The legal community has roundly criticized Judge Cannon’s ruling granting Trump’s motion for a special master. The criticism is as strong as it is universal. But it does give the Justice Department a spectacular opportunity that it wouldn’t have had. The DOJ will now have the opportunity to write a …
Read More »US House Committee reaches deal to obtain Trump’s Financial Records after years of litigation
A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires an accounting firm to turn over some of the material, the house committee panel’s leader announced Thursday September 1. The long-running case began in April 2019, when …
Read More »Rachel Maddow Shows How Trump’s Attacks On The National Archives Threaten Democracy
Rachel Maddow said that Trump’s attacks on the National Archives are the sort of thing that push people out of public service and kill democracy. Video of Maddow: #Maddow “The threat of political violence takes normal people out of public life, which puts you on a very fast track to …
Read More »Legal Experts Say Judicial Order Granting Trump’s Motion for Special Master as ‘Unprecedented,’ and Pandering
It should be anathema to mention that a judge was “Trump-appointed” and yet legal experts across the spectrum are using words like “pandering” to explain a judicial order about “intending” to appoint a special master to analyze Trump’s motion to examine the materials taken from Mar-a-Lago to be covered by …
Read More »FBI And DOJ Are Investigating Criminal Activity At Trump’s House
The affidavit revealed that as MSNBC’s Ari Melber put it, the FBI and DOJ are investigating potential criminal activity at Trump’s house. Video of Ari Melber: Melber said on his MSNBC show The Beat: When you get a filing like this, you move from the general claims to the specific. …
Read More »Biden Mocks Trump’s Claim That He Declassified Every Single Document
President Biden mocked Trump’s claim that as president, he declassified every single document. Video: Q: President Trump said he declassified all these documents. Could he have declassified? Biden: I declassified everything in the world. I’m president. I can do it all. Come on, declassified everything. Biden said he is leaving …
Read More »Trump’s Defense Shattered As National Archives Tried To Get Documents Back For 18 Months
The National Archives realized that Trump had kept documents shortly after he left office and spent the next 18 months trying to get them back. The Washington Post reported: “It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the …
Read More »Report: FBI Was Seeking Trump’s ‘Private Stash’ of Documents He Believed Would ‘Exonerate’ Him Over Russiagate
Sources believe that the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was specifically targeting the former President’s “private stash” of hidden documents, including documents he believed would “exonerate” him from claims of Russia collusion. The revelations come from a report by Newsweek which cites two unnamed, high-level intelligence officials as sources. …
Read More »Trump’s Lawyer Lies On Fox And Claims Mar-a-Lago Secure
Trump’s lawyer went on Fox News to claim that Mar-a-Lago was a secure place to house classified info. Video: Ingraham: Was there a limited number who had access to that storage room…Bobb: Yes.. Mar-a-Lago is secure.. just getting on to the compound is hard.. Only certain members of staff can …
Read More »National Archives Trashes Trump’s Obama Accusation
The National Archives debunked Trump’s lie that Obama also stole top secret nuclear documents when he left office. .@USNatArchives responds to Trump’s unsubstantial statement: pic.twitter.com/lS6ZhGHIkY — Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) August 12, 2022 Obama transferred his documents through the National Archives to a National Archives facility in Chicago where his records …
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