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Sealed Files Just Added To Trump Warrant Docket May Be An Indictment: Report

Earlier today, the Justice Department made a court filing opposing the unsealing of an affidavit used to obtain a search warrant served last week on former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago golf resort.

According to Reuters:

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it opposes unsealing the affidavit that prosecutors used to obtain a federal judge’s approval to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, where they seized classified documents.

“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” prosecutors wrote in their filing.

That filing from the DOJ wasn’t the least bit unexpected, as they’re still trying to determine what crimes Trump may have committed by keeping the documents rather than turning them over to the National Archives.

However, there was another filing on Monday that is drawing considerable interest and discussion because it’s sealed and yet also attached to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, as Sarah Lynch of Reuters noted on Twitter:

Here’s the sealed entries Lynch is referring to:

Here’s where things get really interesting.

There are only three things that could be in those sealed entries, based on the rules regarding sealed documents in federal courts:

  • A motion to track Trump’s electronic devices
  • A search and seizure motion
  • An indictment (or indictments)

We have no way of determining what exactly is under seal, but none of those three are the least bit encouraging for Trump. Either his phones are being tracked, the feds are planning another search and seizure, or there are sealed indictments that are yet to be disclosed.

Something very big is about to be revealed by the Justice Department. And whatever it is, it’s not good news for the failed, one-term ex-president.

 

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Trump Attorney: Search Warrant Served On Mar-a-Lago Has Created ‘Bipardonace’ In The Country

Donald Trump can really pick the “best people,” can’t he?

Consider just a few of the “best people” the disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached has hired or appointed over the years:

Merritt Corrigan, the deputy White House liaison at the U.S. Agency for International Development, has written, “Liberal democracy is little more than a front for the war being waged against us by those who fundamentally despise not only our way of life, but life itself,” and complained, “Our homo-empire couldn’t tolerate even one commercial enterprise not in full submission to the tyrannical LGBT agenda.” John Gibbs, Trump’s nominee to run the Office of Personnel Management (and a current official at HUD) has claimed that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were Satanists. Rich Higgins, whom Trump nominated for a Pentagon job, has called former President Obama a “communist” and Black Lives Matter “an agent of communist China.” Higgins would be chief of staff to Anthony Tata, who has described Obama as Muslim and a “terrorist leader,” and suggested that former CIA Director John Brennan sent a coded tweet ordering Trump to be assassinated.

Oh, and there’s also some of his attorneys, such as former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is currently under investigation in multiple jurisdictions for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Earlier today, it was revealed that Giuliani has been informed he’s the target of a criminal election interference probe in Georgia.

And now we can add to that list the name of Lindsey Halligan, who is representing Donald in the ongoing Justice Department investigation of Trump allegedly having violated the Espionage Act by taking dozens of boxes of classified and top secret documents with him when he left the White House.

However, the serving of a search warrant at Trump’s Palm Beach golf resort, Mar-a-Lago, last week was a big mistake, according to Halligan, who told Fox News:

“The Biden administration has united Americans against this administration and this instant has ironically created bipardonance — bipartisanship — on this issue.”

Only the best people.

 

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Trump Tried To Get A Threatening Message To AG Garland After Mar-a-Lago Search: Report

Before Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed the contents of the search warrant that was executed at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club on August 8, the disgraced former president attempted to pass a threatening message along to the top law enforcement officer in the country.

Citing The New York Times, Business Insider reports:

Trump wanted Garland to know that he had been speaking with people around the country and that they were enraged by the FBI search.

“The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?” was the message Trump wanted to be conveyed to Garland, a person familiar with the exchange told the paper.

A person close to the former president reached out to a Justice Department official to give Garland the message, the paper reported. It is not clear if the message reached him.

Many who were asked about the message said it was a clear threat, intended to convey a warning to Garland that if he pressed further, the ex-president and his supporters might just stir up violence around the country in response.

Robert Maguire, a research director at the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, noted:

“Just a normal former president hinting to the current attorney general of the United States—who was about to make an announcement about the investigation into the former president—that he can fan the flames of violence, before asking ‘What can I do to reduce the heat?'”

On Thursday, Garland announced that he had personally approved the search warrant that resulted in over a dozen boxes of allegedly classified and top secret documents being taken into federal custody.

