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

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I'd be lying if I said I understood all this, although I'm also trying to watch a movie about schizophrenia .

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All that matters is that all trials are delayed until after the election, except for this one, which will be dismissed shortly before the election.

Is that all that matters to you, or all you think matters to Trump?

Because some days I'm really not sure where you're coming from on Trump's trials.

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I'm sure Cannon would be fine with agreeing to dismiss the case but Chutkan might not, particularly if he's already been convicted. Then it's up to whether SCOTUS allows him to self pardon.

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Woohoo I am proud of Jack Smith for putting his foot down!

Regardless I don't think we're getting a trial here before the election but, if Trump loses, maybe we'll get a real trial at some point if he keeps her on the level.

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A lot of the legal experts have been saying for a while now that she's been reversed twice by the 11th circuit and if she's reversed again it's 3 strikes and you're out. But I can't figure out if this is an actual legal rule or standard, or just rule of thumb from baseball/life that they're assuming would apply here too.

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Special counsel blasts judge’s jury instruction request in Trump documents case

In perhaps prosecutors’ strongest rebuke yet to how Judge Aileen Cannon has handled the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith said in court filings late Tuesday evening that the judge had ordered briefings based on a “fundamentally flawed” understanding of the case that has “no basis in law or fact.”

Smith’s team harshly critiqued Cannon’s request for jury instructions that embraced Trump’s claims that he had broad authority to take classified government documents and said it would seek an appeals court review if she accepted the former president’s arguments about his record-retention powers.

In an unusual order last month, Cannon asked attorneys on the classified documents case to submit briefs on potential jury instructions defining terms of the Espionage Act, under which Trump is charged over mishandling 32 classified records. Specifically, Cannon asked the special counsel and defense attorneys to write two versions of proposed jury instructions.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/politics/special-counsel-mar-a-lago-jury-instructions/index.html

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If he ever moves to have her recused I imagine it will be based on how awful her rulings are. I doubt he will even bring up that Trump appointed her.

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I don't know how he has to frame it but a lot of legal experts seem confident if it gets bad enough he can ask to have her removed, somehow. Apparently the 11th circuit can also just assign the case to someone else on an appeal without explicitly being asked to.

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Frustrated Prosecutors Ask Trump Documents Judge to Act on Key Claim
The push for a quick decision on one of the former president’s most far-fetched claims is an unusual and risky move in a case Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed to become bogged down.

In an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case that a “fundamentally flawed” order she had issued was causing delays and asked her to quickly resolve a critical dispute about one of Mr. Trump’s defenses — leaving them time to appeal if needed.

The unusual and risky move by the prosecutors, contained in a 24-page filing, signaled their mounting impatience with the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, who has allowed the case to become bogged down in a logjam of unresolved issues and curious procedural requests. It was the most directly prosecutors have confronted Judge Cannon’s legal reasoning and unhurried pace, which have called into question whether a trial will take place before the election in November even though both sides say they could be ready for one by summer.

In their filing, prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, all but begged Judge Cannon to move the case along and make a binding decision about one of Mr. Trump’s most brazen claims: that he cannot be prosecuted for having taken home a trove of national security documents after leaving office...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon.html

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https://twitter.com/KaelanDC/status/1775647968453926933

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Trump, who regularly attacks a judge's child, says Smith should be sanctioned for "attacking" Judge Cannon.

Deranged “Special” Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida. He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to “play the ref.” He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act. I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

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I wonder if asking for too many delays could work against him at some point, in the sense that it could allow the J6 trial to slot in (if SCOTUS issues a speedy denial) and prevent Cannon from blocking out the calendar as some have suggested is her strategy.

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Yeah I remember there was that whole delay when he and Nauta needed to get local counsel per 11th Circuit rules. Well, he's got them lol. They're there for a reason!

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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I hope so and he outsmarted her, but I wonder if she can rule in his favor and then just fine $1000 for every violation or something, with no warnings about next time you're going to jail like in NY.

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So I wonder if the way she denied it means Smith can appeal or does he need to confer with he defense now and give it another go.

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Definitely his best bet at this point is to find a way to get another judge so I'm hoping he could appeal this and then use it as a basis for that. But the way she denied it I think she found another way to stall. I think he has to refile it. I don't know that. He has the right to appeal a ruling on conditions for release but I'm not sure he would win it right now, they might just say confer with the defense first like she said to. :shrug: