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He is able to get “B” grade lawyers. Those are the ones that advertise on late night TV for getting you out of parking tickets. I figured his lawyers are “F” grade. Those that can’t get you out of a parking ticket and don’t even know where the court house is located.
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:sarcasm: He will plead, it was just a mistake by that, horrible at her job, former White House Aide and Assistant to Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, that allowed the documents to be taken to Mar-A-Lago.
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Already made an admission actually. 45’s brilliant legal team in legal filings (their lawsuit brief actually) stated the ex-president kept the documents due to Executive Privilege. In other words, they admitted strait up the boxes seized at Mar-a-lago were not his own stuff but produced during 45’s administration (therefore belonging to the National Archive). In addition, by nonsensically claiming executive privilege to keep the material they clearly forgot to ask the only “executive” holding any such privilege of office... Biden.

In other words, Dark Brandon wins again!

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Bisbee wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:11 pm Already made an admission actually. 45’s brilliant legal team in legal filings (their lawsuit brief actually) stated the ex-president kept the documents due to Executive Privilege. In other words, they admitted strait up the boxes seized at Mar-a-lago were not his own stuff but produced during 45’s administration (therefore belonging to the National Archive). In addition, by nonsensically claiming executive privilege to keep the material they clearly forgot to ask the only “executive” holding any such privilege of office... Biden.

In other words, Dark Brandon wins again!

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Instead, the complaint retread allegations about the FBI's investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference, while sensationally suggesting that the DOJ's actions were motivated by a desire to hinder a Trump 2024 presidential run. It also included the full text of a warning Trump supposedly sought to deliver through his lawyers to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
This came directly from the Orange Turd.
Lessee
-Planted-nope
-took stuff home to work on-auto declassify-nope, laughable and doesn't matter
-needed to write my memoirs-laughable as well, plus not legal post Jan 20, 2021
-executive privilege-nope, not past Jan 20, 2021

Videos showed how unsecure the stuff was, showed 'people' moving boxes, TOT himself went thru the stuff..
"It's not theirs, it's MINE'.

Throw in thinly veiled threats if the pressure on trump isn't eased..

TRE45ON

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Judge Orders Redacted Version Of Mar-A-Lago Search Affidavit Released By Friday

The federal judge who signed off on the FBI search for classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home has ordered a redacted version of the affidavit justifying it to be released by noon Friday.

Prosecutors had argued against releasing the document because doing so would likely hurt the criminal investigation they continue to pursue. It is not clear if the Department of Justice will appeal the order, which would likely delay any release.

In his two-page order filed at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida, Thursday afternoon, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said he accepts the redactions that prosecutors have made to the warrant as “narrowly tailored to serve the government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit.”
The document, which will have the names of FBI agents, witnesses and other details blacked out, was the basis for the Aug. 8 search of Trump’s home.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/search-t ... 1766d1bbeb

I can just imagine the Redacted Version, it starts with Donald Trump, black page with little holes of "took boxes of" "Mar-a-lago" more black area "FBI" black area continues on the page. This is how the Redacted Version will read. and the non Redacted Version will be declared Top Secret and on a Need to Know status Eyes Only.

Screw Donald Trump.
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DOJ Provides Judge With Redacted Trump Affidavit

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday submitted to a judge a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when it federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents.

The document was filed under seal and it was not immediately clear when it might be made public, or how much of it will be disclosed.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had given the department until Thursday at noon to propose to him the redactions to the affidavit it wanted to make before any portion of it was released to the public. But he acknowledged on Monday that it was possible that the redactions, or blacked-out portions, would be so extensive as to make the document essentially incomprehensible.
Full story here https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-jud ... 2c09ded72b

The only way we get to see more is if they run out of black toner.
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Trump delivered an 'ominous warning' to Merrick Garland as Mar-A-Lago probe heats up

Shortly before Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly commented on the FBI search at Mar-A-Lago, "a person close" to Donald Trump reportedly reached out to the Department of Justice to deliver a message from the former president.

