Someone is very shouty this AM. pic.twitter.com/hx6QekfWLA — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 5, 2017 Look, I’m as dismissive of the DISTRACTION! theories as any other cynic, but it’s been a really bad week for Donald Trump, by Donald Trump’s standards. The optics — the only measure he understands — have ranged from ‘just terrible’ …
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USA Today: Jared and Ivanka moved personal email accounts to Trump Org computers amid scrutiny of private email use. https://t.co/86a1xkyDqf
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 3, 2017
NEW: Registration records show Kushner's private email account was moved to Trump Organization servers last week.https://t.co/hssbijZwbT
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) October 3, 2017
To be clear, there are now White House records, none of which have been subject to classification review, sitting on Trump Org servers. https://t.co/9fOQYMT7Lk
— Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) October 3, 2017
And we know — us mere citizen voters found out just this week! — that the Trump kids aren’t smart enough or careful enough not to discuss their criminal activities in emails. Per the New Yorker/ProPublica/WNYC:
In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., found themselves in a precarious legal position. For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to sell. Despite the best efforts of the siblings’ defense team, the case had not gone away. An indictment seemed like a real possibility. The evidence included e-mails from the Trumps making clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the condos were selling to lure buyers.
In one e-mail, according to four people who have seen it, the Trumps discussed how to coördinate false information they had given to prospective buyers. In another, according to a person who read the e-mails, they worried that a reporter might be on to them. In yet another, Donald, Jr., spoke reassuringly to a broker who was concerned about the false statements, saying that nobody would ever find out, because only people on the e-mail chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception, according to a person who saw the e-mail. There was “no doubt” that the Trump children “approved, knew of, agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers to make more sales,” one person who saw the e-mails told us. “They knew it was wrong.”…
The Trump spawn got away with that one, allegedly because the old man’s lawyer made a big donation to the Manhattan District Attorney. (Although if you or I had produced a Donald Trump Junior, our faith in the eugenic ‘racehorse theory’ would’ve been seriously challenged.)
But that was in the good old days, when the Trumps were just another clan of NYC real-estate scroungers; now they’re national figures, and held (we can but hope) to a rather higher standard of behavior, as befits a bunch of Lucky Sperm Club grifters individuals with the (unearned / undeserved) power to blow up the global economy, and possibly the globe…