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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 184 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Fair and likely but Mary doesn’t fucking know anything.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 97 points 9 months ago (5 children)

True, but these are not the words of innocent men.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is "unprofessional" to ask if the binder was sold to Russia. "What proof do you have?" he asked.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago

It sounds like Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung also has no clue, but he's seen this one enough times to know that his outright denial would probably be contradicted by Trump within the week.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah, the ol' Criminal reverse burden/onus of proof. Counter with the old motherly trick, why might I have reason to even need to bring this up with you...

What would Mary do/There's something off about Mary...

[–] AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It sounds like this story originated with Trump to create a fake news story to distract from the real news of his court cases.

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[–] AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

This whole binder story smells like the kind of news stories we were fed during the early years of his presidency. It's so 2017, throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

We don't need any new controversies. We need to see the felonies that have already been charged be prosecuted intelligently and effectively.

[–] June@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

Yea, this isn’t news

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't believe it, but only because he's too incompetent to have kept that kind of high treason a secret.

I absolutely would believe that he kept it with his poop magazines and it was stolen, or copied, by the Carpet King of Tampa, or a foreign intelligence asset. Either one is just as likely.

[–] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's honestly stupid enough that he'd be bragging about the money he made from the sale if he did sell it

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"I think NATO is going to be very surprised...I had the best Generals, they wouldn't be surprised...the traitor generals who supported the election hoax and Joe Biden, they'll be surprised because they aren't good, okay, they're bad, very bad. My dad, very smart, so smart, he always said sell your books when you're done with them. Did you know binders are books? No one knew, but they are. I'm very smart and very good at deals. I make the deals, I sold a book for 50 million dollars, a book? Can you imagine? Joe Biden wouldn't of gotten $20, so dumb. I got the most votes, ever, can you believe that?"

That's my point. I don't believe he sold it to the Russians. I can absolutely believe that his actions directly lead to being aquired by foreign agents, or the Carpet King of Tampa.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 85 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When Trump hosted the KGB diplomats in the White House, when he confiscated his translators notes after his meeting with Putin, after he betrayed the Kurds, the media would ask, "Why did Trump do this?"

There were always a range of possible reasons, but only one that explained them all with perfect sense. I suggest everyone read American Kompromat by Craig Unger. There is a trail of circumstantial evidence Trump has been a Russian asset since at least 1986.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

There is a piss tape

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

The P in P-tape is pedophilia

He is known to have raped underage girls and pootin has the goods, just as likely through Epstein

[–] generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 43 points 9 months ago

May have? It would be more surprising news if he didn't.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 30 points 9 months ago

Business is business, isn’t that what he says? Business as usual for a bloke who keeps top secret documents in his spare bathroom.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

May have? This guy would sell his own daughter if he could. And I'm not eve talking about the one whose name he doesn't know, I'm talking about the one he wants to fuck.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Fucking duh. Why else would he have taken a fucking truckload of classified docs?

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

Oh so she just learned that he may have sold a binder? She wasn't just holding onto this little pearl in order to sell another book was she? Any of Trump's circle, even his ostensibly "nice" niece Mary, is just an opportunist looking to cash in on the chaos.

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Newsweek is trash. this is clickbait.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh thank goodness there is no merit to this headline. Oh wait, it is still a plausible situation no matter where you read the headline. Nevermind.

[–] mob@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Damn, we've lowered the bar for journalism to plausible?

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Have you been paying attention to the journalism industry lately? We're lucky to get "plausible" half the time.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Is the headline false? I think Mary trump said those words. I'd love to hear why you think they faked this quote.

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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Man what is up with Republicans and their binders?

[–] Stanwich@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Where the fuck are all your patriots on this one?

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I already assumed this had happened.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please fucking let it be so and soooo public([ly]

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do You thing this would change his ratings?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only ratings I care about with regard to Donald Trump:

  • Maximum Security
  • 0 Decibels
  • 6 feet under (preferablyest)
  • his genuine leaked Wharton grades + sample submission
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The binder in question contained raw intelligence that the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies collected on Russia's alleged election interference in 2016, when Trump beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for the presidency, among other documents, according to Reuters who spoke with a source familiar with the matter.

"Let me put it this way, if the government ever had evidence Donald Trump purposely handed classified info to a hostile power, he would never see the light of day again," she wrote, who also added that the documents could have also been destroyed, lost, or kept by someone.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a Saturday email that it is "unprofessional" to ask if the binder was sold to Russia.

Trump wanted to declassify materials in the binder related to the FBI's investigation into Russia's alleged election interference, according to the source.

A federal court document filed in August by journalist John Solomon, who Trump appointed to be a representative authorized to access his presidential records in the National Archives, gives some insight into who had their hands on the missing binder.

On January 19, 2021, just one day before Trump left office, Meadows invited Solomon to the White House to review declassified pages and discuss its public release, according to the court document.


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