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Quick Glance: Kate Middleton Apologizes for Doctored Image
  • Kate Middleton apologized for editing an image of herself and her children, followed by a carefully curated appearance in a car alongside her husband Prince William, failing to quell speculation about her health and marriage.

  • She confirmed to aides that she had doctored the image, 'and is understood to have thought that honesty is the best policy. She wanted to own up and acknowledge the mistake.'

  • After photo agencies disassociated from the image, Kate appeared in public with her husband to convey that all is well, which led to further speculation about her situation.

  • The discussions surrounding Kate's health and marriage intensified due to the doctored image, and the palace's communication seemed chaotic, fueling increased public curiosity.
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Rudy Giuliani Went To Mar-A-Lago On A Humiliating Mission: CNN: The now-indicted lawyer reportedly made the sojourn to Trump's home with a desperate plea.
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⚖️Where Trump’s legal troubles stand: Plot thickens in Mar-a-Lago docs case Indictment looms in fed Jan. 6 case Georgia election probe Stormy case in March N ... Show more
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Does Trump Have ‘The Right To Take Stuff’? Even The Law He Keeps Citing Says No.: Trump’s read of the Presidential Records Act is at odds with just about ...
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Quick Glance: Fact check: Trump's false claims after court appearance
  • Trump claimed the documents at Mar-a-Lago were 'his own documents' and he had the right to keep them under the Presidential Records Act.

  • Having official records at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency clearly violated the law.

  • All presidential records of the Trump Administration came into the legal custody of the Archivist of the United States when President Biden took office on January 20, 2021.

  • No president since the Presidential Records Act took effect with President Ronald Reagan's records in the 1980s has taken home official documents or engaged in anything like Trump's refusal to return official documents sought by NARA and the Justice Department.
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Trump calls charges 'insult to our country' in post-arraignment remarks: Trump addressed supporters at Mar-a-Lago hours after his arrest in New York.
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Quick Glance: Trump Pleads Not Guilty After Being Charged with 34 Felonies
  • Former President Donald J. Trump exited Trump Tower and drove to the Manhattan district attorney's office in a motorcade.

  • The hearing was also historic for Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who brought the case.

  • The case, which was filed in Mr. Trump's hometown, marks the start of the former president's journey through the criminal justice system.

  • He accused Mr. Trump of falsifying business records related to the hush money, which appear to be felony charges based on a novel application of the law.
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Trump indictment ends decades of perceived invincibility: NEW YORK: When Donald Trump steps before a judge next week to be arraigned in a New York courtroom ...
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Quick Glance: Read Alvin Bragg's Warning to Jim Jordan Not to'Collaborate' With Trump.
  • "Let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference," one section of Alvin Bragg's letter to Republican House leaders urges.

  • In the aftermath of former President Donald Trump's indictment, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has retaliated against a trio of House GOP committee chairmen.

  • "The referenced committee chairmen are House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil."

  • They wrote to Bragg on March 21st, "demanding communications, documents and testimony relating to Bragg's unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority and the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump."
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George Conway predicts that there'll be 3 indictments for Donald Trump: Conway told CNN that Trump runs the risk being indicted in Georgia, over the Mar-a-Lago ...
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George Conway predicts that there'll be 3 indictments for Donald Trump
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Melania Ignoring ‘Reality’ and Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels Problems at Mar-a-Lago, Report Says
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Trump Denounces Charges in Mar-a-Lago Address: The former president, who appeared stone-faced in a New York courtroom on Tuesday, lashed out against the ...
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump Ruined Ron DeSantis' Big Extradition Moment
  • The former president made his move just as Ron DeSantis reversed his support for Donald Trump, and it screamed political vengeance.

  • "Trump really sort of denied DeSantis their big moment." Sommer claims.

  • Then, David Weigel, national political reporter for Semafor, joins the podcast and weighs in on the latest Trump drama.

  • The arraignment "is something that even many Republicans before they built their careers around Donald Trump predicted would probably happen if he ever continued in politics," Weigel writes, adding that Trump "had made so many decisions that were legally specious that he was going to get caught in one of them."
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Quick Glance: Judge dismisses Trump's Mar-a-Lago docs claim after an appeals court dismisses it
  • Following the search of his residence by FBI agents, Mr Trump filed the complaint, requesting that Judge Cannon appoint a third-party special master to analyze the records and determine whether any should be shielded from the government by attorney-client or executive privilege.

