The Justice Department on Friday made public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

After reviewing the DOJ's proposed redactions Thursday, a magistrate judge had ordered the redacted affidavit filed in the public docket by noon Friday.

A coalition of news organizations, including ABC News, had argued that the release was in the public interest.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-makes-redacted-mar-lago-affidavit-public/story?id=88889157

Karl Rove: ‘Beyond me’ why Trump held on to docs ‘when he had no legal authority’

 

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3617375-karl-rove-beyond-me-why-trump-held-on-to-docs-when-he-had-no-legal-authority/

If we compared this to Hillary and her emails, there is only one possible result...

 

LOCK HIM UP, FOREVER...

What Trump has said about handling classified documents...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCMjd7irLM

 

In one way you have to respect Trump. He has the ability to let complete morons to believe that they are the intelligent ones who are being deceived by other evil people. 

54 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

In one way you have to respect Trump. He has the ability to let complete morons to believe that they are the intelligent ones who are being deceived by other evil people. 

He’s a snake oil salesman they preys upon the dimwits. 
Anyone that glanced at his book Art Of The Deal will immediately identify him as a shameless, money grubbing, scumbag, scammer. 

Did you know he published that business advice book while simultaneously filing for bankruptcy, sticking creditors and contractors for $900 million. 

Trump is very clearly now on Indictment watch.

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

In one way you have to respect Trump. He has the ability to let complete morons to believe that they are the intelligent ones who are being deceived by other evil people. 

They’ll be along shortly bleating about the redactions.

Trump melts down on Truth Social as the walls close in. 
 

7 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

Trump melts down on Truth Social as the walls close in. 
 

Full Panic Mode!

 

12 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Full Panic Mode!

 

And he still doesn’t know who’s grassing on him from the inside.

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And he still doesn’t know who’s grassing on him from the inside.

Yep and there's more than one "Safety of civilian witnesses"

3 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

Trump melts down on Truth Social as the walls close in. 
 

Yes to him he is innocent, but to the real world he is hosed big time...

21 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And he still doesn’t know who’s grassing on him from the inside.

Well, he is still guarded by Secret Service so they might have tipped off the Feds. 

 

35 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Full Panic Mode!

Espionage Act carry major personal risk for Trump. 

18 U.S.C. 1519 fine and/or not more than 20 years imprisonment. 
18 U.S.C. Fine and/or not more than 3 years imprisonment.

44 U.S.C. Fine and/or not more 10 years imprisonment. 

He may have to ask Biden for a pardon. 

20 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes to him he is innocent, but to the real world he is hosed big time...

I guess we can say that he was hosed pants down & caught red-handed. 

He wasn't necessarily ratted on, the MAGA crew likes culprits that they can get the rabble to froth at the mouth about.

The archives people noticed some things were missing, they told the Mar a Lago cadre, DT got them to swear there were none left, and archives still saw things were not right.  This resulted in the subpoena.

In other words, the archives team found things missing, MaL cadre said "we ain't got nothing" and here we are. 

Personally, I think that The Kremlin had the whole kit'n'kaboodle scanned and in PDF format within days after it arrived down there.  Hang on kids, we're going to Boris and Natasha stuff.

 

22 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

Well, he is still guarded by Secret Service so they might have tipped off the Feds. 

I brought this up a few years ago: does the security detail become his captors?

 

He's keeping the jet fueled and ready I'd bet.

 

 

21 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Personally, I think that The Kremlin had the whole kit'n'kaboodle scanned and in PDF format within days after it arrived down there. 

Russia state media has already claimed that Moscow are studying top secret documents. 
https://www.newsweek.com/moscow-already-studying-top-secret-records-trump-raid-russian-media-1733440

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Full Panic Mode!

 

"He recused himself two months ago from one of my cases..."

 

Says it all really.

8 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Russia state media has already claimed that Moscow are studying top secret documents. 
https://www.newsweek.com/moscow-already-studying-top-secret-records-trump-raid-russian-media-1733440

Reminds me of a Outer Limits show from 1963, is the Trump really a Russian who has had his face and body changed to resemble the Donald.

All that black ink brings to mind the Mueller Report.

Don't hesitate to remind this to someone who complains that the affidavit is too redacted.  BTW something coming to surface on that one as well.

 

 

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

 

Espionage Act carry major personal risk for Trump. 

18 U.S.C. 1519 fine and/or not more than 20 years imprisonment. 
18 U.S.C. Fine and/or not more than 3 years imprisonment.

44 U.S.C. Fine and/or not more 10 years imprisonment. 

He may have to ask Biden for a pardon. 

I doubt he'll get one. The voting outcome for presidents who give political pardons isn't great.

More reporting here:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/redacted-trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-fbi-takeaways

28 minutes ago, bendejo said:

All that black ink brings to mind the Mueller Report.

Don't hesitate to remind this to someone who complains that the affidavit is too redacted.  BTW something coming to surface on that one as well.

There's no reason he can't still be charged with obstruction there.

3 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

There's no reason he can't still be charged with obstruction there.

If, and that's a big if, if he would come out bow down, ask for forgiveness and tell the good folks how he had embellished his view on what happened and then admitted to screwing the pooch and how he was wrong, then and only then would I think he would walk. 

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

He wasn't necessarily ratted on, the MAGA crew likes culprits that they can get the rabble to froth at the mouth about.

The archives people noticed some things were missing, they told the Mar a Lago cadre, DT got them to swear there were none left, and archives still saw things were not right.  This resulted in the subpoena.

In other words, the archives team found things missing, MaL cadre said "we ain't got nothing" and here we are. 

Personally, I think that The Kremlin had the whole kit'n'kaboodle scanned and in PDF format within days after it arrived down there.  Hang on kids, we're going to Boris and Natasha stuff.

 

 

I expect the FBI are investigating who had seen these documents.

 

While the US Military and US Intelligence Services must surely assume the contents of the documents have been seen by adversaries of the US.

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I expect the FBI are investigating who had seen these documents.

 

While the US Military and US Intelligence Services must surely assume the contents of the documents have been seen by adversaries of the US.

Who viewed them won't matter too much to a court, just the FBI. If anybody other than an ex president viewed the documents at Mar a Lago, he's going to be charged with espionage.

Just now, ozimoron said:

Who viewed them won't matter too much to a court, just the FBI. If anybody other than an ex president viewed the documents at Mar a Lago, he's going to be charged with espionage.

Would that include his Son-in Law I wonder and Eric ?

1 minute ago, Excel said:

Would that include his Son-in Law I wonder and Eric ?

Does the pope defecate in the woods? Is a bear catholic?