Updates in the replies
That sounds pretty cold and boring but when you find the right person to tell the story... it is anything but... and that person is NOT me. I add commentary but leave the hefty nuance to the experts. I have debilitating brain fog so please, if I missed something...add it in a comment. I would like this to be a fairly comprehensive depository (repository? Is online storage a deposit?) of information, albeit not as professionally done as some might like.
Before you begin, know that tRUMP was filing late, had a lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, file for him but it is a jumbled mess and... he is filing Pro Se... which literally means he is REPRESENTING HIMSELF! His struggle to find lawyers is also very real. 'Report: No Respectable Lawyer Willing to Touch Trump With 10-Foot Pole After Mar-a-Lago Raid' (Not a raid, but a literally warranted search and seizure, FFS) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-lawyer-problems-classified-documents-raid
I cracked up a couple of times , so if you love a sense of humour yet, still want the facts and "telling it like ot is,"then this is your girl: https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1561851813422252033
I have not read Emptywheel's analysis, but she is usually good for the cold hard facts, even though she sucks at nuance. And like me can get bogged down and be too literal , but man, she notices things no one else can , especially in huge document filings. Think of it as a more forensic analysis when no one else seems to know what is going on. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1561817258309156864
If you want a bunch of opinions, jokes, memes, info... from Twitter at large, look here. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Special%20Master%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
My take away in non legalese is TRUMP's BEING An ASSHOLE Again; hmmm... that might have been a better title. Here is the timeline to refresh your meme-ories. (I forgot, "Sure we got a subpoena, but we basically ignored it")
CNN Clown Hall Questions:
COLLINS: Did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? tRUMP: “Not really. I would have the right to.”
COLLINS: What do you mean? tRUMP: “Not that I can think of… I have the absolute right to do whatever I want with them.”
27:20 tRUMP speaks about the documents https://youtu.be/HvUdZtyg5Sg
This long post is an extension from these original posts ...
Aug 09, 2022 When did DOJ start treating removal of classified documents like a felony? 2018
Aug 14, 2022 A man with no moral compass can never find his way. - Adam Schiff
UPDATE 81
Judge Cannon dismisses tRUMP classified docs case
How are all of those checks and balances working out for you, America? I always read that they worked imperfectly, but if this is a system "working," I hate to see it when it fails entirely as it hands tRUMP the presidency again. (I think these 81 updates give plenty of reason for any disdain or rebuke) I know the people who followed their oath and care about the US national security and watched this fiasco are feeling even MORE gutted and unsafe today. (I am Canadian and I FEEL SICK! You guys sneeze, and we catch a cold...)
I truly thought that Judge Cannon would not have the GALL to cite Thomas, who disregarded the judicial precedence of over a hundred years to send a signal to Cannon that he had a way out for tRUMP.
And yet, she cited him 5 times in her 93 page POS dismissal of the case. (A reminder again that the GQP have captured the judicial system and the next election may be ruled by the courts again...see 2001...)
YES! Yes and hell yes!
Judge Thomas said I could, Nyag, Nyah
I broke down the 93 pages for you in that title, but you can read it here is you are a sucker for punishment. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.672.0_3.pdf
The POS CRIMINAL LOSER responds...
Note that he is pivoting from his divisive and scaremongering rhetoric to a soothing "strong" tRUMP who, although practically unscathed, will attempt to Ronald Reagan his way back into office as a survivor...and a kind man who is setting up a fund for the victims at his rally... Hey Clarence,and Crow, are you listening?
UPDATE 80
This case is an absolute mess. And it is because of a partisan judge appointed by LOSER45. Aileen Cannon. It has been a year since the SOB was indicted and plead not guilty to 37 charges... and the case has gone into snail mode ever since, even though this is a case that involves U.S. National Security. THAT in itself is INSANITY! https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-indictment-miami-court/?id=100010068
I am way behind updating here because so much HAS NOT happened in the case. I will add the URLS/videos once I find them in my bookmarks. Forgive if it takes awhile. I am not well and my healing mode is no longer functioning properly.
After delaying the trial indefinitely on May 7, Judge Cannon has had several hearings. The latest one today, is to throw out Corcoran's notes, which entail the damning things that tRUMP said and showed he knew what he was doing was wrong AND CRIMINAL... such as:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-expressed-concern-returning-classified-docs-after-subpoena/story?id=111383032
Jack Smith is pushing back on the tRUMP claim that the case needs to be thrown out because the FBI admitted not all of the items and documents ended up in the same POSITION they were originally and so were mishandled. The FBI says they were all in the original BOXES when accounted for, marked as evidence and retained. For a laugh, here are new photos from Smith's filing, that taken by the FBI before examining the contents of documents at Mar-a-Lago:
These are BESIDES the mess of documents taken by Walt Nauta. IOW, tRUMP not only took the documents illegally, and hoarded them all over the place after lying about having them... he also stored them haphazardly like the pig that he is.
Meanwhile, there are many pictures of the documents and how the FBI handled them at the next URL:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/newly-released-photos-fbi-mar-a-lago-search-show-trump-boxes-keepsakes-alongside-sensitive-records/
Here is how the RWNJs announced the careful documenting of evidence...
Will Cannon allow this?
"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.” tRUMP on Aug 16, 2016
Yesterday, Cannon had a hearing which asked about the funding of the Special Counsel. That is NOT in her jurisdiction. She also made light of and is skeptical of any harm tRUMP might do without a continued gag order. https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-trump-classified-docs-case-questions-government-funding/story?id=111377205
Cannon challenged Jack Smith’s team to show how tRUMP's repeated comments, lies and threats against law enforcement officers might turn violent and even deadly, even though Smith's team had already documented the crazy people who acted out on tRUMP's behalf, including several making their way onto FBI grounds while armed. January 6 and 140 officers were injured because of tRUMP's incitement to violence FFS! https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-trump-classified-docs-case-questions-government-funding/story?id=111377205
At the same time this is going on, we are finding out that after getting a subpoena and 3 weeks before the FBI made their warranted search of Maralago, tRUMP made a hush hush visit to "check on his documents."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probed-trump-mar-lago-trip-aides/story?id=111334156
Last week, even though tRUMP's DOJ appointed several special counsels, and they have been appointed umptrrn times in the past, Judge Cannon began hearing arguments not about the case, but whether Jack Smith’s appointment to the case was constitutional. That she even allowed it shows she is a partisan loon!
https://newrepublic.com/post/182992/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-trump-constitutional
What Americans do not see to realize if if judge cannon rules it was unconstitutional to bring the case, both of Smith's cases are in jeopardy. There should be people screaming to high heaven about this... or at least filing complaints against the judge for her partisanship, unnecessary delays and...
Oh wait...
your court system proves law in the US is an ass(hole)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/cannon-orchestrated-complaints-trump/index.html
Cannon is protected by the GOP and all of their minions, by her head district judges, and a life-time appointment. And hey maybe just a tad by mob ties, just as tRUMP has been...
Finding out that Cannon was advised by her fellow Federal judges and a colleague to recuse is extremely discouraging, and even more proof that she remained on the case to benefit tRUMP... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html
Aileen Cannon Is Who Critics Feared She Was
'The judge handling Trump’s classified-documents case has shown that she’s not fit for the task.'
Both the Atlantic and NY Times are paywalled. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-document-case/678750/
UPDATE 79
GAG the POS!
Lawyer Michael Popock reminds that tRUMP is an indicted co-defendant and his being released on his own recognizance includes being lawful. tRUMP's lies about LEOs like the FBI out them under threat of possible violence. Also, IT WAS NOT A RAID. It was a scheduled visit under a lawful and WARRANTED search warrant, knowing that there were many more documents in tRUMP's possession. He also discusses the gag order, and why. Jack Smith is insisting that Cannon cooperate and moderate his release order to include new restrictions or ... there will be a request for her removal..
More Classified Documents Found After Mar-A-Lago Raid, In Trump’s Bedroom and private quarters
New documents https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bedroom-classified-documents_n_664d515de4b09c97de21caae
Reminder: Good people will not be there to stop him from doing even worse things if he gets back in…
This documents trial was supposed to have begun this week ... even after all of the pro-tRUMP biased Cannon delays, but now she says that the jury would not understand the complexity of the legal principles involved in the case (She means she doesn't) and so has delayed the trial indefinitely. It is truly disgusting!
'This was personal.' Shouting match breaks out during classified documents hearing
Attorneys for Walt Nauta accused the prosecution of retaliation.
UPDATE 78
I will repeat this, being it looks grim for this case to be heard before the election:
Loose Cannon needs to GO!
Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed the trial date as she continues to delay on behalf of LOSER45. This was the most consequential criminal case as there are still many outstanding documents and tRUMP is a threat to the National Security of the USA. Her excuse?
The delays also mean he may be voted back in and then be able to pardon himself. For anyone saying "He can't do that" I have a file on what he did that he "can't " do... https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/trumps-classified-documents-trial-postponed-indefinitely-110008276
When this happened a couple of days ago, Mary Wheeler made this post that went viral.
The RWNJ mob then attacked her... and the know nothings had no knowledge of actual facts... of course.
Read much more here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/08/how-we-got-to-a-place-where-right-wingers-cheer-stealing-nuclear-documents/
This post from the following day is a humdinger... Julie Kelly seems to also be a source of the information that Cannon used as an excuse to delay the trial, and she is a POS RWNJ MAGA Moron Misinformation specialist... . And her reporting was fabricated. She didn't understand that for forensic purposes, the documents were measured, categorized AND PHOTOGRAPHED before being replaced into the boxes. Nothing was "doctored" and the info wasn't revised... it was just explained in more frigging detail why the FBI did what they did.
And neither does Cannon. And here we are. There is much more about Kelly enjoying deceiving her followers here:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/09/julie-kellys-troubles-with-ten-and-two/
Confusion about something that is not your expertise is fine. Reporting about your confusion and lying about reality and facts just makes you a dipshit.
I wrote about the confusion that I had with the methodology AFTER it was explained, because we all are know nothings until we learn more...
The reason for having a ruler front and centre made me slightly curious.. but I had no idea it is actually a photo scale used in forensics. The layout was not done for "show," as I, like many others, had presumed. (although placement of some items in the peripheral may have been. The FBI agents know that they would be in jail for doing what tRUMP did and most were likely furious.) See update 51 of 'LOSER45 stolen classified Documents' here: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/fc9fca59-83ee-4098-89ef-6500fe9897a9
Photo scale
https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/Dimensional-Review-of-Scales-for-Forensic-Photography.pdf
Case in point? A re-spew on X.Twatter.
