So in the midst of all the uproar about Benedict Donald stealing government secrets, Rand Paul races to his rescue!
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His tweet featured a photo of a young Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who leaked a trove of Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party emails — with the help of Russian intelligence — shortly before the 2016 election, which was then won by Trump. (Trump offered to pardon to Assange if he denied Kremlin help with the leak, Assange’s lawyer said in 2020 in a London court.)
Twitter critics were amused by Paul’s strategy of exonerating someone like Trump by simply eliminating the law they’re suspected of breaking, especially given that Trump himself signed a law in 2018 making it a felony to mishandle classified documents.
FBI agents last Monday collected around 20 boxes of items from Mar-a-Lago, including 11 sets of classified information, according to the search warrant. The material was supposed to go to the National Archives when he left office.
“Do I know that the boxes of material they took from Mar-a-Lago, that they won’t put things into those boxes to entrap him?” Paul said. “How do we know? … How do we know they’re going to be honest with us about what’s actually in the boxes? How do we know that was in the box before it left the residence if the lawyers weren’t allowed to see everything?”
What if the boxes WERE LEFT HERE BY ARCTURIANS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY? What about THAT, huh?
Hope that check clears, Rand.
