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Nonilex<p>As he assailed the investigations into him, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also heaped praise on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AileenCannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AileenCannon</span></a>, the federal judge he appointed in Florida who dismissed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> charges against him for mishandling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a>, calling her “the absolute model of what a judge should be.” [not that the 11th circuit repeatedly had to correct her judgments or anything 🙄]</p><p>“The case against me was bullshit,” Trump said keeping it classy, standing in the building where the charges were approved.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a></p>
Denise G<p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> staff told to burn and destroy <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/classifieddocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classifieddocuments</span></a>.</p><p>The U.S. Agency for International Development is instructing its staff in Washington to shred and burn <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/documents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documents</span></a>. The move comes as President Trump’s administration faces legal challenges over its attempt to shut down the federal agency.</p><p>The document destruction was set to take place Tuesday, according to an email from Erica Carr, the agency’s acting executive secretary.</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195853" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna19585</span><span class="invisible">3</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>Today in pictures: men in suits load boxes onto Air Force One. The DOJ released the evidence against Trump in the classified documents case, and he flew back to Florida with them tonight.</p><p>Credit: Luis M. Alvarez / AP</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-zelensky-news-02-28-25/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/politics/live-news/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-zelensky-news-02-28-25/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/picture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>picture</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espionage</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
Infinity Counter 🟦<p>&gt;&gt;The FBI on Friday returned at least some of the materials it seized from [the current presudent's] Florida Mar-a-Lago residence and private club during a court-authorized search in August 2022, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said.</p><p>The search was part of the federal investigation into . . . alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021 and his alleged obstruction of federal officials’ attempts to retrieve them.&lt;&lt;</p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Obstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obstruction</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/28/trump-fbi-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/national-se</span><span class="invisible">curity/2025/02/28/trump-fbi-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“As a result of *those actions*, we’re now going to be suspending &amp; putting under review <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> clearances for employees at that firm &amp; holding people responsible,” Scharf said.<br>[doing their jobs]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> quipped that they would call the memo the “deranged Jack Smith signing,” invoking a pejorative he has frequently used to attack the former special counsel.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackSmith</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/petty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> on Tues signed a memo suspending <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> clearances for employees at a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> firm who assisted w/fmr special counsel <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackSmith</span></a>’s investigation into the now-president.</p><p>WH staff secy Will Scharf said…that the memo targeted Washington, DC based law firm Covington &amp; Burling, which provided pro bono <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> services to Smith in his probes of Trump that resulted in 2 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> indictments.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/petty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <br><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5163942-trump-jack-smith-security-clearance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/administr</span><span class="invisible">ation/5163942-trump-jack-smith-security-clearance/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bongino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bongino</span></a> has repeated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s lie that he won the 2020 election &amp; advanced another <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> that Joe Biden's admin was behind the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> search for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> at Trump's Florida home.</p><p>"EVERYONE involved in this DOJ/FBI abomination, from the management down to the agents, must be immediately terminated when the tyrants are thrown out of office," he said on X.</p><p>[and now this idiot is the FBI dpty dir]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackSmith</span></a> Among Federal Prosecutors Expressing 'Alarm' Over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> </p><p>Hundreds of fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Dept lawyers signed an open letter to career federal prosecutors expressing "alarm" over the department's recent actions.</p><p>Among the signatories was Jack Smith, the fmr special counsel whose office charged Trump in connection to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a>, 2021, Capitol insurrection &amp; Trump's hoarding of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-prosecutors-open-letter-trump-doj-2032871" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/jack-smith-prosec</span><span class="invisible">utors-open-letter-trump-doj-2032871</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>There are also gold vases &amp; statuettes &amp; at least one gold figurine embedded in an elevated wall molding. The figurine was screwed into the wall by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CarlosDeOliveira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlosDeOliveira</span></a>, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago [&amp; one of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> co-conspirators in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> case], who traveled to Washington to perform the task, the people said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EmilBove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmilBove</span></a> represented <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> throughout his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> case &amp; his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> case &amp; has since ordered retaliatory actions against those who worked on the other side of those cases. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EdMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdMartin</span></a> represented a defendant in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> case, personally attended the Capitol riot on Jan 6 &amp; has expressed support for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OathKeepers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OathKeepers</span></a> militia group. At Trump’s direction, he has now dismissed all of those cases….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sturmabteilung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sturmabteilung</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Sergio Gor, the director of the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, announced the dismissal of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/archivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivist</span></a>, at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s direction, on X. "We thank Colleen Shogan for her service," Gor said.