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  Why ignore one and not the other?
context: You might ask, why didn't he shred the documents?
  The answer seems to be that shredding White House documents isn't that easy. Docs are protected under the Presidential Records Act, and access to shredders is limited since they're for document destruction. Access to a fireplace isn't restricted, though. >
  
  It’s weird, where I’m at we have access to “up to Secret” shredders all over the place. Funny thing, you can take the shreds and compress them with water into bio-bricks to burn. >
  
  Those shredders are friggin awesome too. Nothing but dust comes out the other end. And no one ever changes the bags. >
  
  As I always say, "Shred it, don't regret it"! >
  
  Just don't print the documents in the first place.  Much less paper work. >
  
  Emailing stuff is a whole different bag of worms.
  Properly adding classification markings to a document is like asking a 10-year-old to manually process your taxes. And then the email itself has to be sent via the proper channel, with headers, and subject lines with correct markings. 
  It's almost better to screen grab the exact thing you want to discuss so without context the subject matter is meaningless, which is a total no-no, and I would never do that... >
  
  Cromulent behavior during a presidential transition I'm sure. >
  
  "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"
  It's apt that Jedediah was a grifter conman, deff on brand for the sad sack trumpy crowd >
  
  You mean Hans Sprungfeld! >
  
  So, lock him up?
  Oh wait, that's just for Democrats.
  Republicans get a handshake and a wad of cash for illegal treatment of official documents >
  
  Buttery males >
  
  Mmmm, soo. buttery.
  And don't forget Hun Turd Bye Den >
  
  We can’t hear all the stories about Hung Turd’s laptop but they go on and on about that reasonable political discourse that happened a couple years ago. Why are they always complaining about what happened on Jan 6th? It was just a prank, bro. >
  
  Look here lib turd!
  Jan 6 was a fake false flag operation that is actually Nancy Pelosis fault for not securing the Capitol better.
  We need to stop talking about Jan 6, which was 2 years ago and doesn't matter to Americans now.
  What we need to talk about is what Hunter Biden did 10 years ago.
  Talking about Trump sending fanatics to stop the electoral count won't solve inflation.
  Talking about Hunter Biden will
  How? I'd explain it to you, but I don't think you have the QI to understand. Clearly, yer daddy's ballsack didn't have enough liberty sperm in it to bless you with the intelleck to understand these matters. >
  
  Your sound logic has convinced me. 
  Where may I purchase a Fuck Joe Biden tshirt and maga cap? >
  
  Woah woah, you need a Let's Go Brandon shirt because only us high QI patriots know what it means. Makes the libs go crazy trying to figure it out! >
  
  My father is going to ignore this hard. >
  
  He's already ignored the death of hundreds of thousands of people, what's a paper or two? >
  
  So the Putin instructions are all gone? >
  
  So, when is everyone involved going to prison? >
  
  Consequences are for the plebs. >
  
  So when they inevitably bring him in and ask him about it, is this going to be his Jack Nicholson, "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" moment? >
  
  Him
  U mean trump? >
  
  Meadows. Trump can't even string a single coherent sentence together, let alone an entire monologue. >
  
  Lock him up. >
  
  Very legal and very cool. >
  
  What, the first 11 times he set them on fire didnt work? >
  
  He just hated them that much. >
  
  But due to our 2 tiered Justice system he will go un punished. Why would anything happen? Trump literally stole documents and nothing has happened! >
  
  DOJ Prosecutors: well you have to understand... we could lose. This isn't some run of the mill car thief with just a public defender. This is a rich person with lawyers that are better paid than I am. >
  
  Trump doesn’t pay his lawyers. It’s getting harder and harder for him to find representation since all his previous lawyers are also getting in trouble for lying. >
  
  Meadows probably pays his though. >
  
  I just imagine him like Uncle Vernon from Harry Potter.  Crouched next to the fireplace, notices someone is watching, and only nods with a smirk on his face as he continues to toss them in. >
  
  Can someone please explain how this is effective? Unless they are using typewriters, a digital copy exists somewhere right? >
  
  Or handwritten notes.  Apparently Trump has/had a practice of scrawling notes on memos and documents.  
  Remember the time he sharpied a hurricane map and presented it on live TV? >
  
  Forgot about the hurricane map - we have a serious problem when the president of the United States has the intelligence level of Michael Scott >
  
  He spelled Al Qaeda “Alcaida” on his own personal notes.
  Like… the main organization we’ve been waging war against for 20 fucking years and that brought down the WTC and the President of our country can’t be assed to learn how to spell their organization’s name. >
  
  Let’s be fair, Trump couldn’t be assed to learn how to spell. It’s got nothing to do with his extensive history of racism. >
  
  As chief of staff, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is the fall guy for a bunch of this crap. He doesn’t seem too smart either so he might end up getting caught and punished before the others. >
  
