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Melania Trump Refuses to Meet with ‘Disgusting’ Jill Biden over DOJ Raid on Mar-a-Lago Home

Incoming First Lady Melania Trump has rejected an invitation to meet with Jill Biden on Wednesday, according to reports.

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Well, here we go again. A few months ago I had to explain why Clinton's e-mails weren't equivalent to what Trump did with classified documents, now I have to do Biden. And, to be clear, the reason I have to do this again is because Republicans fundamentally refuse to understand what it was that was bad about what Trump did.

This isn't a hypothetical either; it's only been a day since we found out about Biden's classified documents and ALREADY Republicans as diverse as former-VP Mike Pence, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have gone on record making this abysmally poor comparison.

So here's the thing. This week it was revealed that some classified documents were discovered at the Biden Center at Penn University. Biden's staff immediately alerted the FBI, the National Archives, and the Justice Department and, so far, both the Biden Center and White House staff as well as the President himself seem to have fully cooperated with the investigation.

And, because conservatives will try to spin this the other way, I should be very clear: THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO!

It does happen from time to time that classified documents may be misplaced. This isn't great, but it does happen. When it happens, the person or people who discover this as well as the people responsible are supposed to immediately do what they can to let the government know and help them determine the scope of any potential breach. Again, as far as we can tell, it looks like Biden and his team are doing this.

And, again, because conservatives will try to spin this the other way, I should also be very clear: THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT TRUMP DID!

Trump, as far as we can tell, (1) deliberately took hundreds of classified documents (not just a few), (2) did not disclose this to the government, (3) deliberately misled the government when asked about it, (4) hid them when the government came to look for them, and (5) has continued to obstruct the ongoing investigation into how the documents were mishandled and the scope of the potential breach.

This, not politics, is why Trump is under criminal investigation for mishandling of classified documents and, so far, Biden is not. Anyone who cannot or will not understand that is playing politics with national security and we should question whether they, themselves, should be trusted.

Here's a good article on the subject if you care to read more about it.

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Special counsel Jack Smith's team has obtained lawyer notes showing that former President Donald Trump was warned that he could not keep any classified documents in response to a subpoena he failed to comply with last year, according to The Guardian.

Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, who was ordered to testify before a grand jury by a judge after prosecutors pierced his attorney-client privilege claims, conveyed the previously unreported warning to the former president last year, according to the report. The warning "could be significant" in Smith's probe because it shows that he was aware of his subpoena obligations, according to the report.

"Trump knew. He's always known," tweeted MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang.

The warning was included in about 50 pages of contemporaneous notes written by Corcoran.

Corcoran in June found about 40 classified documents in a Mar-a-Lago storage room. He met with Justice Department investigators and later drafted a letter affirming that no other materials were at the property. But the FBI later found about 100 more classified documents while executing a court-authorized warrant in August.

Prosecutors are investigating whether Trump intentionally sought to obstruct the subpoena. They have particularly "fixated" on Trump valet Walt Nauta, who told prosecutors that Trump personally told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena was issued.

Corcoran's notes "revealed how Trump and Nauta had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where Corcoran intended to search and not search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as when Corcoran was actually doing his search," according to The Guardian's Hugo Lowell.

Though prosecutors are typically barred from reviewing attorney notes, Corcoran's attorney-client privilege claims were pierced after a judge agreed with prosecutors that Trump may have used Corcoran's legal services to further a crime.

The notes described how Corcoran told Nauta about the subpoena ahead of the search because he needed him to unlock the storage room, which prosecutors have taken a sign that the aide was closely involved in the search, according to the report. Corcoran also wrote that Nauta offered to help him go through the boxes, though the attorney declined.

Corcoran's notes also revealed that the search took several days and there were times when the storage room may have been left unattended during the search, according to the report.

Prosecutors would need to show that Trump instructed Nauta to remove boxes he expressly knew included classified documents covered by a subpoena with the intention of hiding them from his attorney's search, the report noted.

Trump's attorneys have argued that the subpoena response is incomplete because Corcoran was not as thorough as he should have been because he delayed the search and did not realize how many boxes were in the storage room.

The DOJ interviewed Nauta last year and believed that he was not forthcoming about his account of moving the boxes. Prosecutors threatened to charge Nauta with lying to the FBI after he gave contradictory answers but Nauta stopped cooperating with prosecutors after his lawyer demanded an immunity deal. Prosecutors have since asked other witnesses about what Nauta did with the boxes, according to the report.

"This is nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch-hunt against President Trump that is concocted to meddle in an election and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House," a Trump spokesperson told The Guardian.

MSNBC host Mike Brzezinski interviewed Lowell about his report, noting that "every time I read into this, I'm just shocked at the stupidity of those, honestly, of former President Trump, moving documents in and out of his office before and after the subpoena, and I guess having people do it for him."

Lowell explained that the previously unreported warning is a "problem for the former president."

"And it becomes a problem for his legal team and there's a whole bunch of other stuff in the notes about how the valet had unusually detailed knowledge about where the lawyer was conducting his searches for classified documents," he told MSNBC, "and I think the special counsel's office is looking at this as the core, the heart of the obstruction investigation."

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Its okay, they’re using rubber bullets.

Can’t say the same about the lasers though.

