A former employee of Donald Trump told federal agents the former president asked that boxes of records be moved within his Florida residence after receiving a government subpoena demanding their return, according to a Washington Post report.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-trump-employee-tells-fbi-trump-ordered-mar-a-lago-boxes-be-moved-report-2022-10-12/
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If Trump and the Republicanns were not a threat to the Dems they would not give a damn what docs he has.
our government could care less about such crimes?
Why are you carrying water for Trump?
their secure government SCIF locations?
Bonus question...How do Trump supporters still call themselves "Patriots" when some of our most sensitive intelligence...intelligence created to keep this country safe from those who could and would do us ALL harm...has clearly been compromised by DJT?
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Just curious.
I know you can't answer, because you need to know if the defendant is a Democrat or a Republican before you can know whether their acts were criminal or not. Oh my, how can you call yourself a patriot?
deemed necessary...we've been through this...it's over, Ned...wake up.
Now, to invoke your inimitable words..."Please answer my question" ;-).
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Destroying evidence by a Democrat not obstruction of justice. Moving boxes of evidence by a Republican is obstruction of justice. Thank you for exposing your bias for all to see.
locations and keep them unsecured in Mar-a-Lago?...
After you respond, I'll be happy to go further into HRC's situation...I asked first...ball is in your court.
Why do you think she was destroying evidence?
meanwhile, I'll throw in my own deflection...when are you going to come back to the abortion discussion you promised to continue?...we still haven't finished Item #1...
I was wondering when you were going to come back to the abortion discussion...ok, not really. I recall answering your questions several times before I headed off to Vegas, but you kept pretending I had not answered. Did you really expect me to go look for those threads after the weekend?...especially when you were not reading my answers? If you thought that, I think you had unrealistic expectations. If you want to talk about something start a thread. I may or may not join your thread. I don't tackle your nonsense all the time, only when I feel like it.
He's a bot.
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obvious stealing of classified documents and obstructing their return...the judicial process has not been completed...stay tuned.
btw, there are numerous precedents on the books of other U.S. citizens being indicted, convicted and imprisoned for much less serious offenses related to such documents...and I don't think any of those cases dragged on for this long...Trump is living on borrowed time.
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sufficient cause, they then refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution...a complete investigation of ALL Hillary's emails was conducted, resulting in a decision NOT to charge her with any crime.
I get that you wish the result (re: HRC) was different...but this nation is built on the rule of law and that process has been completed. Rather than waste your time on something that won't change no matter how often you complain, you'd be better off paying attention to the on-going process involving Donald Trump...someone who clearly put you and everyone else in this country in danger with his stealing of Top Secret documents for heaven knows what reason.
Sadly, I'm betting that you have no interest in seeing justice play out wrt DJT.
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going to experience reality...and it will definitely be a painful one...one which no amount of thrown lunches against the wall can ease.
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Seems like there's a few problems here.
The defense will always challenge the lawfulness of any search warrants or camera intrusions.
Clearly, there are Mar A Lago insiders who have been assisting the federal investigation.
Unless there is a really good reason why Trump held onto classified documents for so long, he definitely has criminal exposure.
That exposure quadruples if there is compelling evidence that Trump played hide-in-seek with the classified documents.
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Does security video obviate a certain expectation of privacy in the home? What if not being used for the purposes intended, perhaps - namely security? Could that evidence be tossed? Thanks!
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However, it is commonplace that a witness, confronted with evidence (video of drug deal), turns into a cooperating witness — “yeah, that’s me, I lied when I first said I wasn’t involved.”
Cameras inside a business or residence require a wiretap warrant or the consent of someone with standing to consent.
A cooperating restaurant employee can film mobsters planning to whack Vinnie.
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... if the insider had access to the footage before "cooperating" with the Government, and then hands over that footage to Government, there is no 4th Amendment in play, as the intrusion was not by government or government "agent"/snitch.
