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W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:38 pm Waltine's description as a "military valet" brought this to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military)

A batman or an orderly is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer's batman was also in charge of the officer's "bat-horse" that carried the officer's kit during a campaign.

The British English term is derived from the obsolete bat, meaning "pack saddle" (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum)

The military term long predates the appearance of the fictional superhero Batman.

Duties
A batman's duties often include:

acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates
maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet
driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions
acting as the officer's bodyguard in combat
digging the officer's foxhole in combat, giving the officer time to direct his unit
other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do
The action of serving as a batman was referred to as "batting". In armies where officers typically came from the upper class, it was not unusual for a former batman to follow the officer into later civilian life as a domestic servant.

The memes write themselves.

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Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:43 pm Ok, what I thought looking at that is - why did fatso choose a floor pattern that looks like the place is flooded with dirty water?

neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:19 pm

Trump lawyer Alina Habba says on Fox News Sunday that Trump's boxes had "pictures, things that are mementos" in them, & that Trump didn't want people "rummaging through his personal items." Host Shannon Bream points out that there were also highly classified materials in there.

Former Trump AG Bill Barr on Trump's federal indictment: "If even half of it is true, then he's toast. I mean, it's a very detailed indictment, and it's very, very damning. This idea of presenting Trump as a victim here -- a victim of a witch hunt -- is ridiculous."

RVInit wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:16 am This whole thing is fascinating. It seems like Trump was sifting through boxes and marking the tops of the boxes so Nauta would know what to do with each box. Why would Trump mark 15 boxes to send back to archives if those boxes still contained classified documents? Did he get his box tops mixed up? Or is he so bold about committing crimes at this point that he thought they wouldn't do a damn thing to him? And then after going through the boxes again prior to Corcoran searching them, why did he, once again leave classified documents inside boxes that ended up back in the storage area for Corcoran to find?

You would think between the pus bag and Nauta that one of them would have thought to keep all the classified completely separate, all in one small set of boxes and keep those absolutely separate from everything else. It really begs the question of what specific non-classified items were in the same boxes with which specific classified materials. Like if that could give clues as to what he had in mind for specific documents he kept.

I really want to see someone do a comedy sketch of the orange pustule going through the boxes to decide which box to put which items in and trying to remember what to write on the top of each box according to what is inside of it. You go into the bathroom, you go into the ballroom, you go into my closet, oh, wait, maybe you go into the ballroom, oh fuck it - eenie meenie miney moe...

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:41 pm

RVInit wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:16 am This whole thing is fascinating. It seems like Trump was sifting through boxes and marking the tops of the boxes so Nauta would know what to do with each box. Why would Trump mark 15 boxes to send back to archives if those boxes still contained classified documents? Did he get his box tops mixed up? Or is he so bold about committing crimes at this point that he thought they wouldn't do a damn thing to him? And then after going through the boxes again prior to Corcoran searching them, why did he, once again leave classified documents inside boxes that ended up back in the storage area for Corcoran to find?

You would think between the pus bag and Nauta that one of them would have thought to keep all the classified completely separate, all in one small set of boxes and keep those absolutely separate from everything else. It really begs the question of what specific non-classified items were in the same boxes with which specific classified materials. Like if that could give clues as to what he had in mind for specific documents he kept.

I really want to see someone do a comedy sketch of the orange pustule going through the boxes to decide which box to put which items in and trying to remember what to write on the top of each box according to what is inside of it. You go into the bathroom, you go into the ballroom, you go into my closet, oh, wait, maybe you go into the ballroom, oh fuck it - eenie meenie miney moe...

They weren't spread out all over the Grift Palace, they were moved from the storage room, to the ballroom, to the bathroom, to the office, and in each place some were taken to the bedroom (Pine Hall) or his office in a separate building on the grounds, for him to look through.
The classified documents were in among clippings (every article in any magazine that mentioned his name apparently).
As for why some got missed, maybe he decided to give them something to make them go away, maybe he just missed them, who knows. He might have been expecting Corcoran to weed out some stuff. Trump is stupid, water is wet, the sky is blue....

I do firmly believe that he stuffed them down into boxes of harmless fake Time Magazine covers and such as a pre-emptive defense of "It got mixed in while packing, didn't know I had it"

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:06 pm I believe that Bill Barr said that he has no linear thinking.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:06 pm I believe that Bill Barr said that he has no linear thinking.

The Recount @therecount wrote: Geraldo Rivera: “Is Donald Trump fit to be president?”

Former Trump AG Bill Barr: “He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking … It is a horror show when he’s left to his own devices … He will deliver chaos.”

The cult near Mar-a-Lago today.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:21 pm "Buses departs."
"Buses arrives."
About what I'd expect.