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Melania Ignoring ‘Reality’ and Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels Problems at Mar-a-Lago, Report Says
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Officials Prep for Protests as MAGA Sycophants Push ‘Patriot Moat’ Around Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: Officials Prepare for MAGA Protests
- Preparations for potential mass protests have been made between city, state, and federal agencies.
- Ideas from far-right forums include creating a 'Patriot moat' around Mar-a-Lago.
- Police in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to questions about the threats.
- Meetings between senior staff members of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and security officers have reportedly taken place.
Appeals court strikes down special master in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case: A three-judge panel, including two Trump employees, said they would not "carve out ...
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Quick Glance: Appeals Court Abandons Special Master Review in Trump Documents Case
- The appeals court decision, however, did not address that question since it terminated Judge Cannon's review on jurisdictional grounds.
- Mr. Trump's lawyers claimed during the early days of the special master's investigation that he personally possessed a large number of papers that the government claimed were public property under the Presidential Records Act.
- The court of appeals stated that it was neither considering or endorsing that theory.
- The appeals court decided in favor of the government within a week.
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Justice Department appeals judge’s decision to grant ‘special master’ to review records seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: Trump Support Sinks, Majority of Independents Oppose 2024 Run: Poll
- According to a new poll, 28 percent of the crucial demographic would vote for Trump again, compared to 41 percent who voted for him in 2020.
- According to exit polling from the 2016 election, 41 percent of independents voted for Trump over Biden, implying that the former president has lost their favor since leaving office.
- In example, 65 percent of Americans said they would oppose Trump running for President again if he was charged with a crime, while 61 percent of Republicans said they would support him even if he was prosecuted.
- "Newsweek reached out to Trump for comment."
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge: The filing was in response to a request from Donald Trump's lawyers two weeks ...
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Files would "just disappear" if Trump was elected, according to Grisham.
- Former Trump White House press secretary Stephenie Grisham stated official paperwork would "just disappear" when Trump was around.
- Grisham, who worked for Trump from July 2019 to April 2020, claimed Trump often took official paperwork from the White House's working spaces to his private presidential house.
- According to her, "Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him."
- "They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear."
Federal appeals court halts special master review of Trump's Mar-a-lago documents
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Trump's Mar-a-Lago Faces Dual Threat From Tornados, Hurricane Ian: Palm Beach County began reporting damage from the storms this morning with heavy rains ...
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Mar-a-Lago special master orders Trump team to back up any claims of FBI ‘planting’ evidence
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Quick Glance: Trump Is Burdened by the Power to Declassify Documents With His Mind
- The remark, on a broader level, is about how perception can affect everything.
- And, while Donald Trump has given us little reason to believe he is conversant with Shakespeare, his most recent interview has changed my mind.
- "Is there a procedure?"
- "How did you go about declassifying?" Hannity inquired.
- Days after the search, Trump issued a statement stating that he had a "standing order" to declassify any information brought to his home.
- However, from Trump's point of view, the notion that the president may declassify just by thinking about it alters everything.
Special counsel demands more answers from Trump lawyer on Mar-a-Lago documents: Special counsel Jack Smith demanded that attorney Evan Corcoran return to the ...
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Trump lawyers say he designated seized Mar-a-Lago documents 'as personal records' — DOJ says he can't do that 'simply by saying so'
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Quick Glance: Justice Department vs. Trump Lawyers Over Seized Documents
- A pair of unsealed filings dispute the former president's authority to claim White House materials as his personal property and use executive privilege.
- The Justice Department said in a recently unsealed brief that Mr. Trump would have required to declare them as personal property before leaving office.
- Another important question is whether Mr. Trump can use executive privilege to prevent the executive branch from investigating executive branch records for criminal purposes.
- The Justice Department argued that Mr. Trump could not invoke executive privilege in this case.
Trump legal team unwilling to answer judge's declassification questions: Lawyers for Trump and for the Justice Department are to appear in federal court in ...
