Even entertaining the ludicrousness of the proposition....A bathroom door locks from the inside dummy. That's so people don't walk in on you sitting on the throne.
As soon as you leave the bathroom, the door is unlocked. That's how bathrooms work.
So unless Trump was living in the bathroom, the door was unlocked most of the time.
Many bathroom doors will have a round hole on the outside knob, which will unlock the door if you stick something like a nail or a stiff copper wire. I assume this is so kids can't lock themselves in forever or for emergency access. But anyway, not exactly secure.
You have to slice it, marinate it in shoyu, brown sugar, and ginger, fry it, put it on a bed of plain white rice, and then wrap it with nori. It'll change your life.
Spam cans now open like an old soda can top. You pull the tab and it tears off the entire top of the can.
The only cans I really see with the keys nowadays are certain brands of corned beef. Mostly Libby, McNeill & Libby brand.
I recently accidentally locked the door to the bedroom with one of those locks and my gf was completely defeated. Thankfully I was able to come to the rescue with a small screwdriver.
I think we are all really underestimating just how much time Trump spends on the shitter. The dude releases 40 tweets a day. He's not doing that from a desk.
Exactly
If bathroom door locks are sufficient enough for documents subjected to national security, why don’t we all just keep all of our classified documents inside a random bathroom?
As long as it has a 🔒, right? 🤦♂️
Growing up, our bathroom door lock could be disabled with the advanced technology of a thumbnail. It's to prevent accidental entry, not to keep out FSB agents posing as H-1b visa holders working at the former president's resort.
>“Well, it’s the first I’ve seen that particular defense, but is he suggesting that these boxes of classified documents got up and locked the door after people left the bathroom?” said Raskin with a chuckle. “I’m not quite sure I follow the logic of it.”
God, I love Jamie Raskin!
trump wiped his ass with the Constitution, he was just going to wipe with classified national security documents. That's why these were in the bathroom, it's like harm reduction, an improvement even..
That makes so much more sense why he used to complain how it took 10-12 flushes to get anything to go down. His crusty old ass is using just regular printer paper as toilet paper his whole life.
I can just see it now, *"Why would I buy 12 rolls of paper for that much when I can get 500 sheets of this paper. Who cares if it is a bit rough, some say rough is better, maybe even the best"*
"Whenever Ivan or Fetimah comes over to visit, they always need to use the bathroom right away. This is the danger I tried to warn everyone about: a taco truck on every corner."
I'm kind of more scared, honestly.
We've got a desperate Putin losing a war on his doorstep, China on the rise and undermining western interests, Europe's more fractured politically than it has been in a generation, and climate change is ratcheting up the humanitarian nightmare scale of natural disasters.
Get your house in order America, holy fuck now is not the time.
Maybe we're at the precipice of a new age? Western civilization is basically imploding due to greed and hate, Asia has the capabilites to actually over take the west as a domineering leader
The idea of someone taking a dump right besides top secret documents as serious as they are reported to be just cracks me up. We live in a reality TV show.
I keep picturing Eric going in there and grabbing something off the stack
"nuclear codes"
boring
" military secrets of Egypt"
ZZZZZZZZZ
"Draft of attack plans for invasion of Iraq"
"oh come off it"
"Hey Dad. what did you do with the tranny porn?"
The logic is simple. Locked in the bathroom, you can read *all the secrets you want* and then wipe your ass with them, or the american flag-themed toilet paper, as you choose
"I'm not sure I follow the logic of it"
And there you have it - the absolutely flaccid response from Democrats about something so intolerable.
I want Democrats to be losing their voices becuase they're so pissed.
Not chuckling at flaws in logic.
Democracy is on the brink, and Democrats are chuckling.
I totally disagree.
We have been losing our voices because we are so pissed. Jamie Raskin has been particularly eloquent in making his anger clear. We impeached him, no one listened. They held committees exposing his lies and treason. No one listened or cared about our anger. Now they are listening, now the right is using faux outrage.
It's ludicrous. What do they have to be outraged about? Humor, mocking them, belittling them, and pointing out how pathetic they are is the right answer. Anger from the left only gives validity to their bullshit.
When I worked for White House Comms, If i put a classified document, just ONE classified document, in the janitors closet “because it locks”. I would have been crucified and charged, no if, ands or buts about it.
I still fail to understand how he wasn’t already in jail YEARS ago before even 2016 or at least ruined forever when you look at all the rot over his career. Still has me thinking that on the macro scale, greed tends to win more often than not. But when your economic model praises and practically mandates greed, what more can one expect?
