A Trump ally produced an unpublished letter meant to help him. It actually spells out even graver concerns over documents at Mar-a-Lago.

[Scott]

 

An ally of former President Donald Trump triumphantly published a letter to Trump about his storage of government secrets at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

 

John Solomon, a conservative journalist with links to Trump, highlighted the letter for showing the arms-length involvement of President Joe Biden in the investigation that later led to the raid at Trump's home.

 

But the document also revealed the previously-unknown scale of secret information contained in documents there, and how damaging officials thought it was to national security.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-letter-meant-help-trump-undermines-further-experts-2022-8

 

[gargamon]

They couldn't script this stuff better if they tried. If Trump or his minions were smarter this stuff wouldn't happen. 

[pomchop]

Trump is very good at soliciting and getting $$ from the kool aide cult, declaring bankruptcies, doing tax and bank fraud, fomenting coup attempts, sucking up to dictators, picking the "best people" then throwing them all under the bus....he is not very good at much else.

[placeholder]

Everybody should read the article that this is linked to. Among other things, it reveals the consequences of being being a deadbeat when you are looking for competent legal counsel. But there's much much more to it than that:

 

Judge gives Trump until Friday to better explain why he wants a special master for Mar-a-Lago documents

 

"When Trump’s lawyers did cite the court rules they said gave the judge the authority to grant the request, they cited the rules of civil procedure, without any explanation for why those rules should be applied in a context concerning a criminal search warrant.

Trump also did not file with the complaint the kind of separate request — such as a motion for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction — that would have sped up the timeline for the judge to consider what Trump was asking for.

Nor did Trump’s legal team file any declarations — i.e. statements from the lawyers who were said to have interacted with the Justice Department in the lead-up and after the search — to back up the complaint’s factual assertions.

https://whdh.com/news/judge-gives-trump-until-friday-to-better-explain-why-he-wants-a-special-master-for-mar-a-lago-documents/

 

And,  this judge was chosen by Trump and is a member of the right-wing Federalist Society.

[placeholder]

Here's another good article that examines Trump's botched strategy, although, as the headline suggests, "strategy" may dignify Trumps flailing more than they deserve.

 

Trump, without the presidency’s protections, struggles for a strategy

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-without-the-presidencys-protections-struggles-for-a-strategy/

[bendejo]

So let's see:

there were no documents

THEY planted the documents

the documents were DT's personal property

the documents weren't classified

the documents would be de-classified upon a pronouncement of the former president

and, of course: it's all a hoax

 

And we're only 2 weeks in.

 

 

[bendejo]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Here's another good article that examines Trump's botched strategy, although, as the headline suggests, "strategy" may dignify Trumps flailing more than they deserve.

 

Trump, without the presidency’s protections, struggles for a strategy

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-without-the-presidencys-protections-struggles-for-a-strategy/

He does headchopping/firing/banishing.

Remember he promised to get rid of NAFTA?  He did by changing the name of the treaty.

I'll fire this bad guy, I'll fire that terrible woman, etc.  And he will, gladly.  Won't make an difference in things, though.  The votes of the double-digit IQ crowd are there for the taking.

 

 

[placeholder]

15 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Flaming troll, unsupported false allegations and insults ignored. 

 

It's no wonder Trump is taking a victory lap today. Serious observers of this fiasco have been waiting until the false narrative that the Biden white house was unaware and had no involvement in the unprecendented and dangerous raid on Trump's home was debunked.

 

 

“The White House stated strongly that they were NOT INVOLVED, and knew absolutely nothing about, the political Witch Hunt going on with me, & that they didn’t know anything at all about the Break-In of Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said in a Truth Social post following the publication of Wall’s letter.

“This was strongly reiterated again & again. WRONG! Remember, these are the people who spied on my campaign, denied it, & got caught. Through the great reporting of John Solomon (Fake Pulitzer Prize?), documents reveal they knew everything, in fact led the charge – a political NO, NO!”

https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/biden-called-in-fbi-to-look-at-classified-trump-documents/

Well, what Trump and his supporters have been claiming is that Biden initiated the FBI search of Mar y Lago. Nothing in this letter supports that assertion. It is true that the Acting Director of the Archives asked Biden if executive privilege would be invoked for Trump. Biden said that whatever was decided by the investigators would be approved by him. 

 

As for the "great reporting of John Solomon." John Solomon used to work for The Hill. At the time Solomon worked there it was owned by Jerry Finkelstein, a friend of Trump's. Despite which, because of the biased nature of Solomon's "reporting" his job title was changed from "reporter" to "columnist".  His coverage of the so-called Ukraine scandal was so biased that he ultimately lost his job.

 

In Solomon's reporting on Trump, I have never seen it disclosed that he is actually an authorized representative of Trump's with the National Archives. Disclosing such ties would be standard practice for a reputable journalist.

[placeholder]

I've been wondering about the following for a while: when did Trump's team first claim that Trump had declassified these documents? It turn out that never happened until the latest kerfuffle. Which renders that claim extremely suspect. So even though the Feds don't need the likelihood that Trump misappropriated classified documents to prosecute him, it does add to the likelihood that he will be charged with that as well:

 

Trump lawyer never claimed ex-president declassified documents in correspondence with Biden administration

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump never claimed he declassified any documents that were retrieved from his Florida home in January in communications with the Biden administration, and unsuccessfully tried to use claims of executive privilege to prevent the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) from allowing FBI agents access to the records...