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Quick Glance: Trump wants an appeals court to deny the Department of Justice's request to continue studying sensitive information. Documents from Mar-a-Lago
- At a Save America Rally, former President Donald Trump takes the stage.
- In the 40-page petition, Trump's legal team stated that the Department of Justice has failed to demonstrate that the papers "it claims are classified are, in fact, classified and their segregation is inviolable."
- According to Trump's attorneys, a document with classification marks "does not necessarily negate privilege claims," which includes Trump's handwritten annotations.
- In a letter to Judge Raymond Dearie, Trump's team highlights a draft plan that "requires that the Plaintiff disclose specific information regarding declassification to the Court and to the Government."
Judge grants Trump request for special master to review documents found at Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: A US judge has agreed to appoint a special master in the Trump investigation.
- WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge agreed on Monday to appoint a special master to evaluate evidence seized by the FBI during its unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's Florida residence, putting the Justice Department's ongoing criminal investigation on hold.
- An overhead picture of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., after Trump claimed that FBI investigators searched it.
- Trump's request, on the other hand, was one-of-a-kind.
- Many former Justice Department lawyers, both Democrats and Republicans, have slammed Trump's request for a special master.
FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Heads to Court : As judges move toward rulings that will determine how much information about the probe is released ...
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Quick Glance: Trump seeks a "special master" to evaluate information seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
- The Justice Department, for example, submitted a subpoena for papers with classified marks in May, only weeks before the search.
- In June, FBI and Justice Department investigators paid a visit to Mar-a-Lago and requested to view a storage room.
- Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have petitioned the judge to release further documents related to the FBI's investigation of Mar-A-Lago earlier this month, when officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified materials, including top secret records, from the Florida estate.
- The affidavit supporting the search is particularly interesting since it apparently contains critical data concerning the Justice Department's investigation into whether Trump maintained and mishandled secret and sensitive government records.
The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis. We should act like it.
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Quick Glance: Judge Appoints Special Master in Surprising Victory for Trump's Legal Team
- "The court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," wrote U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in an order issued Monday.
- "It is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards," Trump's lawyers wrote in their plea.
- In response, the DOJ stated that a special master was not required because a "filter team" had already determined whether documents included privileged information.
- Trump's staff has until September 9 to submit a list of potential special masters.
Special master Dearie unhappy with Mar-a-Lago document progress: ‘Where’s the beef? I need some beef’
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Quick Glance: Special master review questions judge Trump's claim of privilege: NYT
- Trump and his lawyers have claimed that the documents are covered by attorney-client or executive privilege, preventing the Justice Department from accessing them for its criminal investigation into Trump's handling of sensitive government materials.
- However, the special master, Judge Raymond R. Dearie, stated in a hearing that the batch of documents he reviewed lacked sufficient evidence to support the privilege claim, according to The New York Times.
- Trump's lawyers reportedly cited concerns about finding a vendor to scan thousands of papers so that Dearie could evaluate them.
- Dearie, not Drearie, is the correct spelling.
Trump Hosted All These People In His Mar-A-Lago Office Where He’d Stashed Government Secrets
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Paid articlePaidQuick Glance: Trump's aides quickly packed his belongings as he prepared to leave the White House.
- According to the Times, the former Trump officials interviewed indicated they had no recollection of seeing secret documents being placed in boxes.
- Former aides told Politico last month that the Oval Office and an adjacent private dining room were only packed up the weekend before Trump left the White House.
- Other intelligence officials told The New York Times that Trump lacked the same level of caution.
- According to John Bolton, a former Trump national security advisor, if they requested for the documents back, Trump would think they didn't trust him.
FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump: Former president Donald Trump's advisers pushed back this spring against requests for the ...
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DOJ asks appeals court to shut down special master's review of Trump documents: Thousands of documents were seized from Donald Trump's estate.
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Quick Glance: Trump-backed candidates have funneled at least $1.4 million into his businesses.
