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

You ever notice with any Trump transgression there is always a big effort to shift the focus off the salient matter to irrelevant tangential ones?

They should have sent fewer agents. They should have dressed differently. They shouldn't have done it without Trump present. His attorney didn't get to watch.

 

He is the biggest victim in the history of mankind … when he is not acting as the biggest bully on the street.

 

Well they spent 2 hours in Melania’s unmentionables so you have to factor that in as well

 

The trump team released the May 10 NARA letter. I don't know why. The only remotely gotcha is NARA had to ask the White House to engage the FBI on the matter, per procedure. The memo's other facts and positioning are greatly detrimental to trump's public situation.

The letter references some rather specious argument made by trump's team at the time.



Wall's letter is in the embedded article:

Full text of National Archives letter to Trump on classified documents

 

So what I'm taking from this is Trump was trying to keep the FBI from even knowing what documents he had taken. The FBI wanted to understand what Trump had taken with him to understand what information may have been compromised, but Trump first stonewalled them, and then tried to exert a "blanket" executive privilege to keep anyone from knowing what info he had.

And this was just for the documents that had been returned. Not the documents they later determined he hadn't returned.

Just wow...

 

And this is from MSNBC so a grain of salt, but I don’t think it’s wrong. If Trump personally went through the boxes to decide what to return, then he can’t pin this on anyone else.

‘Incredibly Damning’: Ex-FBI General Counsel Declares Mar-a-Lago Classified Docs Reveal a ‘Substantial Criminal Case’ Against Trump

 

Vintage Trump, and the sheep will surely follow.

Trump turns his legal battle after FBI search into political rallying cry | CNN Politics
“Trump's filing -- the most concrete and aggressive formal legal move in the case so far -- is a classic of its genre. It fits squarely into the ex-President's history of using the legal system to delay, distract, distort and politicize accusations against him, a strategy that has often worked well to spare or postpone serious accountability. And it is also a characteristic example of how the former President often mixes and matches political and legal strategies when he comes under investigation.

“While the motion is a formal legal document, it serves as a political roadmap that explains how Trump would style himself as a presidential candidate persecuted, as he sees it, for partisan reasons by the Biden administration. It's also offers 27 pages of talking points for Trump's GOP allies [the sheep] and serves to take the focus away from the core questions in the case: did he illegally and recklessly keep classified information and government secrets to which he was not entitled and which could put national security as risk? And did Trump or those around him try to obstruct the investigators from continuing their pursuit?”

My mother-in-law, RIP, a devout Catholic and lovely woman, believed Satan, or his Proxies, roamed the earth wrecking havoc. When I ponder Trump and the misery he’s caused so many over the course of his life, I halfway believe her.

 

Yep, distraction, deflection, equivocation, whataboutism, and when all else fails: ad hominem.

 

So they got him this time?

 

Impeachment is a political process. On the merits, they have “had him”… basically every time. With the Ukraine scandal and now this situation, he’s literally caught red handed. The question is what are we going to do about it.

 

Yep, and every time before.

"It is critical to remember that hysterias are to the Capitol storming right what oxygen is to biological life. No oxygen, no life; no hysteria, no right".
-- Trickster

 

Only the best people:

Judge Shuts Two Trump Attorneys Out of Challenge to Mar-a-Largo Search Warrant Because They Failed to File in 'Strict Accordance' with the Rules

 

you wouldn't be doing all that at site.

 

Steve Vladeck is insightful on such matters

 

This is not that complicated or time consuming. How often do you handle classified material?

 

The judge seems to be a bit irate.

 

I think part of the issue is that there two different things at play here. One, the classified nature of the documents and the legal process of securing evidence.