The institution of the Presidency in America has been damaged to such an extent that some may have imagined
The institution of the Presidency in America has been damaged to such an extent that some may have imagined
Poorly executed break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, June 1972 And later in August 1974, President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after destroying 18 minutes of taped evidence.
Unlike August 8, 2022, when Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents with valid search warrants visited Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of former President Donald Trump, and found top secret and sensitive documents. The search and seizure was unprecedented. In a voice of wounded innocence, Mr Trump later said, “All he had to do was ask” – even though the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Justice Department are doing exactly that. year.
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The timeline is troubling. In January, NARA retrieved 15 boxes of White House records that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago instead of NARA, as required by law. The documents included a letter from his predecessor to Mr Trump as well as Mr Trump’s self-described “love letter” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. But when NARA also found classified documents in the boxes, it informed the Justice Department, and the FBI got involved. Later court filings revealed that the FBI marked 67 documents as “confidential”, 92 as “secret” and 25 as “top secret.” The Justice Department received a grand jury subpoena in May, seeking any classified material that was still at Mar-a-Lago. Mr Trump’s lawyers returned some of the summons documents in June. This was followed by an FBI raid in August, in which the agency took 25 more boxes and found that some of the documents contained marks of the highest level of security classification. The authorities were particularly surprised to learn that these documents were found in newspapers and magazines. It makes even an ordinary person wonder about Mr. Trump’s intentions or extreme carelessness.
Conservatives in the Grand Old Party and right-wing media houses, except for Mr Trump’s staunch supporters, see the end of a game the former president has been playing for nearly two years, that is, not just keeping alive. Fake theory about 2020 presidential election, but also in public interest he should decide to contest in 2024. In a frantic attempt to raise the noise limit, Mr Trump and his lawyers demanded that a special master be appointed to ensure a fair assessment. Documents, including potential attorney-client privilege letters, were taken to the raid. Trump-appointed District Judge, Eileen Cannon, agreed to the demand, but it didn’t matter. Due process was previously followed in cases involving Mr Trump’s lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen. In addition, the Justice Department had already set up a review team. The issue is not of attorney-client privileges, but of top-secret national security documents, which may have been handled by individuals without proper authorization or, worse, have been viewed by people, including foreigners, who may have been killed by Mar-a- There are soldiers inside and outside the lago. Those in charge of the Trump administration, for the mid-term 2022 or 2024, are watching developments with unease, in contrast to political hacks waiting to profit from these events.
When Hanging Chad of Florida worked in favor of George W. Bush in 2000, it was reported that Democratic staff at the White House were so upset that they left derogatory messages to Mr. Bush on signs and in telephone voicemails and keys. Knocked out computer, specifically ‘W’. In Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of AmericaMaggie Haberman wrote that during Mr Trump’s final days as president, toilets at the White House were filled with papers and torn notes. Mr Trump called the claims “fake”, “clearly untrue” and “simply made up”.
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The revelations of the strange incidents that happened during Trump’s tenure are not likely to end soon. The former president apparently took “boxes” from Mar-a-Lago whenever he traveled. Some give him the benefit of the doubt. They say that he wanted to “show off”, which seems to suit his character. But others, such as Mr Cohen, are unwilling to be so generous. Mr Cohen says Mr Trump has already given top-secret information while traveling around the world and has conceded that he will try to use classified information to “ensure that he will be able to live the rest of his natural life.” behind bars on the “charge of treason.” The institution of the presidency in America has somehow been damaged to such an extent that few would have even imagined.
Sridhar Krishnaswamy was a former senior journalist who lived in Washington for 14 years and covered North America and the United Nations. thoughts are personal