  • Mr. Trump's motion was granted by Judge Cannon, and the Justice Department appealed.

  • "Either approach would require a radical reorganization of our caselaw, limiting the involvement of federal courts in criminal investigations."

  • "And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations," they said, adding that they agreed with the government's assertions that Judge Cannon "improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction" and that "the entire proceeding must be dismissed."
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Appeals court strikes down special master in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case: A three-judge panel, including two Trump employees, said they would not "carve out ...
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Quick Glance: Appeals Court Abandons Special Master Review in Trump Documents Case
  • The appeals court decision, however, did not address that question since it terminated Judge Cannon's review on jurisdictional grounds.

  • Mr. Trump's lawyers claimed during the early days of the special master's investigation that he personally possessed a large number of papers that the government claimed were public property under the Presidential Records Act.

  • The court of appeals stated that it was neither considering or endorsing that theory.

  • The appeals court decided in favor of the government within a week.
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Additional Classified Documents Found At Donald Trump's Florida Storage Unit: At least two items marked "classified" were found in the unit and turned over to ...
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Additional Classified Documents Found At Donald Trump's Florida Storage ...
Quick Glance: Items with classified markings discovered in Trump storage unit: reports
  • The newest find of missing secret documents comes nearly a year after the National Archives and data Administration discovered classified items among several boxes of data recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

  • In response to the former president's request, Trump's lawyers returned numerous more sensitive documents in June.

  • The additional classified records would be another example of authorities being turned down following both the initial request and the June subpoena.

  • Documents with categorised tags Mr. Donald Trump
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Trump's Mar-a-Lago club back in a spotlight it never really left: Mar-a-Lago has been Trump's MAGA mecca despite perceived conflicts of interests when Trump was ...
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Trump's Mar-a-Lago club back in a spotlight it never really left
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The Trump campaign that isn’t: Four weeks after declaring his 2024 White House bid, former President Trump appears to be a candidate in name only ...
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The Trump campaign that isn’t
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Quick Glance: How Running for President Affects Trump's Legal Issues
  • What are the major investigations into Trump?

  • TIME's request for comment on this article was not responded to by Trump's legal counsel.

  • Is Trump's candidacy influencing how he pays his legal bills?

  • Will a special prosecutor be appointed to oversee federal probes into Trump?
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Pence suggests DOJ didn’t try hard enough to get documents from Mar-a-Lago before search
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Quick Glance: Pence: Giving testimony before the Jan. 6 panel would establish a "terrible precedent"
  • "Congress has no right to my testimony," Pence said, according to CBS News.

  • Former Vice President Mike Pence defended his decision not to testify before a House committee on January 6 in an interview that aired on Sunday, arguing that speaking before the panel about White House deliberations while he was vice president would set a "terrible precedent."

  • "We have a separation of powers under the Constitution of the United States."

  • Pence was also asked if the GOP would be open to "self-reflection" regarding January 6, to which he responded by citing the separation of powers.
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Trump's Kanye, Nick Fuentes Dinner Shows He's 'Unfit to Run': Meghan McCain: The conservative pundit slammed the former president for his recent meeting with ...
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Trump dines with white supremacist, renewing questions about GOP's leadership and values
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Quick Glance: Trump claims he "openly and transparently" obtained White House documents.
  • "When will you invade the other Presidents' homes in search of documents, which are voluminous," Trump commented on Truth Social.

  • It's one of numerous criminal investigations of Trump, and the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland are under intense public pressure to stay impartial as they look into everything from Trump's preservation of official records to his involvement in the tragic Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

  • A few days later, Garland hired experienced war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise Trump-related criminal investigations.
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Trump was fresh and new during his 2016 campaign. Has his fame fizzled?: The failed ‘red wave’ during the midterm elections marked the beginning of a downward ...
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Trump was fresh and new during his 2016 campaign. Has his fame fizzled?
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Trump's Dinner With Kanye West and Nick Fuentes Vindicates His Enemies | Opinion: Given that Trump never apologizes for anything he has done and is unlikely to ...
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Quick Glance: Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to Accusations of Working Against Trump
  • Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, was accused by the lawmaker of making a "living by keeping you outraged" with her recent accusations.

  • Greene dismissed the claims made by Laura Loomer, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist who ran for Congress twice in Florida, after she claimed the Republican and her former office intern Milo Yiannopoulos were conspiring to undermine Trump's chances of winning the next presidential election.

