A few weeks ago there were multiple news reports that Trump could not find any top notch lawyers to defend him. Because he not only has a history of not paying his lawyers, but also because Trump lies, as he has already done when he said he had no more classified documents hidden at Mar a Lago.

And as evidence of that many legal experts looked at the Trump lawyers filing for a special master to review all the documents the FBI seized and said holy shit they are just asking for it. One Trump has no executive privilege. But two and more importantly that just opened the door for the DOJ to march into court and drop a bunch more incriminating evidence on Trump.

But none of them predicted the DOJ would drop the hammer on Trump like they did last night.



DOJ is 'spiking the ball on Trump's legal team' with incriminating pic of stolen docs: MSNBC's John Heilemann




Travis Gettys

August 31, 2022












Photo: a katz/Shutterstock


MSNBC's John Heilemann colorfully described Donald Trump's anxious behavior ahead of a Department of Justice filing that laid waste to his legal defense in the Mar-A-Lago search.

The 40-page filing argues that Trump has no standing to claim any relief for classified materials seized by FBI agents because the documents belong to the National Archives, and not him, and prosecutors showed evidence that he and his attorneys obstructed the investigation -- and the "Morning Joe" analyst said the former president was clearly panicked.

"It seems like they don't have any legal moves left," Heilemann said. "I'm not a lawyer, but the lawyer I talked to said this situation is going to get worse for them. What that leads to, really in the end, it's still the question of what Merrick Garland is going to do, is he going to indict Donald Trump? There was some discussion among prosecutors, no, maybe if he got the classified documents back, it will have served its purpose, they will no longer be at risk. Maybe he won't go through with it."

"What we've seen now, having crossed the Rubicon and having sent the FBI agents down there to do that search and seizure, having come back and now know how many documents were there, how long Trump resisted," Heilemann continued. "How high the level was, and now DOJ here laying it on the floor and putting the photographs out, they're not just spiking the ball on all of Trump's legal team, bad legal interpretations and maneuvers, but they're implicitly or explicitly kind of single-handedly tipping their hand, too. I don't understand a world in which Merrick Garland could not indict Donald Trump. I think that's where we're heading."

RELATED: ‘Worse than you think’: Morning Joe says there’s a reason Trumpists cautioned GOP not to go to war over Mar-A-Lago

"The Trump people know it, Donald Trump knows it, it's causing the panic, the behavior of a guy who seems like he's had bad bathtub mescaline and lost his head," Heilemann added. "That's becoming inevitable, and that's part of what's driving his degree of freakout on the platform he uses. Isn't that just a QAnon platform, Truth Social, is that what they call it?"

Watc the video below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-indictment-2657981334/

 

Well, american hater, if what you say is in fact true, it still doesn't explain why such critical evidence of trump's involvement wasn't important enough to list on the inventory document.
You just will not address that "minor point" because you know, and everyone else knows, failing to list EVERYTHING taken as part of the search is a serious breach of legal procedure and slams open the door to attack not only the evidence seized, but the warrant itself and anything that might come out as a result of the search.
Everything.
Which would be a major fuck you for the government's case against Trump.
And no way it was just oversight on the part of the agents.
Afterall, you keep telling us those agents had to have special clearance just to participate.

You'd have us believe it was just a mistake, or oversight on their part to not list those passports, taken because it is evidence that the President of the United States was a conspirator in the theft of TOP SECRET documents and the cover up of that theft and the subsequent OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE??!!

That it doesn't quite literally blow up their case??

No matter.
The question has been answered
Is trump really that innocent or are his prosecutors really that incompetent?
YES.

 

Even Trump has stopped complaining about his passports...

 

Well, to be accurate, the media has stopped reporting on Trump and his passports.
You can be sure passports are still a hot topic with the DOJ and Trump's lawyers.
And even perhaps internally to the FBI.

 

Anonymous sources claim that anon_de_plume is witty and smart.
We spit up in our mouth when we read that one.

