Trump's Classified Docs Theft: Mar-A-Lago, FBI Subpoenas, Searches & Seizures - DOJ, Garland, GOP Madness - Spy Hard

[Greatgrey]

Somehow I can't imagine Trump taking legible meaningful notes.

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

That is exactly what I envisioned Trump notes to look like. Taken in Sharpie, large enough to see from orbit.

ETA: and in ALL CAPS

[AndyinPA]

Somehow I can't imagine Trump taking legible meaningful notes.

IIRC, he was pissed at attorneys who did in his presence.

[RTH10260]

Somehow I can't imagine Trump taking legible meaningful notes.

IIRC, he was pissed at attorneys who did in his presence.

remember his visits with Putin and Kim Il ... where he sent the stenographers away. History is now relying only on the notes of the adversaries

[Phoenix520]

Cohen also talked about his ‘No notes’ policy as something tfg learned from Roy Cohn and his mob clients. No traceability.

[much ado]

Cohen also talked about his ‘No notes’ policy as something tfg learned from Roy Cohn and his mob clients. No traceability.

That's something that's a lot easier to do when you are NOT President of the United States.

So sad!!

[Luke]

Thanks for the gift link, RTH! And totally agree Gregg, no way there aren't documents at Bedminster. Hoping for another Indicated for that.

Meanwhile, Rolling Stone:

Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News
Story by Miles Klee • 3h ago

A week after his second post-presidential arrest, this one for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House, Donald Trump turned to Fox News host Bret Baier on Monday to make the case for why he should lead the country again. But he ended up essentially confessing to the crime of which he’s accused: stealing and sharing top-secret government information. Before that, however, Baier pressed Trump to explain why he kept the boxes of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago and refused to comply with government requests to return them, as described in his new felony indictment. In between dismissing the case as “the document hoax” or accusing other presidents of illegally hoarding their own sensitive documents, Trump offered the bizarre explanation that he couldn’t give up the boxes to authorities because they also contained… his clothes.

“Like every other president I take things out,” Trump said. “In my case, I took it out pretty much in a hurry. People packed it up and left. I had clothing in there, I had all sorts of personal items in there. Much, much stuff.” After a brief digression to call his former attorney general Bill Barr a “coward,” Trump reiterated, “I have got a lot of things in there. I will go through those boxes. I have to go through those boxes. I take out personal things.” Finally, he clarified what those items were: “These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things: golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes, there were many things,” he said.

While not wanting Dark Brandon to seize your golf shirts may prove a compelling argument in court, another of Trump’s evasions seems less likely to hold water. Baier also brought up one of the most damning parts of the federal indictment, a recording from July 2021 in which Trump is heard showing off a document detailing an attack plan against Iran, revealing that it’s still officially secret and he no longer has the power to declassify it. Trump blustered for a moment about what he actually said, then pivoted to the claim that he wasn’t even holding a particular document — despite corroborating testimony from others in the room when it happened. No wonder this guy’s lawyers keep quitting on him.

“Bret, there was no document,” Trump insisted. “That was a massive amount of papers and everything else, talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not. That was not a document. I didn’t have any document per se. There was nothing to declassify, these were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.” When Baier referred again to the facts of the recording laid out in the indictment, Trump said, presumably of the prosecutors: “These people are very dishonest people, they are thugs.” He also suggested they could be “stuffing” the boxes with incriminating material.

Trump’s answer immediately made waves, with even some of his frequent defenders suggesting the former president may have just undermined himself. On Twitter, Pro-Trump legal scholar Jonathan Turley praised Baier’s interview — and included an ominous warning for Trump: “Bret Baier conducted an extraordinary interview with Donald Trump who discussed the criminal allegations in detail. Statements of this kind are generally admissible at trial…” Later on in the interview, Trump and Baier got into a debate on the results of the 2020 election, with the Fox anchor trying in vain to remind the former president that he lost while Trump rambled on about fake ballots. The rest of the conversation involved Trump bashing Biden’s international diplomacy, from Ukraine to the Middle East to China, and musing about how much better things were with him in office.

