I think the Roe decision is going to influence turnout that may help in the house. If not McCarthy is going to spend every second on witch hunts and impeachment hearings
A basic timeline on it all. A padlocked room, torn pages and an FBI raid: A timeline of Trump's trouble with National Archives | Daily Mail Online
Heard the same, from a NYT reporter. (The NYT leans left editorially, but they do not promulgate lies, unlike some media outlets. They’re too afraid of lawsuits. They’re conservative in that respect.)
Roe may keep the house from being a blowout but I don't think it will keep it from tipping. As long as the Dems keep reign over judgeships for two more years, McCarthy can knock himself out.
Well, we already know that he had classified documents that were turned over in January. So let's wait and see what else he had.
Thanks for that. So, looking at the timeline, archives showed up in May 2021, were slow walked until they finally showed up and took some documents in January 2022, then made public their referral to the DOJ in February, then met with him again as a grand jury was empaneled in May/June and finally executed a search warrant for the remaining documents in August. Or as the anti-anti-Trumpers would tell us, there must have been a better way!
This article is a top notch and hard to ignore factual statement and makes the search seem an unavoidable last resort. The following statement is typical Trump BS that the far right just laps up, no questions asked: "Trump's spokesman Taylor Budowich said the records retrieving process was 'normal and routine' but was being 'weaponized by anonymous, politically motivated government sources to peddle Fake News'."
It is amazing how the far right in washington, on this site, and everywhere in between starts squealing like stuck pigs the moment they learn, NOT the facts, but that a search warrant was executed at Trump's "residence". They're so dug in now there's no way they'll look at the facts and admit their pre- and im-maturity.
The posted timeline from the Daily Mail goes well with article, that states in order for a warrant to be signed to search a former President's residence, it would need to be reviewed at the highest levels in the DOJ and FBI, and contain a pulverizing amount of evidence that the judge could not ignore. Also interesting to note, that because the docs were secured under this warrant, there is no forbidden fruit. Anything the FBI finds could be used against Trump. Maybe the FBI finds something for the Jan 6 Committee finds very interesting? If true, Trump could complain all he wants, but has no legal recourse from stopping the Committee from getting a hold of the docs.
the fbi could be after papers with active nuclear codes trump has laying around his desk showing off, and trump-followers wouldn’t speak out against Dear Leader.
I think there’s a possibility this one didn’t make it the whole way up the chain at DOJ (as difficult to imagine as that is). In part because I suspect that, if it had, someone would have said “if we’re going to execute a search warrant on a former President, please take it to an actual Article III judge rather than the duty magistrate at the West Palm federal courthouse.”
