State Dept use CNN. CIA/IC use Washington Post. DOJ/FBI use New York Times/Politico. These are the constants in an ever evolving, ever changing, yet always consistent narrative engineering roadmap.
The New York Times frames the newest version of the ‘case against Trump.’ This is technically update 4.0, from the original 2015/2016 targeting effort. Version 2.0 was Robert Mueller. Version 3.0 was the impeachment revision built upon 1.0 and 2.0.
In the latest update, 4.0 carries the same intent but a modified and expanded design.
New York Times – […] Last year, officials with the National Archives discovered that Mr. Trump had taken a slew of documents and other government material with him when he left the White House at the end of his tumultuous term in January 2021. That material was supposed to have been sent to the archives under the terms of the Presidential Records Act.
Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of material in January of this year. When archivists examined the material, they found many pages of documents with classified markings and referred the matter to the Justice Department, which began an investigation and convened a grand jury.
In the spring, the department issued a subpoena to Mr. Trump seeking additional documents that it believed may have been in his possession.
[…] In an effort to resolve the dispute, Mr. Bratt and other officials visited Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in early June, briefly meeting Mr. Trump while they were there. Two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, spoke with Mr. Bratt and a small number of investigators he traveled with, people briefed on the meeting said.
Mr. Corcoran and Ms. Bobb showed Mr. Bratt and his team boxes holding material Mr. Trump had taken from the White House that were being kept in a storage area, the people said.
According to two people briefed on the visit, Mr. Bratt and his team left with additional material marked classified, and around that time also obtained the written declaration from a Trump lawyer attesting that all the material marked classified in the boxes had been turned over.
A short time after the meeting, according to people briefed on it, Mr. Bratt sent Mr. Corcoran an email telling him to get a more secure padlock for the room. Mr. Trump’s team complied.
The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. (read more)
That’s essentially the nub of the current DOJ/FBI effort to target/remove President Trump.
According to the narrative, President Trump isn’t allowed to have any records of his administration. So goes the origin of the targeting. All other presidents are permitted to have documents, but not Trump. Trump bad. All others, good.
…”the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room.” Yeah, well, kind of hard to respond to whatever they wanted, without actually touching or moving the boxes; but ignore that… we need to make it suspicious or something.
NBC Legal Analyst Barb McQuade showcases the current DOJ plan as outlined by the Lawfare crew. [link]
To anyone concerned, I would simply say ‘relax‘. Be angry, but not despondent.
The effort is as much intended to wear YOUR psyche down as it is to attack Trump. Remember the Alinsky strategy: Ridicule, Isolate, Marginalize… This is the essential goal of political lawfare.
Yes, political lawfare is corrupt, horrible and infuriating. However, at the end of the day it is based on weak arguments and fear.
The problem they face against Trump is simple. In 2020 President Trump earned 75 million votes in the election. 75 million. How can they duplicate the election fraud to defeat 75 million voters, without the benefit of covid mail-in ballots?
That’s their problem. They cannot defeat him or us.
They must remove President Trump because he/we represent an existential threat.
They will fail…
….There are more of us, than them.
If the Socialist Democrats won and stay in power, we will starve just like they do in Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China. People living in a Socialist country have to kill their pets to keep from starving. WAKE UP America, vote Republican to keep our country free from the Democrat Socialist/Communist Party.
They are coming for us, whether we get violent or not. It will be much easier for them, if we are non-violent.
I appreciate Sundance suggesting we relax but alas, I am despondent.
Every extreme event that happens to PDJT seems so unnecessary.
Following politics I guess is not for me.
Dear skeptical, keep the faith, we tend to live where the food grows and the fuel is found.
They haven’t got a chance unless we give up early.
Sundance, what do you make of this angle about a June declaration signed by PresTrump’s attorney declaring “all classified documents at Mar a Lago have been returned?
I’ve bolded and underlined “marked as” classified because it’s a potential hinge that determines outcome
Various outlets say declaration was that “all classified documents” have been returned
One or two articles say “all documents MARKED AS classified”
It’s a linguistic hinge because if they try to nail PresTrump for misrepresentation on “all classified documents”, then the President’s contention that he declassified them is a viable defense
If the declaration really DOES say “MARKED AS classified”, then PresTrump’s attorneys appear to have attested to a falsehood, because many documents and folders “marked as” classified remained at Mar a Lago post-June
I haven’t tracked down the exact declaration, maybe someone else has?
But several articles cite the declaration as false and a reason for the search warrant, as well as potentially a basis for an obstruction charge
Whaddya make of this?
Anyone else, too
Trump Lawyer Claimed Classified Docs Had Been Returned
“At least one lawyer for former President Donald Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material
… marked as classified …
and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government,” the New York Times reports.
“The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division.”
“The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material.”
“This explains why the obstruction of justice statute was on the warrant.”
Frames is ‘le mot juste’.
Vraiment.
I’m thinking that the controversy about these documents is so intense, some judge will decide it is in the public interest to release them. I hope so.
Same judge will have a personal interest in breathing.
Just saying.
Yes, a considerable obstacle.
Irrational person considering the priorities of a country ruled by the people, would certainly thinks that the owners of the country should have the Vital Information.
But I fear that at root all totalitarians, from ancient monarchs to socialists, whether of the internationalist, or nationalist variety, consider the common people to be their property to be disposed of as they wish.
No no no. Nothing whose release might even remotely exonerate Trump is ever released.
The Shiff star chamber is revving up again this time in tandem with the Jan 6 hoax, not the Fusion GPS dossier hoax and not the Mueller hoax.
