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Desperate Trump Floats Impeachment 'Double Jeopardy' Claim Against Indictments: "Isn't this sort of like double jeopardy?" the former president asked after a ...
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Trump Is Big Mad About Mar-a-Lago Search, Plays Victim at Rally: The former president claimed he has been persecuted "since the moment I came down the golden ...
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Trump Is Big Mad About Mar-a-Lago Search, Plays Victim at Rally
Quick Glance: Trump lawyer compares Mar-a-Lago documents to "overdue library books": report
  • According to Lawfare, Donald Trump's attorney argued that the DOJ investigation is akin to turning an overdue library book into a criminal matter.

  • Former President Donald Trump's attorney compared keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to failing to return a "overdue library book."

  • According to Lawfare, Trusty argued that expanding the criminal investigation would cause "irreparable harm" to Trump and the presidency.

  • According to a former top counterintelligence official, the investigations into Trump appear to be heading toward criminal charges, according to Insider's Tom Porter.
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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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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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Former U.S. President Donald Trump accused the FBI of staging a "photoshoot" of documents on the floor on Sunday, after they raided his Mar-a-Lago estate ... Show more

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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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Former Trump White House lawyer says chance of him being indicted ‘very high’: A former Trump White House lawyer says he thinks there is a “very high” chance ...
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Donald Trump calls Biden "enemy of the state" and threatens "backlash": Donald Trump is using his first campaign appearance since the Mar-a-Lago raid to attack ...
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Biden to criticize 'extreme' GOP agenda as he talks police funding, crime prevention
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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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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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Judge to Weigh Unsealing Affidavit Behind FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: Government says making document public would compromise investigation; Trump ...
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Judge to Weigh Unsealing Affidavit Behind FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Quick Glance: The Importance of the Mar-a-Lago Documents
  • They will be concerned about whether any of the information in the documents is about them, whether Trump has shared any of it, and, perhaps most importantly, whether their intelligence efforts—which resulted in information they shared, trusting the US's ability to safeguard secrets—may have been compromised.

  • During the Trump administration, our intelligence agencies responded to the president's erratic conduct by restricting the president's access to sensitive information, including information obtained from foreign sources.

  • When Biden took office, he made certain that Trump would not have access to real-time intelligence by denying him of the daily briefings that had been a practice for previous presidents.
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Pennsylvania man arrested after declaring ‘open season’ on FBI agents: Adam Bies was charged with threatening federal law enforcement officers days after FBI ...
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Pennsylvania man arrested after declaring ‘open season’ on FBI agents
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Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Seized His Phone After Trump Mar-a-Lago Raid
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Quick Glance: Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, claims the FBI seized his phone after the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid.
  • Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), a close confidant of former President Donald Trump whose actions are being investigated by the House Judiciary Committee, revealed Tuesday that federal officials seized his smartphone.

  • In a statement, Perry informed Fox News that three agents approached him while he was traveling with his family.

  • Perry stated in his statement, "as with President Trump last night, DOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys."

  • It may be found on Fox News Digital.
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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.

  • Donald Trump Tags FBI raid on Eric Trump Mar-a-Lago Greene, Marjorie Taylor Steele, Michael Steele, Michael
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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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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 documents probe: Judge appears open to special master: A federal judge has appeared to give a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing ...
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Trump documents probe: Judge appears open to special master
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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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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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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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FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Heads to Court : As judges move toward rulings that will determine how much information about the probe is released ...
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FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Heads to Court
Quick Glance: Trump seeks a "special master" to evaluate information seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
  • The Justice Department, for example, submitted a subpoena for papers with classified marks in May, only weeks before the search.

  • In June, FBI and Justice Department investigators paid a visit to Mar-a-Lago and requested to view a storage room.

  • Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have petitioned the judge to release further documents related to the FBI's investigation of Mar-A-Lago earlier this month, when officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified materials, including top secret records, from the Florida estate.

  • The affidavit supporting the search is particularly interesting since it apparently contains critical data concerning the Justice Department's investigation into whether Trump maintained and mishandled secret and sensitive government records.
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Some of the presidential records recovered from former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago are so sensitive they may not be able to be described in ...