William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, September 7, 2022
Donald Trump now has at least 19 attorneys defending him in eight or more investigations, according to Politico. If the revelations keep piling up, that number could double in about as much time as it takes a box of bunny rabbits to breed. Finding that help won't be easy, either; this is an area of the law that isn't lousy with specific experts, and the ones available have this thing about getting paid.
Plus, the latest development in the saga would have most lawyers running for the hills.
"A document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month," reports The Washington Post. "Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Only the president, some members of his Cabinet or a near-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special-access programs."..................
"A fortress mindset feeds the U.S. government's huge 'defense' budget — which is higher than the military budgets of the next 10 countries combined — while the Pentagon maintains about 750 military bases overseas," author and activist Norman Solomon writes for Truthout. "But victimology is among Washington's official poses, in sync with a core belief that the United States is at the center of the world's importance and must therefore police the world to the best of its capacity."
The core nature of secrets is their importance, which is why they are usually so well guarded, and why this latest Trump debacle has so many people freaked. ..............................
Understand: No intelligence body on the planet would gladly grant top-secret access to a person like Donald Trump. He is the living embodiment of an easily compromised individual, a walking blackmail target with debts on his debts. The only reason he got his hands on all that stuff is because the country went berserk and made him president, and presidents are automatically gifted top-flight clearance by dint of electoral victory.
Yet he remains Donald Trump, the blowhard desperate to hide the small fraction of a man within.
Even being president of the United States wasn't enough to assuage his insecurity, so, perhaps, he surrounded himself with boxes of secret documents that made him feel whatever passes for powerful in his shriveled little soul.
Who knows what country those nuke documents were describing. Israel? China? Russia? Does it even matter at this juncture? Thanks to a million profit-driven war decisions made over the last 80 years, we exist within a wildly delicate latticework of perils that are mostly left over from the Cold War. Not our fault, but all our problem. https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-top-secret-document-hoard-included-nuclear-weapons-data/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=df913dd0-f214-4843-a78f-46849632c0c5
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