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Ladybbird · 23-05-23, 06:20

Ex-TRUMP Attorney Explains Why He Left Trumps' Legal Team
Former Presidents’ Attorney QUITS and Reveals Infighting Among His Legal Team

Ex-Prosecutor: Former TRUMP Lawyer May be “Waving Red Flag” at DOJ That He Wants to Testify

Ex-Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore is effectively pointing the finger at Trump attorney Boris Ephsteyn

BBC 23 MAY 2023

Timothy Parlatore, A top attorney to former President Donald Trump is leaving his legal defence effort, and blaming Trump’s top aide Boris Epshteyn for supposedly being dishonest and unforthcoming in his work to assist the ex-president’s lawyers with his defence against an investigation into whether he retained classified documents illegally.

His exit comes as the National Archives announced it found a trove of records proving that Donald Trump and his advisors knew they were breaking rules by taking those classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, according to a report.

The agency sent a letter, obtained by CNN, to Mr Trump this week revealing it had found 16 records showing he and his top advisers were aware of the correct declassification process when he was president.

“The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records,” wrote archivist Debra Steidel Wall.

These records will be turned over to Special Counsel Jack Smith as part of the criminal investigation into Mr Trump’s handling of classified documents.

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An attorney working Donald Trump’s legal team has quit, citing in-fighting among the former president’s inner circle.

In an interview with CNN on Saturday, Timothy Parlatore explained that the reason for his departure was ongoing friction with Boris Epshteyn, another legal adviser to Mr Trump.

Mr Epshteyn, according to Mr Parlatore, has been stonewalling the legal team in their attempts to ascertain whether all presidential records that Mr Trump took with him when he left the White House had been turned over to the National Archives.

One of Donald Trump’s attorneys, Timothy Parlatore, has departed the former president’s legal team and in a statement Saturday accused a top adviser to Mr Trump of being dishonest.

In an interview with CNN, he said that Mr Trump’s aide Boris Epshteyn was stonewalling members of the legal team and preventing them from adequately defending the former president against an investigation into whether he illegally retained classified documents.

“The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be,” said Mr Parlatore on Saturday. “There is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us, to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president.”

NASTY TRUMP

CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump proved so divisive that even its own staff have taken issue with the event - with Christiane Amanpour the latest of the network’s high-profile names to voice their dissatisfaction.

The New Hampshire event drew 3.3 million viewers, who watched as the former president sparred with CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins, whom Trump referred to as a “nasty person”.

Speaking in an address to Columbia Journalism School on Wednesday, Amanpour said if she were Collins, she would have “dropped the mic” as soon as Trump called her nasty, adding that she had spoken with the network’s CEO Chris Licht and told him the ex-president should not have been able “to appear in that particular format”.

Ladybbird · 03-06-23, 06:47

TRUMP Attorneys Haven’t Found Classified Document Referred to on Tape

Prosecutors Find Other TRUMP Tapes About Classified Document He Kept

TRUMP says ‘I’m at least as innocent as he is’ after Pence won’t face charges on classified documents

BBC 3 JUNE 2023

Former President Trump took a shot at Fox News on Friday, offering another rebuke of the cable news network over its coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his top GOP rival.

“FOX should embrace MAGA,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Friday afternoon, claiming the network was taking a big hit in viewership “because the very smart, even brilliant, Magadonians know that, despite all the fake lip service, FoxNews is pushing Ron DeSanctus, or anyone else for that matter, because they hate the greatest ‘america first’ president to ever put on a suit and tie, me.”

“They are all globalists, and globalists will never, Make America Great Again!” the former president added.

Fox has for years consistently ranked as the top-rated cable news channel, though it has experienced a significant dip in its ratings during the 8 p.m. hour specifically after ousting popular pundit Tucker Carlson, a move that reportedly angered Trump and other members of his inner circle. The outlet nonetheless airs several of the top programs on cable, such as “The Five” and “Gutfeld,” which often feature plenty of pro-Trump commentary.

Sean Hannity, one of Fox’s top prime-time hosts and a longtime personal friend of Trump, hosted a town hall-style event with the former president Thursday evening, an event Trump used to bash his critics and promote his talking points.

Trump has been railing against Fox for weeks over its coverage of DeSantis, who raised eyebrows in media and political circles with a decision to make his 2024 campaign launch announcement via a Twitter Spaces event rather than with a traditional rally or media appearance.

Fox, on the night of the DeSantis event, panned the glitch-laden rollout hours before the Florida governor made an appearance on the network to tout his candidacy.

The relationship between Trump and Fox is one that will be closely watched by media and political observers in the coming weeks, particularly as it relates to the upcoming Republican primary debates, broadcasting rights to the widely watched events and whether Trump will participate.

Ladybbird · 09-06-23, 11:43

Lies Obstruction Conspiracy: TRUMP Indicted in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

TRUMP Charged With Illegal Retention of Classified Documents - It is The Second Indictment of Trump and The First EVER Federal Indictment of a Former President.

Trump Faces 100-Year Jail Sentence as He Declares ‘I am Innocent ’

The charges include conspiracy, false statements and illegally retaining classified documents. Ex-president is being prosecuted for violating Espionage Act and obstruction over documents held at Mar-a-Lago and has been summoned to court next week

BBC 9 JUNE 2023

The latest charges could prove to be the most significant legal peril yet for the former president

He has been indicted on seven charges—including a violation under the Espionage Act—for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago long after he left the White House, his lawyer said on Thursday night.

Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump over his retention of national security documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, a historic development that poses the most significant legal peril yet for the former president.

The exact nature of the indictment, filed in federal district court in Miami, is unclear because it remains under seal and the justice department had no immediate comment.

Trump confirmed the indictment on his Truth Social social media platform on Thursday afternoon, shortly after his lawyers received an email from prosecutors in the office of special counsel Jack Smith that outlined the charges and summoned the former president to surrender himself to authorities in Miami next Tuesday.

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What is the Trump Mar-a-Lago case about and why is it significant

The charges listed in the summons included: wilful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing a document in a federal investigation, engaging in a scheme to conceal and false statements, people familiar with the matter said.

Trump lawyer Jim Trusty confirmed in an appearance on CNN that prosecutors had listed seven charges on the summons paper. Trusty said he had not seen a copy of the indictment but added he was hopeful that it might be unsealed before Trump makes his initial appearance in court.

From his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, Trump lashed out at the indictment in a series of posts on Truth Social. “I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States,” Trump said, adding: “I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!”

This undated image released by the US Department of Justice shows documents allegedly seized at Mar-a-Lago spread over a carpet

The former president was said to be resigned to the fact that he would probably be indicted after prosecutors impaneled a new grand jury in Florida to take evidence in the case last month, which his advisers saw as a sign that the case had been moved from Washington for its final stages.

But even though Trump’s lawyers were told last week that the former president had been designated a “target” in the criminal investigation – the clearest indication that charges were forthcoming – the news of the indictment appears to have taken Trump and his inner circle by surprise.

Trump spent the early part of the evening calling allies on Capitol Hill to rally support and watching who was defending him on cable news, a person close to the former president said. He then went for dinner at the golf club and played DJ, selecting songs to play over its loudspeakers.

The former president’s team also later released a short video, recorded a day beforehand, in which he again proclaimed his innocence.

In Washington, the House speaker Kevin McCarthy called the charges a “dark day” in a post on Twitter that falsely suggested the Biden administration, rather than a grand jury, had returned the indictment. “House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable,” he added.

Criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago documents case deepen the legal peril for Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, after he was indicted earlier this year on state charges in New York by the Manhattan district attorney over his role in hush-money payments to an adult film star.

Trump also remains under criminal investigation for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

For more than a year, prosecutors have examined whether Trump knowingly retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after he left office and took steps to conceal the materials after the justice department issued a subpoena for their return.

The criminal investigation started last February when the National Archives issued a referral to the justice department after discovering more than 100 classified documents mixed with presidential records in 15 boxes that Trump returned.

When the justice department reviewed the classified documents, people familiar with the investigation said, top officials in the national security division were alarmed to find that some of the materials amounted to national defense information that is controlled by the Espionage Act.

The issue was the sheer volume and the sensitivity of classified materials in the boxes. According to an estimate provided to Trump’s lawyers at the time, the 15 boxes included over 100 documents – more than 700 pages – that had the potential to implicate national security.

The discovery presented a problem for the department because Trump was no longer authorized to retain such documents once he left office and officials grew concerned that Trump might be in possession of further classified documents that were also national security materials.

The espionage investigation has been focused on whether Trump showed off national security materials in his office at Mar-a-Lago, and has questioned multiple witnesses about whether Trump waved around classified documents he had kept when no longer authorised to after he left office.

Prosecutors have also asked witnesses about documents concerning potential US military action against Iran, after Trump referenced such a document in a meeting at Bedminster in July 2021 where he said he could not show a certain document because he did not declassify it when president.

To that end, prosecutors have shown an Iran document to some witnesses who appeared before the Washington grand jury and asked whether they had ever been shown the material by Trump or anyone else.

It was not clear whether any witness confirmed seeing the document, one of the people said.

The investigation into the obstruction, meanwhile, has focused on whether the failure by Trump to fully comply with the subpoena last year was a deliberate act of obstruction because he wanted to retain the classified documents even after he had left office, the people said.

Last June, the since-recused Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room at Mar-a-Lago and told the justice department that no further materials remained there – which came into question when the FBI seized 101 more classified documents months later.

Corcoran later told associates he felt misled because he had asked whether he should search elsewhere at Mar-a-Lago, such as Trump’s office, but was waved off, the Guardian first reported. Corcoran’s notes also showed he told Trump he had to return all classified documents in his possession.

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Ladybbird · 09-06-23, 12:20

Could Donald TRUMP Go to Prison Over Secret Files?

Former W.H. Lawyer Predicts Trump Will Go to Jail

Former US President Donald Trump has been criminally charged for the second time in three months.

BBC 9 JUNE 2023

This time, the subject is his handling of classified files after he left the White House. Thousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 marked as classified.

Legal experts say that Mr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, could face prison if convicted of mishandling the documents, or of obstructing the investigation into whether he did.

He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and said he "never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States".

When Will Trump be Arrested?

On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said he has been asked to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday 13 June.

The US Secret Service will be meeting on Friday with the former president's staff and the Secret Service officers assigned to him, a law enforcement official told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

They will plan Trump's travel to court in Florida, and his appearance to be arraigned.

Ahead of the hearing, US Secret Service agents will perform threat assessments of the federal courthouse in Miami and its surroundings, and work with court officers to form a security plan.

Will He Be Handcuffed and Finger-Printed?

Before news of the indictment broke, Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, told the BBC that Mr Trump's arrest would likely follow a similar pattern to his arrest in April on charges of falsifying business records in relation to alleged hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels.

At the time, Mr Trump handed himself over to authorities in New York and appeared in court to plead not guilty. He was fingerprinted but he was not put in handcuffs and did not have a mugshot taken.

Mr Tobias said it was improbable that Mr Trump would be handcuffed or have his mugshot taken at this time.

"I think unlikely, given his stature as a former president and the slim likelihood that he's a flight risk," Mr Tobias said. "He's going to show up to at least negotiate or fight... but I don't think they need to use those types of procedures."

Once Mr Trump's arrest paperwork is completed, he will be considered under arrest and in custody. Once the paperwork is processed, he would be arraigned - meaning that he will hear the charges and enter a plea in court.

What is The Case About?

When Mr Trump left office in January 2021, he was supposed to hand over all presidential records, which are considered federal property.

It is illegal for officials, including former presidents, to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorised, insecure location.

But just months after Mr Trump left the White House, the US National Archives realised that some records were missing.

These included some of Mr Trump's correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and a letter that former president Barack Obama left for Mr Trump when he left office.

The agency requested the records, and some were handed over.

In August 2022, the justice department searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, seizing a further 11,000 documents, some of which were marked as classified or top secret, and some which were marked "TS/SCI", a designation for material that could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to US national security.

Other items included a binder of photos, a handwritten note, unspecified information about the president of France, and a clemency letter written on behalf of long-time Trump ally Roger Stone.

Could Trump be Jailed if Convicted?

Prosecutors are yet to confirm what exact charges Trump is facing. His lawyer Jim Trusty told CNN the former president had received details of the charges in a summons document.

He said they included conspiracy, false statements, obstruction of justice, and illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act.

Several of these are considered serious charges.

Espionage Act violations can carry up to 10 years in prison, while obstruction of justice - also a felony - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years.

It is by no means certain that Mr Trump would be convicted. Some legal experts believe it would be difficult to prove that he committed a crime.

For the obstruction of justice charges, for example, the law notes that prosecutors would have to show that Mr Trump or members of his team "knowingly" mishandled materials "to impede, obstruct or influence" the investigation.

It may ultimately prove difficult to prove that Mr Trump knew what was happening. He could also feasibly argue that his staff mishandled the documents without his consent.

What Has Trump Said About The Case?

Mr Trump announced his impending indictment on social media on Thursday night. The justice department has yet to comment.

In a series of Truth Social posts - as well as a video - Mr Trump repeatedly said he was innocent and characterised the indictment as "political warfare" against him before the 2024 election.

He has used a variety of arguments to defend his handling of the documents, including that he declassified the documents before they were discovered. While presidents have previously declassified documents directly, there is no evidence that Mr Trump did so or followed any existing procedure.

Mr Trump has also argued that some of the documents were personal and protected by executive privilege. This would mean that there was no requirement to turn them over to the national archives when he left office - the very premise of the case. The argument has largely been dismissed by legal experts.

David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump's lawyers are likely to argue that the former president was just a "really bad file clerk".

A key aspect of the case could be an audio recording in which Mr Trump reportedly said he knowingly kept documents and acknowledged he was limited in his ability to declassify him.

If this were true, Mr Super said that "it pretty much sinks him because that shows that he knows the things he's been saying in public are not true".

How Would Charges Affect Trumps' Presidential Campaign?

It is unclear what impact the new charges might have on Mr Trump's popularity with his supporters.

His arrest in New York had negligible impact on his popularity, and he remained the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2024 general election.

From a legal standpoint, experts believe that the indictment - or even a possible conviction - does not present present an impediment to his bid to become president again.

Under US law, nothing prevents an individual from from running for office if facing criminal charges.

"It could certainly be a problem for him politically if he's indicted, and certainly, if he's convicted. People may think twice about whether they want to vote for him," Mr Tobias said. "But I don't think that will necessarily prevent his participation."

At least two people have previously run for president with criminal convictions. In 1920, socialist candidate Eugene Debs ran for president despite having been convicted of the Espionage Act in connection with a 1918 anti-war speech.

Conspiracist Lyndon LaRouche also ran for the presidency on multiple occasions despite having been convicted of fraud in 1988. One of his presidential bids, in 1992, took place while he was at a federal prison in Minnesota.

Both lost the election.

Ladybbird · 10-06-23, 02:19

TRUMP Facing 37 Felony Charges According to Unsealed Indictment

TRUMP Lawyers QUIT After Second Indictment

TRUMP is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.

What's in the TRUMP indictment: US Nuclear Secrets and Files Kept HIDDEN in Shower

BBC 10 JUNE 2023

Files were also stored in a ballroom at Donald Trump's Florida property, Mar-a-Lago

Charges have also been filed against Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Mr Trump. The former White House military valet is accused of moving files to hide them from the FBI.

He has become the first former US president in history to face criminal charges on a federal level and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

The unsealing of the indictment claims that in July 2021, during a meeting with a writer, publisher, and two members of staff - none of whom had security clearance - Trump showed and described a highly confidential military "plan of attack".

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including about US nuclear secrets and military plans.

The 37-count indictment accuses him of keeping the files at his Florida estate, including in a ballroom and a shower, and lying to investigators.

It alleges he then tried to obstruct the investigation into the handling of the documents.

Mr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, denies any wrongdoing.

The 49-page indictment contains the first-ever federal charges against a former US president. It says the classified documents Mr Trump stored in his boxes contained information about:

United States nuclear programmes

Defence and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries

Potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack

Plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack

Prosecutors say that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified files to Mar-a-Lago - his oceanfront home in Palm Beach, which is also an expansive private members' club.

The charge sheet notes that Mar-a-Lago hosted events for tens of thousands of members and guests, including in a ballroom where documents were found.

Prosecutors say Trump tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing documents by suggesting that his lawyer "hide or destroy" them, or tell investigators he did not have them.

"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?" Mr Trump said to one of his attorneys, according to the indictment.

Trump's first court appearance in the case will be in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday - the eve of his 77th birthday.

Mar-a-Lago "was not an authorised location" for classified documents to be kept or discussed, the indictment says.

Some files were allegedly stored on stage in the ballroom, where events and gatherings took place - and later in a bathroom and a shower, an office space, and Mr Trump's bedroom.

On two occasions in 2021, the former president showed classified documents to people without security clearance, including a writer and two members of staff.

At his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which was also an "unauthorised location", he is said to have displayed and described a "plan of attack" that he told others had been prepared for him by the Department of Defense.

"As president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret," Mr Trump allegedly said, according to an audio recording.

Prosecutors say Mr Trump then showed off classified documents again in August or September 2021 at the Bedminster club.

The former US president "showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map".

This map "related to a military operation" and Mr Trump told the person "he should not be showing it" to them and they "should not get too close".

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the investigation, said on Friday that laws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced.

"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone," he said in a brief statement in Washington.

Boxes of papers are stacked in a bathroom with a chandelier and a toilet visible, at Mar-a-Lago

In a social media post, Mr Trump blasted Mr Smith as a "deranged lunatic".

"He is a Trump hater - a deranged 'psycho' that shouldn't be involved in any case having to do with 'Justice,'" he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Mr Trump pointed out that classified files were also found in President Joe Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage.

The White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, contrasting with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators.

Shortly before the Department of Justice made the criminal charges public, two of Mr Trump's lawyers suddenly quit the case without much explanation, saying this was a "logical moment" to resign.

This is the second criminal case for Mr Trump, who is due to go on trial in New York next year in a state case involving a hush-money payment to a porn star.

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Ladybbird · 13-06-23, 10:08

TRUMP Arrives in Florida to Face 37 CRIMINAL Charges

Former TRUMP White House Lawyer on The Most Damning Part of Trump Indictment

TRUMP Arrives in Florida as History Making Court Appearance Approaches in Classified Documents Case

BBC 13 JUNE 2023

Donald Trump is spending the night in Miami, Florida, before he appears in court there on Tuesday charged with mishandling national security files.

He is holed up at his Trump Doral golf course complex near Miami. The former US president flew from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to his Trump Doral resort near Miami.

Trump is facing dozens of charges of illegally retaining classified information, including some about nuclear secrets.

It is the second time this year he has been charged with a crime.

Trump, campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024, has denied wrongdoing as he faces the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president.

He appeared muted but unflustered as he strolled into the steakhouse at his Miami golf resort on Monday evening.

Trump greeted the smattering of guests at the BLT Prime restaurant with his signature thumbs-up, and even posed for a photo with a group of men enjoying their happy hour.

"With you all the way!" shouted one patron seated at the bar.

"Thank you very much," Trump replied, before security escorted him to the dining area.

The guests had an inkling of Trump's arrival when several security agents appeared and casually swept diners with metal detectors. A few had their phones ready to snap photos.

The staff, on the other hand, were nonchalant about their boss' presence, continuing to mix drinks and serve guests.

A handful of supporters were also at the bar. One woman sipped wine with a Trump flag draped over the back of her chair.

Trump has continued to strike a defiant tone. In an interview on a Spanish-language talk radio programme in Miami, he aired grievances with the indictment, while accusing the Biden administration of weaponising law enforcement agencies against him.

Meanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters the city was preparing for Trump's court appearance.

Police will be deployed in anticipation of crowds up to 50,000 people, he said, though other sources told US media the expected number was in the low thousands.

"We encourage people to be peaceful," Mr Suarez said.

On Saturday, in his first public appearances since the charges were filed, Trump said the case amounted to "election interference" by the "corrupt" FBI and justice department.

The former president will appear in court alongside a close aide, Walt Nauta, who was charged by the same grand jury in Florida.

Mr Nauta faces six criminal counts related to alleged handling of national security documents. Both men are scheduled to make their initial appearances at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST).

A federal judge denied a request by news organisations for photo and video access during Tuesday's hearing - though a court sketch artist will be present.

Trump is expected to enter the building through an underground tunnel, avoiding both the anticipated crowds of supporters and counter-demonstrators and the media outside.

In an interview on WABC radio after the indictment, Trump URGED supporters to demonstrate.

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Ladybbird · 13-06-23, 19:31

Donald Trump PLEADS NOT Guilty to all 38 charges

As expected, Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in his 38-count indictment. His close aide, Walt Nauta also PLED not guilty

BBC 13 JUNE 2023

Florida magistrate judge Jonathan Goodman will read the 38 criminal charges against him, as well as the six charges his personal aide and co-defendant Walt Nauta is facing.

Special Counsel Jack Smith - who announced the historic federal indictment last week - is attending the hearing and is sitting in the front row.

Who is Judge Jonathan Goodman?

Judge Jonathan Goodman, a magistrate judge, is presiding over Trump's Tuesday court appearance.

As the magistrate, he will handle the procedural aspects of today's proceedings, like reading Trump the 37 charges against him and hearing Trump's plea.

However, Goodman is not expected to continue with the case after today.

The Miami Herald, a local newspaper, once described Goodman as "a well-regarded veteran magistrate".

Proceedings will resume with judge Aileen M Cannon, who has been chosen to oversee the trial.

Aileen Mercedes Cannon (born 1981) is an American lawyer who was appointed by Donald Trump as a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Previously, Cannon worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012, and then as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020.

Ladybbird · 14-06-23, 09:47

TRUMP Fingerprinted and Pleads NOT Guilty to Federal Charges in Miami

Trump Defiant After Court Classified Documents Case

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BBC 14 JUNE 2023

Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida. Stony-faced Trump sat silently for 45 minutes through hearing

Mr Trump is the first US president - current or former - to be hit with a federal criminal indictment.

Arms crossed, in a dark suit and red tie, he sat in stone-faced silence for his second court appearance this year.

The Republican later travelled to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he addressed supporters.

Against a backdrop of American flags, Mr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, struck a defiant tone and told the assembled crowd he had "every right" to hold the classified documents, but "hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes".

He said he followed the law and went on to list series of unsubstantiated claims as well as grievances against President Joe Biden and his former rival Hillary Clinton.

Earlier in the day before leaving Miami, Mr Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, thanked the city for "such a warm welcome on such a sad day for our country"

.... Not many turned out to support him

Just hours before, in a 13th-floor room of a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, a sombre, subdued Mr Trump looked on while his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.

"We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty," the attorney, Todd Blanche, told the judge.

Mr Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nauta - a close aide charged with six criminal counts in the case - was sitting at the same table as the former president.

On the opposite side of the room sat the entire prosecution team, including special counsel Jack Smith, who announced the indictment last week.

The former president, who turned 77 on Wednesday, was allowed to leave court without any restrictions to domestic or international travel. Prosecutors told Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman the defendant was not considered a flight risk.

But Mr Trump will not be allowed to discuss the case with Mr Nauta.

After the hearing, the Republican flashed supporters a thumbs-up as his motorcade left the courthouse. As they drove away, an anti-Trump protester dressed in a prison jumpsuit ran into the street in front of the motorcade before he was pushed away by security - perhaps the most unruly moment of a largely peaceful day.

Mr Trump and his security detail travelled directly to Versailles, a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami's Little Havana, where he was greeted by a throng of supporters who lined up for photos with the former president.

He appeared to take part in a prayer with some patrons, and was treated to a chorus of Happy Birthday to You.

Alina Habba, a lawyer attorney for the former president, repeated the former president's claims that the charges were politically motivated as she addressed media outside court.

"We are at a turning point in our nation's history, the targeting prosecution of a leading political opponent is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela," she told reporters.

"What is being done to the President Trump should terrify all citizens of this country," she added.

Before the hearing, court officials said Mr Trump would not have a mugshot taken but would be digitally fingerprinted and asked to submit a DNA sample by swab.

A trial date has not yet been set, though the case is still earmarked for Aileen Cannon, a federal district judge in South Florida who was appointed by Mr Trump.

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Ladybbird · 22-06-23, 06:58

TRUMP Offers New Reason For Not Giving Classified Material to Investigators

TRUMP Offers Dizzying New Justifications For Classified Documents as Former Cabinet Secretaries Sound The Alarm

BBC 22 JUNE 2023

Former President Donald Trump offered a dizzying multitude of new justifications Monday for keeping classified material after leaving the White House and refusing to give them back to the National Archives and Records Administration.

“I was very busy,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier, explaining that he wanted to go through all the boxes identified by the Archives to remove personal things before handing them over.

TRUMP said he wanted to pull out “all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes,” interspersed with papers in his boxes.

He deflected about why exactly he kept all the sensitive material in the first place: “I don’t say I do.”

And as for the classified Pentagon document, which CNN first reported Trump is on tape acknowledging he held onto, the former president offered a new answer. He told Baier the paper he waved in front of people – which, according to the indictment, did not have security clearance – was not the document in question.

“I didn’t have any document per se,” he said, claiming the papers he had were newspaper and magazine articles.

And he denied to Baier that the Iran attack plan was ever in the boxes of documents – “not that I know of,” he said.

But during a Fox News town hall earlier this month, Trump said he didn’t “know anything about” the summer 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club captured on the audio recording – a meeting that his former chief of staff appeared to recount in detail in his memoir, including a description of the document.

The changing and fuzzy explanations create the picture of a man unwilling to cooperate with records laws for the nation he again wants to lead.

Former Cabinet Officials Sound Alarm

While his top rivals for the Republican nomination are staying relatively quiet about his indictment, some of his top former Cabinet secretaries are not holding back.