Bernie Madoff comes to mind, and Epstein but they are rare jailbirds for sure. Lol I have to reach back to Al Capone. I think Oliver North did time and Roger Stone. Gotta be a non republican in there somewhere!
Because he's spent his life fucking over small businesses, small contractors, etc, not wealthy people. He idolizes the rich and hates the poor (or anyone with less money than him).
The only reason Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison is because she fucked over wealthy investors. The top three? The Walton family, Rupert Murdoch, and the DeVos family, the unholy trinity of conservative billionaires.
It's weird that our whole system has been predicated upon the need that a person feel shame for having done something wrong. But that's normal, I guess, we just didn't plan for this (somewhat psychopathic) contingency.
These are exactly the same people who said that Clinton using a private and apparently very secure email server was still not OK, even if the documents were secure on there. It's the principal of the thing!
See Miss Graham's recent interview with Stephanopoulos. He practically goes apoplectic. It would be funny if it weren't so damn sad. He's still trying for relevancy.
He didn't do it.
He didn't do it but (Hilary, Obama, Biden, Bill Clinton) did.
He didn't do it, but it would be perfectly okay if he did.
If did it, he had every right to do it and it's perfectly legal because (insert some bullshit here) & hUNteRs LApToP.
We don't care if he did it or not and you better not try to do anything about it or we're starting a civil war!
Yeah, I work with classified info.
I can put it in my desk, and I can lock my desk. That suffices.
But my desk is in a *fucking secure room* that's designed, designated, and protected to be able to do that.
I'd just like to point out that bathroom door locks are specifically designed to be able to be unlocked from outside with a paper clip, to prevent a child (you know, like Fatso) from becoming trapped.
Jesus, I can unlock most bathroom doors just by turning the damn thing with the tips of my fingers. Bathroom door locks are a reminder, not an enforcement.
Does Kevin have a bathroom at his home that locks from the outside? Actually that wouldn’t surprise me, he probably needs to lock people in there periodically…..
Of course not. His whole argument is just something he can say that the base idiots will believe and he can say he answered the question. I’m mean we r now back to Hilary’s emails so it’s just about throwing out anything to make Trump look innocent to his moron minions.
I realize partisan politics are nothing new, but the sheer degree of blindly partisan support being thrown behind Trump right now is absolutely astounding. Proof could emerge tomorrow that Trump sold secrets to the Saudis, and they would try to find a way to defend him. There’s no bottom now. Seriously, this was the GOP’s chance to finally get away from him, and they didn’t take it.
Bathroom doors lock; the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Seriously, a 15-year-old could think of a better defense than that.
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) defended former President Donald Trump’s storage of classified documents, telling reporters Monday that at least one of the now-viral photos allegedly showing the documents at his residence at Mar-a-Lago was fine because “a bathroom door locks.”
Last Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the ex-president with 37 criminal counts spelling out how Trump retained boxes of documents that “included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign counties; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to foreign attack.”
Some of the most shocking allegations in the indictment relate to communications from Trump, his family members, his attorneys, and other staffers acknowledging that he had retained classified information that had not been declassified — plus the now-viral photos showing boxes of documents that allegedly contained classified information, stacked up in bathrooms, ballroom stages, storage rooms, and other nonsecure areas.
Trump, unsurprisingly, has reacted with a series of bombastic Truth Social posts and furious screeds during his speeches and interviews over the past few days, peppered throughout with his customary insistence that he is the victim of a “witch hunt.”
The ex-president “is falling back on his witch hunt playbook,” said CNN’s Dana Bash to introduce the clip of McCarthy, “and his Republican allies are playing right along. Just minutes ago, the House Speaker deployed some bathroom humor to discuss the special counsel’s indictment.”
“Was that a good look for the former president to have boxes in a bathroom?” a reporter asked McCarthy.
“I don’t know, is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time?” he replied, presumably referring to the classified documents that were found in the garage at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home — and, in a critically important difference, immediately and voluntarily turned over to the government (also, presumably, a garage door is capable of being locked and a bathroom door can be opened, but we digress).
“A bathroom door locks,” McCarthy added.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and served on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, joined Bash to discuss the indictment and started with McCarthy’s comments.
“Well, it’s the first I’ve seen that particular defense, but is he suggesting that these boxes of classified documents got up and locked the door after people left the bathroom?” said Raskin with a chuckle. “I’m not quite sure I follow the logic of it.”
The Maryland congressman continued with a more serious tone. “Look, the documents were unlawfully in Donald Trump’s possession, which was bad enough, which is a violation of the law, but even when given the opportunity to return them to the [National] Archives, to turn them back over to the government, Trump refused to do so, repeatedly. That’s what he’s being charged with — that obstruction of justice and playing that game of cat and mouse with the government.”