 

Former FBI agent suggests 'nefarious intent' in Trump’s claims he 'declassified' the docs — here’s why

Sarah K. Burris
August 31, 2022



Asha Rangappa/Screenshot


Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa is disputing Donald Trump's excuse that he "declassified" everything upon leaving office.

For the past several weeks, allies of the former president have been excusing away his possession of classified intelligence he stole from the White House and took with him back his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Laws don't show a distinction between classified and unclassified information that is taken from the government. It's all a crime.

Still, one of the main excuses from Trump's team is that he declassified everything upon leaving office. His appointed National Archives aide, Kash Patel, falsely claimed that the action of Trump taking them out of the White House automatically declassified them.

This excuse isn't working for Rangappa.

IN OTHER NEWS: Black volleyball player went viral after claiming fan pelted her with racial slurs – but surveillance video shows otherwise: report

"That Trump is sticking with his 'declassification' defense is mind-boggling in light of below," she said citing specifics about the abbreviations that were seen on the outer folders of the classified documents. HCS-P, which was on some of the outer folders. It signifies intelligence derived from sensitive human sources

"Why on earth would he 'secretly' declassify" that? asked Rangappa arguing there's no reason to declassify something like that, compartmentalized intelligence, and spy satellite products. "It frankly suggests that he had nefarious intent."

She went on to tell MSNBC that seeing such folders and the abbreviations on them gave her "heart palpitations."

The government usually strikes fear into the hearts and minds of anyone dealing with such high-level information. Rangappa noted that if she left her office for lunch, she would have to lock up anything classified she was looking at. Federal employees who left classified folders on their desks at night, even if they were in locked offices, would be penalized.

"Of course, if I were to remove any kind of restricted information from a SCIF, for example, I would have been fired and prosecuted," she explained. "Just to see this volume of classified information there is staggering and I'll add that I'm very shocked that Trump continues to stick by this declassification defense of his which doesn't have merit. But even so, these are documents that you can tell from the covers are derived from human intelligence. They're compartmentalized information, why would you declassify that? Those documents can put people in danger so it actually raises more questions than it answers by him continuing to assert that defense."

Watch video below.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-documents-nefarious-intent/

 

FBI Agents Have ‘Lost Confidence’ in Director Wray: ‘He’s Got to Leave’

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
ASHLEY OLIVER31 Aug 2022

A number of FBI agents say they have “lost confidence” in Director Christopher Wray and are now calling for his resignation, according to a report.

Former FBI agent Kurt Siuzdak, an attorney who represents whistleblowers, said agents have told him they “feel like the director has lost control of the bureau,” the Washington Times reported.

“They’re saying, ‘How does this guy survive? He’s leaving. He’s got to leave,” Siuzdak added.

The report of Wray’s suffering reputation among rank-and-file agents comes just after senior FBI official Timothy Thibault left the bureau last week.

Thibault, who says he retired on his own accord, was facing numerous allegations, including from FBI whistleblowers, about displaying political bias on his social media, suppressing a line of investigation into Hunter Biden, inconsistently pursuing investigations, mishandling election-related matters, and inflating domestic violent extremism cases.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the lead Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has fielded several FBI whistleblower allegations and was the first to shed light this year on some of those leveled against Thibault.


Timothy Thibault (FBI Portland/screenshot)

Upon Thibault’s exit from the FBI, Grassley said in a statement provided to Breitbart News that Thibault’s alleged bias “casts a shadow over all of the bureau’s work that he was involved in,” much of which was high-profile and carried national impact.

“Political bias should have no place at the FBI, and the effort to revive the FBI’s credibility can’t stop with his exit,” Grassley said.

The Times noted calls for Wray’s resignation have occurred in the past, including in 2018, when then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott called for Wray to step down over allegedly not following a tip about the Parkland shooter, and in 2020, when then-Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) called for Wray’s resignation over his handling of the now-debunked Russia collusion charges.