“A defiant 9-year-old,” is what former Attorney General William Barr compared his former boss to during an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

“If true, that conduct was a flagrant crime that cannot be excused,” Barr added of the indictment in an op-Ed in the Free Press on Monday.

Barr left Trump’s administration before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and he has been critical of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He was not complimentary of Trump in a memoir published last year.

But Barr’s comments are noteworthy since he is also the attorney general who defended Trump from the Mueller report and worked alongside Trump for more than a year of his presidency.

‘No One is Above The Law’

Barr’s not alone. Trump’s former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the revelations in the indictment jeopardize national security, although he was careful to add the “if the allegations are true” caveat to his answer.

“If the allegations are true that it contained information about our nation’s security, about our vulnerabilities, about other items, it could be quite harmful to the nation,” he told Jake Tapper, going on to call out “irresponsible action.”

“No one is above the law,” Esper added. “And so I think this process needs to play out and people held to account, the president held to account.”

Asked if Trump could be trusted with the nation’s secrets ever again, Esper said, “Based on his actions – again if proven true under the indictment by the special counsel – no.”

On Monday, the magistrate judge in the classified documents case agreed to prosecutors’ request that neither Trump nor his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, should be allowed to talk about information handed over to their lawyers as part of the discovery process – an expected ruling but nonetheless significant given Trump’s penchant for sharing things on social media.

This Has Been a Pattern

If anyone needs a reminder, there is a pattern of disgruntled former aides left in the former president’s wake.

Trump’s defense secretary who preceded Esper, James Mattis, had already turned full throttle against Trump before the 2020 election.

Trump had two confirmed attorneys general during his time in the White House and cut the first one – former Sen. Jeff Sessions – loose shortly after the 2018 midterm elections. He then opposed Sessions’ attempt to return to the Senate.

Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, while carefully reacting to news of the indictment, is among the 2024 Republican presidential candidates who say the legal process should proceed.

“I think we need to let the courts do their job. And let this case work its way through our judicial system,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently, saying it’s “premature” to discuss a possible pardon for Trump – the latest question facing the GOP field.

This is The Major Conundrum For Republicans at The Moment

Trump’s position in the primary has solidified even as his fitness to conduct the nation’s business has been questioned.

That so many who once worked for his administration ultimately turned against him, or were turned against by him, has long been a theme of his presidency. But it has not yet jeopardized his power in the party.

Unfair Prosecution vs. Dangerous Conduct

Barr parsed what fellow Republicans are saying in their defense of Trump.

There are those like Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, who maintains that Trump had the power to declassify the documents he is accused of mishandling even if the former president is on tape saying he did not.

Others, Barr said, are focused more on the prosecution than the crime.

“I don’t think they’re actually defending his conduct, but they are saying it’s unfair to prosecute him,” Barr said.

Prosecutions Barr Opposes

That is an argument a longtime Republican like Barr can identify with. He opposes Trump’s prosecution in New York by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, for alleged participation in a hush money scheme before the 2016 election.

He also questions whether Trump should be prosecuted in connection with January 6, 2021, or his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

But this case, Barr has been arguing, is not the same because Trump brought it upon himself.

“Yes, he’s been a victim in the past. Yes, his adversaries have obsessively pursued him with phony claims. And I’ve been at his side defending against them when he is a victim. But this is much different. He’s not a victim here,” Barr said on “Fox News Sunday” last week.

These Other Cases Could Still be Brought

Trump’s prosecution in relation to the aftermath of the 2020 election is still a very real possibility in both Fulton County, Georgia, and at the federal level. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, has indicated she will make a charging decision in August after a years-long investigation.

Court filings in the classified documents case brought by special counsel Jack Smith refer to other “ongoing investigations.” (The special counsel’s office is also running that federal probe of the period after the 2020 election and leading up to the insurrection.)

A First Amendment Right to Say an Election is Stolen?

Any ultimate prosecution with regard to the 2020 election could be a mistake, Barr said, arguing a candidate should have First Amendment rights.

“We don’t want to get into a position where people can’t complain about an election and claim that an election was stolen.”

And he even sees legitimate explanations for the recording of Trump asking Georgia election officials to “find” him enough votes to win the swing state.

“There are innocent interpretations of what he said, which is, look, of all the votes that we think are bad, you certainly can find among them some that are slam-dunk,” Barr argued.

For the record, Barr left the administration after refusing to appease Trump’s unfounded insistence there had been election fraud in 2020, so it’s interesting to hear him offer a defense on that front.

There’s an Even Larger Question

Republicans can defend Trump against prosecution all they want, but for Barr, that’s not the point.

“The question is, should we be putting someone like this forward as the leader of the country, leader of the free world, who has engaged in this kind of conduct?” he asked.

When CBS’ Robert Costa asked if putting Trump in the White House again would put the country at risk, here’s how Barr answered:

“He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests. There’s no question about it.”

Barr wasn’t done.
“Our country can’t be a therapy session for, you know, a troubled man like this.”

Ladybbird · 27-06-23, 08:05

TRUMP Heard on CNN Tape Discussing Military Secrets at Golf Club

Ex-president is heard discussing a Pentagon paper detailing plans to attack Iran with people who did not have security clearances

BBC NEWS 27 JUNE 2023

An audio recording in which Donald Trump acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media.

In the recording, the former president is heard riffling through papers and saying: "This is highly confidential".

Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling sensitive files.

CNN was the first to publish the roughly two-minute clip, and said it comes from a July 2021 interview that Mr Trump gave with people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Mr Trump is heard saying "these are the papers" and referring to a document he calls "highly confidential".

It appears to be an audio recording referenced by federal prosecutors in their indictment of the former president.

Charges Say Trump Took US Nuclear Secrets

Prosecutors allege he showed classified documents to people without security clearance on two occasions, including a writer and two members of staff, in one instance in July 2021 at his golf club in New Jersey.

Mr Trump is facing 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.

He has denied any wrongdoing and has said that all documents he took with him from the White House were declassified.

During the exchange, released by CNN and the Washington Post on Monday, Mr Trump is heard describing a document that he alleges is about possibly attacking Iran.

"He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn't it amazing?" Mr Trump says near the beginning of the clip.

"I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look," he says.

"See as president I could have declassified it," he says. "Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."

In an interview last week with Fox News, Mr Trump denied that he provided secret documents to people unauthorised to view them.

"There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things," Mr Trump said.

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Donald Trump Recorded Saying He Kept Classified File After Leaving Office

The recording, obtained by CNN, includes new details from a conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information. It includes a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.

The episode is one of two referenced in the indictment where prosecutors allege that Trump showed classified information to others who did not have security clearances, CNN reported.

In the conversation, Trump is talking with people helping his former chief of staff Mark Meadows write a book. His aide, Margo Martin, regularly taped conversations with authors to ensure they accurately recounted his remarks.

According to the recording aired on CNN, Trump refers to the document and its classified status.

“These are the papers,” Trump says in the audio recording, while he’s discussing the Pentagon attack plans, a quote that was not included in the indictment.

“This was done by the military and given to me,” Trump continues, before noting that the document remained classified. “See as president I could have declassified it,” he says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” Prompting laughter in the room.

Prosecutors obtain Trump tape about classified document he kept

‘Very dangerous’: Retired general reacts to recording of Trump discussing classified documents

Ladybbird · 22-10-23, 13:49

TRUMP Spills Secrets: Investigated For Leaking Nuclear Secrets at Mar-a-Lago

The Key Nuclear Secrets ~TRUMP Leaked Submarine Data to Australian Billionaire Member of Mar-a-Lago, Soon After Leaving Office

Nuclear Weapon Secrets in The Bathroom: Revelations From TRUMPS’ Unsealed Indictment - TRUMP Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia...

BBC 22 OCT 2023

TRUMP Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia...TRUMP met with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russias’ foreign minister. American journalists were barred, but Russia released photographs.

One of the officials said the intelligence discussed by Trump in his meeting with Lavrov was classified “Top Secret” and held in a secure “compartment” to which only a handful of intelligence officials have access.

TRUMP took classified documents including information on nuclear weapons and secret plans to attack a foreign country

The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the worlds’ largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Trumps’ disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.

Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trumps’ disclosures of the secrets to Mr. Pratt, which were first revealed by ABC News, and interviewed him as part of their investigation into the former presidents’ handling of classified documents, the people said.

According to another person familiar with the matter, Mr. Pratt is now among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against Mr. Trump at the classified documents trial, which is scheduled to start in May in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Mr. Pratt’s name does not appear in the indictment accusing Mr. Trump of illegally holding on to nearly three dozen classified documents after he left office and then conspiring with two of his aides at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct the government’s attempts to get them back.

But the account that Mr. Trump discussed some of the countrys’ most sensitive nuclear secrets with him in a cavalier fashion could help prosecutors establish that the former president had a long habit of recklessly handling classified information.

Ladybbird · 10-11-23, 02:53

MAR-A-LAGO Workers Talk to FEDS ~ May TESTIFY Against TRUMP

Plumber, Maid and Chauffeur Among Mar-a-Lago Staff Who May Testify Against Trump, Report Says

BBC 10 NOV 2023

A plumber, a maid, a chauffeur and a woodworker are among Mar-a-Lago staffers and contract workers who federal prosecutors may call to testify against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.

New information is being revealed about the scope of Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago and depicts a startling number of seemingly random people now caught up in his prosecution.

A report on Thursday detailed for the first time how Mr Smith’s team of prosecutors is considering calling a number of lower-level staff at Mr Trump’s sprawling resort complex in Palm Beach to testify in the case against the former president. Those unnamed staffers include a maid assigned to clean Mr Trump’s living area, a woodworker who was called to the premises for work on a project in Mr Trump’s bedroom, and even the ex-president’s personal chauffeur

One source told the network that the woodworker told investigators he saw a stack of papers in the suite, in the vicinity of where investigators have alleged the ex-president was keeping all or part of his documents stash.

The worker reportedly told authorities that he wasn’t sure whether or not the papers he saw were classified, and described thinking of them as a possible movie prop

The network also reported, citing one person familiar with the ex-president’s reaction, that Mr Trump went “ballistic” when he learned Jack Smith’s team was speaking to his maid.

The twice-impeached ex-president has plead not guilty to more than three dozen criminal charges relating to the case. He is accused of hoarding sensitive military documents and other classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and attempting to destroy evidence of his supposed crimes along with his valet, Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago’s property manager.

The former president also remains under a number of other criminal investigations, and was most recently charged with numerous felonies in Fulton County, Georgia.

At the same time, he remains the heavy favourite to win the Republican nomination for president, according to all available polling.

His trial in the case is currently set for May of 2024, but a judge in the case has indicated that she may delay that date to give Mr Trump’s team more time to review the government’s evidence.

The ex-president is reported to be plotting to block the Justice Department’s prosecutions of him should he win the presidency next year.

Ladybbird · 01-12-23, 08:00

Bulls'-Eye For Prosecutors: Report Says TRUMP Was WARNED Documents Possession Was a Crime

Former President Donald Trump was warned by his attorney that failing to comply with a classified documents subpoena would 'be a crime'.

Defiant TRUMP Attacks on Judge, His Wife and Daughter, Calls Prosecutors Racist in Mar-a-Lago Speech

BBC 1 DEC 2023

'Time He is JAILED Your Honour'...

Jennifer Little told Jack Smiths' investigators she'd explicitly warned Trump about his legal liability and he 'absolutely' understood the stakes of not complying

A lawyer who works for Donald Trump informed the former president last fall, just days after the Justice Department issued a subpoena, that failing to return classified materials to the U.S. government was a crime, according to a report published Wednesday.

The Trump lawyer, Jennifer Little, told Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigators she had explicitly warned Trump about his legal liability and that he "absolutely" understood the stakes of not complying, sources familiar with the matter told the television network.

Trump hired Little in March 2021 soon after he left the White House as Georgia authorities began their probe into the 2020 election. ABC reported that the former Georgia state prosecutor soon started working for Trump on the classified documents case, and issued the warning at Mar-a-Lago alongside lawyer Evan Corcoran.

Little's testimony is potentially one piece of evidence that led Smith to charge Trump with knowingly violating classified documents laws, ABC reported.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 40 counts he faces in the federal criminal case, which is currently scheduled to go to trial in Fort Pierce, Fla., in May 2024. Little is currently a member of Trump's legal defense team in Georgia, where the former president is fighting 13 state felony counts connected to the 2020 election.

Several of Trumps’ former attorneys have testified against him, with some, such as Jenna Ellis and Sydney Powell, being indicted alongside Trump as co-conspirators in Georgia and taking plea deals in exchange for serving as witnesses.

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Ladybbird · 11-02-24, 08:25

'Putting Her on Notice': Jack Smith Losing Patience With Judge Cannon, Who Supports TRUMP, in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

Jack Smith Hits Back at Judge Cannons’ DANGEROUS Order on TRUMP Case

Special Counsel Smith is showing increasing frustration with Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified documents case

MSN 11 FEB 2024

“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order..

Judge overseeing classified documents case rejected TRUMPS special counsel Jack Smith’s bid to keep government witnesses secret.

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Thursday night warned that the judge in Donald Trumps’ Mar-a-Lagoclassified documents case has made a “clear error” that could put witnesses at risk.

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a TRUMP appointee, ruled that some unredacted discovery documents should be made available to Trump’s legal team. Those documents could expose sensitive information, including the names of potential witnesses.

It’s hardly surprising that Smith has spoken out about the ways in which Cannon’s decision could end very badly. In a court filing on Thursday, the special counsel urged the judge to reconsider.

“That discovery material, if publicly docketed in unredacted form as the Court has ordered, would disclose the identities of numerous potential witnesses, along with the substance of the statements they made to the FBI or the grand jury

Exposing them to significant and immediate risks of threats, intimidation, and harassment, as has already happened to witnesses, law enforcement agents, judicial officers, and Department of Justice employees whose identities have been disclosed in cases in which defendant Trump is involved,” he wrote.

Smith also reminded Cannon of an Eleventh Circuit decision that goes against her recent decision;

“The Eleventh Circuit has held that the compelling-interest standard applied by the Court does not apply to ‘documents filed in connection with motions to compel discovery,’ which instead may be sealed or redacted simply upon a showing of ‘good cause,’” he wrote.

The Eleventh Circuit, coincidentally, is the same court that once struck down Cannon’s decision to grant Trump’s request to appoint a special master in the classified documents case.

It won’t be hard for Smith to demonstrate the “good cause” for not releasing those documents. Throughout his legal trials, Trump has made a habit out of harassing courtroom staff, plaintiffs, and witnesses.

The threats that Trump can bring to bear against his perceived enemies are so well documented that legal experts have raised the alarm about the safety of witnesses and jurors in his future trials—and jurists have acted on their advice. In the E. Jean Carroll trial that wrapped up last month, the jury was partially sequestered and fully anonymous.

Jurors were warned not to share their names even with each other, using numbers instead. Judge Lewis Kaplan took those steps precisely because he was worried about Trump’s behaviour.

Moments after the jury delivered its massive $83.3 million verdict against Trump, Kaplan gave them an ominous warning: “My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury.”

Trump is facing 40 counts for keeping classified documents long after he left the White House. His aide, Walt Nauta, and a Mar-a-Lago employee, Carlos De Oliveira, are also facing charges.

TRUMP lawyers' unprofessionalism and incompetence revealed in new filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case...

Including the news that an attorney for one of Trumps’ co-defendants does NOT own a computer that can be used to view CCTV footage that is evidence in the case...

Ladybbird · 17-02-24, 11:56

TRUMP Appeared at Federal Court in Florida For Closed SECRET Hearing in His Classified Documents Case

High-Stakes Closed Door Hearings Over Evidence in TRUMP Mar-a-Lago Documents Case on Monday

His motorcade left after several hours as supporters called his name.

The Guardian 17 FEB 2024

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Seeking to turn legal problems into political gain, former President Donald Trump arrived Monday to a crowd of supporters at a federal courthouse in Florida for a closed hearing in the criminal case charging him with mishandling classified documents.

In the latest mixing of court appearances into Trumps’ election-season calendar, supporters with signs and flags assembled outside a courthouse barricade as a Trump campaign message to allies with the subject line of “I’m in court. Again!” warned that unspecified opponents “want me arrested” and “erased from the ballot.”

The message reinforced his teams’ strategy of politicizing his four criminal prosecutions, including in Florida, where he faces dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing FBI efforts to get them back.

Ladybbird · 23-02-24, 11:19

Judge Cannon Schedules PRIVATE Conference Call With TRUMP Lawyers to Discuss Documents Access

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has scheduled a "sealed" conference call with lawyers representing Donald Trump in the federal case brought by special counsel Jack Smith on classified national defense information recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

23 The Guardian FEB 2024

Judge Cannon Is a TRUMP supporter and was appointed by him

The call, which will take place on Friday at 3:30pm ET, concerns "their challenge vs Special Counsel requests to withhold or redact in certain classified docs that will be turned over in discovery"

This comes shortly after Cannon denied requests by Trumps' lawyers to consolidate a large number of filings into one, which was a win for Smith, who warned such a move would tie up the court even longer in reviewing surprise legal theories from Trump and other defendants.

It also comes as Smith urges Cannon to reconsider her order to turn over discovery documents that could potentially reveal identities of witnesses in a way that would give Trump the ability to engage in witness tampering.

That order, in particular, enraged some legal experts, and even had some suggesting Smith had the ammunition he needs to go to a higher court and ask that they force Cannon off the case.

Cannon, who was herself appointed by Trump, has repeatedly triggered controversy throughout the case by intervening in ways that appear to one-sidedly benefit the former president.

Before the indictment against Trump was even handed down, Cannon tried to block the FBI from reviewing classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago pending review by a special master, which interfered with a parallel counterintelligence investigation into whether any of the information Trump had in his resort was compromised.

Ultimately, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, including two other judges Trump had appointed, ruled against her, ordering her to allow federal authorities access to the recovered documents.

Ladybbird · 01-03-24, 11:30

TRUMP Asks Judge Cannon For 12 August Trial Date in Classified Documents Case..Special Counsel Proposes 8 July Trial Date

Judge Cannon is Supporting TRUMP IN 2024 Election

After previously seeking to have the proceeding postponed until after the election, the former president’s lawyers unexpectedly said he could live with a date over the summer.

'Mental Midget!' TRUMP Throws Fit in Unhinged Rant Over His OWN Verbal Slip-Ups Follow His Stunt of Copying Bidens' Substantive Border Visit

MSNBC 1 MAR 2024

Mental Midget

Bidens' Border Visit Exposes Hollow TRUMP Stunt

For the past eight months, former President Donald J. Trump and his lawyers have used nearly every means at their disposal to delay his federal trial on charges of mishandling classified documents until after the election in November.

But in court papers filed on Thursday evening, the lawyers made an abrupt turnabout. In a filing to the judge overseeing the case, they repeated their complaints that Mr. Trump could not be tried fairly until the election was concluded, but then proposed a new date for the trial of 12 Aug, almost three months before Election Day and just weeks after the Republican convention to choose a party nominee.

It was not immediately clear what led to the sudden change of heart — or to the selection of 12 Aug— especially given that the lawyers spent much of their filing to the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, claiming that the law, the Constitution and the Justice Departments’ own policy manual frowned on the idea of taking “the presumptive Republican nominee” to trial at the height of his campaign for the White House.

One possibility was that the lawyers, by proposing to spend much of late summer and early fall in court on the classified documents case, were seeking to prevent the former president’s other federal trial — on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election — from being held before voters make their choice.

Ladybbird · 10-03-24, 03:57

Fed Up and STRESSED Jack Smith SMACKS DOWN TRUMP in Court

'Delay tactics': Jack Smith Tears Apart TRUMPS’ Frivolous Arguments For Dismissing Mar-a-Lago Docs Case

Jack Smith files flurry of responses against TRUMPS’ bid to dismiss case

MSNBC 10 MAR 2024

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has agreed to hear two of former President Donald Trump's motions to dismiss in special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case.

This comes at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court is planning to review Trump's presidential immunity argument in another case Smith is prosecuting: the election interference case.

In the documents case, Smith alleges that Trump violated the United States' national security by storing classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House — documents that, according to Smith, Trump had no business removing from Washington, D.C. in 2021. Trump and his lawyers have claimed that the documents were declassified and that he didn't break any laws by moving them to Mar-a-Lago.

CORRUPT Cannon — a TRUMP appointee

Smith has been aggressively fighting back against Trump's efforts to have the two cases thrown out. And the special counsel, according to ABC News reporters Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders and Jack Date, is layout out some reasons why CORRUPT Cannon — a Trump appointee — should let the Mar-a-Lago case go to trial instead of dismissing it.

"In a flurry of previously filed motions," the journalists explain in an article published on March 7, "Trump's attorneys had put forward various arguments to dismiss the case — including that Trump was entitled to possess the documents under the Presidential Records Act, that he should be immune from prosecution for removing the documents while still technically in office, that he is being selectively prosecuted in comparison with others who have not faced charges for similar conduct, and that the charges against him are unconstitutionally vague."

Smith's office, the reporters note, "sought to dismantle each of those arguments" in "more than 100 pages of arguments filed" on March 7 and accused Trump and his lawyers of "engaging in delay tactics that have successfully served to stymie Trump's federal election interference prosecution in Washington, D.C."

Mallin Faulders and Date continue, "In their request to Judge Cannon that she reject Trump's arguments that he should be immune from prosecution, they specifically asked her to certify such a claim as 'frivolous.' Doing so would prevent Trump's team from getting the documents case effectively paused while they engage in a lengthy appeals process."

Smith is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will shoot down Trump's immunity argument in the election interference case. And he is telling Cannon, in the Mar-a-Lago case, that the former president's immunity claims have no merit.

Smith's office told Cannon, "Every criminal charge in the Superseding Indictment is based upon conduct in which Trump engaged after he left office.

Even if a former President could claim some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts — and he cannot — Trump could not benefit from any such immunity in this case. Trump's immunity claim here is so wholly without merit that it is difficult to understand it except as part of a strategic effort for delay."

Ladybbird · 12-03-24, 03:08

TRUMPS' Bedminster-Bound Mystery Boxes Raise New Secret Document Suspicions. The Move Was Made When TRUMP Was Informed The FBI Were About to Raid Mar-a-Lago

Prosecutors Use SEIZED DATA TRUMP DIDN’T SEE COMING; Mar-a-Lago Property Manager Helped Move Classified Docs, FEDS Say

Video shows file boxes being loaded onto a plane carrying TRUMP from Mar-a-Lago to his New Jersey golf club-Prosecutors MAY need ‘fresh evidence’ to issue warrant for TRUMPS' New Jersey golf club

MSNBC 12 MAR 2024

Boxes of Missing Classified Docs Sent to TRUMPS' New Jersey Golf Club

Brian Butler Mar-a-Lago EX Manager TALKS...

A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election.

Brian Butler, who is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the classified documents indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he doesn’t believe the criminal case against Trump is a “witch hunt,” as the former president has claimed.

Butler gave testimony to federal investigators that informed crucial portions of last year’s criminal obstruction charges against Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Trump, and Carlos De Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago who had been Butler’s closest friend until recently.

The third man charged in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is accused of moving classified documents and scheming with Walt Nauta and Donald Trump to conceal video footage from federal investigators.

Trump heard in audio clip discussing "secret" documents

The tape of a conversation with Donald Trump and others made at his golf club in New Jersey has become perhaps the most critical publicly known evidence in the federal indictment against the former president.

Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with mishandling classified information after leaving the White House.

And the recording – parts of which were made public by CNN earlier this week – features Trump in July 2021 discussing what he called a “highly confidential” Pentagon document that contained “secret” US military plans to attack Iran.

Trump has offered a firehose of differing and contradictory explanations of what he claimed happened. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Boxes were pictured being loaded onto the jet . The move north puts TRUMP close to his New Jersey golf club

Prosecutors Use SEIZED DATA Trump DIDN’T SEE COMING

Trump heard in audio clip discussing "secret" documents

Prosecutors may need ‘fresh evidence’ to issue warrant for Trump’s New Jersey golf club

Ladybbird · 15-03-24, 08:03

TRUMP Arrived Looking Confident at Florida Courthouse For Classified Docs Hearing...BUT..

CROOKED Judge Aileen Cannon DENIED Motion to Toss TRUMP Classified Docs Case-Dismissed 32 of The 40 Charges Filed Against Him

MSNBBC 15 MAR 2024

Former President Donald Trump Appears In Florida Court For Classified Documents Case Hearing

A federal judge denied one of former President Donald Trumps attempts to dismiss the classified documents case against him Thursday, though it is still unclear when a trial for the case will be scheduled.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied without prejudice Trump’s motion to dismiss 32 of the 40 charges filed against him, meaning the arguments laid out by his attorneys can be presented at a later date, thus causing MORE DELAYS.

Cannon denied the motion, which Trump based on presidential immunity, because it raised questions that depend “too greatly on” fluctuating definitions of terms related to Trump’s charges, as well as “some disputed factual issues.”

Cannon said Trump’s argument, which says a statute being used against him is constitutionally vague, would be better addressed at a later time “in connection with jury-instruction briefing and/or other appropriate motions.”

Cannon told Trump’s attorney earlier in Thursday’s hearing “it’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” adding the constitutionally vague argument adopted by the attorney was “an extraordinary step.”

No Longer Confident TRUMP Leaves....

Ladybbird · 03-04-24, 22:59

ENOUGH -Jack Smiths' Temper Tantrum Shows He's HAD It' With CROOKED Judge Cannon

'Jack Smith is 100% right'

MSRAW 4 APR 2024

CORRUPT MAGA JUDGE Aileen Cannon & POX MARKED OLD MAN 'DUMPY'

EXHAUSTED and STRESSED Special counsel Jack Smith launched into a “prosecutorial temper tantrum” with a late-night filing blasting Judge Aileen Cannon for "fundamentally flawed” proposed jury instructions, CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig said Wednesday.

