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Matsu
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2022-08-31, 08:49

He needs to go to jail, along with some of the members of his administration. His spineless supporters on the right try to downplay it as just another case of "Trump being Trump", but this line of apology has to stop. He's not just crass, and his failings aren't merely a matter of taste. He's a sociopath who hides his sins in broad daylight by showing no trace of remorse. The dangerous vector of his talent as a salesman and inherited power/privilege is his ability to convince others that because he suffers no compunction, there is in essence nothing to see, that someone who acts as he does can't possibly be hiding anything, that he hasn't swindled anyone because if you really listened, he was telling you all along that's what he was doing. Some don't see through it, and others don't want to for their own reasons, but it's always there. It's his most reliable trait, manifest this time as a question about his entitlement to the very documents in question. He hides much this way, and it isn't "just" a personality trait.

If we consider the reason for the this particular theft, the obvious conclusion is an intent to commit treason. The information is useless to him unless he intends to use it to pressure agents of the state or otherwise compromise them for personal gain. And we all know he's not above that...

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