The Worst Traitor In American History*
Generally, in American history, Benedict Arnold is considered the epitome of a traitor. But I think there’s a better candidate than that emo, money-grubbing glory hound: a certain New Yorker.
The son of a powerful family, who from childhood to adulthood seethed with resentment over other people getting more attention or accolades, he became a sometimes-successful politician, who built a mere social club into a political organization so crooked, it became the avatar of political corruption in America, which he helped along by creating a shell company, ostensibly for one purpose, only turn it into a political slush fund making “loans” to business associates who would then support his candidates.
A power-hungry social climber who nearly destroyed the Electoral College in an attempt to turn a loss into a win, this ego-maniac thought he could kill a fellow New Yorker in broad daylight and not hurt his political fortunes. And once those fortunes did tumble after one term, he conspired with foreign powers to set himself up as a kind of client-king in North America, beholden to the other strongmen who put him there.
He single-handedly stress tested the political experiment of our Constitutional Republic, blowing past norms and guardrails of gentlemanly patriotism in pursuit of raw power that he deemed was his by right, and it was only thanks to the incompetence of his co-conspirators that we didn’t end up with Aaron Burr the First, King of America.
Gotcha!
Yes, TFG emulates him in so many things, but let’s hope there’s one major difference: other than the political fallout, Burr got away with the rest, including two treason acquittals for playing a game of thrones with England and Spain. He got away with creating a clean water company that instead became a bank and gave loans to allow small business owners to have enough property to vote. He got away with creating Tammany Hall. He got away with lying to Jefferson as a running mate and trying to steal the election from underneath him via the Electors.
And he was never even charged for shooting that one guy who became a musical.
Now I’m the villain in your history.
Let’s hope that the knock on the door at Mar-a-Lago last week is just the first of many, and that Burr’s title gains an asterisk: The Worst Traitor in American History*
*who got away with it
Traitor & conspiracy purveyor Trump said “all three” of his passports were confiscated by the FBI.
1Lucky for him it’s America First. He won’t be going anywhere else anytime soon (if his annoucement is true)
Rick @ 1,
If the FBI took his passports (three of them?), things must be getting serious at the DOJ and the word “indictment” may be next for tfg. It can’t come soon enough.
2Hopefully the teflon Don’s escapes from justice will finally end. Maybe in 200 years there’ll be a bust of trumpf that simply says the “worst POTUS ever” ant not “He ended the United States Democracy” or “First US dictator”.
3The orange butthead is a textbook malignant narcissist, a cruel, sadistic psycho. Self centered to the extreme, aka extreme spoiled bratism. . He never grew up mentally or emotionally.
4And the GOP and religious right luvvv him. Nuff said.
If all of these documents have been at MAL since 2020, why didn’t the FBI have a search warrant for these sooner than 2022, if there were TS documents?
5What I want to know is if everyone has to be stripped of all electronics prior to entering one of these double secret SCIFs to see these triple secret docs, how did the Orange Baboon get the docs out of the skiff without anyone noticing or objecting since the docs are supposed to be only viewed within
6this facility? Why wouldn’t someone notice that a given doc was no longer present.
John @ 6: Some facilities security officer (FSO) slacked off and let documents out of the SCIF. True, it’s hard to stop a White House chief of staff or T****’s princess daughter at the door – but that’s why FSOs get paid the big bucks [joking … they don’t].
But your questions are relevant. Which SCIF was breached, when, and by whom? Little Marco Rubio is now demanding that Congress be told exactly what papers were taken … no doubt so the Republicans can then say none of the information was that important, and that it was mistakenly classified. I hope the security state resists those efforts. The chain of (mis)custody is of greater interest and should be tracked down and released to Congress and possibly the public.
And in answer to your first question, yes they do strip you of all electronics. Even a key fob for your car, and any RFID (including your passport), contactless credit cards. The ones I’ve dealt with also forbid taking in any pens, pencils, or scraps of paper. I suspect they’d really like to have you stripped buck naked, and afterwards examine you with UV and bright lights to make sure you have not scored some info on your inner thigh. But that stage had not been reached by the time I left that nonsense behind.
7If some Secret Service agents, police and FBI are more loyal to trump than to their oath, it’s not hard to believe he had help removing classified materials all the way to his storage locker. I’m afraid I don’t trust anyone anymore.
More to the point, who told him what to take? He can’t read with much understanding, especially without the glasses he’s too vain to wear. There are plenty of suspects — Miller, Pompeo, Manafort and and Flynn are the ones I’d start with.
8I wonder if Trump already traded some of those secrets for something. Since the PGA dumped him, he sure got tournaments from the Saudi tour.
9LOCK THE SONUVABITCH UP!
LOCK UP ALL THE RETHUGLIKANS!
They are all fascist traitors to our nation.
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Something that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere about Mar-A-Pendejo is that it is a paid membership club, —of which the members consist of largely Russians, Red Chinese, Saudis, and many others of the same ilk, most of them FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS!
WTMFF!
With reams of OUR nation’s most sensitive intelligence documents at a convenient few feet away from those hordes of SPIES.
WTF could go wrong here? [I fully understand that this is actually just a multi-billion dollar fencing operation on behalf of the Trump Crime Family Org…]
Another thing, the time is long past when anyone, particularly our leadership and DoJ people like Merrick Garland, should show any deference or respect towards the Rufous Ratbastard, –formerly– POTUS.
Every day he ups his ridiculously demands for accommodations to be made regarding the lawful search and seizure actions taken by the DoJ and FBI last week.
This crooked corrupt-to-the-core sonuvabitch has NO claim to be dictating how and when the particulars of these duly authorized legal processes happen.
His latest demands that the secret and highly sensitive “probable cause affidavits” which facilitated the search warrant be made public is far beyond the pale.
It’s way past time that TPTB begin stiffing this ratbastard. He was whining about them also seizing his passport, which was quickly returned to him.
The DoJ/FBI should have just sat on it for a few weeks/months, dragging their feet, just as the Ratbastard does. Such harsh chickenshit methods are all these vicious mobsters understand. Being polite and accommodating with them is only perceived as weakness.
Hit ’em again, harder!
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