr Trump took to his own social media platform, Truth Social, to claim agents may have been “planting” evidence. Those unfounded accusations came just before The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the documents sought by the agents who searched his property may have contained highly classified nuclear secrets, ..."
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[The "planted evidence" story wasn't holding up, so ...] "Trumpworld’s next argument: Trump simply declassified the documents. The ex-president’s story began changing again on Friday after the magistrate judge who’d issued the search warrant for Mr Trump’s property ordered it unsealed, making public a receipt which detailed the FBI’s recovery of 11 boxes containing information classified ..."
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[Then ...] "That evening, conservative journalist John Solomon (who is also one of Mr Trump’s official representatives to the National Archives and Records Administration) told Fox News the ex-president had a “standing order” to declassify any material he took to the White House residence or to his home in Florida. ..." [No one else seems to have known about this "standing order."]
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"After that theory was met with ridicule from legal experts, Mr Trump and his allies then began claiming the 11 boxes seized by the FBI contained material protected by attorney-client privilege. And by Monday evening, one week after the search of his home and office, Mr Trump was accusing FBI agents of “stealing” his passports (which by law belong to the US government) and demanding the return of “his” property."
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"One of Mr Trump’s former national security advisers, Ambassador John Bolton, said the talk of a standing declassification order is “almost certainly a lie”. Mr Bolton told the Times he was “never briefed on any such order, procedure, policy” during his time in the Trump White House. "When somebody begins to concoct lies like this, it shows a real level of desperation,” he added. ..."
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"The changing explanations and rapid-fire release of new theories and explanations for what was at Mar-a-Lago have followed a similar pattern to other scandals from Mr Trump’s time in the White House, most notably the series of events which led to his first impeachment. Each time that information emerged which contradicted the defence he or his representatives had previously offered, Mr Trump would offer a new exculpatory excuse, all the while casting any inquiry into his behaviour as illegitimate and politically motivated. ..."
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"“This [the series of excuses and claims of planted evidence] is for the court of public opinion, it has nothing to do with his legal situation,” said one former Trump campaign and administration official. ..."
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"But the Trumpworld confidante said the people surrounding Mr Trump are largely divided into two camps — those who understand how serious it is for the ex-president to have had top secret documents in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, and those who believe that the Justice Department would not dare to prosecute President Joe Biden’s likely opponent in the 2024 election, *****with Mr Trump in the latter group.***** “He doesn’t think Garland has the balls to truly take him on,” they said. “And the people who think this is a political problem are drowning out the ones who actually understand how this stuff works.” ..."
Posted By: coeur-de-lion
Re: When Trump said the first day . . .
that he may fight the release of the warrant, he was just posturing to bait the Dems into doing it.
Yes, you do have to specify on which day ("the first day") Trump told particular lies because his crying will change day after day in the hope that no one will remember his idiotic fake excuses after a few more lying excuses obscure things even more.
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I am looking forward to a Trump indictment. The FBI, National Archives and other affected parties (DoD, NSA) have to go through a lot of seized documents to protect and repair any damage done to the national security but I hope they can do so quickly. And they should be checking the documents for finger prints and spittle droplets and see how many unknown parties have handled the documents. The FBI will be able to get the prints of KNOWN Mar-a-Lago staff members for comparison but maybe not Chinese, Russian or other "tourists" visiting Mar-a-Lago and roaming around the property unimpeded.