UPDATE 77
Ben Meiselas discusses Judge Aileen Cannon’s CIPA Section 4 "new" ruling that was already done with in February and expounds on the unlawful ruling and out of place ruling you can read about in UPDATE 76.
If you prefer to read. CIPA procedures are laid out here: https://www.justsecurity.org/87134/the-quick-guide-to-cipa-classified-information-procedures-act/
A pertinent clause:
UPDATE 76
Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins
This is another disturbing ruling from the clown court of Judge Aileen Cannon, and no matter which route Smith takes, the case will be delayed again. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mar-a-lago-judge-s-stark-ruling-jury-sees-secret-files-or-trump-wins/ar-BB1k81wp
Andrew Weissmann and Bradley Moss join MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss what next steps Jack Smith should take and how this further delays the classified documents trial
The whole interview is here:
The ruling is here: https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1769859451496919066
For more on Cannon's sabotage of the case read: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-classifed-sabotage.html
UPDATE 75
Remember when the video of tRUMP and his boxes being boarded for Bedminster, New Jersey surfaced last year? One of the people who moved those boxes did an exclusive interview with CNN.
"Trump employee 5," Brian Butler, spoke out about tRUMP and his 20 year's working relationship with tRUMP. He quit in November 2022 because of the criminal case and has since been cooperating with the investigation.
Butler helped load those boxes at the same time tRUMP met with re DOJ about the documents.
Good to know that a criminal investigation developing around him brought him to his senses... but I find it hard to believe that someone claiming a moral stance would just suddenly claim a moral compass after 20 years working for a criminal. Colour me skeptical...
UPDATE 74
'After Friday’s 5 hour hearing with Judge Cannon in the Mar a Lago criminal case against Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith will be left with no choice but to seek her removal from the case under the 11th Circuit’s “lemon law”. Michael Popok explains that the judge is on the verge of REVERSIBLE ERROR for the 3rd time in the case, as she also assists Trump’s efforts to use her case to block the trial scheduling of the DC and Georgia cases.'
UPDATE 73
With a continued position that he is immune to prosecution because he can do no wrong, tRUMP is insisting that he truly is above the law and has absolute immunity. CASE DISMISSED!
tRUMP insists they are his boxes, and says he meant to take classified documents and wished he had taken more, and that he could flush them, and use them as scrap paper to-do lists. And besides, you let him get away with all of this shit, so this is just one more thing:
Reminder that this is not the DC case that was rejected and now before SCOTUS. Ben Meiselas breaks down the newest Motion to Dismiss in the Mar-A-Lago Case
UPDATE 72
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Judge Cannon is a moron!! Not slander... PROVEN. This is now her THIRD juducial error... (And yes I am using this again, where I beclowned Bennet's a cartoon of cannon)
Authorities investigating online threats made to potential witness related to Trump classified docs case
https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-investigating-online-threats-made-potential-witness-trump/story
In case you missed it... Aileen Cannon blows off DOJ concerns about witness safety to give Trump a win. This means a delay past May, which is tRUMP's plan...
Jack Smith fired back, as did a slew of other lawyers, that a request for witnesss safety should not be denied. Hopefully this begins the removal process of her from the case.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/10/2222552/-Not-A-Lawyer-But-It-Looks-Like-Jack-Smith-Is-Nearing-His-Breaking-Point-With-Judge-Aileen-Cannon
UPDATE 71
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WTF?
WTAF?
Two previously locked rooms in MaraLardo were not searched by the FBI even though their search warrant WARRANTED such a search. The FBI is saying that they did not know about the rooms but dammit, thy should have done a more thorough search.
It was the Miami office that conducted the search and many FBI love them some LOSER45 so who The F knows why not.
Speaking of the documents and a sexual predator...
I hate that this is only coming out now... to take away from tRUMP ( and from sources in the know who are likely doing it on purpose, being it is from tRUMP WH 'Residency ...)
UPDATE #70
Trump's Disclosure of Nuke Sub Secrets to Billionaire Could Sink Him
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trumps-disclosure-of-nuke-sub-secrets-to-billionaire-could-sink-him
Trump told Pratt about an airstrike on Iranian militants in Iraq before it made the news
Trump said he then received an enraged phone call from the president of Iraq
Trump said his infamous 2019 phone call to Volodmyr Zelenskiy was 'nothing' compared what he usually does
Pratt said that Trump knows how to straddle the line between bending the law and breaking it: '[He] gets so close to it... that is looks like to everyone that he's breaking the law'
Earlier this month, it emerged that Trump had told Pratt about the capabilities of US nuclear submarines during a candid conversation in Mar-a-Lago
Thanks to
for the video:
UPDATE #69
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Sept 8: It is hilarious that CNN has been hammering into the public that there is a new 'breaking' story that Yuscil Tarveras had flipped when that was covered in the Aug 1 UPDATE #68. I am trying to Boycott CNN, but they are embedded into my Youtube timeline with 4 videos on the subject, FFS... Man, they suck!
Sept 7: tRUMP's original lead attorney on the classified documents case, Evan Corcoran, made audio memos after having conversations with tRUMP about the DOJ subpoena and possible subsequent FBI involvement. He warned tRUMP in person at Mar-a-Lago, and soon after, 'Corcoran got his own warning from another Trump attorney: If you push Trump to comply with the subpoena, "he's just going to go ballistic," Corcoran recalled.'
The reason for the audio tapes was because what tRUMP was asking him to do and repeatedly asked him to do was illegal, which is also why a judge ruled this was proof of a crime and no longer attorney client privileged. (CYA in other words)
There is more here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-warned-fbi-raid-mar-lago-team-feared/ If you would rather hear than read... Midas Touch breaks it down...
Aug 20, 2023: 'Mark Meadows contradicts Trump's defense in classified documents case: Sources. Sources tell ABC News that former President Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told federal investigators he can't recall Trump ever ordering the broad declassification of materials.' https://abcnews.go.com/US/meadows-told-special-counsel-recall-trump-declassifying-mar/ Video here: https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/mark-meadows-contradicts-trumps-defense-classified-documents-case-102412304
More info about tRUMP indictments can be found here:
UPDATE 4: The LOSER45 Indictments Thus Far...
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/update-4-the-loser45-indictments-thus-far
UPDATE #68
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Trial Date: May 20, 2024
Yuscil Tarveras flipped last month as soon as the judge recommended that he get a lawyer that was not recommendd by tRUMP's team. As a result, he mmediately recanted his precious statements and provided information againt tRUMP and Nauta. The result was the superseding indictment... Thanks judge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7mDjn2Ywc
Superseding indictment.
My Forum post https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/ae4bcae3-ae30-4bbf-92a5-92cc676e6655?postId=63045489b74ba10012e7a53f
July 31, 2023, There are new video surveillance tapes and the DOJ was "kind" enough to snip the footage to highlight specific events! I wonder what those are? And at the end they remind tRUMP et al that people have flipped and after the arraignment of the property manager Aug10, there will be transparency revealing anyone paid or cooperating. (To them not us...) https://t.co/e8q1P9ZFG7
If the surveillance tapes significance is unfamiliar to you, here is legal Eagle happily explaining the tapes, the bonkers response to them, and what they mean for the defendants. (Or read more below)
Thanks to Vaxxed2themax
Aug 4, Judge Cannon made multiple errors in an earlier trial in June.
She is a moron!! If she doesn't know what she is doing she should have a freaking cheat sheet in front of her. The case is of a man running a website with images of child sex abuse; she had better not have messed up his being incarcerated!
This is the clown who will be the documents trial judge?!?! https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-documents-case-judge-made-multiple-errors-earlier-trial-2023-08-04/
UPDATE #67
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Third co-defendant in Trump docs case in court today as Trump braces for new indictment
July 31, 2023, Carlos de Oliveira, curiously recently promoted from maintenace worker to Mar-a-Lago property Mgr, appears in court Ari. He could not be arraigned as he needs to have a local attorney representing. Melber joined by former SDNY Chief David Kelley and former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal.
🎼 Hopelessly indicted for you- Oooh!
Come on in, the doors are always open...
July 29, 23 ... tRUMP responded to the superseding indictment TODAY in an interview. Legal AF Popok says we know who the 4th employee is: trump's computer IT guy at Maralago. Phonetically: Ucil Traveris, but obviously cooperating. 7:14. I tried other spelling but cannot find in a search. Anyone? Found:Yuscil Tarveras.
IOW 'My attorneys were handed a superseding indictment in the classified documents case and given a courtesy meeting after my Jan 6. election interference target letter, so I must be innocent... *The delayed Jan 6. election interference case Grand Jury to vote on that new indictment will reconvene on Tuesday, Aug 1.
UPDATE #66
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New Charges for Trump, Third Defendant Added to Mar-a-Lago Documents Case.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/carlos-de-oliveira-named-alongside-donald-trump-walt-nauta-in-mar-a-lago-classified-docs-case
That's 42 charges total in this case. Nauta is included in the 60 page superseding indictment HERE: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/read-the-new-charges-against-trump-00108666
Item 32 is the Iran war document LOSER45 insisted that he did not have and was simply shuffling pages of papers...
Or watch for a summary:
UPDATE #65
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Thanks to Vaxxed2themax: 'It turns out that 8 search warrants were issued in the Tdump classified documents case. The DOJ is asking that the others remain under seal for now. I catch wait to hear all the juicy dirt on this criminal cabal.' https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/eight-search-warrants-issued-trump-classified-documents-case-new-filin-rcna96228
The details of the searches are unknown, but hopefully includes other properties.
UPDATE #64
tRUMP reposted this threat which also contained his campaign logo for 2024 and a short, vile threatening message.
“If you f*ck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Is he calling on his military snipers? His Proudboys? His Oathkeepers? His loyal government people who can screw with computers, checques like social security, the grid and who knows what else? He threatened and almost succeeded with January 6... He is a stochastic terrorist that should be in jail, not running for president again, FFS! *ADDENDUM: The clip has been found to be from an interview with fellow asshole Rush Limbaugh speaking about Iran, but the 2024 campaign logo and him reposting it just as he gets a Jan 6 target letter and has to decide if he will testify before a Grand Jury is not a coinicidence... The threat cannot be about Iran and the judge should MAKE him testify to ask as it could just as well be a threat against him and the jury.
