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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,385 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2025, 10:21 PM Mar 7

Now Trump wants to steal the Declaration of Independence

It was only a week ago that President Donald Trump seized from the FBI the documents he had stolen and whisked away to Mar-a-Lago when he was booted from office in 2021. Those documents were evidence in one of his many criminal cases until his hand-picked judge waved a magic wand to make that go away and the Supreme Court ruled that he can do whatever he wants because … whatever.

Now The Atlantic reports he’s got his eye on an even bigger prize: the Declaration of Independence.

To be clear, Trump isn’t looking to display the sacred founding document that belongs to all Americans in his tacky Mar-a-Lago bathroom where he stashed his stolen classified documents. At least, not that we know of.

Instead, according to reporting, Trump is interested in removing the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where anyone can visit and pay homage—for free—and instead display it in the Oval Office like the head of an elephant he killed on safari.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/7/2308602/-Now-Trump-wants-to-steal-the-Declaration-of-Independence

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Now Trump wants to steal the Declaration of Independence (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 7 OP
He thinks there's a treasure map drawn on the back of it. Frasier Balzov Mar 7 #1
Lil Marco. rsdsharp Mar 7 #2
Really? LymphocyteLover Mar 8 #5
Rubio is Acting Chief Archivist after Trump fired Colleen Joy Shogan on February 7, 2025. rsdsharp Mar 8 #6
Oy, how absurd LymphocyteLover Mar 8 #8
One hopes Lil Marco has the stones to tell Donny he can't have the Declaration of Independence, rsdsharp Mar 8 #9
LOL! LymphocyteLover Mar 8 #4
That this man is in the White House is utter BLASPHEMY Blue Owl Mar 8 #3
NO, NO, STOP IT! I can't take any more... CTyankee Mar 8 #7

Frasier Balzov

(4,238 posts)
1. He thinks there's a treasure map drawn on the back of it.
Fri Mar 7, 2025, 10:50 PM
Mar 7

By the way, do you know who is the acting head of the National Archives at the moment?

rsdsharp

(10,650 posts)
9. One hopes Lil Marco has the stones to tell Donny he can't have the Declaration of Independence,
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 11:43 PM
Mar 8

but I’m by no means certain.

Blue Owl

(55,863 posts)
3. That this man is in the White House is utter BLASPHEMY
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 02:10 AM
Mar 8

The founding fathers would be up in arms driving these motherfuckers out…..

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