Trump Corruption

The New York Times reports: Two lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump are likely to become witnesses or targets in the investigation into how he hoarded documents marked as classified at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate — and secretly held onto some even after the lawyers claimed all sensitive materials had been returned, legal specialists said. The lawyers, M. Evan …

“What is it in this picture, exactly? Well, the administrative state posts this picture of documents all across the floor. Nothing necessarily telling there, but there’s two big things, and you have to look a level deeper for there. “The first of which is an intentional placement of a Time Magazine cover. Now, look, they knew that this was going …

CNBC reports: A lawyer who had pushed to overturn the 2020 election loss of then-President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions during an appearance Wednesday before a grand jury in Georgia, his attorneys said. John Eastman also invoked protections under attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer at least some questions he was …

From the editorial board of the New York Post: Attorney General Merrick Garland’s raid on Mar-a-Lago has ex-President Donald Trump back in the news. That’s a problem for Republicans, who need to move beyond him. Yes, Trump did much good in his four years: Notice how Democrats have opted not to repeal his tax cuts. But he lost in 2020 …

“This is such a bad look, I think, for the Department of Justice now, because it goes to further the notion that they are targeting Donald Trump, that there is something to hide. Just from the beginning of all of this, this raid at Mar-a-Lago, his lawyers were not allowed to be on property while the FBI was conducting this …

Mediaite reports: “Keep in mind, according to the filing, the agents found three classified documents in Donald Trump’s desks,” Steve Doocy noted with a level of shock. “What were they doing in the desk?!” “And when you look at these particular things right here, at least five yellow folders marked top secret and another secret SCI —that stands for sensitive …

CNN reports: US government documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to “obstruct” the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a blockbuster court filing Tuesday night. More than 320 classified documents have now been recovered from Mar-a-Lago, the Justice …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump has hired Chris Kise, Florida’s former solicitor general, to represent him in the criminal investigation related to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in early August. Kise’s hiring comes at a critical juncture for the former president, whose legal team has faced criticism for its handling of the case in the Southern District …

The Insider reports: On Tuesday morning alone, Trump has taken to his Truth Social platform over four dozen times to share memes and posts attacking his political enemies. Some posts are memes attacking President Joe Biden or other Democrats, while others are baseless election fraud claims or attempts to delegitimize the FBI. Another post included a photo with a caption …

Colby Hall writes at Mediaite: Former President Donald Trump has insisted that he immediately be re-installed as president or that a new election be called. His reasoning? A Mark Zuckerberg interview in which the Facebook founder reiterated his previous claim that the FBI warned him of a potential dump of Russian misinformation weeks before the 2020 general election that Trump …

The Associated Press reports: A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump’s legal team intends to make. A May 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of …

Rolling Stone reports: On the FBI’s list of documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, item 1a is listed solely as “info re: President of France.” For Trump, that has been a subject of intense — and tawdry — interest for years. Specifically, Trump has bragged to some of his closest associates — both during and after his time in …

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge’s weekend order indicating that she was inclined …

Mediaite reports: Though he was careful not to use the word, former President Donald Trump appeared to call for the rank and file of the FBI to revolt against its leadership over the search and seizure of classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago home and possible looming criminal indictment. Despite the facts of the case, in a TruthSocial post from Sunday …

“Publicly, what they’re saying is this is rallying Republicans to Trump’s defense. This makes it more likely that he will run for president, more likely that he will win the Republican nomination. Campaigning against this political action by the FBI and the DOJ. “Privately, they are really concerned. And one of the big concerns here is that Trump has nobody …

The Washington Post reports: “Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the …

Mediaite reports: “Whenever you have documents seized that had were attorney-client privilege and absolutely you know these individuals have perused through them, have checked them out, that is a violation of Donald Trump’s constitutional rights,” she said. “How is that acceptable in any way?” “Something like this violates 250 years of jurisprudence,” said Trump. “The longer you go in America …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Florida gave notice on Saturday of her “preliminary intent” to appoint an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to conduct a review of the highly sensitive documents that were seized by the F.B.I. this month during a search of Mar-a-Lago. In an unusual action that fell short of a formal …

CNN reports: Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, according to a letter obtained by CNN. According to the affidavit, a “preliminary review” of the 15 boxes …

“The Secret Service – and this is just my own personal conjecture, no information other than simply knowing the Secret Service is there – they have no statutory responsibility over classified material. “But they are sworn federal law officers. They are law enforcement, and they have a responsibility to report a crime, and particularly after a letter is sent from …