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Bragg is the DA who s**t canned a case that had been worked on for years against TFG for "reasons" and is now trying to take credit for this case.

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Ok. Good they did this.
But: "In Manhattan, NO CORPORATION is above the law".
Give me a (expletive) break.
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was just on Ari who asked him about the case he put on hold. For a big man he does a nice soft shoe.
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Items with classified markings found at Trump storage unit in Florida
The former president’s lawyers have told federal authorities no classified material was found in additional searches of Trump Tower in New York and his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.
By Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, Spencer S. Hsu, Devlin Barrett and Rosalind S. Helderman
Updated December 7, 2022 at 1:05 p.m. EST|Published December 7, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. EST

Lawyers for former president Donald Trump found at least two items marked classified after an outside team hired by Trump searched a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Fla., used by the former president, according to people familiar with the matter.

Those items were immediately turned over to the FBI, according to those people, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The search was one of at least three searches conducted by an outside team of his properties for classified materials in recent weeks, after they were pressed by a federal judge to attest they had fully complied with a May grand jury subpoena to turn over all materials bearing classified markings, according to people familiar with the matter.

Emails released by the General Services Administration, which assists former presidents during their transition to private life, show that the government agency helped rent the storage unit at a private facility in West Palm Beach on July 21, 2021. The unit was needed to store items that had been held at an office in Northern Virginia used by Trump staffers in the months just after he left office.

The emails show that GSA and Trump staffers worked together to arrange to ship several pallets of boxes and other items weighing more than 3,000 pounds from Northern Virginia to the Florida storage unit in September 2021.

A person familiar with the matter said the storage unit had a mix of boxes, gifts, suits and clothes, among other things. “It was suits and swords and wrestling belts and all sorts of things,” this person said. “To my knowledge, he has never even been to that storage unit. I don’t think anyone in Trump world could tell you what’s in that storage unit.”

There was no cataloguing of what was put in the storage unit, Trump advisers said — just as there was no cataloguing of what classified documents were taken to a room underneath Mar-a-Lago.

The Washington Post could not immediately determine specifically what was in the items marked classified. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ultimate significance of the classified material in the storage unit is not immediately clear, but its presence there indicates Mar-a-Lago was not the only place where Trump kept classified material. It also provides further evidence that Trump and his team did not fully comply with a May grand jury subpoena that sought all documents marked classified still in possession of the post-presidential office.

In addition to the storage unit, the team hired an outside firm to carry out the search of his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and, more recently, Trump Tower in New York, according to people familiar with the matter. The outside team also searched at least one other property.

The team also offered the FBI the opportunity to observe the search, but the offer was declined, the people said. It would be unusual for federal agents to monitor a search of someone’s property conducted by anyone other than another law enforcement agency.

Trump’s lawyers have told the Justice Department that the outside team did not turn up any new classified information during their search of Bedminster and Trump Tower, according to people familiar with the process, and have said they utilized a firm that had expertise in searching for documents.

“President Trump and his counsel continue to be cooperative and transparent,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said, accusing the Justice Department of committing an “unprecedented” and “unwarranted attack” against Trump and his family.

Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell told Trump’s legal team to continue to search for documents after the Justice Department expressed concerns that the team had not fully complied with a subpoena earlier this year. Howell, according to people familiar with the matter, did not give specific orders on how a search should be done.

Howell’s instructions followed a breakdown in the government’s trust in Trump’s attorneys that led prosecutors in August to seek a court-authorized FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Since that time, prosecutors have continued to question whether Trump has returned all materials with classification markings, although what steps the government might take to retrieve such materials or procedures it might require Trump’s advisers and lawyers to implement remain unclear.

Trump’s team has sought to avoid another federal high-profile search of his properties, the people familiar with the matter said.

According to the people, at least one of Trump’s lawyers has previously advocated for a less aggressive approach to the Justice Department investigation of Trump and his advisers for three potential crimes: mishandling of national security secrets, obstruction and destruction of government records.

That attorney, former Florida solicitor general Christopher Kise, had proposed such a search months earlier. Many of the other lawyers on Trump’s team have rebuffed Kise’s advice, and he has taken a reduced role in the classified documents case while taking a larger role in the New York investigations into the former president, the people said.

Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section at the Justice Department, communicated to Trump’s lawyers after the FBI search that the department was concerned Trump still may not have returned all the classified documents in his possession. The Washington Post has previously reported that officials at the National Archives also believe that there may still be more records missing. Previous attempts by Trump’s attorneys to identify and return documents proved unsatisfactory to investigators.

At times in the past, Trump has misled his own lawyers as to what was in the boxes that were taken from Mar-a-Lago, The Post has reported.

For example, he told some on his team that he only possessed newspaper clippings and personal items in 2021. One of his former lawyers, Alex Cannon, declined Trump’s entreaty to tell the National Archives he had returned all items because Cannon was not sure if it was true, and his team in February did not release a statement dictated by Trump that claimed he had returned all materials, The Post has reported.

Trump lawyers Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran met with investigators in June, handing over a taped-up folder of 38 documents collected from the former president’s residence in response to a May subpoena, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors called the response “incomplete” in court documents and said that they collected evidence of “obstructive conduct” regarding the failure to fully comply with the subpoena.

Bobb signed a certification swearing that she had been told that “a diligent search” was conducted of boxes of records shipped from the White House to Florida when Trump left office, and that the file handed over to investigators contained “all documents that are responsive to the subpoena.” Corcoran told the visiting investigators he had been advised that all available boxes placed in a storage room — and nowhere else — had been searched in response to the subpoena, The Post reported.

Soon after, investigators obtained video surveillance of the club and conducted more interviews with Trump staffers, leading them to seek a search warrant from a judge on the basis of new evidence that sensitive material still remained at Mar-a-Lago, The Post has reported. When agents executed the search warrant in August, they found additional documents with classified markings in the storage room and in Trump’s office, along with thousands of other government papers and items, according to court records.


Perry Stein and Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report.


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Now that admission from the other day makes more sense.

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She did a profile of each person on the list and doesn't allow the Thread Reader App to aggregate her posts. If you click on the Twitter link you can see all of the miscreants pictures.

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CHESEBRO: he’s the guy who wrote crime fraud excepted emails to Eastman planning to have congress object to GA electors so they could get a lawsuit in front of Clarence Thomas. He also said fear of 1/6 violence could motivate SCOTUS to take their case and overturn the election 2/

JUSTIN CLARK: this is the trump lawyer that was interviewed in the Bannon contempt case. He told the DoJ that Donald never invoked executive privilege for steve. He also told the 1/6 cmte that he refused to participate in the fraudulent electors scheme 3/

DIGENOVA: lawyer for “fraud guarantee”. Rudy pal. Been on my fantasy indictment team for years. He was part of organizing the fraudulent electors scheme. 4/

EASTMAN: another architect of the fraudulent elector scheme and the Pence pressure campaign. He tried desperately to keep his crimey emails from the 1/6 committee, but judge Carter said it was more likely than not that he and Donald violated 18 USC 371 & 1512c2. 5/

ELLIS: she was fired from her job as a parking ticket prosecutor and joined the Kraken strikeforce. She helped spread the big lie and coordinated legislative “hearings” in multiple swing states to push the fraudulent electors scheme. 6/

EPSHTEYN: total asshole. Advised Donald to go on offense and sue for a special master. He was part of the phony elector scheme, had a call with Donald on the morning of 1/6, and had his phone seized by the DoJ back in September. 7/

RUDY: serial farter. Giver of press conferences at landscaping companies. His hair melts. He was one of the main organizers of the elector scheme - holding fake legislative hearings, peddling the big lie, attacking election workers. His law license is suspended. 8/

KERIK: he emailed Rudy & Meadows conceding they didn’t have any evidence of voter fraud & they needed to focus on the fraudulent elector scheme. His lawyer, Parlatore, is paid by the Save America PAC - which is also under criminal investigation. Here’s Kerik in cuffs. 9/

MARKS: he coordinated the swing state pressure campaign with Mike Roman, Epshteyn, and other trump lawyers. He’s not the brightest bulb, having referred to Cleta Mitchell as Clavita, and calling Arizona Nevada. 10/

