Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Milley took top-secret action to limit Trump's ability to order military strike, book says" video.

  1.  @netizen_m3919  I think this is on the nose. Even emails can be subpoenaed (and I seem to remember a bit of a brouhaha over a certain Secretary of State doing an end run by using a private email server). In certain cases, official phone calls (for example, between the President and another world leader) get officially recorded, but any phone call can be recorded on either end. (Which doesn’t even get into clandestine intercepts.) Additionally, top officials memorialize conversations—they take notes during and just after conversations with the President and other top officials to keep a record of the conversations. Comey’s last conversation with Trump is an example. Most of this stuff is protected by executive privilege, depending on the nature of the conversation. Under extraordinary circumstances, congressional subpoenas can pierce this privilege. Also, executive privilege doesn’t protect the information from succeeding presidents or their administrations. If communications provide documentation of presidential crimes, there’s a good chance they’ll come to light, sooner or later. A President and his team can adapt to these conditions in two ways (or two and a half, as I’ll explain). One is to keep everything above board and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. One point five is “legal findings”, in which the White House Counsel formulates a legal justification for certain actions. And two is the President and his advisers can behave like the mob, like a criminal organization evading the keeping of records of their crimes or trying to hide such records. Both Bush and Obama engaged in 1.5 type dealings—we can debate the ethics and morals of this method another time. I think Trump has a type 2 mindset, and everyone inside knew it. Some would make recordings and keep their own records to cover their asses or even to document malfeasance.
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  2.  @JoseFernandez-wu8pj  Mafia kindergarten, you mean. It sounds absurdly childish unless you can read the implicit threat in the words. Then it’s absurdly childish and chillingly sinister at the same time. Have you seen that twilight zone episode? “If you don’t do what I want, I’ll wish you into the cornfield.”
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  3.  Jerri McFly  Radical Left Terrorist Zombies? We already know what their conversations are like. 🧟‍♂️ “Brainsssss. . . . brainssss . . . . I’m a zombie living in a red state and I’m starving . . . why are there no braaaaaainsss?”
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