- He endorses, they pay: Donald Trump has devised a method of collecting campaign contributions from candidates wanting his endorsement.
- It's a pittance for Trump, who is estimated to be worth $3 billion.
- Only five candidates are responsible for half of the money Trump has received from his supporters.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump Press Secretary who is now running for governor of Arkansas, dropped $90,000.
Justice Dept. appeals judge’s rulings on classified material in Mar-a-Lago case: The Friday night filing asks a higher court to intercede against parts of the ...
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Quick Glance: Judge appoints Raymond Dearie as special master to analyze Mar-a-Lago materials while halting the DOJ probe against Donald Trump
- Raymond Dearie, a former senior federal judge in Brooklyn who previously served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, was named as the special master evaluating the records seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida residence by a federal judge late Thursday.
- The Justice Department, which had argued that a special master was unnecessary, agreed to accept Dearie because of his competence in national security cases and with attorney-client privilege issues.
- However, Cannon refused to allow the Justice Department to continue its study of approximately 100 classified documents while the special master conducts his investigation.
Trump’s Special Master Request Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike: A legal back-and-forth produced a straightforward narrative of how Mr. Trump and his ...
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Rolling Stone: DOJ asking if Trump kept documents at other properties: Federal investigators specifically asked witnesses about Trump Tower in Manhattan and his ...
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Federal appeals panel lifts hold on Mar-a-Lago records for use in Trump investigation
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Quick Glance: 11 Republican Attorneys General Urge Appeals Court to Support Trump's Mar-a-Lago Special Master
- A group of 11 Republican attorneys general submitted a brief in court in favor of former President Donald Trump's "s efforts to have a court-appointed arbiter sift through hundreds of classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago compound last month."
- "Throughout this litigation the Biden Administration has attempted to trade on the reputation of the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community to thwart the appointment of a neutral special master.
- But the district court twice rejected that gambit, and this Court should too."
- But the district court rejected that gambit twice, and this Court should as well."
- Trump's most recent brief with the appeals court contends that the DOJ has failed to demonstrate that the records sought are "in fact, classified."
Cannon rules Trump lawyers don’t have to clarify claims on Mar-a-Lago documents: Special master Raymond Dearie had told Donald Trump’s attorneys lawyers to ...
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Quick Glance: Judge makes a decision Trump's lawyers are not required to provide clarification. Mar-a-Lago document assertions
- Cannon appointed Dearie to analyze around 11,000 papers seized Aug. 8 from Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club and house and determine whether any should be concealed from investigators due to attorney-client or executive privilege.
- Trump's legal team has warned that answering inquiries about the inventory list and whether the papers are secret could put them at a disadvantage in the event of a future criminal prosecution or judicial battle over the restoration of the confiscated materials to Trump.
- When Cannon decided to appoint a special master, she stated that the review of the seized sensitive materials will be included.
Prosecutors Pressure Trump Aides to Testify in Documents Case: The Justice Department’s effort to win the witnesses’ cooperation shows how the investigation ...
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Judge says she has 'preliminary intent' to appoint special master to oversee Mar-a-Lago search review
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Quick Glance: Takeaways from the Affidavit Used to Support Trump's Search
- More materials were provided over by Mr. Trump's advisors in June.
- However, the Justice Department was questioning witnesses in the case and concluded that Mr. Trump was in possession of further classified materials.
- The search yielded a cache of very sensitive documents.
- There were highly classified documents among the materials.
- The affidavit did not reveal the substance of any of the documents or the subject matter they addressed, and the Justice Department has not addressed the risk to national security if any of the records fell into the hands of competing nations.
Trump dines with white supremacist, renewing questions about GOP's leadership and values
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Quick Glance: Trump claims he "openly and transparently" obtained White House documents.
- "When will you invade the other Presidents' homes in search of documents, which are voluminous," Trump commented on Truth Social.
