FBI Executed a Warrant at Mar a Lago; the Investigation Continues

Thank you for making my point. Charges don’t mean dick. Hes’s had a lot of charges against him and not one has been even substantiated, much less proven. You clowns have given him and his crowd all they need to claim fake news and witch hunts. Same is true for Clinton. The only thing they got him for was lying about something that had zero to do with what they were investigating him on. Clinton had a lot of “charges” against him as well.

 

I didn’t know what was an FSU fan. Now I really hate him!

 

I remember much more discussion about trump nominating judges who would likely keep him safe from indictment. Kavanaugh wrote a paper on why a sitting president couldn’t be indicted. Bingo! You got your nomination

 

The point of my posts is that our Court should follow the rules of law, very rarely and only exceptionally rare matters departing from prior decisions. This new Court is politically driven' and by design. A political system founded on a system of checks and balances fails when one of the three branches becomes a wing of another.

 

But yet they keep slapping L's on the clown that the left keeps saying pulls the strings.

 

DOJ reveals it has additional evidence against Trump that has not been presented in court filings (msn.com)

The Department of Justice has additional evidence against Donald Trump that it has not publicly revealed, according to a new court filing.

On Friday, the DOJ officially appealed Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon's controversial appointment of Special Master Raymond Dearie to oversee the documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. The document was filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

"In a 53-page brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, the Justice Department broadly challenged the legal legitimacy of orders last month by Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who blocked investigators from using the materials and appointed an independent arbiter to sift them for any that are potentially privileged or Mr. Trump’s personal property," The New York Times reported. "The Justice Department already succeeded in persuading a panel of the Atlanta-based court to exempt about 100 documents marked classified from Judge Cannon’s move — a decision the Supreme Court declined to overturn this week."

In a footnote on page six of the appeal, DOJ explained it has additional evidence that Trump had classified documents at his Florida resort. "Here and before the district court, the government has referred to evidence developed in its investigation to inform the courts of the relevant facts," DOJ wrote. "Where possible, the government refers to portions of the affidavit accompanying its search warrant application that have been unsealed or to other information in the public record."

 

A Trump aide seen moving boxes around Mar-a-Lago before the FBI raid is a former White House staffer, reports say (msn.com)


The aide to former President Donald Trump who moved boxes of government records from a storage room in Mar-a-Lago in surveillance footage that prompted the FBI's raid on the resort was identified in multiple reports.

Citing a source familiar with the investigation, CBS News on Monday confirmed reports in the The New York Times and The Washington Post that identified Walt Nauta, a former White House staffer turned Trump aide, as the staffer who moved the records.

The reports say that Nauta is cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation into Trump's retention of thousands of government records after leaving office.

They say he has told investigators that Trump directed him to move the boxes.

 

WiTcHuNt. fAkE nEwZ.

 

so DT's lawyers filed their case in person, something unheard of, and did not mark the case as related to the open case with the search warrant. blamed a technical glitch as why they didn't file electronically when all other electronic submissions went thru that day. filed in a district over 40 miles away from Mar Lago. Obvious, blatant judge shopping.

Why didn't DOJ move to remove this case from this judge from day 1? She pulled 35% of the cases in that district that week and is only 1 of 9 judges there.

Is judge shopping illegal or just immoral?

Does the failure to mark the case as related make it an illegal filing?

"I find it bizarre": Experts think it's fishy how Trump Judge Aileen Cannon landed Mar-a-Lago case (msn.com)

Legal experts have questioned for weeks how Trump's team landed the case in front of Cannon.

"If there wasn't at least the potential to judge shop why on g_d's green earth would Trump have gone all the way to her district to file and do so physically, when he could have electronically filed at the court in his backyard?" wondered former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team.

One of the South Florida lawyers interviewed by the Daily Beast suggested that "somebody pulled a fast one in the clerk's office to rotate it to a friendly judge."

But court employees told the outlet that the case was placed into the federal court system's automatic random judge "assignment wheel." Cannon, one of nine judges in the district, had a one-in-nine chance of landing the case but The Daily Beast found that Cannon landed nine of the 29 new complaints filed that week. The system "still appears random," Pagliery wrote, noting that another judge also landed cases from the assignment wheel as well.

 

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Journalists are next.

 

If they have classified information at their homes, good.

 

May have happened already. This guy reportedly had classified material on his computer (maybe - FBI isn't saying) and now he has disappeared.

