Well, but if it's a document like the ones the CIA have on their PUBLIC web site, you know, that are not classified as anything, then what's the concern with him having it "at all"?
You can see the issue clearly now, can't you?

If the document isn't classified as some sort of secret, why did the FBI/DOJ think to leak it and make propaganda out of it?
Why would they do that, you suppose?

 

Minimizer in chief strikes again.

 

Attaboy.
You know, if you just admit you don't understand the point people might think you are stupid.
But when you come back with this kind of stupid shit you remove all doubt.

If the document isn't classified as some sort of secret, why did the FBI/DOJ think to leak it and make propaganda out of it?
Why would they do that, you suppose?

 

Since I don't know what "leak" you're referring to, I can't respond specifically to that point. I would ask for a link, but we both know how you're about that, so I won't bother.

You are still minimizing all the other classified documents found. Why couldn't Trump have followed the same procedure as Obama in obtaining his material for his library? You know, the one set up by the national archives?

I really don't care what your response is to my post, but hey, I'm sure it's gonna be a hoot.

 

Mar-a-Lago documents kept in Trump's home were so secret that even the highest-ranking national security officials in the Biden administration weren't allowed to look at them, report says
Hannah Getahun
Tue, September 6, 2022 at 8:41 PM·2 min read




President Donald Trump.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

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  A new report describes the extremely sensitive nature of some documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
  
  
• The documents held secrets about a foreign country's nuclear defenses, The Washington Post reported.
  
  
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Documents recovered from former President Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago were so restricted that some senior national security officials in the Biden administration did not have the authorization to look at them, The Washington Post reported.

On August 8, the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and seized 10,000 government documents, including 11 sets of classified documents, court records say. According to the warrant, the FBI is investigating whether Trump broke multiple laws by taking the documents, including the Espionage Act, which prohibits the transfer of information that could harm the US.

The Post's report, citing multiple people close to the Mar-a-Lago investigation, adds to the growing concern about the sensitivity of the documents Trump kept at his home, with little known about the security of the location where they were in.

A person close to the investigation told The Post that when investigators began reviewing the documents, they grew "alarmed" at how restricted some of them were.

The Post reported that some of the documents would be unknown to most senior national security officials.

The only people with the power to grant authorization to view these sensitive documents are the president, a few members of the president's Cabinet, and officials close to the Cabinet, an unnamed source said.

Among the documents was information on the nuclear-defense capabilities of a foreign nation, sources told The Post.

Additionally, 100 classified records and 48 empty folders marked "CLASSIFIED" were retrieved during the Mar-a-Lago search, according to an inventory released Friday of what was seized.

Representatives for the Justice Department, the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The FBI declined to comment.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mar-lago-documents-kept-trumps-024148033.html

 

DOJ appeals Trump judge’s special master ruling: 'Irreparably harm the government and the public'

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
September 08, 2022



Judge Merrick Garland testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be US Attorney General(AFP)


The U.S. Dept. of Justice on Thursday filed a notice of appeal against U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling allowing Donald Trump the “special master” his legal team requested. The order also halted DOJ from taking any investigative steps in conjunction with the 13,000 items, including more than 100 classified documents federal agents seized during the August 8 search warrant execution of Mar-a-Lago.

“The Justice Department also argued that a former president cannot assert executive privilege after he leaves office, and that it is not possible for one part of the executive branch to assert privilege to shield documents from another part,” The Washington Post reports, but notes that the “appeals process could take longer than any document review by the special master.”

CBS News Congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane adds that DOJ has also asked the court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, to stay Judge Cannons decision.

Judge Cannon’s “order would irreparably harm the government and the public by unnecessarily requiring the government to share highly classified materials with a special master,” DOJ states.



https://www.rawstory.com/doj-appeal...reparably-harm-the-government-and-the-public/

 

More of the Same, Mar-a-Lago redux!! Faced with a mid-term election wipeout and accountability for their crimes, it appears the Democrats are building a case for federalizing the November elections to forestall a “MAGA coup against Democracy.” In other words, the corrupt, desperate Democrats are acting desperately.