  • Loomer alleged in a series of Telegram posts that Yiannopoulos is still working at Greene's congressional office and is "openly attacking and sabotaging" Trump as West's campaign manager.

  • "She clearly supports President Trump."
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Mar-a-Lago: Special master skepticism shows Trump strategy backfiring: Trump pushed for weeks for a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago ...
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Mar-a-Lago: Special master skepticism shows Trump strategy backfiring
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Rolling Stone: DOJ asking if Trump kept documents at other properties: Federal investigators specifically asked witnesses about Trump Tower in Manhattan and his ...
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Rolling Stone: DOJ asking if Trump kept documents at other properties
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Donald Trump’s Fundraising Machine Save America PAC Is Barely Covering His Expenses
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Trump Could 'Throw Everyone Under the Bus', Mary Trump Predicts: The former president's niece said turning on people "won't do his cause any good."
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Trump Could 'Throw Everyone Under the Bus', Mary Trump Predicts
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Trump-Aligned Super PAC Spends Big On Trump Customers: Asuper PAC allied with the former president spent $1.9 million on ads Monday, supporting three Republican ...
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Trump-Aligned Super PAC Spends Big On Trump Customers
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DOJ asks appeals court to shut down special master's review of Trump documents: Thousands of documents were seized from Donald Trump's estate.
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Quick Glance: Trump-backed candidates have funneled at least $1.4 million into his businesses.
  • He endorses, they pay: Donald Trump has devised a method of collecting campaign contributions from candidates wanting his endorsement.

  • It's a pittance for Trump, who is estimated to be worth $3 billion.

  • Only five candidates are responsible for half of the money Trump has received from his supporters.

  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump Press Secretary who is now running for governor of Arkansas, dropped $90,000.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Special Master Calls Out Lawyers On Trump's Claim That FBI 'Planted' Mar-A-Lago Records
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Quick Glance: Analyst: Mar-a-Lago special master tests whether Trump lawyers will lie
  • According to a CNN legal commentator, Raymond Dearie, the special master analyzing federal papers obtained by the FBI from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, is putting the former president's defense to the test."You can see the tension in Donald Trump's legal team because they will not say in court what he is saying about declassification and planting because lawyers have an ethical obligation."This is a true litmus test for Donald Trump.

  • "Trump's legal team spent weeks convincing federal court judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special master to review the documents, a move that stalled the FBI's investigation and was opposed by the Justice Department."
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Court Screwup Reveals Judge Aileen Cannon’s Latest Legal Absurdity in Trump Case: Judge Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump’s attempt to halt the ...
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Quick Glance: Trump is hesitant to advocate for Herschel Walker due to scandals: CNN
  • According to CNN, former President Donald Trump is hesitant to come to Georgia to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker after his campaign was marred by scandal.

  • The Daily Beast claimed this week that Walker paid for a woman to have an abortion in 2009, an especially devastating charge given Walker's outspoken support for total abortion bans throughout this cycle.

  • Walker has refuted the story and stated that he may sue the outlet.

  • Trump will most likely wait until the October 14 debate between Walker and his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen.
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Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the ...
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Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
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Appeals court hears arguments on special master appointment in Trump Mar-a-Lago case
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago Special Master: Appeals Court Seems Likely to Side With the DOJ and Block Trump Review
  • A judgement in favor of the DOJ would end the special master review and any related litigation, allowing the agency to promptly analyze non-classified papers taken from Mar-A-Lago.

  • Two weeks after the DOJ searched Mar-A-Lago in August, Trump sought a federal judge to appoint a special master as part of an ongoing investigation into Trump taking White House materials back with him and whether it violated federal law.

  • The Appeals Court will expedite its decision on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Special Master, siding with the DOJ (Forbes).
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How much legal jeopardy is Donald Trump in?: The former president is at the centre of at least four high-profile inquiries
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How much legal jeopardy is Donald Trump in?
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Trump's in a 'Perfect Storm' of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor: "Donald Trump engaged in a flagrant violation of his national duty ...
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Trump's in a 'Perfect Storm' of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor
Quick Glance: Donald Trump lashes out at FBI agents who refused to remove their shoes in his Mar-a-Lago bedroom.
  • On Sunday night, Donald Trump complained on his Truth Social platform that the FBI officers who "ransacked" his Florida house "didn't even take off their shoes" when in his bedroom.