Smith's blistering court motion attacked Cannon’s order that lawyers prepare instructions in which jurors are asked to consider if classified documents taken by former President Donald Trump to his Mar-a-Lago home could be considered his personal property.

The special counsel didn’t hold back, telling Cannon her "legal premise is wrong, and a jury instruction... that reflects that premise would distort the trial.”

“Jack Smith’s frustration really just jumps off the page,” Honig told CNN host John Berman. “That, by the way, classifies as a prosecutorial temper tantrum. I mean, usually prosecutors are very just the facts, very deferential to a judge.

And here we see Jack Smith really expressing his frustration at the judge. The source of his frustration is that Judge Cannon has expressed a real willingness to entertain and perhaps introduce to the jury this defense that Donald Trump has raised based on the Presidential Records Act."

He then explained why Smith had good reason to vent.

“And Jack Smith's response... basically boils down to it's a falsity as a matter of fact, this never happened," said Honig. "Trump never properly designated the documents. And, second of all, even if he had, it fails legally. So Jack Smith has had it and you can sense that in this brief."

Cannon’s proposed jury instructions — the directions that jurors are asked to consider after they’ve heard testimony and are about to begin deliberating — have been called bizarre by several legal experts.

They are based on Trump’s own opinion that the PRA allowed him to make government property his own. He used the argument to claim — so far unsuccessfully — that the trial against him should be dismissed.

"Trump's entire effort to rely on the PRA is not based on any facts," Smith wrote. "It is a post hoc justification that was concocted more than a year after he left the White House, and his invocation in this court of the PRA is not grounded in any decision he actually made during his presidency to designate as personal any of the records charge in the superseding indictment."

"During its exhaustive investigation, the government interviewed Trump's own PRA representatives and numerous high-ranking officials from the White House — chiefs of staff, White House counsel and senior members of the White House Counsel's Office.

Not a single one had heard Trump say that he was designating records as personal or that, at the time he caused the transfer of boxes to Mar-a-Lago, he believed that his removal of records amounted to designating them as personal under the PRA."

Honig suggested that Smith’s furious reaction showed he might be considering asking for Cannon’s recusal in the case, which accuses the former president of illegally hoarding the documents.

“It's possible,” he said. “I think unlikely, but possible that if the judge rules against DOJ here, they may take that sort of extreme step of asking her to step aside.” <<< ABOUT TIME....

Read Jack Smith’s full filing at this link (PDF)

Jack Smith TORCHES Judge Cannon in LATE NIGHT Filing

HE WARNED HER LAST TIME - 'Putting her on notice': Jack Smith losing patience with Judge Cannon in Trump documents case

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE HAVE THE COURAGE TO LOCK THIS DERANGED LUNATIC UP..
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Ladybbird · 05-04-24, 12:55

Special Counsel RIPS Judge Cannons' Jury Instructions in TRUMP Classified Docs Case- 'Would Lead to DIRECTED VERDICT For TRUMP'

TRUMP Judge Wages WAR on Jack Smith With STUNNING Response -TRUMP Calls For Smiths' Punishment For Criticizing 'HIS' Judge in Classified Docs Case

TRUMP DEMANDS 'LOWLIFE' Jack Smith be "sanctioned or censured" after he issued a scathing critique of Judge Aileen Cannons' request for jury instructions.

NBC 5 APR 2024

‘The NUCLEAR Button’: Special Counsel Could Seek Removal of Judge in TRUMP Classified Docs Case.. Special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Aileen Cannon traded terse words in filings this week.

Jack Smith slammed Cannons’ order for dueling jury instructions from his office and Trumps’ lawyers, arguing the request is based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise” that would “distort” the trial, potentially leading to a DIRECTED verdict for Trump.

Trump said the special counsel should be "sanctioned or censured" after he issued a scathing critique of Judge Aileen Cannon's request for jury instructions.

Jack Smith argues "not a single" Trump official has claimed he declared any records personal

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith could soon seek to have the judge presiding over the case of former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents recused, prosecutors and defense attorneys warn, pressed to “breaking point” over arguments his office said could taint a trial irrevocably.

Smith faulted Judge Aileen Cannon in a scathing rebuke for seeming to take at face value Trump’s “fundamentally flawed” claim around a president’s official and personal records when she asked both sides to put forth two competing versions of instructions for jurors in the case and said her request would “distort” the trial. Smith indicated in that filing that if Cannon ruled against federal prosecutors, this could be a trigger for an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit that could remove her from the case.

“He is close to pushing the nuclear button,” said Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg. “It is a high burden to reach, and it is rarely done, but her proposed jury instructions may have pushed him to the breaking point.”

That proposal for jury instructions, a final version of which would be delivered to jurors at the end of a trial, seemed to consider Trump’s interpretation of how of classified documents could be preserved after leaving office, which is at the center of the charge against him.

Ladybbird · 08-04-24, 20:49

Jack Smith Laid a Trap for TRUMPs' Mar-a-Lago Judge. Cannon Didn’t Take It.

Jack Smith Stuck in Legal Purgatory Amid Tension With CROOKED Judge Cannon in Classified Docs Case

TRUMP May Face MORE FBI Raids After Witness Suggests He's Hiding More Documents

MSNBC 8 APR 2024

TRAPPER KEEPER

Judge Aileen Cannon rejected Donald Trumps’ request to drop the Mar-a-Lago trial. But she also denied prosecutors a legal avenue that would let them try to kick her off the case.

Judge Cannon's latest order chastising Special Counsel Jack Smith in Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed classified documents contains some language that might come back to haunt the jurist, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Cannon, who has been accused of favoritism in her rulings in favor of the ex-president who appointed her to the bench, has previously been reversed by an appeals court that found she gave Trump improper deference during the investigation phase of the case.

The case is now going to make its way to the Eleventh Circuit again, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance. And when it does, Vance warns, some of Cannon's words will likely "come back to haunt her."

MORE HIDDEN Classified Documents in Donald Trumps' Possession

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani is warning there might be more classified documents in Donald Trumps possession — and another FBI raid might be on the horizon, Newsweek reported.

Among the revelations in the stolen document case is that Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, in an interview with CNN, said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta deliver boxes of the documents to a plane "in June 2022 — the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents."

Trump was about to fly to his Bedminster country club when Nauta asked Butler to move the boxes, Butler, a witness for the prosecution, said.

"But it was an unusual request from Nauta for the car, Butler [said], because Nauta typically didn’t handle moving luggage and asked Butler for the car in a guarded way," the CNN report said.

“I come to realize now at the same time he’s going in there, the boxes are going from somewhere into a vehicle, which are eventually going to the plane, which I load with Walt,” Butler said.

“They were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. That’s what I remember loading,” he said.

Federal investigators have yet to stage a raid on Bedminster as they did at Mar-a-Lago. Nor have they done a search in Trump's apartment at Trump Tower, Rahmani said.

"Prosecutors won't know if classified documents still remain at Trump's other homes unless they execute search warrants there," Rahmani said when speaking to Newsweek.

Special counsel Jack Smith, "Is unlikely to do so at this stage of the case and during the election, but that possibility exists, especially because Trump has failed to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas in the past," said Rahmani.

Ladybbird · 24-04-24, 03:07

Judge in TRUMPs' Classified Docs Case Unseals Trove of Info Related to Mar-a-Lago Raid

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Florida classified documents criminal trial has unsealed a trove of documents related to the FBI's investigation into the former president as well as the agency's raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach in 2022.

MSRAW 24 APR 2024

The documents, unsealed by Judge Aileen Cannon, reveal the personnel involved in the raid and how it played out. One document shows that the operation was nicknamed "Plasmic Echo," Fox News reported.

"This document contains information that is restricted to case participants," the document reads, adding, "PLASMIC ECHO; Mishandling Classified or National Defense Information, Unknown Subject; Sensitive Investigation Matter."

Another document shows Attorney General Merrick Garland approving the investigation into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents from his time as president.

One document reveals that agents entered a safe at Mar-a-Lago and took the seized documents back to D.C. The agents involved in the raid consisted of "four agents from the FBI WFO, one FBI Headquarters personnel, 25 agents from the FBI Miami Field Office, one DOJ Counterintelligence and Export Control Section attorney and one attorney from the United States Attorneys Office Southern District of Florida," according to Fox News.

"A search warrant, 22-mj-8332-BER, issued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2022, was executed at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida 33480 at 10:33 a.m. on August 8, 2022," the document reads.

"Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team’s entry onto the MAL premises, FBI leadership informed and coordinated with local United States Secret service (USSS) leadership.

Local USSS facilitated entry onto the premises, provided escort and access to various locations within, and posted USSS personnel in locations where the FBI team conducted searches," it read.

Ladybbird · 05-05-24, 15:39

TRUMP Flipped Out on Biden Gestapo in Profanity-Laden Speech Before Donors

TRUMP is Blaming Jack Smith For Evidence Tampering in Mar-a-Lago Docs

TRUMP at Risk of LOSING Voting Rights in Florida

MSNRAW 5 MAY 2024

Trump spent his Saturday afternoon swearing and fuming before a gathering of rich donors in Palm Beach while launching attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and also complaining about President Joe Biden's "Gestapo."

During a report on the donor retreat in Florida where the former president is hobnobbing with wealthy donors as he scrambles for campaign and legal fees cash, CNN's Alayna Treene claimed the former president went on a 90-minute tirade.

Speaking with hosts Victor Blackwell and Amara Walker, she reported, "Well it was a 90-minute speech that Donald Trump gave at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday and I'm told that it was a pretty profanity-laden speech. The former president cursed on occasion while railing against special counsel Jack Smith and as well as others who are leveling their criminal indictments against him."

Donald Trump recently accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of "evidence tampering" in connection with the criminal documents case in Florida, but the alleged issue stems from something the former president did, a New York Times reporter said Saturday.

Trump Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in the sunshine state, accusing Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped.

"It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs," he said before he alleged misconduct on behalf of the prosecutors.

"And you're right, at one point in the speech, Donald Trump had even compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo, further trying to equate them to Nazi Germany," she added. "Now, Donald Trump also used the speech to lavish praise on some of his vice presidential contenders, including many of them who actually called up to the stage."

According to NBC News, Trump raged, "These people are running a Gestapo administration. And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win in their opinion.”

“Once I got indicted, I said well, now the gloves have to come off,” Trump continued before stating Biden is “the worst president in the history of our country. He’s grossly incompetent.

He’s crooked as hell. He’s the Manchurian candidate, he accepts massive amounts of money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine and many other countries. He’s a crook.”

Ladybbird · 07-05-24, 05:19

Trump Facing Critical Deadline in Judge Cannons' Courtroom With Two of TRUMPs' Lawyers Deliberately ''Unavailable''

‘Escalating Tension’ in Judge Cannons’ Orders For TRUMPs' Classified Documents Case

MSNRAW 7 MAY 2024

With no extension order filed in the docket by Florida Judge Aileen Cannon in the Donald Trump obstruction of justice trial, lawyers for the embattled ex-president are under the gun to disclose expert witnesses and documents with national security implications by May 15.

Complicating matters, reports former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on her platform, is that two of Trump's primary lawyers are otherwise occupied.

As Vance notes, Trump and his co-defendants face the deadline to "file their disclosures of any expert witnesses they plan to use as well as notices under Section 5(a) of the Classified Information and Procedures Act (CIPA) of any classified discovery materials they intend to use at trial."

The timing of the filings is important because disclosure of the information must be handed over in order for the government review "to obtain rulings from the court and appeal if necessary to avoid a 'graymail' situation where defendants force the government to dismiss charges against them to avoid disclosure of classified information that would damage national security."

As such, Vance suggested there will be a "hotbed of activity" within Trump's legal team that finds itself shorthanded because key Trump lawyer Chris Kise filed a “Notice of Unavailability” last week stating that he won't be involved until May 14.

According to Vance, "It’s not clear how Kise’s unavailability applies to defendants who are represented separately."

Ladybbird · 08-05-24, 15:13

BUSTED: CROOKED Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts and NOT DISCLOSING...

--Aileen Cannon failed to disclose all-expenses-paid right-wing junkets in Montana

Judge Cannon INDEFINATELY Postpones TRUMPs' Classified Docs Trial... --Cannon shredded for giving Trump 'indefinite trial delay' with new actions

MSNRAW 8 MAY 2024

'Thin ice': Judge Cannon is 'headed for the most trouble she has faced'

The judge overseeing the former president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case lived it up at an all-expenses-paid retreat for right-wing federal jurists at a $1,000-a-night resort in Montana near Yellowstone National Park, reported Lucian K. Truscott IV for Salon.

"It's called the Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, and it’s where George Mason University sends gaggles of federal judges for a week-long 'colloquium' every year or so," wrote Truscott — all paid for by the Antonin Scalia Law School, named for the late justice who ironically died on a ranch getaway paid for by right-wing benefactors.

Topics at these conferences include "Woke Law!" and “Unprofitable Education: Student Loans, Higher Education Costs, and the Regulatory State” — which, Truscott noted, "rings what we might call a rather different bell after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last year."

The GMU department behind this program has received generous donations from Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society leader who helped Trump appoint numerous judges and is under investigation in D.C. for allegedly funneling nonprofit money into his for-profit consulting firm.

Cannon was a guest at these conferences in 2021 and 2022, Truscott wrote — however, she "failed to file the form known as a Privately Funded Seminar Disclosure Report, which lists whoever paid for the judge to attend the seminar, who the speakers were and what topics were discussed.

"The form is supposed to be posted on the website of every federal court within 30 days of the time a judge attending such an all-expenses-paid seminar.

"Cannon, however, somehow forgot to do so, so anyone who might be interested in learning who was paying for Cannon’s vacations and the nature of her judicial education would have been out of luck."

Cannon has become a constant point of controversy for a series of unusual decisions made in the Trump case that appear calculated to help the former president.

She tried to stop the FBI reviewing classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, later being smacked down by an all-Republican appellate panel, demanded special counsel Jack Smith hand over information to Trump that could expose witnesses to tampering, and is currently delaying the trial with no clear timeline for it moving ahead.

"I mean, 10 grand or so in first-class air travel and luxury accommodations and bottomless trips to the luxo-resort’s 'local produce' salad bar and steak pit might start to look like a bribe when you pay attention to what was actually being discussed between float trips down the Yellowstone and hikes through the mountains, don’t you think?" wrote Truscott

Judge Cannon INDEFINATELY Postpones TRUMPs' Classified Docs Trial..

The Judge presiding over Donald Trumps' criminal case in Florida — on charges that he hoarded classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate after his presidency — has indefinitely postponed the trial, once scheduled for May 20.

The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trumps attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July.

Cannon, a Trump appointee who took the bench in late 2020, indicated in the order that, before setting a new trial date, she intends to resolve the backlog of other issues in the case that have piled up on her plate.

Smith’s defenders have criticized Cannon for what they see as a plodding pace in resolving pretrial matters, and tensions between the special counsel and the judge have flared in recent months over a series of puzzling rulings that threatened to derail the case.

“[F]inalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified evidence] issues … would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions,” Cannon wrote in the five-page order.

That reshuffling further clouds the picture for Smith, who is also awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity that could determine whether his other case against Trump — charges in Washington D.C. for attempting to subvert the 2020 election — can move forward this year.....

In some circles, Cannon is commonly known as 'Trumps' Bitch'....

ALSO READ: ‘Morality does not exist for him’: Remembering Ted Cruz’s epic Trump rant

LIAR Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts

TRUMP Judge Postpones Documents Case 'Indefinitely,' but new legal calendar could backfire on Trump

Ladybbird · 17-05-24, 16:46

Inside Jack Smiths' BIG Gamble - Centuries Old Law

It Could be Smiths’ Last Chance at Saving Classified Docs Case

MSRAW 17 MAY 2024

Special counsel Jack Smith has one hail Mary chance at bypassing CROOKED Judge Aileen Cannon to get his classified documents case against Donald Trump tried before the election, an expert wrote.

And it's a rare move based on a centuries-old law.

A legal expert told Slate Smith could choose to file a writ of mandamus, an ancient rule that could allow him to skip Cannon and go straight to the court of appeals, asking it to force the judge to reverse her actions.

Slate reported it’s essentially a “slap on the wrist,” but it’s “rarely used because district court judges are typically given a lot of leeway to run their dockets and appellate courts are loath to get involved.”

But after a series of decisions experts have deemed questionable, most recently putting the trial on indefinite hold because of a backlog of legal motions, Smith may have no choice.

Trump is facing charges related to the illegal storage of multiple highly-classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Cannon was appointed to her seat by Trump.

“It seems there’s an appearance of home cooking, because [Trump] appointed Judge Cannon and she is very young and kind of inexperienced,” said legal appeals expert Glenn Danas.

“It seems like she’s going out of her way to afford the defendants an extraordinary amount of time and her own judicial resources to get every single thing that they want done in a way that seems unusual.”

Cannon has been accused of slow-walking the case, pushing back pretrial deadlines and taking her time in considering motions.

“That’s been a gift to Trump’s defense team, which wants to delay, delay, and delay some more in order to put off having any criminal trial before the November election — presumably because if Trump wins, he could ask his Department of Justice to drop Smith’s indictments against him,” Slate wrote.

The trial had been initially set to start next week.

The writ of mandamus is still a long shot though, the expert said.

“You have to make a case that if the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t jump in, you’re going to suffer some sort of harm that can’t be fixed later,” said Danas.

“It might be something like an invasion of privilege or maybe disqualification of counsel.” But, he added, “If I were working on this, I would file a writ of mandamus ASAP.’

Quote:

MANDAMUS

A writ of mandamus (/mænˈdeɪməs/; lit. ''we command'') is a judicial remedy in the English and American common law system consisting of a court order that commands a government official or entity to perform an act it is legally required to perform as part of its official duties, or to refrain from performing an act the law forbids it from doing.
Writs of mandamus are usually used in situations where a government official has failed to act as legally required or has taken a legally prohibited action. They cannot be issued to compel an authority to do something against the law. For example, it cannot be used to force a lower court to take a specific action on applications that have been made, but if the court refuses to rule one way or the other, then a mandamus can be used to order the court to rule on the applications.

Ladybbird · 23-05-24, 01:21

Tracking The Criminal Donald Trump

Sensitive Classified Documents Files Found in TRUMP Bedroom After NEW FBI Search

A newly unsealed filing in Trumps’ Florida classified documents criminal case shows that there were more classified documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago even after the FBI last searched Trumps’ property in 2023, confirming a scoop from the Guardians’ Hugo Lowell.

The Guardian 23 MAY 2024

The Guardian 23 MAY 2024

David Harbach, center, a key prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smiths' team, walks out of the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami

Defense attorneys representing former President Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, left, and Chris Kise, center, leave the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse after a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against Trump

A lawyer for Donald Trumps’ personal valet took aim at the conduct of prosecutors in the classified documents case in a heated hearing Wednesday, the first since a judge indefinitely postponed the trial.

Walt Nauta has pleaded not guilty

Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for Walt Nauta, said prosecutors had targeted his client for prosecution after he refused to cooperate against Trump in the investigation. Nauta was charged alongside Trump last year in a federal case accusing them of conspiring to conceal boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trumps estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The defense lawyer also said a prosecutor in the case had warned him earlier in the investigation that he needed to be careful or he would “mess up” his bid for a Washington, D.C., judgeship, a comment Woodward interpreted as designed to get him to pressure Nauta to assist the inquiry.

But David Harbach, a prosecutor with Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which brought the case, called Woodward’s allegations “garbage” and “fantasy.” He said the statements attributed to his colleague, Jay Bratt, had been taken out of context. Woodward said he would be willing to testify under oath about the exchange.

A judge has questioned how Donald Trump could have overlooked sensitive documents that turned up in his bedroom after the FBI searched the former US president’s Florida home.

The files were found in his private quarters months after federal agents discovered over 100 classified records as they executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in the summer of 2022.

The judge also noted the prosecution’s belief that Mr Trump was “likely instructing his agents to avoid the surveillance cameras” at the golf club.

He denies 40 federal charges of unlawful retention of national defence information.

His co-defendants, aide Walt Nauta and former employee Carlos de Oliveira, have also pleaded not guilty.

The trial is unlikely to begin before November's US election, in which Mr Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.

In the Trump case, a newly unsealed filing, external said the former president’s lawyers had turned over four additional documents with classification markings that were found in December 2022, four months after the FBI raid at the property.

US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in the March 2023 opinion: “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.”

After Mr Trump learned of this subpoena, prosecutors allege there was a “scramble" by Mr Nauta to change his travel plans and fly from New Jersey to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 to ensure boxes were moved “off-camera", according to the opinion unsealed on Tuesday.

The judge notes “the curious absence of any video footage” capturing the return of certain boxes to a storage room.

On Wednesday, Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee currently presiding over the case, was scheduled to hear arguments on the latest request by the former president to dismiss the indictment.

He argues it fails to clearly articulate a crime and instead amounts to “a personal and political attack” against him.

His co-accused, Mr Nauta, will also seek to have his case thrown out.

He argues it amounts to selective prosecution because he opted not to co-operate in the probe.

Mr Trump is facing dozens of other charges in three other criminal cases.

He is currently in trial in New York over an alleged cover-up of hush-money payments to an adult-film star in 2016.

Documents stored in Trumps' bedroom

Boxes of documents stored in a bathroom at Trumps' Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in early 2021

15 boxes removed from Palm Beach estate

The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but Cannon cancelled the trial date earlier this month.

Documents reveal FBI was authorised to use ‘deadly force’ in Trumps' Mar a Lago estate raid

Ladybbird · 23-05-24, 20:47

Jack Smith Hands Over 500 Pages Discovery Docs to TRUMP - and Jabs Cannon For Making Him Do It

Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former presidents' lawyers accused him "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show.

MSRAW 23 MAY 2024

In his letter to Florida federal court judge Aileen Cannon, Smith takes a stiff tone when he reports delivering 457 pages of discovery materials linked to Trumps accusations that the Justice department tampered with evidence.

"The Government’s position [is] that such production exceeds its current discovery obligations," Smith writes.

This measured remark stands in stark contrast to the letter from Trump's lead attorney Todd Blanche which spurred Thursday's massive document dump, court records show.

On May 4, Blanche accused Smith of "extraordinary breach of your constitutional and ethical obligations" regarding boxes of documents seized from Trump's social club Mar-a-Lago.

"We find your contentions to be self-serving and frivolous given your indefensible handling of the evidence at issue—you cannot seriously contend that your recent spoliation concession is irrelevant to President Trump’s pending pretrial motions," Blanche wrote.

In a further request for back-up from Cannon, dated May 6, Blanche sneered at Smith's "dismissive and condescending tone."

The subject of this tense legal battle is Smith's earlier admission that some documents were rearranged before they were scanned into the Justice department's system.

While Smith's team described the incident as an inconsistency, Blanche argued prosecutors were guilty of a "full-throated but now concededly false assertions of compliance with their discovery obligations."

This aligns with Trump's consistent messaging that the Justice Department is partaking in a political witch hunt to torpedo his 2024 presidential campaign.

Ladybbird · 27-05-24, 08:56

SMART Move: Legal Experts Say Jack Smiths' New Filing Will Highlight Judge Cannons' Bias

Jack Smith Asks Judge to BAR TRUMP From Making Statements That Endanger Law Enforcement

Special Counsel Jack Smiths' latest filing in the Florida classified documents case is carefully tailored to expose a jurist who has tipped the scales for defendant Donald Trump

MSRAW 27 MAY 2024

Smith on Friday asked Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the case, to gag Trump to prevent the former president from making further statements that could endanger law enforcement officers.

The filing is based on Trump's recent repetition of a false conspiracy theory that mischaracterized the search of his Mar-a-Lago golf club as an attempt to take his life.

But the filing is a trap for Cannon, who has been accused of slow-walking the ex-president's case such that the trial has been indefinitely postponed.

Roger Parloff, a senior editor at Lawfare, noted that the special counsel's new motion, seeking to halt the recent lies about an assassination attempt, "is crafted to highlight Judge Cannon's bias and hypocrisy if she fails to take action."

"The motion twice cites Cannon's order 'ECF 101' in which she, on her own, invoked her 'independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding' in order to probe a dubious defense allegation of a prosecutor's ethical breach," according to Parloff.

"Jack's new motion challenges Cannon to act on Trump's outlandish attacks on the FBI--which have already triggered an armed attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati--with a fraction of her solicitude for policing special counsel's ethics."

Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, hailed the move by Smith's team.

"Smart move by Smith as Judge Cannon won't be likely to grant the gag order, will show her patent bias, and Smith can then appeal to the 11th Circuit," he said Friday.

Ladybbird · 28-05-24, 17:14

Judge 'KID' Cannon Threatens to Sanction Jack Smith For Lack of Courtesy to Trumps' Team

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a request from special counsel Jack Smith to modify Donald Trumps bond conditions in his classified documents case. AND rejects request for gag order against Trump

MSRAW 28 MAY 2024

In a motion last week, Smith asked Cannon to modify the conditions to clarify that Trump cannot endanger law enforcement officials investigating his case.

"The Government moves to modify defendant Donald J. Trump's conditions of release, to make clear that he may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case," Smith's motion said.

Smith said Trump made statements "falsely suggesting that [the agents] were complicit in a plot to assassinate him" — referring to claims that agents were authorized to use "deadly force" when they went to Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents.

On Tuesday, Cannon denied the motion without prejudice "for lack of meaningful conferral" with the defense.

"The Court finds the Special Counsel's pro forma 'conferral' to be wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy. It should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise.

Sufficient time needs to be afforded to permit reasonable evaluation of the requested relief by opposing counsel and to allow for adequate follow-up discussion as necessary about the specific factual and legal basis underlying the motion," Cannon wrote.