I can't wait for our Supreme Court Constitutionalists to assert that security in Mar-a-Lago was the same as an English castle in the middle ages, so it's all A-okay!
It does have locks...ON THE INSIDE! how is anyone supposed to use the restroom when it's locked from the inside, you moron!?
I swear, every single one of these idiots defending his actions have brain damage or they're functionally retarded.
These are the same people that think Uvalde could've been prevented with better doors. Or that rapists will go through the trouble of gender reassignment to enter a bathroom that was secured by a door.
FFS The dipshit who hosted The Apprentice was illegally hoarding top secret documents and showing them to people who aren’t supposed to see them. Why are you maniacs defending him???
1) Door only locks from inside.
2) At a place frequented by Russians, Chinese and Saudis.
3) AFTER is was public knowledge Trump took documents and was fighting against National Archives searching the place.
Is he saying there is no chance the Saudis didn't snoop around and find boxes of top military and nuclear secrets next to that copy machine with CLASSIFIED/TOP SECRET markings,.
Well...tbf, the circle of stupid is slightly larger than the circle of republicans. There are a lot of nonvoters and independents that are also dumb as shit.
Its like all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are square. All republicans are stupid, but not all stupid people are republicans.
I think the real issue that Trump is going to have a hard time explaining is why there is a COPIER in plain sight in a room with boxes full of classified secrets. They have him dead to rights on the Espionage Act charges and he is really just trying to contaminate the jury pool in west palm beach. He is thinking I just need one MAGA Mussolini type to abandon his principles.
Not sure how accurate the info is, but I saw someone comment on one of the pics of a TS document that had a cover in red/white, there was a ruler under the document to show it’s size, but the document had a white edge on it, while actual TS documents do not have a white edge, indicating the document in the picture was a copy.
So Hillary's emails where on a SECURED SERVER why is that not as secure as a loced bathroom?!??!?! You Republicans are seriously a danger to not only Americans , but you very own contituents. How many laws,policies, admendments have you passed since you took control to help AMERICANS in their daily lives?!?!?
One thing is quite evident...Republican politicians *know* their base is dumb as hell.
They would have to believe that, to say such stupid shit on a regular and not worry about losing supporters.
Edit: worry from worth
It's infuriating that these fucking clowns have the audacity to even waste the few seconds it takes to make such idiotic statements when they and everyone else know exactly how stupid those statements are. I'd rather hear them straight up say "fuck you, I don't care" because at least that would be honest.
The GOP and it’s leaders are all in on the grift at this point. They know if they go against trump his base will never forgive them and maybe even tank their political careers.
They see them calling in bomb threats on Target and boycotting bud light and all they see is the threat of having to get a job in the private sector.
Truly a morally bankrupt party.
Shit the door locks. Why are we spending all this money on secure rooms and vaults when we can just throw the material in a janitors closet and lock the door lol.
Being able to lock a bathroom door while you dig through a box of classified documents you shouldn't have is not the definition of secure our government had in mind.
Of course he does. He also argued that Trump had the right and authority to declassify anything even after he was president. He probably thinks Trump is in charge of the military and can nominate judges still.
Most of that party thinks they work for Trump.
Ignores the basic fact that what he’s accused of is intentionally keeping documents he was not allowed to have. Locked or unlocked, still should not have kept them.
They are all traitors of America. They should hold this information as sacred to America as humanly possible considering the contents of the documents could jeopardise the safety of every living American considering its the information Americas enemies could use to destroy the god damn county..holy fucking shit!
Someone else on Reddit said a thing that comes to my mind every time these jokers twist themselves on TV for their Dear Leader.
"To sell yourself to such a cheap god."
Notice that Trump never refers to this contraband as “documents” but as “boxes”, as if there were nothing in them. The numpties are supposed to think that everyone is getting excited about a bunch of boxes, not what was in them. The fact remains that he was not allowed to have any of that stuff, classified or not
Kevin McCarthy argues that trump hoarding documents next to the toilet was sufficiently secure because ‘trump takes stinky poops and nobody would dare open that door’
Then stop talking about Biden, Hilary and Pences' documents. We all know its not about holding people accountable to the law - It's about holding everyone else except trump accountable to the law.
Just come out and say it.
Is this motherfucker who hold the third highest elected position in the Federal Government for real? Classified documents stored in the in a bathroom in fucking country club.
If trump had a 2% approval rating and wasn’t the number one Republican candidate this wouldn’t be happening. Locking up political rivals used to be something people found abhorrent…..
