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

[emailking]

3 docket entries but they're still sealed.

[GeorgiaModerate]

According to some Twitter reports, so many people are on PACER (the electronic court reporting system) trying to get the new information that they have crashed the system.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

From the NYT:

12:10pm: Judge Reinhart has ordered the release of documents, motions and orders tied to the request to redact the affidavit, indicating that he wants the public to understand why some of the affidavit is blacked out.

[Gass3268]

Shocking if true

https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1563199914678849542?s=21&t=CDlpli6DZncU...

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

A bit more from the NYT livethread:

12:22pm - The court has unsealed the Justice Department papers related to its justification for continuing to keep large parts of the affidavit redacted. It includes a two-page list of paragraphs it wants to redact, along with justifications. Most of the justifications are redacted except for those involving “agents' safety,” which must be the names of F.B.I. personnel.

[WV222]

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000182-daec-dfd1-adef-dafe79d30000

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

As expected, much of the document is blacked-out.  But there is a section that alludes to a suspicion that further classified documents remain at MAL and that obstruction charges will be vindicated. 

https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1563203135920779264?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogl...

[Woody]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

[WV222]

https://www.twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1563204613804724225

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Has anyone just tried holding the document up to the light to try to decipher the text under the blacked out parts?

[emailking]

Apparently at least some of the classified documents involve human sources (possibly foreign).

[emailking]

Has anyone just tried holding the document up to the light to try to decipher the text under the blacked out parts?

Well it's digital so black is black.

[GeorgiaModerate]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1563206138417405952

[afleitch]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

The mindless can't change their minds.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Has anyone just tried holding the document up to the light to try to decipher the text under the blacked out parts?

Well it's digital so black is black.

Eh, I'll bet this would still work if it were something the Trump lawyers released.

[GeorgiaModerate]

From an expert who has been fairly skeptical up to now about the prospect of an indictment:

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1563208186085396482

[BigSerg]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

There is no crime, Trump is the president or ex president according to some Americans, he is right to have those documents. And let's not pretend that any attempt to lock Trump up would not seriously jeopardize the social stability of this country.

[brucejoel99]

From an expert who has been fairly skeptical up to now about the prospect of an indictment:

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1563208186085396482

Imagine saying that you're stealing a line & then you get the line wrong.

[Mr. Illini]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

There is no crime, Trump is the president or ex president according to some Americans, he is right to have those documents. And let's not pretend that any attempt to lock Trump up would not seriously jeopardize the social stability of this country.

LAW AND ORDER!

[OSR stands with Israel]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

There is no crime, Trump is the president or ex president according to some Americans, he is right to have those documents. And let's not pretend that any attempt to lock Trump up would not seriously jeopardize the social stability of this country.

Uh ex presidents do not have the right to those documents unless the current president gives them authorization to have them

[GM Team Member and Acting PPT WB]

I'm used to things being redacted since I read SCP

[Torie]

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000182-daec-dfd1-adef-dafe79d30000


I read the document in its entirety. My takeaways are 1) sensitive documents were intermixed with non sensitive ones in a chaotic fashion, which is not up to archival standards to say the least, 2) all the reasons for the redactions were also redacted in the chart except the one for "agent safety," and 3) the DOJ seemed annoyed that Trump had issued a statement that the government found nothing improper in the documents that he voluntarily gave them pursuant to their request last February.

What one otherwise could read was boilerplate about why releasing affidavits compromises criminal investigations.

Not much to see here overall. And the chaotic organization and filing system or lack of a system suggests feckless incompetence (cf "orange buffoon"), rather than something more sinister.  All in all not that much additional bad news here for Trump, at least that is not covered up in black. So things have not yet been brought to a head, and the boil lanced.

We now I will see what the MSM big guns think as compared to what the forum fossil thinks.

[soundchaser]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

There is no crime, Trump is the president or ex president according to some Americans, he is right to have those documents. And let's not pretend that any attempt to lock Trump up would not seriously jeopardize the social stability of this country.

[BigSerg]

This won't change minds. MAGA 100%

This isn't about changing minds.  It's about investigating potential (and very serious) crimes and national security violations.

There is no crime, Trump is the president or ex president according to some Americans, he is right to have those documents. And let's not pretend that any attempt to lock Trump up would not seriously jeopardize the social stability of this country.

Uh ex presidents do not have the right to those documents unless the current president gives them authorization to have them

Well, because of the "circumstances" that put Biden in the oval office, there is reasonable doubt about his authority in this case.