"Any future, non-emergency motion brought in this case — whether on the topic of release conditions or anything else — shall not be filed absent meaningful, timely, and professional conferral," she warned.

"Failure to comply with these requirements may result in sanctions."

Ladybbird · 02-06-24, 08:35

Incompetently BAD: Judge Cannons' Latest Move Approaching This Level of Stupid

US. District Judge Aileen Cannons' latest move in Special Counsel Jack Smiths' Espionage Act prosecution of Donald Trump has legal experts throwing up their hands in disbelief.

MSRAW 2 JUN 2024

Back in February, Trumps legal team claimed Special Counsel Jack Smiths' appointment was unlawful, as is the method of funding his office and his investigations.

“Neither the Constitution nor Congress have created the office of the ‘Special Counsel,'” Trump’s attorneys wrote, CBS News had reported, “arguing the attorney general did not have the proper authority to name Smith to the job.”

“The authority he attempts to employ as Special Counsel far exceeds the power exercisable by a non-superior officer, the authority that Congress has not cloaked him with,” they claimed.

There are decades of precedence of Attorneys General appointing special counsels, special prosecutors, or independent counsels – possibly the most well-known being Ken Starr who investigated then-President Bill Clinton.

CBS News also noted that “Garland cited numerous laws and regulations that he and other attorneys general have said confer necessary authority onto the selected prosecutors.”

Issuing her latest edict, Judge Cannon, who likely has already delayed the trial until after the 2024 election, responded to the Trump legal team’s challenge of Smith’s appointment on Thursday.

“Judge Cannon is giving Trumps legal team and the government 12 days to tell her how the SCOTUS decision upholding the CFPB’s funding/appointment impacts Trump’s claim that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and funded…,” reports Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch, who covers the Justice Dept.

Constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis, mocking Judge Cannon’s order, wrote:

“Jack Smith,
You have 12 days to tell me how what Martha-Ann Alito ate for lunch on May 30, 2024 affects your appointment as special counsel.

Xoxo,
Judge Cannon”

He added, “We’re approaching this level of stupid,” and concluded, “Judge Cannon is incompetently bad.”

Ladybbird · 11-06-24, 06:09

CLOWN Judge Cannon in Classified Documents Trial Expunges Indictment Paragraph

TRUMP will not be charged for waving around classified papers, judge says

The Guardian 11 JUN 2024

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents agreed on Monday to expunge from the indictment a paragraph about an episode where the former president waved around a classified document at his Bedminster club in New Jersey.

The US district judge Aileen Cannon ruled she would strike the paragraph because Trump was not charged with a crime for the conduct it described and would be unfairly prejudicial if a jury later saw it at trial.

Cannon’s ruling is notable because it could indicate how she will rule on future motions by Trump to suppress evidence as he attempts to limit the scope of the evidence prosecutors can introduce against him – and thereby dramatically undercut the case.

The move to strike the paragraph was unusual, legal experts said.

Cannon ruled that the passage should be expunged relying in part on a federal rule that says evidence of “other crimes” cannot be used against a defendant to suggest bad character, without addressing the second part of that rule that allows it in the case that it shows proof of motive.

The prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, had argued that they included the passage precisely because it was allowed under the second part of the rule but Cannon took issue with the fact that Trump had not been charged for the conduct it described.

The passage in question – paragraph 36 – uses vague terms but describes Trump in 2021 waving around a classified map of Afghanistan while criticizing the US withdrawal to his now 2024 presidential campaign chief Susie Wiles, according to sources familiar with the matter.

“In August or September 2021, when he was no longer president, Tump met in his office at The Bedminster Club with a representative of his political action committee (the ‘PAC Representative’). During the meeting, Trump commented that an ongoing military operation was not going well,” the paragraph said.

“Trump showed the PAC Representative a classified map of Country B and told the PAC Representative that he should not be showing the map to the PAC Representative and to not get too close. The PAC Representative did not have a security clearance or any need-to-know classified information about the military operation.”

Cannon rips up court schedule in Mar-a-Lago case, benefitting Trump

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DOJ Files 'Bratty' New Motion in Response to Aileen Cannon:

Justice Department prosecutor Jay Bratt is being called a little "bratty" by legal analysts over his recent court filing in the classified documents case, commented legal experts Allison Gill and Andrew McCabe on the "Jack" podcast.

MSNRAW 11 JUN 2024

Bratt clashed with Judge Aileen Cannon last week when he filed a request to adjust the bail conditions of former President Donald Trump's release that were set as a condition of his release after his arrest for allegedly retaining top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.

In this particular case, Bratt argued that new restrictions on Trump's release were needed after he spread bogus conspiracy theories about the FBI supposedly being authorized to kill him, despite the fact that authorizations of deadly force are common in nearly all such search warrants.

"We learned that Trump's attorneys misquoted language the FBI uses on operations orders, which they must prepare before executing any search warrant," explained McCabe.

"Trump's attorneys said that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force when necessary," McCabe said. "When the ops order actually says, 'only when necessary' and 'only when the lives of officers or other people are in danger.'"

Trump then used that language to falsely claim that President Joe Biden was attempting to assassinate him.

The DOJ responded by filing this request to adjust the bail conditions. But in doing so, Bratt dodged a local rule demanding that prosecutors to "meet and confer" with Trump's team, which he did not do.

In response, Judge Aileen Cannon denied the motion and reprimanded Bratt for the procedural error.

This week, "Jay Bratt refiled his motion," Gill explained. "But I still think there might be some problems with this. First, he filed the exact same motion to modify bail conditions. The only thing he changed was the date because he said something like 'yesterday,' and it was May 28th, which is no longer 'yesterday.'"

Bratt also didn't add any declarations from FBI agents to the motion.

"And he didn't ask for an expedited briefing. He didn't file for emergency relief again," Gill continued. "And that move, just to refile the same thing again with your little meet and confer, at the end of it with your little meet and confer certificate, seemed like — it seemed bratty."

Both hosts chuckled at the double meaning.

"Well, it's definitely bratty because it's coming from Jay Bratt," McCabe quipped. "And, so, technically..."

Gill said that it wasn't exactly unprofessional but it was a "dig" at the judge, like saying "fine. Here. Uggh."

Ladybbird · 22-06-24, 09:36

TRUMP Asks 'His' Judge to Toss Out Lawyer Notes in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

Humiliating: Judge in Trump Doc Case Rebuked For Hearing Flimsy Arguments and Delaying Case

Judges’ handling of Trump documents case is highly unusual

The Guardian 22 JUN 2024

In-Experienced Judge Aileen Cannon in Trump classified documents case refused to step aside, even though she has only had experience in judging minor cases before this one

The first hearing on Trumps' request to dismiss his classified documents case. The unusual handling of the case by Judge Aileen Cannon, leads to criticism from a range of legal analysts.

If ex-president succeeds, prosecutors could be left with only a sliver of evidence for obstruction charge

Trumps’ legal team, led by Evan Corcoran

Donald Trump is to ask the federal judge presiding in the criminal case over his retention of classified documents to revoke prosecutors’ access to memos made by his ex-lawyer that became key evidence of his efforts to obstruct the investigation, according to sources familiar with the plans.

The request will be made before US district judge Aileen Cannon at a sealed hearing Tuesday. The former president last month challenged prosecutors’ access to transcripts of voice memos made by ex-lawyer Evan Corcoran, but what Trump will seek behind closed doors has not been reported.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that none of the memos should have been given to prosecutors on the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to see privileged communications between a defendant and a lawyer, if their legal advice was used in furtherance of a crime.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The sweeping request could have far-reaching consequences since the memos – with, for example, Trump asking whether they could ignore the subpoena, or a later suggestion to “pluck” out some classified documents instead of returning them to the FBI – are the strongest evidence of Trump’s obstructive intent.

Even if the judge excludes only some of the passages, it could dramatically undercut the strength of the obstruction case.

In the worst case for prosecutors, their evidence of Trump’s obstructive intent could be reduced to CCTV footage of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago by his co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, logs of Trump’s calls with Nauta, and testimony about Nauta’s movements.

Trump faces a struggle to get Cannon to overturn the initial ruling by the then chief US district judge Beryl Howell in Washington DC. But Cannon has previously ruled for Trump on evidentiary disputes, most recently removing a paragraph in the indictment about Trump waving around a classified map.

The obstruction part of the case centers on Trump’s incomplete compliance with an 11 May 2022 grand jury subpoena that demanded the return of any classified documents in his possession, months before the FBI seized 101 classified documents when it searched Mar-a-Lago.

The Corcoran memos – the contents of which were first reported by the Guardian last year – have played a major role in bolstering the charge that Trump conspired with Nauta and De Oliveira to play a “shell game” in hiding boxes of classified documents so Corcoran could not ensure their return.

Corcoran met with Trump on 23 May 2022, several weeks after he accepted service of the grand jury subpoena, to discuss complying with the order, including searching Mar-a-Lago and preparing a statement certifying that they had complied.

The indictment quoted the memos as saying Trump responded: “Well, what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” and “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” and “Well, look, isn’t it better if there are no documents?”

According to the memos, Trump confirmed that Corcoran would return to Mar-a-Lago the following week, on 2 June 2022, to search through boxes brought from the White House that were in the storage room, and again confirmed on 1 June 2022 that Corcoran was indeed returning the next day.

The indictment alleged that Trump, in the intervening period, directed Nauta and De Oliveira to move 64 boxes of documents to his residence from the storage room so he could go through them himself, but return only 30 boxes to the storage room, where Corcoran would do his search.

After Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room, his memos recount Trump asking him: “Did you find anything? ... Is it bad? Good?” and made a sort of plucking motion, suggesting “if there’s anything really bad in there, like, pluck it out”.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that the commentary in the memos, which prosecutors are likely to use at trial to show Trump’s obstructive state of mind, do not fall under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege and Howell erred in her decision to turn them over.

Trump’s lawyers will argue that Howell was overly broad in determining that more than 60 pages of transcripts fell under the crime-fraud exception, and that the instances of Trump asking whether he needed to comply with the subpoena are questions that every defendant asks to understand the full scope of their obligations, the sources said.

Trump’s lawyers are also expected to argue that none of the commentary – about Trump asking whether they needed to comply with the subpoena, or the plucking motion – satisfied the crime-fraud exception because it did not amount to Trump using Corcoran’s legal advice for a crime, the sources said.

The original thinking on Trump’s legal team was to concede that some of the memos could conceivably be subject to the crime-fraud exception, such as when Corcoran told Trump he would be searching the storage room, and Corcoran’s confirmation about when he intended to return to Mar-a-Lago.

Trumps lawyers have since rejected that approach, reasoning that any concession could give the judge an off-ramp to wholly deny their request, whereas asking for all the memos to be struck would be a stronger argument and lead the judge to strike even some of the memos.

Ladybbird · 24-06-24, 19:29

Jack Smith Probed TRUMPs' Mysterious Mar-a-Lago Trip That He Tried to Keep Quiet

Judge to weigh removing Jack Smith in Trump classified documents case

MSNRAW 24 JUN 2024

Special counsel Jack Smith investigated a mysterious trip that former President Donald Trump made to Mar-a-Lago in July of 2022, just weeks before the FBI would execute a search warrant to retrieve top-secret government documents he had stashed there.

ABC News reports that the trip raised suspicions among prosecutors because it came shortly after the government issued a subpoena in June of 2022 for Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage that would later be used as evidence that Trump tried to illegally obstruct government efforts to retrieve the documents.

The trip to Mar-a-Lago also appeared suspicious because it came at a time when the club was undergoing serious renovations.

Added to all that, reports ABC, "At least one witness who worked closely with the former president recalled being told at the time of the trip that Trump was there 'checking on the boxes,'" although this assertion was contradicted by other witnesses who said that Trump went to the resort to check on the status of the resort's renovations.

Regardless, messages obtained by Smith's team show that Trump aides were keen to keep the visit "secret" for unexplained reasons.

"On July 8, when one Trump Organization employee reached out to indicted co-conspirator Walt Nauta wanting to confirm rumors of a Trump visit so proper preparations could be made, Nauta made clear he wanted the trip to remain 'discreet,'" reports ABC News.

"The sources said Nauta sent a text message to the employee that included emojis with zippers over the mouth, which is often used to convey a secret."

Trump was indicted by Smith last year on charges of unlawfully retaining classified documents, including intelligence reports about a foreign nation's nuclear weapons program, and for trying to obstruct government efforts to retrieve the documents.

Judge to weigh removing Jack Smith in Trump classified documents case

Ladybbird · 25-06-24, 17:07

Shocking New Photos Reveal Chaotic Storage of MORE Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago

Special Counsel Jack Smith's latest filing shared new photos taken at Mar-a-Lago and showing classified documents Donald Trump is accused of taking from the White House strewn messily across a bathroom floor.

MSNRAW 25 JUN 2024

Trump is on trial in Florida for taking the documents, refusing to return them and attempting to obstruct the investigation into their removal.

"The photos you showed came from a motion overnight by [special counsel] Jack Smith that is not the subject of these hearings today, but maybe the subject of a future hearing about so-called spoilage, about whether the FBI essentially messed up that evidence such that it should be thrown out," NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said on MSNBC Tuesday,.

"It's a really strong motion by the special counsel arguing that that argument is ridiculous because these documents were pell-mell in Mar-a-Lago in boxes in no particular order and some of them already spilled out onto the bathroom floor before the FBI got there.

One photo appears to show stacked boxes in a closet that had toppled over, spilling out onto the floor. Above them hung what appeared to be dry-cleaning.

Others were stacked more neatly against the wall in plastic tubs and long boxes. Of that photo, national security expert Marcy Wheeler said, "This is a picture of where some of the documents charged against Trump were found. (3 were in the leatherbound box in his office, 10 were found in Box A-73, not shown in picture). Box with rectangle is where FVEY doc spilled in December 2021 was found."

FVEY stands for "The Five Eyes," which ensures that documents can be seen only by representatives of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In another location, where the carpet was the same as Trump's office, an open box sat on the floor next to what appeared to be momentos and two boxes of Diet Coke bottles.

Wheeler also noted that a nuclear weapons document was apparently found "stashed under bubble wrap and a Christmas pillow."

"And fully 10 of the documents charged were found under some bubble wrap and a Christmas pillow in this box, which would have been found in the storage room, perhaps on the opposing wall to the picture above," she said in a write-up Tuesday.

"That means that one of the documents stashed under the bubble wrap and the Christmas pillow, charged as Count 19, was classified Formerly Restricted under the Atomic Energy Act, meaning it pertains to U.S. nuclear weapons."

Ladybbird · 07-07-24, 06:21

Prosecutor Puts Judge Cannon on Notice She Could Be Removed If She Dumps TRUMP Espionage Docs Case

Florida Judge Aileen Cannon could be totally removed from the Trump Espionage Act case if she tries to dismiss it entirely in response to Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling, as TRUMP has requested

MSNRAW 7 JUL 2024

State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked about Cannon's handling of the case involving White House classified document retention and alleged obstruction of justice in response to attempts to get the records back.

Specifically the host asked if Aronberg expects Cannon to dismiss the case, as Trump has requested, in the wake of the high court's analysis on presidential immunity.

Aronberg replied that, "if Judge Cannon does try to dismiss charges against Donald Trump, she would be appealed to the 11th circuit, would probably be reversed and eventually removed from the case."

"She has got to tread carefully. Delay is her middle name. She will continue to slow walk this case, or continue to err on the side of delay and indulge the former president with every request," he added. "Yes, this decision by the Supreme Court on immunity would further delay the documents case, which is the strongest case against Donald Trump. This case was never going to be heard before the election, anyway."

The host asked, "What aspects of the Mar-a-Lago case do you anticipate being thrown out?"

"Well, I don't think anything in the Mar-a-Lago documents case will be thrown out. It should not be thrown out, because the behavior was after he left the white house," Aronberg said. "He has no more ability to keep documents after he leaves the White House, these classified documents, as he does to keep Air Force One."

The prosecutor continued:

"If you actually think about it like that, Trump's argument is, I was allowed to keep the document as a part of my core, constitutional functions. Therefore, I get immunity for keeping the documents after I leave the White House," he said on Saturday. "What if he stole Air Force One, he was allowed to use it after presidency. If he continued to use it after he left, he would be arrested for it.

His argument I think is ridiculous because it all took place after he left the Oval Office. Whether you're talking about the unlawful retention of the documents or the obstruction. I don't think he has a chance."

Ladybbird · 13-07-24, 10:20

Jack Smith Pushes Back Hard as Judge Cannon Weighs Theory He's Illegally Appointed in Federal Classified Documents Case

Special counsel Jack Smiths' team is pushing back as District Judge Aileen Cannon weighs a legal theory propounded by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that Smiths' appointment is unconstitutional.

MSNRAW 13 JUL 2024

Smith filed a rebuttal of this idea with Cannon, who is presiding over Donald Trumps' federal classified documents case in South Florida.

"Trumps’ notice ... refers to EVIL Justice Thomas’s concurrence addressing the Special Counsels’ authority to prosecute," wrote Smith.

"That single-Justice concurrence — addressing an issue that Trump did not raise (See Sup. Ct. Tr. 33-34), that the parties did not brief, and that was not relevant to the question presented to, or decided by, the Court — neither binds this Court nor provides a sound basis to deviate from the uniform conclusion of all courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a Special Counsel."

Moreover, Smith noted, even Thomas' concurrence acknowledges that the Supreme Court found the same laws the Justice Department relied on to appoint Smith "supported the appointment of the Special Prosecutor in United States v. Nixon," the landmark criminal investigation surrounding the Watergate scandal.

Cannon, a right-wing judge herself appointed by Trump, has come under repeated criticism for a series of moves that appear tilted to favor Trump in the case. She has already put the trial on indefinite hold, effectively making it impossible to take place before the November election, based on a number of unresolved pretrial disputes that she sat on for months with no action.

Legal experts watching the case have already warned that if Cannon finds a pretext to dismiss Trumps' case entirely, Smith can go to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and have her ejected from the case altogether.

For the time being, he has not made such a move, and appellate Chief Judge William Pryor, himself a hard-right conservative, has rebuffed certain outside parties' complaints about Cannons' conduct.

Ladybbird · 15-07-24, 17:22

Florida Judge Dismisses Criminal Classified Documents Case Against TRUMP

US district judge Aileen Cannon made ruling after hearing in which ex-president’s legal team urged her to drop charges

The Guardian 15 JUL 2024

Donald Trump’s criminal case on charges that he illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club was dismissed on Monday after the presiding judge sided with the former president and ruled that the special counsel who brought the prosecution had been improperly appointed.

Whether the 11th circuit overturns Cannon could be as significant as the ruling itself. If Cannon’s decision is reversed and a new federal judge takes control of the case, it could breathe new life into the case even if the case may not go to trial for years.

The stunning decision by Aileen Cannon, the US district judge appointed by Trump, found that the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel violated the US constitution as he had not been named to his post by the president or confirmed by the Senate.

Cannon effectively ruled that there was no statute that authorized a special counsel to bring charges in the Trump case, and previous court rulings – including by the US supreme court in the landmark Richard Nixon case – were not binding on her decision.

“Because Special Counsel Smith’s exercise of prosecutorial power has not been authorized by law, the court sees no way forward aside from dismissal of the superseding indictment,” Cannon wrote in the 93-page decision.

The ruling cast aside previous court decisions that upheld the use of special prosecutors stretching back to the Watergate era, and removed a major legal threat to Trump on the opening day of the Republican national convention, where he is set to accept the GOP nomination for president.

Prosecutors will almost certainly challenge the ruling at the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit, and could ask the appeals court to reassign the case to a different federal judge in Florida if Cannon’s decision is overturned.

Trump was indicted last year with retaining national security documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing the government’s attempts to retrieve, including by partially defying a grand jury subpoena ordering him to return any classified documents to the justice department. Trump had pleaded not guilty.

At issue is Trump’s argument that the special counsel position was not a position created by statute by the constitution, and therefore any actions he took with that prosecutorial power were not authorized by law.

Prosecutors contended in response that the judge did not need to consider whether to toss the indictment since Smith was an “officer”, deputized by the attorney general to prosecute the case as allowed under the appointments clause of the constitution.

The judge sided with Trump’s position. Cannon found that the appointments clause did not allow Garland to appoint a prosecutor effectively working as something tantamount to a US attorney, a job that requires Senate confirmation, and the only remedy was to dismiss the indictment.

“All actions that flowed from his defective appointment including his seeking of the Superseding Indictment on which this proceeding currently hinges were unlawful exercises of executive power,” Cannon wrote.

“Because Special Counsel Smith ‘cannot wield executive power except as article II provides,’ his attempts to do so are void and must be unwound. Defendants advance this very argument: ‘any actions taken by Smith are ultra vires ... And the court sees no alternative course to cure the unconstitutional problem.’”

Prosecutors had argued that they were funded by the justice department’s budget, through a mechanism called the “indefinite appropriation”, which was allowed because the special counsel was authorized under the appointments clause.

But Cannon took her reasoning to its logical end to find that if Smith’s appointment was invalid, then prosecutors could not rely on the appointment to justify using the “indefinite appropriation”.

“Both sides agree that ‘other law,’ for present purposes, is the collection of statutes cited in the Appointment Order. For all of the reasons the Court found no statutory authority for the appointment, Special Counsel Smith’s investigation has unlawfully drawn funds,” Cannon wrote.

Ladybbird · 18-07-24, 05:28

Jack Smith Officially Challenges CORRUPT Judge Cannons' Dismissal of TRUMP Classified Document Case

Special Counsel Jack Smith Wednesday filed his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit after Florida federal court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed his classified documents case against Donald Trump

MSNRAW 18 JUL 2024

This move comes just two days after Cannon tossed the Espionage Acts violations case against Trump on the grounds that Smith was not properly appointed as special counsel.

Trump stood accused of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida social club Mar-a-Lago in boxes stacked haphazardly in a ballroom, bathroom and shower, among other places.

Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been long criticized for showing deference to Trump. Her ruling Monday spurred hopes that the case could be transferred to another judge.

This was one of four criminal cases brought against Trump, convicted in Manhattan of falsifying business records earlier this year.

He also faces election racketeering and interference charges in Georgia and Washington, D.C.

Ladybbird · 17-08-24, 13:59

TRUMP Plans to Sue DOJ Over Mar-a-Lago Classified Docs Search –For $100MIL

TRUMPs' Revenge Cites CORRUPT Judge Cannon in Seeking Compensation For Mar-a-Lago Raid

The Guardian 17 AUG 2024

Trump to sue justice department over ‘improper purpose’ to Mar-a-Lago raid, he seeks $100m after alleging the 2022 sweep resulting in now-dismissed documents case was political persecution

Donald Trump Lawyers are set to sue the US justice department over the 2022 federal raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that turned up classified documents hidden in unsecured locations around the expansive villa and resort.

Lawyers for the former US president told Fox Business that the raid, conducted as part of an FBI investigation into Trump’s alleged improper retention of classified records, was done with “clear intent to engage in political persecution” and they would seek $100m in damages.

The investigation produced 37 felony counts – 31 pertaining to the willful retention of national defense information – against Trump. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts. The charges were dismissed last month after the presiding judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the case, had been illegally appointed and funded.

The Trump attorney Daniel Epstein told the outlet that Trump was not standing up for himself but “standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you”

Epstein said that there was “clear evidence” that the FBI failed to follow protocol and that showed that there was an “improper purpose”.

In the filing of intent to sue, Epstein wrote that decisions made by attorney general Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray were not grounded in “social, economic and political policy” but instead in “clear dereliction of constitutional principles, inconsistent standards as applied to” Trump and a “clear intent to engage in political persecution – not to advance good law enforcement practices”.

The government has 180 days to respond to the notice, after which the case could move to federal court in the southern district of Florida.

In dealing with legal issues on multiple fronts, Trump and his legal team have repeatedly sought to pursue a tactic of delaying them – especially until after November’s presidential election. Filing suits and countersuits is a key part of that strategy.

Ladybbird · 27-08-24, 06:31

Jack Smith Appeals CROOKED Judge Cannons' Improper Dismissal of Trumps' Classified Documents Case

Special counsel Jack Smith appeals ruling tossing Trumps' classified documents case

AP 27 AUG 2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith just filed an appeal with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging them to REVERSE Judge Aileen Cannons' dismissal of Trumps' classified documents/obstruction of justice/espionage case.

Jack Smith made clear that Cannons' dismissal has no legal support and is contrary to all precedent, including precedent form the Supreme Court dating back to the Nixon/Watergate era.

As Smith writes, Judge Cannons' dismissal of Trumps' case "conflicts with an otherwise unbroken course of decisions, including by the Supreme Court, that the Attorney General has such authority, and it is at odds with widespread and longstanding appointment practices in the Department of Justice and across the government.

Special Counsel Jack Smith says U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon was wrong when she dismissed the case last month against former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified and top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

In a brief filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Smith says Judge Cannon was also mistaken in ruling that the process used to appoint the Special Counsel was unconstitutional.

Smith is appealing Cannon?s ruling, asking the 11th Circuit Court to reverse her order to dismiss the case and send it back ?for further proceedings.? In his brief, the Special Counsel does not ask the court to remove the Trump-appointed judge from the case.

Even before her dismissal, Cannon was criticized by legal observers for delays and rulings that favored Trump. If the Appeals court reverses her ruling, many legal observers believe it may also ask Cannon to recuse herself from the case.

In her ruling last month, Judge Cannon said that Attorney General Merrick Garland exceeded his constitutional authority in appointing a prosecutor who was not subject to Congressional approval.

?The Special Counsel?s position effectively usurps that important legislative authority,? she wrote, ?threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers.?

Cannon?s opinion runs counter to decades of rulings by other federal courts upholding the constitutionality of the Special Counsel?s office.