Example: Wife finds child porn on husband's computer. Makes a copy onto thumb drive. Hands thumb drive to authorities.
Fair game.
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Actually, maybe prosecutors leak stuff all the time like this before filing charges. Seems wrong to do. but, is that common?
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= likely bullshit.
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I mean HOW MANY more times are you gonna fall for it?
As of now, you come across as a huge MAGA supporter - Life could change.
"A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material.
The witness description and footage described to The Washington Post offer the most direct account to date of Trump’s actions and instructions leading up to the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of the Florida residence and private club, in which agents were looking for evidence of potential crimes including obstruction, destruction of government records or mishandling classified information.
The people familiar with the investigation said agents have gathered witness accounts indicating that, after Trump advisers received a subpoena in May for any classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told people to move boxes to his residence at the property. That description of events was corroborated by the security-camera footage, which showed people moving the boxes, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich declined to answer detailed questions for this article. “The Biden administration has weaponized law enforcement and fabricated a Document Hoax in a desperate attempt to retain political power,” Budowich said in a statement. “Every other President has been given time and deference regarding the administration of documents, as the President has the ultimate authority to categorize records, and what materials should be classified.”
Budowich accused the Justice Department of a “continued effort to leak misleading and false information to partisan allies in the Fake News,” and said that to do so “is nothing more than dangerous political interference and unequal justice. Simply put, it’s un-American.”
The employee who was working at Mar-a-Lago is cooperating with the Justice Department and has been interviewed multiple times by federal agents, according to the people familiar with the situation, who declined to identify the worker.
In the first interview, these people said, the witness denied handling sensitive documents or the boxes that might contain such documents. As they gathered evidence, agents decided to re-interview the witness, and the witness’s story changed dramatically, these people said. In the second interview, the witness described moving boxes at Trump’s request.
The witness is now considered a key part of the Mar-a-Lago investigation, these people said, offering details about the former president’s alleged actions and instructions to subordinates that could have been an attempt to thwart federal officials’ demands for the return of classified and government documents.
Multiple witnesses have told the FBI they tried to talk Trump into cooperating with the National Archives and Records Administration and the Justice Department as those agencies for months sought the return of sensitive or historical government records, people familiar with the situation said.
But entreaties from advisers and lawyers who pushed for Trump to hand the documents back fell on deaf ears with Trump, these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Trump grew angry this spring after a House Oversight Committee investigation was launched, telling aides they’d “screwed up” the situation, according to people who heard his comments. “They’re my documents,” Trump said, according to an aide who spoke to him.
The details shared with The Post reveal two key parts of the criminal probe that until now had been shrouded in secrecy: an account from a witness who worked for and took directions from Trump, and the way that security footage from Mar-a-Lago has played an important role in buttressing witness accounts.
Together, those pieces of evidence helped convince the FBI and Justice Department to seek the court-authorized search of Trump’s residence, office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, which resulted in the seizure of 103 documents that were marked classified and had not been turned over to the government in response to the May subpoena. Some of the documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. The Aug. 8 search also yielded about 11,000 documents not marked classified."
Link: Ya never know but it could be worth the read
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He moved it! It's on video! What does that even mean?
"...instructions to subordinates that could have been an attempt to thwart federal officials’ demands for the return of classified and government documents."
Or maybe he asked folks to move stuff off the kitchen table. He was having the golf group over for lunch. It's an anonymous source that was leaked with the purpose of firing you up. Mission accomplished. If it's evidence why leak it?
You guys fall for nonsense time and again and I'm the one embarrassed? Uh.....got it.
Edit: interestingly the alleged witness changed their story after multiple interviews with agents? Curious. I wonder how that came about? String arm tactics? Is the witness lying now or before? Goes to credibility. Let me know how it turns out. I'm sure you got him THIS time!
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And let peoples imagination fill in the gaps. Moved?!? See!! He MOVED them!!! Quest dutifully complied.
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