Why else all the search warrants for seizing the files of Republican leaders?

The corrupt FBI and DOJ can use “national security” to hide illegitimate search warrants, as they did with the warrant to search Trump’s home. When a court ordered the warrant released, it was totally redacted and provided no information. The woke leftwing Democrats hate Trump so much they don’t care if Gestapo methods are used to get rid of him.

This is not, as Steve Bannon says “...all about intimidation.” It is about setting up the case for federalizing the November elections so that the Democrats can control the outcomes.

List of Trump Allies Who Had FBI Show up on Their Doorsteps or Got Subpoenas Includes a Big Name

By Nick Arama | Sep 10, 2022 9:00 AM ET

We covered earlier the bombshell story that dozens of Trump allies reportedly were served with search warrants or subpoenas in the last few days. We included a copy of what they are looking for in at least one of the subpoenas. It was incredibly broad, looking for communications related to certification of the election and the Save America PAC.

Now, while we’re not sure of the exact number of people, some of the names are starting to come out.

William Russell wasn’t home when the two FBI agents came to his house Wednesday morning, according to sources familiar with the matter. Russell served in the Trump White House as a special assistant to the president and the deputy director of advance before moving down to Florida to work as an aide to Trump after he left the White House. Russell has also been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating Jan. 6, sources familiar with the matter said. The subpoena requests documents and communications related to the so-called fake slates of electors pushed in various states in support of Trump, the sources said.

The NY Times is claiming they’re aware of a dozen people including Brian Jack, former White House political director under Trump, and a big name, Stephen Miller, Trump’s top speechwriter, and a senior policy adviser, who received subpoenas. Jack is currently both an adviser to Trump as well as to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

The subpoenas were issued to a wide range of people who either worked in the White House or on the Trump campaign, including senior officials like the campaign’s chief financial officer; personal aides to Mr. Trump; and the former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter who also served as one of his senior advisers. [….]

Among the recipients of subpoenas from a grand jury sitting in Washington are relatively junior aides from the White House and Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign. While the subpoenas asked for information concerning the Save America PAC, they also sought communications with several pro-Trump lawyers — like Kenneth Chesebro — who helped devise the electors plan.

Numerous subpoenas focused solely on the fake elector plan were sent to Republican state lawmakers and state Republican officials allied with Mr. Trump starting this spring. We previously reported of subpoenas being dropped on Republican Pennsylvania state lawmakers and seizing the phone of a member of Congress, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

The NY Times notes that Miller was not known to have had a planning role in the electors plan or the fund-raising efforts. So it’s not clear why they are dropping a subpoena on him. Nor is it clear what their legal justification is in regard to the electors plan.

We’ll doubtless be hearing about more names of the people they raided or dropped subpoenas on. But it looks like just in the case of the Trump raid, a big net was thrown out there trying to find anything they can to go after people on. And it’s a very troubling thing when the Biden Administration appears to be going after the allies of his once and possibly future political opponent.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/202...ps-or-got-subpoenas-includes-big-name-n625298

 

The feds need to search every property Trump has. He cannot be allowed to keep putting our national security at risk.

WATCH: Trump Boards Plane Being Loaded With Parade of Comically Heavy File Boxes – 3 DAYS After Feds Asked About Missing Docs
By Tommy ChristopherSep 10th, 2022, 2:39 pm
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Former President Donald Trump can be seen boarding a plane along with a parade of groaningly heavy file boxes in a resurfaced video that was taken 3 days after the federal government contacted Trump about missing documents.

Trump is currently under multiple investigations that could result in criminal charges, including Justice Department probes into his mishandling of classified information under the Espionage Act and his conduct surrounding the January 6 insurrection, and a Fulton County probe of election interference.