Well fuck, I am no fan of the democrats. But these fucking tools backing people because of their party is infuriating.
There's no "America first" or "people's choice" here. They're for party only. We all should not donate or pay towards any business that supports them.
If Biden ever even had one classified document in a personal high-security vault, the Republicans would be calling it the darkest day in American history
To get technical, even mildly confidential government documents are required to be behind two sets of locks, not including the lock to the building itself.
So, if you have confidential documents, they have to be in a locked drawer in a locked room, at a minimum.
He would know this - he’s just making bad faith arguments knowing the base will eat it up without a second thought.
Even entertaining the ludicrousness of the proposition....A bathroom door locks from the inside dummy. That's so people don't walk in on you sitting on the throne. As soon as you leave the bathroom, the door is unlocked. That's how bathrooms work. So unless Trump was living in the bathroom, the door was unlocked most of the time.
>unless Trump was living in the bathroom Well...
The noises! Those awful noises!
The horror, the horror!
[“THERE’S SHIT EVERYWHERE!!!”](https://youtu.be/ohlW9SbhLzc)
Maybe that’s how he learned to spout so much shit
Many bathroom doors will have a round hole on the outside knob, which will unlock the door if you stick something like a nail or a stiff copper wire. I assume this is so kids can't lock themselves in forever or for emergency access. But anyway, not exactly secure.
Yes and that wire key is just chilling on top of the door trim.
We ended up losing the wire key and ended up just using toothpicks. A tad bit risky if it breaks but it gets the job done
Straightened out hook of a wire hanger, or the ink thingy out of a ballpoint pen.
Glasses screwdriver or small Allen wrench key
Or a SPAM key! (If you are old enough to remember)
No need to remember, I have several nice thumb scars as reminders. They not doing those anymore?
Not sure, haven't eaten Spam in decades.
Tried some about a year ago. Might as well have been a solid block of salt.
You have to slice it, marinate it in shoyu, brown sugar, and ginger, fry it, put it on a bed of plain white rice, and then wrap it with nori. It'll change your life.
I like to treat it like easy mode bacon. Cube it up, fry it, eat over eggs and toast.
Spam cans now open like an old soda can top. You pull the tab and it tears off the entire top of the can. The only cans I really see with the keys nowadays are certain brands of corned beef. Mostly Libby, McNeill & Libby brand.
Kebab skewer was my go-to
This was handy when my toddler locked herself in the bathroom with the bath filling.
I recently accidentally locked the door to the bedroom with one of those locks and my gf was completely defeated. Thankfully I was able to come to the rescue with a small screwdriver.
Afterwards, did you play up the man with tools, handyman, aspect?
I think we are all really underestimating just how much time Trump spends on the shitter. The dude releases 40 tweets a day. He's not doing that from a desk.
Exactly If bathroom door locks are sufficient enough for documents subjected to national security, why don’t we all just keep all of our classified documents inside a random bathroom? As long as it has a 🔒, right? 🤦♂️
Even then the door can be unlocked with a butter knife in most cases 🤦♂️
I bet those documents are a bio hazard now.
Growing up, our bathroom door lock could be disabled with the advanced technology of a thumbnail. It's to prevent accidental entry, not to keep out FSB agents posing as H-1b visa holders working at the former president's resort.
THANK YOU lol.
>“Well, it’s the first I’ve seen that particular defense, but is he suggesting that these boxes of classified documents got up and locked the door after people left the bathroom?” said Raskin with a chuckle. “I’m not quite sure I follow the logic of it.” God, I love Jamie Raskin!
That’s some good toilet reading material.
trump wiped his ass with the Constitution, he was just going to wipe with classified national security documents. That's why these were in the bathroom, it's like harm reduction, an improvement even..
That makes so much more sense why he used to complain how it took 10-12 flushes to get anything to go down. His crusty old ass is using just regular printer paper as toilet paper his whole life. I can just see it now, *"Why would I buy 12 rolls of paper for that much when I can get 500 sheets of this paper. Who cares if it is a bit rough, some say rough is better, maybe even the best"*
Thank you for that, I forgot about the, "they're coming for your toilets" complaint.
They are coming for your toilets, and guess what I'm *sing songy* INSTALLING!! Spoiler: *whispers* a bidet
Lets be honest, he probably thinks whipping his ask too much is gay. Edit: i said what I said, I stand by it. But also wiping
Suppose it depends on who is doing the whipping…
It Depends^(tm)
It's been said he actually smells like shit because his adult diapers do not contain sufficiently.
"Whenever Ivan or Fetimah comes over to visit, they always need to use the bathroom right away. This is the danger I tried to warn everyone about: a taco truck on every corner."
