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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Mar-a-Lago Raid => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 09, 2023, 05:57:39 pm
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https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1667226756816707589
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1667227223554760707
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1667227632906149897
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Read the indictment against Donald Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/trump-indictment-in-classified-records-case-is-unsealed.html
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Trump needs a few Hail Mary's and an unbeatable defense team of lawyers.
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
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Indictment confirms Garland's indictment of Trump is political:
1. Presidential Records Act, not Espionage Act, controls former president's handling of his presidential records
2. Generally, legally impossible to obstruct investigation into non-crime, per binding 2019 OLC memo
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OMG
HowardKurtz
@HowardKurtz
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More from indictment: Trump showed a member of his PAC a secret map of Country B, said he shouldn't be showing it, and said a military operation was not going well there
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1667226507809267723
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Trump needs a few Hail Mary's and an unbeatable defense team of lawyers.
He better start with Hail Marys.....Andy McCarthy on Fox just said this is really bad for Trump especially showing friends classified docs..
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Prosecutor to speak at 3pm est
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https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1667229016531808256
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Erick Erickson
@EWErickson
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The problem for Trump -- you can "but Hillary" and "but Biden" all you want, but they have Trump on tape admitting he is showing classified documents that have not been declassified and he is showing them to people without proper clearance.
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https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1667232818626174977
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Not good for Trump, but this is still a wildly selective prosecution on very shaky grounds.
If you ever wondered what a "bloodless coup" looks like: you're watching one now.
I fear the blood will come eventually.
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This is how they get Hunter and the Big Guy out of the news for bribery..
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The Washington Times
@WashTimes
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The federal indictment alleges Trump retained classified documents he was not entitled to, knowingly showed off sensitive documents to people without clearance and obstructed investigators by moving documents from place to place and proposing they destroy some of the papers.
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Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
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The idea that the DOJ needs five years to decide whether to indict Hunter Biden but was able to cook up an indictment of Trump in less than a year only makes sense in the face of corruption and political favoritism.
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Erick Erickson
@EWErickson
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The problem for Trump -- you can "but Hillary" and "but Biden" all you want, but they have Trump on tape admitting he is showing classified documents that have not been declassified and he is showing them to people without proper clearance.
That was probably what got the DOJ to move, so they could distinguish it from Hillary and Sniffy.
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Ford News 🟧
@FordJohnathan5
#BreakingNews Found in the FBI search warrant of Mar-a-Lago The Department of Justice found documents owned by the Pentagon and CIA.
1:34 PM · Jun 9, 2023
Ford News 🟧
@FordJohnathan5
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Trump also had documents from our National Defense, Department of energy, and top secret documents from the Pentagon.
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Andy McCarthy on Fox just said this is really bad for Trump especially showing friends classified docs..
pointing-down. Andy McCarthy
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/01/national-review-trump-cover.png)
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TheLeoTerrell
@TheLeoTerrell
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The Indictment against Trump was written by the Democratic Party! #Trump2024NowMorethanEver
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Former Ass't U.S. Atty Gen Jeff Clark tweets, "I'm beginning to read the indictment against Trump. But even three pages in, it's clear that the leaks that preceded the indictment are far too close to what is actually being pleaded by DOJ to be a coincidence. For example ..."
https://twitter.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1667232598978863107
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The Washington Times
@WashTimes
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The federal indictment alleges Trump retained classified documents he was not entitled to, knowingly showed off sensitive documents to people without clearance and obstructed investigators by moving documents from place to place and proposing they destroy some of the papers.
Sounds like they slapped President Trump's name on Biden's indictment by mistake.
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https://twitter.com/perpetuities/status/1667241152783720481
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Trump indictment UNSEALED: Ex-President faces 37 FELONY COUNTS for 'taking secret documents on nuclear and weapons programs' - as filing shows NEW photos of boxes scattered across Mar-a-Lago
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Published: 13:51 EDT, 9 June 2023 | Updated: 14:50 EDT, 9 June 2023
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Hope there are no leaks! DOJ says at one point the documents got moved to a bathroom
The indictment references a previously reported event from July 2021 at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club where he described and showed a document about a 'plan of attack' that he said was prepared by the Pentagon. That appeared to be a reported document about U.S. attack plan off the shelf for Iran that Trump used to try to disparage Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, whom he said had drawn it up.
It also says in September 2021 Trump showed a representative of his PAC, also at Bedminster, a classified map about an unidentified 'military operation.' He told the representative that he should not be showing it – language suggestion prosecutors could use to try to establish consciousness of guilt.
The indictment was unsealed shortly after news broke that former 'bodyman' and aide Walt Nauta was also being indicted, and both men's name are listed on the charging document.
The document mentions the grand jury subpoena for information from March 2022 requiring the return of documents, and says Trump 'endeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations and conceal his continued retention of classified documents.'
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Top shelf: Trump maintained 'hundreds' of classified documents inside boxes at Mar-a-Lago, federal prosecutors said in the charging document, including those with nuclear information
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12178981/Indictment-says-Trump-stored-plans-possible-retaliation-against-foreign-attack.html
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https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1667244094664617991
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DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
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Bill Clinton took home classified docs
Bush took home classified docs
Obama took home classified docs
Pence took home classified docs
Hillary Clinton had classified docs on her email server
Biden had classified docs in his garage
Trump is the only one that gets indicted
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Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
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Smith: Invite everyone to read the indictment in full to understand scope and gravity of charges.
