Fogbow

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:18 pm I do remember...now! I think I was so overwhelmed with trump scandals, whenever a new broke, it pushed an old one out of my brain.

As FBI agents pulled up to Donald Trump’s Florida club Monday morning to conduct a search for top-secret government documents — approved by a federal judge and requested by the attorney general of the United States — the former president was by chance already huddled with his lawyers in Trump Tower in New York, a thousand miles to the north.

They were supposed to be preparing Trump to be deposed later in the week in an entirely different matter, a civil probe of Trump’s family business. But the session was interrupted by a phone call informing the former president of the extraordinary events unfolding at his Mar-a-Lago Club, said Ron Fischetti, his New York attorney.

Trump and his close allies quickly became transfixed by the events unfolding in Palm Beach, people familiar with the day said. Some monitored the agents via CCTV security cameras as they searched Trump’s office and personal quarters and a first-floor storage facility, another of his lawyers, Christina Bobb, told Fox News. Distracted, Trump kept jumping on the phone, Fischetti said, trying to figure out why the agents, casually dressed in khakis and polo shirts to cause less of a scene, were roaming the seaside facility he had tried to brand “the winter White House,” which was mostly closed for the summer.

One likely (though not the only) explanation for the two receipts has to do with the venue in which Trump’s suspected crimes were committed and therefore the ultimate destination of the seized materials, with the SSA receipt materials being sent to DC as evidence of 18 USC 1519 and the CLASS receipt materials being kept in Miami as evidence of multiple violations of the Espionage Act that occurred at Mar-a-Lago.

Immediately after the search, Trump seemed to believe the FBI had played into his hands. Instead of exhibiting any concern, two people who spoke to him Monday evening both reported that Trump was “upbeat,” convinced the Justice Department had overreached and would cause Republicans to rally to his cause and help him regain the presidency in 2024.



“He feels it’s a political coup for him,” said one friend, who spoke to Trump repeatedly during the week. Like many others interviewed for this article, the person spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the criminal probe.


By Friday, however, the unsealed court records showed agents had seized 11 sets of classified documents, among other things. Republicans’ howls of protest became somewhat more muted, and people around Trump said his buoyant mood at times turned dark.

But as Archives officials sifted through the recovered documents, [from Jan 15] they began to suspect some records were still missing. They also realized some of the returned material was clearly classified, including highly sensitive signals intelligence — intercepted electronic communications such as emails and phone calls of foreign leaders.
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Bobb, a Trump lawyer, said Trump’s legal team embarked on a thorough review of all the presidential material still at Mar-a-Lago, including what she told The Washington Post were two dozen to three dozen boxes of documents held in a storage room on the first floor of the club, below areas open to the public. She told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that the lawyers had identified all the documents they believed could be considered government property. “We turned over everything that we found,” she said.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:51 pm

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:31 pm These guys really bend over backwards for Trump
https: //twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1558579606906609666?s=20&t=KMlaXVY3RWQ1Q4PSrs4fFQ

What did I miss in 2001?

Uninformed wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:56 amIt is probably too much to ask tfg’s minions to have conformed to (or even be aware of) any established protocols etc ...

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:16 am This is the first time that a president lost re-election and tried to overturn the results by committing felony crimes against the United States of America.

I have to say that some more: Felony crimes against the United States of America, felony crimes against the United States of America, felony crimes against the United States of America, felony crimes against the United States of America, felony crimes against the United States of America.

Tweet from @AkivaMCohen: Current official GOP position:

"Sure, it was absurdly dangerous to national security that these documents were at Mar-a-Lago, but that's fine, because Trump says he had a standing 'it's OK if I seriously jeopardize national security' order"

“Trump’s social media network put out a push alert promoting a story from a conservative outlet that identified the FBI agents involved in this search. How is that not encouraging violence against federal law enforcement officers in this climate to identify them?”