My cat is more effective than Biden's DoJ, and I don't even have a cat.

No, you don't understand! In order to preserve decorum and appear nonpartisan, Biden HAD to let Trump's prosecution flounder and die.

Yeah, I remember when Bush deleted all of the emails, then shrugged and said “Ooopsie”

Yes but his use of a cell phone to send text messages on the day of 1/6/21 is well known and documented. He cannot claim he didn’t and his inability to produce them may result in a default judgement.

Not that laws matter anymore but are his text messages while he’s president presidential records?

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Whoa! What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to get your self out on a list?

BBC is still waiting on a ruling for their Jurisdiction challenge. If the Altman grants it, it is over. Also the trump team still has the 14 day Rule 72(a) objection to Lett's order. I have a feeling if they lose the 72(a) and Altman has not ruled on Jurisdiction they will drop it. Otherwise the trump camp has already said they will narrow the scope and drop the financial claim to avoid turning all of that over.

I haven't been following it very closely so I may have some things wrong but I really can't see anyone on the trump side wanting to take this all the way if Altman doesn't give them a big wet kiss on the lips and grant their 72(a).

Telecommunications companies

Or does someone like POTUS have a special phone with forensic-level text message backups?

You’d hope so, but this moron probably uses a BlackBerry he refuses to give up and, as with everything else, they all just said “fuck it” and let him do what he wants so he shuts the fuck up.

My understanding is that all of a President's communications are supposed to be archived acording to the Presidential Records Act, but trump has consistently ignored it.

typically (and in a system with people acting in good faith) a public servant of high enough office to require record keeping would have a public phone and a personal phone. the public phone would have all its messaging recorded, and all the emails and texts and phone calls for the public servant's office would go through that, not their personal phone. haven't had a system full of people acting in good faith in a while.