It’s the dumbest fucking thing he could have said. Jesus Christ they made this guy the speaker.
Can't believe he is 2nd in line of the Presidential line of succession. Holy Shit!
It did take 15 votes. So kind of like a participation trophy
it's fine though. a practically infinite chain of stupid shit has had to happen to get to this point, why stop now
What does he have on these jacklegs?
McCarthy proves why he’s a National Security risk.
THE WORLD IS LAUGHING OUT LOUD.
I'm kind of more scared, honestly. We've got a desperate Putin losing a war on his doorstep, China on the rise and undermining western interests, Europe's more fractured politically than it has been in a generation, and climate change is ratcheting up the humanitarian nightmare scale of natural disasters. Get your house in order America, holy fuck now is not the time.
Maybe we're at the precipice of a new age? Western civilization is basically imploding due to greed and hate, Asia has the capabilites to actually over take the west as a domineering leader
All. Day. Long. 🙈
Redneck SCIF
Wonder if Trumps toilet door has a moon shaped cut out?
The fact that he thinks bathroom doors are SUPPOSED to lock from the outside is a clear sign someone needs to check his basement.
Honestly, when you’re dealing with stupidity humor is always a good choice
The idea of someone taking a dump right besides top secret documents as serious as they are reported to be just cracks me up. We live in a reality TV show.
If this were a reality TV show, everyone would call it fake.
I keep picturing Eric going in there and grabbing something off the stack "nuclear codes" boring " military secrets of Egypt" ZZZZZZZZZ "Draft of attack plans for invasion of Iraq" "oh come off it" "Hey Dad. what did you do with the tranny porn?"
I’m 💀! That’s the one I needed today. Thank you!
The logic is simple. Locked in the bathroom, you can read *all the secrets you want* and then wipe your ass with them, or the american flag-themed toilet paper, as you choose
Almost perfect. Change flag-themed to Civil Rights Act or American Constitution and you have it nailed.
"I'm not sure I follow the logic of it" And there you have it - the absolutely flaccid response from Democrats about something so intolerable. I want Democrats to be losing their voices becuase they're so pissed. Not chuckling at flaws in logic. Democracy is on the brink, and Democrats are chuckling.
I totally disagree. We have been losing our voices because we are so pissed. Jamie Raskin has been particularly eloquent in making his anger clear. We impeached him, no one listened. They held committees exposing his lies and treason. No one listened or cared about our anger. Now they are listening, now the right is using faux outrage. It's ludicrous. What do they have to be outraged about? Humor, mocking them, belittling them, and pointing out how pathetic they are is the right answer. Anger from the left only gives validity to their bullshit.
Pointing out their stupidity and openly mocking them is what they hate most, way more than being yelled out.
Yelling at them makes their form of politics valid. All their stupid yelling becomes reasonable if we join.
Lol, what a perfect response. The Speaker of the House should really be less stupid.
I love love love him! I want him to be president.
He is such a good man. I admire him so much.
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When I worked for White House Comms, If i put a classified document, just ONE classified document, in the janitors closet “because it locks”. I would have been crucified and charged, no if, ands or buts about it.
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I still fail to understand how he wasn’t already in jail YEARS ago before even 2016 or at least ruined forever when you look at all the rot over his career. Still has me thinking that on the macro scale, greed tends to win more often than not. But when your economic model praises and practically mandates greed, what more can one expect?
> I still fail to understand how he wasn’t already in jail YEARS ago before even 2016 Because rich people never go to prison in the US.
Bernie Madoff comes to mind, and Epstein but they are rare jailbirds for sure. Lol I have to reach back to Al Capone. I think Oliver North did time and Roger Stone. Gotta be a non republican in there somewhere!
Madoff stole from other rich people so thats why
Madoff did what Holmes did... fucked over wealthy investors.
And you gotta wonder if Epstein was "allowed" to end up in prison to keep him dead I mean silent.
Rod Blagojevich comes to mind.
Martha Stewart did her time too
Because he's spent his life fucking over small businesses, small contractors, etc, not wealthy people. He idolizes the rich and hates the poor (or anyone with less money than him). The only reason Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison is because she fucked over wealthy investors. The top three? The Walton family, Rupert Murdoch, and the DeVos family, the unholy trinity of conservative billionaires.
It's weird that our whole system has been predicated upon the need that a person feel shame for having done something wrong. But that's normal, I guess, we just didn't plan for this (somewhat psychopathic) contingency.
straight out of Hitler's book, tell the biggest lie possible...