  • "Arrived in Florida last night and had a long and detailed chance to check out the scene of yet another government 'crime,' the FBI's Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago,"crime," the FBI's raid and break-in of my home, Mar-a-Lago," Trump said in the post.

  • It had been "ransacked," and it was in far worse shape than I had left it.
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Justice Department appeals judge’s decision to grant ‘special master’ to review records seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: Trump Support Sinks, Majority of Independents Oppose 2024 Run: Poll
  • According to a new poll, 28 percent of the crucial demographic would vote for Trump again, compared to 41 percent who voted for him in 2020.

  • According to exit polling from the 2016 election, 41 percent of independents voted for Trump over Biden, implying that the former president has lost their favor since leaving office.

  • In example, 65 percent of Americans said they would oppose Trump running for President again if he was charged with a crime, while 61 percent of Republicans said they would support him even if he was prosecuted.

  • "Newsweek reached out to Trump for comment."
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Trump Says Americans Won't 'Stand' For Charges Against Him, Warns Of Trouble: Daring to indict him would trigger “problems in this country the likes of which ...
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Trump Says Americans Won't 'Stand' For Charges Against Him ...
Quick Glance: Raymond Dearie: Who Is He? A "scrupulously fair" judge has been appointed as Special Master.
  • The special master to evaluate records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has been appointed by a seasoned district judge with a track record of handling high-profile cases.

  • Dearie was also the district's head judge from 2007 until 2011.

  • According to Steve Gold, a law professor who previously worked as a clerk for the court, Dearie will not be "daunted" by the special master role because he has handled important cases with "intense" media interest in the past.

  • "Judge Dearie is scrupulously fair," Gold stated.
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The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis. We should act like it.
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The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis ...
Quick Glance: Judge Appoints Special Master in Surprising Victory for Trump's Legal Team
  • "The court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," wrote U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in an order issued Monday.

  • "It is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards," Trump's lawyers wrote in their plea.

  • In response, the DOJ stated that a special master was not required because a "filter team" had already determined whether documents included privileged information.

  • Trump's staff has until September 9 to submit a list of potential special masters.
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Are Trump’s Passports the FBI’s Smoking Gun?: DOJ’s latest filing suggests the proximity of Trump’s personal identification to top secret government documents ...
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Are Trump’s Passports the FBI’s Smoking Gun?
Quick Glance: In documents, the Justice Department refutes Trump's statements about the Mar-a-Lago search.
  • This photograph, which was included in a court filing by the Department of Justice on August 30, and was partially blacked by the FBI, shows a photo of documents taken during the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on August 8.

  • When asked about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said his department "will speak through its court filings and its work."

  • Responding to Trump's statements

  • The Justice Department is scheduled to return to court on Thursday to consider Trump's request for an independent special master.
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Quick Glance: Trump's aides quickly packed his belongings as he prepared to leave the White House.
  • According to the Times, the former Trump officials interviewed indicated they had no recollection of seeing secret documents being placed in boxes.

  • Former aides told Politico last month that the Oval Office and an adjacent private dining room were only packed up the weekend before Trump left the White House.

  • Other intelligence officials told The New York Times that Trump lacked the same level of caution.

  • According to John Bolton, a former Trump national security advisor, if they requested for the documents back, Trump would think they didn't trust him.
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Trump’s Special Master Request Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike: A legal back-and-forth produced a straightforward narrative of how Mr. Trump and his ...
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Trump’s Special Master Request Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike
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Judge to Unseal More Detailed List of Materials Seized at Mar-a-Lago: Aileen Cannon says she will rule in due course on former President Donald Trump’s request ...
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Judge to Unseal More Detailed List of Materials Seized at Mar-a-Lago
Quick Glance: Trump appears to be undermining his own assertion that the FBI planted documents at Mar-a-Lago.
  • In his Truth Social post, Trump appeared to admit that the evidence in the Mar-a-Lago raid was not planted by the FBI.

  • In his Wednesday post, Trump claimed that the FBI purposefully arranged highly sensitive documents on the floor of a Mar-a-Lago room to make him appear bad.

  • "Trump's argument has gone from 'The FBI planted evidence against me!" to "They took the evidence out of my cartons — and spread it on my carpet!"

