The Mysteries of Mar-a-Lago

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From @TimWeinerAuthor , a striking historical echo. when FBI searched his office for files related to Watergates, Nixon's response was:
They’re my files,” Nixon wailed. “They belong to me.”

The Mysteries of Mar-a-Lago

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Opinion | The Mysteries of Mar-a-Lago
What is in those files? Where did they come from? Whose fingerprints are on them? And who shows up on the surveillance tapes from the Trump mansion
5:04 PM · Aug 19, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/opinion/trump-mar-a-lago-records.html?smid=tw-share

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Donald J. Trump loves to attack the “deep state” — the imaginary cabal of soldiers, spies and secret agents seeking to destroy him from within the government. In the last year of his presidency, he aimed to slay that mythical beast.

He placed loyalists in powerful posts atop the intelligence community and the Pentagon, seeking to rifle through their top-secret files in search of evidence that the “deep state” spied on his 2016 campaign, then framed him for his dealings with Russia and Ukraine, acts for which he was investigated and impeached.

Now the tables have turned. Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the ex-president’s own secret files, igniting a bitter legal battle and a political attack by Mr. Trump and his allies against the F.B.I. The judge who signed the search warrant has ordered the Justice Department to propose which parts of the F.B.I. affidavit justifying the search and seizure of the sensitive files may be unsealed, if and when they are. The government has made clear that Mr. Trump had no right to possess these records.

The F.B.I. can make a strong case against Mr. Trump — thanks to a law created because of the crimes of Richard Nixon.

On May 3, 1973, days after the F.B.I. searched the White House to seize presidential files pertaining to Watergate, Nixon sat down with Richard Kleindienst, who had just resigned as attorney general. The Oval Office tapes were rolling.

“They’re my files,” Nixon wailed. “They belong to me.”

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1. The mysteries of maralardo...did the files seized include an unredacted Mueller Report?....

..but, they are mine!!!!!..

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2. Tim Weiner is an outstanding writer on the National Security State.

He describes the guy with ties to Modri and Putin:

But Mr. Patel remained in the ex-president’s orbit as the confrontation over the Mar-a-Lago cache slowly escalated this spring. In June, when he became an official National Archives representative, a Trump spokeswoman emphasized that Mr. Patel was working to disclose “documents that reveal a clear conspiracy to unlawfully spy on candidate and then President Donald J. Trump” — in other words, the same sorts of documents he seems to have been seeking to uncover at the highest levels of American intelligence two years ago, at Mr. Trump’s command. (Mr. Patel did not return an email seeking comment.)

ETA: And dip ties in South American drug money through the membership of Merd-di-Lardo.