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

[Luke]

New: The government filed NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF PRELIMINARY ORDER AND ATTORNEY APPEARANCE in Trump v. United States (9:22-cv-81294)
District Court, S.D. Florida.

31 Aug 29, 2022 NOTICE by United States Of America of Receipt of Preliminary Order and Attorney Appearance. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Jr added to party United States Of America(pty:dft). (Gonzalez, Juan) (Entered: 08/29/2022)


https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 31.0_6.pdf

Looks like the government is just going to deal with it, some interesting notes in the filing. Jay Bratt himself is listed.

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Mike Davis @mrddmia has turned into a total lying troll, he's trying for Tom Fitton-level stupidity.

The Dirty Truth (Josh) @AKA_RealDirty 2m
@mrddmia It seems they’ve already got what they’ve been looking for. Will the special master force them to give back the crossfire hurricane documents? Most peoples pretty sure that’s what they was after.

[AndyinPA]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics ... nt-review/

The Justice Department has identified “a limited set of materials” from its search of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago that potentially contain material covered by attorney-client privilege and is in the process of addressing privilege disputes, it said in a court filing Monday.

Justice officials also confirmed that US intelligence officials are reviewing the documents for classified materials.

[Atticus Finch]

Do you remember when the FBI raided former President Truman's home in Missouri back in the fifties and seized top secret documents regarding the Manhattan Project? Neither do I.

[RTH10260]

did they check what was hanging on the nail in the outhouse

[bob]

The Dirty Truth (Josh) @AKA_RealDirty 2m
@mrddmia It seems they’ve already got what they’ve been looking for. Will the special master force them to give back the crossfire hurricane documents? Most peoples pretty sure that’s what they was after.

Even if that's what they were looking for (hint, it wasn't), the only thing he's getting back are personal documents (that aren't indicia of crime).

The cult believes the president has the unilateral authority to declassify documents, categorize them as personal, and take them home. And the government has no legal recourse if that happened. E.g.:

[Foggy]

Crossfire Hurricane was the FBI investigation into the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax collaboration between Trump and Putin in 2016-17.

'Course, when I was a boy (part 897), a crossfire was when you were behind a rock or sumpin' and the bad guys were shooting at you from both sides of your cover, and you were pinned down because they had you from all the angles.

In the Westerns, it was an extremely bad thing to be caught in a crossfire. Unless you were the hero of the show and you needed to be around for next week's episode, you were probably gonna die, if'n you got caught in a crossfire.

There's a car called the Crossfire, too also. I still wouldn't want to be caught in one.

So, umm ... yeah. Stupid name for an investigation. But yes, do release ALL the documents from Crossfire Hurricane. I'm down with that.

[Kendra]

Having tasted the impunity he enjoyed as President, Trump is going to get increasingly desperate to (re)claim those levers of power as NARAlago closes in on him. This will get worse and I'm not sure it's ever going to get better

[Foggy]

Oh, absolutely, now that Trump says he really did win after all, he should just be restored to the presidency IMMEDIATELY.

Because if the FBI had told the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop, he would have automatically won.



I love that one, because it means he's SUFFERING.

I try to be a nicer person, but I'm here for the schadenfreude.


"I'M REALLY STILL PRESIDENT! I'M REALLY STILL PRESIDENT!"

[RVInit]

[New Turtle]

Would it be accurate to say Donald is getting Loomered?

He may have to chain himself to the White House gate.

[neeneko]

Having tasted the impunity he enjoyed as President, Trump is going to get increasingly desperate to (re)claim those levers of power as NARAlago closes in on him. This will get worse and I'm not sure it's ever going to get better

So fact checking is now 'election interference'? Yeah, that dovetails nicely with the 'if you do not give us what we want our followers will resort to violence'

[Kendra]

1) Jim Trusty is complaining that DOJ didn't unseal 6e info
2) It's really useful to know who started the bullshit "put-a-lock-on-it" story that NYT fell for
3) Trusty has THE BEST clearance credentials of Trump's current lawyers and he's pretending not to know storage guidelines

[Chilidog]

[noblepa]

Note that the affidavit clearly dispells the stupid claim that putting an extra padlock on the store room was sufficient.

