This week Politico had a story where South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds had some words about former President Trump’s removal of classified documents from the White House:
Some Republicans, though they’ve been few and far between so far, have openly criticized Trump’s handling of the documents and assert that he never should have had them in the first place.
“You shouldn’t be taking those classified things that are supposed to be … in a classified location,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who has previously drawn Trump’s ire for criticizing the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election. “There are specific areas where classified materials are looked at. And it’s pretty clear-cut.”
Speaking of Trump – my family and I wrote and published a book (we print and bind them here in Spearfish). Would it be okay for me to promote my book here?
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There were so many hoaxes perpetrated on President Trump, I’m not sure this’ll be any different. The FBI violated law by not allowing Trump’s legal representation to be present. I’m all for not selling-out the US to China.
Rounds’ work on Chinese ownership of US farmland notwithstanding, his lack of support for the Trump trade deal reconfiguration with respect to China is troubling.
Seems inconsistent.
LOLOLOLOLLL, there is no law requiring the FBI inform someone’s attorney that a search supported by warrant is going to be conducted. That would be a near guarantee evidence would be destroyed. Do you just say this stuff and hope nobody fact checks you, John?
There is no legal requirement that officers executing a search warrant must allow the subject’s lawyers to be present. In fact it is common that officers “clear the area” or assign an agent to monitor any civilian in the premises while the search is conducted.
So the hoax is claiming that the FBI had a duty to let the lawyers hang out and oversee.
Those are facts. Trumpers have his “alternative facts”.
Mike Rounds taking on the Trump idiocies and Pat Powers taking on the party wackos. It’s a telling thing when THEY are the voices of reason in the Republican Party!!!
Amen to that!
🤣🤣🤣 someone’s got jokes!!!🤣🤣🤣
There was nothing illegal that Trump had. You can take that to the bank.
It’s going to be another russia gate hoax that blows up in the democrats face.
I never fell for it and every democrat and some repubs did on this site.
You’ve seen the docs eh?
The FBI and other federal agencies leak classified information to the press when it serves their purposes. If there was anything really damaging seized, we’d know it by now. Instead, we get teasers, which still cause mischief galore.
You mean, like nuclear intel? The fact you dont consider that damaging speaks to your bias.
The FBI and intel people have never been shy about leaks of any kind to help themselves. Your comment speaks to your naivete.
And yours speaks to what a syncophant you are.
Sycophant, spelling
So Rounds isn’t running for re-election, is my takeaway.
Why else would he be so brave?
nobody’s worried about rounds losing to the kind of nutjob trump would send at him.
Kristi Noem?
she couldn’t take him. rounds in full campaign configuration is unstoppable.
Everybody takes work home with them, and for the past two years everybody in Washington has been working from home. My son just recently resumed going into the office one day a week, and his agency is now questioning to need for all the overhead cost of office space.
You would be hard pressed to find somebody who works in the federal government who doesn’t have stuff in his private residence now.
This situation calls for oversight, but that’s it.
Wait, wut? My goodness Anne. He isn’t the president (sorry hard for many to accept). He has zero, ZERO, right to have many of these documents at his country club. Moving them around the WH is another matter but that’s not the issue.
I’m sure your son has access to the deepest source and method practices and information of the NSA/DIA/CIA and locks his house up at night. Problem solved. He has a ring doorbell.
Yeah, I too have stuff from my office in my home, however, it isn’t the stuff that is required to stay in a skif or marked sensitive or even FOUO. For me, if I were to take that stuff home, I would be violating federal law. Why not just come out and say the law does not apply to Trump and his MAGA chronies. These excuses are just making you all look dumb.
I take work home as well. But if I quit my job or get fired, I don’t take the most sensitive information home with me after the fact. This excuse is laughable. Trump isn’t getting punished for taking it. In fact, they told him just to give it all back once they found out and everything would have been fine but he didn’t. The fact is, he is purposely holding onto it when he has no business having it anymore. Your point is moot when discussing the charges that will be placed against him. He was trying to monetize that information for his own personal gain. The guy is a straight up traitor.
“He was trying to monetize that information for his own personal gain.”
Really? You have proof? I mean rock solid, documented in black and white, or a video recording of President Trump saying that was his intention; no kidding indisputable proof.
Or is this just a libtard/DFP talking point that you are parroting?
Poor take, Anne. For one, Trump wasn’t working from home while many of us were. And, more importantly, don’t compare top-secret documents only the President and a handful of other people are privy to the “stuff in his private residence” of your typical federal employee. There is nothing typical about these documents.
Good for Rounds for stating the obvious.
Everyone takes nuclear secrets home with them. Got it. Piping hot take.
and Thune and Dusty agree with him. I’m glad all 3 of our representatives are finally speaking out about this monstrosity that is Trump.
my Dad had clearance because he was working on defense contracts… out of his office and lab, in our basement. All that good stuff was in our basement. He had an assortment of interesting colleagues working down there with him.
The FBI would come poking around, make inspections, interview the neighbors (who included George Kistiakowsky and a whole lot of other rocket scientists working at the Raytheon Missile Systems Division in Bedford, so, you, know, whatever, the whole town was under surveillance )
looking back, I guess it was pretty lax. When he died, he was working on something for the Navy and my mom found a buyer, another engineer, for the contract. I think she got $30K for it.
So I think all this hysteria about anything being labeled top secret might be a bit overblown. They label everything that way and it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. They can label their lunch that way if they want to.
Anne, stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.
Mark em secret because they’re not secret, therefore we can conclude that up is down here in cloud cuckoo land.