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IN HIS FINAL days in the White House, Donald Trump told top advisers he needed to preserve certain Russia-related documents to keep his enemies from destroying them. The documents related to the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and alleged collusion with Trump’s campaign. At the end of his presidency, Trump and his team pushed to declassify these so-called “Russiagate” documents, believing they would expose a “Deep State” plot against him. According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation and another source briefed on the matter, Trump told several people working in and outside the White House that...

The Justice Department on Thursday said Trump may not have turned over all of the classified documents taken from the White House. Joe Biden’s corrupt Justice Department on Thursday appealed Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. “Notice is hereby given that the United States of America. Defendant in the above-captioned matter, appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from the order of the district court entered on September 5, 2022.” the DOJ attorney wrote. The DOJ in its filing asked Judge Cannon to...

As the title suggests, something's been bothering me about the photo of "classified documents" released by the DOJ in their response filing for the special master request by Trump's legal team. The cover sheets are all wrong. I've had access to Top Secret/SCI material for over 40 years, working with it on a daily basis. I have never seen cover sheets with a solid color border that say "SECRET/SCI" or "TOP SECRET/SCI." Those would be OK if they were just SECRET or TOP SECRET collateral information (not sensitive compartmented information - SCI). The cover sheets for SCI documents have striped...

Former President Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the documents taken by the FBI in their raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence was rejected by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on the grounds that it is now moot. DOJ attorneys explained that "the whole point of a neutral party serving as a special master is to protect the suspect's attorney-client confidentiality from being exposed to the prosecutors. However, as Attorney General Merrick Garland has admitted, the FBI has already read all the documents—including the privileged communications between Trump and his lawyers. We know everything. There is nothing...

Kash Patel, a former top House Intelligence Committee aide, said he believes special counsel John Durham has figured out the "insurance policy" discussed by leading FBI officials in the heat of the 2016 presidential election. A text message sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page in August 2016 mentioning an "insurance policy" is integral to what Republican investigators have long suspected to be part of a so-called plot to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump — a view rejected by ex-top FBI brass involved in the matter. Strzok and Page, who were romantically linked, have filed separate lawsuits...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr trashed Trump during a segment on Fox News. Barr defended Biden’s jackbooted thugs who raided Trump’s Florida home and bashed the former president for storing White House documents at Mar-a-Lago. “I think for them to taken things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence.. People say this was unprecedented, well it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a county club,” Bill Barr said. Trump didn’t put classified documents in a “country club.” According to Trump, he had a “standing order” to declassify all...

Six years seems such a long time ago. The kids were little, TikTok didn’t exist, and gas prices averaged $2.23 a gallon under Obama. The election was coming up, and Hillary Clinton was going to win. Naturally. And then we found out what a bunch of hacks those pollsters and other media cheerleaders for the Democrats were. We found out how wonderful things can be when the right people, like those gasbags at Davos, are told off. Mean tweets were embarrassing but oddly funny and satisfying. The gas prices got lower. The country was energy independent for the first time...

But department officials are not expected to file charges imminently, if they ever do. And the specific contents of the materials the government recovered in the search remain unclear — as does what risk to national security Mr. Trump’s decision to retain the materials posed.

The general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration, who was central to coordinating between NARA and former President Donald Trump's attorneys regarding the documents at Mar-a-Lago, previously sued then-President Ronald Reagan in 1989 while working at the American Civil Liberties Union. Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI's Washington Field Office on Aug. 8, after Trump's team had voluntarily given documents to NARA and was working through issues of executive privilege. Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran wrote NARA General Counsel Gary Stern on April 29 that the former president wanted to personally review the documents that NARA had received...

A: So, the FBI/DOJ claim that documents at Mar-a-Largo may have been moved and they were told they could not access them when they were executing a subpoena. And to them, this raises questions of "obstruction". Well, I have some questions for them...— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 31, 2022B: 1.The former president and his staff are free to look through the boxes, or even move them if the former president seeks access to them, so when you say they may have been moved, what are you claiming? That they were moved for the purpose of concealing them from you?...

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended former President Trump in the wake of an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property but noted Trump “should have turned over all” of the classified documents authorities said he kept after he left the White House. “I understand he turned over a lot of documents. He should have turned over all of them. I imagine he knows that very well now as well,” Blunt said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

Crazy Uncle Joe Strikes Again… Hillary Clinton took Joe Biden with her on the campaign trail today after a weekend of rest. Biden took to the stage to bash businessman Donald Trump. Then he gave away the Secret Service agent who was holding the nuclear codes. "Donald Trump… He cannot be trusted. There’s a guy that follows me, has the nuclear codes. So, God forbid anything happen to the president and I had to make a decision the codes are with me… He is not qualified." What an complete idiot. https://youtu.be/QNfBo8biMiE

President Biden on Friday dismissed the claim from former President Trump that he broadly declassified the boxes of White House documents he took to Florida after leaving office. Biden was dismissive about Trump’s claim that he had declassified the documents that were being kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate hours after the Justice Department released an affidavit that offered some new information about the materials recovered there. “’I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president,’” Biden said sarcastically, waving his hands in the air. “Come on.”

1. As the ball keeps moving … now, it’s said, that the real issue re documents at Mar-a-Largo is possession; that is, that President Trump took documents that belong to the government the second after he left office. This is as moronic as the rest of the allegations.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 26, 2022

Outgoing Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that former President Donald Trump “could end up being indicted” for the documents that were removed from his Florida estate by the FBI during a raid earlier this month. Mitchell said, “Talk about your reaction to The New York Times reporting that the former President Donald Trump had more than 300 documents stored at Mar-a-Lago over the months and months of trying to get cooperation.”

The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump's personal "stash" of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek. To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president's residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump's private hoard, agents went into Trump's residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize. "They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government...

The FBI has revealed that it was searching. for boxes of classified information from Donald Trump’s presidency during its raid of Mar-a-Lago. Trump now faces accusations of violating the Presidential Records Act, a law that was enacted in 1978 after former President Richard Nixon tried to claim his secret Oval Office tapes and other records were his ‘personal property.’ The law states that “the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records.” David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, said, “The Presidential Records Act is critical to our democracy, in which the government is...

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, pointing to a report that said the information was covered by attorney-client or executive privilege. “Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,” Trump said on his Truth Social site. “By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location...

@FoxNews No more Eric Shawn! He’s no journalist, just a biased pawn for the DNC! An activist promoting hate for Trump & Trump supporters!🤬🤬🤬 pic.twitter.com/37WaFZxXgf— Charlotte 🍊🇺🇸 @ Charzdesigns on Truth Social (@Charsky1207) August 13, 2022@FoxNews Eric Shawn has accused Trump of lying and is taking the anti-Trump attitude of the leftists & progressive vindictiveness, get these leftist elements out of your ranks, will stop watching your declining shows.— Eagle1 (@macervantes1) August 13, 2022@FoxNews Eric Shawn's getting rather defensive with the formal Federal prosecutor. Trump's had this stuff for a 1.5 years since he left office, now after classified documents?...

Judicial Watch today announced that the National Security Council (NSC) on May 23, 2017, informed it by letter that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” were removed government possession. The documents were moved to the Obama Library. The NSC will not fulfill an April 4 Judicial Watch request for records regarding information relating to people “who were identified pursuant to intelligence collection activities.” The agency also informed Judicial Watch that it would not turn over communications with any...