FBI Raids Star ABC News Producer James Gordon Meek’s Home – Rolling Stone

The network’s national-security investigative producer was responding to former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos’ take that the Ukrainian military — with assistance from the U.S. — was thriving against Russian forces. Polymeropoulos’ tweet — filled with acronyms indecipherable to the layperson, like “TTPs,” “UW,” and “EW” — was itself a reply to a missive from Washington Post Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe, who noted the wealth of information the U.S. military had gathered about Russian ops by observing their combat strategy in real time. The interchange illustrated the interplay between the national-security community and those who cover it. And no one straddled both worlds quite like Meek, an Emmy-winning deep-dive journalist who also was a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. To his detractors within ABC, Meek was something of a “military fanboy.” But his track record of exclusives was undeniable, breaking the news of foiled terrorist plots in New York City and the Army’s coverup of the fratricidal death of Pfc. Dave Sharrett II in Iraq, a bombshell that earned Meek a face-to-face meeting with President Obama. With nine years at ABC under his belt, a buzzy Hulu documentary poised for Emmy attention, and an upcoming book on the military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the 52-year-old bear of a man seemed to be at the height of his powers and the pinnacle of his profession.

The first thing Meek’s neighbor John Antonelli noticed that morning was the black utility vehicle with blacked out windows blocking traffic in both directions on Columbia Pike. It was just before dawn on that brisk April day, and self-described police-vehicle historian Antonelli was about to grab a coffee at a Starbucks before embarking on his daily three-mile walk. He inched closer to get a better vantage, when he saw an olive-green Lenco BearCat G2, an armored tactical vehicle often employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other law-enforcement agencies. A few Arlington County cruisers surrounded the jaw-dropping scene, but all of the other vehicles were unmarked, including the BearCat. Antonelli counted at least 10 heavily armed personnel in the group. None bore anything identifying which agency was conducting the raid. After just 10 minutes, the operation inside the Siena Park apartment complex — a six-story, upscale building for D.C. professionals, with rents fetching about $2,000 to $3,000 a month — was over.

n the raid’s aftermath, Meek has made himself scarce. None of his Siena Park neighbors with whom Rolling Stone spoke have seen him since, with his apartment appearing to be vacant. Siena Park management declined to confirm that their longtime tenant was gone, citing “privacy policies.” Similarly, several ABC News colleagues — who are accustomed to unraveling mysteries and cracking investigative stories — tell Rolling Stone that they have no idea what happened to Meek. “He fell off the face of the Earth,” says one. “And people asked, but no one knew the answer.”

An ABC representative tells Rolling Stone, “He resigned very abruptly and hasn’t worked for us for months.”

 

Having classified materials in your home is illegal for all Americans, except one. Good to know.

 

Only ones that have illegally obtained classified information in their possession. Should that not be prosecuted? Is there a special class of people that are allowed to break the law and illegally possess classified information?

 

Journalists are in an odd spot due to their 1st amendment protections.

Technically, they can be prosecuted for “possessing” classified documents. If they (for instance) have copies or original files in their possession. But if the reason for their possession is professional, and it was “leaked” to them by a person with clearance (I.e. they didn’t pay for them or commit a crime to obtain them), then I think constitutionally such a journalist should be protected by the 1st amendment.

Normally the govt doesn’t prosecute journalists for these activities, sometimes we see them shaken down to try and get at their sources, the source would be more directly committing a crime to disseminate classified information they themselves had access too. Basically, the journalist has a claim to 1st amendment protections but the “source” does not. Journalist sometimes ends up in the middle while protecting their source.

 

Yeah if he got it as part of a legitimate investigation he might very well be cleared in court. Because there’s no other way for the media to expose problems and the government can’t simply classify problems to hide them. Would be a terrible precedent, as long as any publication doesn’t put lives at risk.
If he was given them outside of his job, hope he goes to jail.

 

How many journalists get a bearcat! Cool stuff

 

that clown was just a tool of the Federalist Society. Make no mistake, the FS is the primary reason they were in a position to be nominated and why they were chosen and approved. They properly concluded a long time ago that the laws could be made via the judiciary branch playing in the grey much easier than thru the legislative branch defining the black and white. And as much as they claim to be originalists, they espouse any part of originalism that doesn't fit their needs, ie the first words of the 2A, As part of a well regulated militia just lost any meaning somehow