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Mar-a-Largo raided by FBI?

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Fake News CNN just did a story, leaked by Deranged Prosecutor Jack Smith and his massive team of Radical Left Lunatics, that various people saw papers and boxes at Mar-a-Lago. Of course they did! They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records Act. I even supplied, upon request, Security Tapes to these Election Interfering Thugs. Is this really “Breaking News?" No, it's "Breaking Fake News." But what about all of the papers, boxes, and documents found at NUMEROUS Crooked Joe Biden places, like his garage floor by his cherished Corvette, or CHINATOWN where it was just learned that boxes moved freely in and out. He doesn't come under the Presidential Records Act because he wasn't President the time. Deranged Jack Smith has spent over $100,000,000 investigating me on this phony Russia, Russia, Russia, type Scam. How much $'s have they spent investigating Crooked Joe on his much bigger boxes deal?
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Did he just admit to a crime there?
 
I wouldn't say so. All he said is he brought stuff home in boxes, he doesn't say what was in it. He had the best documents, in the best boxes, stored in the best places at Mar-a-Lago. Some places that even had locks, the best locks.
 
www.salon.com

Experts alarmed over “Cannon’s bias” in new order setting up delay

Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann urged Jack Smith to seek Cannon's removal over the order.
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The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s documents case in South Florida on Thursday denied a request from special counsel Jack Smith to set a deadline on issues related to classified materials in the case.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, denied Smith’s request to schedule a hearing under Section 5 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), where a defendant has to disclose what classified information he intends to use at trial.

Cannon in her order said she would set all remaining deadlines in March 2024.

The order is a “clear indication May trial date won’t happen,” tweeted Brandon Van Grack, a former federal prosecutor on special counsel Bob Mueller’s team.

“DOJ's request was very reasonable—defendants already have 5000 classified docs so let us know which ones they want to use,” he added. “Refusal to schedule hearing shows the Court is not going to move with urgency.”

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance agreed that Cannon is “on track to delay past the election.”

Some legal experts argued that Smith could turn to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to try to reverse Cannon’s scheduling order.

“Unreal. Now I’m concerned. No way this thing gets to trial in May 2024,” tweeted national security attorney Bradley Moss.
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Sunovabitch!
 
Exclusive: Former Mar-a-Lago employee-turned-witness repeatedly contacted by Trump and associates before documents charges

Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job.

Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort, according to two sources and material seen by CNN.

The employee told the former president he had another business opportunity he wanted to pursue. The message later got back to the former employee that Trump thought he was a “good man.”

But he wasn’t just any staffer at the club – the former employee was a witness to several episodes special counsel Jack Smith included in his federal criminal indictment charging the former president with mishandling classified documents.

He had moved several boxes for Trump and was also privy to conversations referenced in the indictment between Trump and his two co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, and Trump’s body man Walt Nauta – putting the former employee in a unique group of Mar-a-Lago staffers who could be in a position to provide valuable information to investigators.

The phone call from Trump, described to CNN by multiple people familiar with it, was part of a pattern of outreach to the former employee, who would become a key witness in the months after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and before Trump’s June indictment. Interactions included offers of legal representation by attorneys paid for by Trump and complimentary tickets to a golf tournament, as well as repeated reminders he could come back to work for Trump.

Taken together, the incidents may have been harmless, even gracious exchanges between friends or business contacts. But the special counsel’s office investigating Trump showed interest in them. In interviews with investigators before Trump’s indictment, the former employee shared details of how associates of the former president kept in touch after he had stopped working at Mar-a-Lago, the sources told CNN.
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"Dammit! They've got witnesses." - Donal Trump probably
 
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump attorney gave a "bullseye" for prosecutors: Legal analyst

Trump attorney allegedly warned him to hand over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago meeting.
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Grand jury testimony by a former Donald Trump attorney who "very clearly" warned the ex-president about hoarding classified documents is a "bullseye" for prosecutors, a legal expert has said.

Lawyer and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said on Thursday that Jennifer Little's grand jury testimony could be "game over" for Trump in his upcoming trial for allegedly hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump is charged with illegally retaining sensitive materials after he left the White House in January 2021 and of attempting to obstruct the federal attempt to retrieve the documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort. The former president has long denied all wrongdoing, frequently accusing the Biden administration of having weaponized the FBI and DOJ to try to hinder his 2024 presidential campaign, where he is the frontrunner for GOP candidate. Newsweek sought email comment on Friday from Trump's attorney.
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The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump

A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.

In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.

The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.

The binder was last seen at the White House during Trump’s final days in office. The former president had ordered it brought there so he could declassify a host of documents related to the FBI’s Russia investigation. Under the care of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the binder was scoured by Republican aides working to redact the most sensitive information so it could be declassified and released publicly.