It also mirrors this threat that his "passionate" MAGA minions will be dangerous if there is jaol time, spoken in a thinly veiled word salad threat said in tRUMP code...
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/if-you-fck-around-with-us-trump-shares-ominous-clip-of-him-threatening-revenge/
A cult member wrote this in the video comments 3 months ago. W T A F?
And I am adding this because the USA needs to be warned AGAIN that these are tRUMP's people... and he knows that they are always standing back and standing by.
Oathkeepers chat leak:
ProPublica identified Clampitt and 47 more state and local government officials on the list, all Republicans: 10 sitting state lawmakers; two former state representatives; one current state assembly candidate; a state legislative aide; a city council assistant; county commissioners in Indiana, Arizona and North Carolina; two town aldermen; sheriffs or constables in Montana, Texas and Kentucky; state investigators in Texas and Louisiana; and a New Jersey town’s public works director.
ProPublica’s analysis also found more than 400 people who signed up for membership or newsletters using government, military or political campaign email addresses, including candidates for Congress and sheriff, a retired assistant school superintendent in Alabama, and an award-winning elementary school teacher in California. https://www.propublica.org/article/oath-keepers-in-the-state-house-how-a-militia-movement-took-root-in-the-republican-mainstream
Leaked Oath Keepers Data
A synopsis of those they targetted and became members: 373 currently serving LEO (Law enforcement); 1,100 retired LEO; 81 currently holding/running for office; 117 current U.S. military; and the number of retired veterans is ... at least 30 times that.
‘The Oath Keepers did not just draw supporters from the professions they explicitly targeted. Also included in the membership list were religious figures, teachers, civil engineers, and government employees. Some individuals reported holding top secret clearances or had jobs that gave them access to critical infrastructure such as nuclear facilities. Many of these individuals have roles that make them trusted members of the community who are theoretically in positions to influence people or access sensitive materials or sites.’ https://www.adl.org/resources/report/oath-keepers-data-leak-unmasking-extremism-public-life
"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
UPDATE #63
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May 20, 2024 tRUMP’s classified documents trial
Here is her schedule:
Calendar call in this matter will be held on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 1:45 p.m. in the
Fort Pierce Division. The case is set for Jury Trial in the Fort Pierce Division during the two-week trial period commencing on May 20, 2024.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.83.0.pdf
Fort Pierce Division is tRUMPY and small, so the number of choices for a jury are limited. The courtroom is tiny. The press will make sure that they look bad as they overrun the area. Nevermind that the majority will be the "independant hournalists" being paid by oligarchs and the GQP,,,
Agreeing with tRUMP's attorneys for the delay:
“This is a CIPA case, which although on its own may not be a fact warranting designation of this case as complex under the Speedy Trial Act, strongly counsels in that direction here given the substantial quantities of classified discovery, anticipated CIPA briefing and the need for Defendants and the Court to adequately review the classified discovery under appropriate safeguards and following resolution of pending logistics,” Cannon wrote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/21/trump-trial-date-classified-documents/
The Roy Dohn mobster defence he taught tRUMP...and tRUMP taught everone else...
UPDATE #62
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July 14:
A low level staffer of tRUMP Org has been sent a target letter in the documents case.
Thanks and H/T to HOS for the update and gifted WaPo aricle: https://wapo.st/3pInRdF
July 12:
tRUMP has advised Judge Cannon that he, the defendent, expects her to dismiss the case
A judge who has spent only days in federal criminal courtroom, is inexperienced, inept and politically biased, who has not only refused to step down for obvious conflict of interest and in the past having made up new laws to protect the person who put her into her lifetime appointment... remains in the position to be able to sabotage the most important criminal case in recent US history... whereby a former president is on trial for espionage and 37 counts. LUDICROUS!
July 14: In other related news... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-prison-classified-documents-espionage-act/
'July 6, Trump aide Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case. He is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.' https://abcnews.go.com/US/reaching-drop-dead-deadline-trump-aide-walt-nauta/story
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The bitch is back.... and this is a horrible start.
Judge Cannon makes an order in the Trump CRIMINAL CASE denying Smith being able to keep the 82 witnesses names hidden. So tRUMP cannot speak about them, but the public/Q/fake militias/ MAGA minions can harass, threaten, bribe, hurt, intimidate via their families?
Witness intimidation from a criminal like LOSER45? Roy Cohn trained him well. Look at those who have turned on tRUMP and quickly changed their minds...
Wix erases my videos once I do an edit so will leave the URL as well. https://youtu.be/WH7CUeqrMJk
HOLY hell. That is the 4th time tRUMP made veiled threats against Smith and his history SHOULD make any judge concerned for witnesses FFS... but not Cannon. H/T to HOS:
Trump’s latest attack includes special counsel’s family after bombshell tape revealed
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/trump-attack-special-counsel-family-after-tape-revealed.html
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I am trying to boycott CNN but this is important.... tRUMP sounds like a child eager to show off his twirling penis..."Look it's on a swivel" says tRUMP.
Exclusive CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents
OR, read here if you can't stand to hear his voice
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June 23, 2023, Jack Smith Provides TFG with list of 84 Witnesses in Stolen Docs Case
Neither Nauta or tRUMP are not allowed to discuss the case with 84 potential witnesses. Trial delayed to Dec. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/23/trump-trial-date/
Judge Cannon sets Trump trial for August, but it’s not likely to stick
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/20/trump-trial-date/
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June 19, 2023
FBI agents and prosecutors argued over issuing a subpoena for tRUMP in spite of some of the documents being a national security threat.
They also bickered over how to enforce it once issued! The swamp is real, but it is the MAGA slime that is trying to derail tRUMP paying for his very REAL CRIMES! It is disgusting!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/01/fbi-dispute-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/
A federal judge ordered tRUMP to have a lawyer present to access discovery evidence in this case and he may not share any of it publicly. https://t.co/3ZSqqAew30
tRUMP has sensitive classified documents fr, SEVEN different departments and 8 documents are so sensitive even their access codes are secret. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-kept-8-documents-sensitive-142217439.html
A Meidas Touch lawyer reminds us that the one document outlining Nuclear secrets is not one that a president xan ever declassify. It can only be declassified by the Dept of energy and another Dept. Read more here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-fbi-raid-classified-nuclear-documents/671119/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydmzu-yeJk
Peripheral to topic but always relevant to Drumpf: Robert Reich in the Guardian about how 45 isn't an authoritarian, he's a total fascist and the media should describe him as one.
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REMINDER
This is not just about stealing classified documents. tRUMP has been indicted under the Espionage Act with Obstruction of Justice & Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
for willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and a conspiracy with an unknown number of people to obstruct justice and display disregard for long-standing protocols and security procedures. (Let's hope Meadows has flipped and revealed what was in those bags of documents that he burned)
What actually happened in the arraignment courtroom was as interesting as it was upsetting. What is especially egregious was the pitiful display from the DOJ as they kid gloved tRUMP to the point of NO RESTRICTIONS AT ALL! So egregious that the judge had to intervene to place the MINIMUM of restrictions on a life long fraudster and criminal https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-actually-happened-trumps-arraignment
Forbes has neatly laid out the charges for anyone who has not read the indictment (An indictment written so that a 9 year old could easily read and understand). https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/06/13/what-crimes-was-trump-charged-with-in-federal-documents-case-heres-what-to-know-as-he-pleads-not-guilty/?sh=2c703a2d2a81
Just security has as well. https://www.justsecurity.org/86771/model-prosecution-memo-for-trump-classified-documents/
And here is a picket memo/meme to hand out to detractors.
Lastly, a reminder that boxes were also moved to Bedminster. Let's hope that Bedminster, Dorval, tRUMP Tower and any property near either could have transported the boxes to have been searched.
This video of at least 9 boxes being loaded ion a plane was recorded May 9, 2021, which was 3 days after NARA informed Trump's team that material was missing.
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June 15, 2023 Jack Smith filed a protective order to limit disclosure of discovery and that will “include information pertaining to ongoing investigations… which could compromise those investigations and identify uncharged individuals.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-asks-judge-trump-disclosing-evidence-classified/story
June 15, 2023 Jack Smith filed this under the CIPA, which not only makes this a serious case, but also assures that Judge Cannon takes it seriously. 18a U.S. Code Compiled Act 96-456 - CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PROCEDURES ACT
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18a/compiledact-96-456
Judge Cannon has asked all parties to arrange getting classified clearance because she has to. The arrangement must be complete by tomorrow. (Just in, see pic below) *Even so, the FBI background checks and paperwork takes awhile. One more thing. This puts the kibosh onto tRUMP's theory that he had the right to wave a magic wand and declassify them. tRUMP will likely ask his lawyers to say it anyway!! The CIPA also outlines the sensitive security procedures on how to present the classified documents in court... Judge Cannon is exempt from requiring clearance... UGH! How will she be able to follow or know about protocol if she isn't a cleared subject?
Here is the signed agreement to obey the judge's orders (They call it a recognizance bond, however the f'er paid NO BOND) tRUMP is released on his own recognizance and shall not talk to witnesses, oh and no more criming. That outta do it!
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/17/united-states-v-trump/
June 13, 2023, tRUMP arraigned. No searches, mugshots or handcuffs; there were no limitations placed on his domestic or international travel or confiscation of his passport; no bail...
Trump had his fingerprints taken digitally.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/trump-fingerprinted-98355931
He pleaded not guilty of course. Denial IS his defense, always. Roy Cohn taught him that.
His 'body man,' Waltine Nauta did not enter a plea, and tRUMP was told to NOT speak to witnesses. Nauta will likely appeal as fluffing tRUMP is his livelihood... https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1181749734/trump-court-appearance-miami-classified-documents
Immediately following the arraignment...
Daily Kos community posts reminding how tRUMP was always a national security threat.
That time trump tweeted a classified satellite image to the Whole. Freaking. World.
And another reminder, as unsettling as it may be, Elizabeth Neumann, Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for counterterrorism under tRUMP said:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-causes-people-to-die-fmr-trump-dhs-official-absolutely-obliterates-the-ex-presidents-blatant-disregard-for-our-countrys-most-sensitive-secrets/
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Do not get excited about this next statement... Judge Cannon is still lead judge in this case.