Afterward, Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said that Trump’s answers regarding matters of the law were “on the verge on incoherent,” and specifically mentioned the bizarre detail of not returning the boxes of classified documents because they hadn’t been “separated from his golf shirts or whatever he was saying.” Overall, Hume said, it sounded as if Trump was making the argument that the papers were his to do with as he liked, “which I don’t think is going to hold up in court.” Special Report with Bret Baier will air the second half of this interview on Tuesday evening. Will we learn more about the precious polos that Trump was shielding from government overreach? One can only hope.

Et tu, Turley??

Hope he reads this. "A week after his second post-presidential arrest" made me LOL.

We are going to need to double our efforts to keep MAGA in lockstep with T****. I tweet approval as often as I can when they say, "He just gets stronger with every Indictment".

[Gregg]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

If the Colonel's picture isn't on the Bucket, it doesn't taste like chicken...

Never fry bacon while nude...

Never let a dachshund land a helicopter...

Getting indicted is never good news...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

[Chilidog]

It took a team.of about a dozen FBI agents about a day to sort through the boxes at Nar-a-larfo.

Trump had at least that many attorneys working for him and couldn't get it done in over a year.

And people think he should be president again?

[Greatgrey]

So I’m wondering how many golf shirts did the FBI & NARA find in the post raid inventory of THE BOXES?

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

If the Colonel's picture isn't on the Bucket, it doesn't taste like chicken...

Never fry bacon while nude...

Never let a dachshund land a helicopter...

Getting indicted is never good news...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

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I fry bacon while nude all the time

[Ben-Prime]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

If the Colonel's picture isn't on the Bucket, it doesn't taste like chicken...

Never fry bacon while nude...

Never let a dachshund land a helicopter...

Getting indicted is never good news...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

Somewhat less catchy but also more updated to our modern life than the old list: "Never play cards with a man named 'Doc'; never eat at a diner called 'Mom's'; and never go to bed with someone whose troubles are worse than your own." I'll approve the head-canon, I suppose. Can we get a stamp from someone?

[Foggy]

My variation was, never go to bed with someone who can kick your ass, but close enough.

[bill_g]

We need the Corona Guy saying "Whenever I need to store my important documents, I always place them in my recycling boxes".

[johnpcapitalist]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

Never fry bacon while nude...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

Never fry bacon while nude, unless you're having a morning-after breakfast with a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model and you just can't take the time to get dressed properly.

[Foggy]

And use a meter long spatula.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

Never fry bacon while nude...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

Never fry bacon while nude, unless you're having a morning-after breakfast with a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model and you just can't take the time to get dressed properly.

Thanks, JPC, great advice!

[jcolvin2]

And use a meter long spatula.

I'll pass on the meter-long spatula; it might make other tools look less than impressive.

[Gregg]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

Never fry bacon while nude...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

Never fry bacon while nude, unless you're having a morning-after breakfast with a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model and you just can't take the time to get dressed properly.

Yeah but that only happens to me about once a month...

[poplove]

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

Never fry bacon while nude...

Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

Never fry bacon while nude, unless you're having a morning-after breakfast with a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model and you just can't take the time to get dressed properly.

Yeah but that only happens to me about once a month...

You're in luck next time. Martha Stewart cooks bacon in the oven.

[Frater I*I]

We need the Corona Guy saying "Whenever I need to store my important documents, I always place them in my recycling boxes".

Dos Equis...

[Foggy]

So I hate to interrupt a perfectly reasonable threadjack about burning one's johnson* through negligent cooking techniques but I will comment (on topic, sad to say) that there is universal agreement that the case will not, in fact, go to trial on August 14.

So I'm not adding it to the Fogbow Calendar. Great big burly men and women have come to me in tears, begging me, telling me it is in the order, but nope. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Still working on my proposed orders. Gotta get those in.


* Women have enough sense not to cook bacon (or anything else) nekkid.

[bill_g]

We need the Corona Guy saying "Whenever I need to store my important documents, I always place them in my recycling boxes".

Dos Equis...

Doh!

TY!

[raison de arizona]

We need the Corona Guy saying "Whenever I need to store my important documents, I always place them in my recycling boxes".

Dos Equis...

Doh!

TY!

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[somerset]

Off Topic

There are certain statements I hold as universal truths.

If the Colonel's picture isn't on the Bucket, it doesn't taste like chicken...



Prove me wrong on any of them, I'll wait.

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