September 1, 2022

Trump Indictment Now Seems Inevitable

Andrew McCarthy: “The court filing made by the Justice Department on Tuesday night, in response to Trump’s lawsuit seeking a special master to review materials seized by the FBI, indicates that prosecutors have amassed formidable evidence of obstruction. That’s a game-changer…”

Andrew Napolitano: “Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government’s application for a search warrant at the home of former President Donald Trump reveals that he will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury for three crimes: Removing and concealing national defense information (NDI), giving NDI to those not legally entitled to possess it, and obstruction of justice by failing to return NDI to those who are legally entitled to retrieve it…”

“Where does all this leave Mr. Trump? The short answer is: in hot water. The longer answer is: He is confronting yet again the federal law enforcement and intelligence communities for which he has rightly expressed such public disdain. He had valid points of expression during the Russia investigation. He has little ground upon which to stand today.”

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/01/trump-indictment-now-seems-inevitable/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/31/why-donald-trump-will-soon-be-indicted/
https://nypost.com/2022/08/31/how-the-doj-have-built-a-case-against-trump-for-obstruction/

September 1, 2022

The answer to all the country's problems

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September 1, 2022

MacFarlane News - the FBI says they had "evidence of obstruction" before the Mar-a-Lago search

and that among the recovered files were documents "labeled top secret and in some cases...could be compromising human sources."
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1565119322611138562?s=20&t=AegBS-wSjnUpJs76rgajJg

September 1, 2022

Trump files response to DOJ filing last night

Page 1 already has falsehood: DOJ would not make decision to criminalize what Trump did, as Trump writes; GJ would have to indict and jury of 12 would have to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. That's is how our justice system works. This is another PR filing, not a serious one.

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Trump's McLawyers claim--on the same day he admitted twice he had large numbers of TS/SCI docs in his office, claim they were in a secure setting.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.58.0_4.pdf
https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1565128827176734722?s=20&t=3obCBxTywBIviScYkK_C9g
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1565128770801094656?s=20&t=HgPiKf1GGTOtDHxUqdrzLQ
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1565129027916013569?s=20&t=HgPiKf1GGTOtDHxUqdrzLQ
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1565129399636316160?s=20&t=HgPiKf1GGTOtDHxUqdrzLQ