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"Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman — not U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was randomly assigned Trump’s case — will be handling the former president’s arraignment and bond matters."
https://www.miamiherald.com/article276328096.html
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/article276328096.html#storylink=cpy
Charon the Ferryman has added sentencing guidelines for the tRUMP indictment. Scroll down or see HERE: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/a23988df-da42-4f39-a68c-63037e10506c?postId=63045489b74ba10012e7a53f
"Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joins Jen Psaki for a one-on-one interview. They discuss all of the latest developments on Donald Trump's second indictment and what we can expect to see next. "
It is so good to hear 2 insightful and thought people in an interview rather than the talking boobleheads! Eric Holder reiterates that Judge Cannon will have undue powers should she fail to recuse herself and the 11 circuit may be powerless to stop her as they did last time. And no, they cannot force her to recuse because they made the mistake of being too kind in her previous rebuke. There was obvious bias that was reflected in her decisions and they could have stated that. And here we are...
Trump could face around 17 to 22 years in prison according to assessed sentencing guidelines. In short terms, that means he will possibly die in jail. There is a little wriggle room for judges, but not much. Tough stuff.
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I promised an update, but no one is going to like it. The random assignment to Aileen Kannon's Kangaroo Kourt stands. Who says? The chief Justice and the chief clerk who assigned the random case. The excuses are here... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-documents.html but in essence it has been...
She will not be made to recuse and step aside because the circuit judges were too kind to her in their former filings when rebuking her and did not meet the requirements needed to be considered biased. Language matters, sadly and she is as likely to step down as a cat is to start obeying commands. Her reputation is already in tatters so what does she have to lose? I doubt public opinions matters, but If I were American I would be making sure anyone involved knew how I felt. (hint hint)
If you would care for more legalese, many are presently arguing in this comment section... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/9/2174445/-MeidasTouch-host-Ben-Meiselas-Explains-Why-Judge-Aileen-Cannon-Will-Be-Recused#comment_86363097
Hey Judge loose Cannon, remember these words.
‘Extreme carelessness with classified material’ and a ‘cover-up that includes false statements and lies’ is ‘totally disqualifying’ for the presidency. Donald J. tRUMP, 2016:
The high fives of other crooks and despots are flying fast and furiously now...
When did DOJ start treating removal of classified documents like a felony? 2018
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/updated-when-did-doj-start-treating-removal-of-classified-documents-like-a-felony-2018
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tRUMP himself notified the world he had been the first president indicted on Federal charges on June 8, the day before the indictment was officially unsealed and announced.
His lawyers, RNC and their PR team are making sure to stay ahead of this, calling the Dems, Biden, FB, DOJ and Investigator Jack Smith politically motivated,and a host of disgusting names, assuring his base do not ever know the actual CRIMINAL actions of their cult leader. Sadly it is working. None of those people will even read the indictment or even look at snippets. (Well damn, looks like even the people on here haven't. UGH)
Regardless...
Interjecting:
FYI: I hope that the immunity of Meadows was limited, given he was caught burning what was likely evidence of crimes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/live-updates-trump-indictment-classified-documents-rcna88494#rcrd13952
Seeing Judge Cannon's name on the indictment made a lot of people hurl. Hopefully it will not stand. Some lawyers have said it will not; others have said that she will be given a say in sentencing, REGARDLESS! UUUUGHHH! I will update when we know.
The document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf
When did DOJ start treating removal of classified documents like a felony? 2018
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/updated-when-did-doj-start-treating-removal-of-classified-documents-like-a-felony-2018
That is because he wanted to indict Hilary Clinton, which would have been nigh impossible because THIS is what really happened.
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Addendum:
Model Prosecution Memo for Trump Classified Documents
Just Security has some very savvy lawyer assess potential charges that federal prosecutors may bring against tRUMP. (If what has been known, leaked and written about is in fact true...and damn I hope it is) It is long...
Our memo analyzes six federal crimes in depth:
Mishandling of Government Documents 1. Retention of National Defense Information (18 U.S.C. § 793(e)) 2. Concealing Government Records (18 U.S.C. § 2071) 3. Conversion of Government Property (18 U.S.C. § 641)
Obstruction, Contempt, False Information
1. Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1519) 2. Criminal Contempt (18 U.S.C. § 402) 3. False Statements to Federal Investigators (18 U.S.C. § 1001)
https://www.justsecurity.org/86771/model-prosecution-memo-for-trump-classified-documents/
July 2021: as tRUMP prepared for the Saudi LIV golf tournament held 3 months later, Trump met with ghost writers for Mark Meadows’ book, 'per sources.' Trump said it was too hot in Florida in July so met in Bedminster. Trump aide Margo Martin had her laptop and recording devices because tRUMP didn't trust anyone to be truthful in quoting him. (Oh the irony)
In March, when she testified about the tapes, the info was duplicated. On it was tRUMP admitting he retained a 4 page document whereby he says General Milley was itching for a war with Iran*. He also admits he regretted not declassifying it... *UGH, being the General did the opposite: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/youre-gonna-have-a-fucking-war-mark-milleys-fight-to-stop-trump-from-striking-iran
ADDENDUM: Cath has pointed out I was missing some context for the questions paragraph, as it had been inadvertently erased.
Kellyanne Conway was a typical "leaker" from the whitehouse. Whenever I hear "sources" I think of her. In the time of Clinton, then Bush, think Brett Kavanaugh and manipultive GQP operatives are indeed sources... but of misinformation. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116281152/how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-conspiracy-theories-and-denialism
What I had originally proposed is that the 4 page document may have been ordered by tRUMP himself or it may have been a war game scenario that caught tRUMP's eye in the daily briefing and that he felt might give him cover if he ordered a strike/war in Iran. It may also have been simply to discredit Milley as a warmonger. We do not actually know anything about this, or that the copy or rapes actually exist, so in fact the entire scenario may have been a lie simply to discredit Milley. tRUMP is a vindictive SOB.
Thank you Cath.
The liar in chief says so much crap... on purpose, because denial, distraction and delay are always on his mind. Is this more of the same or does he really have it? Is this "leak" from GQP or Dem sources? Is it a tRUMP tactic to get his lies about Milley out there? Are tapes of this recording actually in the DOJ's hands? The Jack Smith investigation is supposedly wrapping up and this piece of evidence should have wrapped it up sooner if they got the copies in March...
I am trying hard to boycott CNN so will add the Guardian story. https://t.co/zZGpu96jSG
Timothy Parlatore, top member of tRUMP's legal team, quit recently and said that Boris Epshteyn,“In my opinion, he was not very honest with us or with the client on certain things,” and that "There were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/21/trump-lawyers/
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While checking out Daily Kos, a lefty community site where people mostly share ideas and stories,some political, some not, I spied this: I have been waiting for someone to point out the obvious "tell" in this photo. Before reading it, let me explain that this is not written by daily Kos staff which is more journalistic and source vetted,, it may not be significant.
I scoffed after reading a couple of paragraphs, because it is obvious this guy is looking for clicks and is not military, but he does make some keen observations.
The reason for having a ruler front and centre made me slightly curious.. but I had no idea it is actually a photo scale used in forensics. https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/Dimensional-Review-of-Scales-for-Forensic-Photography.pdf
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The seemingly purposeful placement if the papers eluded me.
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The placement of this framed magazine cover always seemed like a cringe-worthy joke to me... (The RW rogue FBI agents for tRUMP piss me off so, I did not see beyond a partisan reason to add this in the photo)
I am not going to reproduce this persons work, so please go read it and then make your own observations in the replies. I have been waiting for someone to point out the obvious "tell" in this photo.
Here is just one of the many Government regulations that tRUMP ignored by copying the documents. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-32/subtitle-B/chapter-XXIV/part-2400/subpart-E/section-2400.30
This picture made me curious, so I image searched it. Oddly it cannot be searched. Not by text (And this search tool had read even the most obscured text in the past) and not by having been used anywhere and crawled by Google. Also, there is an internal error message which may mean this may be a specifically doctored pic. (As you can see it visually is doctored with a red tint you can see in the hands and makes the edge blood red) I find that interesting. I wonder where they got it? This forum is open and crawled, so will check to see if it is searchable after a few days. WEIRD !?!?!
FYI, the search still will not translate the simple text nor tell me the page source, but it did show up in a likeness recognition search... but not even first.
The cover pages are colour-coded by confidentiality. (Pic below)
These are hand made from Etzy, so it seems anyone can copy a cover page with some skills involved, https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/sf703.pdf so that is one out for tRUMP as he says he kept them for souvenirs, but...
“SCI” indicates t“sensitive compartmented information,” which is required to be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of National Intelligence. That means to be seen only in a safely controlled SECURE setting - not in your summer mansion office...
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Here is a reminder from the training manual on classified documents, that it is the duty of those handling it to use the utmost care so as not to put other people's lives at risk and to notify the government if you see a compromise. https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/intel/ic-class.pdf The person who wrote this story is correct, The agents seeing the breach were not playing a harmless partisan prank. They were furious.
RE: The black box in the upper left of the photo, I cannot remember for the life of me if this was written about and cannot find it in earlier updates. Anyone, help here? *FOUND ANSWER: external hard drive... tRUMP has never used a computer in his life as he knows data may always be accessible. From which/whose computer?
Also, as I reminded earlier... We have no idea why he did this, but "all of the above" usually applies to the corrupt mind of LOSER45...
Sigh... and someone reminded that there are tunnels under Maralago, with access from the beach. And the rooms and spaces these were in were not even locked until the FBI made a visit and told him to add a padlock. (before the subpoena) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/29/i-wanted-see-how-far-i-could-get-teen-snuck-past-secret-service-into-mar-a-lago-while-trump-was-there-court-documents-say/
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Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes a day before Justice Dept. came for documents
Update and gifted URL thanks to @Pro-Vaccinator, not procrastinator
As this saga comes closer to what should be charges, the story becomes even more bizarre. tRUMP even held a dress rehearsal before the boxes were moved.
