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Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents
Conversations between department officials and the former president’s representatives have underscored investigators’ skepticism about his cooperation and exposed a rift among his lawyers.

By Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman and Katie Benner
Oct. 6, 2022 Updated 8:16 p.m. ET

A top Justice Department official told former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks that the department believed he had not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The outreach from the official, Jay I. Bratt, who leads the department’s counterintelligence operations, is the most concrete indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that Mr. Trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the National Archives at the end of his term.

It is not clear what steps the Justice Department might take to retrieve any material it thinks Mr. Trump still holds.

And it is not known whether the Justice Department has gathered new evidence that Mr. Trump has held onto government material even after the court-authorized search in August of his private club and residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, and 18 months of previous efforts by the federal government to convince the former president to return what he had taken on leaving office.

The Justice Department declined to comment.



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/p ... wyers.html

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:44 am I refuse to believe there is no index or inventory of what is missing.

Chilidog wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:11 am What if Trump is just a useful that'a disturbing accusation! idiot and Jared sold the documents to the Saudis?

Jared does seem to be Cassius Mo to Trump's Julius Caesar Curly.

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:44 am I refuse to believe there is no index or inventory of what is missing.

neeneko wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:18 am I can believe that the inventory system is so difficult to work with and disorganized that no one is actually sure. A lot of these systems are great at having data entered into them but are a nightmare to actually search and extract from.

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:44 am I refuse to believe there is no index or inventory of what is missing.

On Dec. 30, 2020, DOJ delivered a binder filled w/ internal notes, memos, emails & other records. The WH was unsure of what should be disclosed, so asked a group of Republican staffers on the House Intel Cmte to make recs.Story w/ ⁦⁦
@MLevineReports

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:14 am

On Dec. 30, 2020, DOJ delivered a binder filled w/ internal notes, memos, emails & other records. The WH was unsure of what should be disclosed, so asked a group of Republican staffers on the House Intel Cmte to make recs.Story w/ ⁦⁦
@MLevineReports

Do read, a lot to absorb there.

Chilidog wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 11:44 am

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:14 am https:// twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1578350879031365632

On Dec. 30, 2020, DOJ delivered a binder filled w/ internal notes, memos, emails & other records. The WH was unsure of what should be disclosed, so asked a group of Republican staffers on the House Intel Cmte to make recs.Story w/ ⁦⁦
@MLevineReports

Do read, a lot to absorb there.

So we can add John Solomon to the list of co-conspirators to the Obstruction charges.

Kool!

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:15 am tweet about Trump v. CNN

Brandon Van Grack
@BVanGrack
It looks like out of the original 54 potentially privileged docs flagged by the Filter Team, only 10 are in dispute (most are simply being returned to FPOTUS).

Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell
New: Special Master Dearie directs DOJ privilege team to make available to the criminal investigation initial set of documents by Oct. 10 and then for Trump and DOJ to confer on potential executive privilege issues by Oct.

Finally, seeing no reason to insert the Special Master or the Court into the chain of custody, the Privilege Review Team is directed to maintain a control copy of the Filter B Materials, as it has throughout this litigation.

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:23 pm

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:15 am tweet about Trump v. CNN

I'm going to move this post because it's about Trump v. CNN, not the documents theft case, but do we even have a thread for the Trump v. CNN case? I mean, I expect it to be dismissed as soon as the court decides to do anything with it, but I don't know where to put MN-Skeptic's post.

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:47 pm

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:23 pm

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:15 am tweet about Trump v. CNN

I'm going to move this post because it's about Trump v. CNN, not the documents theft case, but do we even have a thread for the Trump v. CNN case? I mean, I expect it to be dismissed as soon as the court decides to do anything with it, but I don't know where to put MN-Skeptic's post.

I think I saw a thread here when the news broke but