In her analysis, Cannon examined an important 1974 Watergate-era Supreme Court opinion. Cannon determined that the Justice?s ?passing remarks? are not ?binding precedent on future cases.? But in his brief Smith says, ?The district court erred.?

In that case, Smith says the Supreme Court held ?the Attorney General has statutory authority?to appoint a special prosecutor comparable to the Special Counsel.?

Smith lists four statutes passed by Congress that authorize the appointment and funding of the Special Counsel?s office.

?Precedent and history confirm those authorities,? Smith writes, ?as do the long tradition of special-counsel appointments by Attorneys General and Congress? endorsement of the practice.?

Special Counsels have been appointed by Attorneys? General for more than 150 years, Smith points out, and were used after the Civil War to prosecute Jefferson Davis for treason and a conspirator involved in the assassination of President Lincoln.

This Court should reverse."Trumps lawyers have 30 days to file their reply to Smiths brief. Smith is asking the 11th Circuit to schedule oral arguments, saying he believes they ?would assist the Court?s decisional process in this case of significant public importance.?

Ladybbird · 26-09-24, 15:34

'It Made Me Angry': Melania Trump Complains to Fox News That DOJ Went Through Her Stuff'

Melania Trump is "angry" the Justice Department searching through her belongings as agents acted on a search warrant in the criminal document retention case against her husband, she said in a Fox News interview.

MSNRAW 26 SEP 2024

In an interview released piece by piece early Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, Donald Trump's wife spoke out about everything from inflation to the assassination attempts against her husbands life.

She has in the past been criticized for her failure to campaign alongside Trump, or even appear with him at his many criminal hearings.

The interviewer asked the former first lady about the raid on Mar-a-Lago, asking, "How invasive was that? Did it make you angry?"

"Yeah, it made me angry, yeah," Melania says. "Invasion of privacy and the way it was done was - I was really surprised."

The host asks what the house looked like after it had been raided, to which the ex-first lady replied, "I saw unpleasant stuff that nobody wants to see it."

"And you get angry because nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff," she added. "Some person, I don't even know who or how many people, they went through my stuff."

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Melania Trump

Born: April 26, 1970 (age 54), Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Net worth: $50 Million(celebritynetworth.com)
Height: 5'11" (1.80m)
Spouse: Donald Trump(m 2005 - present)
Children: Barron Trump
Parents: Viktor Knavs, Amalija Knavs

Melania Trump May Be Republishing Her Nude Photos

Ladybbird · 24-10-24, 05:32

Judge Aileen Cannon, Who Tossed Classified Docs Case, Proposed Candidate For Trumps Attorney General

Motion To Remove Judge Cannon From ANOTHER Trump-Related Case FILED

AP 24 OCT 2024

A retired federal judge says Judge Cannon appears to show 'favoritism' toward Trump

A proposed personnel roster circulating and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trumps classified documents case, as candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News.

Cannons name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled "Transition Planning: Legal Principals," which lists potential staffing for the White House counsels office, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and U.S. attorneys' offices, as well as proposed candidates for the top legal positions within multiple government agencies, should Trump be re-elected.

Legal Experts Want Judge Cannon Removed From Trumps Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

- Motion To Remove Judge Cannon From Trump-Related Case -Ryan Routh -Who Planned to Assassinate Donald Trump

A retired federal judge is among those asking an appeals court to reassign former President Trumps indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents case to a new judge.

Special counsel Jack Smith has appealed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's decision when she dismissed the case last month against former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified and top-secret documents at his Florida home in Mar-a-Lago.

In documents filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, two groups of legal experts and former government officials say U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon should be removed from the case.

Former federal judge Nancy Gertner and two legal scholars, Stephen Gillers and James Sample say rulings by Judge Cannon and her numerous delays have raised well-founded concerns that she may be biased against the Government?s case and unable to manage that case impartially. They?re seeking permission to file an amicus brief.

Many of us have waited a very long time for Special Counsel Jack Smith to file a motion to remove Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon from presiding over Trump's criminal case in Florida. Unfortunately, Judge Cannon dismissed the case before Smith ever got around to filing a recusal motion.

Then, the defendant who allegedly planned to assassinate Donald Trump - defendant Ryan Routh - was arrested and Judge Cannon was assigned to Routh's case, in which Trump is the victim.

Now, Rouths attorney has filed a motion to remove Cannon from presiding over Rouths case given Cannons unusually close relationship to Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK14YIfCEAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3QFcNNcO7I

Trumps Legacy And How He Changed America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1uOlT1PMU

Ladybbird · 01-01-25, 11:33

CLEVER Jack Smith Hands Mar-a-Lago Docs Case to Florida Prosecutors

Special counsel Jack Smith has shifted the Mar-a-Lago documents case to federal prosecutors in Florida, signaling a new phase in the ongoing legal proceedings involving Trumps co-defendants, The Hill reported.

AP 1 JAN 2025

Smith formally transferred responsibility for the Mar-a-Lago documents case to the Southern District of Florida federal prosecutors on Friday.

This decision is pivotal in prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump's co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira.

Smith dropped all charges against Trump in November, citing Justice Department guidelines that prohibit prosecuting a sitting president.

The charges, dismissed without prejudice, swiftly resolved Trumps election interference case and concluded his involvement in the Mar-a-Lago documents matter.

However, the legal troubles for Nauta, Trumps personal valet, and de Oliveira, a Mar-a-Lago property manager, remain unresolved. Both men face serious allegations, including obstruction of justice, making false statements to investigators, and concealing government documents.

The charges stem from accusations that the pair participated in a broader conspiracy to hide boxes of thousands of records from federal investigators and Trump's then-attorney. These records included approximately 300 documents bearing classified markings.

Investigators allege that the documents were improperly taken from the White House at the end of Trumps presidency and not returned to the National Archives as required by law.

As usual the REAL thief gets away with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GWmC6yng_U

Ladybbird · 11-01-25, 16:59

CORRUPT Judge Aileen Cannon ORDERS Merrick Garland NOT TO RELEASE Jack Smith Report About TRUMPs Crimes, After TRUMP Asked Her To

Key Trump Cabinet Nominee Could Be Implicated in Final Jack Smith Report

MSNRAW 11 JAN 2025

Former FBI general counsel urged the release of special counsel Jack Smiths final report on his investigation into Donald Trump stealing government documents and suggesed it could contain interesting details that could have a bearing on one of his Cabinet picks.

Speaking with the hosts, Andrew Weissmann explained that he was interested in seeing what Smith found which could have a bearing on the nomination of Kash Patel to be the next FBI director.

Basically on Monday, unless things change, the temporary stay that Judge [Aileen] Cannon issued is over, he began. She shouldn't have even issued that with respect to either part of the report, but certainly the January 6th part is not a case thats in front of her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPyDZmiv50A

Judge Aileen Cannon Orders Merrick Garland NOT TO RELEASE Jack Smith Report About Trumps Crimes

Did Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon abuse her judicial discretion yet again in favor of Donald Trump? Judge Cannon no longer presides over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, as the case is now in the exclusive jurisdiction of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Apparently undeterred by her lack of jurisdiction over the documents case, The New York Times just reported that;

'Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsels Final Report on Trump'

Will this act turn out to be the third time Judge Cannon abuses her judicial discretion to the benefit of Trump?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXd9GZgI_pg

Prosecutors Tell Court AG Garland WILL RELEASE Vol. 1 of Smiths Report Re: Trumps Election Crimes

Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order prohibiting Attorney General Merrick Garland from publicly releasing any of Special Counsel Jack Smiths final report documenting the federal crimes for which Donald Trump was indicted.

Federal prosecutors responded by telling the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that AG Garland WILL publicly release Volume 1 of Smith's report - documenting Trumps crimes in connection with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election - but will not publicly release Volume 2 - detailing Trumps classified documents/obstruction of justice/espionage crimes - because release Vol. 2 could prejudice the future trials of Trumps co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

This video reviews the prosecutions new court filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lYYMJhLglA
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Ladybbird · 13-01-25, 09:11

Reports That Exhausted Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Resigned From DOJ Due to Continuing Threats From Trump And Before He Takes Office

Special counsel Jack Smith, who spearheaded multiple criminal cases against Donald Trump, has reportedly resigned from the Department of Justice.

The special counsels departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to US District Judge Aileen Cannon.

MSNRAW 13 JAN 2025

Word of Smiths departure came in a footnote to a court filing Justice Department officials submitted to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon Saturday afternoon, urging her not to extend a court order she issued last week temporarily blocking the release of the final report Smith submitted to department leaders on Tuesday.

DIRTY BUSINESS
Lawless Judge Cannon Scorched For Saturday Attempt to Bail Trump Out

District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon once again tried to throw Donald Trump a lifeline late Saturday with another demand for the Department of Justice in an effort to keep a damaging Jack Smith report from being released.

MSNBC, Greenberg expressed exasperation with the Trump-appointed jurist and ripped into her with the prosecutor labeling her an attention seeker, and Michael Steele calling her in the tank for the man who handed her a lifetime appointment.

So what is she doing? She's to be able to make sure to punt this until he, Trump can come in and try and bury it ?? hopefully the 11th circuit stops it.

Justice Department officials say Cannons order overstepped her authority and that she has no power to block Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing Smiths findings. Her ban on disclosure of Smiths report currently runs through Monday.

Garland has said he plans to release publicly only the portion of Smiths report that covers his investigation into Trumps effort to subvert the 2020 election.

The attorney general has said in court filings that he agreed with a recommendation from Smith to keep the other volume ? which addresses the probe into Trumps possession of a raft of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office in 2021 ? under wraps due to prosecutors ongoing efforts to revive a criminal case against two Trump allies and former co-defendants.

Instead, Garland intends only to show that report to a handful of members of Congress.

Smiths resignation before the end of President Joe Bidens term was widely expected and foreshadowed by other Justice Department officials.

Crooked Trump has repeatedly urged that Smith be prosecuted for his handling of the Trump cases and has even suggested that he be thrown out of the United States.
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Ladybbird · 14-01-25, 08:54

TRUMP Would Have Been CONVICTED of Election Interference, Jack Smith Report Says

Smith is Deranged And His Findings Are Fake, Trump Said After The Report Was Released

BBC 14 JAN 2025

Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election - which he lost - if he had not successfully been re-elected in 2024, according to a Department of Justice report released to Congress.

The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial, the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith said.

Trump was accused of pressurising officials to reverse the 2020 result, knowingly spreading lies about election fraud and seeking to exploit the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. He denied any wrongdoing.

Trump, who was president at the time of the alleged crimes, subsequently spent four years out of office - but was successfully re-elected to the White House in November. He will return to the presidency next week.

After his success in the 2024 vote, the various legal issues that he had been battling have largely evaporated.

Although Jack Smith - the special counsel who investigated him in this and one other case - has resigned from his post ahead of Trump's return, the path was cleared by a judge for the first part of his report to be released.

The 137-page document was sent to Congress after midnight on Tuesday.

The judge, Aileen Cannon, ordered a hearing later in the week on whether to release the second part of the report - which focuses on separate allegations that Trump illegally kept classified government documents at his home in Florida.

Posting on his Truth Social website, Trump maintained his innocence, taunting Smith by writing that the prosecutor was unable to get his case tried before the election, which I won in a landslide

Trump added: THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!

Smith was appointed in 2022 to oversee the US government investigations into Trump. Special counsels are chosen by the Department of Justice (DoJ) in cases where there is a potential conflict of interest.

In the interference case, Trump was accused of conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.

These are detailed by Smith in his report, which accuses Trump of unprecedented efforts to unlawfully retain power through a variety of methods, including threats and encouragement of violence against his perceived opponents

Both this case and the separate classified documents case resulted in criminal charges against Trump, who pleaded not guilty and sought to cast the prosecutions as politically motivated.

But Smith closed the cases after Trumps election in November, in accordance with DoJ regulations that forbid the prosecution of a sitting president.

The report explains: It has long been the departments interpretation that the [US] Constitution forbids the federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting president, but the election results raised for the first time the question of the lawful course when a private citizen who has already been indicted is then elected president.

But the document goes on to say: But for Mr Trumps election [in 2024] and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.

There has been a legal back-and-forth over the material related to the cases.

Last week, on instruction from Trump, CORRUPT Judge Cannon put a temporary stop on releasing the whole Smith report, over concerns that it could affect the cases of two Trump associates charged with him in the classified documents case.

Walt Nauta, Trumps personal aide, and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, are accused of helping Trump hide the documents.

Unlike Trumps, their cases are still pending ? and their lawyers argued that the release of Smiths report could prejudice a future jury and trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hp_1mW6XrU

Donald Trump - Convicted Felon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0JB1mGQ6A
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Ladybbird · 14-01-25, 12:16

UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST:

Trumps Executive Orders are So Dangerous Even the GOP Compared Them To WAR CRIMES!

Arizona AG Wants Jack Smiths ENTIRE FILE on Donald Trumps 2020 Election Subversion Crimes

Glenn Kirschner FED Prosecutor 14 JAN 2025

GOP Senators promise shock and awe when Trump unleashes his first executive orders next week.

Trump is planning to issue 100 executive orders on his first day in office. Shock and Awe is reference to the opening bombardment of the Iraq war, that many describe as a war crime leaving Americans to wonder what Trump has in store?

In a second development, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mays formally requested that the Department of Justice provide Special Counsel Jack Smiths ENTIRE FILE on Trumps election crimes so that evidence can be used in the Arizona state prosecution of Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and the other defendants indicted for trying to undermine the 2020 election results in Arizona.

Notably, in the Arizona prosecution, Trump is designated unindicted co-conspirator 1. Given that the evidence against one co-conspirator is admissible against all co-conspirators, courtesy of the doctrine of co-conspirator liability

When the Arizona case goes to trial in January of 2026, Americans should get to see the evidence of Trumps 2020 election subversion crimes as they pertain to the Arizona charges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYJcJAnbQTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oJWKTbJjI
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23-05-23, 06:20	#1
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Supreme Court SLUG Clarence Thomas Could UNDO Voting Rights Protections Ex-TRUMP Attorney Explains Why He Left Trumps' Legal Team Former Presidents’ Attorney QUITS and Reveals Infighting Among His Legal Team Ex-Prosecutor: Former TRUMP Lawyer May be “Waving Red Flag” at DOJ That He Wants to Testify Ex-Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore is effectively pointing the finger at Trump attorney Boris Ephsteyn BBC 23 MAY 2023 Timothy Parlatore, A top attorney to former President Donald Trump is leaving his legal defence effort, and blaming Trump’s top aide Boris Epshteyn for supposedly being dishonest and unforthcoming in his work to assist the ex-president’s lawyers with his defence against an investigation into whether he retained classified documents illegally. His exit comes as the National Archives announced it found a trove of records proving that Donald Trump and his advisors knew they were breaking rules by taking those classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, according to a report. The agency sent a letter, obtained by CNN, to Mr Trump this week revealing it had found 16 records showing he and his top advisers were aware of the correct declassification process when he was president. “The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records,” wrote archivist Debra Steidel Wall. These records will be turned over to Special Counsel Jack Smith as part of the criminal investigation into Mr Trump’s handling of classified documents. Key Points ‘Ron’s magic is GONE!’: Trump floods Truth Social with negative DeSantis posts Trump lawyer exits legal team as Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe heats up Trump takes ‘credit’ for overturning of Roe v Wade and questions DeSantis’s six-week ban Florida governor expected to enter US presidential race next week Trump lashes out at DC ‘**roaches’ following release of Durham report An attorney working Donald Trump’s legal team has quit, citing in-fighting among the former president’s inner circle. In an interview with CNN on Saturday, Timothy Parlatore explained that the reason for his departure was ongoing friction with Boris Epshteyn, another legal adviser to Mr Trump. Mr Epshteyn, according to Mr Parlatore, has been stonewalling the legal team in their attempts to ascertain whether all presidential records that Mr Trump took with him when he left the White House had been turned over to the National Archives. One of Donald Trump’s attorneys, Timothy Parlatore, has departed the former president’s legal team and in a statement Saturday accused a top adviser to Mr Trump of being dishonest. In an interview with CNN, he said that Mr Trump’s aide Boris Epshteyn was stonewalling members of the legal team and preventing them from adequately defending the former president against an investigation into whether he illegally retained classified documents. “The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be,” said Mr Parlatore on Saturday. “There is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us, to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president.” NASTY TRUMP CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump proved so divisive that even its own staff have taken issue with the event - with Christiane Amanpour the latest of the network’s high-profile names to voice their dissatisfaction. The New Hampshire event drew 3.3 million viewers, who watched as the former president sparred with CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins, whom Trump referred to as a “nasty person”. Speaking in an address to Columbia Journalism School on Wednesday, Amanpour said if she were Collins, she would have “dropped the mic” as soon as Trump called her nasty, adding that she had spoken with the network’s CEO Chris Licht and told him the ex-president should not have been able “to appear in that particular format”. __________________ 6000 PLUS Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

03-06-23, 06:47	#2
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: MORE FED Doc Charges Loom For TRUMP + Corruption & Bribery to Overturn Election TRUMP Attorneys Haven’t Found Classified Document Referred to on Tape Prosecutors Find Other TRUMP Tapes About Classified Document He Kept TRUMP says ‘I’m at least as innocent as he is’ after Pence won’t face charges on classified documents BBC 3 JUNE 2023 Former President Trump took a shot at Fox News on Friday, offering another rebuke of the cable news network over its coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his top GOP rival. “FOX should embrace MAGA,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Friday afternoon, claiming the network was taking a big hit in viewership “because the very smart, even brilliant, Magadonians know that, despite all the fake lip service, FoxNews is pushing Ron DeSanctus, or anyone else for that matter, because they hate the greatest ‘america first’ president to ever put on a suit and tie, me.” “They are all globalists, and globalists will never, Make America Great Again!” the former president added. Fox has for years consistently ranked as the top-rated cable news channel, though it has experienced a significant dip in its ratings during the 8 p.m. hour specifically after ousting popular pundit Tucker Carlson, a move that reportedly angered Trump and other members of his inner circle. The outlet nonetheless airs several of the top programs on cable, such as “The Five” and “Gutfeld,” which often feature plenty of pro-Trump commentary. Sean Hannity, one of Fox’s top prime-time hosts and a longtime personal friend of Trump, hosted a town hall-style event with the former president Thursday evening, an event Trump used to bash his critics and promote his talking points. Trump has been railing against Fox for weeks over its coverage of DeSantis, who raised eyebrows in media and political circles with a decision to make his 2024 campaign launch announcement via a Twitter Spaces event rather than with a traditional rally or media appearance. Fox, on the night of the DeSantis event, panned the glitch-laden rollout hours before the Florida governor made an appearance on the network to tout his candidacy. The relationship between Trump and Fox is one that will be closely watched by media and political observers in the coming weeks, particularly as it relates to the upcoming Republican primary debates, broadcasting rights to the widely watched events and whether Trump will participate. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

09-06-23, 11:43	#3
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Lies Obstruction Conspiracy Mar-a-Lago: FEDS Indict TRUMP- in CRIMINAL Court Tuesday Lies Obstruction Conspiracy: TRUMP Indicted in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case TRUMP Charged With Illegal Retention of Classified Documents - It is The Second Indictment of Trump and The First EVER Federal Indictment of a Former President. Trump Faces 100-Year Jail Sentence as He Declares ‘I am Innocent ’ The charges include conspiracy, false statements and illegally retaining classified documents. Ex-president is being prosecuted for violating Espionage Act and obstruction over documents held at Mar-a-Lago and has been summoned to court next week BBC 9 JUNE 2023 The latest charges could prove to be the most significant legal peril yet for the former president He has been indicted on seven charges—including a violation under the Espionage Act—for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago long after he left the White House, his lawyer said on Thursday night. Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump over his retention of national security documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, a historic development that poses the most significant legal peril yet for the former president. The exact nature of the indictment, filed in federal district court in Miami, is unclear because it remains under seal and the justice department had no immediate comment. Trump confirmed the indictment on his Truth Social social media platform on Thursday afternoon, shortly after his lawyers received an email from prosecutors in the office of special counsel Jack Smith that outlined the charges and summoned the former president to surrender himself to authorities in Miami next Tuesday. Georgia Prosecutor Wants to Nail Trump for Election Phone Call A Georgia judge on Thursday released excerpts of a grand jury report on former U.S. President Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state by bribery What is the Trump Mar-a-Lago case about and why is it significant The charges listed in the summons included: wilful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing a document in a federal investigation, engaging in a scheme to conceal and false statements, people familiar with the matter said. Trump lawyer Jim Trusty confirmed in an appearance on CNN that prosecutors had listed seven charges on the summons paper. Trusty said he had not seen a copy of the indictment but added he was hopeful that it might be unsealed before Trump makes his initial appearance in court. From his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, Trump lashed out at the indictment in a series of posts on Truth Social. “I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States,” Trump said, adding: “I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!” This undated image released by the US Department of Justice shows documents allegedly seized at Mar-a-Lago spread over a carpet The former president was said to be resigned to the fact that he would probably be indicted after prosecutors impaneled a new grand jury in Florida to take evidence in the case last month, which his advisers saw as a sign that the case had been moved from Washington for its final stages. But even though Trump’s lawyers were told last week that the former president had been designated a “target” in the criminal investigation – the clearest indication that charges were forthcoming – the news of the indictment appears to have taken Trump and his inner circle by surprise. Trump spent the early part of the evening calling allies on Capitol Hill to rally support and watching who was defending him on cable news, a person close to the former president said. He then went for dinner at the golf club and played DJ, selecting songs to play over its loudspeakers. The former president’s team also later released a short video, recorded a day beforehand, in which he again proclaimed his innocence. In Washington, the House speaker Kevin McCarthy called the charges a “dark day” in a post on Twitter that falsely suggested the Biden administration, rather than a grand jury, had returned the indictment. “House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable,” he added. Criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago documents case deepen the legal peril for Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, after he was indicted earlier this year on state charges in New York by the Manhattan district attorney over his role in hush-money payments to an adult film star. Trump also remains under criminal investigation for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. For more than a year, prosecutors have examined whether Trump knowingly retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after he left office and took steps to conceal the materials after the justice department issued a subpoena for their return. The criminal investigation started last February when the National Archives issued a referral to the justice department after discovering more than 100 classified documents mixed with presidential records in 15 boxes that Trump returned. When the justice department reviewed the classified documents, people familiar with the investigation said, top officials in the national security division were alarmed to find that some of the materials amounted to national defense information that is controlled by the Espionage Act. The issue was the sheer volume and the sensitivity of classified materials in the boxes. According to an estimate provided to Trump’s lawyers at the time, the 15 boxes included over 100 documents – more than 700 pages – that had the potential to implicate national security. The discovery presented a problem for the department because Trump was no longer authorized to retain such documents once he left office and officials grew concerned that Trump might be in possession of further classified documents that were also national security materials. The espionage investigation has been focused on whether Trump showed off national security materials in his office at Mar-a-Lago, and has questioned multiple witnesses about whether Trump waved around classified documents he had kept when no longer authorised to after he left office. Prosecutors have also asked witnesses about documents concerning potential US military action against Iran, after Trump referenced such a document in a meeting at Bedminster in July 2021 where he said he could not show a certain document because he did not declassify it when president. To that end, prosecutors have shown an Iran document to some witnesses who appeared before the Washington grand jury and asked whether they had ever been shown the material by Trump or anyone else. It was not clear whether any witness confirmed seeing the document, one of the people said. The investigation into the obstruction, meanwhile, has focused on whether the failure by Trump to fully comply with the subpoena last year was a deliberate act of obstruction because he wanted to retain the classified documents even after he had left office, the people said. Last June, the since-recused Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room at Mar-a-Lago and told the justice department that no further materials remained there – which came into question when the FBI seized 101 more classified documents months later. Corcoran later told associates he felt misled because he had asked whether he should search elsewhere at Mar-a-Lago, such as Trump’s office, but was waved off, the Guardian first reported. Corcoran’s notes also showed he told Trump he had to return all classified documents in his possession. *THE END IS NIGH...* Trumps’ REVENGE PLOT Full Special Report Jack Smith CONFRONTS Trumps’ Lawyers and IT GETS REAL Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel to oversee Trump investigations __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

