Thursday, February 10, 2022

Tax Evasion

Oh, wait, that was Al Capone.
"I guess you would probably be more surprised if you learned at the end of this that Donald Trump had not taken classified information from the White House down to Mar-a-Lago," Swalwell said. "And when you look at some of the other materials, unclassified, like the embarrassing Sharpie poster board, of course he was doing it to protect his own self-interest, to protect history from judging him for the clownish leader that he was."
That is what could come back to haunt him. Or be one more criminal action to end his days fighting.
"Donald Trump has allegedly done, and likely has done, what he accused Hillary of accidentally doing, so he maliciously, it looks like, did what he projected onto Hillary Clinton as accidentally and unintentionally doing," Swalwell said. "So is the Department of Justice up for investigating this and holding Donald Trump accountable, and making sure no future president treats official documents, classified information as it relates to sources and methods and how we protect our troops, as their own personal property, to protect themselves, will they hold him to account? That's really going to be the question going forward."
Prosecuting an ex-President for acts during his Presidency is an inherently political act. But when the actions involve endangering national security, the politics suddenly seem less of a problem.

"In the criminal sense, destruction of evidence is done only for one reason," Swalwell said. "It's because you have a consciousness of guilt, and again it can't just be on the Jan. 6 committee to eliminate this for the American people. The Department of Justice has to make sure there's accountability for this going forward."
The salient question is: does Irony love any of us this much?
"They have a duty to investigate this as as potential criminal matter," he said. "And wouldn't this just be so fitting if the 'but her emails' guy who really ran on that in 2016 was someone who took home classified information that perhaps would have been embarrassing or incriminating against him, and that was ultimately the way he was held criminally liable. That seems like a fitting ending to this five-year saga we've all been mired in."

Speaking of clownish:
While President Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, Maggie Haberman scoops in her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man."
Is this guy 3 years old?
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