But it’s the documents seized during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that have dominated news coverage since the raid. Concern has continued to mount with every bombshell revelation, like the court filing that showed that the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago contained “43 Empty Folders with ‘CLASSIFIED’ Banners” and a total of 48 empty folders with “classified” markings.

Another report said that nuclear secrets of an unidentified country were among the seized documents.On Saturday morning, Meidas Touch posted an intriguing video from last year, writing “Video from May 8, 2021 shows Trump boarding a jet from Florida to Bedminster with multiple boxes bearing a strong resemblance to boxes of top secret materials found at Mar-a-Lago. On May 6, NARA had contacted Trump’s team saying documents were missing and may be at Mar-a-Lago.”


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Video from May 8, 2021 shows Trump boarding a jet from Florida to Bedminster with multiple boxes bearing a strong resemblance to boxes of top secret materials found at Mar-a-Lago. On May 6, NARA had contacted Trump's team saying documents were missing and may be at Mar-a-Lago.












10:21 AM · Sep 10, 2022


They also posted a link to a timeline of the investigation, which shows that the government contacted Team Trump about the missing papers three days before the video was taken:

May 6: National Archives and Records Administration contacts Trump’s team to say some high-profile presidential documents appear to be missing. “We know things are very chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term transition,” Gary Stern, the agency’s chief counsel writes to Trump lawyers. “But it is absolutely necessary that we obtain and account for all presidential records.”

The video is from a May 9 Daily Mail report entitled “Trump jets out of Florida to spend the summer at his Bedminster golf course in New Jersey to escape the heat and plan 2024 election after saying Mother’s Day goodbye to Melania and Barron at Mar-a-Lago” by Lauren Fruen and Rob Crilly.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch...s-3-days-after-feds-asked-about-missing-docs/

 

Chris Christie Favors DOJ in Legal Battle Over Trump’s Special Master: ‘A Previous Executive Can’t Assert Executive Privilege’
By Ken MeyerSep 11th, 2022, 4:02 pm
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Chris Christie defended the FBI’s raid for the classified documents Donald Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago. On top of that, he also said the Department of Justice will probably succeed in appealing the ordered special master review of the seized material.

The former New Jersey Republican governor joined This Week on Sunday — where Terry Moran brought up the DOJ’s plan to appeal the special master ruling U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon handed down in the Mar-a-Lago case. Moran asked Christie for his thoughts about the DOJ’s likelihood to succeed after former Attorney General Bill Barr called Cannon’s ruling “deeply flawed.”


“I think the Justice Department’s chances are pretty good,” Christie said before dissecting Trump’s claims to the documents under executive privilege.


There’s only one executive who can assert the privilege, and that’s the one who is the current executive, Joe Biden. A previous executive can’t assert executive privilege. They’re not the executive any longer. Biden will not assert executive privilege over these documents. And I think the idea that some of these documents are somehow attorney-client privilege is going to be a bit of a reach…So I think, for one, I think the DOJ probably has a pretty good chance on appeal

After raising his skepticism for Trump’s oft-claimed defenses, Christie proceeded to justify the Mar-a-Lago search based on the nature of the documents and the timeline of the government’s repeated requests for their return. By Christie’s view, the government had “no choice” but to commence the search after months of stonewalling and deceit by Trump and his team.

“This has been 16 months that the Department of Justice has been saying ‘please,’ asking nicely, negotiating with his attorneys, taking up partial production, seeing a non-response to a subpoena,” Christie said. “They had no choice, in my view, but to go in and take them because of the nature of the documents.”

Watch above via ABC.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-c...us-executive-cant-assert-executive-privilege/

 

Probably a good thing for Trump that the legal system isn't run based on polls, or pundit opinions.
Or at least it wasn't until the biden administration.

 

'I’m embarrassed for them': Former senator aghast by new filing from Trump lawyers

Sarah K. Burris
September 12, 2022



Photo: a katz/Shutterstock


Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday that after a new court filing from Donald Trump's lawyers over classified documents she's "embarrassed for them."