A padlock is so easy to break that its only real purpose is to let honest people know that they're not supposed to get in.

A pair of bolt cutters will do the trick nicely.

[RTH10260]

Does Walter Reed hospital already have facilities for deranged inmates?

[RTH10260]

on second thought, as former commander in mischief, Leavenworth could invite him....

[noblepa]

For this case, I doubt it will be public.

All of the alleged crimes are violations of federal law, right? As such, they would be tried in federal court, which is very reluctant to allow TV cameras in.

[noblepa]

https:// twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1563229148642148355

Note, the redacted affidavit makes clear DOJ is not buying Kash Patel story that Trump declassified the docs while POTUS. After noting Kash 5/2022 claim, the affidavit continues to call the docs "classified" Compare paras 53 & 61.
Import: Trump AND Kash are in DOJ crosshairs.

So were the documents mentioned here the same documents Patel said last week he never knew about until the rest of the world?

Documents are not magickaly self declassifying by the preachers handwave or voice. Each copy gets stamped (and dated?).

I agree, but I remember when Trump allegedly gave classified documents to some Russian visitors to the Oval Office.

It was suggested at the time that he had improperly disclosed classified information. His response was that, as POTUS, he could declassify anything and that, by giving them away, he had magically declassified them.

A few talking heads (except those on Fox) disagreed, but not action was ever taken and those in charge of such things did not issue any clarifying regulations (at least, publically) and nothing ever happened to anyone involved.

[Dave from down under]

Israel was rather annoyed..

And probably stopped sharing the more sensitive Intel with the US while Donnie was still in office.

[Frater I*I]

A padlock is so easy to break that its only real purpose is to let honest people know that they're not supposed to get in.

A pair of bolt cutters will do the trick nicely.

Give me a paperclip and a 1/8 inch wide flat welding rod [or similar sized piece of metal], and I'll have you in in less than 5 minutes...

Added bonus, the lock will still work so you can cover up the break in.....

[Kendra]

Franklin Graham weighs in on the Trump search: “If they felt that he had something that belonged to the government, they certainly could have asked and he would’ve returned it.”

Let me guess, the reporter didn't push back and remind Graham that the government did ask for them back, multiple times.

[chancery]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 3.33.0.pdf

The government filed an unopposed motion to exceed the court’s usual page limit (20 pages) by filing a response of up to 40 pages.

Government papers are always submitted in the name of the local United States attorney but are typically signed by assistants or other government attorneys working on the matter. It's notable that this motion -- like all of the papers submitted concerning the search warrant -- was signed by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida himself, which I take as one of many signals to the court that the government is treating this proceeding as a big deal.

I think it's a good thing that the government intends to address Trump's bullshit in depth.

[chancery]

Asha Rangappa
@AshaRangappa_
Oh they are going to let Trump lawyers have it

Josh Gerstein
@joshgerstein

FLASH/ BUST BUST BUST: Judge grants Justice Department's page-length motion in Trump Mar-a-Lago search fight. Feds get whopping 40 pages to lay out their position and what's happened thus far

[Flatpoint High]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dem ... es&via=rss

Former President Donald Trump on Monday took time off from melting down over the FBI executing a search warrant at his home to seize classified documents to demand that he be installed as commander-in-chief of the United States—22 months after he decisively lost the 2020 race.

The twice-impeached ex-president, though, did propose a “minimal solution” if he is not returned to the White House right away: Declare the 2020 vote “irreparably compromised” and hold a new one “immediately.”

[Kendra]

If DOJ wants 40 pages to respond, we will likely learn some new facts about the classified documents case. They don’t need that many pages to restate what is already known and make their arguments.