The curious timing of Trump naming two allies to access his records

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Is it a coincidence that, soon after the feds asked that the Mar-a-Lago storage room be locked and right before they asked for surveillance footage, Trump named two allies as authorized reviewers of his records?

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Analysis | The curious timing of Trump naming two allies to access his records
In late June, as tensions with the Justice Department were roiling, Trump named two allies as representatives able to access his records.
1:21 PM · Aug 15, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/15/trump-fbi-search-solomon-patel/

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On June 19, former president Donald Trump sent a letter to the National Archives. The subject was not his ongoing dispute with the agency over material he’d removed from the White House and brought to his Mar-a-Lago resort. Instead, he was naming two individuals — former Trump administration official Kash P. Patel and conservative writer John Solomon — as “representatives for access to Presidential records of my administration.”

In light of what we’ve learned in the week since FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago and removed dozens of boxes of material, the timing of that appointment is interesting.

A full timeline of what unfolded before the FBI search is below, but June was a significant month for the government’s effort to retrieve the material.

By then, the Archives had already referred the issue to the Justice Department and a grand jury had issued a subpoena for the recovery of material. On June 3, a senior official from the department visited Mar-a-Lago along with several FBI agents, reviewing the storage room where much of the material seized last week would be recovered. They would soon ask that the room “be secured” — suggesting that it may not have been secured previously — and the material within it not be moved. A few days later, the New York Times reported over the weekend, a lawyer for Trump signed a document indicating that no further classified material remained at Mar-a-Lago.

On June 22, the Justice Department subpoenaed security footage from Mar-a-Lago, including near the storage room. Trump’s team turned it over.

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[Walleye]

1. The FBI isn't Fox News you can't just lie your way out of it

He has no authority to appoint anybody access to those documents, they belong to us. We should all have access if they are all declassified, which they aren’t

[live love laugh]

2. Right✔️ He's delusional acting as if he's still president.