One of the ongoing problems with Judge Aileen Cannon's injunction with the classified documents is that the FBI and intelligence community can't do an assessment on the impact of having the documents out in the public could have done.

At the same time, the so-called "Gang of Eight," the leading officials with top security clearance, is seeking a briefing by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the impact of the documents. That can't be done until the documents can be examined by the government, which Judge Cannon has blocked. It has earned her considerable criticism for putting Trump over national security.

Trump's team said that national security can take a backseat and wait on the appointment of the special master, ensuring the special master has the proper clearance level and then the 90 days that the special master has to do the review. Judge Cannon will make the decision based on that filing this week.

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Speaking on a panel with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, McCaskill cited some of the claims made by Trump's legal team that don't fully address the complaints by filing. There was no real argument as to why national security shouldn't matter, merely that it should be an issue after Trump's case is handled.

"Typically, if you file a pleading with the court you put your best foot forward," McCaskill explained. "This pleading plays fast and loose with the facts and the law. Here's what it didn't say. It didn't say why Trump took them as has been pointed out. It didn't say that he declassified them. It did say, and this is a joke I mean, this is a just a cold-stone joke, that somehow national defense documents were personal to him. I mean, for the lawyers to assert that, I'm embarrassed for them."

Wallace cited Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who is among the officials seeking for information about the impact of the documents on national security.

"It seems that, as a legal matter, in this is where DOJ has aggressively argued that a special master completely jeopardizes the ability to do just this, to continue with this intel community review of compromised sources, compromised methods, compromised programs," Wallace said. "We saw in the subpoena all of the different classifications that were on the materials. Hoarded, taken, and then lied about returning at Mar-a-Lago."



McCaskill said that the priority should be to preserve the documents at the DOJ "for possible prosecution as long as the defense security and intelligence community has a chance to adequately review these documents,"

She went on to enforce the need for oversight but noted that it might not happen immediately.

"I get why they want it immediately, but there are a lot of people in the intelligence community that, frankly, have not shown their ability to stand up to Donald Trump and his nonsense," McCaskill went on. "And the other weird thing about this, and this was talked about by another member of the panel, you know, the court seems to be dancing with executive privilege and not understanding that you can't say, 'well, there is executive privilege maybe here that would allow Trump to hold on to these documents. But by the way, in another of the executive branch, you can look at them.' It's either executive or it isn't. It either belongs to the government or it doesn't. And her trying to bend this thing like a pretzel in order to placate Trump and his supporters frankly makes her look silly."

Watch video below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-documents-lawyers-embarrassed-senator/

 

'Out-maneuvered' Trump lawyers' 'desperation' is showing in latest filing: legal expert

Tom Boggioni
September 13, 2022



Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


According to criminal defense attorney Shan Wu, the recent legal filing from Donald Trump's lawyers objecting to the Department of Justice's counter-argument on appointing a special master and what constitutes a "classified" document is an embarrassment to the legal profession.

In a column for the Daily Beast, the attorney who specializes in white-collar crime claims that, from what he has seen from the dueling motions, the former president's lawyers are overmatched and have no clue how to defend their client.

Summing up the new filing, Wu asserted that it "smacks of an extremism and desperation perhaps born of having been maneuvered into a legal corner by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department."

Using his own experience, Wu suggested that the tactics being used by Trump's lawyers are laughable -- such as arguing facts that are indisputable -- and are signs that they have no defense.

"These aren’t the usual ways of trying to head off criminal charges," he argued. "The usual way of defending against criminal investigations is for defense lawyers to do their own investigation and try to convince prosecutors that they are barking up the wrong tree."

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"The DOJ’s clever response out-maneuvered Trump’s team by focusing on the fact that a criminal investigation involving national defense cannot take place without access to the materials implicating national defense and asking simply that the investigation be allowed to continue even as the parties fought over whether a special master was necessary and the exact scope of what the special master might oversee," he wrote before adding, "This focus also offers Judge Cannon a compromise by which she can still preserve a victory for Trump in seeking a special master for the ostensible purpose of promoting public faith in the investigation while also reducing the risk of a humiliating slam-dunk reversal on appeal."

