FBI search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago (Update: Trump Indicted!)

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1780944386932502802

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/bradmossesq/status/1781080417807806755

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1782477203319447849https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1782492720629461177https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1782487059405377989https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1782488421891559463https://twitter.com/secretsandlaws/status/1782504829924876363https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1782535102209073166

[emailking]

The heck? He wanted us to know he promised a corrupt pardon?

[Redban]

https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/us-news/judge-delays-start-of-trump-classified-documents-trial-indefinitely/

A federal judge in South Florida scrapped a planned May 20 trial start date in former President Donald Trump’s classified document case — a move that will likely push proceedings back until after the Nov. 5 election.

In a five-page scheduling order handed down Tuesday, US District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote that fixing a trial date at this time “would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions … and additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury.”

[emailking]

Silver lining: She is not blocking out out the J6 trial happening before the election if we get a SCOTUS miracle.

[Yoda]

Silver lining: She is not blocking out out the J6 trial happening before the election if we get a SCOTUS miracle.

I want the classified documents trial before the election. The public interest literally could not be higher. J6 trial would be good, but not as desperately needed by the electorate to judge trump's actions and his fitness for office as the documents trial.

[emailking]

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not going to happen.

[Redban]

Reading the court reports from New York City, there may be a chance Trump gets acquittal in Manhattan case, though nothing is certain either way

Now the classified documents case just got postponed indefinitely. Cannon set hearings on motions concerning selective & vindictive prosecution + unlawful appointing & funding of special counsel (i.e. basically put Jack Smith on trial ala Fani)

The January 6th case may go back to the lower courts this summer. Low odds that this case goes to trial before Election Day.

The Georgia RICO case is a question mark because of Fani Willis corruption and licentiousness

Overall, there may be a way out of this legal quagmire for Trump if he escapes the NYC case without conviction

[emailking]

If he wins the election then yes things look good for him until his term ends when he'd have no shield against the Georgia case (and potentially an AZ case).

If he doesn't win, then next year isn't looking so hot for him.

[wbrocks67]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1792996172446982301

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1792996172446982301

Next thing we'll learn is that Senile Don was wiping his ass with these documents.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I don't think that's new news, is it? 

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1793236200121074034

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I don't think that's new news, is it? 

I'm pretty sure this is new: (from the Politico report on Judge Howell's recently released sealed orders)

In a footnote, Howell also noted that another Trump adviser connected to his Save America PAC had acknowledged scanning the contents of the box that contained the classified materials in 2021 and storing them on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.

[emailking]

Trump falsely claims Biden, FBI had plan to assassinate him during Mar-a-Lago search
The FBI issued a rare statement saying it followed standard protocol in 2022.

The FBI has issued a rare statement after former President Donald Trump and several GOP lawmakers spread false claims suggesting President Joe Biden authorized his assassination during the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022.

In a fundraising email responding to right-wing media reports that offered a distorted reading of a newly-unsealed court filing in Trump's classified documents case, Trump falsely claimed Biden was "locked & loaded ready to take me out."

In a separate post on his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening, Trump further said he was "shown Reports" that Biden's DOJ "AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE" in their search of the property for classified documents.

Behind Trump's false claims is a major misrepresentation of an otherwise boilerplate policy memo that was included in newly-unsealed documents that accompanied a filing from Trump's own lawyers in his classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-falsely-claims-biden-fbi-plan-assassinate-mar/story?id=110466084


This is the Axios X post above but I didn't even realize from that excerpt what had happened.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Fox News correspondent:

https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1793426202365145454

[Progressive Pessimist]

How is it possible for the conspiracies to get any more ridiculous?

[Yoda]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1792996172446982301

JFC LOCK HIM UP ALREADY

[Progressive Pessimist]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1792996172446982301

JFC LOCK HIM UP ALREADY

It's okay because he got to appoint the justice overseeing the case.

Want to get away with a crime? Just do that!

[emailking]

Special counsel asks judge for gag order in Trump classified documents case

Special counsel’s office prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Florida to place a gag order on Donald Trump that would limit his ability to comment about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The request – a first in the classified documents mishandling case – comes after the former president has repeatedly and falsely criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search and seizure of government records at his resort in August 2022.

While Trump has told his supporters he could have been in danger because of the policy, the policy is standard protocol for FBI searches and limits how agents may use force in search operations. The same standard FBI policy was used in the searches of President Joe Biden’s homes and offices in a separate classified documents investigation.

Prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith wrote to Judge Aileen Cannon in a filing Friday night that the conditions that allow Trump not to be in jail awaiting trial should be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/politics/trump-gag-order-trump-classified-documents/index.html

[brucejoel99]

Jack Smith asking Cannon to modify Trump's bond conditions with a gag order limiting his ability to falsely comment about the FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago after he put them at risk by grossly exaggerating their "authorization for use of deadly force" verbiage that's actually just standard protocol which was also appended to the Biden & Pence search warrants:

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1794171644996632645https://twitter.com/PeriodicTweet/status/1794176821761823000

[brucejoel99]

Jack Smith asking Cannon to modify Trump's bond conditions with a gag order limiting his ability to falsely comment about the FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago after he put them at risk by grossly exaggerating their "authorization for use of deadly force" verbiage that's actually just standard protocol which was also appended to the Biden & Pence search warrants

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1794545071561544093

[emailking]

I don't think Cannon is going to gag him at all anyway. It's just going to make him mad and I don't think it's something he can understand in terms of the necessity for her to appear impartial.

[brucejoel99]

I don't think Cannon is going to gag him at all anyway. It's just going to make him mad and I don't think it's something he can understand in terms of the necessity for her to appear impartial.

I think Smith has finally managed to catch-22 her on something appealable: Trump's team plucked out the "deadly force" language from a document transmitted to them as a part of discovery, but those confidential documents are still subject to her protective order from last Jun. against public disclosure of unclassified discovery "in any public filing or in open court without notice to, and agreement from, the United States, or prior approval from the Court," so if she doesn't timely rule for* Smith, then he can go pre-trial to Atlanta, where Chief Judge Pryor may have something to say about her complicity in allowing the defendant to flagrantly abuse her own court order in order to pursue the potential endangerment of law-enforcement.


*https://twitter.com/alegalnerd/status/1794237809999622283https://twitter.com/alegalnerd/status/1794237812482724188