Take A Deep Breath

What happens next is that he gets charged with willful retention of national defense information and obstruction of justice, two of the crimes listed on the search warrant. Can you read https://t.co/JYfkBi7h3f

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 28, 2022

Sean Duffy: Trump can declare any document unclassified 'and say I'm taking it with me' https://t.co/kMLlf3W6B0

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 28, 2022

Mick Mulvaney and Sean Duffy are not lawyers. The courts don’t give a wet snap what they say on TeeVee or Twitter. And what they say is pretty much stupid.

Speaking of stupid:

In Colombia it got to a point where in some courtrooms where prosecutors were trying to bring traffickers to justice, judges would have to preside behind a black curtain and use voice distorting microphones to conceal their identities. In case you’re wondering where this leads

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 28, 2022

I respect Asha, but it’s time to step away from the Twitter machine.

I get to teach basics of rule of law in two weeks. Trying to figure out how to work in the part where due process and notice and jurisdiction don’t matter when an angry mob may assassinate the judge for applying those basic norms to their god king. https://t.co/39Jk64NAZI

— Chip Stewart (@MediaLawProf) August 28, 2022

That advice applies generally.  Of course, it could always be worse.

So, if the classified documents from Mar-a-Lago turn out to be from Crossfire Hurricane (the 2016 Russia hoax) and they exonerate Trump…what happens next?

— Mick Mulvaney (@MickMulvaney) August 27, 2022

Yeah, that’s why the documents are classified; to cover up Trump’s innocence. Also the reason Trump never released them. Hey, he declassified them, didn’t he?

Some people go too far; some people are just stupid.