Wu also suggested that Garland having served as a judge has given the DOJ an upper hand.

"Ironically, one of the perceived potential weaknesses of Attorney General Garland is that he has spent the majority of his career as an appellate judge and may have lost whatever combative prosecutorial instincts he might have possessed earlier in his career. But here, as the DOJ navigates uncharted legal territory with historically high stakes, Garland’s 20-plus years’ experience as an appeals judge may give the DOJ a big advantage," he wrote before wryly noting, "After all, who knows better how to fashion a judicial solution than a former judge?"

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyers-desperate/

 

Trump was likely behind a false statement to the DOJ about secret documents being held at Mar-a-Lago, legal analysts say
Tom Porter
Wed, September 14, 2022 at 5:35 AM

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  New information from the affidavit used in the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search was revealed Tuesday.
  
  
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New details from the affidavit used in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago suggest that former President Donald Trump may have authorized a false statement his attorneys made to the DOJ, legal analysts said.

Experts zeroed in on a statement in the affidavit an attorney for Trump gave to investigators when they visited Mar-a-Lago to retrieve government records in June.

The details had previously been redacted, but were made public Tuesday on the order of a federal magistrate.

Investigators believe that Trump may have violated laws including the Espionage Act in holding onto the records, and also that Trump and his aides may have obstructed their investigation.

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According to the newly-released information, one Trump attorney told the DOJ "he was not advised there were any records in any private office space or other locations in Mar-a-Lago."

A lawyer for Trump, Christina Bobb, also signed a statement saying that all of the information requested by the government had been handed back.

That information turned out to be false. When agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, they found stashes of highly confidential records, including in Trump's offices, haphazardly kept alongside his personal items.

Analysts say the new evidence indicates Trump himself was likely behind the attorneys false claims.

"There's more of an implication in this newly released information that the former president did play a role in the provision of information about documents to whoever the lawyer who certified this information to the Justice Department," Former US attorney Joyce Vance said in an interview on MSNBC.

"There's this implication that documents were stored in storage areas and that there was nothing in personal offices and that seems like the sort of information that would have been very likely to come from the former president."



David Laufman, the former Former Chief of DOJ's Counterintelligence Section, also said that Trump had likely fed his attorneys false information.

"I think it's more likely than not that he lied to them knowing that they were going to transmit those lies to the government," he said on MSNBC.

On Twitter, legal analyst Ryan Goodman reached the same conclusion.

"Most likely points to ... being advised by his client, Donald Trump," he said of the attorney's claim to investigators.

Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

The judge released additional information on Tuesday on the basis that Trump's lawyers had disclosed some of it in their court filings so there was no sense in that section remaining under wraps, the Associated Press reported.

Portions of the affidavit were made public last month, but it was heavily redacted after DOJ lawyers argued that releasing all of the information could compromise their investigation.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to his possession of the records, claiming that they were broadly declassified before leaving office and that many are shielded under executive privilege rules.

But Trump's lawyers have notably not made that argument in any legal filings.

Legal analysts say that in any case, Trump would've had no right to retain many of the documents after leaving office regardless of their classification status.

Trump and the DOJ are currently engaged in a legal tussle over a judge's order appointing an independent official known as a special master to review the records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-likely-behind-false-statement-113534401.html

 

Trump attorneys argue Mar-a-Lago documents might be personal papers — not classified materials

Travis Gettys
September 12, 2022



Donald Trump waves to supporters at the Peabody Opera House in Downtown Saint Louis in 2016. (Shutterstock.com)


Donald Trump's attorneys conceded that he does not own his presidential records in their latest court filing, while also suggesting he declared those documents to be his personal papers.

The former president's attorneys downplayed the national security risks of keeping top-secret government records at Mar-a-Lago and said there's no evidence they had been improperly shared, but his legal team conceded those documents didn't actually belong to him, reported The Guardian.