FBI agents “are telling me they have lost confidence in Wray. All Wray does is go in and say we need more training and we’re doing stuff about it or we will not tolerate it,” Siuzdak said, per the Times.

In addition to Thibault’s seemingly abrupt departure from the FBI, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, has made headlines for the numerous whistleblowers who have approached his office.

Jordan recently estimated that 14 FBI whistleblowers with useful information have spoken with his office in the past year, a number he told Breitbart News “underscores how political that place has become.”

In addition to the array of whistleblower allegations, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence this month in search of classified documents. The stunning move prompted top Republicans such as Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Republican Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and others to blast the FBI’s raid as politically motivated rather than fair.

In response to the reported calls for Wray to resign, the FBI told the Times in a statement, “The men and women of the FBI work hard every day to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”

“All employees are held to the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct, and we expect them to focus on process, rigor, and objectivity in performance of their duties,” the statement read. “Allegations of misconduct are taken seriously and referred to the Inspection Division or appropriate investigative body.”

 

That's what they allegedly said about James Comey too. Which turned out to be proven false. But now you are telling us Trump appointed a fuck up?

But quick tell this to President Biden. If he fired Wray right now that would be great with me. He could appoint Hillary Clinton of Barrack Obama.

 

Wait till after midterms.
Hillary might be a bit busy.

 

‘Another PR filing’: Trump complains about DOJ’s ‘convoluted theory’ panned by experts

Bob Brigham
August 31, 2022



Donald Trump pointing at the camera / Gage Skidmore.

Attorneys representing Donald Trump responded on Thursday to a filing by the Department of Justice in the case over the government documents obtained when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.

The DOJ's 36-page filing, filed shortly before midnight, included 18 additional pages of exhibits. Trump's team was given until 8 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday to respond.

"Former President Donald J. Trump may have thought that he was playing offense when he asked a federal judge last week for an independent review of documents seized from his residence in Florida — a move that, at best, could delay but not derail an investigation into his handling of the records," The New York Times reported Thursday. "In what read at times like a road map for a potential prosecution down the road, the filing also laid out evidence that Mr. Trump and his lawyers may have obstructed justice. "It was as if Mr. Trump, seeming not to fully grasp the potential hazards of his modest legal move, cracked open a door, allowing the Justice Department to push past him and seize the initiative."

Moments before the deadline, Trump responded in a 19-page filing submitted by attorneys Lindsey Halligan, Jim Trusty, and Evan Corcoran.

Legal experts quickly panned the filing.

Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman wrote, This is another PR filing, not a serious one."

Attorney Ken White, who tweets under the popular @popehat account, wrote, "This is crap, but it is not quite as crappy as the prior docs. It shows some gestures towards organization and subject matter relevance. But it’s petulant crap."

Ethics expert Norm Eisen said the filing is "full of nonsense."

Legal experts believe Trump's push for a special master backfired by giving the Department of Justice a reason to release a damning photo of classified documents recovered.

The DOJ filing also allowed prosecutors to publicly present critical information about Trump's passports which could be "smoking gun" evidence.

Trump lawyers may now be in legal jeopardy themselves.

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has scheduled a Thursday hearing on the competing motions.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyers-respond-doj/

 

Wow. Now that you've pointed that out, I bet the DOJ will apologize to Trump and tell him it was just a big misunderstanding.

 

These fears are very well founded because during his four years in office Trump was constantly blurting out classified information. But now more so than ever because Trump can use classified information to lash out at US national security just because the government is no allowing him to be a king. And there is also the problem Trump is one of the biggest gossips in the country. It was revealed several times that Trump was the biggest leaker in the White House. And there is also reports of Trump bragging to people he had information on Emmanuel Macron's sex life. And then we have to consider Trump always fawned over the most ruthless dictators in the world. So why wouldn't he share classified information with his friends.

