DL Open Thread: Friday, August 12, 2022

Trump Went–Nuclear? Did he take classified information pertaining to nuclear weapons, either ours or from foreign countries from the White House? Could be why the search warrant was granted:

Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.

“If that is true, it would suggest that material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level,” said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, which investigates leaks of classified information. “If the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater ‘hair-on-fire’ motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible.”

Hey, Trump would gladly hand nuclear secrets over to the Saudis in exchange for their underwritten LIV Golf Tour playing their tourneys at Trump courses. What’s that you say? They’ve already lined up three of his courses?

First Second Civil War ‘Soldier’ Dies In Cincinnati. One Ricky Walter Shiffer:

The two officials said Shiffer appeared to have posted in recent days about his desire to kill FBI agents after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was searched.

Earlier, two law enforcement sources said a man armed with an AR-15-style rifle got inside the FBI building and fired a nail gun toward personnel before he fled in a car.

In the days after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s compound in Palm Beach, Florida, he appeared to post multiple times on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.

In one comment, he appeared to call on people to prepare for “combat.” In another, his apparent account said users should kill FBI agents “on sight.”

If COVID doesn’t get ’em, perhaps the FBI will.

IG And Secret Service Suppressed Jan. 6 Materials. When Trump names the Inspectors General, they will not inspect if Trump doesn’t want them to.

Kowalko Calls Out State Medicare Advantage Scam. Once again, hatched in secret w/o legislative input. State pensioners will pay the price.

What do you want to talk about?