  • Trump's and the Justice Department's attorneys are due to appear in federal court in Florida on Thursday at 1 p.m.
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Donald Trump Declares Himself an ‘Absolutely Perfect Physical Specimen’ in Latest Attack on FBI
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Quick Glance: Why was Trump's request for a "special master" granted by a judge?
  • Cannon also granted the special master in this case the unusual authority to search for papers covered by "executive privilege."

  • Executive privilege is a contentious legal notion that states that US presidents and their staffs can deny some legal demands if they jeopardize national security or the executive branch's operations.

  • She has given the Department of Justice and Trump's legal team until Friday to come up with a list of suitable special masters.

  • Will there now be special masters in every [criminal] investigation?"
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Judge says she has 'preliminary intent' to appoint special master to oversee Mar-a-Lago search review
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Judge says she has 'preliminary intent' to appoint special master ...
Quick Glance: Takeaways from the Affidavit Used to Support Trump's Search
  • More materials were provided over by Mr. Trump's advisors in June.

  • However, the Justice Department was questioning witnesses in the case and concluded that Mr. Trump was in possession of further classified materials.

  • The search yielded a cache of very sensitive documents.

  • There were highly classified documents among the materials.

  • The affidavit did not reveal the substance of any of the documents or the subject matter they addressed, and the Justice Department has not addressed the risk to national security if any of the records fell into the hands of competing nations.
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Biden was ‘not aware’ of FBI search on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago before it was conducted, White House says
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Quick Glance: A U.S. House subcommittee has the right to inspect Trump's tax returns, according to a court ruling.
  • WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a House committee has the right to see former President Donald Trump's tax returns, rejecting his assertions that the request was unconstitutional because it was politically motivated.

  • Trump has not said whether he will run for president again in 2024.

  • People and police officers gather outside Trump Tower on August 8, 2022, after former US President Donald Trump stated that FBI investigators raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate.

  • Since Trump's departure in January 2021, the controversy has persisted.
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Read the warrant behind FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago: A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from ...
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Read the warrant behind FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Quick Glance: Donald Trump is being probed for espionage charges.
  • The order, which was released on Friday afternoon, reveals that the Justice Department is looking into whether Trump violated many federal laws when he transported official records from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago property.

  • The documents were unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday after the Justice Department sought that they be made public.

  • They were made public an hour after the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of secret documents from Mar-a-Lago.

  • Trump's attorneys claim he used his authority to declassify information he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
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Analysis: 4 things to know about the FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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Quick Glance: Michael Steele: Republicans should "try to be less stupid" in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago raid
  • "Trump failed to return classified docs requested by the National Archives," Steele wrote in response to Rep.

  • "This is not some random FBI move, so you shitforbrains Republicans calling for "defunding the FBI" should try to be less stupid for a change," Steele wrote.

  • The former president's son, Eric Trump, told Fox News anchor Sean Hannity that the search was centered on records sought by the National Archives.

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Rep. Adam Schiff Says There's ‘No Evidence’ that Donald Trump Declassified Documents from FBI Raid
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago raid: Armed Trump supporters protest at FBI headquarters in Phoenix
  • On Saturday, armed supporters of former President Donald Trump demonstrated outside the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.

  • According to one demonstrator, they were come to oppose the "unlawful search" of the Florida property.

  • It came after the Justice Department and Trump both stated that the information should be made public.

  • They did not enter FBI property.
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No, the FBI's Trump investigation is not just like the Hillary Clinton email probe. Here's why
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump: The Mar-a-Lago Scandal and What Investigators Discovered About Him
  • Investigators searched Donald Trump's Florida residence in early August.

  • Surprisingly, confidential documents, including seven designated "top secret," were discovered in both locations, and even locating them in the office could pose an issue for Trump.

  • Because, in addition to the documents, the investigators discovered the former US president's passports.

  • However, the fact that the records were not sufficiently safeguarded could pose an issue for Trump.

  • However, neither Trump nor his lawyers have offered evidence that the records were released.
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Trump turns ‘never-ending witch-hunt’ into email fundraising frenzy: The former president and his fundraising arm have sent out an average of 10 emails a day ...
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Trump turns ‘never-ending witch-hunt’ into email fundraising frenzy
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Former VP Mike Pence says he would 'consider' testifying before Jan. 6 committee if asked
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Former VP Mike Pence says he would 'consider' testifying before Jan ...
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Republicans, once outraged by Mar-a-Lago search, become quieter as details emerge
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FBI under pressure to explain raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence: The White House also insisted that President Joe Biden had no prior knowledge that the search ...
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FBI under pressure to explain raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge: The filing was in response to a request from Donald Trump's lawyers two weeks ...
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Files would "just disappear" if Trump was elected, according to Grisham.
  • Former Trump White House press secretary Stephenie Grisham stated official paperwork would "just disappear" when Trump was around.