We also need to consider a president that staged an armed insurrection and the first attempted coup in American history to make himself dictator for life will do anything.



‘This is crazy!’ Democratic lawmakers fear 'erratic and strange' Trump will blurt out top-secret intel in fit of rage

Travis Gettys
September 01, 2022



Donald Trump appears during a rally Oct. 10, 2016, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith Photographer / Shutterstock.com)


Democrats are increasingly concerned that Donald Trump will reveal top-secret intelligence during his ongoing public meltdown over the search of Mar-A-Lago.

FBI agents seized boxes of classified materials the former president had hoarded at his private resort in Florida, and lawmakers are worried that he might lash out against the government by blurting out top-secret information on his Truth Social account or during back-channel discussions with foreign leaders, reported The Daily Beast.

“I would not leave it beyond him to do something as insane as that," said Rep. Ted Lieu (DCA). "When someone is cornered, they make very bad decisions, and Donald Trump is in a very bad situation right now. We don’t know what he will do."

A photo released Tuesday by the Department of Justice shows investigators found top-secret documents, some marked as highly classified, in boxes and desk drawers at Mar-A-Lago, and Trump's social media posts have gotten increasingly unhinged -- and have hinted he may retaliate by releasing some of that information.

RELATED: Trump complains FBI made him look 'like a slob' with photo of stolen documents on office floor

“Thought they wanted them kept Secret?" Trump posted Wednesday morning. "Lucky I Declassified!”

A court filing revealed the DOJ was seeking documents that could include specific information about the nation's nuclear weapons, which under the Atomic Energy Act a president cannot unilaterally declassify -- but Lieu is concerned Trump would try anyway.

“You can’t just have this lying around at Mar-a-Lago -- this is crazy,” Lieu said. “Who knows who would have seen these documents in a public place like Mar-a-Lago? This is a resort where lots of people go.”

Other lawmakers expressed fears about who had already seen some of that information, and Trump's own attorney Alina Habba admitted Wednesday night on Fox News the former president hosted frequently guests in the office where some of that material was found.

WATCH: 'He just provided the government with proof!' CNN legal analyst reveals how Trump keeps incriminating himself

“Did the MyPillow guy spend hours in the office taking notes? Did Rudy Giuliani? We don’t know," said Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT). "We’ve got to assess that to see if there are steps we should take to mitigate damage. To put them in an unsecure office, where his pals can amuse themselves by looking at these documents, is appalling.”

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was concerned that Trump refused to read his daily spy briefing as president but was interested enough in that secret information to squirrel those documents away at his private home, and he said those online rage spasms were a source of anxiety.

“It’s hard to predict exactly what he’s going to do," Castro said. In the last few days, he’s been behaving very frantically. It’s very erratic and strange behavior — particularly from a former president. But the entire episode of how he treated those documents was erratic and unsafe.”

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) agreed Trump's social media posts presented an ongoing threat to national security.

“Here’s what makes it truly scary: Trump is weirdly attached to all of this ‘Top Secret’ information, he constantly throws tantrums, and he has an insatiable desire for attention including on social media,” Huffman said. “Since he no longer has White House china to smash, his next tantrum might be blurting out sensitive national secrets on Truth Social, or calling his pal [Vladimir] Putin to divulge or even sell information. With anyone else these would seem like crazy scenarios, but not with Trump.”

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-top-secret/

 

Vanity Fair,
REPORT: NO RESPECTABLE LAWYER WILLING TO TOUCH TRUMP WITH 10-FOOT POLE AFTER MAR-A-LAGO RAID
AUGUST 17, 2022

The Washington Post reports the thoroughly embarrassing but entirely understandable news that “Trump and close aides have spent the eight days since the FBI searched his Florida home rushing to assemble a team of respected defense lawyers,” but, in the words of one person familiar with the matter, “everyone is saying no.”...

Others said he was “nearly impossible to represent and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid.” (Trump, you may have heard, has a long history of allegedly not paying his bills, which one of his former attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, reportedly knows something about.)

