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DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay (freedom.press)

submitted 20 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1493901/doj-says-presidents-should-be-able-to-sell-secrets-on-ebay

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 25 points 18 hours ago

Welp, this is the end my friends.

If they’re saying this out loud, you know they’ve been selling secrets privately for years – long enough that this doesn’t sound insane to them. It’s the logical next step. This is just an admission that everyone with money has been spanking the US with impunity. I mean, we knew that, but this is them admitting it openly.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

We knew when there was the pile of documents at Mar-a-Lago.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 25 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yes, and not just the documents – people miss that one of the rooms had nothing but stacks of boxes containing top secret documents and one office copier. Nothing else.

This one:

All those boxes are classified documents, and the white thing at the right is a copier. Nothing else in there.

Everyone talks about the toilet one or the ballroom one as though the issue was mishandling. No, the worst one was this room, with a copier, and this was the room they had locked and tried to keep the FBI out by saying it was flooded by the pool and the maintenance guy had lost the keys. Do you see any water damage in there? Remember that lie?

e: link, and I just remembered that the reason we have this photo is the FBI didn’t buy his excuses and stationed an agent outside the door until they opened it under court order, which was like a week or something. That whole thing was crazy.

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago

This means, somewhere, there is already a post by trump selling secrets on ebay i am sure

[-] zoloftt@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

I mean, it's the Trump DOJ. They will break the law and won't say anything about it unless someone else brings it up.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Wait, what even the fuck?

[-] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

Claiming to be the most transparent president ever...

It's so obviously transparent, it doesn't even have to be mentioned how bad it actually is. Perhaps a recurring reminder that it's yet again worse then we previously thought.

[-] Unleaded8163@fedia.io 5 points 18 hours ago

Free market capitalism baby. Why should Putin have a monopoly on state secrets? Open that shit up for bidding on the free market.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago

Maximum No

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