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Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
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NOW: Special Counsel Jack Smith: “We have one set of laws in this country .. and they apply to everyone”
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
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Jack Smith (more): “my office will seek a speedy trial”
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Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
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Smith: Defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Steve Ferguson
@lsferguson
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The head inquisitor is complimenting the Gestapo (FBI)
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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
TRUMP: “Biden moved his Boxes all over the place, including to Chinatown and up to his lawyer’s office in Boston. Why isn’t deranged Jack Smith looking at that?”
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Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
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Isn't it funny how every time there's a massive drop of legitimate evidence about Biden family corruption... Trump happens to get indicted?
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Shelby Talcott
@ShelbyTalcott
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Jack Smith notes that the "indictment was voted by a grand jury of citizens in the Southern District of Florida" and urges everyone "to read it in full."
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Sen. Mitt Romney on Donald Trump Indictment: He ‘Brought These Charges upon Himself’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment is of his own doing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/09/romney-on-trump-indictment-he-brought-these-charges-upon-himself/
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Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
My first take on this:
When an indictment is released, as in the case of President Trump, it presents a completely one-sided story developed by the prosecutor. Witnesses are not represented by attorneys, there is no opportunity for cross-examination, there is no opportunity for presenting exculpatory information, etc. It is not a trial jury. The indictment appears to me to be a piling on, which explains why the prosecution brought in as many witnesses and documents as possible, cherry-picking information, etc. Even now, nobody is present to deal with these charges in the media -- for example, why is it assumed in some instances that the movement of some boxes was for the purpose of concealment.
Remember, virtually none of this would be an issue but for the original decision by the Biden White House and DOJ to turn this into a criminal case. Most of what is claimed in these charges flow from that decision. And attorney-client privilege was circumvented in at least one instance, I would argue, which will be a basis for challenge, among other things.
If any of the alleged evidence is based on violations of privilege, due process, etc., would result in the prosecution having to figure out what parts of that information was used to poison other witnesses or the presentation of information to the grand jury.
Now, they are trashing the federal judge in the Miami arraignment (perhaps the entire case), who is a Trump appointee (the judges handling all motions respecting the grand jury were Obama appointees, and that did not draw the criticism of these same critics, of course).
2:30 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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Sen. Mitt Romney on Donald Trump Indictment: He ‘Brought These Charges upon Himself’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment is of his own doing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/09/romney-on-trump-indictment-he-brought-these-charges-upon-himself/
What Romney thinks is a hunk of crappola. He's a RINO. Who cares.
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https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1667234411610361856
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Sen. Mitt Romney on Donald Trump Indictment: He ‘Brought These Charges upon Himself’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment is of his own doing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/09/romney-on-trump-indictment-he-brought-these-charges-upon-himself/
Romney doesn't have to worry about it because he couldn't get his butt elected.
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Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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1) From colleague Thomas Catenacci. McCarthy on Trump indictment. Says the charges “going to disrupt this nation because it goes to the core of equal justice for all, which is not being seen today. And we're not going to stand for it,”
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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2) McCarthy: “This is a very dark day in America when you think about what they're trying to indict President Trump on..You've got a sitting president right now in the exact same situation. You have a former Secretary of State, that had the same situation that nothing was done”
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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3) McCarthy: “I've already talked to Chairman Comer and Chairman Jim Jordan of things that we can do to ensure equal justice”
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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4) McCarthy: “I think Jim Jordan is going to bring it out tonight, when you learn of some of the things that he had said of how this investigation was carried out, you'll see then that this judgment is wrong..that they treated President Trump differently than they treat others”
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Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
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Jonathan Turley just said on Fox News there is no chance the trial will happen BEFORE the 2024 election
So the 2024 vote will be a referendum on the Trump prosecution, and if Trump wins, he can immediately pardon himself.
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StriderFX
@striderfxstudio
That’s not what the photos show at all. I don’t see a single classified document in any of the photos.
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Photos Have just been Released to the public Showing large numbers of boxes of Classified Documents stored in trumps home In Mar-A-Lago Florida
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyM60wFWIBUmPx9?format=jpg&name=900x900)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyM60wGWIB86bcS?format=jpg&name=medium).
3:00 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
We are witnessing a showdown between the unelected administrative state and the constitutional republic
3:00 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
We are witnessing a showdown between the unelected administrative state and the constitutional republic
3:00 PM · Jun 9, 2023
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
The conservabros aren't built for this
They're scared of the fight, scared of confrontation, and the thought of winning secretly horrifies them at night
The American people see who is in the fight and who is running for the wine bar
3:41 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
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Jonathan Turley just said on Fox News there is no chance the trial will happen BEFORE the 2024 election
So the 2024 vote will be a referendum on the Trump prosecution, and if Trump wins, he can immediately pardon himself.
I think it is questionable whether or not he can pardon himself.
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Powerful statement by former top DOJ official.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1667257183174823936
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Special Counsel Jack Smith: ‘We Have One Set of Laws in This Country’
Special Counsel Jack Smith said Friday afternoon that he had charged President Donald Trump because of the importance of protecting classified information and the importance of upholding the rule of law equally for all.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/09/special-counsel-jack-smith-we-have-one-set-of-laws-in-this-country/
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Robert Barnes
@barnes_law
Any executive branch document created before or during a Presidency is the President's to do with as he pleases. That's the point of The Presidential Records Act. It has to be that way to keep Constitutional power in the hands of the only elected official of the executive branch.
7:26 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
Importantly, the Presidential Records Act has NO criminal penalty because the Congress and Carter had no intention of criminalizing document retention matters. And never before has the 1917 Espionage Act was never even discussed as applying to a former president. There is no justification for criminalizing this matter against Trump.
6:28 PM · Jun 9, 2023