09-06-23, 12:20	#4
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: Lies Obstruction Conspiracy Mar-a-Lago: FEDS Indict TRUMP- in CRIMINAL Court Tues Could Donald TRUMP Go to Prison Over Secret Files? Former W.H. Lawyer Predicts Trump Will Go to Jail Former US President Donald Trump has been criminally charged for the second time in three months. BBC 9 JUNE 2023 This time, the subject is his handling of classified files after he left the White House. Thousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 marked as classified. Legal experts say that Mr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, could face prison if convicted of mishandling the documents, or of obstructing the investigation into whether he did. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and said he "never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States". When Will Trump be Arrested? On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said he has been asked to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday 13 June. The US Secret Service will be meeting on Friday with the former president's staff and the Secret Service officers assigned to him, a law enforcement official told the BBC's US partner CBS News. They will plan Trump's travel to court in Florida, and his appearance to be arraigned. Ahead of the hearing, US Secret Service agents will perform threat assessments of the federal courthouse in Miami and its surroundings, and work with court officers to form a security plan. Will He Be Handcuffed and Finger-Printed? Before news of the indictment broke, Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, told the BBC that Mr Trump's arrest would likely follow a similar pattern to his arrest in April on charges of falsifying business records in relation to alleged hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels. At the time, Mr Trump handed himself over to authorities in New York and appeared in court to plead not guilty. He was fingerprinted but he was not put in handcuffs and did not have a mugshot taken. Mr Tobias said it was improbable that Mr Trump would be handcuffed or have his mugshot taken at this time. "I think unlikely, given his stature as a former president and the slim likelihood that he's a flight risk," Mr Tobias said. "He's going to show up to at least negotiate or fight... but I don't think they need to use those types of procedures." Once Mr Trump's arrest paperwork is completed, he will be considered under arrest and in custody. Once the paperwork is processed, he would be arraigned - meaning that he will hear the charges and enter a plea in court. What is The Case About? When Mr Trump left office in January 2021, he was supposed to hand over all presidential records, which are considered federal property. It is illegal for officials, including former presidents, to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorised, insecure location. But just months after Mr Trump left the White House, the US National Archives realised that some records were missing. These included some of Mr Trump's correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and a letter that former president Barack Obama left for Mr Trump when he left office. The agency requested the records, and some were handed over. In August 2022, the justice department searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, seizing a further 11,000 documents, some of which were marked as classified or top secret, and some which were marked "TS/SCI", a designation for material that could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to US national security. Other items included a binder of photos, a handwritten note, unspecified information about the president of France, and a clemency letter written on behalf of long-time Trump ally Roger Stone. Could Trump be Jailed if Convicted? Prosecutors are yet to confirm what exact charges Trump is facing. His lawyer Jim Trusty told CNN the former president had received details of the charges in a summons document. He said they included conspiracy, false statements, obstruction of justice, and illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act. Several of these are considered serious charges. Espionage Act violations can carry up to 10 years in prison, while obstruction of justice - also a felony - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years. It is by no means certain that Mr Trump would be convicted. Some legal experts believe it would be difficult to prove that he committed a crime. For the obstruction of justice charges, for example, the law notes that prosecutors would have to show that Mr Trump or members of his team "knowingly" mishandled materials "to impede, obstruct or influence" the investigation. It may ultimately prove difficult to prove that Mr Trump knew what was happening. He could also feasibly argue that his staff mishandled the documents without his consent. What Has Trump Said About The Case? Mr Trump announced his impending indictment on social media on Thursday night. The justice department has yet to comment. In a series of Truth Social posts - as well as a video - Mr Trump repeatedly said he was innocent and characterised the indictment as "political warfare" against him before the 2024 election. He has used a variety of arguments to defend his handling of the documents, including that he declassified the documents before they were discovered. While presidents have previously declassified documents directly, there is no evidence that Mr Trump did so or followed any existing procedure. Mr Trump has also argued that some of the documents were personal and protected by executive privilege. This would mean that there was no requirement to turn them over to the national archives when he left office - the very premise of the case. The argument has largely been dismissed by legal experts. David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump's lawyers are likely to argue that the former president was just a "really bad file clerk". A key aspect of the case could be an audio recording in which Mr Trump reportedly said he knowingly kept documents and acknowledged he was limited in his ability to declassify him. If this were true, Mr Super said that "it pretty much sinks him because that shows that he knows the things he's been saying in public are not true". How Would Charges Affect Trumps' Presidential Campaign? It is unclear what impact the new charges might have on Mr Trump's popularity with his supporters. His arrest in New York had negligible impact on his popularity, and he remained the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2024 general election. From a legal standpoint, experts believe that the indictment - or even a possible conviction - does not present present an impediment to his bid to become president again. *Under US law, nothing prevents an individual from from running for office if facing criminal charges.* "It could certainly be a problem for him politically if he's indicted, and certainly, if he's convicted. People may think twice about whether they want to vote for him," Mr Tobias said. "But I don't think that will necessarily prevent his participation." At least two people have previously run for president with criminal convictions. In 1920, socialist candidate Eugene Debs ran for president despite having been convicted of the Espionage Act in connection with a 1918 anti-war speech. Conspiracist Lyndon LaRouche also ran for the presidency on multiple occasions despite having been convicted of fraud in 1988. One of his presidential bids, in 1992, took place while he was at a federal prison in Minnesota. 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10-06-23, 02:19	#5
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Arrested & PLEADS NOT Guilty -CRIMINAL Charges Increased to 38 TRUMP Facing 37 Felony Charges According to Unsealed Indictment TRUMP Lawyers QUIT After Second Indictment TRUMP is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. What's in the TRUMP indictment: US Nuclear Secrets and Files Kept HIDDEN in Shower BBC 10 JUNE 2023 Files were also stored in a ballroom at Donald Trump's Florida property, Mar-a-Lago Charges have also been filed against Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Mr Trump. The former White House military valet is accused of moving files to hide them from the FBI. He has become the first former US president in history to face criminal charges on a federal level and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The unsealing of the indictment claims that in July 2021, during a meeting with a writer, publisher, and two members of staff - none of whom had security clearance - Trump showed and described a highly confidential military "plan of attack". Former President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including about US nuclear secrets and military plans. The 37-count indictment accuses him of keeping the files at his Florida estate, including in a ballroom and a shower, and lying to investigators. It alleges he then tried to obstruct the investigation into the handling of the documents. Mr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, denies any wrongdoing. The 49-page indictment contains the first-ever federal charges against a former US president. It says the classified documents Mr Trump stored in his boxes contained information about: *United States nuclear programmes* *Defence and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries* *Potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack* Plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack Prosecutors say that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified files to Mar-a-Lago - his oceanfront home in Palm Beach, which is also an expansive private members' club. The charge sheet notes that Mar-a-Lago hosted events for tens of thousands of members and guests, including in a ballroom where documents were found. Prosecutors say Trump tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing documents by suggesting that his lawyer "hide or destroy" them, or tell investigators he did not have them. "Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?" Mr Trump said to one of his attorneys, according to the indictment. Trump's first court appearance in the case will be in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday - the eve of his 77th birthday. Mar-a-Lago "was not an authorised location" for classified documents to be kept or discussed, the indictment says. Some files were allegedly stored on stage in the ballroom, where events and gatherings took place - and later in a bathroom and a shower, an office space, and Mr Trump's bedroom. On two occasions in 2021, the former president showed classified documents to people without security clearance, including a writer and two members of staff. At his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which was also an "unauthorised location", he is said to have displayed and described a "plan of attack" that he told others had been prepared for him by the Department of Defense. "As president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret," Mr Trump allegedly said, according to an audio recording. Prosecutors say Mr Trump then showed off classified documents again in August or September 2021 at the Bedminster club. The former US president "showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map". This map "related to a military operation" and Mr Trump told the person "he should not be showing it" to them and they "should not get too close". Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the investigation, said on Friday that laws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced. "We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone," he said in a brief statement in Washington. Boxes of papers are stacked in a bathroom with a chandelier and a toilet visible, at Mar-a-Lago In a social media post, Mr Trump blasted Mr Smith as a "deranged lunatic". "He is a Trump hater - a deranged 'psycho' that shouldn't be involved in any case having to do with 'Justice,'" he wrote on his Truth Social platform. Mr Trump pointed out that classified files were also found in President Joe Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage. The White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, contrasting with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators. Shortly before the Department of Justice made the criminal charges public, two of Mr Trump's lawyers suddenly quit the case without much explanation, saying this was a "logical moment" to resign. This is the second criminal case for Mr Trump, who is due to go on trial in New York next year in a state case involving a hush-money payment to a porn star. 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13-06-23, 10:08	#6
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: EX TRUMP Lawyer on Most DAMNING Part of 37 Charges Indictment as He Lands in Flor TRUMP Arrives in Florida to Face 37 CRIMINAL Charges Former TRUMP White House Lawyer on The Most Damning Part of Trump Indictment TRUMP Arrives in Florida as History Making Court Appearance Approaches in Classified Documents Case BBC 13 JUNE 2023 Donald Trump is spending the night in Miami, Florida, before he appears in court there on Tuesday charged with mishandling national security files. He is holed up at his Trump Doral golf course complex near Miami. The former US president flew from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to his Trump Doral resort near Miami. Trump is facing dozens of charges of illegally retaining classified information, including some about nuclear secrets. It is the second time this year he has been charged with a crime. Trump, campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024, has denied wrongdoing as he faces the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president. He appeared muted but unflustered as he strolled into the steakhouse at his Miami golf resort on Monday evening. Trump greeted the smattering of guests at the BLT Prime restaurant with his signature thumbs-up, and even posed for a photo with a group of men enjoying their happy hour. "With you all the way!" shouted one patron seated at the bar. "Thank you very much," Trump replied, before security escorted him to the dining area. The guests had an inkling of Trump's arrival when several security agents appeared and casually swept diners with metal detectors. A few had their phones ready to snap photos. The staff, on the other hand, were nonchalant about their boss' presence, continuing to mix drinks and serve guests. A handful of supporters were also at the bar. One woman sipped wine with a Trump flag draped over the back of her chair. Trump has continued to strike a defiant tone. In an interview on a Spanish-language talk radio programme in Miami, he aired grievances with the indictment, while accusing the Biden administration of weaponising law enforcement agencies against him. Meanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters the city was preparing for Trump's court appearance. *Police will be deployed in anticipation of crowds up to 50,000 people, he said, though other sources told US media the expected number was in the low thousands.* "We encourage people to be peaceful," Mr Suarez said. On Saturday, in his first public appearances since the charges were filed, Trump said the case amounted to "election interference" by the "corrupt" FBI and justice department. The former president will appear in court alongside a close aide, Walt Nauta, who was charged by the same grand jury in Florida. Mr Nauta faces six criminal counts related to alleged handling of national security documents. Both men are scheduled to make their initial appearances at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST). A federal judge denied a request by news organisations for photo and video access during Tuesday's hearing - though a court sketch artist will be present. Trump is expected to enter the building through an underground tunnel, avoiding both the anticipated crowds of supporters and counter-demonstrators and the media outside. In an interview on WABC radio after the indictment, Trump URGED supporters to demonstrate. *Here's how Trump's historic day in court will unfold* The Biggest Security Threats at Trumps' Court Appearance __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

13-06-23, 19:31	#7
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Arrested, Fingerprinted & After BEGS 'If EVERYONE Gives Just $1 I'll Be OK' Donald Trump PLEADS NOT Guilty to all 38 charges As expected, Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in his 38-count indictment. His close aide, Walt Nauta also PLED *not guilty* BBC 13 JUNE 2023 Florida magistrate judge Jonathan Goodman will read the 38 criminal charges against him, as well as the six charges his personal aide and co-defendant Walt Nauta is facing. Special Counsel Jack Smith - who announced the historic federal indictment last week - is attending the hearing and is sitting in the front row. Who is Judge Jonathan Goodman? Judge Jonathan Goodman, a magistrate judge, is presiding over Trump's Tuesday court appearance. As the magistrate, he will handle the procedural aspects of today's proceedings, like reading Trump the 37 charges against him and hearing Trump's plea. However, Goodman is not expected to continue with the case after today. The Miami Herald, a local newspaper, once described Goodman as "a well-regarded veteran magistrate". Proceedings will resume with judge Aileen M Cannon, who has been chosen to oversee the trial. Aileen Mercedes Cannon (born 1981) is an American lawyer who was appointed by Donald Trump as a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Previously, Cannon worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012, and then as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

14-06-23, 09:47	#8
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a Crime TRUMP Fingerprinted and Pleads NOT Guilty to Federal Charges in Miami Trump Defiant After Court Classified Documents Case TRUMPs' First BEGGING Pit Stop After Arrest One CRAZY Woman Supporter YELLS Empty Your Bank Accounts and Help TRUMP BBC 14 JUNE 2023 Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida. Stony-faced Trump sat silently for 45 minutes through hearing Mr Trump is the first US president - current or former - to be hit with a federal criminal indictment. Arms crossed, in a dark suit and red tie, he sat in stone-faced silence for his second court appearance this year. The Republican later travelled to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he addressed supporters. Against a backdrop of American flags, Mr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, struck a defiant tone and told the assembled crowd he had "every right" to hold the classified documents, but "hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes". He said he followed the law and went on to list series of unsubstantiated claims as well as grievances against President Joe Biden and his former rival Hillary Clinton. Earlier in the day before leaving Miami, Mr Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, thanked the city for "such a warm welcome on such a sad day for our country" .... Not many turned out to support him Just hours before, in a 13th-floor room of a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, a sombre, subdued Mr Trump looked on while his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. "We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty," the attorney, Todd Blanche, told the judge. *Mr Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nauta - a close aide charged with six criminal counts in the case - was sitting at the same table as the former president.* On the opposite side of the room sat the entire prosecution team, including special counsel Jack Smith, who announced the indictment last week. The former president, who turned 77 on Wednesday, was allowed to leave court without any restrictions to domestic or international travel. Prosecutors told Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman the defendant was not considered a flight risk. But Mr Trump will not be allowed to discuss the case with Mr Nauta. After the hearing, the Republican flashed supporters a thumbs-up as his motorcade left the courthouse. As they drove away, an anti-Trump protester dressed in a prison jumpsuit ran into the street in front of the motorcade before he was pushed away by security - perhaps the most unruly moment of a largely peaceful day. Mr Trump and his security detail travelled directly to Versailles, a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami's Little Havana, where he was greeted by a throng of supporters who lined up for photos with the former president. He appeared to take part in a prayer with some patrons, and was treated to a chorus of Happy Birthday to You. Alina Habba, a lawyer attorney for the former president, repeated the former president's claims that the charges were politically motivated as she addressed media outside court. "We are at a turning point in our nation's history, the targeting prosecution of a leading political opponent is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela," she told reporters. "What is being done to the President Trump should terrify all citizens of this country," she added. *Before the hearing, court officials said Mr Trump would not have a mugshot taken but would be digitally fingerprinted and asked to submit a DNA sample by swab.* A trial date has not yet been set, though the case is still earmarked for Aileen Cannon, a federal district judge in South Florida who was appointed by Mr Trump. Trump Slams Prosecutor as ‘THUG’ in NJ Speech __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

22-06-23, 06:58	#9
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a Crime TRUMP Offers New Reason For Not Giving Classified Material to Investigators TRUMP Offers Dizzying New Justifications For Classified Documents as Former Cabinet Secretaries Sound The Alarm BBC 22 JUNE 2023 Former President Donald Trump offered a dizzying multitude of new justifications Monday for keeping classified material after leaving the White House and refusing to give them back to the National Archives and Records Administration. “I was very busy,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier, explaining that he wanted to go through all the boxes identified by the Archives to remove personal things before handing them over. TRUMP said he wanted to pull out “all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes,” interspersed with papers in his boxes. He deflected about why exactly he kept all the sensitive material in the first place: “I don’t say I do.” And as for the classified Pentagon document, which CNN first reported Trump is on tape acknowledging he held onto, the former president offered a new answer. He told Baier the paper he waved in front of people – which, according to the indictment, did not have security clearance – was not the document in question. “I didn’t have any document per se,” he said, claiming the papers he had were newspaper and magazine articles. And he denied to Baier that the Iran attack plan was ever in the boxes of documents – “not that I know of,” he said. But during a Fox News town hall earlier this month, Trump said he didn’t “know anything about” the summer 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club captured on the audio recording – a meeting that his former chief of staff appeared to recount in detail in his memoir, including a description of the document. The changing and fuzzy explanations create the picture of a man unwilling to cooperate with records laws for the nation he again wants to lead. Former Cabinet Officials Sound Alarm While his top rivals for the Republican nomination are staying relatively quiet about his indictment, some of his top former Cabinet secretaries are not holding back. “A defiant 9-year-old,” is what former Attorney General William Barr compared his former boss to during an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “If true, that conduct was a flagrant crime that cannot be excused,” Barr added of the indictment in an op-Ed in the Free Press on Monday. Barr left Trump’s administration before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and he has been critical of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He was not complimentary of Trump in a memoir published last year. But Barr’s comments are noteworthy since he is also the attorney general who defended Trump from the Mueller report and worked alongside Trump for more than a year of his presidency. ‘No One is Above The Law’ Barr’s not alone. Trump’s former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the revelations in the indictment jeopardize national security, although he was careful to add the “if the allegations are true” caveat to his answer. “If the allegations are true that it contained information about our nation’s security, about our vulnerabilities, about other items, it could be quite harmful to the nation,” he told Jake Tapper, going on to call out “irresponsible action.” “No one is above the law,” Esper added. “And so I think this process needs to play out and people held to account, the president held to account.” *Asked if Trump could be trusted with the nation’s secrets ever again, Esper said, “Based on his actions – again if proven true under the indictment by the special counsel – no.”* On Monday, the magistrate judge in the classified documents case agreed to prosecutors’ request that neither Trump nor his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, should be allowed to talk about information handed over to their lawyers as part of the discovery process – an expected ruling but nonetheless significant given Trump’s penchant for sharing things on social media. This Has Been a Pattern If anyone needs a reminder, there is a pattern of disgruntled former aides left in the former president’s wake. Trump’s defense secretary who preceded Esper, James Mattis, had already turned full throttle against Trump before the 2020 election. Trump had two confirmed attorneys general during his time in the White House and cut the first one – former Sen. Jeff Sessions – loose shortly after the 2018 midterm elections. He then opposed Sessions’ attempt to return to the Senate. Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, while carefully reacting to news of the indictment, is among the 2024 Republican presidential candidates who say the legal process should proceed. “I think we need to let the courts do their job. And let this case work its way through our judicial system,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently, saying it’s “premature” to discuss a possible pardon for Trump – the latest question facing the GOP field. This is The Major Conundrum For Republicans at The Moment Trump’s position in the primary has solidified even as his fitness to conduct the nation’s business has been questioned. That so many who once worked for his administration ultimately turned against him, or were turned against by him, has long been a theme of his presidency. But it has not yet jeopardized his power in the party. Unfair Prosecution vs. Dangerous Conduct Barr parsed what fellow Republicans are saying in their defense of Trump. There are those like Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, who maintains that Trump had the power to declassify the documents he is accused of mishandling even if the former president is on tape saying he did not. Others, Barr said, are focused more on the prosecution than the crime. “I don’t think they’re actually defending his conduct, but they are saying it’s unfair to prosecute him,” Barr said. Prosecutions Barr Opposes That is an argument a longtime Republican like Barr can identify with. He opposes Trump’s prosecution in New York by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, for alleged participation in a hush money scheme before the 2016 election. He also questions whether Trump should be prosecuted in connection with January 6, 2021, or his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. But this case, Barr has been arguing, is not the same because Trump brought it upon himself. “Yes, he’s been a victim in the past. Yes, his adversaries have obsessively pursued him with phony claims. And I’ve been at his side defending against them when he is a victim. But this is much different. He’s not a victim here,” Barr said on “Fox News Sunday” last week. These Other Cases Could Still be Brought Trump’s prosecution in relation to the aftermath of the 2020 election is still a very real possibility in both Fulton County, Georgia, and at the federal level. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, has indicated she will make a charging decision in August after a years-long investigation. Court filings in the classified documents case brought by special counsel Jack Smith refer to other “ongoing investigations.” (The special counsel’s office is also running that federal probe of the period after the 2020 election and leading up to the insurrection.) A First Amendment Right to Say an Election is Stolen? Any ultimate prosecution with regard to the 2020 election could be a mistake, Barr said, arguing a candidate should have First Amendment rights. “We don’t want to get into a position where people can’t complain about an election and claim that an election was stolen.” And he even sees legitimate explanations for the recording of Trump asking Georgia election officials to “find” him enough votes to win the swing state. “There are innocent interpretations of what he said, which is, look, of all the votes that we think are bad, you certainly can find among them some that are slam-dunk,” Barr argued. For the record, Barr left the administration after refusing to appease Trump’s unfounded insistence there had been election fraud in 2020, so it’s interesting to hear him offer a defense on that front. There’s an Even Larger Question Republicans can defend Trump against prosecution all they want, but for Barr, that’s not the point. “The question is, should we be putting someone like this forward as the leader of the country, leader of the free world, who has engaged in this kind of conduct?” he asked. When CBS’ Robert Costa asked if putting Trump in the White House again would put the country at risk, here’s how Barr answered: “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests. There’s no question about it.” Barr wasn’t done. *“Our country can’t be a therapy session for, you know, a troubled man like this.”* __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. 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27-06-23, 08:05	#10
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a Crime TRUMP Heard on CNN Tape Discussing Military Secrets at Golf Club Ex-president is heard discussing a Pentagon paper detailing plans to attack Iran with people who did not have security clearances BBC NEWS 27 JUNE 2023 An audio recording in which Donald Trump acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media. In the recording, the former president is heard riffling through papers and saying: "This is highly confidential". Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling sensitive files. CNN was the first to publish the roughly two-minute clip, and said it comes from a July 2021 interview that Mr Trump gave with people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. Mr Trump is heard saying "these are the papers" and referring to a document he calls "highly confidential". It appears to be an audio recording referenced by federal prosecutors in their indictment of the former president. Charges Say Trump Took US Nuclear Secrets Prosecutors allege he showed classified documents to people without security clearance on two occasions, including a writer and two members of staff, in one instance in July 2021 at his golf club in New Jersey. Mr Trump is facing 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. He has denied any wrongdoing and has said that all documents he took with him from the White House were declassified. During the exchange, released by CNN and the Washington Post on Monday, Mr Trump is heard describing a document that he alleges is about possibly attacking Iran. "He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn't it amazing?" Mr Trump says near the beginning of the clip. "I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look," he says. "See as president I could have declassified it," he says. "Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret." In an interview last week with Fox News, Mr Trump denied that he provided secret documents to people unauthorised to view them. "There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things," Mr Trump said. MORE; Donald Trump Recorded Saying He Kept Classified File After Leaving Office The recording, obtained by CNN, includes new details from a conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information. It includes a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran. The episode is one of two referenced in the indictment where prosecutors allege that Trump showed classified information to others who did not have security clearances, CNN reported. In the conversation, Trump is talking with people helping his former chief of staff Mark Meadows write a book. His aide, Margo Martin, regularly taped conversations with authors to ensure they accurately recounted his remarks. According to the recording aired on CNN, Trump refers to the document and its classified status. “These are the papers,” Trump says in the audio recording, while he’s discussing the Pentagon attack plans, a quote that was not included in the indictment. “This was done by the military and given to me,” Trump continues, before noting that the document remained classified. “See as president I could have declassified it,” he says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” Prompting laughter in the room. Prosecutors obtain Trump tape about classified document he kept ‘Very dangerous’: Retired general reacts to recording of Trump discussing classified documents __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

22-10-23, 13:49	#11
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a Crime TRUMP Spills Secrets: Investigated For Leaking Nuclear Secrets at Mar-a-Lago The Key Nuclear Secrets ~TRUMP Leaked Submarine Data to Australian Billionaire Member of Mar-a-Lago, Soon After Leaving Office Nuclear Weapon Secrets in The Bathroom: Revelations From TRUMPS’ Unsealed Indictment - TRUMP Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia... BBC 22 OCT 2023 TRUMP Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia...TRUMP met with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russias’ foreign minister. American journalists were barred, but Russia released photographs. One of the officials said the intelligence discussed by Trump in his meeting with Lavrov was classified “Top Secret” and held in a secure “compartment” to which only a handful of intelligence officials have access. TRUMP took classified documents including information on nuclear weapons and secret plans to attack a foreign country The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the worlds’ largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Trumps’ disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet. Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trumps’ disclosures of the secrets to Mr. Pratt, which were first revealed by ABC News, and interviewed him as part of their investigation into the former presidents’ handling of classified documents, the people said. According to another person familiar with the matter, Mr. Pratt is now among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against Mr. Trump at the classified documents trial, which is scheduled to start in May in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla. Mr. Pratt’s name does not appear in the indictment accusing Mr. Trump of illegally holding on to nearly three dozen classified documents after he left office and then conspiring with two of his aides at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct the government’s attempts to get them back. But the account that Mr. Trump discussed some of the countrys’ most sensitive nuclear secrets with him in a cavalier fashion could help prosecutors establish that the former president had a long habit of recklessly handling classified information. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

10-11-23, 02:53	#12
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a Crime MAR-A-LAGO Workers Talk to FEDS ~ May TESTIFY Against TRUMP Plumber, Maid and Chauffeur Among Mar-a-Lago Staff Who May Testify Against Trump, Report Says BBC 10 NOV 2023 A plumber, a maid, a chauffeur and a woodworker are among Mar-a-Lago staffers and contract workers who federal prosecutors may call to testify against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation. New information is being revealed about the scope of Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago and depicts a startling number of seemingly random people now caught up in his prosecution. A report on Thursday detailed for the first time how Mr Smith’s team of prosecutors is considering calling a number of lower-level staff at Mr Trump’s sprawling resort complex in Palm Beach to testify in the case against the former president. Those unnamed staffers include a maid assigned to clean Mr Trump’s living area, a woodworker who was called to the premises for work on a project in Mr Trump’s bedroom, and even the ex-president’s personal chauffeur One source told the network that the woodworker told investigators he saw a stack of papers in the suite, in the vicinity of where investigators have alleged the ex-president was keeping all or part of his documents stash. The worker reportedly told authorities that he wasn’t sure whether or not the papers he saw were classified, and described thinking of them as a possible movie prop The network also reported, citing one person familiar with the ex-president’s reaction, that Mr Trump went “ballistic” when he learned Jack Smith’s team was speaking to his maid. The twice-impeached ex-president has plead not guilty to more than three dozen criminal charges relating to the case. He is accused of hoarding sensitive military documents and other classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and attempting to destroy evidence of his supposed crimes along with his valet, Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago’s property manager. The former president also remains under a number of other criminal investigations, and was most recently charged with numerous felonies in Fulton County, Georgia. At the same time, he remains the heavy favourite to win the Republican nomination for president, according to all available polling. His trial in the case is currently set for May of 2024, but a judge in the case has indicated that she may delay that date to give Mr Trump’s team more time to review the government’s evidence. *The ex-president is reported to be plotting to block the Justice Department’s prosecutions of him should he win the presidency next year.* __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