- It's one of numerous criminal investigations of Trump, and the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland are under intense public pressure to stay impartial as they look into everything from Trump's preservation of official records to his involvement in the tragic Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
- A few days later, Garland hired experienced war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise Trump-related criminal investigations.
Trump Request for Special Master Could Open Door for Delays to Investigation: The former president, who used the slow pace of litigation to run out the clock on ...
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Judge to Weigh Unsealing Affidavit Behind FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: Government says making document public would compromise investigation; Trump ...
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Paid articlePaidQuick Glance: The Importance of the Mar-a-Lago Documents
- They will be concerned about whether any of the information in the documents is about them, whether Trump has shared any of it, and, perhaps most importantly, whether their intelligence efforts—which resulted in information they shared, trusting the US's ability to safeguard secrets—may have been compromised.
- During the Trump administration, our intelligence agencies responded to the president's erratic conduct by restricting the president's access to sensitive information, including information obtained from foreign sources.
- When Biden took office, he made certain that Trump would not have access to real-time intelligence by denying him of the daily briefings that had been a practice for previous presidents.
Takeaways from the ruling granting Trump's request for a special master in Mar-a-Lago probe
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National Archives wanted to share classified docs from Mar-a-Lago with FBI and intel community for damage assessment months ago
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Quick Glance: Five Key Points in Donald Trump's Lawsuit Against the DOJ Over the Mar-a-Lago Search
- Trump's lawyers have also requested the appointment of a special master to preserve the former president's rights.
- In very sensitive instances, such an appointment is sometimes made, and the special master is asked to evaluate seized files to ensure that investigators do not view protected information.
- Trump's lawyers said that this was insufficient.
- Rights under the Fourth AmendmentThe former president's lawyers believe that the search at Mar-a-Lago violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Justice Department asks appeals court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago classified documents fight
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Quick Glance: Trump warns of "big problems" if he is charged with mishandling secret documents.
- Durbin: Trump and his allies are to accountable for the "stunning" increase in FBI threats after the Mar-a-Lago search.
- According to court records unsealed after the FBI's August 8 search, the former president kept classified materials labeled "secret" and "top secret" at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
- Lindsay Graham: Lindsey Graham warns of "riots in the street" if Trump is charged, claiming a "double standard"
- The FBI's investigation was criticized by Trump supporters and other conservatives, including Sen.
Judge’s special-master order a test of Trump’s post-White House powers: The Justice Department must decide by Friday whether to appeal this week's ruling by U.S ...
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Hillary Clinton: Trump’s classified Mar-a-Lago docs 'should concern every American'
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Quick Glance: Barr: Trump accuses everybody who disagrees of lying
- Former US Attorney General Bill Barr recently dismissed Donald Trump's claim that he was a RINO, or Republican In Name Only, claiming it's a derogatory term used by the former president against anyone who opposes his claims of election fraud.
- ""A RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen," Barr scolded on Tuesday during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
- Barr has recently largely defended the Justice Department's probe into Trump's handling of confidential White House materials.
- "Barr is not the first person to be accused by the former president of being a RINO."
Trump Says Americans Won't 'Stand' For Charges Against Him, Warns Of Trouble: Daring to indict him would trigger “problems in this country the likes of which ...
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Quick Glance: Raymond Dearie: Who Is He? A "scrupulously fair" judge has been appointed as Special Master.
- The special master to evaluate records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has been appointed by a seasoned district judge with a track record of handling high-profile cases.
- Dearie was also the district's head judge from 2007 until 2011.
- According to Steve Gold, a law professor who previously worked as a clerk for the court, Dearie will not be "daunted" by the special master role because he has handled important cases with "intense" media interest in the past.
- "Judge Dearie is scrupulously fair," Gold stated.
Trump should have returned documents, but Congress has questions for investigators: Sen. Blunt
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Quick Glance: Watergate prosecutor says DOJ will look into Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents
- "They're going to want to see who moved things in and out, when they did it in relation to requests that they made," Nick Ackerman predicted.