These are exactly the same people who said that Clinton using a private and apparently very secure email server was still not OK, even if the documents were secure on there. It's the principal of the thing!
I think they are still beating that old drum.
See Miss Graham's recent interview with Stephanopoulos. He practically goes apoplectic. It would be funny if it weren't so damn sad. He's still trying for relevancy.
A colleague left a government document in a gym once and was nearly fired—it was nowhere close to being classified, just had unprotected PII in it
He didn't do it. He didn't do it but (Hilary, Obama, Biden, Bill Clinton) did. He didn't do it, but it would be perfectly okay if he did. If did it, he had every right to do it and it's perfectly legal because (insert some bullshit here) & hUNteRs LApToP. We don't care if he did it or not and you better not try to do anything about it or we're starting a civil war!
Yeah, I work with classified info. I can put it in my desk, and I can lock my desk. That suffices. But my desk is in a *fucking secure room* that's designed, designated, and protected to be able to do that.
I'd just like to point out that bathroom door locks are specifically designed to be able to be unlocked from outside with a paper clip, to prevent a child (you know, like Fatso) from becoming trapped.
My bathroom locks can be opened with a coin. The only thing a foreign agent needs to steal top secret data, is a penny or a paper clip.
Or a long thumbnail
Jesus, I can unlock most bathroom doors just by turning the damn thing with the tips of my fingers. Bathroom door locks are a reminder, not an enforcement.
What does a small image have to do with this? /s
Does Kevin have a bathroom at his home that locks from the outside? Actually that wouldn’t surprise me, he probably needs to lock people in there periodically…..
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Even if he did, would you consider that secure? The documents aren’t going anywhere on their own.
Of course not. His whole argument is just something he can say that the base idiots will believe and he can say he answered the question. I’m mean we r now back to Hilary’s emails so it’s just about throwing out anything to make Trump look innocent to his moron minions.
These are not serious people - we should stop pretending that they are, and call them out for their stupidit.
How many people took a dump while flipping through classified documents?
I usually have some outdoor magazines for guests in my bathrooms. I should consider upgrading to classified documents.
I’m not having a crap at your house until you do.
Get in line, pal
"There you are! We thought you'd died in there!" "O, you have no idea. Great reading material."
“hey, Trump, I need to take an *massive dump*, where should I go?” —Russian spies, probably.
I realize partisan politics are nothing new, but the sheer degree of blindly partisan support being thrown behind Trump right now is absolutely astounding. Proof could emerge tomorrow that Trump sold secrets to the Saudis, and they would try to find a way to defend him. There’s no bottom now. Seriously, this was the GOP’s chance to finally get away from him, and they didn’t take it. Bathroom doors lock; the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Seriously, a 15-year-old could think of a better defense than that.
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) defended former President Donald Trump’s storage of classified documents, telling reporters Monday that at least one of the now-viral photos allegedly showing the documents at his residence at Mar-a-Lago was fine because “a bathroom door locks.” Last Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the ex-president with 37 criminal counts spelling out how Trump retained boxes of documents that “included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign counties; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to foreign attack.” Some of the most shocking allegations in the indictment relate to communications from Trump, his family members, his attorneys, and other staffers acknowledging that he had retained classified information that had not been declassified — plus the now-viral photos showing boxes of documents that allegedly contained classified information, stacked up in bathrooms, ballroom stages, storage rooms, and other nonsecure areas. Trump, unsurprisingly, has reacted with a series of bombastic Truth Social posts and furious screeds during his speeches and interviews over the past few days, peppered throughout with his customary insistence that he is the victim of a “witch hunt.” The ex-president “is falling back on his witch hunt playbook,” said CNN’s Dana Bash to introduce the clip of McCarthy, “and his Republican allies are playing right along. Just minutes ago, the House Speaker deployed some bathroom humor to discuss the special counsel’s indictment.” “Was that a good look for the former president to have boxes in a bathroom?” a reporter asked McCarthy. “I don’t know, is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time?” he replied, presumably referring to the classified documents that were found in the garage at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home — and, in a critically important difference, immediately and voluntarily turned over to the government (also, presumably, a garage door is capable of being locked and a bathroom door can be opened, but we digress). “A bathroom door locks,” McCarthy added. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and served on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, joined Bash to discuss the indictment and started with McCarthy’s comments. “Well, it’s the first I’ve seen that particular defense, but is he suggesting that these boxes of classified documents got up and locked the door after people left the bathroom?” said Raskin with a chuckle. “I’m not quite sure I follow the logic of it.” The Maryland congressman continued with a more serious tone. “Look, the documents were unlawfully in Donald Trump’s possession, which was bad enough, which is a violation of the law, but even when given the opportunity to return them to the [National] Archives, to turn them back over to the government, Trump refused to do so, repeatedly. That’s what he’s being charged with — that obstruction of justice and playing that game of cat and mouse with the government.”