Mr Trump’s team also tried to delay providing the FBI with access to the boxes for an Intelligence Community review of the materials. At the time, attorney M Evan Corcoran wrote that Mr Trump would be making a “protective assertion of executive privilege” if the requested delay was not granted.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-counsel-classified-documents-b2150954.html

[ozimoron]

“Trump is representing HIMSELF, with no lawyer at all, in his case against the United States regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago and recovery of government records. The legal term is ‘pro se’ – for himself.

 

“The new Trump Florida court filing is a press release masquerading (tenuously) as a legal brief.”

 

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/08/publicity-stunt-legal-experts-already-seeing-highly-unusual-aspects-in-trump-incompetent-legal-filing/

[proton]

God bless President Trump

[placeholder]

16 minutes ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Thank you for making this compelling point. I will now seriously reexamine my own understanding of the issues.

[ozimoron]

51 minutes ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Are you the designated troll for today ????

[Eric Loh]

51 minutes ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Is he even a Christain to receive God's blessing? 

[placeholder]

52 minutes ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

I've been thinking more about this. I guess you're looking for Trump to gain bipartisan support? It's clear he already has been blessed by Satan.

[candide]

Surprisingly enough, a rather good factual account about this letter in this article, which is hidden inside Fox News website.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-signed-off-fbi-review-trump-records-national-archives-letter-reveals

[placeholder]

6 minutes ago, candide said:

Surprisingly enough, a rather good factual account about this letter in this article, which is hidden inside Fox News website.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-signed-off-fbi-review-trump-records-national-archives-letter-reveals

I had looked at another Fox article which had a headline and lede far more unbalanced but which ultimately did accurately report on the issues. That was on the homepage. Currently, there is no reporting on this issue on the homepage. Which is a pretty fair indicator that this information doesn't bode well for Trump.

[candide]

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I had looked at another Fox article which had a headline and lede far more unbalanced but which ultimately did accurately report on the issues. That was on the homepage. Currently, there is no reporting on this issue on the homepage. Which is a pretty fair indicator that this information doesn't bode well for Trump.

Right. I also did not find anything on the homepage and had to search a bit. They obviously don't want to put this topic forward now.

[placeholder]

3 minutes ago, candide said:

Right. I also did not find anything on the homepage and had to search a bit. They obviously don't want to put this topic forward now.

I'm guessing that Trump twisted John Solomon's arm to publish this letter. I can't imagine Solomon actually believed this would help Trump's cause. But he is beholden to Trump.

[Eric Loh]

10 hours ago, gargamon said:

They couldn't script this stuff better if they tried. If Trump or his minions were smarter this stuff wouldn't happen. 

Good lawyers are avoiding him like the plague. He has to resort to hiring mediocre lawyers who couldn’t file a proper court document and in the appropriate jurisdiction. He is definitely not surrounding himself with the smart minions. 

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Why, because he took a bite of the apple from the forbidden tree and got the seeds instead of knowledge.....

[candide]

8 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Good lawyers are avoiding him like the plague. He has to resort to hiring mediocre lawyers who couldn’t file a proper court document and in the appropriate jurisdiction. He is definitely not surrounding himself with the smart minions. 

I hope for them they got paid in advance, because they gave Trump a good reason for not paying them ????

[candide]

3 hours ago, ozimoron said:

“Trump is representing HIMSELF, with no lawyer at all, in his case against the United States regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago and recovery of government records. The legal term is ‘pro se’ – for himself.

 

“The new Trump Florida court filing is a press release masquerading (tenuously) as a legal brief.”

 

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/08/publicity-stunt-legal-experts-already-seeing-highly-unusual-aspects-in-trump-incompetent-legal-filing/

A very good example of how to troll a court filling! ????

[billd766]

3 hours ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

There is NO President Trump at all.

 

There is an ex President Trump who LOST the last election for POTUS.

[placeholder]

10 minutes ago, billd766 said:

There is NO President Trump at all.

 

There is an ex President Trump who LOST the last election for POTUS.

I think someone needs to explain that to Trump.

[placeholder]

Trump Flouted Rules About Presidential Records. That’s Not How It Usually Works.

Presidents from both parties have followed tightly restricted procedures that conform to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was enacted after Watergate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-presidential-records.html

[DezLez]

4 hours ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Nobody else with half a brain cell would!

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

Trump Flouted Rules About Presidential Records. That’s Not How It Usually Works.

Presidents from both parties have followed tightly restricted procedures that conform to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was enacted after Watergate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-presidential-records.html

Trumpgate is now being investigated.  

[DezLez]

50 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Trumpgate is now being investigated.  

Why do people provide links that need to either be paid for or signed into?

Please just post the relevant info or a precis!

[ballpoint]

9 hours ago, proton said:

God bless President Trump

Following this judgement of Solomon, he's going to need all the blessings he can get.