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Live Updates: Documents Taken From Trump’s Home Included Classified Materia +4/-1
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| Author:TheCrow
8/12/2022 5:01:47 PM |
Where are 'conservatives' slobbering to get after "liberal traitors"? Why did The Donald have classified documents in his home? Items removed from Mar-a-Lago included files marked as top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to a copy of the warrant.  A list of documents removed from former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, includes materials marked as top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to a copy of the warrant obtained by The New York Times. Federal agents who executed the warrant did so to investigate potential crimes associated with violations of the Espionage Act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary; a federal law that makes it a crime to destroy or conceal a document to obstruct a government investigation; and another statute associated with unlawful removal of government materials. Sections of the warrant and an accompanying inventory were reported earlier in the The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The search on Monday seized 11 sets of documents in all, including some marked as “classified/TS/SCI” documents — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to the report. In total, agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. Included in the manifest were also files pertaining to the pardon of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime associate of Mr. Trump, and material about President Emmanuel Macron of France. The inventory, which accompanied a warrant issued by a federal judge, were released as part of the Justice Department’s efforts to make the warrant and some supporting materials public. Calls and texts sent to Mr. Trump’s lawyers were not immediately returned. The warrant appears to have given agents fairly broad latitude in searching for materials deemed to be improperly stored at Mar-a-Lago, allowing access to “the 45 Office” and “all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas” on the premises that might be used to store documents. Mr. Trump had announced late Thursday that he supported the Justice Department’s legal effort to release the search warrant executed at his residence in Mar-a-Lago — with bravado and the suggestion that it was somehow his idea in the first place. “Release the documents now!” he said amid a flurry of revelations about the investigation into his handling of White House documents, including some involving what one person briefed on the matter said were highly sensitive national security materials. Mr. Trump’s legal team had until 3 p.m. Eastern on Friday to officially respond to the Justice Department about whether he had any objection to the release of the search warrant and an inventory of items taken by federal agents during the search of his Florida home on Monday. Mr. Trump had also been free to make them public himself. On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, tensely reading from a teleprompter, announced the department had asked Judge Bruce Reinhart, a magistrate in the Southern District of Florida to unseal the warrant, a short document with limited information. But, as importantly, he also asked to make public key supporting documents which include the items F.B.I. agents were looking for on Monday, and what they ultimately carted away in sealed envelopes that were placed in boxes. The most informative and sensitive document, an affidavit detailing the “probable cause” evidence that prompted Judge Reinhart to approve the search, will not be released now, or probably ever, department officials said on Thursday. |
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| Msg ID: 2738821 |
Your post is a lie, Trump declassified all the material. (NT) +2/-3
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| Author:Old Guy
8/12/2022 9:26:41 PM Reply to: 2738786 |
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| Msg ID: 2738832 |
Your post is a lie, Trump declassified all the material. +5/-2
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| Author:TheCrow
8/13/2022 12:02:01 AM Reply to: 2738821 |
So- that's exactly what he told law enforcement when they served the search warrant...? They violated the law? |
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| Msg ID: 2738841 |
The truth really hurts you libs. +2/-4
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| Author:observer II
8/13/2022 7:42:38 AM Reply to: 2738832 |
At least Trump knows what classified material means. Hitlery had no idea what classified meant. And that is the type of people democrats are these days. Ignorant and just plain stupid. Thank goodness their insanity is coming to an end. We need people in Washington that actually know basic skills like what exactly is classified material. And other relevent things like the purpose and function of government agencies. And possibly not using these agencies as a political weapon against opponents. what a crazy thought :) :) |
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| Msg ID: 2739064 |
Not the first time- National Archives retrieves boxes of presidential recor +3/-1
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| Author:TheCrow
8/14/2022 7:20:30 PM Reply to: 2738786 |
It's a perverse logic that Trump appeals to the "Law and Order Party", the Republicans, as he openly violates moral and legal standards. “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” George Orwell Trump rewrites the past to "... control the future." All his prosecutions are political persecutions. I'm as sceptical as anyone of the power of the establishment and power's ability to corrupt. When you are amoral, rich and powerful, there is nothing to stop you. Trump proves this often. He doesn't win them all, so each effort to hold him accountable is an opportunity to prove that all are equal in the eyes of the law.
National Archives retrieves boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago Officials say the records were improperly removed from the White House. National Archives retrieves Trump documents, records On his last day in office, former President Donald Trump took documents, including the letter former President Barack Obama left for his successor on Inauguration Day and letters from Kim Jong Un.
The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said Monday it was "too early" to know if the probe has been impacted by the discovery that Donald Trump took boxes of presidential records with him when he left the White House last year. National Archives officials confirmed Monday that the agency recently retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from the former president's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida that were "improperly" removed after the end of his time in the White House. According to National Archivist David Ferriero, representatives for Trump are "continuing to search" for more records that may have been improperly taken from the White House. Sources tell ABC News that the documents, which were retrieved last month, included communications between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, as well as a letter from former President Barack Obama to Trump that was left as per custom ahead of Trump's inauguration. Officials say the records should have been transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from the White House at the conclusion of the Trump administration in January 2021, as required by the Presidential Records Act. "NARA pursues the return of records whenever we learn that records have been improperly removed or have not been appropriately transferred to official accounts," Ferriero said. The Washington Post first reported the news of the records being retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. 
In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump reviews papers during an interview in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to ABC News' request for comment. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for the House committee investigating Jan. 6 to access hundreds of National Archives records as part of its probe. Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told ABC News that it was "too early" to know how Trump's handling of White House records has impacted the committee's work to date -- and whether it has prevented investigators from obtaining key documents and records. Thompson on Monday said the committee "would not hesitate" to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department if lawmakers determine that Trump willfully violated the Presidential Records Act. MORE: Ex-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany turned over text messages to Jan. 6 committee"We will continue to review, and if the review shows that a referral is warranted, we won't hesitate to do it," Thompson said. As previously reported by ABC News, House investigators have discovered that Trump had a habit of shredding documents, notes and other White House records into little pieces that at times left aides scrambling to pick them up off the floor of the Oval Office, sources said. "The destruction of documents, the reports of large quantities of documents in Mar-a-Lago, all point to a violation of the record-keeping requirements, and the tearing up certainly seems like a willful violation of the law," committee member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told ABC News. "We're going to look at how we can have a more effective mechanism of ensuring compliance," Schiff said. "There is substantive concern about it, and it's not a concern that began in the last administration, but it certainly has reached a new height." |
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