If it can be proven that Trump knew he wasn’t supposed to keep the materials in an unsecured location, he could be charged under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 10 years for every document he had in his possession.

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Rudy Giuliani Tells Right-Wing Host He Fears The Government May Try To Kill Trump

Disgraced former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he’s very afraid the U.S. government is going to try and kill one-term ex-president Donald Trump.

Speaking to Newsmax about Trump being caught red-handed by the FBI with boxes of classified and top secret documents, one of the hosts asked Giuliani about comments he’d made about the search warrant served at Mar-a-Lago being just like what they do in Third World nations, which led Rudy to reply:

“All the time. They kill them. They arrest them. They put their families in jail.”

The host then inquired:

“Should Donald Trump be in any fear of the deep state maybe killing him?”

That was all it took for Giuliani to reel off a ridiculous conspiracy theory:

“I do. In many different ways, I do. The amount of hatred generated toward him is the kind of hatred we worry about that would set off a sick person. I mean, if there is anything to the fact that, that hatred can set off sick people. There’s no one where more hatred has been generated by the mainstream media — who do they hate more than Donald Trump. They display it at, uh, Emmy awards, they display it at — everywhere.”

And yet, it was a right-wing “sick person” who attacked FBI headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier this week, as CNN reported at the time:

An armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati field office Thursday was killed in Ohio after a vehicle chase and hours-long standoff with law enforcement, authorities say.

The suspect was believed to be armed with an AR-15 rifle and a nail gun, a federal law enforcement source told CNN, and was wearing body armor, according to officials in an Ohio county.

Authorities have not announced a motive. But Shiffer had been known to the FBI because he had an unspecified connection to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, and because he had associates within a far-right extremist group, two law enforcement sources told CNN Friday.

If anything kills Donald Trump, it’ll be his gross obesity and disgusting eating habits. A man cannot live on Big Macs and KFC without paying a price.

 

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Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s Secret Doc Excuses: ‘There Was An Earthquake, A Flood, Locusts!’

CNN reporter Jim Acosta hilariously mocked former president Donald Trump’s endless excuses about why he had thousands of classified and top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago golf club which was raided on Monday by the FBI when they served a search warrant amid suspicion that the ex-president has violated the Espionage Act.

Speaking with CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, Acosta referenced and then quoted a scene from the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers” in which the late Jim Belushi implores Carrie Fisher not to kill him:

“Oh, please don’t kill us! Please, please don’t kill us. You know I love you, baby. I wouldn’t leave you! It wasn’t my fault! … I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I didn’t have change for cab fare! I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!”

Acosta then added:

“We’ve heard multiple excuses. First, it was the FBI planted evidence. Then Trump claimed it was all declassified. That they didn’t need to seize anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted. I think today he is saying some of the stuff is privileged, attorney/client material.”

Honig quickly obliterated all of Trump’s bogus excuses:

“The declassification argument: It is possible President Trump declassified some of the documents before he left the White House. You would expect there would be some record, some evidence, some paper trail or witness to support it. All we’ve seen is statements, yes, we declassified. It remains to be seen. Also, important to note, of the three laws that DOJ listed on their search warrant documents that justified the search, none have anything to do with whether these documents were adequately classified or declassified.”

Trump has also claimed that the FBI and Justice Department could have simply requested the documents, but as Honig noted, they tried that:

“They did ask. The National Archives asked and only got some of the documents. DOJ asked. They tried to subpoena. That’s the easy way. They still didn’t get all the documents. That defense holds no water.”

The failed former president also claimed that the FBI broke into Mar-a-Lago, which led Honig to respond:

“This was not a break-in. We’ve seen the paperwork. DOJ did the same paperwork I’ve done many times and a judge signed off this is a lawfully authorized search warrant. It should not be called a break-in.”

Acosta interjected:

“I can’t believe that he got that one wrong, Elie. Can you break down the Espionage Act for us? What are we talking about here? Some people may not understand what the possibilities are with that.”

Honig responded:

“The Espionage Act sounds dramatic and there are portions that bring to mind cinematic cloak and dagger type of things. The limited subsection that’s alleged in the papers relates to mishandling of defense information. It essentially makes it a crime to mishandle, to take, and to transmit national security information if you know or have a reason to know that dissemination of that information could be harmful to U.S. national security interests. It’s not nearly James Bond stuff but it’s still vital, how we store and protect our national secrets.”