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New: Trump lawyers oppose DOJ motion for judge to stay order seeking to regain access to docs seized from Mar-a-Lago marked classified https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.84.0_3.pdf








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Trump concedes that a former president — even if he has a right to access his presidential records — does not “own” them. And seems to argue Trump may have declassified or designated some docs as personal records, but doesn’t say if he actually did that.
8:15 AM · Sep 12, 2022

"A former President has an unfettered right of access to his Presidential records even though he may not 'own' them," the filing reads. "Thus, contrary to the premise behind the Government’s 'criminal' investigation, the determination of whether a former President timely provided documents to the National Archives and Records Administration is a civil matter governed by the [Presidential Records Act]."

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Trump's attorneys responded to a Department of Justice motion asking District Court judge Aileen Cannon to give the government access to classified materials seized in the search, and they suggested that he may have declassified or designated some of those items as personal records.

"The PRA accords any President extraordinary discretion to categorize all his or her records as either Presidential or personal records, and established case law provides for very limited judicial oversight over such categorization," the filing reads. "The PRA further contains no provision authorizing or allowing for any criminal enforcement. Rather, disputes regarding the disposition of any Presidential record are to be resolved between such President and the National Archives and Records Administration."

Thus, at best, the Government might ultimately be able to establish certain Presidential records should be returned to NARA," the filing adds. "What is clear regarding all of the seized materials is that they belong with either President Trump ... or with NARA, but not with the Department of Justice."

https://www.rawstory.com/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-2658198511/

 

Legal expert thinks Trump just made a ‘big error’ in his latest comments on the Mar-a-Lago scandal

Travis Gettys
September 15, 2022



Donald Trump delivering a speech at a campaign rally held at the Mohegan Sun Arena. (Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com)


A former federal prosecutor said Donald Trump just dug himself deeper into legal jeopardy with remarks he made in a radio interview.

The former president spoke Thursday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who summarized the interview by saying Trump told him he had declassified all the top-secret documents seized at Mar-a-Lago and therefore doesn't fear indictment -- but former prosecutor Renato Mariotti said he'd actually made things worse for himself.


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Big error by Trump. His words could be used against him if he is charged. Staking out the position that he “declassified” everything he brought to Mar-a-Lago may sound like it helps him, but actually it locks him into a story and makes it harder to pivot later if he is charged.









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FWIW, again tells Hugh Hewitt that he "declassified" everything taken to Mar-a-Lago — which his lawyers refuse to claim and which DOJ says is irrelevant to their subpoena to retrieve the records.
8:36 AM · Sep 15, 2022


"Big error by Trump," tweeted Mariotti, who previously worked in the U.S. Attorney's office in the Northern District of Illinois. "His words could be used against him if he is charged. Staking out the position that he 'declassified' everything he brought to Mar-a-Lago may sound like it helps him, but actually it locks him into a story and makes it harder to pivot later if he is charged."

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One of the key passages in DOJ’s brief is that the June subpoena didn’t ask for classified records; it asked for all records with *classification markings*. Any purported “declassification” therefore still doesn’t get around obstruction by failing to return everything so marked
9:02 AM · Sep 15, 2022


Trump's own lawyers haven't made that argument in court, and the Department of Justice has stated that would be irrelevant to their subpoena seeking the government documents from the former president's private residence, due to a subtle distinction pointed out by former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa.

"One of the key passages in DOJ’s brief is that the June subpoena didn’t ask for classified records," Rangappa tweeted. "It asked for all records with *classification markings*. Any purported 'declassification' therefore still doesn’t get around obstruction by failing to return everything so marked."

Trump is facing mounting legal pressure, with the Justice Department saying top-secret documents were "likely concealed" to obstruct an FBI probe into his potential mishandling of classified materials.

He has denied all wrongdoing, saying the raid was "one of the most egregious assaults on democracy in the history of our country."

