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Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton called the photo “dishonest.”

The Biden FBI staged a dishonest photo with purportedly classified material, with the approval of the Biden DOJ, and submitted it to a court to try to make Trump look bad. These agencies are irredeemably corrupt.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 31, 2022

In a TruthSocial post, former President Trump tsk tsk’d the FBI’s handling of his documents.

Read the whole thing: ‘6 Ways From Sunday’ Alert: Yet ANOTHER NEW PROBE Into Trump’s Declassified Docs

The DOJ’s filing came late last night because the Creative Writing Department at DOJ, which doesn’t exist, hit a wall. Garbage cans were overflowing, everyone was getting punchy, and nobody wanted to die walking to Starbucks. So they were forced to go to the kitchen and steal the leftover Four Lokos someone still had squirreled away in their cubby. By the time it was over, DOJ lawyers had patched together a narrative, put lots of Nixon references in it, pretended Trump had to assert all presidential document rights or they didn’t count, and hoped the judge wouldn’t notice the president has the power to declassify documents and has a right to retain documents under the Presidential Records Act.

Here’s an English-language version of the DOJ/FBI assertions:

President Trump put personal things in a box we demanded, so we assume he wasn’t careful enough with all the documents.
President Trump shouldn’t have a special master cull through the docs because we already did.
President Trump had things marked “classified” in his house, so we took all the boxes and documents around them.
Nixon was charged with obstruction so, by the neighborhood rule, Trump can’t have docs, either.
He didn’t assert privilege over all the documents we took in the raid, so he can’t have them.
We didn’t tell the president what we took in a raid until today.
We raided his house because when he handed over documents, he had things we didn’t want him to have, even though he may have declassified them.
We don’t like Orange Man to be able to declassify docs.
We believe he “likely” did something wrong.
We think he moved documents, and moving documents must mean he was obstructing our raid, which hadn’t happened yet.
He’s a former president but we don’t think he should have these documents.
We won’t discuss if they’re declassified because that doesn’t help our case. And even if he did declassify them, we don’t acknowledge it.
When we came to “interview” him about the documents in June, he never said he declassified them or asserted privilege, and we never would have touched them if he had.
He may still have had more documents we didn’t want him to have and therefore that is obstruction of the non-crime statutes we named in our probable cause documents to get the search warrant.
Trust us.
See? This photo shows Trump was messy.