CLETA: friend of Ginni. Marks can’t say her name properly. Helped coordinate the Ellipse rally and worked on the fraudulent elector scheme. 11/

MORGAN: trump lawyer who signed off on Eastman’s SCOTUS brief on behalf of the trump campaign in support of the Texas lawsuit against the swing states. 12/

OLSEN: spoke to Donald multiple times on 1/6. It was his idea to use the justice department to overturn the election results. He called the 1/6 hearings “Soviet show trials” and sued to block a subpoena. He’s not important enough to have a photo online. 13/

OLSON: called Donald on Christmas Day 2020 and suggested martial law, firing acting AG Rosen, tampering with the DoJ, AND he’s so smart he wrote all the crime ideas down in a memo and sent it to trump. 14/

PASSANTINO: paid for by the Save America PAC. He was the scumbag that repped Cassidy Hutchinson and was paid handsomely by trump to do so until she realized he wasn’t looking out for her best interests. She fired him and hired a different lawyer, then she testified. 15/

POWELL: Kraken lawyer slapped with sanctions for bogus election lawsuits. She was at the 12/18 Oval meeting. Donald wanted to appoint her special counsel to fabricate election fraud to give the states a reason to appoint trump electors. 16/

STEPIEN: former trump campaign manager who assisted with the plot to pressure Pence to throw out electors and delay the count. 17/

TOENSING: DiGenova’s partner. Repped Fraud Gaurantee. Was part of the fraudulent electors scheme. She was included on an emails sent by Bobb updating folks on trumps effort to speak to officials in multiple states to pitch alternate electors. 18/

TROUPIS: he was a recipient of Chesebro’s fraudulent elector scheme memo. He communicated with Ron Johnson asking him to hand deliver fraudulent elector certificates. 19/

LIN WOOD: loudmouth election denier who filed multiple lawsuits to overturn the will of the people in Georgia. He’s being investigated by the state bar. He once posted that they should get a firing squad ready for the former VP. END/
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From the Special Counsel. Correct me if I am wrong but, if that is from Congress, how will that matter in a few weeks? You know McCarthy is pulling the plug on all aspects of the investigation.
Because, you know, the Dems took over two years to prove nothing. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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ponchi101 wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:42 pm From the Special Counsel. Correct me if I am wrong but, if that is from Congress, how will that matter in a few weeks? You know McCarthy is pulling the plug on all aspects of the investigation.
Because, you know, the Dems took over two years to prove nothing. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
It would only be appropriate to make a massive dump of all things Jan 6. on Jan.3 at 11:59 am, one minute before the new congress convenes.
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I've said that. Individual disks, sent to all newspapers in the USA and the world.
But no. It would not be "proper". Or some other Dem BS like that.
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House committee votes to make public Trump’s tax returns
By Amy B Wang and Michael Kranish
Updated December 20, 2022 at 9:11 p.m. EST|Published December 20, 2022 at 11:50 a.m. EST

The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted 24-16 to release Trump’s tax returns, capping a protracted legal and political battle that began when Trump was in the Oval Office.

Democrats have for more than three years pushed to make Trump’s tax returns public, and the documents were finally made available to the Ways and Means Committee late last month after the Supreme Court denied a last attempt by Trump to withhold the records.

It’s not clear when the committee would release the tax records, which include Trump’s returns from 2015 to 2020.

But two Democrats on the committee said late Tuesday that the records suggest Trump had not been correct in claiming during his 2016 campaign that he could not release the records himself because of an ongoing Internal Revenue Service audit.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) said in a CNN interview that the committee found that the IRS only started an audit in 2019, on the same day that the committee first requested the returns. The committee chairman, Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), sent a written request for the returns on April 3, 2019.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) echoed those claims on MSNBC. “This is something that the American people should care about,” he said. “The American people want to know if the president of the United States is making decisions based on their interests, or the president’s own financial self-interests.”

Doggett also said the returns showed that there were “tens of millions of dollars in these returns that were claimed without adequate substantiation.”

It was not possible to immediately verify the Democrats’ allegations because the returns have not yet been released to the public.

Trump’s campaign blasted the committee’s vote as a politically motivated attack.