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[adrianathetransbitch]

The raid on @rumbleonthemill

found footage on April 1st 2023

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Hey guys, the government. People came back with a warrant. I'll let you know if they find the mimic.

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The pastor ( John Paul Miller) who wife unalived herself his home is being raided by the FBI right now. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFnSDF4a/

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'The Order' 2024 (TIFF Review)

'The Order' 2024 (TIFF Review)

Directed by: Justin Kurzel (Nitram, The True History of the Kelly Gang) Written by: Zach Baylin (Gran Turismo, King Richard) Starring: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron Plot: A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals,…

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We cannot remain silent

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Diddy’s Mansion Has A Tunnel To Michael Jackson’s Home? TikTok Claim Fact-Check

Several TikTok users claimed that federal officers found a 'secret' underground tunnel at the music mogul's mansion that finished at Michael Jackson's home

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Donald Trump just needs a few names.

In recent months, the former president has asked close advisers, including at least one of his personal attorneys, if “we know” all the names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him. That’s according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it.

Trump has then privately discussed that should he return to the White House, it is imperative his new Department of Justice “quickly” and “immediately” purge the FBI and DOJ’s ranks of these officials and agents who’ve led the Trump-related criminal investigations, the sources recount. The ex-president has of course dubbed all such probes as illegitimate “witch hunts,” and is now campaigning for the White House on a platform of “retribution” and cleaning house.

Separately, the twice-impeached former president has been saying for many months that on “day one” of his potential second term, he wants FBI director Christopher Wray “out” of the bureau, according to another source familiar with the matter and two people close to Trump. It’s an ironic turn, given that Trump appointed Wray in 2017.

(Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump’s 2024 primary rival, has also pledged to fire Wray, telling Fox News last week that he’d do so on “day one.”)

But in the years since, Trump came to deeply distrust Wray. By the end of 2020, Trump was venting to senior administration officials that he would make it a top priority to replace Wray “next year,” blasting the director for not wholesale purging the FBI of non-Trump-loyalists. Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and thus didn’t get his chance to fire Wray in 2021.

During some of the conversations this year, including at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago, some of Trump’s close political allies told him that they are working on figuring out the identities of the FBI and DOJ staff and forming lists, two of the sources relay to Rolling Stone.

However, others have complained that the feds aren’t making it easy for them.

In December 2022, the conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch — run by prominent Trump ally Tom Fitton — filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding information about “all employees hired by or detailed to the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith.” In April, the Justice Department denied the request on the ground that it was an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy” and that it would “interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

“One can only conclude, after seeing the uproar over the anti-Trump, partisan Mueller operation, that the Garland Justice Department has something to hide about Jack Smith and his prosecutors again targeting Trump and other Republicans with unprecedented investigations,” Fitton said at the time.

On Friday, Fitton told Rolling Stone that the DOJ is still “stonewalling” him and his group on the identities: “I don’t understand why it is that the names of prosecutors involved in a criminal investigation are secret. The Durham report shows it’s important we know who’s working there. We don’t want Social Security numbers or personal phone numbers, but certainly senior leaders and others who are pursuing this need to be disclosed.”

“We were able to get hiring material for the Mueller investigations, interviews applications and stuff like that,” he added.

Fitton said his group is still seeking the information administratively, but that “this is the type of lawsuit we typically would pursue.”

Other developments have made it harder for MAGA allies to create a comprehensive list of whom to potentially fire. Prior to Smith’s appointment, full names — in official DOJ email addresses — would appear in emails sent by Justice Department lawyers working on the Trump-related probes, to attorneys for subjects and likely targets of the investigations. But in the time since Special Counsel Smith started overseeing the probes last year, such emails began at times only showing initials for multiple DOJ addresses, obscuring the names of certain lawyers or personnel working on the special counsel’s team, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.

The feds, including Special Counsel Smith’s office, are currently investigating Trump and his associates for their efforts leading up to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, as well as for the ex-president’s hoarding of classified documents after he left office. Trump remains the leading candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in various polls, and he has already been indicted in a separate criminal investigation in New York. His lawyers are also expecting a federal indictment in the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago documents probe soon, and have already briefed Trump as such.

The identities of law enforcement personnel involved in the Mar-a-Lago investigation have been a flashpoint between Trump and the Justice Department since the FBI executed a search warrant on his residence in August 2022. Prosecutors unsealed a copy of the search warrant with the names of agents redacted, but the former president posted a copy of the document with the names of two FBI agents involved in the search.

The search kicked off an “unprecedented” number of threats against FBI agents and an attack by an armed Trump supporter on the FBI’s Cincinnati field office.

Trump’s latest crusade against the FBI coincides with his plans for a complete remaking of the federal bureaucracy. That includes promises to install extreme loyalists like Jeffrey Clark and Michael Flynn, who aided Trump’s anti-democratic efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcome. Trump also has pledged to sign an executive order, dubbed Schedule F, that would make it easier to hire loyalists and fire nonpartisan civil servants.

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Chairman Jordan Reiterates Demand for Answers From AG Garland on Mar-a-Lago Raid

By: Rebecca Downs Since August 15, 2022, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have been seeking answers on the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago that took place on August 8 of that year. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is reiterating that request, and now that Republicans are in the majority, there’s some teeth to it. Townhall obtained a letter that Jordan sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on…