What pisses me off is that the lawyers for the witnesses are being paid via a tRUMP PAC! Also, one can longer comment on the WaPo stories without a prescrition.
tRUMP possibly burying documents with Ivana is no longer a joke...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/
REMINDER: An assessment of the list of crimes that tRUMP could be charged with.
https://www.justsecurity.org/84168/mar-a-lago-model-prosecution-memo/
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Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Since 2017
Update and gifted URL thanks to @Pro-Vaccinator, not procrastinator
The suppoena from special counsel Jack Smith's investigation went to tRUMP's business, tRUMP ORG. When looking into espionage, it is best to look into all the nooks and crannies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/trump-records-foreign-deals.html
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New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified
FAFO? Hope so... Update thanks to @Pro-Vaccinator, not procrastinator
https://www.news8000.com/news/politics/national-politics/exclusive-new-evidence-in-special-counsel-probe-may-undercut-trump-s-claim-documents-he-took/article_c02dec17-70c9-5a46-a97d-4ae0fa203ffe.html
UPDATE #47
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Here is a blast from the past... from the first time (that we know of) that tRUMP played fast and lose with United states and other county's secrets... https://t.co/Oo8ePwWPt9
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Secret Service testifies to grand jury investigating Trump's mishandling of classified documents
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/7/2162676/-Secret-Service-testifies-to-grand-jury-investigating-Trump-s-mishandling-of-classified-documents
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LOSER45 has never been held responsible for his past crimes, and may never be. Instead of this latest crime hanging over him, he will milk it for money, sympathy and more followers. It will be appealed until you are sick of hearing about it.
Meanwhile, he will campaign with his usual ill-gotten donations and very likely become the next president. Please, do everything in your power to make sure this criminal never becomes president or hold any office ever again. Here is a MoveOn petition, should anyone wish to sign.
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/prosecute-trump-for-stealing-documents
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DMac has gifted the article for this update
https://wapo.st/3GbDnDw
I hope this is not just a teaser headline, and that the "sources" have given enough evidence to charge LOSER45. I also hope that is the next update
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March 01, 2023
FBI agents undermined Russia investigation, downplayed Jan. 6, tried to block the Mar-a-Lago search. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/1/2155645/-Opposition-to-Mar-a-Lago-search-confirms-the-FBI-is-badly-broken-and-Christopher-Wray-needs-to-go
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“Incredible negligence”: More classified docs found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago months after FBI search
H/T to HOS:
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Federal prosecutors have requested a judge order tRUMP lawyer Evan Corcoran to testify before grand jury. The only way to compel his testimony is to cite the fraud/crime exception. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/special-counsel-seeks-testimony-trump-lawyer-prosecutors-allege-eviden-rcna70711
Hopefully this jackass is next! Like Lindsey Graham, Pence is invoking legislative privilege as he dodges another subpoena... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/pence-subpoena-trump-election-00082637
UPDATE #40
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Although unconfirmed that this is the person who had the laptop and thumb drive of Classified info... See update #39 ... this is all too fishy to not at least document.
https://twitter.com/DavidWoodsUSA/status/1625593663534292993
David got a bit dramatic here but whoaa... I can see why... https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/2021%20Moving%20Support.pdf
How does he know where the unit is? An obscure story under a paywall... says it was not just a storage unit as others claimed, but a WaWa grocery storage unit, unsecured and accessed with a number code that anyone could use...
Chamberlain had her fingers in every pie! Like Nixon, tRUMP gave the young'uns the rule of the roost and then bused them to prison. (In and under it) Search pages 18 and 19 in blue... or do a page "find" search for ... Chamberlain Harris. She also wrote for him on "Truth" Social.
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/01/trump-deposition.pdf
UPDATE #39
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The aide to trump who uploaded the classified files into a laptop and downloaded into a thumb drive is allegedly Chamberlain Harris, a Whitehouse receptionist with Russian ties. If true, she is also the one last recorded as receiving the Maralago batch of boxes according to this GSA exchange of messages...
https://twitter.com/search?q=Chamberlain%20Harris&src=typeahead_click&f=top
If true, these dates are very significant... July/August of 2019, in Russia. September 2019 - August 2020, intern at White House August 2020 to January 2021, receptionist at White House.
Holy shit, she erased the Russian part! See below)
***SHE HAS SCRUBBED HER LINKEDIN!
She did not corrected the "honor that was bestowed upon her though...
"Summa Cum Laude" https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamberlain-harris-45094b14b
Her thesis was a comparison of Obama and tRUMP similarities in communication strategies, WTAF... 'This paper examines the traditional notion that President Obama and President Trump were polar opposites. It seeks to answer the questions of how are similar or different (SIC) the Trump and Obama campaign communication strategies are and how these strategies have changed from campaigning to governing.' mode. https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_pos/32/
Besides being on the "Save America" misnomered PAC, she is also on his 'DJT for president 2024' payroll. WTH? Beside being paid by both, isn't that totally illegal as both are required to have a wall between them? Here is her payroll info...
https://twitter.com/MountainsStars/status/1624473163982684160/photo/1
Busy girl. Was also VP of TPUSA at Albany college...2018 and 19
About that Manila Folder:
When asked about the manila folder that was found on tRUMP's night table his lawyer said:
Oddly, tRUMP said himself he asked to keep the empty folders as keepsakes. At least that had an air plausibility FFS.
UPDATE #38
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The finding of Pence and Biden classified documents has knocked tRUMP's out of the news. He is back in the running because a new one was found in Maralago, and it seems it was also put on a laptop AND a thumb drive.
Pence and Biden have had multiple locations searched. tRUMP? Nope.. Why is that, DOJ?
UPDATE #37
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More classified documents have been found in a storage unit in Florida near Maralago. At least two were found at this time. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/additional-items-marked-classified-found-trump-storage-unit-rcna60593
There is a lively discussion on the topic on Daily Kos, should you care to see more. This is a staff written story. (Many stories there are community generated blogs)
Trump's attorneys say no classified documents at Trump Tower, but find more in storage shed
This group effort from the main page is too good to not keep alive for all to see. The starter thread by Fishguy is here, where he also startled a few people...
Merry Christmas and a Happy indictment year to us all...
UPDATE #36
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Thank you goofycat!
Link to story is here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-documents-case-appeals-court-orders-end-to-special-master-review-process/ Vaxxed2themax had the story earlier:
https://youtu.be/zET8FNjQ4tk
As so delicately being put here, tRUMP and his legal team are being regularly "pantsed" by the11th court circuit. https://abovethelaw.com/2022/11/trump-lawyers-face-plant-into-eleventh-circuit-again/
UPDATE #35
Openly and transparently are not being used well here, but will be in a court of law.
Lawyer: You have the right to remain silent and not implicate yourself.
LOSER45: Butheremails!
UPDATE #34
'The DOJ has alerted federal judge Aileen Cannon that Special Counsel Jack Smith will be appearing on future court filings.' MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports.
I am trying not to have the high expectations that I had for Mueller, given the LOSER45 penchant for slipping away like the greased pig that he is...
It is heartening though, that Special Councel Jack Smith took time on Thanksgiving to draft this letter to the 11th Circuit which called out LOSER45's lawyers for providing false and erroneous information:
UPDATE #33
Walt Nauta, (Read more in update #32 below) who moved boxes from a storage room in Maralago after the DOJ subpoena, has the same lawyer as Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs, Peter Navarro and who knows who else? Lawyer Stanley Woodward.
Rather then send you to the NYT piece, this is a far better read,and likely more accurate than the tRUMP fluffers at the NYT. https://secondnexus.com/doj-witnesses-trump-documents-case
As LinnnieMae below reminds me, I am remiss for not updating. Another dastardly villian who was close to LOSER45 and entrusted to clear out non tRUMPIes in crucial positions in government, including the Pentagon, Kash Patel, will testify before a federal grand jury about the classified documents tRUMP stole and kept in Maralago.
He has been given partial immunity which compels him to testitfy ... but how compelling will it be? The man worked for Devin Nunes before tRUMP... and is an as kissing liar. “I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information.’” ~ Kash Patel. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/trump-news-kash-patel-granted-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-.html
The wide eyed liars club featuring Dan Scavino and Kash Patel.
Patel's immunity means he can only be charged if the DOJ can prove he lied in testimony, or gives information in his immunized testimony that incriminates himself.
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-23000-witness-immunity
Kash Patel has just struck an immunity deal to testify under oath in the Mar-a-Lago espionage case. After hearing that news, I got a vivid visual—of Psycho Donnie as a boa constrictor. Nudging his minions into criming more and more on his behalf. Suddenly they're surrounded by pressing consequences and they realize his squeeze is about to be deadly. Maybe that's when they finally realize everything Trump touches dies. They get that panicked look in their eye, like Ms. Lindsey's been looking lately.
During his first campaign, wasn't there some 'snake' routine he used to do?
"'Oh, shut up, silly woman,' said that reptile with a grin
"'Now you knew darn well I was a snake before you brought me in.'"
Yes, most of us realized he's a snake. Republicans can't take a hint, can they?
UPDATE #32
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The Covfefeboy did it
And, he made 135 to 150k for his loyalty.
Walt Nauta was the errand boy who responded up to12 times a day to LOSER45's pushing of a desk button to bring him a diet coke. His day was filled with other menial tasks, like fetching DOLT45's coat and tidying up after his turd of a boss. Nauta's subservience and loyalty were rewarded by being able to follow his master. to Maralago. He repaid that loyalty by lying when asked about the stolen documents by the FBI, which is in itself a crime. When being told he was observed on security footage moving boxes out of their storage, he recanted.
The questions to ask now are: will he testify and secondly, are Nauta's lawyers being paid by tRUMP? Being he has proven himself to be another fake patriot who took an oath to his country and betrayed it to grovel and grift with tRUMP, I doubt it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-was-betrayed-by-his-diet-coke-valet/ar-AA12Y32h
At tRUMP's "social summit" where the trailer trash trolls he coveted were invited to meet the WH trailer trash, there was an oversize printed out tweet pretending that covfefe wasn't a typo and displayed next to a bust of Lincoln.
LOSER45's mouthpiece Taylor Budowich refused to answer questions but of course knew who was to blame! He says it is the Biden administration colluding with the media and...
The multitude of tRUMP lawsuits are a testament to the lack of justice in the USA for those who have the money to beat the system. The criminals he surrounds himself with and who vote for him are in awe... and learning quickly. DeathSantis, for one, has shown he is a fast learner.
UPDATE #31
This was discussed way back in August ... https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/c061411f-0d14-423e-b4b5-172e6d73fa2e?postId=63045489b74ba10012e7a53f
From Oct 6, 2021, over a year ago, the CIA warned that people were being compromised,captured and some killed... and now we can see that LOSER45 was likely one of the (Or, even the main) reasons.
UPDATE #30
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Mar-a-Lago classified papers included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China.