The New York Times reported that associate wanted Garland to know the search had enraged the former president's supporters, and Trump wanted to know how he could "reduce the heat," but MSNBC columnist Steve Benen said the meaning behind that offer was coming into focus.
Full article https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump- ... 657940945/

It wasn’t a threat per se, but it sounds like something from the days of the Mafia Dons. I could expect something like that from TOS. He was taught well by Ray Cohn, the lawyer to Joe McCarthy, New York Mafia Dons, Fred Trump and later TOS.
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Well, that was a quick read !!! LOL 38 pages with little that we didn't already know or expect. I'm sure the turd would like to know whom the mole(s) may be, but he can go ef 'em self.
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My new theory is that they really don’t want to charge him but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify not charging him so they’re going to slow walk things so that whatever happens will have to happen under the next administration. If that administration is GQP, they will promptly drop the whole thing.

Biden gets to say that his DOJ was doing the right thing and the GQP gets to prove their loyalty to the prophet. Everyone (except America) wins.
Whatever I said above, just pretend I included the obligatory “both sides,” especially if I said something mean about Trump (don’t want to hurt any feelings).

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Footnote in Mar-a-Lago affidavit ‘makes it impossible’ to not indict Trump: legal expert

Legendary Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe on Friday pointed to a key footnote in the redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit that was released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Full article: https://www.rawstory.com/merrick-garla ... nce-tribe/

The DoJ is taking the time to make sure they have an airtight case against TOS and maybe some other people.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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TrueTexan wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:42 pm
Footnote in Mar-a-Lago affidavit ‘makes it impossible’ to not indict Trump: legal expert

Legendary Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe on Friday pointed to a key footnote in the redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit that was released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Full article: https://www.rawstory.com/merrick-garla ... nce-tribe/

The DoJ is taking the time to make sure they have an airtight case against TOS and maybe some other people.
Yup, I said the same thing.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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There may be other repercussions from this case.
Russian impostors at Mar-A-Lago.
A former CIA agent who oversaw intelligence operations in Eurasia and Latin America for decades suggested Friday there were ample opportunities for foreign adversaries to access the trove of classified documents revealed to have been kept at the home of former President Donald Trump.

Stephen L. Hall, a senior intelligence officer who oversaw intelligence operations in the former Soviet Union in the years following the Cold War, pointed to the possibility that Mar-a-Lago could have been infiltrated by foreign agents, including Inna Yashchyshyn—a Russian-speaking immigrant who the FBI says gained access to the club using a fake identification card .
https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-l-hal ... nt-1737503
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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I still wonder what he has stashed away at Trump Tower, New York and buried at Bedminster in New Jersey, besides his ex-wife. That was cold blooded burying her at a golf course to get a tax break.
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The Justice Department’s search of former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home was spurred by the discovery that he had retained a trove of highly classified material that included documents related to the use of “clandestine human sources” in intelligence gathering, according to a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant.
Highlighting concern among officials that Mr. Trump or his followers could seek to interfere with the investigation, the Justice Department said it had requested extensive redactions of the affidavit in part to protect “a significant number of civilian witnesses” with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s actions. The affidavit, which was sworn to on Aug. 5, also noted that the F.B.I. had “not yet identified all potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”
In January Trump turned over 15 boxes and a review of those materials sent up alarm bells.
In those boxes, they found a total of 184 documents with classification markings, including 25 labeled “top secret.” Others were marked in a way suggesting they were related to foreign intercepts collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Some of the documents, the affidavit said, were from the Sensitive Compartmented Information programs, a designation that is one of the most tightly restricted categories of secrecy. Still others had been labeled “originator controlled,” meaning they could not be held without the approval of the intelligence community. Several of the documents, the affidavit said, contained what appeared to be Mr. Trump’s handwritten notes. But agents were most alarmed to discover that many of the materials included the highest national security restrictions, requiring they be held in controlled government storage facilities, and barring them from ever being shared with foreign governments, to protect “clandestine human sources,” or informants employed by the intelligence community to collect information around the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/t ... rrant.html

Sources and methods are the heart of intelligence, agencies around the world protect them at all costs.
On June 22, the department subpoenaed surveillance footage from various places in the club, including the hallway outside a basement storage area that Mr. Bratt had toured nearly three weeks earlier to see where documents had been kept. The video showed boxes being moved out of the storage room sometime around the contact from the Justice Department, people familiar with the tapes said. And it also showed boxes being slipped into different containers, which alarmed investigators.

