January 2025
The media aren't asking the right questions
It doesn't seem that the media, at least the national media, is asking the right questions. I thought back to when the government had to come seize the top secret documents that Trump had tried to retain in completely non-secured places around Mar-A-Lago, a stage, a bathroom, next to a GD copying machine.
Through all of that time, I never saw a news agency ask who had access to the rooms. After months had passed, I searched the web for articles on who could have accessed the documents and I couldn't find any. Nobody had thought to ask if assistant managers could have accessed them, housekeepers…caddies.
If I were to create a place tailor made for spies, I couldn't do better than Mar-A-Lago. With scores or even hundreds of employees and anyone with deep pockets able to walk all around the place. And not a single reporter I could find asked who could access the documents, our nation's most guarded secrets, some of which were only supposed to be viewed in specially secured rooms and weren't supposed to be kept anywhere else because they were just that sensitive.
Then I see MAGA apologists explaining that Trump had the power to declassify the documents. And the reporters couldn't find it in their skulls to ask why anyone would vote for someone who—even given the power to declassify—would be so careless with them. These are important documents.
But that's not why I'm here.
Through all of that time, I never saw a news agency ask who had access to the rooms. After months had passed, I searched the web for articles on who could have accessed the documents and I couldn't find any. Nobody had thought to ask if assistant managers could have accessed them, housekeepers…caddies.
If I were to create a place tailor made for spies, I couldn't do better than Mar-A-Lago. With scores or even hundreds of employees and anyone with deep pockets able to walk all around the place. And not a single reporter I could find asked who could access the documents, our nation's most guarded secrets, some of which were only supposed to be viewed in specially secured rooms and weren't supposed to be kept anywhere else because they were just that sensitive.
Then I see MAGA apologists explaining that Trump had the power to declassify the documents. And the reporters couldn't find it in their skulls to ask why anyone would vote for someone who—even given the power to declassify—would be so careless with them. These are important documents.