Monday, June 05, 2023

Weekend at donnie's II: Electric Waterloo

Today's "What The Hell Happened THIS Time" combines the craziness of Florida with the criminality of trump. You're not gonna believe this story about how the IT computer server room at trump's Mar-A-Lago got wiped out (via By Katelyn Polantz, Jeremy Herb, and Kaitlan Collins at CNN):

An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

(blank stare)

(facepalm)

(headdesk)

While it’s unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious.

YA THINK?!

My first response when I read the report was "WHO THE FUCK PUTS A COMPUTER SERVER ROOM ANYWHERE NEAR A BODY OF WATER?" and my second response was "WHO THE FUCK REROUTES THE WATER HOSES INTO A COMPUTER SERVER ROOM?"

Okay, considering that I've heard there's a basement or underground part of Mar-A-Lago - which still doesn't make sense to me considering IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN JUST WAITING TO SINK WITH THE NEXT HURRICANE - who the bloody hell IN SOUTH FLORIDA would put that kind of equipment BELOW GROUND where such water-borne accidents could cause serious damage?

In all my time working in libraries in Florida, in buildings that have multiple floors, we've always put the server equipment on the upper floors to avoid any kind of flooding damage in the first place. If it was a single-story library, the server closet was always furthest from the water main/bathroom pipes as we could afford.

I am seriously questioning the architectural layout of any trump-owned facility. I want to see the goddamn floor plans to see just how close the server room was to the goddamn pool.

At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to one of the sources.

The incident, which has not been previously reported, came roughly two months after the FBI retrieved hundreds of classified documents from the Florida residence and as prosecutors obtained surveillance footage to track how White House records were moved around the resort. Prosecutors have been examining any effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation after Trump received a subpoena in May 2022 for classified documents.

Prosecutors have heard testimony that the IT equipment in the room was not damaged in the flood, according to one source.

Yet the flooded room as well as conversations and actions by Trump’s employees while the criminal investigation bore down on the club has caught the attention of prosecutors. The circumstances may factor into a possible obstruction conspiracy case, multiple sources tell CNN, as investigators try to determine whether the events of last year around Mar-a-Lago indicate that Trump or a small group of people working for him, took steps to try to interfere with the Justice Department’s evidence-gathering.

"The Dog Ate My Video Surveillance" excuse isn't going to help you, trump.

In the meantime, trump keeps pretending that Bernie is still alive, uh trump keeps screaming on social media that he's innocent of any wrong-doing.


I hope the indictments come this week and I hope the charges are so serious the judge refuses to grant you bail. Bastard.

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