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August 16, 2022

"Didn't want to give the boxes back"

F.B.I. Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/trump-cipollone-philbin-interviews-fbi.html

(or paywall-free: https://archive.ph/fueo0)

snip............

Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, the White House counsel and his deputy under President Donald J. Trump, were interviewed by the F.B.I. in connection with boxes of sensitive documents that were stored at Mr. Trump’s residence in Florida after he left office, three people familiar with the matter said.


snip.............

Mr. Philbin tried to help the National Archives retrieve the material, two of the people familiar with the discussions said. But the former president repeatedly resisted entreaties from his advisers.

“It’s not theirs, it’s mine,” several advisers say Mr. Trump told them.


snip............

At that point, at least one Trump lawyer signed a statement saying material with the classified markings had been returned, according to four people familiar with the document. But officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at Mar-a-Lago and saw something that alarmed them. They also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said.


More in the link.
August 15, 2022

Guess whose passports the FBI now has

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1559231711589896192

So he can't flee even if he wants to. Well, unless a corrupt government gives him refuge.
August 14, 2022

DOJ contact info - demand they indict trump NOW

https://www.justice.gov/contact-us

I am writing an email demanding they indict the orange fuck NOW. Aside from all the chatter about classification level and the declassification process, the fact of the matter is that he illegally possessed classified documents at his home and his lawyers lied when they said the FBI had all of them months ago. Obviously they lied because the FBI recovered another 20+ boxes of documents last week. He is a walking security threat. Who knows if he made copies of some of the material and is still walking free and can sell it?

But despite all the bluushit they want you to get caught up in, like the declassifying process, etc., the fact is he illegally possessed classified documents at his home in an unsecured location. That alone is a fucking felony and it's already 100% true.

Indict him now and add charges later.

The link to a contact form to the DOJ is above. I just sent my letter.
August 13, 2022

So, here's where we find ourselves: which is worse?

A president conducting an attempted coup of America's government?

Or

A president selling America's classified information?

August 12, 2022

Mango Mussolini didn't simply "take" classified documents. THIS IS THEFT.

Some of these documents are so highly classified that they are to never leave secure premises. This is absolutely theft; theft of highly classified information.

So, he had to have known what the material contained and he had to have persuaded someone to remove it from the premises. This person needs to be found. In addition, classified materials are guarded. They had to get around that guard too. That person also need to be found.

This is interesting:

All classified material must be stored in a secure room, a GSA-approved storage container, such as a cabinet or safe or a vault or modular vault, or a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).

a. Confidential material may be stored in a secure room, a cabinet or safe, or a vault or modular vault. Confidential information may also be stored in a SCIF. No additional protection is required to store Confidential material in any of these containers or facilities.

b. Secret material may also be stored in a secure room, a cabinet or safe, a vault or modular vault, or a
SCIF. However, if Secret material is stored in a secure room, then supplemental controls are required to ensure its protection. We'll look later at the specific supplemental controls required for Secret material.

c. Top Secret Like the lower levels of classified material, Top Secret material may also be stored in a secure room, a cabinet or safe, a vault or modular vault, or a SCIF. However, regardless of whether it is stored in a secure room, a cabinet or safe, or a vault, Top Secret material always requires supplemental controls. We'll look later at the specific supplemental controls required for Top Secret material.

d. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) There is only one acceptable place to store SCI, and that is in a SCIF. Although any type of classified material may also be stored in a SCIF, SCI may NOT be stored in anything other than a SCIF.


There's so much more: https://www.cdse.edu/Portals/124/Documents/student-guides/shorts/IFS0024-guide.pdf

August 12, 2022

Treason

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1558198471756333058

I think everyone is sleeping on the fact that before they got the warrants the DOJ was given surveillance footage of the rooms in which the documents were stored.
They got video of who looked at them THEN went in.
Chew on what that implies for a second. It tastes like treason.
August 12, 2022

Wasn't the House planning to vote on the IRA bill today?

Or did I get the date wrong?

August 12, 2022

New York judge rules criminal case against the Trump Organization and former CFO Allen Weisselberg..

New York judge rules criminal case against the Trump Organization and former CFO Allen Weisselberg can proceed

A New York State judge ruled Friday that a criminal fraud and tax evasion prosecution against the Trump Organization and its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, can proceed.

Weisselberg and the company asked a judge in February to dismiss all 15 counts charged against them. Judge Juan Merchan dismissed one of several tax fraud counts against the Trump Organization, but allowed all others to remain.

Attorneys for Weisselberg and the company did not immediately comment on Friday's decisions.


More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-judge-rules-criminal-case-against-the-trump-organization-and-former-cfo-allen-weisselberg-can-proceed/
August 12, 2022

I see so much discussion today about the seriousness of electing that POS

Man, it's way too late now.

But with this classified document fiasco, suddenly everybody realizes how absolutely stupid America was to elect that motherfucker.

Only now do people realize what a colossal mistake that was?

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