As the temperature rose, so did the heat on the former president. On Aug. 8, investigators found additional material, presidential records and classified documents in the basement area, as well as in a container on the floor of Mr. Trump’s closet in his office, a former dressing room in the bridal suite above the club’s ballroom.
https://archive.ph/LiSa1

Judge Garland and the FBI gave Trump plenty of opportunities to return classified documents, his response was the usual.
On Friday morning, before the documents were released, Mr. Trump attacked the department on Truth Social, the social media platform he uses to communicate since being banned from Twitter after the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. He called the Justice Department and the F.B.I. “political Hacks and Thugs” who “had no right under the Presidential Records Act to storm Mar-a-Lago and steal everything in sight, including Passports and privileged documents.” He spent much of this week huddling with his lawyers to discuss the array of legal problems he now faces, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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The situation is becoming clearer. Super secret government spy novel-sh*t, the kind that gets people killed in foreign countries, that stuff was found laying all over Mar-a-lago, unsecured. Russian agents have already been seen on the grounds using a fake ID to gain entry. That is why the Feds are demanding security video recordings to review for spies that may have had access to those top-secret documents. What they are doing now goes far beyond gathering evidence for prosecuting TOS for whatever. They are trying to determine which of their current spy programs around the world are still viable for continued information gathering and which ones must be shut down for having been compromised. They are actually trying to save American agents and informants abroad from being executed because of this lying idiot!
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Affidavit Gives DOJ Enough to Indict Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz Says

Donald Trump's former attorney Alan Dershowitz said that the unsealed affidavit supporting the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago gives the Justice Department enough evidence to indict the former president.

In an interview with Newsweek, Dershowitz said, "It sounds like there would be enough for an indictment, but like probable cause, an indictment is easy to get," explaining that prosecutors could simply point to the materials found at Trump's residence that he had unlawful access to.
https://www.newsweek.com/affidavit-giv ... ys-1737467

Even when indicted as charged and it goes to trial, it is going to be hard to find impartial jury of 12 men and women to get a verdict.

If they do find a jury and TOS is found guilty there will be numerous appeals all the way to the SCOTUS. It will be an interesting case to see if TOS appointments to the bench will recuse themselves from this case.

If he does go to prison will he still have Secret Service agents protecting him? He can’t be held with the normal prison population. Maybe he needs to be placed in the United States Penitentiary, Florence Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.
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Don Jr. Posts 'Dick Pic' Of Dad After Affidavit Release: 'Redact This!'

Always the intellectual, Donald Trump Jr. on Friday came up with an innovative way to respond to the public release of the affidavit supporting the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
He posted a photo of his dad, Donald Trump, in his golf duds with a long black bar over his crotch, and said: “Redact this!” The former president’s thumb is hooked in his belt in the shot.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald- ... d5e61b9a20

Actually a picture of a bold typeface period would probably be more than enough to cover TOS’s member.” .
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Known Timeline:

1. 7/31/2019: Trump spoke with Putin (NYT)

2. 8/3/2019: Trump issued a request for a list of top US spies (The Daily Beast)

3. 10/5/2021: "CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants". (NYT)

4. 8/26/2022: Documents at MAL Could Compromise Human Intel (NYT) 1/5
https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/sta ... 7299383304

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TOS just knew tha Putin would let him build the Trump Hotel in Moscow.
Or
That Putin wouldn’t release the per tape if he gave Putin the spies list.
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