  Low life scum >
  
  Let me guess: he’s not in jail because people assumed this would never happen with an appointed official, and now that it has, “whoops, our hands are tied”?
  If this was any other administration, they’d be in jail or worse. >
  
  IMHO this is just one more sign the Republican Party has surrendered its morality on the altar of POWER. You don't burn unclassified documents that aren't INCRIMINATING. >
  
  Lock. Him. Up. >
  
  Prosecute him. >
  
  How is this not blatantly illegal?? >
  
  It is illegal. >
  
  If it were illegal, that would be a crime that someone could be punished for. 
  no one is being investigated, charged, or arrested. I therefore submit to you that Mark Meadows burning these documents is NOT illegal. >
  
  Treasonous trash. >
  
  OK, can we start putting these criminals in jail already? >
  
  Merrick Garland has established the precedent that current and former Republican politicians have complete immunity from arrest and prosecution. 
  He has rendered our Constitution null and void, and has helped the Federalist Society usher in fascism by establishing 2 tiers of justice. 
  People will say "No, no, he just needs TIME."
  That argument falls flat when you ask what the time is needed for. 
  If it's "an airtight case", well, he had that with the Mueller Report. An airtight, ironclad case against Trump, that had him dead to rights. And Garland made the CHOICE to ignore it. 
  Likewise with the theft of the Top Secret classified Documents. those had nothing to do with the Jan 6th investigation (which, sure, let that take 3 decades for Garland to 'flip the little fish'). This is an open and shut case, with plenty of incontrovertible evidence, tons of witness testimony, and PUBLIC CONFESSIONS.  
  Unlike January 6th, there are no "little fish" to flip here. There are no low-level covfefe boys to flip. Trump did it. He had the documents. He confessed. We all saw the pictures. Garland doesn't need to start with all the White House, low-level staffers and spend 2 years "flipping little fish" to get to Trump to find out if he ever had the documents, or where they are, or if he knew about them. There are no little fish to flip. The big fish confessed, he did it, there's the stolen property, right there. The arrest can be made right now. We all know it's 100% illegal. 
  So what's the holdup?
  Garland. Garland has set the clear precedent that he will follow the Federalist Society's wishes to shape America into a Fascist, right-wing hellscape. 
  Why Biden is allowing it is beyond me. >
  
  You realize that Merrick Garland wasn’t AG during the Mueller investigation…right?
  (That said, I’m with you on feeling increasingly impatient.) >
  
  Right. Mueller did all the legwork in that investigation, and made it crystal clear that the ONLY thing preventing Trump's arrest was the fact that he was President. The millisecond tha tTrump was out of the Presidency, he could be arrested for obstruction. We know that Bill Barr meddled with all of that but I saw nothing that said that Trump could not be charged with those crimes, they were still crimes Trump committed, arrestable offenses. Trump was even impeached for them. 
  The statute of limitations for some of the crimes ran out recently. they did not depend on Mueller being AG. Just like if I rob a bank, and the officer who arrests me dies and they hire a new officer to replace them, that does not mean that I go scot-free. It means that the new officer takes over. 
  Merrick Garland takes over the cases that the previous DOJ left open. They don't just cancel all the crimes every time a new AG steps in. >
  
  This should be pursued with the same diligence as Republicans investigating president Hunter Biden. >
  
  I do believe that's a felony at the least >
  
  Not tough enough. 
  No more milquetoast Democrats who smile at their dear Republican pals and are willing to reach out in "bipartisan unity" with white supremacist violent insurrectionists. 
  I want to vote for a Democrat who is willing to get in a room with Matt Gaetz and knows what the hell we do with child rapists. Not like the CURRENT Democrats in Congress who sit in a room with Matt Gaetz and sip coffee and chuckle at his jokes like weak, simpering, child-rapist enablers.
  I want to vote for a Democrat who carries a sword and calls Republicans "Nazi" to their FACES. >
  
  As bad as I want it to be "the thing that gets him" there's literally no way to determine if what was burned was an original or not.  It's aparrently common practice to burn things at the WH given they have "burn bags" in their offices.  Unless strictly forbidden by law, burning a document in the fireplace that would have otherwise gone in the burn bag doesn't appear to be an offense.  This is a big to do about nothing because there's literally no way to prove what was burned. >
  
  He used the fireplace because staffers were opening the burn bags and preserving the documents that had to be retained by law. >
  
  I'd like to see more info on that.  I remember her testimony saying they used to retrieve documents that were shredded/torn to put them back together. But I don't remember it being tied to the documents to be burned. >
  
  Reminds me of that time Hillary deleted all those subpoenaed emails. >
  
  That sounds like a bullshit willfully ignorant take. >
  
  Yes acknowledging both crimes is willfully ignorant. How could I have been so stupid. >
  
  But why did you mention the emails at all? You can say that Meadows burning government documents is a bad thing without having to squeeze Hillary into it. If not providing a dismissive reason to ignore the severity of the issue this post is about, why do you even need to "acknowledge both crimes" anyway?