FBI agents found classified documents in Donald Trump's estate

[Nithavela]

The Democratic Party did not do this....Donald Trump did it to himself.

The democratic party committed the cardinal sin of not bending over and behaving like meek little servants.

 

[Paulos23]

This is not due to the Democrats, this is the DOJ doing its job.

 

[Desk trauma]

Does not seem reassuring to me. When will it stop?

After giant meteor arrives:

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

After giant meteor arrives:
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Don't look up!

 

[The Barbarian]

Now this:

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I wonder how much Putin would give for such classified documents.

 

[Mayzoo]

Are we going to do this for every president, or just Republicans?

I sincerely hope that every government employee, present and past, that has or there is evidence that they have classified documents in their possession when they are not authorized to have them is investigated, and if needed a warrant executed to get those documents back in proper custody.

I find it hard to understand why anyone would not want this but I find many things hard to understand nowadays.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Donald Trump cleverly showed the classified North Korean 'love letters' to journalist Bob Woodward during an interview for Woodward's new book.

CNN obtained a copy of the audiobook ahead of its October 25 release, which includes more than eight hours of the journalist’s raw interviews with Trump interspersed with Woodward’s commentary.

The interviews offer unvarnished insights into the former president’s worldview and are the most extensive recordings of Trump speaking about his presidency — including explaining his rationale for meeting Kim, his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s detailed views of the US nuclear arsenal. The audio also shows how Trump decided to share with Woodward the letters Kim wrote to him – the letters that helped spark the DOJ investigation into classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago.

“And don’t say I gave them to you, okay?” Trump told Woodward.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump searches Trump properties for any additional classified documents.

Trump lawyers hire outside team to search four properties for classified info​

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump recently hired a team to search four of his properties for any potentially remaining classified materials, according to a source familiar the matter.

The team of two searched Trump Tower in New York, the Bedminster golf club and two other properties amid lingering concerns from the Justice Department that not all documents had been returned to the federal government.

This search is outrageous! Former president Trump should immediately apologize to former president Trump!

 

[The Barbarian]

Apparently, there is a considerable amount of classified information Trump stole when he left the WH, that has not been accounted for. It's impossible at this time to assess the damage that would have resulted if those stolen files were leaked to other nations.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump searches Trump properties for any additional classified documents.

A search of former president Donald Trump’s properties by a third-party firm retained by his legal team reportedly discovered at least two documents bearing classification markings in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida used by the twice-impeached ex-president.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Justice Department seeking to hold Trump in contempt over classified documents​

The development comes after Trump’s legal team said it conducted searches at four locations just before Thanksgiving, finding two documents with classified markings at a storage facility in Florida. The Trump team turned over those two documents to the FBI and announced to a federal judge in Washington, DC, that they believed Trump was now in compliance with a 6-month-old subpoena.

But the Justice Department disagreed. And in an escalation last week, department prosecutors told DC District Chief Judge Beryl Howell, who oversees federal grand jury proceedings there, that the searches weren’t satisfactory. The contempt proceedings before Howell are under seal.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Donald Trump cleverly showed the classified North Korean 'love letters' to journalist Bob Woodward during an interview for Woodward's new book.

CNN obtained a copy of the audiobook ahead of its October 25 release, which includes more than eight hours of the journalist’s raw interviews with Trump interspersed with Woodward’s commentary.

The audio also shows how Trump decided to share with Woodward the letters Kim wrote to him – the letters that helped spark the DOJ investigation into classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. “And don’t say I gave them to you, okay?” Trump told Woodward.

Trump apparently regrets confessing to crimes on audio, and is now suing Woodward.

Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews​

Former President Donald Trump has sued journalist Bob Woodward for copyright violations, claiming Woodward released audio from their interviews without Trump’s consent.

Trump, who also sued publisher Simon & Schuster and parent company Paramount, is seeking nearly $50 million in damages.

 

[Pommer]

Trump apparently regrets confessing to crimes on audio, and is now suing Woodward.

Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews​

Former President Donald Trump has sued journalist Bob Woodward for copyright violations, claiming Woodward released audio from their interviews without Trump’s consent.

Trump, who also sued publisher Simon & Schuster and parent company Paramount, is seeking nearly $50 million in damages.

I read the suit: apparently Woodward and Simon & Schuster Inc. made lotsa money off of Trump and now he wants his cut.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Over the past few months, Trump team turned over additional classified records and laptop from Mar a Lago to federal prosecutors​

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team turned over more documents with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The Trump attorneys also handed over an empty folder marked “Classified Evening Briefing,” sources said.

The previously undisclosed handovers – from December and January – [i.e. after the FBI raid] suggest the protracted effort by the Justice Department to repossess records from Trump’s presidency may not be done.

The Trump attorneys discovered the documents with classified markings in December, while searching through boxes at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. The lawyers subsequently handed them over to the Justice Department.

A Trump aide had previously copied those same documents onto a thumb drive and laptop, not realizing they were classified. The laptop, which belonged to an aide, who works for Save America PAC, and the thumb drive were also given to investigators in January.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Over the past few months, Trump team turned over additional classified records and laptop from Mar a Lago to federal prosecutors​

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team turned over more documents with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The Justice Department wants to know how a box containing a handful of classified records scattered among copies of presidential schedules turned up at Mar-a-Lago late last year, well after several rounds of searches of the property by federal agents and aides to former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith in recent weeks have interviewed a Trump aide who copied classified materials found in the box using her phone to put them onto a laptop.

The classified documents contained in the box were discovered in December, after the Justice Department told Trump’s legal team to conduct yet another search for documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

People familiar with the Trump legal team’s efforts to locate documents describe a confusing chain of events that delayed discovery of the box, including having its contents uploaded to the cloud, emailed to a Trump employee, and moved to an offsite location before finally ending up back at a Mar-a-Lago bridal suite that is now Trump’s office – the very place that the FBI had searched just weeks earlier.

One person who described the box’s movements and the special counsel’s inquiry into it described federal investigators as suspecting a “shell game with classified documents.” The person said Trump’s daily movements and instructions to staff are a core part of prosecutors’ questions as well.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Trump apparently regrets confessing to crimes on audio, and is now suing Woodward.

Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews​

Former President Donald Trump has sued journalist Bob Woodward for copyright violations, claiming Woodward released audio from their interviews without Trump’s consent.

Trump, who also sued publisher Simon & Schuster and parent company Paramount, is seeking nearly $50 million in damages.

Here’s the suit:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079.1.0.pdf

There’s no way the copyright claims are going anywhere- the copyright here belongs to Woodward, not Trump. But even if that weren’t the case, media created by federal employees in the course of their jobs is automatically public domain.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump apparently regrets confessing to crimes on audio, and is now suing Woodward.

Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews​

Trump's $50M Pensacola copyright lawsuit to be transferred to New York​

Federal Judge M. Casey Rodgers ordered that the "venue in this district is 'wrong' and 'improper'" earlier in August, saying Trump's lawsuit must continue in the Southern District of New York.

"The clerk is directed to transfer this case to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the court concludes that district is the most appropriate and convenient forum for the parties and witnesses and the one with the strongest connection to the dispute," the judge's order said.

 

[The Barbarian]

I'm sure it sticks in his craw that someone is making money off him, and he's not getting a cut of it.