Details Of Secret Material Seized From Trump Focus Concern On Intelligence Sources' Safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v3eGX1LJ_
UPDATE #29
Here are a couple of stories I bookmarked and forgot to add. None of this shit was necessary ... any normal human would have capitulated, but this is how tRUMP brought himself back to life. A weak brand is better than no brand and he is familiar with the skill of corrupt lawyers and judges and perception of his power and wealth is all he needs to skate by. Delay, Deny, make it look as though he is innocent and and a victim to his MAGA moron minions and makes lots of turds to polish for the press. Sigh
1) The lying liar's liar lied. "There was apparently a docketing error and two still-sealed lists of potentially privileged FBI-seized MAL docs (A is gov docs & B is personal Trump docs) were briefly exposed; copy made its way to @ZoeTillman of Bloomberg who published them last night. The "medical documents" plural that Judge Cannon cited as part of the justification for imposing a special counsel appears to be the letter the Trump campaign made public in 2016 claiming Trump was in excellent health (h/t
@emptywheel)" https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1577655572463292418
2)
3)
Trump attorney lawyers up — and says she’s willing to cooperate with DOJ in Mar-a-Lago case
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/03/attorney-lawyers-up--and-says-shes-willing-to-cooperate-with-doj-in-mar-a-lago-case-report/
UPDATE #28
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Trump asks SCOTUS to reverse the 11th Circuit ruling that gave DOJ access to the classified documents (And which they had already separated) and to lie and say that tRUMP had magically declassified them (even though the evidence shows they were not put through the proper procedure and they are not his AND the espionage act applies regardless AND they are not his to keep even if he declassified them.)
This is no coincidence, FFS. The rest of the justices should insist Thomas recuse and send all this back to the proper jurisdiction.
Ginny Thomas' husband has ordered the DOJ to reply to this fiasco by Tues/ Oct. 11. (As reminded above, If he decides to totally dump SCOTUS in the garbage, he may, if he wishes ACT ALONE and agree with Cannon.)
tRUMP's niece, Mary tRUMP, reminds us that he will barge ahead AND it has worked in the past. Expect the worst from him as there is no best... (He promised to go AWAY, that vile POS!)
UPDATE #27
After refusing to take a hint from the Special Master Dearie, who tRUMP and Judge Qannon appointed, Judge Aileen Qannon agreed with tRUMP's objection to the special master's proposal that he verify the inventory log of seized items and designated WHICH items were supposedly planted.
tRUMP wants delays as always, and his puppet judge is more than willing to extend deadlines into December and beyond. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-special-master-reversal Documents here: https://t.co/NYPJoHAYWG
In the DOJ appeal of this delay, and obstruction, the DOJ reminds that even the documents which are NOT marked classified are evidence of the crime of concealing government records. https://t.co/shUursy0Xy
UPDATE #26
I am not feeling too well today and am stuck on yesterday's interview with Hannity where he went off on so many tangents that it almost seems he is preparing to seek an insanity plea... and not preparing to run again.. (He has to though, to outrun the indictments. He knows if he wins he can have a VP in his pocket who will pardon him... and that is not mere speculation as the LOSER in cheat has shown us who he is for many decades now.)
Too much time on my hands...
These are NOT mine...
but too good not to pass on.
Well we are all having fun, we also have to remember this is all moot... because...
This is a cover band presently making parody political songs for all to enjoy. They have great harmonies... https://www.noshpitent.com/ The band > https://www.thecounterfeitersband.com/
About time they get forced to put up or shut the fuck up—including on Faux Spews. I get the sense the non-MAGAt judiciary (and even some GQP elected folks) might be getting sick and tired of all this shit.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/mar-a-lago-special-master-trump-fbi-planting-evidence/index.html
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.106.0_1.pdf
UPDATE #25
Judge Qannon, as she is now dubbed, has stricken 2 portions of her order. (The rest still stands and Judge Dearie will continue scrutinizing all other documents under the order.) Cannon has totally ruined her reputation as she must have known it would be. Is it time to check her bank account and her expensive memberships that she should not be able to afford on her salary? (A la Brett Kavanaugh) https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1572966868763430912?s=20&t=lSnmSTzEwE297oQVrKAhbw
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/appeals-court-goes-chapter-and-verse-against-judge-cannon-149012037783
All of it can still be appealed to SCOTUS... but will LOSER45 continue on this path? Of course he will! He has been setting up ringers for some time now... Reagan's Whitehouse was taking calls from Mobster lawyer Roy cohn... tRUMP's friend. Reagan also utilized the frauds and cheats like Manafort and Stone, further bolstering their criminal careers after Nixon. The QOP has always been a criminal enterprise... https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/paul-manafort-roger-stone/
The icing on the Dearie and 11th circuit cake is tRUMP saying to Hannity that the FBI were probably looking for Hillary's emails... but he made me snort laugh even more when he said he declassified everything, and states there "does not have to be a process" as just "thinking about it" will do. (See clip below)
HILARIOUS! If that is his declaration that he had no idea how it all worked, the DOJ will be happy to show him the documents he DID declassify, after a process, and which he signed declaring he knew the process...
JFC, even Johnathon Turley is rebuking tRUMP's idiocy, but the video was on FOX, where the head nodders agree with tRUMP Jesus... because he is the truthiest of truthtellers. The down thread has it explained to them like they are 8 and many still disagree... and say he HAS THE POWER, FFS... (Scroll up to see Turley's thread...) https://twitter.com/phares_tim/status/1572763195789434880
Do you remember
The 21st night of September?
https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk
Andrew Weissman on O'Donnell tonight: "The 11th circuit took out the big crayons to school Judge Cannon."
UPDATE #24
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A stay has been granted and the DOJ will be able to continue their investigation into tRUMP and the classified material, at least for now. Both parties will appeal, however there is a legal wall to further appeal to the 11th circuit. (Will add when I find someone who explains it well)... so will likely go to SCOTUS if they would even take it up. They should not as it is a sham and will further darken their kangaroo court, but we shall see.
Found it...
Thank you for doing all this work. Emptywheel is indeed a good resource on the legal shenanigans of the Orange Turnip.
UPDATE #23
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tRUMP is not intelligent but he as cunning as a mobster. He was taught by Roy Cohn to be a master manipulator, and to surround himself with loyal yes-men, cheats, frauds, petty thieves, criminals and lawyers willing to bend the law in his favour. He doesn't care if he actually wins. He cares if he can lie and cheat to win and although people may be thinking he is losing... his shit grin is still pretty wide.
We know choosing Judge loose Cannon was a ringer... as outlined in the updates below . We also know Trump choosing Chris Kise as his lawyer was no mistake. When Kise represented Maguro,an illegally installed Dictator in Venezuela, he had to register under FARA. There is no way that he can be given the top secret clearance that will be needed to see the top secret documents, which is essentially what tRUMP's team is asking for... knowing it will never happen. It is all about delay and deny.
This is basically what happened yesterday, Sept 20. The Special Master to Trump lawyers who refused to answer which documents were classified and how:
That is not a ruling, but a statement. SM Judge Dearie also said:
You can't have your cake (saying all documents were unclassified) and eat it too (Not revealing which ones were declassified and how)...
Oddly, 🙄 outside of court, LOSER45 is saying he declassified them all... and yet, his lawyer, Trusty, told Dearie they could easily get the clearance to read top classified material and that he should start the process. (That's a lie. Some are need to know and if they have access they will then want to use it in court) So the question is, if tRUMP declassified everything, why do you think you need clearance?
tRUMP's lawyers won't let him perjure himself to say it in court that he magically declassified the documents.
People are reveling that it is a win. My head hurts. My teeth hurt. Besides tRUMP not having the right to the documents and this having been taken up by a judge in his pocket who is ruling in tRUMP's interests rather than the National security interest of the USA, people are forgetting the details... but not Marcie at Emptywheel. The delay tactics have just begun...
UPDATE #22
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Special Master Dearie requested a declaration of the efforts tRUMP took to declassify any documents. His lawyers refuse as they feel it is his defense should charges ensue... Looks as though LOSER45's lawyers think he will be indicted... Here is that declaration. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.97.0.pdf
"The rule of law means that the law treats each of us alike: There is not one rule for friends, another for foes; one rule for the powerful, another for the powerless; a rule for the rich, another for the poor." AG Eric Garland
(Nice words, however, Reality Winner was arrested after a short investigation for one page...)
Whoa.... Talking heads finally making sense and kicking ass!
I am flabbergasted and flustered. Cannon has thrown away any legitimate reason to accept her as a solidly intelligent human, let alone someone fit to sit as a justice in any court of law. Like William Barr and the DOJ lawyers who were supposed to be working for the USA and all of its people, she is working for tRUMP and his minions who are in grave trouble and should be indicted rather than coddled
I feel as deflated and disappointed as I did after prepared my last missive on Twitter back when Kavanaugh was being considered for his SCOTUS seat, supposedly investigated by the FBI and then was still confirmed in spite of the hundred reasons given why he should NOT have been. I can't even comment so I will let others explain, because I cannot...
Empty wheel is cut and dry and often humourless, but if you get her, you love her. (She reminds me of me, but a much better version ) https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/09/15/aileen-cannon-orders-government-to-share-classified-information-with-trumps-unclear-counsel/
The devil is in the details. Marcie is the one who will not be distracted from finding them... https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/09/16/trust-in-bid-for-stay-doj-likened-trump-to-catastrophic-intelligence-compromise/
Mark Sumner of Daily Kos has the goods and adds some good commentary. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/16/2123242/-Judge-Cannon-shows-she-s-totally-in-the-tank-for-Trump-with-latest-ridiculous-order
This will be appealed. Meanwhile the Special Master might be in someone's pocket for a past indiscretion. (That is how tRUMP chooses people... he keeps a list) He has choices to make... and making the wrong ones will show he is as corrupt as tRUMP and Cannon. An appeal goes to the 'Ginni Thomas court of appeals,' where she, the Federalists and her tea Party and hubby's buddies get to tell them how to rule in tRUMP's favour...heaven help you all...
And this...this is too freaking much. The courts demand respect when the law and come clerks and judges and most lawyers are asses... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/16/2123314/-Judge-Aileen-Cannon-Presides-Over-The-World-s-Most-Infamous-Kangaroo-Court
UPDATE #21
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During an interview with Hugh Hewitt, LOSER 45 said that everything he took to Mar-A-Lago was declassified verbally, he has done nothing wrong concerning alternative electors and he cannot be indicted.