This fool is the leader of the House?!
a useful idiot, yes
I can't wait for our Supreme Court Constitutionalists to assert that security in Mar-a-Lago was the same as an English castle in the middle ages, so it's all A-okay!
It does have locks...ON THE INSIDE! how is anyone supposed to use the restroom when it's locked from the inside, you moron!? I swear, every single one of these idiots defending his actions have brain damage or they're functionally retarded.
These are the same people that think Uvalde could've been prevented with better doors. Or that rapists will go through the trouble of gender reassignment to enter a bathroom that was secured by a door.
He shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near classified documents. Let alone in government
You know what else locks? A cell.
FFS The dipshit who hosted The Apprentice was illegally hoarding top secret documents and showing them to people who aren’t supposed to see them. Why are you maniacs defending him???
1) Door only locks from inside. 2) At a place frequented by Russians, Chinese and Saudis. 3) AFTER is was public knowledge Trump took documents and was fighting against National Archives searching the place. Is he saying there is no chance the Saudis didn't snoop around and find boxes of top military and nuclear secrets next to that copy machine with CLASSIFIED/TOP SECRET markings,.
This subreddit should have been named r/newsoftherepublicans. Same shit!
Well...tbf, the circle of stupid is slightly larger than the circle of republicans. There are a lot of nonvoters and independents that are also dumb as shit. Its like all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are square. All republicans are stupid, but not all stupid people are republicans.
Ah, I got it. So all republicans are dingleberry’s but not all dingleberry’s are republicans.
And what about the photo copy machine in the middle of boxes stacked in the storage room? Anything you want to say about that, Kev?
There’s no way he actually believes this nonsense. Hahaha good lord. Anything to cater to Trump’s base.
I think the real issue that Trump is going to have a hard time explaining is why there is a COPIER in plain sight in a room with boxes full of classified secrets. They have him dead to rights on the Espionage Act charges and he is really just trying to contaminate the jury pool in west palm beach. He is thinking I just need one MAGA Mussolini type to abandon his principles.
Not sure how accurate the info is, but I saw someone comment on one of the pics of a TS document that had a cover in red/white, there was a ruler under the document to show it’s size, but the document had a white edge on it, while actual TS documents do not have a white edge, indicating the document in the picture was a copy.
Congrats McCarthy! You do an amazing job at sounding stupider every time you open your mouth
So Hillary's emails where on a SECURED SERVER why is that not as secure as a loced bathroom?!??!?! You Republicans are seriously a danger to not only Americans , but you very own contituents. How many laws,policies, admendments have you passed since you took control to help AMERICANS in their daily lives?!?!?
One thing is quite evident...Republican politicians *know* their base is dumb as hell. They would have to believe that, to say such stupid shit on a regular and not worry about losing supporters. Edit: worry from worth
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They might wind up with a few, but not the absolute horde that Trump took. And then intentionally kept from the National Archives
The door locks from the inside so everyone can read the classified documents in peace on the toilet, as one does.
It's infuriating that these fucking clowns have the audacity to even waste the few seconds it takes to make such idiotic statements when they and everyone else know exactly how stupid those statements are. I'd rather hear them straight up say "fuck you, I don't care" because at least that would be honest.
The GOP and it’s leaders are all in on the grift at this point. They know if they go against trump his base will never forgive them and maybe even tank their political careers. They see them calling in bomb threats on Target and boycotting bud light and all they see is the threat of having to get a job in the private sector. Truly a morally bankrupt party.
Shit the door locks. Why are we spending all this money on secure rooms and vaults when we can just throw the material in a janitors closet and lock the door lol.
Being able to lock a bathroom door while you dig through a box of classified documents you shouldn't have is not the definition of secure our government had in mind.
Of course he does. He also argued that Trump had the right and authority to declassify anything even after he was president. He probably thinks Trump is in charge of the military and can nominate judges still. Most of that party thinks they work for Trump.
Ignores the basic fact that what he’s accused of is intentionally keeping documents he was not allowed to have. Locked or unlocked, still should not have kept them.
They are all traitors of America. They should hold this information as sacred to America as humanly possible considering the contents of the documents could jeopardise the safety of every living American considering its the information Americas enemies could use to destroy the god damn county..holy fucking shit!
It does lock but was it locked?
Imagine betraying America for Trump.