</p><p>Shogan, who was not in office when the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> investigation began, said on LinkedIn that Trump had fired her without citing a reason or cause. "I have zero regrets - I absolutely did my best every day for the National Archives &amp; the American people," she wrote.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NARA</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> fired Colleen Shogan, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Archivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archivist</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>….</p><p>The national archivist is responsible for overseeing government records &amp; heads the National Archives [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NARA</span></a>], an agency Trump has repeatedly criticized since it alerted the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to Trump's mishandling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> in early 2022.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/petty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/revenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revenge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-fire-kennedy-center-board-make-himself-chair-2025-02-08/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/trump-say</span><span class="invisible">s-he-will-fire-kennedy-center-board-make-himself-chair-2025-02-08/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In one memo, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> will establish a “Weaponization Working Group” to review <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> enforcement actions enacted under the Biden admin for any examples of “politicized justice.”</p><p>That review will cover cases brought by fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialCounsel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackSmith</span></a> over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s mishandling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> &amp; 2020 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a>, Manhattan DA <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlvinBragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlvinBragg</span></a>’s hush-money case that led to a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conviction</span></a> &amp; a case from NYAG <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LetitiaJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetitiaJames</span></a>, in which she won a $454M civil <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> judgment against Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> tells <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoryBooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryBooker</span></a> that he can’t tell him what he testified before a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GrandJury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandJury</span></a> in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> case because it’s secret under grand jury rules. Booker (correctly) informs him that as a witness he is not bound to keep what he said secret.</p><p>The issue is, after Trump claimed he had declassified all the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> docs (w/his mind) found at MAL, Patel publicly said that was true. There is no evidence of that, &amp; other Trump ofcls said they never heard of such an order.</p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>«Federal prosecutors moved on Wednesday to drop their last remaining efforts to prosecute President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s two co-defendants in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> case brought by the former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialCounsel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackSmith</span></a></p><p>In a single-page filing, prosecutors asked a federal appeals court in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> to dismiss an appeal that had been filed before Mr. Trump took office seeking to reinstate criminal charges against the two men, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaltNauta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaltNauta</span></a> and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CarlosDeOliveira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlosDeOliveira</span></a>»</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-case.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-classified-documents-case.html</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The documents that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> mishandled were full of tightly controlled info that he stored on an insecure ballroom stage &amp; in a spare water closet. Besides, the improper handling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> was a key line of attack that Trump himself used against Hillary Clinton in 2016.</p><p>Moreover, the charges that Trump faced weren’t about taking the documents. They were about his alleged all-out effort to avoid a lawful subpoena &amp; defy federal law-enforcement ofcls.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The indictment describes what must be the stupidest <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a> imaginable, &amp; he totally got away with them.</p><p>The temptation might be to write this matter off as a lesser concern, akin to the byzantine case that branded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> a felon in NY. Apologists have noted that other officials, including Joe Biden, also mishandled <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a>. Resist the siren call of these rationalizations.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unfit</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Looking back on the 4-year Donald Trump interregnum, the failure of the case against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> for hoarding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> is not the most serious or influential—that would be the utter lack of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> for Trump’s attempted overthrow of the government, including instigating the violent attack on the US Capitol—but it might be the most maddening.</p><p>- David A. Graham<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unfit</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/classified-documents-trump-case/681327/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/01/classified-documents-trump-case/681327/</span></a></p>
Go Weapons Hot<p>"<a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> got very lucky when he drew Judge Aileen Cannon, an inexperienced jurist he’d appointed to the bench. First, she issued rulings restricting <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> access to evidence; ... Once charges were filed, she ran the case at molasses speed, drawing out every step; quarreled with prosecutors; and ultimately threw out the charges after ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional..."</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/classified-documents-trump-case/681327/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvTSeXnHd-O4LDqStkgirQhQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/01/classified-documents-trump-case/681327/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvTSeXnHd-O4LDqStkgirQhQ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/classifieddocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classifieddocuments</span></a></p>
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️<p>Oh brother! An update of evidence ignored by Democratic Party investigators. <br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/maralago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maralago</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/classifieddocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classifieddocuments</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/bathroomboxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bathroomboxes</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/found-dozens-of-damning-documents-about-trumps-hoarding-of-classified-documents/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/foun</span><span class="invisible">d-dozens-of-damning-documents-about-trumps-hoarding-of-classified-documents/</span></a></p>