In addition to the documents probe, Trump faces investigations in New York into his business practices, as well as legal scrutiny over his efforts to overturn results of the 2020 election, and for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-classified-documents-2658217477/

 

'Cut the hypocrisy': Hillary Clinton hammers Donald Trump's defenders over 'national security'

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
September 16, 2022



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No president in U.S. history has been the subject of more investigations than Donald Trump — not even Richard Nixon. Almost 20 months after leaving the White House, the former president is being simultaneously investigated by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, New York State Attorney General Letitia James, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 select committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

DOJ is conducting an ongoing investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection as well as an investigation of the government documents that Trump was storing at Mar-a-Lago when FBI agents executed a search warrant there on Monday, August 8. Agents, according to the Washington Post, were looking for, among other things, highly classified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons — the type of documents that never should have left Washington, D.C. or been stored on private property.

During a Thursday, September 15 appearance on NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hillary Clinton — former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, former first lady, and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee — discussed the protocols for handling the kind of top-secret government documents that Trump was reportedly keeping at Mar-a-Lago. And she emphasized that the rules for transporting them from Point A to Point B are incredibly strict.

The 74-year-old Clinton told host Meyers, formerly of “Saturday Night Live,” that when she would read top-secret material as secretary of state in the Obama Administration, a military officer “would come into my office and would have a handcuff that was attached to a suitcase in order to show me something that was so secret he literally had to have it tied to his hand.”

The officer, according to Clinton, would watch her read the document, sign that she had read it, and then take it back.

Clinton also discussed the 2016 scandal involving her use of a private e-mail server for conducting government business. In response to the August 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s “whataboutist” defenders in right-wing media have been reflexively saying: What about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails?

A 2019 investigation, according to the New York Times, found that “there was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.” But at Trump rallies in 2016, Clinton’s detractors were chanting, “Lock her up, lock her up.”

Clinton, who was with her 42-year-old daughter Chelsea Clinton on “Late Night,” told Meyers, “Unlike those guys, I’m not saying ‘lock him up.’ I’m saying: Let’s just find the facts and follow the evidence wherever it goes.”

The former secretary of state also told the “Late Night” host, “I don’t care what political party you are, but come on, cut the hypocrisy. This is a threat to our national security.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/cut-the-hy...ald-trump-s-defenders-over-national-security/

 

Hillary Clinton is the last person in America who should be criticizing Trump or Trump supporters.

 

Rather than not listen to her, how about she take her hypocrisy elsewhere?

 

Mark Meadows Claimed Trump Just Had 'News Clippings' At Mar-A-Lago: Report
Sara Boboltz
Sat, September 17, 2022 at 10:13 AM·1 min read




National Archives officials were reportedly led to believe a year ago that former President Donald Trump had taken nothing but “news clippings” with him back to Mar-a-Lago, according to a report from The Washington Post.

However, Trump was found this year to have brought top-secret classified materials to his Florida resort, where they were kept in a lightly secured storage room ― a fact that has raised significant national security concerns.

Citing unnamed people familiar with the conversations, the Post said that the misleading information had come from Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, who relayed it to Pat Philbin, the former deputy White House counsel.

Philbin then passed on the claim to officials from the National Archives during a September 2021 phone call, according to the Post. He reportedly said that Trump’s team was not aware of any materials taken from the White House beyond 12 boxes of news stories.

A spokesman for Meadows told the Post that he had not personally reviewed the materials but was rather relaying information given to him.

After a president leaves office, all records and documentation become the legal property of the National Archives under a law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

The Archives began to suspect that some records were missing from Trump’s presidency not long after he decamped to Mar-a-Lago. Negotiations between Trump’s team and the National Archives, however, only led to a partial recovery of documents until the FBI conducted a search on Trump’s property in August to collect what they believed to be the remainder.

The Justice Department is currently investigating Trump’s improper handling of the documents, but the effort has been slowed by a lawsuit from Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-meadows-claimed-trump-just-161320115.html

 

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