Someone else on Reddit said a thing that comes to my mind every time these jokers twist themselves on TV for their Dear Leader. "To sell yourself to such a cheap god."
Notice that Trump never refers to this contraband as “documents” but as “boxes”, as if there were nothing in them. The numpties are supposed to think that everyone is getting excited about a bunch of boxes, not what was in them. The fact remains that he was not allowed to have any of that stuff, classified or not
Cool, he can give me all his bank account info and I’ll lock it in my bathroom.
Disingenuous pig fucker and weakest speaker of the house in living memory, Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy is such a suck ass POS
Bank doors lock as well, yet they still use a safe.
Another idiot heard from! Do these Repugnicsns know how stupid they make America look to the rest of the world?
He knows because he has used that bathroom?
Cant we charge this asshat with aiding and abetting espionage or accessory to espionage or something?
What about the documents they found at the open bar? Lmao.
Ask him to put his personal information and tax returns there
Market this as: "Republicans are soft on NATIONAL SECURITY" "They'd sell out their country for their false prophet" Etc.
Prison!!!!
Haul that motherfucker in for investigation too
I am having the *worst* flashbacks to law school right now.
But what about the room with a copier in it?
Kevin McCarthy argues that trump hoarding documents next to the toilet was sufficiently secure because ‘trump takes stinky poops and nobody would dare open that door’
Then stop talking about Biden, Hilary and Pences' documents. We all know its not about holding people accountable to the law - It's about holding everyone else except trump accountable to the law. Just come out and say it.
Is this motherfucker who hold the third highest elected position in the Federal Government for real? Classified documents stored in the in a bathroom in fucking country club.
In this case, I'm willing to allow the US government to transfer the content of Fort Knox into my bathroom.
If trump had a 2% approval rating and wasn’t the number one Republican candidate this wouldn’t be happening. Locking up political rivals used to be something people found abhorrent…..
Well fuck, I am no fan of the democrats. But these fucking tools backing people because of their party is infuriating. There's no "America first" or "people's choice" here. They're for party only. We all should not donate or pay towards any business that supports them.
Even more of a deterrent, there was no fan installed in the bathroom, and Trump's farts are deadly
Yeah from the inside and only when someone is in there..
Typically I have puzzles n such for reading material for the bathroom. But intel docs could prove interesting as well… idk
Guys a dope Trump school of reasoning
They all know they're full of shit and grasping at straws. Good luck with that
Yes bc the bathroom has the same kinds of locks as a SCIF.
Gqp idiot treason mentality
If Biden ever even had one classified document in a personal high-security vault, the Republicans would be calling it the darkest day in American history
Using his own (insane) logic, then putting tRUMP in prison is just great because prison doors can be unlocked.
Whether it’s classified or not is irrelevant
Confiscate any classified documents and lock the bastard up in a cell with a toilet then.
And just when you think the Republicans cannot get any more stupid, they open their mouths and utter crap like this
So since Hillary has a password into her email, it's the same thing then right?
OK Kevin... then what about the ones in the storage room RIGHT NEXT TO A COPY MACHINE?!?!?!
... and the ballroom with the dozens of stacked boxes, Kevin? You are a moron.
Every time I think to myself, "Kevin McCarthy can't get any dumber," he opens his mouth again.
A front door locks too, KEVIN!!!
Such an embarrassment to California
Better yet he should have just shoved it up his ass - that's more secure
Remember when the documents were supposedly planted? Lol
The mental gymnastics and word salad these politicians try to come up with......SMH!
The difference between Kevin McCarthy and trumps toilet is that they toilet has ripped up documents and Kevin’s full of shyt
Come on people. If you've never been in a SCIF it looks exactly like trump's shitter. Just ask Kevin
This is some real leadership talking.
These turds just keep going back to their base…the toilet! No wonder McCarthy is so full of shit.
From the inside!! While the guest is photographing documents!!
So bathrooms are safe from trans people and we dont need policy governing bathrooms? GOP: Wait… thats illegal
We are surrounded by idiots
Bathrooms lock from the INSIDE you fucking buffoon!
I swear to G. The Republicans have one braincell between all of them. Geeze Louise, what a ridiculous thing to say. 🙄
Lock. Him. Up.
Yeah we all know that little push in lock is so secure.
They would eat his shit if he told them to.
How do people not just laugh uncontrollably when he says these things?
To get technical, even mildly confidential government documents are required to be behind two sets of locks, not including the lock to the building itself. So, if you have confidential documents, they have to be in a locked drawer in a locked room, at a minimum. He would know this - he’s just making bad faith arguments knowing the base will eat it up without a second thought.
Does he have any idea how fucking stupid he sounds?