- I'm sure they'll fingerprint every one of those documents to see if anyone else had access to them and if so, who had access to them.
- "On Saturday, Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, told lawmakers that her office would be assessing the possible national security risks posed by the documents obtained.""The concealment listed in that affidavit, I mean, that's what really triggered this search warrant in the first place," Ackerman explained.
Not Mar-a-Lago: Congress' secrets in sealed rooms, lock bags: WASHINGTON (AP) — Security-sealed rooms. Lock bags. And in the most rare of circumstances ...
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Quick Glance: Meet Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer who used to be an OAN TV host.
- According to a court filing, Christina Bobb, one of Trump's lawyers, signed a letter attesting that a "diligent search" had been undertaken and that all evidence in Mar-a-Lago at the time had been handed to the US government.
- " Pearson Sharp, who worked with Bobb at OAN, told Insider: "It doesn't surprise me at all that she's working for Trump."
- The subpoena was simply the beginning of Bobb's legal problems.
- Experts said the file might be used to establish a legal case that Bobb and Corcoran hampered the government's investigation, and they recommended both lawyers to hire their own lawyers.
Donald Trump Declares Himself an ‘Absolutely Perfect Physical Specimen’ in Latest Attack on FBI
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Quick Glance: Why was Trump's request for a "special master" granted by a judge?
- Cannon also granted the special master in this case the unusual authority to search for papers covered by "executive privilege."
- Executive privilege is a contentious legal notion that states that US presidents and their staffs can deny some legal demands if they jeopardize national security or the executive branch's operations.
- She has given the Department of Justice and Trump's legal team until Friday to come up with a list of suitable special masters.
- Will there now be special masters in every [criminal] investigation?"
Rep. Adam Schiff Says There's ‘No Evidence’ that Donald Trump Declassified Documents from FBI Raid
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago raid: Armed Trump supporters protest at FBI headquarters in Phoenix
- On Saturday, armed supporters of former President Donald Trump demonstrated outside the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.
- According to one demonstrator, they were come to oppose the "unlawful search" of the Florida property.
- It came after the Justice Department and Trump both stated that the information should be made public.
- They did not enter FBI property.
Judge to Unseal More Detailed List of Materials Seized at Mar-a-Lago: Aileen Cannon says she will rule in due course on former President Donald Trump’s request ...
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Paid articlePaidQuick Glance: Trump appears to be undermining his own assertion that the FBI planted documents at Mar-a-Lago.
- In his Truth Social post, Trump appeared to admit that the evidence in the Mar-a-Lago raid was not planted by the FBI.
- In his Wednesday post, Trump claimed that the FBI purposefully arranged highly sensitive documents on the floor of a Mar-a-Lago room to make him appear bad.
- "Trump's argument has gone from 'The FBI planted evidence against me!" to "They took the evidence out of my cartons — and spread it on my carpet!"
- Trump's and the Justice Department's attorneys are due to appear in federal court in Florida on Thursday at 1 p.m.
Garland Faces Tough Calls in Weighing Response to Trump Ruling: As the department decides whether to appeal the ruling on a special master ...
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Biden says he had ‘zero' advance notice of FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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Quick Glance: Biden claims he had "zero' advance notice of FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate" advance information of the FBI's inspection of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
- In his first public comments on the search, President Joe Biden said he had "zero" advance information before federal officials raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
- What the White House previously stated: The day following the Mar-a-Lago search, the White House stated that Justice Department investigations should be "free from political influence" and that no one in the White House was given a "heads-up."
- Federal authorities examined Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into allegations that he removed secret materials from the White House when he left office.
Trump Special Master Ruling Lifts Profile of Judge Aileen Cannon: Judge Aileen M. Cannon has issued the first highly scrutinized ruling of her short judicial ...
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FBI’s Trump search has lawmakers asking for content of documents: Senate Intelligence Committee leaders made a bipartisan request to the U.S ...
