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02:36
> The seven counts against the former president include conspiracy to obstruct, willful retention of documents and false statements, according to people familiar with the indictment. He said he would surrender to the authorities on Tuesday.
03:31
been seeing the headlines
but he can still run for the presidency until he's convicted right?
 
1 hour later…
04:49
@Memor-X he can still run for president from prison
It's a ridiculous idea, but there's nothing that says he couldn't.
05:28
god imagine if that ended up happing

"sorry [Very Important Foreign Leader] but the president can't come out to meet you because he's already had his 1 hour walk in the courtyard. if you like we can set up a phone call during visiting hours"
 
9 hours later…
13:59
So apparently CNN has seen the transcript of that recording of Trump waving around that classified document, and its about as bad as it could be (for Trump):
> The transcript of the audio recording suggests that Trump is showing the document he’s discussing to those in the room. Several sources have told CNN the recording captures the sound of paper rustling, as if Trump was waving the document around, though is not clear if it was the actual Iran document.
> “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”
the headline is focused on the quote from the transcript: “As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t” which contradicts all his later claims
but to me the fact that he's showing it around the room to people (he knows) are not authorized to read it seems more significant
14:35
@BradC I agree, but only because it's classified info. So without the first bit, the second wouldn't be bad.
 
2 hours later…
16:51
wat
she's the Trump appointee/sycophant/literal nutjob who got assigned the "document review" case
@BradC Judge assignments are basically random
In happier news, most of the residents evacuated due to the Tantallon wildfire (near Halifax, Nova Scotia) are able to go home now.
https://www.halifax.ca/fire-police/fire/emergency-management/fires-tantallon-hammonds-plains
 
1 hour later…
18:02
Trump faces 37 criminal charges reuters.com/legal/…
> Donald Trump faces 37 criminal counts including charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after leaving the White House in 2021,
18:33
... He took nuclear secrets
Only one reason he'd do that, jfc
 
1 hour later…
19:35
here's a link that actually INCLUDES the 49-page indictment:
19:53
@BradC nice find
its very readable, and pretty damning
20:42
Another article breaking it down reuters.com/legal/…
21:15
Regarding Judge Aileen Cannon, looks like the court mistakenly filed this as a related case to the prior one (that was explicitly not specified in the Special Counsel's filing). Those in the know (read: law twitter) say he should be able to change this to (South Miami) venue pretty routinely, Cannon's court is like 3+hrs away

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