01-12-23, 08:00	#13
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Attacks Judge,Wife & Daughter After WARNING Holding Mar-a-Lago Docs Was a C Bulls'-Eye For Prosecutors: Report Says TRUMP Was WARNED Documents Possession Was a Crime Former President Donald Trump was warned by his attorney that failing to comply with a classified documents subpoena would 'be a crime'. Defiant TRUMP Attacks on Judge, His Wife and Daughter, Calls Prosecutors Racist in Mar-a-Lago Speech BBC 1 DEC 2023 *'Time He is JAILED Your Honour'...* Jennifer Little told Jack Smiths' investigators she'd explicitly warned Trump about his legal liability and he 'absolutely' understood the stakes of not complying A lawyer who works for Donald Trump informed the former president last fall, just days after the Justice Department issued a subpoena, that failing to return classified materials to the U.S. government was a crime, according to a report published Wednesday. The Trump lawyer, Jennifer Little, told Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigators she had explicitly warned Trump about his legal liability and that he "absolutely" understood the stakes of not complying, sources familiar with the matter told the television network. Trump hired Little in March 2021 soon after he left the White House as Georgia authorities began their probe into the 2020 election. ABC reported that the former Georgia state prosecutor soon started working for Trump on the classified documents case, and issued the warning at Mar-a-Lago alongside lawyer Evan Corcoran. Little's testimony is potentially one piece of evidence that led Smith to charge Trump with knowingly violating classified documents laws, ABC reported. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 40 counts he faces in the federal criminal case, which is currently scheduled to go to trial in Fort Pierce, Fla., in May 2024. Little is currently a member of Trump's legal defense team in Georgia, where the former president is fighting 13 state felony counts connected to the 2020 election. Several of Trumps’ former attorneys have testified against him, with some, such as Jenna Ellis and Sydney Powell, being indicted alongside Trump as co-conspirators in Georgia and taking plea deals in exchange for serving as witnesses. MORE of TRUMP; TRUMP & McCarthy 'FK You' __________________ 6000 PLUS Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

11-02-24, 08:25	#14
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering 'Putting Her on Notice': Jack Smith Losing Patience With Judge Cannon, Who Supports TRUMP, in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case Jack Smith Hits Back at Judge Cannons’ DANGEROUS Order on TRUMP Case Special Counsel Smith is showing increasing frustration with Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified documents case MSN 11 FEB 2024 “Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order.. Judge overseeing classified documents case rejected TRUMPS special counsel Jack Smith’s bid to keep government witnesses secret. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Thursday night warned that the judge in Donald Trumps’ Mar-a-Lagoclassified documents case has made a “clear error” that could put witnesses at risk. Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a TRUMP appointee, ruled that some unredacted discovery documents should be made available to Trump’s legal team. Those documents could expose sensitive information, including the names of potential witnesses. It’s hardly surprising that Smith has spoken out about the ways in which Cannon’s decision could end very badly. In a court filing on Thursday, the special counsel urged the judge to reconsider. “That discovery material, if publicly docketed in unredacted form as the Court has ordered, would disclose the identities of numerous potential witnesses, along with the substance of the statements they made to the FBI or the grand jury Exposing them to significant and immediate risks of threats, intimidation, and harassment, as has already happened to witnesses, law enforcement agents, judicial officers, and Department of Justice employees whose identities have been disclosed in cases in which defendant Trump is involved,” he wrote. Smith also reminded Cannon of an Eleventh Circuit decision that goes against her recent decision; “The Eleventh Circuit has held that the compelling-interest standard applied by the Court does not apply to ‘documents filed in connection with motions to compel discovery,’ which instead may be sealed or redacted simply upon a showing of ‘good cause,’” he wrote. The Eleventh Circuit, coincidentally, is the same court that once struck down Cannon’s decision to grant Trump’s request to appoint a special master in the classified documents case. It won’t be hard for Smith to demonstrate the “good cause” for not releasing those documents. Throughout his legal trials, Trump has made a habit out of harassing courtroom staff, plaintiffs, and witnesses. The threats that Trump can bring to bear against his perceived enemies are so well documented that legal experts have raised the alarm about the safety of witnesses and jurors in his future trials—and jurists have acted on their advice. In the E. Jean Carroll trial that wrapped up last month, the jury was partially sequestered and fully anonymous. Jurors were warned not to share their names even with each other, using numbers instead. Judge Lewis Kaplan took those steps precisely because he was worried about Trump’s behaviour. *Moments after the jury delivered its massive $83.3 million verdict against Trump, Kaplan gave them an ominous warning: “My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury.”* Trump is facing 40 counts for keeping classified documents long after he left the White House. His aide, Walt Nauta, and a Mar-a-Lago employee, Carlos De Oliveira, are also facing charges. TRUMP lawyers' unprofessionalism and incompetence revealed in new filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case... *Including the news that an attorney for one of Trumps’ co-defendants* does NOT *own a computer that can be used to view CCTV footage that is evidence in the case...*

17-02-24, 11:56	#15
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering TRUMP Appeared at Federal Court in Florida For Closed SECRET Hearing in His Classified Documents Case High-Stakes Closed Door Hearings Over Evidence in TRUMP Mar-a-Lago Documents Case on Monday His motorcade left after several hours as supporters called his name. The Guardian 17 FEB 2024 FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Seeking to turn legal problems into political gain, former President Donald Trump arrived Monday to a crowd of supporters at a federal courthouse in Florida for a closed hearing in the criminal case charging him with mishandling classified documents. In the latest mixing of court appearances into Trumps’ election-season calendar, supporters with signs and flags assembled outside a courthouse barricade as a Trump campaign message to allies with the subject line of “I’m in court. Again!” warned that unspecified opponents “want me arrested” and “erased from the ballot.” The message reinforced his teams’ strategy of politicizing his four criminal prosecutions, including in Florida, where he faces dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing FBI efforts to get them back. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

23-02-24, 11:19	#16
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Supporting Judge Cannon Schedules PRIVATE Call With His Lawyers on Mar-a-La Judge Cannon Schedules PRIVATE Conference Call With TRUMP Lawyers to Discuss Documents Access U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has scheduled a "sealed" conference call with lawyers representing Donald Trump in the federal case brought by special counsel Jack Smith on classified national defense information recovered from Mar-a-Lago. 23 The Guardian FEB 2024 Judge Cannon Is a TRUMP supporter and was appointed by him *The call, which will take place on Friday at 3:30pm ET, concerns "their challenge vs Special Counsel requests to withhold or redact in certain classified docs that will be turned over in discovery"* This comes shortly after Cannon denied requests by Trumps' lawyers to consolidate a large number of filings into one, which was a win for Smith, who warned such a move would tie up the court even longer in reviewing surprise legal theories from Trump and other defendants. It also comes as Smith urges Cannon to reconsider her order to turn over discovery documents that could potentially reveal identities of witnesses in a way that would give Trump the ability to engage in witness tampering. That order, in particular, enraged some legal experts, and even had some suggesting Smith had the ammunition he needs to go to a higher court and ask that they force Cannon off the case. *Cannon, who was herself appointed by Trump, has repeatedly triggered controversy throughout the case by intervening in ways that appear to one-sidedly benefit* the former president.** Before the indictment against Trump was even handed down, Cannon tried to block the FBI from reviewing classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago pending review by a special master, which interfered with a parallel counterintelligence investigation into whether any of the information Trump had in his resort was compromised. Ultimately, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, including two other judges Trump had appointed, ruled against her, ordering her to allow federal authorities access to the recovered documents.

01-03-24, 11:30	#17
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering TRUMP Asks Judge Cannon For 12 August Trial Date in Classified Documents Case..Special Counsel Proposes 8 July Trial Date Judge Cannon is Supporting TRUMP IN 2024 Election After previously seeking to have the proceeding postponed until after the election, the former president’s lawyers unexpectedly said he could live with a date over the summer. 'Mental Midget!' TRUMP Throws Fit in Unhinged Rant Over His OWN Verbal Slip-Ups Follow His Stunt of Copying Bidens' Substantive Border Visit MSNBC 1 MAR 2024 Mental Midget Bidens' Border Visit Exposes Hollow TRUMP Stunt For the past eight months, former President Donald J. Trump and his lawyers have used nearly every means at their disposal to delay his federal trial on charges of mishandling classified documents until after the election in November. But in court papers filed on Thursday evening, the lawyers made an abrupt turnabout. In a filing to the judge overseeing the case, they repeated their complaints that Mr. Trump could not be tried fairly until the election was concluded, but then proposed a new date for the trial of 12 Aug, almost three months before Election Day and just weeks after the Republican convention to choose a party nominee. It was not immediately clear what led to the sudden change of heart — or to the selection of 12 Aug— especially given that the lawyers spent much of their filing to the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, claiming that the law, the Constitution and the Justice Departments’ own policy manual frowned on the idea of taking “the presumptive Republican nominee” to trial at the height of his campaign for the White House. One possibility was that the lawyers, by proposing to spend much of late summer and early fall in court on the classified documents case, were seeking to prevent the former president’s other federal trial — on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election — from being held before voters make their choice.

10-03-24, 03:57	#18
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Mar-a-Lago Docs; Fed Up Jack Smith SMACKS DOWN Unhinged TRUMP Fed Up and STRESSED Jack Smith SMACKS DOWN TRUMP in Court 'Delay tactics': Jack Smith Tears Apart TRUMPS’ Frivolous Arguments For Dismissing Mar-a-Lago Docs Case Jack Smith files flurry of responses against TRUMPS’ bid to dismiss case MSNBC 10 MAR 2024 U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has agreed to hear two of former President Donald Trump's motions to dismiss in special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case. This comes at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court is planning to review Trump's presidential immunity argument in another case Smith is prosecuting: the election interference case. In the documents case, Smith alleges that Trump violated the United States' national security by storing classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House — documents that, according to Smith, Trump had no business removing from Washington, D.C. in 2021. Trump and his lawyers have claimed that the documents were declassified and that he didn't break any laws by moving them to Mar-a-Lago. CORRUPT Cannon — a TRUMP appointee Smith has been aggressively fighting back against Trump's efforts to have the two cases thrown out. And the special counsel, according to ABC News reporters Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders and Jack Date, is layout out some reasons why CORRUPT Cannon — a Trump appointee — should let the Mar-a-Lago case go to trial instead of dismissing it. "In a flurry of previously filed motions," the journalists explain in an article published on March 7, "Trump's attorneys had put forward various arguments to dismiss the case — including that Trump was entitled to possess the documents under the Presidential Records Act, that he should be immune from prosecution for removing the documents while still technically in office, that he is being selectively prosecuted in comparison with others who have not faced charges for similar conduct, and that the charges against him are unconstitutionally vague." Smith's office, the reporters note, "sought to dismantle each of those arguments" in "more than 100 pages of arguments filed" on March 7 and accused Trump and his lawyers of "engaging in delay tactics that have successfully served to stymie Trump's federal election interference prosecution in Washington, D.C." Mallin Faulders and Date continue, "In their request to Judge Cannon that she reject Trump's arguments that he should be immune from prosecution, they specifically asked her to certify such a claim as 'frivolous.' Doing so would prevent Trump's team from getting the documents case effectively paused while they engage in a lengthy appeals process." Smith is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will shoot down Trump's immunity argument in the election interference case. And he is telling Cannon, in the Mar-a-Lago case, that the former president's immunity claims have no merit. Smith's office told Cannon, "Every criminal charge in the Superseding Indictment is based upon conduct in which Trump engaged after he left office. Even if a former President could claim some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts — and he cannot — Trump could not benefit from any such immunity in this case. Trump's immunity claim here is so wholly without merit that it is difficult to understand it except as part of a strategic effort for delay." __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

12-03-24, 03:08	#19
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering TRUMPS' Bedminster-Bound Mystery Boxes Raise New Secret Document Suspicions. The Move Was Made When TRUMP Was Informed The FBI Were About to Raid Mar-a-Lago Prosecutors Use SEIZED DATA TRUMP DIDN’T SEE COMING; Mar-a-Lago Property Manager Helped Move Classified Docs, FEDS Say Video shows file boxes being loaded onto a plane carrying TRUMP from Mar-a-Lago to his New Jersey golf club-Prosecutors MAY need ‘fresh evidence’ to issue warrant for TRUMPS' New Jersey golf club MSNBC 12 MAR 2024 Boxes of Missing Classified Docs Sent to TRUMPS' New Jersey Golf Club Brian Butler Mar-a-Lago EX Manager TALKS... A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election. Brian Butler, who is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the classified documents indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he doesn’t believe the criminal case against Trump is a “witch hunt,” as the former president has claimed. Butler gave testimony to federal investigators that informed crucial portions of last year’s criminal obstruction charges against Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Trump, and Carlos De Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago who had been Butler’s closest friend until recently. The third man charged in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is accused of moving classified documents and scheming with Walt Nauta and Donald Trump to conceal video footage from federal investigators. Trump heard in audio clip discussing "secret" documents The tape of a conversation with Donald Trump and others made at his golf club in New Jersey has become perhaps the most critical publicly known evidence in the federal indictment against the former president. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with mishandling classified information after leaving the White House. And the recording – parts of which were made public by CNN earlier this week – features Trump in July 2021 discussing what he called a “highly confidential” Pentagon document that contained “secret” US military plans to attack Iran. Trump has offered a firehose of differing and contradictory explanations of what he claimed happened. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Boxes were pictured being loaded onto the jet . The move north puts TRUMP close to his New Jersey golf club Prosecutors Use SEIZED DATA Trump DIDN’T SEE COMING Trump heard in audio clip discussing "secret" documents Prosecutors may need ‘fresh evidence’ to issue warrant for Trump’s New Jersey golf club

15-03-24, 08:03	#20
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	CROOKED TRUMP Judge Dismissed 32 of 40 Charges Filed on Classified Docs TRUMP Arrived Looking Confident at Florida Courthouse For Classified Docs Hearing...BUT.. CROOKED Judge Aileen Cannon DENIED Motion to Toss TRUMP Classified Docs Case-Dismissed 32 of The 40 Charges Filed Against Him MSNBBC 15 MAR 2024 Former President Donald Trump Appears In Florida Court For Classified Documents Case Hearing A federal judge denied one of former President Donald Trumps attempts to dismiss the classified documents case against him Thursday, though it is still unclear when a trial for the case will be scheduled. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied without prejudice Trump’s motion to dismiss 32 of the 40 charges filed against him, meaning the arguments laid out by his attorneys can be presented at a later date, thus causing MORE DELAYS. Cannon denied the motion, which Trump based on presidential immunity, because it raised questions that depend “too greatly on” fluctuating definitions of terms related to Trump’s charges, as well as “some disputed factual issues.” Cannon said Trump’s argument, which says a statute being used against him is constitutionally vague, would be better addressed at a later time “in connection with jury-instruction briefing and/or other appropriate motions.” Cannon told Trump’s attorney earlier in Thursday’s hearing “it’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” adding the constitutionally vague argument adopted by the attorney was “an extraordinary step.” *No Longer Confident TRUMP Leaves....* __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

03-04-24, 22:59	#21
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering ENOUGH -Jack Smiths' Temper Tantrum Shows He's HAD It' With CROOKED Judge Cannon 'Jack Smith is 100% right' MSRAW 4 APR 2024 CORRUPT MAGA JUDGE Aileen Cannon & POX MARKED OLD MAN 'DUMPY' EXHAUSTED and STRESSED Special counsel Jack Smith launched into a “prosecutorial temper tantrum” with a late-night filing blasting Judge Aileen Cannon for "fundamentally flawed” proposed jury instructions, CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig said Wednesday. Smith's blistering court motion attacked Cannon’s order that lawyers prepare instructions in which jurors are asked to consider if classified documents taken by former President Donald Trump to his Mar-a-Lago home could be considered his personal property. The special counsel didn’t hold back, telling Cannon her "legal premise is wrong, and a jury instruction... that reflects that premise would distort the trial.” “Jack Smith’s frustration really just jumps off the page,” Honig told CNN host John Berman. “That, by the way, classifies as a prosecutorial temper tantrum. I mean, usually prosecutors are very just the facts, very deferential to a judge. And here we see Jack Smith really expressing his frustration at the judge. The source of his frustration is that Judge Cannon has expressed a real willingness to entertain and perhaps introduce to the jury this defense that Donald Trump has raised based on the Presidential Records Act." He then explained why Smith had good reason to vent. “And Jack Smith's response... basically boils down to it's a falsity as a matter of fact, this never happened," said Honig. "Trump never properly designated the documents. And, second of all, even if he had, it fails legally. So Jack Smith has had it and you can sense that in this brief." Cannon’s proposed jury instructions — the directions that jurors are asked to consider after they’ve heard testimony and are about to begin deliberating — have been called bizarre by several legal experts. They are based on Trump’s own opinion that the PRA allowed him to make government property his own. He used the argument to claim — so far unsuccessfully — that the trial against him should be dismissed. "Trump's entire effort to rely on the PRA is not based on any facts," Smith wrote. "It is a post hoc justification that was concocted more than a year after he left the White House, and his invocation in this court of the PRA is not grounded in any decision he actually made during his presidency to designate as personal any of the records charge in the superseding indictment." "During its exhaustive investigation, the government interviewed Trump's own PRA representatives and numerous high-ranking officials from the White House — chiefs of staff, White House counsel and senior members of the White House Counsel's Office. Not a single one had heard Trump say that he was designating records as personal or that, at the time he caused the transfer of boxes to Mar-a-Lago, he believed that his removal of records amounted to designating them as personal under the PRA." Honig suggested that Smith’s furious reaction showed he might be considering asking for Cannon’s recusal in the case, which accuses the former president of illegally hoarding the documents. “It's possible,” he said. “I think unlikely, but possible that if the judge rules against DOJ here, they may take that sort of extreme step of asking her to step aside.” <<< ABOUT TIME.... *Read Jack Smith’s full filing at this link (PDF)* Jack Smith TORCHES Judge Cannon in LATE NIGHT Filing HE WARNED HER LAST TIME - 'Putting her on notice': Jack Smith losing patience with Judge Cannon in Trump documents case *WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE* HAVE THE COURAGE TO LOCK THIS DERANGED LUNATIC UP..** .

05-04-24, 12:55	#22
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Jack Smith RIPS Judges' Jury Instructions-'Would Lead to DIRECTED VERDICT For TRU Special Counsel RIPS Judge Cannons' Jury Instructions in TRUMP Classified Docs Case- 'Would Lead to DIRECTED VERDICT For TRUMP' TRUMP Judge Wages WAR on Jack Smith With STUNNING Response -TRUMP Calls For Smiths' Punishment For Criticizing 'HIS' Judge in Classified Docs Case TRUMP DEMANDS 'LOWLIFE' Jack Smith be "sanctioned or censured" after he issued a scathing critique of Judge Aileen Cannons' request for jury instructions. NBC 5 APR 2024 ‘The NUCLEAR Button’: Special Counsel Could Seek Removal of Judge in TRUMP Classified Docs Case.. Special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Aileen Cannon traded terse words in filings this week. Jack Smith slammed Cannons’ order for dueling jury instructions from his office and Trumps’ lawyers, arguing the request is based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise” that would “distort” the trial, potentially leading to a DIRECTED verdict for Trump. *Trump said the special counsel should be "sanctioned or censured" after he issued a scathing critique of Judge Aileen Cannon's request for jury instructions.* Jack Smith argues "not a single" Trump official has claimed he declared any records personal WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith could soon seek to have the judge presiding over the case of former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents recused, prosecutors and defense attorneys warn, pressed to “breaking point” over arguments his office said could taint a trial irrevocably. Smith faulted Judge Aileen Cannon in a scathing rebuke for seeming to take at face value Trump’s “fundamentally flawed” claim around a president’s official and personal records when she asked both sides to put forth two competing versions of instructions for jurors in the case and said her request would “distort” the trial. Smith indicated in that filing that if Cannon ruled against federal prosecutors, this could be a trigger for an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit that could remove her from the case. “He is close to pushing the nuclear button,” said Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg. “It is a high burden to reach, and it is rarely done, but her proposed jury instructions may have pushed him to the breaking point.” That proposal for jury instructions, a final version of which would be delivered to jurors at the end of a trial, seemed to consider Trump’s interpretation of how of classified documents could be preserved after leaving office, which is at the center of the charge against him.

08-04-24, 20:49	#23
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRAPPED; Jack Smith in Purgatory With TRUMPs' CROOKED Classified Docs Judge Jack Smith Laid a Trap for TRUMPs' Mar-a-Lago Judge. Cannon Didn’t Take It. Jack Smith Stuck in Legal Purgatory Amid Tension With CROOKED Judge Cannon in Classified Docs Case TRUMP May Face MORE FBI Raids After Witness Suggests He's Hiding More Documents MSNBC 8 APR 2024 TRAPPER KEEPER Judge Aileen Cannon rejected Donald Trumps’ request to drop the Mar-a-Lago trial. But she also denied prosecutors a legal avenue that would let them try to kick her off the case. Judge Cannon's latest order chastising Special Counsel Jack Smith in Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed classified documents contains some language that might come back to haunt the jurist, according to a former federal prosecutor. Cannon, who has been accused of favoritism in her rulings in favor of the ex-president who appointed her to the bench, has previously been reversed by an appeals court that found she gave Trump improper deference during the investigation phase of the case. The case is now going to make its way to the Eleventh Circuit again, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance. And when it does, Vance warns, some of Cannon's words will likely "come back to haunt her." MORE HIDDEN Classified Documents in Donald Trumps' Possession Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani is warning there might be more classified documents in Donald Trumps possession — and another FBI raid might be on the horizon, Newsweek reported. Among the revelations in the stolen document case is that Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, in an interview with CNN, said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta deliver boxes of the documents to a plane "in June 2022 — the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents." Trump was about to fly to his Bedminster country club when Nauta asked Butler to move the boxes, Butler, a witness for the prosecution, said. "But it was an unusual request from Nauta for the car, Butler [said], because Nauta typically didn’t handle moving luggage and asked Butler for the car in a guarded way," the CNN report said. “I come to realize now at the same time he’s going in there, the boxes are going from somewhere into a vehicle, which are eventually going to the plane, which I load with Walt,” Butler said. “They were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. That’s what I remember loading,” he said. Federal investigators have yet to stage a raid on Bedminster as they did at Mar-a-Lago. Nor have they done a search in Trump's apartment at Trump Tower, Rahmani said. "Prosecutors won't know if classified documents still remain at Trump's other homes unless they execute search warrants there," Rahmani said when speaking to Newsweek. Special counsel Jack Smith, "Is unlikely to do so at this stage of the case and during the election, but that possibility exists, especially because Trump has failed to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas in the past," said Rahmani.