So not only would he run if he were about to be indicted (As Garland told him he should do just that for no reason other than speaking directly to tRUMP when he said he was following Bill Barr's memos FFS) he would have "no prohibition" against running. I cannot believe I listened to any of that shit... and I don't recommend it... Wait for the transcript. https://hughhewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09-15hhs-trump.mp3
UPDATE #20
More updates are in the comments below
More of the subpoena for the video footage from Mar-a-Lago security cameras is revealed. It asked for January 10, 2022 to June 24, when it was served. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.125.0_1.pdf
House Oversight panel has asked the National Archives to determine if tRUMP still has documents. https://t.co/mQ6FmL28Y9
VIA Catticus Feline:
UPDATE #19
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Back to more serious.
'Trump Lawyers Respond To DOJ With Stunningly Childish Argument.' The tRUMP lawyers have refused to take this seriously, when in fact the laws being broken includes the ESPIONAGE ACT... and the tRUMP lawyers are looking only at the President's Records Act. Being tRUMP abused the espionage act, and heightened punishment for ia oart of it that he should be charged with, his pretense that he knows nothing about it is laughable... https://www.lawfareblog.com/donald-trump-and-espionage-act
September 12, Justice Dept. accepts a tRUMP candidate for special master, Raymond J. Dearie, 78, a former chief federal judge in New York. Now it is is up to MAGA Judge Cannon must to approve the Special Master or continue to delay the classified documents investigation.
He is also so old that he was a part of the time when the mob was rampant in NY and Guliani replaced Dearie as the US Attorney for that District. He may be well respected but he may also have a background with Kallstrom and tRUMP, who "cooperated" with the FBI to keep his casinos from being shut down. All 4 judges are tRUMP's choice, so know there is a background he knows about but we do not.
Judge Cannon has already shown she is working for tRUMP and is manipulating the law to rule in his favour. Her reputation is sliding into the gutter... but she seems not to care. I am not optimistic she plans to keep herself from falling further into the gutter.
UPDATE 18
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(I lightened this one up a bit...)
How is it that THIS
LOSER45 wearing golf shoes on secret trip to DC. to "work" in DC. Sept 12.
Speculation gone wild as LOSER45 flies in golf clothes, goes to his Virginia course but has no clubs and driving around on golf carts,
Only interested if
THIS comes true...
Sadly, in reality, "there are no signs at the D.C. federal courthouse that, say, a former president is about to make an initial appearance or testify before a grand jury." https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1569314925784465408
I cannot discern who the other people are other than Eric, tRUMP and possibly Scavino, the large man 2nd from the left.
LOSER45 and his trusty TV lawyer, Trusty (real name of a real lawyer), were supposed to have replied to Judge Cannon's request for more info about the documents this am. Unsure if he is there.
ADDENDUM *The one in red was Brad Enie, not Nunes... The guy that looks like Hannity may just be a ringer.
So far into the course that their voices could not be picked up. Witness tampering? Getting their stories aligned? Is that a bug sweeper in the hands of one guy? No clubs in hands or back of carts. Only person wearing golf shoes in tRUMP. For some reason, tRUMP is paranoid and even weirder than usual. Where is his security detail?
His director of golf grounds, Brad Enie, is also there. Is he looking for locations for the next burial site before the coming Saudi tournament visits? Look out Eric and Diaper Don jr.
Can distract from THIS:
(OK, I see why now... but it looks like a total distraction, as in Deflect; Delay; Deny; Discount; Deceive; Divide; Dulcify; Destroy; Deal)
May 8, 2021 shows Trump boarding a jet from Florida to Bedminster with multiple boxes. Second video explains more info.
Sometimes you need to laugh and let loose...
But in all seriousness, all of LOSER45's properties should have been searched for classified documents once they also had visual proof of what was happening.
Cannon's Clown Court makes me wonder what will happen if the documents case reaches SCOTUS. Nah, I do know; the partisan arseholes will defend the GQP and tRUMP to the end...
If this makes anyone upset or angry to a great extent, it should... but not enough to make threats.. and go to jail.
Just DO NOT do it.
Case in point... https://t.co/KNmlmfdI8l
And to end with good new off this topic (but only marginally, given all have to do with the former criminal in chief... tRUMP) There were 40 subpoenas and 40 seizures of phones this week. all to do with the fake electors and Jan 6...
INCLUDING: two top Trump advisers, Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman
https://t.co/277T3r07YF
UPDATE #17
More updates are in the comments below
With my sincere apologies to Bennet... And an F YOU to Cannon.
Everything Wrong With Judge Cannon’s Ruling
UPDATE #16
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Justice Dept. filed a notice of appeal of the wrongly ordered special master by ditzy MAGA Judge, Aileen M. Cannon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/08/justice-appeals-trump-documents-special-master/
Docs are here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.68.0_1.pdf
tRUMP almost always wins in court as he knows how to manipulate the system.
F'ing case in point...
UPDATE #15
Updates are in the comments below
Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Allies were likely already withholding information from the USA, knowing many of tRUMP's loyal people are still ensconced in the Government...
Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and senior member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Marco Rubio, has totally misrepresented the stolen classified documents as a dispute over how documents were stored. And the MAGAt judge Cannon has said that not allowing tRUMP a Special Master diminishes his "reputation," as she gleefully puts the National Security of the USA AND other countries at risk.
MAGA Republicans are by association putting the safety of the USA at risk, but these are your nations LEADERS speaking...
To further prove she is tRUMP ringer, Judge Aileen M. Cannon totally disrespected and dismissed former goverment officials who opposed LOSER45's invalid requests.
UPDATE #14
Updates are in the comments below
Reminder: Judge Aileen M. Cannon was confirmed by the Senate on November 13, 2020; the week FOLLOWING LOSER45’s election loss.
(Roy Cohn helped manipulate tRUMP’s sister onto the bench. I wonder how much self-serving Maryanne Trump Barry did for the tRUMP name and coffers, in return for the favour?)
Cannon is a member of the Federalist Society. (2005)
tRUMP had already tried to judge shop previously … and failed. Note that filing in Fort Pierce means , that unless the case load is shifted, the only sitting Federal judge there is… (Do we need a drum roll?) Judge Aileen Cannon. But sadly, it worked this time.
https://www.thebulwark.com/trumps-judge-shopping-flop/
*Do not abuse this* Americans need to let her know what you think about her decision. And be sure to ask her is she was promised a seat on SCOTUS, or if being a forever Fed judgeship was enough… for this Quid Pro Quo.
This is public information
Judge Aileen M Cannon
cannon@flsd.uscourts.gov
States Courthouse
101 South US Highway 1
Chambers 4044
Fort Pierce, FL 34950
UPDATE #13
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The screenshots below are what I missed in the basic summary from yesterday. Asha Rangappa, a former FBI Special Agent and lawyer, expounds on 2 more points so please read the thread here: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1566833396864663562?s=20&t=pKaowTA1fWulsFLsnc6yIA
If anyone is ignoring this, and the fact it is being swept away like all tRUMP's crimes, down down the memory hole ... then those who ignore are complicit. It has been said that Garland may now choose to FOLLOW the order, as it may take less time than an appeal... which means breaking established precedent (Which tRUMP has done from day one) and letting it stand becomes a new precedent to cite.
Should he make that rueful decision the future is even more bleak. The judge is complicit by obstructing justice while making a mockery of the criminal justice system, The pillars of your government are crumbing to dust.
Pro-Vaccinator, not procrastinator has written about just this today in, "Want fascism? Capture the courts." Read about that here: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/want-fascism-capture-the-courts
UPDATE #12
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Judge Cannon was a ringer all along...CONFIRMED! She has totally disregarded that she has no jurisdiction in this matter, that the DOJ pointed out the many ways her delay would obstruct the investigation, ignored that this is a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE, ignored that tRUMP had no rights as a FORMER president to claim executive privilege, ignored that the documents are NOT HIS to have in possession, to order to redo the filtering and DEMAND a special master, even though she insisted on knowing why one would not only not be necessary as the work was already done...and nothing the judge has done was called for in away way by this circumstance.
A judge is complicit in delaying justice... and the pillars of government are falling as planned. tRUMP and his loyal cult of quislings have shown Q and his minions that he is in fact still "in charge" and that they are full form facists. Be stunned by it... but not for long... because he has only just begun AGAIN... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.64.0_2.pdf
DOJ: “The United States is examining the opinion and will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation.” They will appeal and it will be justice delayed. That also means SOB LOSER45's SCOTUS picks could make this ridiculous order the new f'ing normal. tRUMP has NO executive privileges FFS! Only the sitting President does. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-special-master-granted-1.6572962
And now the incompetent and unqualified Shitgibbon appointed judge has ruled for a special master despute the FBI having had these docs for over three weeks and it causing a substantial delay in the investigation. Think voting doesn’t matter? This is how the courts get taken over.
UPDATE #11
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Trump Hosted All These People In His Mar-A-Lago Office Where He’d Stashed Government Secrets:
And many more that we do NOT know of...see HERE:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/09/02/trump-hosted-all-these-people-in-his-mar-a-lago-office-where-hed-stashed-government-secrets/
Transcript from Trump search hearing RELEASED, shows JUDGE HAS NO CLUE (And is working for tRUMP, not the law)
Video highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a89lXNX1fgI
Emptywheel empties her patience with the judge... https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1566106771206332421?cxt=HHwWioCzofLz9rsrAAAA
'Do it yourself' for those who understand the legalese. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22274704-trumphearingtranscript
UPDATE #10
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I was about to go to bed when the video below caught my eye... I am Canadian, and it made me nauseous. Holy hell in a deplorable hand-basket!! The picture is a screen capture of... "Tucked in the lobby of Manhattan’s Trump Tower is a bar called 45 Wine and Whiskey. At this Hard Rock Cafe knockoff, visitors can enjoy walls plastered with Trump presidential memorabilia that was likely snuck out of the White House—including a folder marked “classified.”
The FBI found 11,000 government documents and photographs 'as well as 48 empty folders labeled as "classified," in the AUG 8 search, according to court records unsealed on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-unseals-more-documents-stemming-fbi-search-trumps-home-2022-09-02/
Kid Rock joked about wondering if he was authorized to see some of the documents and maps LOSER45 showed him.