“This unprecedented leak by lameduck Democrats is proof they are playing a political game they are losing,” his campaign said in a statement. “If this injustice can happen to President Trump, it can happen to all Americans without cause.”

The release of Trump’s tax information is the most sweeping such actions taken by Congress in a half-century. A similar action involving a president has not occurred since 1973, when the IRS turned over President Richard M. Nixon’s tax returns to a congressional committee.

The IRS handed over the Nixon tax returns on the day that Congress requested them, a fact noted by House Democrats who were seeking the Trump documents. But Republicans denied any similarity, The Washington Post has reported, noting that Nixon had requested the investigation into his returns, while Trump had fought such a probe.

The committee meeting got underway just after 3 p.m. Tuesday and was immediately moved to a closed session to discuss Trump’s tax returns because of the confidential nature of the subject matter. For the sake of transparency, committee members voted by unanimous consent to make public a transcript of the closed session afterward.

Neal first sought to obtain Trump’s tax returns in 2019 after Democrats retook the House majority. Democrats argued that Congress needed to do so to evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits and for the sake of oversight.

Trump — who broke with a decades-long tradition of presidential candidates and presidents by refusing to make his tax returns public — has for years falsely claimed that he could not release them while under “routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service.

The New York Times in 2020 reported that Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, when he won the presidency, and another $750 in 2017. The Times, which obtained tax data covering more than two decades, also reported that he paid no income tax in 10 of the 15 years before he ran for president.

At the time, a Trump spokesman disputed the accuracy of the Times report and said Trump had paid tens of millions of dollars in “personal taxes” to the federal government, a vague phrase that left unclear what taxes were paid. The records obtained by the Times showed that Trump had reduced his taxes by aggressively using losses to offset income, among other methods.

Those revelations followed reporting by The Post and other organizations that showed Trump had paid little or no federal income taxes in the earlier years of his career. The Post wrote in its biography, “Trump Revealed,” that Trump paid no income taxes in 1978 and 1979, using tax deductions such as real estate depreciation that enabled him to claim a negative income of $3.8 million.

When 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton noted in a debate that Trump did not pay federal income taxes for those two years, Trump responded, “That makes me smart.” Then when Clinton speculated that Trump might not have paid “any federal income tax for a lot of years” — which turned out to be the case — Trump said the government would have “squandered” the money.

During his campaign for president, in which he frequently boasted that he was an extraordinarily wealthy and successful tycoon, Trump said that he would release his “beautiful” tax returns to back up his claims. But he said he would not make them public while he was being audited.

The legal battle between Trump and the Ways and Means Committee played out in the courts for years, continuing even after Trump left office. But last month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the House committee to examine Trump’s tax returns, without stating a reason for denying Trump’s request to withhold the records.

“We knew the strength of our case, we stayed the course, followed the advice of counsel, and finally, our case has been affirmed by the highest court in the land,” Neal said in a statement then. “Since the Magna Carta, the principle of oversight has been upheld, and today is no different. This rises above politics, and the Committee will now conduct the oversight that we’ve sought for the last three and a half years.”

Trump and his Republican allies have criticized the effort to obtain his tax returns as a partisan attack, and warned that Congress making the former president’s returns public after he has left office would violate separation of powers.

“Let me be clear: Our concern is not whether the president should have made his tax returns public, as is traditional, nor about the accuracy of his tax returns,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) said Tuesday shortly before the Ways and Means Committee meeting began. “Our concern is that, if taken, this committee action will set a terrible precedent that unleashes a dangerous new political weapon that reaches far beyond the former president.”

Still, federal judges have consistently ruled that lawmakers established the “valid legislative purpose” required for disclosure. The Supreme Court’s decision late last month came after Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024.

In arguing against the release of the tax records, Trump’s legal team said the committee’s premise for seeking the information “has nothing to do with funding or staffing issues at the IRS and everything to do with releasing the President’s tax information to the public.”

Their filing adds: “If allowed to stand, it will undermine the separation of powers and render the office of the Presidency vulnerable to invasive information demands from political opponents in the legislative branch.”

Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee in favor of making Trump’s tax returns public have limited time to do so, with Republicans set to take control of the House — and the committee — in January.

Robert Barnes contributed to this report.

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