24-04-24, 03:07	#24
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRUMPs' Judge in Classified Docs Unseals MORE Info on Mar-a-Lago Raid Judge in TRUMPs' Classified Docs Case Unseals Trove of Info Related to Mar-a-Lago Raid The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Florida classified documents criminal trial has unsealed a trove of documents related to the FBI's investigation into the former president as well as the agency's raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach in 2022. MSRAW 24 APR 2024 The documents, unsealed by Judge Aileen Cannon, reveal the personnel involved in the raid and how it played out. One document shows that the operation was nicknamed "Plasmic Echo," Fox News reported. "This document contains information that is restricted to case participants," the document reads, adding, "PLASMIC ECHO; Mishandling Classified or National Defense Information, Unknown Subject; Sensitive Investigation Matter." Another document shows Attorney General Merrick Garland approving the investigation into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents from his time as president. One document reveals that agents entered a safe at Mar-a-Lago and took the seized documents back to D.C. The agents involved in the raid consisted of "four agents from the FBI WFO, one FBI Headquarters personnel, 25 agents from the FBI Miami Field Office, one DOJ Counterintelligence and Export Control Section attorney and one attorney from the United States Attorneys Office Southern District of Florida," according to Fox News. "A search warrant, 22-mj-8332-BER, issued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2022, was executed at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida 33480 at 10:33 a.m. on August 8, 2022," the document reads. "Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team’s entry onto the MAL premises, FBI leadership informed and coordinated with local United States Secret service (USSS) leadership. Local USSS facilitated entry onto the premises, provided escort and access to various locations within, and posted USSS personnel in locations where the FBI team conducted searches," it read. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

05-05-24, 15:39	#25
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRUMP EXPLODES at Biden Gestapo & Blames Jack Smith For Docs Evidence Tampering TRUMP Flipped Out on Biden Gestapo in Profanity-Laden Speech Before Donors TRUMP is Blaming Jack Smith For Evidence Tampering in Mar-a-Lago Docs TRUMP at Risk of LOSING Voting Rights in Florida MSNRAW 5 MAY 2024 Trump spent his Saturday afternoon swearing and fuming before a gathering of rich donors in Palm Beach while launching attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and also complaining about President Joe Biden's "Gestapo." During a report on the donor retreat in Florida where the former president is hobnobbing with wealthy donors as he scrambles for campaign and legal fees cash, CNN's Alayna Treene claimed the former president went on a 90-minute tirade. Speaking with hosts Victor Blackwell and Amara Walker, she reported, "Well it was a 90-minute speech that Donald Trump gave at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday and I'm told that it was a pretty profanity-laden speech. The former president cursed on occasion while railing against special counsel Jack Smith and as well as others who are leveling their criminal indictments against him." Donald Trump recently accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of "evidence tampering" in connection with the criminal documents case in Florida, but the alleged issue stems from something the former president did, a New York Times reporter said Saturday. Trump Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in the sunshine state, accusing Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped. "It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs," he said before he alleged misconduct on behalf of the prosecutors. "And you're right, at one point in the speech, Donald Trump had even compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo, further trying to equate them to Nazi Germany," she added. "Now, Donald Trump also used the speech to lavish praise on some of his vice presidential contenders, including many of them who actually called up to the stage." According to NBC News, Trump raged, "These people are running a Gestapo administration. And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win in their opinion.” *“Once I got indicted, I said well, now the gloves have to come off,” Trump continued before stating Biden is “the worst president in the history of our country. He’s grossly incompetent.* *He’s crooked as hell. He’s the Manchurian candidate, he accepts massive amounts of money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine and many other countries. He’s a crook.”* __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

07-05-24, 05:19	#26
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Classified Docs; Escalating Tension-TRUMPs' Lawyers Deliberately Unavailable Trump Facing Critical Deadline in Judge Cannons' Courtroom With Two of TRUMPs' Lawyers Deliberately ''Unavailable'' ‘Escalating Tension’ in Judge Cannons’ Orders For TRUMPs' Classified Documents Case MSNRAW 7 MAY 2024 With no extension order filed in the docket by Florida Judge Aileen Cannon in the Donald Trump obstruction of justice trial, lawyers for the embattled ex-president are under the gun to disclose expert witnesses and documents with national security implications by May 15. Complicating matters, reports former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on her platform, is that two of Trump's primary lawyers are otherwise occupied. As Vance notes, Trump and his co-defendants face the deadline to "file their disclosures of any expert witnesses they plan to use as well as notices under Section 5(a) of the Classified Information and Procedures Act (CIPA) of any classified discovery materials they intend to use at trial." The timing of the filings is important because disclosure of the information must be handed over in order for the government review "to obtain rulings from the court and appeal if necessary to avoid a 'graymail' situation where defendants force the government to dismiss charges against them to avoid disclosure of classified information that would damage national security." As such, Vance suggested there will be a "hotbed of activity" within Trump's legal team that finds itself shorthanded because key Trump lawyer Chris Kise filed a “Notice of Unavailability” last week stating that he won't be involved until May 14. According to Vance, "It’s not clear how Kise’s unavailability applies to defendants who are represented separately." __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

08-05-24, 15:13	#27
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Classified Docs-Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts & INDEFINATELY Postpones Trial BUSTED: CROOKED Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts and NOT DISCLOSING... --Aileen Cannon failed to disclose all-expenses-paid right-wing junkets in Montana Judge Cannon INDEFINATELY Postpones TRUMPs' Classified Docs Trial... *--Cannon shredded for giving Trump 'indefinite trial delay' with new actions* MSNRAW 8 MAY 2024 'Thin ice': Judge Cannon is 'headed for the most trouble she has faced' The judge overseeing the former president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case lived it up at an all-expenses-paid retreat for right-wing federal jurists at a $1,000-a-night resort in Montana near Yellowstone National Park, reported Lucian K. Truscott IV for Salon. "It's called the Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, and it’s where George Mason University sends gaggles of federal judges for a week-long 'colloquium' every year or so," wrote Truscott — all paid for by the Antonin Scalia Law School, named for the late justice who ironically died on a ranch getaway paid for by right-wing benefactors. Topics at these conferences include "Woke Law!" and “Unprofitable Education: Student Loans, Higher Education Costs, and the Regulatory State” — which, Truscott noted, "rings what we might call a rather different bell after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last year." The GMU department behind this program has received generous donations from Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society leader who helped Trump appoint numerous judges and is under investigation in D.C. for allegedly funneling nonprofit money into his for-profit consulting firm. Cannon was a guest at these conferences in 2021 and 2022, Truscott wrote — however, she "failed to file the form known as a Privately Funded Seminar Disclosure Report, which lists whoever paid for the judge to attend the seminar, who the speakers were and what topics were discussed. "The form is supposed to be posted on the website of every federal court within 30 days of the time a judge attending such an all-expenses-paid seminar. "Cannon, however, somehow forgot to do so, so anyone who might be interested in learning who was paying for Cannon’s vacations and the nature of her judicial education would have been out of luck." Cannon has become a constant point of controversy for a series of unusual decisions made in the Trump case that appear calculated to help the former president. She tried to stop the FBI reviewing classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, later being smacked down by an all-Republican appellate panel, demanded special counsel Jack Smith hand over information to Trump that could expose witnesses to tampering, and is currently delaying the trial with no clear timeline for it moving ahead. "I mean, 10 grand or so in first-class air travel and luxury accommodations and bottomless trips to the luxo-resort’s 'local produce' salad bar and steak pit might start to look like a bribe when you pay attention to what was actually being discussed between float trips down the Yellowstone and hikes through the mountains, don’t you think?" wrote Truscott Judge Cannon INDEFINATELY Postpones TRUMPs' Classified Docs Trial.. The Judge presiding over Donald Trumps' criminal case in Florida — on charges that he hoarded classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate after his presidency — has indefinitely postponed the trial, once scheduled for May 20. The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trumps attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July. Cannon, a Trump appointee who took the bench in late 2020, indicated in the order that, before setting a new trial date, she intends to resolve the backlog of other issues in the case that have piled up on her plate. Smith’s defenders have criticized Cannon for what they see as a plodding pace in resolving pretrial matters, and tensions between the special counsel and the judge have flared in recent months over a series of puzzling rulings that threatened to derail the case. “[F]inalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified evidence] issues … would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions,” Cannon wrote in the five-page order. That reshuffling further clouds the picture for Smith, who is also awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity that could determine whether his other case against Trump — charges in Washington D.C. for attempting to subvert the 2020 election — can move forward this year..... In some circles, Cannon is commonly known as 'Trumps' Bitch'.... ALSO READ: ‘Morality does not exist for him’: Remembering Ted Cruz’s epic Trump rant LIAR Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts TRUMP Judge Postpones Documents Case 'Indefinitely,' but new legal calendar could backfire on Trump

23-05-24, 01:21	#29
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	MORE Classified Doc Files Found in Criminal TRUMPs' Bedroom After NEW FBI Search Tracking The Criminal Donald Trump Sensitive Classified Documents Files Found in TRUMP Bedroom After NEW FBI Search A newly unsealed filing in Trumps’ Florida classified documents criminal case shows that there were more classified documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago even after the FBI last searched Trumps’ property in 2023, confirming a scoop from the Guardians’ Hugo Lowell. The Guardian 23 MAY 2024 The Guardian 23 MAY 2024 David Harbach, center, a key prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smiths' team, walks out of the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami Defense attorneys representing former President Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, left, and Chris Kise, center, leave the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse after a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against Trump A lawyer for Donald Trumps’ personal valet took aim at the conduct of prosecutors in the classified documents case in a heated hearing Wednesday, the first since a judge indefinitely postponed the trial. Walt Nauta has pleaded not guilty Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for Walt Nauta, said prosecutors had targeted his client for prosecution after he refused to cooperate against Trump in the investigation. Nauta was charged alongside Trump last year in a federal case accusing them of conspiring to conceal boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trumps estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The defense lawyer also said a prosecutor in the case had warned him earlier in the investigation that he needed to be careful or he would “mess up” his bid for a Washington, D.C., judgeship, a comment Woodward interpreted as designed to get him to pressure Nauta to assist the inquiry. But David Harbach, a prosecutor with Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which brought the case, called Woodward’s allegations “garbage” and “fantasy.” He said the statements attributed to his colleague, Jay Bratt, had been taken out of context. Woodward said he would be willing to testify under oath about the exchange. A judge has questioned how Donald Trump could have overlooked sensitive documents that turned up in his bedroom after the FBI searched the former US president’s Florida home. The files were found in his private quarters months after federal agents discovered over 100 classified records as they executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in the summer of 2022. The judge also noted the prosecution’s belief that Mr Trump was “likely instructing his agents to avoid the surveillance cameras” at the golf club. He denies 40 federal charges of unlawful retention of national defence information. His co-defendants, aide Walt Nauta and former employee Carlos de Oliveira, have also pleaded not guilty. The trial is unlikely to begin before November's US election, in which Mr Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee. In the Trump case, a newly unsealed filing, external said the former president’s lawyers had turned over four additional documents with classification markings that were found in December 2022, four months after the FBI raid at the property. US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in the March 2023 opinion: “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.” After Mr Trump learned of this subpoena, prosecutors allege there was a “scramble" by Mr Nauta to change his travel plans and fly from New Jersey to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 to ensure boxes were moved “off-camera", according to the opinion unsealed on Tuesday. The judge notes “the curious absence of any video footage” capturing the return of certain boxes to a storage room. On Wednesday, Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee currently presiding over the case, was scheduled to hear arguments on the latest request by the former president to dismiss the indictment. He argues it fails to clearly articulate a crime and instead amounts to “a personal and political attack” against him. *His co-accused, Mr Nauta, will also seek to have his case thrown out.* He argues it amounts to selective prosecution because he opted not to co-operate in the probe. Mr Trump is facing dozens of other charges in three other criminal cases. He is currently in trial in New York over an alleged cover-up of hush-money payments to an adult-film star in 2016. Documents stored in Trumps' bedroom Boxes of documents stored in a bathroom at Trumps' Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in early 2021 15 boxes removed from Palm Beach estate The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but Cannon cancelled the trial date earlier this month. Documents reveal FBI was authorised to use ‘deadly force’ in Trumps' Mar a Lago estate raid

23-05-24, 20:47	#30
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Cannon FORCES Jack Smith to Hand Over 500 Pages of Mar-a-Lago Discovery Docs to TRUMP Jack Smith Hands Over 500 Pages Discovery Docs to TRUMP - and Jabs Cannon For Making Him Do It Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former presidents' lawyers accused him "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show. MSRAW 23 MAY 2024 In his letter to Florida federal court judge Aileen Cannon, Smith takes a stiff tone when he reports delivering 457 pages of discovery materials linked to Trumps accusations that the Justice department tampered with evidence. "The Government’s position [is] that such production exceeds its current discovery obligations," Smith writes. This measured remark stands in stark contrast to the letter from Trump's lead attorney Todd Blanche which spurred Thursday's massive document dump, court records show. On May 4, Blanche accused Smith of "extraordinary breach of your constitutional and ethical obligations" regarding boxes of documents seized from Trump's social club Mar-a-Lago. "We find your contentions to be self-serving and frivolous given your indefensible handling of the evidence at issue—you cannot seriously contend that your recent spoliation concession is irrelevant to President Trump’s pending pretrial motions," Blanche wrote. In a further request for back-up from Cannon, dated May 6, Blanche sneered at Smith's "dismissive and condescending tone." The subject of this tense legal battle is Smith's earlier admission that some documents were rearranged before they were scanned into the Justice department's system. While Smith's team described the incident as an inconsistency, Blanche argued prosecutors were guilty of a "full-throated but now concededly false assertions of compliance with their discovery obligations." This aligns with Trump's consistent messaging that the Justice Department is partaking in a political witch hunt to torpedo his 2024 presidential campaign.

27-05-24, 08:56	#31
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	SMART Move-Classified Docs: Jack Smiths New Filing Will Highlight Judge Cannons' Bias SMART Move: Legal Experts Say Jack Smiths' New Filing Will Highlight Judge Cannons' Bias Jack Smith Asks Judge to BAR TRUMP From Making Statements That Endanger Law Enforcement Special Counsel Jack Smiths' latest filing in the Florida classified documents case is carefully tailored to expose a jurist who has tipped the scales for defendant Donald Trump MSRAW 27 MAY 2024 Smith on Friday asked Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the case, to gag Trump to prevent the former president from making further statements that could endanger law enforcement officers. The filing is based on Trump's recent repetition of a false conspiracy theory that mischaracterized the search of his Mar-a-Lago golf club as an attempt to take his life. *But the filing is a trap for Cannon, who has been accused of slow-walking the ex-president's case such that the trial has been indefinitely postponed.* Roger Parloff, a senior editor at Lawfare, noted that the special counsel's new motion, seeking to halt the recent lies about an assassination attempt, "is crafted to highlight Judge Cannon's bias and hypocrisy if she fails to take action." "The motion twice cites Cannon's order 'ECF 101' in which she, on her own, invoked her 'independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding' in order to probe a dubious defense allegation of a prosecutor's ethical breach," according to Parloff. "Jack's new motion challenges Cannon to act on Trump's outlandish attacks on the FBI--which have already triggered an armed attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati--with a fraction of her solicitude for policing special counsel's ethics." Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, hailed the move by Smith's team. *"Smart move by Smith as Judge Cannon won't be likely to grant the gag order, will show her patent bias, and Smith can then appeal to the 11th Circuit," he said Friday.*

28-05-24, 17:14	#32
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	KID Cannon Threatens Sanctions to Jack Smith For DISRESPECT to Trumps' Team Judge 'KID' Cannon Threatens to Sanction Jack Smith For Lack of Courtesy to Trumps' Team U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a request from special counsel Jack Smith to modify Donald Trumps bond conditions in his classified documents case. AND rejects request for gag order against Trump MSRAW 28 MAY 2024 In a motion last week, Smith asked Cannon to modify the conditions to clarify that Trump cannot endanger law enforcement officials investigating his case. "The Government moves to modify defendant Donald J. Trump's conditions of release, to make clear that he may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case," Smith's motion said. Smith said Trump made statements "falsely suggesting that [the agents] were complicit in a plot to assassinate him" — referring to claims that agents were authorized to use "deadly force" when they went to Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents. On Tuesday, Cannon denied the motion without prejudice "for lack of meaningful conferral" with the defense. "The Court finds the Special Counsel's pro forma 'conferral' to be wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy. It should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise. Sufficient time needs to be afforded to permit reasonable evaluation of the requested relief by opposing counsel and to allow for adequate follow-up discussion as necessary about the specific factual and legal basis underlying the motion," Cannon wrote. "Any future, non-emergency motion brought in this case — whether on the topic of release conditions or anything else — shall not be filed absent meaningful, timely, and professional conferral," she warned. *"Failure to comply with these requirements may result in sanctions."* __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

02-06-24, 08:35	#33
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Incompetently BAD and Stupid: Judge Cannons' Latest Move on Jack Smiths' Title Incompetently BAD: Judge Cannons' Latest Move Approaching This Level of Stupid US. District Judge Aileen Cannons' latest move in Special Counsel Jack Smiths' Espionage Act prosecution of Donald Trump has legal experts throwing up their hands in disbelief. MSRAW 2 JUN 2024 Back in February, Trumps legal team claimed Special Counsel Jack Smiths' appointment was unlawful, as is the method of funding his office and his investigations. “Neither the Constitution nor Congress have created the office of the ‘Special Counsel,'” Trump’s attorneys wrote, CBS News had reported, “arguing the attorney general did not have the proper authority to name Smith to the job.” “The authority he attempts to employ as Special Counsel far exceeds the power exercisable by a non-superior officer, the authority that Congress has not cloaked him with,” they claimed. There are decades of precedence of Attorneys General appointing special counsels, special prosecutors, or independent counsels – possibly the most well-known being Ken Starr who investigated then-President Bill Clinton. CBS News also noted that “Garland cited numerous laws and regulations that he and other attorneys general have said confer necessary authority onto the selected prosecutors.” Issuing her latest edict, Judge Cannon, who likely has already delayed the trial until after the 2024 election, responded to the Trump legal team’s challenge of Smith’s appointment on Thursday. “Judge Cannon is giving Trumps legal team and the government 12 days to tell her how the SCOTUS decision upholding the CFPB’s funding/appointment impacts Trump’s claim that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and funded…,” reports Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch, who covers the Justice Dept. Constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis, mocking Judge Cannon’s order, wrote: “Jack Smith, You have 12 days to tell me how what Martha-Ann Alito ate for lunch on May 30, 2024 affects your appointment as special counsel. Xoxo, *Judge Cannon”* He added, “We’re approaching this level of stupid,” and concluded, “Judge Cannon is incompetently bad.”

11-06-24, 06:09	#34
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRUMPs' CROOKED Judge Cannon Expunges Indictment Paragraph in His Favour CLOWN Judge Cannon in Classified Documents Trial Expunges Indictment Paragraph TRUMP will not be charged for waving around classified papers, judge says The Guardian 11 JUN 2024 The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents agreed on Monday to expunge from the indictment a paragraph about an episode where the former president waved around a classified document at his Bedminster club in New Jersey. The US district judge Aileen Cannon ruled she would strike the paragraph because Trump was not charged with a crime for the conduct it described and would be unfairly prejudicial if a jury later saw it at trial. Cannon’s ruling is notable because it could indicate how she will rule on future motions by Trump to suppress evidence as he attempts to limit the scope of the evidence prosecutors can introduce against him – and thereby dramatically undercut the case. The move to strike the paragraph was unusual, legal experts said. Cannon ruled that the passage should be expunged relying in part on a federal rule that says evidence of “other crimes” cannot be used against a defendant to suggest bad character, without addressing the second part of that rule that allows it in the case that it shows proof of motive. The prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, had argued that they included the passage precisely because it was allowed under the second part of the rule but Cannon took issue with the fact that Trump had not been charged for the conduct it described. The passage in question – paragraph 36 – uses vague terms but describes Trump in 2021 waving around a classified map of Afghanistan while criticizing the US withdrawal to his now 2024 presidential campaign chief Susie Wiles, according to sources familiar with the matter. “In August or September 2021, when he was no longer president, Tump met in his office at The Bedminster Club with a representative of his political action committee (the ‘PAC Representative’). During the meeting, Trump commented that an ongoing military operation was not going well,” the paragraph said. “Trump showed the PAC Representative a classified map of Country B and told the PAC Representative that he should not be showing the map to the PAC Representative and to not get too close. The PAC Representative did not have a security clearance or any need-to-know classified information about the military operation.” Cannon rips up court schedule in Mar-a-Lago case, benefitting Trump MORE: DOJ Files 'Bratty' New Motion in Response to Aileen Cannon: Justice Department prosecutor Jay Bratt is being called a little "bratty" by legal analysts over his recent court filing in the classified documents case, commented legal experts Allison Gill and Andrew McCabe on the "Jack" podcast. MSNRAW 11 JUN 2024 Bratt clashed with Judge Aileen Cannon last week when he filed a request to adjust the bail conditions of former President Donald Trump's release that were set as a condition of his release after his arrest for allegedly retaining top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. In this particular case, Bratt argued that new restrictions on Trump's release were needed after he spread bogus conspiracy theories about the FBI supposedly being authorized to kill him, despite the fact that authorizations of deadly force are common in nearly all such search warrants. "We learned that Trump's attorneys misquoted language the FBI uses on operations orders, which they must prepare before executing any search warrant," explained McCabe. "Trump's attorneys said that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force when necessary," McCabe said. "When the ops order actually says, 'only when necessary' and 'only when the lives of officers or other people are in danger.'" Trump then used that language to falsely claim that President Joe Biden was attempting to assassinate him. The DOJ responded by filing this request to adjust the bail conditions. But in doing so, Bratt dodged a local rule demanding that prosecutors to "meet and confer" with Trump's team, which he did not do. In response, Judge Aileen Cannon denied the motion and reprimanded Bratt for the procedural error. This week, "Jay Bratt refiled his motion," Gill explained. "But I still think there might be some problems with this. First, he filed the exact same motion to modify bail conditions. The only thing he changed was the date because he said something like 'yesterday,' and it was May 28th, which is no longer 'yesterday.'" Bratt also didn't add any declarations from FBI agents to the motion. "And he didn't ask for an expedited briefing. He didn't file for emergency relief again," Gill continued. "And that move, just to refile the same thing again with your little meet and confer, at the end of it with your little meet and confer certificate, seemed like — it seemed bratty." Both hosts chuckled at the double meaning. "Well, it's definitely bratty because it's coming from Jay Bratt," McCabe quipped. "And, so, technically..." Gill said that it wasn't exactly unprofessional but it was a "dig" at the judge, like saying "fine. Here. Uggh." __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

22-06-24, 09:36	#35
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRUMP Asks His CROOKED Judge Cannon to Toss Out Lawyer Notes in Docs Case TRUMP Asks 'His' Judge to Toss Out Lawyer Notes in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case Humiliating: Judge in Trump Doc Case Rebuked For Hearing Flimsy Arguments and Delaying Case Judges’ handling of Trump documents case is highly unusual The Guardian 22 JUN 2024 In-Experienced Judge Aileen Cannon in Trump classified documents case refused to step aside, even though she has only had experience in judging minor cases before this one The first hearing on Trumps' request to dismiss his classified documents case. The unusual handling of the case by Judge Aileen Cannon, leads to criticism from a range of legal analysts. If ex-president succeeds, prosecutors could be left with only a sliver of evidence for obstruction charge Trumps’ legal team, led by Evan Corcoran Donald Trump is to ask the federal judge presiding in the criminal case over his retention of classified documents to revoke prosecutors’ access to memos made by his ex-lawyer that became key evidence of his efforts to obstruct the investigation, according to sources familiar with the plans. The request will be made before US district judge Aileen Cannon at a sealed hearing Tuesday. The former president last month challenged prosecutors’ access to transcripts of voice memos made by ex-lawyer Evan Corcoran, but what Trump will seek behind closed doors has not been reported. Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that none of the memos should have been given to prosecutors on the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to see privileged communications between a defendant and a lawyer, if their legal advice was used in furtherance of a crime. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The sweeping request could have far-reaching consequences since the memos – with, for example, Trump asking whether they could ignore the subpoena, or a later suggestion to “pluck” out some classified documents instead of returning them to the FBI – are the strongest evidence of Trump’s obstructive intent. Even if the judge excludes only some of the passages, it could dramatically undercut the strength of the obstruction case. In the worst case for prosecutors, their evidence of Trump’s obstructive intent could be reduced to CCTV footage of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago by his co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, logs of Trump’s calls with Nauta, and testimony about Nauta’s movements. Trump faces a struggle to get Cannon to overturn the initial ruling by the then chief US district judge Beryl Howell in Washington DC. But Cannon has previously ruled for Trump on evidentiary disputes, most recently removing a paragraph in the indictment about Trump waving around a classified map. The obstruction part of the case centers on Trump’s incomplete compliance with an 11 May 2022 grand jury subpoena that demanded the return of any classified documents in his possession, months before the FBI seized 101 classified documents when it searched Mar-a-Lago. The Corcoran memos – the contents of which were first reported by the Guardian last year – have played a major role in bolstering the charge that Trump conspired with Nauta and De Oliveira to play a “shell game” in hiding boxes of classified documents so Corcoran could not ensure their return. Corcoran met with Trump on 23 May 2022, several weeks after he accepted service of the grand jury subpoena, to discuss complying with the order, including searching Mar-a-Lago and preparing a statement certifying that they had complied. The indictment quoted the memos as saying Trump responded: “Well, what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” and “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” and “Well, look, isn’t it better if there are no documents?” According to the memos, Trump confirmed that Corcoran would return to Mar-a-Lago the following week, on 2 June 2022, to search through boxes brought from the White House that were in the storage room, and again confirmed on 1 June 2022 that Corcoran was indeed returning the next day. The indictment alleged that Trump, in the intervening period, directed Nauta and De Oliveira to move 64 boxes of documents to his residence from the storage room so he could go through them himself, but return only 30 boxes to the storage room, where Corcoran would do his search. After Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room, his memos recount Trump asking him: “Did you find anything? ... Is it bad? Good?” and made a sort of plucking motion, suggesting “if there’s anything really bad in there, like, pluck it out”. Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that the commentary in the memos, which prosecutors are likely to use at trial to show Trump’s obstructive state of mind, do not fall under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege and Howell erred in her decision to turn them over. Trump’s lawyers will argue that Howell was overly broad in determining that more than 60 pages of transcripts fell under the crime-fraud exception, and that the instances of Trump asking whether he needed to comply with the subpoena are questions that every defendant asks to understand the full scope of their obligations, the sources said. Trump’s lawyers are also expected to argue that none of the commentary – about Trump asking whether they needed to comply with the subpoena, or the plucking motion – satisfied the crime-fraud exception because it did not amount to Trump using Corcoran’s legal advice for a crime, the sources said. The original thinking on Trump’s legal team was to concede that some of the memos could conceivably be subject to the crime-fraud exception, such as when Corcoran told Trump he would be searching the storage room, and Corcoran’s confirmation about when he intended to return to Mar-a-Lago. Trumps lawyers have since rejected that approach, reasoning that any concession could give the judge an off-ramp to wholly deny their request, whereas asking for all the memos to be struck would be a stronger argument and lead the judge to strike even some of the memos. __________________ *6000 PLUS* Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him PLEASE Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ...** 1..

24-06-24, 19:29	#36
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,260 Thanks: 28,721 Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Jack Smith Probed TRUMPs' Secret Mar-a-Lago Trip He Tried to Keep Quiet Jack Smith Probed TRUMPs' Mysterious Mar-a-Lago Trip That He Tried to Keep Quiet Judge to weigh removing Jack Smith in Trump classified documents case MSNRAW 24 JUN 2024 Special counsel Jack Smith investigated a mysterious trip that former President Donald Trump made to Mar-a-Lago in July of 2022, just weeks before the FBI would execute a search warrant to retrieve top-secret government documents he had stashed there. ABC News reports that the trip raised suspicions among prosecutors because it came shortly after the government issued a subpoena in June of 2022 for Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage that would later be used as evidence that Trump tried to illegally obstruct government efforts to retrieve the documents. The trip to Mar-a-Lago also appeared suspicious because it came at a time when the club was undergoing serious renovations. Added to all that, reports ABC, "At least one witness who worked closely with the former president recalled being told at the time of the trip that Trump was there 'checking on the boxes,'" although this assertion was contradicted by other witnesses who said that Trump went to the resort to check on the status of the resort's renovations. Regardless, messages obtained by Smith's team show that Trump aides were keen to keep the visit "secret" for unexplained reasons. "On July 8, when one Trump Organization employee reached out to indicted co-conspirator Walt Nauta wanting to confirm rumors of a Trump visit so proper preparations could be made, Nauta made clear he wanted the trip to remain 'discreet,'" reports ABC News. "The sources said Nauta sent a text message to the employee that included emojis with zippers over the mouth, which is often used to convey a secret." Trump was indicted by Smith last year on charges of unlawfully retaining classified documents, including intelligence reports about a foreign nation's nuclear weapons program, and for trying to obstruct government efforts to retrieve the documents. Judge to weigh removing Jack Smith in Trump classified documents case