Updates are in the comments below
tRUMP's TV lawyer that he hired because he looked and sounded good on TV... has made this comment in court today:
His other lawyer insists a Special Master is still necessary because...
This judge and tRUMP's lawyers are neglecting to see how the delays can effect National Security and that one of the charges is neglect of Classified documents under the Espionage Act, whereby just being in possession of the documents makes you a suspected spy and traitor. A former Fed prosecutor, Joyce Vance, is the talking head in this video should you are to see it. Vance repeats that going along with this delays an important legal process, and puts tRUMP above the law... (On top of Cannon ignoring the seals, requests to not delay, defining how sensitive the docs are, the 2 shoddy filings from tRUMP's team entered that she literally helped them refile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb43WfKqHgA
I am not sure why the tRUMP nominated judge is doing this when the DOJ insisted that this info be kept redacted as it may affect the case... HOWEVER, in spite of that... '
The judge has released a more detailed inventory list of the materials seized from Trump's home by the FBI. What was in the 43 empty folders, where are the contents, why are they emptied, are the contents flushed, stolen, traded, sent to other properties, in Ivana's grave? https://bit.ly/3RujXwV
VIA: trump puncher
UPDATE #8
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W T A F? 'Trump attorney Alina Habba is upset that the DOJ and FBI are looking into "mundane" crimes like "espionage" at Mar-a-Lago. "They found these three mundane statutes: espionage and the two others." VIDEO HERE: https://twitter.com/DavidEdwards/status/1565027550430203907?s=20&t=RElvqU61M29wdoIeEAhm2A
Habba on Hannity: I’m somebody who has been in his office.. I have firsthand knowledge. I have never seen that. That is not the way his office looks.. He has guests frequently there.' VIDEO HERE: https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1565156716257259520?s=20&t=EsHMOoWARt4yQikbYXgxAg
Is it true that Jack Bater has been appointed Special Master?
UPDATE #7
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Trump August 18, 2016 (Charlotte NC rally) saying no one above the law and how he will protect classified information.
Of course that was all about Hillary and how to gin-up a call to "lock her up" directed to Hilary Clinton. Let's compare here...
tRUMP won by saying Clinton could not be trusted with classified information.
(F U Comey, Chaffetz, Giuliani, Kallstrom, and rogue NY FBI!)
Trump lawyer Alina Habba, 'told a New York State court that on May 5, she conducted a search of Trump’s private residence and office at Mar-a-Lago that was so “diligent” it included “all desks, drawers, nightstands, dressers, closets, etc.” She was looking for records in response to a subpoena issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is investigating matters related to the Trump Organization.
The same filing also includes an affidavit from Trump himself, indicating that he “authorized Alina Habba to search my private residence and personal office located at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida for any and all documents responsive to the Subpoena.” Habba indicated she conducted similar searches at Trump’s residences and office at his Bedminster estate' making her a potential witness in the DOJ case... https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/days-mar-lago-subpoena-trump-164106640.html
Sarah Sanders confirmed: "Every single foreign trip we actually would laugh about the fact he has boxes upon boxes, file boxes where he reads for hours." making her a potential witness in the DOJ case... (Plus rifling through files does not constitute READING, Sarah Slanders) https://t.co/KhU6hnggax
On his failing "Truth" social site, tRUMP's rebuttal to the DOJ filing is devoid of truth, but prepared for the RWNJ spin that ensued on Fox and social media. 'They are trying to make me look messy,' when in fact what I did was steal and hide classified information...
tRUMP lawyers filed a third incorrect answer to judge Cannon. If she still slow walks them through the process and grants a Special Master... she will indeed show herself to be a complicit a ringer !
UPDATE #6
NYT: Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests. There is a story discussion by Publicenemy HERE and the NYT story HERE, so I won't make a new update and repeat what is already said. Anyone who handles intel is rightly pissed as they would be fired and swiftly taken to jail and if in the military , court martialed and jailed.
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Addendum: What LOSER45 said and DIDNIT say left open the DOJ to publicly correct the record.
There is some solace to be taken. Jay Bratt, a counterintelligence official in DOJ's national security division, was at Maralago in June. He also signed off on today's submission to Judge Cannon. A counterintelligence FBI special agent was also on the team of the August Maralago search and seizure.
Their past specialties includes cases involving espionageand hopefully, they will make sure there are no more delays from tRUMP or an overstepping judge to jeopardize national security and delay/obstruct justice.
UPDATE #5
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Being this judge was appointed by tRUMP AFTER he lost the election, she sounds like... a ringer.
Aug 29, DOJ replies
This is crazy. There is no reason legally to need this other than to delay for tRUMP!
Docs here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.31.0_1.pdf
Jack Posobiec, half of the pizzagate propagandists, is pretending that tRUMP is a victim again. This down-thread conversation made me snort laugh... I hope it makes you laugh as well. https://twitter.com/BaronChams/status/1564304372657537025
UPDATE #4
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tRUMP is once again obstructing justice and and national security, and yet, his base still insists everything he does is fine because they love and trust him. That devotion is one definition that you are in a cult.
tRUMP appointed Judge Cannon has agreed to a special master for executive privilege of documents which tRUMP does not have, even though it was filed too late and not in legalese. (It was a tRUMP dump ) She has given the DOJ 'til Tuesday to reply and set a hearing for Sept, 01. This national security lawyer says, nicely, that she is full of shit. This is all about LOSER45 preparing to pretend to be further victimized by the DOJ and grift more donations.
A former FBI Special Agent, lawyer, Legal and national security analyst chimes in.
More on the classified docs and affidavit
Aug 26, 2022 Unsealed Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant application cover sheet offers the DOJ’s description of potential crimes: — Wilful retention of national defense information — Concealment or removal of govt records — Obstruction of federal investigation
“Trump ignored multiple opportunities to quietly address the FBI’s concerns by turning over all the classified material in his possession — including a grand jury subpoena accepted by the Trump team May 11. Again and again, he reacted with a familiar mixture of obsession and indignation, causing some in his orbit to fear he basically dared the FBI to come after him.
It was not possible to determine who was involved in packing the boxes at Mar-a-Lago or why some White House documents were not sent to the Archives, although people familiar with the episode said Trump oversaw the process himself — and did so with great secrecy, refusing to show some evidence even to top aides. Philbin and another consultant contacted by the Archives in April told others they were not involved in the process and were surprised to discover classified records.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/
“The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in the government — in 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team. “ Those 700 of classified documents are not included with those recovered from the June meeting and Aug search of Mar-a-Lago. What is really laughable is that is John Solomon’s public “news” site. He must have foreseen he was about to get saddled with all kinds of felonies being tRUMP nominated Kash Patekl and he to the NARA liaison position ( which does not exist except in tRUMp’s feifdom! tRUMP did it at the same time theFBI was notified and a subpoena was issued for the documents.)
From Ms wall Nara… to tRUMP lawyer Corcoran: “ I have concluded that there is no reason to grant your request for a further delay before the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community begin their reviews. Accordingly, NARA will provide the FBI access to the records in question , as requested by the incumbent President, beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, 2022.” https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/full-text-national-archives-letter-trump-classified-documents
Updates are in the comments below
Oh OH better shut it Ka$h! You in trouble!
“If Trump is going to battle, this is his star lieutenant.” My profile of, & deep-dive into, Kash Patel, the belligerent, gaslighting former public defender & ice hockey fan who Trump wants to make the next director of the CIA. Scary stuff." VIDEO HERE: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1562973789805166597?s=20&t=9dtwG5uWk-7d9RJFV2NfBw
Here is the AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF AN APPLICATION UNDER RULE 41 FOR A WARRANT TO SEARCH AND SEIZURE: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.102.1.pdf
This little tidbit is important... as this agent has a specialty.
He took them because he thinks he knows all, and that he can do anything. That is number 1, but he always has 10 things up his sleeve. ( See my reply below for more reasons...)
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this.
The videotapes fascinate me. Who turned them over to the feds?
Who were the staffers who interpreted the documents for Psycho Donnie so he'd know which ones he wanted? We all know he's functionally illiterate, so much so that they had to draw pictures to even get him interested in looking at daily briefings.
Update #1
😉Thanks to Vaxxed2themax for this video that gives much more detail
And thanks also to Gerbames for the link
The URL also talks about John Solomon, who outed tRUMP explicitly on his own "news" site and that can only be because he is now a never tRUMPer and rooting for DeathSantis by highlighting as news a letter from NARA to tRUMP and tRUMP lawyers outlining what they wanted back. When the suppoena landed and he got the job at Nara at the same time ... Solomon (likely) recognized a nefarious act because he too is a cheater, liar and POS!
When being thrown under a bus, roll with the punches ...right John?
I had not seen the sick "comedy routine" that DiaperDon Jr put on for a MAGA moron crowd, telling them that his dad is a safe place for nuclear codes...WTAF... The VIDEO is at the bottom of the story. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nara/
The conversation thread is HERE: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/richard-morgan-68-cottage-grove-mn-wife-took-him-out-of-hospital-anti-vaxxer-dead-from-covid?commentId=0a90f860-9058-49f4-84d2-0ca80a8cfa53#viewer-4e1q4
Trump isn't gonna get anything from filing documents. He'll be lucky to get a copy of the indictment they're throwing at him pretty soon.
Over 300 papers were classified, and some of them were in the highest classification.
They're not his, they're the US Government's and he's going to prison.
The sooner, the better.
Maybe nobody, aside from Trump and friends, have seen the documents because Trump stole them in the first place so he would have something to barter with if/when he flees the country. Trump isn't going to go to prison, and if he sees the walls closing in on him he will need to move fast to somewhere that can provide him with protection from extradition and allow him to live the high life for his remaining years. I suspect Trump put together a broad, classified, overview of our intelligence services that would appeal to our political enemies so he could buy himself protection using something more valuable and portable than money to dictators. This would explain why he took the material he took, why he is so angry that the FBI took it away - cutting down on his escape insurance - and why there is no evidence that he had already leaked any of it.
It would also explain why he pulled his long range Boeing 757 out of mothballs in NY and is getting it refurbished in Louisiana to put back into service ASAP supposedly so he can use it for his 2024 campaign.
300 Classified Documents that trump personally had gone through and retained.
That’s a lot of violations and a lot of penalties since they add up. Each offense carries a penalty.
I just wonder how many agents of how many foreign countries got to view and photograph them…