----------

Trump is running his act into the ground. It is one thing to fool the poorly educated white men who make up his base of support. It is something else to fool the legal community. Trump's efforts to challenge Joe Biden's victory in 2020 failed for lack evidence. Republican judges, including those appointed by Trump, had the integrity to throw those efforts out of court.

This time the evidence is solidly against Trump. The Department of Justice has top secret documents taken from Mar a Lago that Trump possessed illegally.

 

The FBI raided Trump's home and found top secret documents Trump was keeping illegally. Now Trump is having a hard time finding lawyers who will defend him.

 

The FBI raided Trump's home and found documents marked top secret that trump was keeping. Despicables are claiming that Trump is having a hard time finding lawyers. Deplorables given not a gnat fart about trump's lawyers.

There, old dog, I fixed it for you.

 

Trump certain to be indicted soon — for a crime he said should be punishable by death: ex-Fox News legal analyst

Travis Gettys
September 01, 2022



Donald Trump (AFP)


Donald Trump appears likely to be indicted, according to former Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, for a crime the former president believes should be punishable by death.

The conservative former judge said it pained him to write his analysis for the Washington Times, but Napolitano said the redacted affidavit that justified the search warrant for Mar-A-Lago revealed that Trump was unlikely to escape prosecution for three crimes: "Removing and concealing national defense information (NDI), giving NDI to those not legally entitled to possess it, and obstruction of justice by failing to return NDI to those who are legally entitled to retrieve it."

"Under the law, it doesn’t matter if the documents on which NDI is contained are classified or not, as it is simply and always criminal to have NDI in a non-federal facility, to have those without security clearances move it from one place to another, and to keep it from the feds when they are seeking it," Napolitano wrote. "Stated differently, the absence of classification — for whatever reason — is not a defense to the charges that are likely to be filed against Mr. Trump.'

Napolitano faulted Trump for "misreading and underestimating" federal investigators and delivering them a gift by boasting that he had unilaterally declassified the documents in question, which proved that he knew the documents were in his possession.

READ MORE: Democratic lawmakers fear 'erratic and strange' Trump will blurt out top-secret intel in fit of rage

"He committed a mortal sin in the criminal defense world by denying something for which he had not been accused," Napolitano said.

Prosecutors must prove the documents actually do contain national defense information, and they must prove that Trump put them into the hands of individuals not authorized to handle them and stored them in an non-federally secure place -- which Mar-A-Lago is not -- but proving obstruction is fairly easy under a law signed by George W. Bush in 2002.

"But the Bush-era statute, the one the feds contemplate charging Mr. Trump with having violated, makes it a crime of obstruction by failing to return government property or by sending the FBI on a wild goose chase looking for something that belongs to the government and that you know that you have," Napolitano wrote. "This statute does not require the preexistence of a judicial proceeding. It only requires that the defendant has the government’s property, knows that he has it and baselessly resists efforts by the government to get it back."

That left Trump in "hot water," Napolitano wrote, and he said the former president was left without a "legally viable" defense.

"In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks journalist who exposed American war crimes during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency employee who exposed criminal mass government surveillance upon the American public, stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr. Trump," Napolitano wrote. "On both Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden, Mr. Trump argued that they should be executed. Fortunately for all three, these statutes do not provide for capital punishment."

https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-napolitano-trump/

 

Oh american hater and the despicables must be heady with joy and anticipation! They're finally getting their trump perp walk!

 

So you seriously don't believe he's done anything wrong?

 

The question hasn't changed genius

Is trump really that innocent or are his prosecutors really that incompetent?​

And the answer hasn't changed either.

YES
​

At this point Trump's guilt or innocence is a moot point.
The despicables will have their perp walk, no matter what it takes.
If they actually catch Trump at something illegal, that will be purely accident.
And won't much matter to Trump's persecutors.

But mid terms approach and Karma is a bitch.