The Russian intelligence was just a small part of the collection of documents in the binder, described as being 10 inches thick and containing reams of information about the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. But the raw intelligence on Russia was among its most sensitive classified materials, and top Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to block the former president from releasing the documents.
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Trump wants to pry into White House records in bid to argue politics in his Mar-a-Lago documents case

Donald Trump’s legal team is asking for access to Biden-era White House records, including from the National Security Council and the White House Counsel’s Office, as he attempts to build a defense against charges he mishandled more than 30 sensitive national security records after he left the presidency.

If the judge allows it, Trump’s team would be aiming for sweeping access to core advisers around President Joe Biden and their communications, at a time when investigators were looking at Trump’s cavalier approach to state secrets and demands by the federal government to return documents he kept.

The National Security Council “was responsible for the creation and handling of many of the documents at issue, and the Special Counsel’s Office will be required to rely on personnel from the National Security Council at trial to demonstrate that the documents it authored are classified and constitute information ‘relating to the national defense,’” Trump’s team argued to Judge Aileen Cannon in his motion for access to more government records for his defense.


His lawyers also said the White House Counsel’s Office should also be turning over records for his case, because they “repeatedly supported the investigative activities.”
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The fuck? I doubt even the corrupt and stupid Aileen Cannon would try to allow such a thing and it will not get far if she does try it.

Biden's administration, Biden himself, Biden's cabinet, Biden's advisors, Biden's cousin's dog's sister's dog sitter... Nothing related to any of these is relevant to whether or not Trump stole and hoarded and probably shared classified documents.

The dumbest, lowest level of right wing thinking, the "No, YOUUUUU" defense, has made it to the big time. Fucking morons.
 
Jack Smith’s prosecutors use new filing to fight back against Trump’s claims in Mar-a-Lago documents case

Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is defending how the federal government during Joe Biden’s presidency sought to repossess White House records Donald Trump took, and how the case evolved into a federal investigation.

The expansive, 67-page filing offers a detailed retelling of the standoff with Trump as a way to “set the record straight,” Smith’s prosecutors say, on the origins of the Mar-a-Lago documents case, as they fight to keep the case on track for a spring trial.

After the search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, in August 2022, federal investigators pursued a “careful and thorough investigation,” seeking information from intelligence agencies, the National Archives and other parts of the federal government before bringing criminal charges against Trump for mishandling documents, the special counsel’s office said.

The prosecutors say Trump’s legal team has attempted to distort the events in his favor – including by claiming he had a security clearance that extended past his presidency. He is seeking to convince a federal judge in Florida to force the Justice Department to give him more documents as evidence in the case from several sensitive parts of the federal government, including the Biden White House, the Department of Energy and the US intelligence community.
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Trump plans to press immunity defense in classified documents case despite defeat in appeals court

Donald Trump’s legal team is outlining how he intends to fight the classified documents case against him in Florida, including by claiming presidential immunity, despite a significant defeat on that issue in the election subversion case in Washington, DC.

In a filing Tuesday, Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the Florida case, for more time to follow certain pretrial motions they’re considering, including to suppress discovery and allege prosecutorial misconduct.

The attorneys also say they expect to file arguments on presidential immunity in the case, a defense that was decidedly tossed out by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, the same day as Trump’s filing in Florida.
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That is absolutely batshit. Does he think he's forcing scotus's hand or something? It just does not seem like a glimmer of hope that scotus would rule in favor of immunity, probably won't even hear it.

But then again, we've seen the crazy horror show that goes on behind the scenes in Trumpland. It's a very special episode of a lame sitcom, over and over and over ad nauseum. Who knows what shape that's gonna take as we see Trump pushed into a tiny little corner with no way out and lawyers getting shadier and stupider every day? Gonna be a crazy ride through 2024.
 
I’d prefer for Trump Employee 5 to enjoy a big mug of Shut Up, since anything he says now publicly can be compared to his future testimony*, and if it doesn’t exactly match his answers in cross, he could do real harm to the prosecution’s case.

* This, of course, presumes that corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon doesn’t schedule the case for August of 2054.
 
Judge Cannon is signalling that she will allow Trump's defense use of the Presidential Records Act to be read into the jury instruction. Legal scholars are calling this decision "insane".
 
How legal fights and stalling by judge could push Trump documents trial after election

A criminal case that was once viewed as the most open-and-shut prosecution against former President Donald Trump has been mired in delay, unresolved logistical questions and fringe legal arguments that appear to have hijacked the judge’s attention.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump in 2020, has drawn out the case with an unusual, eyebrow-raising approach in her nearly 10-month oversight of the case, delaying rulings on what experts say are routine legal questions that must be resolved before the case can go to trial.

The longer it takes for Cannon to decide these issues, the more likely a trial would need to wait until after the November presidential election.

Prosecutors’ impatience was evident in fiery filings late Tuesday night, where special counsel Jack Smith said Cannon had asked for briefs that were premised on a “fundamentally flawed” understanding of the case that had “no basis in law or fact.”
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