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August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1557117185964785666
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/
NEW: FBI removed about a dozen boxes from a basement at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, according to Trump's..
NEW: FBI removed about a dozen boxes from a basement at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, according to Trump's lawyer. After Trump gave over 15 boxes earlier this year, federal officials believed he still had more -- and his team wasn't telling the whole truth.
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1557117185964785666
Mar-a-Lago search appears focused on whether Trump, aides withheld items
A lawyer for Donald Trump said agents seized about a dozen boxes on Monday, months after 15 boxes of items were returned
In the months before the FBIs dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trumps Florida home and open his safe to look for items federal authorities grew increasingly concerned that Trump or his lawyers and aides had not, in fact, returned all the documents and other material that were government property, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former presidents private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.
Over months of discussions on the subject, some officials also came to suspect Trumps representatives were not truthful at times, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for Trump said the agents who brought the court-approved warrant to Mar-a-Lago a day earlier took about 12 more boxes after conducting their search.
A lawyer for Donald Trump said agents seized about a dozen boxes on Monday, months after 15 boxes of items were returned
In the months before the FBIs dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trumps Florida home and open his safe to look for items federal authorities grew increasingly concerned that Trump or his lawyers and aides had not, in fact, returned all the documents and other material that were government property, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former presidents private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.
Over months of discussions on the subject, some officials also came to suspect Trumps representatives were not truthful at times, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for Trump said the agents who brought the court-approved warrant to Mar-a-Lago a day earlier took about 12 more boxes after conducting their search.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/
August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1557060790846382080
Dan Rather: We can learn from the instincts of children. More comfort and empathy.
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1557091335793889280https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1557060790846382080
August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/1557001977921687553
Andrew Yang is a douchebag- part MMXXII
Im no Trump fan. I want him as far away from the White House as possible. But a fundamental part of his appeal has been that its him against a corrupt government establishment. This raid strengthens that case for millions of Americans who will see this as unjust persecution.
It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government. But literally no one will believe that or make a distinction. Its probably bureaucratic but it seems political.
It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government. But literally no one will believe that or make a distinction. Its probably bureaucratic but it seems political.
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/1557001977921687553
August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/CarolMaps/status/1556992917113282562
A story about crisps in 4 parts
https://twitter.com/CarolMaps/status/1556992917113282562
August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1556992711064010754
Domino's Pizza Quits Italy After Locals Shun American Pies
Dominos Pizza Inc.s footprint in the home of Pizza proved to be short lived with Italians favoring local restaurants over the American version.
The last of Dominos 29 branches have closed after the company started operations in the country seven years ago. It borrowed heavily for plans to open 880 stores, but faced tough competition from local restaurants expanding delivery services during the pandemic and sought protection from creditors after running out of cash and falling behind on its debt obligations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-09/domino-s-pizza-leaves-italy-as-traditional-margherita-wins
The last of Dominos 29 branches have closed after the company started operations in the country seven years ago. It borrowed heavily for plans to open 880 stores, but faced tough competition from local restaurants expanding delivery services during the pandemic and sought protection from creditors after running out of cash and falling behind on its debt obligations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-09/domino-s-pizza-leaves-italy-as-traditional-margherita-wins
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1556992711064010754
August 9, 2022
Good morning...Mar-a-Lago getting raided by the FBI wasn't a dream
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1556975986368987136
August 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/thor_benson/status/1556778177292390403
"They even broke into my safe!"
https://twitter.com/thor_benson/status/1556778177292390403
August 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1556628203246329856
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacular martial display to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the American entrance into the First World War. Vintage tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets roared overhead. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trumphis sense of showmanship and grandiosityand he was visibly delighted. The French general in charge of the parade turned to one of his American counterparts and said, You are going to be doing this next year.
Sure enough, Trump returned to Washington determined to have his generals throw him the biggest, grandest military parade ever for the Fourth of July. The generals, to his bewilderment, reacted with disgust. Id rather swallow acid, his Defense Secretary, James Mattis, said. Struggling to dissuade Trump, officials pointed out that the parade would cost millions of dollars and tear up the streets of the capital.
But the gulf between Trump and the generals was not really about money or practicalities, just as their endless policy battles were not only about clashing views on whether to withdraw from Afghanistan or how to combat the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran. The divide was also a matter of values, of how they viewed the United States itself. That was never clearer than when Trump told his new chief of staff, John Kellylike Mattis, a retired Marine Corps generalabout his vision for Independence Day. Look, I dont want any wounded guys in the parade, Trump said. This doesnt look good for me. He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.
Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. Those are the heroes, he told Trump. In our society, theres only one group of people who are more heroic than they areand they are buried over in Arlington. Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.
I dont want them, Trump repeated. It doesnt look good for me.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacular martial display to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the American entrance into the First World War. Vintage tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets roared overhead. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trumphis sense of showmanship and grandiosityand he was visibly delighted. The French general in charge of the parade turned to one of his American counterparts and said, You are going to be doing this next year.
Sure enough, Trump returned to Washington determined to have his generals throw him the biggest, grandest military parade ever for the Fourth of July. The generals, to his bewilderment, reacted with disgust. Id rather swallow acid, his Defense Secretary, James Mattis, said. Struggling to dissuade Trump, officials pointed out that the parade would cost millions of dollars and tear up the streets of the capital.
But the gulf between Trump and the generals was not really about money or practicalities, just as their endless policy battles were not only about clashing views on whether to withdraw from Afghanistan or how to combat the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran. The divide was also a matter of values, of how they viewed the United States itself. That was never clearer than when Trump told his new chief of staff, John Kellylike Mattis, a retired Marine Corps generalabout his vision for Independence Day. Look, I dont want any wounded guys in the parade, Trump said. This doesnt look good for me. He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.
Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. Those are the heroes, he told Trump. In our society, theres only one group of people who are more heroic than they areand they are buried over in Arlington. Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.
I dont want them, Trump repeated. It doesnt look good for me.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1556628203246329856
August 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1556582713473306624
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet
Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.
Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a "maggot."
Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman
Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a "maggot."
Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1556582713473306624
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