MSNBC and CNN idiots are beside themselves. Their little personal organs are tingling. Think Toobin had it bad? Just wait!
By the way does anyone find it odd that mere hours after whining about attacks on the integrity of the FBI and DOJ, Garland’s boys start leaking to the NYT? Such a professional bunch. Just ask the Michigan gymnasts.
President Trump has let us know in his past few rallies that all of this targeting of him and his family would stop the moment he said he would no longer run for President, and then let us, and them, know that he is not backing down.
Whether or not PDJT knew of or suspected the specifics, such as a raid on his home and his wife’s closet, think it more important to assume that he is figuring out the best next moves to take, and calculating the timing of what he sees needs to be done.
The imagery of FBI G-Men going through Melania undies will destroy the Alinsky narrative. The FBI now permanently ridiculed.
I donated bigly to America First Legal, Stephen Miller´s outfit, and hope they can Lawfare back the Democrats and their dependent classes.
Does former President Barack Obama ever think about or regret having chosen Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State ?
Was he told that he HAD to pick her or ELSE?
Did the Fourth Branch want her in that position so they could operate freely through her access/authority?
Wouldn’t it have been better for him not to acquire her baggage, like taking on too much weight on a plane?
Certainly he could not have felt good or even ambivalent about the horrific death of Muhammar Ghaddafi and then Benghazi which was connected to the death of Ghaddafi if perhaps Hillary wanted Ambassador Stevens gone, not to confront her.
What about aid to Haiti that did not get to the people – didn’t millions to aid to Haiti ALSO disappear during the Clinton Administration?
What if he had not gotten mixed up with Hillary’s plan to “get back” at Trump – did she make Obama think that he HAD to help her to destroy Trump? But Trump was only talking about Hillary’s 30,000 e-mails and server – oh, and Uranium One had entered the news.
But what if Obama would have said, “sorry, no can do, Hillary – I’m leaving, if he wins, he will have the job but it’s still early and anything could happen, you might win after all – but no, I don’t want to have to think about any of this, I just want to give Michelle and the girls a good time, spend quality time with them and forget about all of this.”
I don’t think Obama had the option to take matters as if he were just the head of a family after leaving the White House. He owed everything to those who facilitated his rise. Not least, to the Clintons who made him keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention when he was only a state senator. And note, that although it appeared he defeated Hillary to get the Democratic nomination, it was only when golden tongued Bill Clinton made a stupid racist comment about Obama serving coffee to them, that Obama began to get black voters on his side.
Mind you, I don’t know if Hillary actually knew it wasn’t her turn yet. Some people think that maybe sometimes Bill doesn’t tell her everything.
Trump will lock her up next time around.
Not at all, because Obummer too is a bitter, hateful, malevolent sociopath. He has no feelings for anything other than his own goals and desires.
Obummer did nothing for any black community, in fact he was a good part of the final disintegration of the black family. Why would he care about Haitians?
Why would he care about baggage from the Clinton’s? It’s not like Obummer has paid any price at all for his malfeasance. In fact he’s profited quite handsomely from it. As has Hillary.
“Was he told that he HAD to pick her or ELSE?”
If so, it may have happened during the ’08 Primary campaign when Hussein and The Hag met at that private Estate outside of WDC with,…. George Sorazz,…… remember?
Where is the Marc Elias’ of the Republican Party.
There are a lot more of us than of them. It turns out that the stupidest thing the Democrats could possibly have done was to show Americans what they would do if they were in power, something they have done with what is called the Biden presidency.
There were more of us than there were of them in 2020, that Advantage has grown exponentially.
According to two people briefed on the visit, Mr. Bratt and his team left with additional material marked classified, and around that time also obtained the written declaration from a Trump lawyer attesting that all the material marked classified in the boxes had been turned over…
…more hearsay, except this supposed document could have easily been produced, if it existed
NYT should get pr consulting fees from the FBI and DOJ.
I am old enough to remember when the NYT reporters were skeptical of what they were told by the Bureau. Not any longer, now they lap it up like a Politboro outfit. These people aren’t journalists, they are cut and paste pr consultants
Because reporters are poorly educated in history they don’t see this as the beginning of a fascist takeover of a Republic. It happened 90 years ago, and is happening now.
The moment of inspiration is appreciated, but the metaphoric “anvils” you were speaking of have not fallen yet. These people have ALL the power. Does ANYONE think a single Democrat in the House or Senate will actually do anything to stop them, or punish them, or even limit their criminal abuses of power? The week is young and if it passes without Trump being criminally indicted it can only mean that they are immeasurably stupid, or are playing a timing game of some sort. They WOULD not have raided that house if they did not KNOW they would win…unless they are very, very stupid. Oh…to be sure, to win does not require Trump to actually be guilty, it only requires that the supreme law breakers of the planet succeed in framing him. How hard is that if you own every means needed to do it in a setting where NO ONE CAN or WILL stop you.
for G*ds sake … Obama STILL has records he hasn’t turned over … and haven’t been reviewed by Archive staff …
the Presidential Records Act is not a criminal statute and thus there are no “crimes” involved in not complying with it in real time … so any non-classified docs are out of scope of the “nat security” slant …
Love the Outlook and the closing remarks, I needed that.
Biden is not the real President, an unknown Puppet Master is in Control, and calling the shots! Whoever it is, has direct ties to China, which has infiltrated every Department inside of our Government! The Destruction of our Country and of our Constitutional Rights under the Control of China is starting to look a lot Clearer!