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Trump team takes aim at records probe; calls it 'misguided': Former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday dismissed as a "storage dispute" Trump's ...
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Mar-a-Lago: Trump likely behind false statement to DOJ, analysts say: New information from the affidavit used by the FBI to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago ...
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Former GOP advisor says 'there's no going back' after Mar-a-Lago raid: "This can only end in one of two ways: he's got to be indicted or Merrick Garland has to ...
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Trump team takes aim at records probe; calls it 'misguided': The former president’s legal team urged a judge to leave in place a directive that temporarily ...
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Judge grants Trump request for special master in document search: A U.S. District Judge says an outside legal expert should review records taken from former ...
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Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter's review of Trump docs: The appeal is the latest salvo in weeks of litigation over the scope of duties of the arbiter ...
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Documents found in Donald Trumps residence possibly covered by attorney-client privilege
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Trump claims 9 White House records are his personal property: The DOJ in a Thursday filing said Trump is claiming executive privilege over nine records ...
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More than 100 classified Trump documents were recovered back in January: The National Archives recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings ...
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Blame the Supreme Court for Trump Judge Aileen Cannon’s Awful Mar-a-Lago Ruling: “The public has the right to every person’s evidence.” That includes presidents ...
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Four Key Takeaways From Judge Cannon's Order Granting Trump Special Master: The Department of Justice strongly objected to the appointment of a special master ...
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Trump's in a 'Perfect Storm' of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor: "Donald Trump engaged in a flagrant violation of his national duty ...
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump lashes out at FBI agents who refused to remove their shoes in his Mar-a-Lago bedroom.
- On Sunday night, Donald Trump complained on his Truth Social platform that the FBI officers who "ransacked" his Florida house "didn't even take off their shoes" when in his bedroom.
- "Arrived in Florida last night and had a long and detailed chance to check out the scene of yet another government 'crime,' the FBI's Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago,"crime," the FBI's raid and break-in of my home, Mar-a-Lago," Trump said in the post.
- It had been "ransacked," and it was in far worse shape than I had left it.
Trump lawyers, Justice Dept. to meet with Mar-a-Lago special master: The session in Judge Raymond Dearie's courtroom could address key questions about the seized ...
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Trump team, U.S. Justice Dept. spar over seized Mar-a-Lago docs: The U.S. Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former U.S ...
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The Justice Department has urged a special master to reject assertions by Donald Trump that he owns a range of documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago and ... Show more
DOJ Should Indict Trump After Judge Cannon's 'Clearly Wrong' Ruling: Tribe: "DOJ should indict Trump and render [Judge Aileen Cannon's] delays and game playing ...
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Quick Glance: The DOJ Should Indict Trump Following Judge Cannon's 'Clearly Wrong' Decision: Tribe
- "DOJ should indict Trump and render [Judge Aileen Cannon's] delays and game playing moot," legal expert Laurence Tribe said on Thursday.
- "Judge Cannon is clearly wrong, but she's a sideshow now that the Court of Appeals has lifted her injunction with respect to the classified documents," Tribe said in reaction to Cannon's decision on Dearie's plan.
- "Now Cannon swoops back in & says (in substance), Trump doesn't have to put up & Judge Dearie should shut up."
- "Trump has denied all wrongdoing in regard to the documents."
DOJ Called Out Trump Judge Aileen Cannon With Its Savvy Mar-a-Lago Appeal: The beauty of DOJ’s narrow request for a stay is that it takes advantage of the ...
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Quick Glance: Jack Ohman: Trump's Library...
- See the most recent editorial cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Ohman.
- And you may meet the Editorial Board here.
- Jack Ohman, Senior Associate Editor, has worked with The Bee since 2013.
- He earned the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2016, as well as the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Scripps Howard Award, the national SPJ Award, and the National Headliner Award.
A risky option: In the wake of the court's decision to appoint a special counsel to examine the files Trump purloined, the Justice Department is considering its ...
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