  • Grisham, who worked for Trump from July 2019 to April 2020, claimed Trump often took official paperwork from the White House's working spaces to his private presidential house.

  • According to her, "Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him."

  • "They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear."
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Takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit: The release of a redacted affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for ...
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Takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit
Quick Glance: Donald Trump: Blacked-out affidavit shows president took "top secret" materials home to Mar-a-Lago
  • According to an FBI affidavit, Donald Trump brought sensitive materials, some of which were marked top secret, to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

  • Mr Trump responded on Twitter, writing, "Affidavit heavily redacted!!!"

  • A separate document, a Memorandum of Law, explains why the affidavit needs to be redacted, stating that "revealing this information could severely disadvantage the government as it seeks further information from witnesses... These concerns are particularly compelling in this case... In short, the government has well founded concerns that steps may be taken to frustrate or otherwise interfere with this investigation if facts in the affidavit were prematurely disclosed"
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Donald Trump claims passports seized during FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: 'This is an assault on a political opponent,' Trump said.
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Donald Trump claims passports seized during FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocks Ex-FBI Agent After 'Selling T-Shirts' Comments: The Republican came under fire for selling "Defund the FBI" t-shirts following the ...
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Merrick Garland’s Mar-a-Lago Warrant Gambit: The Attorney General puts the onus on Trump to allow the release of the FBI search warrant.
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Merrick Garland’s Mar-a-Lago Warrant Gambit
Quick Glance: Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao spoke with a committee on January 6: report
  • According to CNN, Trump-era Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao met with the House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 insurgency.

  • The Jan. 6 committee is also in talks with former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, according to sources.

  • The day after the Capitol attack, DeVos and Chao both resigned.

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FBI Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents: Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin were interviewed by the FBI in connection with boxes of ...
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FBI Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents
Quick Glance: The Justice Department objects to the release of an affidavit used to search Trump's home.
  • Prosecutors argue that releasing it will jeopardize the investigation into Donald J. Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office.

  • WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department objected on Monday to the release of the affidavit used to authorize the search of former President Donald J. Trump's Florida property, claiming that it would "compromise future investigative steps" and "likely chill" cooperation with witnesses.

  • According to a search warrant made public on Friday, federal investigators retrieved top secret papers from Mr. Trump's residence last week as part of an investigation into suspected violations of the Espionage Act and other laws.
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Trump FBI Raid: 5 Big Takeaways From the Mar-a-Lago Search: The fact that a search of Donald Trump's Florida home was even necessary tells us a lot.
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Trump FBI Raid: 5 Big Takeaways From the Mar-a-Lago Search
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First Thing: US justice department asks not to disclose affidavit behind search of Trump’s resort
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FBI Raid On Donald Trump's House Triggers Political Firestorm: Report: Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on ...
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FBI Raid On Donald Trump's House Triggers Political Firestorm: Report
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Trump has plenty of reasons to wait on announcing 2024 campaign: Almost immediately after federal authorities executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Florida ...
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Trump has plenty of reasons to wait on announcing 2024 campaign
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Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: 'So Much Flipping': Michael Cohen said Sunday that the former president's allies would turn on him to avoid ...
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Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: 'So Much Flipping'
Quick Glance: Despite the risks, Trump pushes for the release of the unredacted affidavit.
  • Former President Trump is asking for the complete, unredacted release of the affidavit that led to the search warrant for his Mar-a-Lago home, a move that both Trump and the Justice Department are concerned about.

  • For years, Trump and his allies have felt that the FBI and Justice Department are biased against him, claiming that the government inappropriately surveilled his 2016 presidential campaign.

  • Trump also called for the "immediate release" of the unredacted affidavit on Truth Social, his social media site, emphasizing the need for openness.

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Top Republican says Trump shouldn't have torn up White House documents: The National Archives has confirmed multiple reports of Trump's potentially very blatant ...
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Top Republican says Trump shouldn't have torn up White House documents
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Dustin Johnson parties with Donald Trump for Halloween: The golfer and his fiancee, Paulina Gretzky, were on the guest list for Trump's annual bash at the ...
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