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Garland Presser on Trump and Mar-a-Lago Search

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Thu Aug 11, 2022 at 09:04:53 PM EST
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Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a two minute press conference today on the search warrant that was issued and executed at Mar-a-Lago last week.

The transcript of his remarks is here.

This is not a historic disclosure. DOJ's filing a motion to unseal the warrant (but not the affidavit with the sworn facts supporting it) and the receipt for the property taken, copies of which were left at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the search, are unlikely to disclose anything that hasn't already been in the public arena.

It's the affidavit that bakes the cake (or causes its center to sink). And that's not being released.

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    CNN says where did he get all that stuff? (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 06:27:34 PM EST
    reportedly after classified meetings Trump would say "can I KEEP these?"
    I picturing him saying it quietly.
    And no one stoped him.

    That's just amazing.  An unbelievable scene from a bad movie.

    I guess that's from (none / 0) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 06:40:44 PM EST
    John Bolton.  Just confirmed by Mick Mulvaney.

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    Yet more information ... (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 07:26:31 PM EST
    ... that would have been useful for Congress to know in 2019, had John Bolton actually been more concerned with our national security than his then-pending book deal.

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    Honestly (none / 0) (#16)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 07:29:38 PM EST
    in the scope of the Trump era its sort of a weird stupid detail that might not have seemed worth mentioning.  Until now.

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    Mick Mulvaney (none / 0) (#17)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 07:31:06 PM EST
    was, like, "Oh yeah.  He did that."

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    Warrant (none / 0) (#1)
    by FlJoe on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 02:29:35 PM EST
    cite espionage act, obstruction and removing government records, per NYT
    Here is the Link (none / 0) (#2)
    by RickyJim on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 03:06:30 PM EST
    I don't think this will shut down the nonsense from Trump and friends.

    It (none / 0) (#3)
    by FlJoe on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 03:22:49 PM EST
    won't shut them up, but I think his circle of friends will shrink by an unknown amount, it could be a trickle or a flood of rats jumping ship, this is some  bad cheese.

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    Speaking (none / 0) (#7)
    by FlJoe on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 03:58:33 PM EST
    of rats I see Roger Stone gets top billing in the receipts, and WTF does he have to do with the president of France and why would the FBI even bother with it?

    #2 was the "leather bound" box which contained the top level SCI stuff.

    I wonder if those two items were in the safe and somehow weirdly related.

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    The has long been talk that Roger Stone ... (none / 0) (#12)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 07:06:37 PM EST
    ... was linked to the Wikileaks email hack-and-dump from then-presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's 2017 campaign organization. If you remember, Trump & Co., LLC were rooting for France's resident right-wing crackpot, Marine Le Pen. Maybe this is related to that.

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    So (none / 0) (#18)
    by FlJoe on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 04:48:08 AM EST
    I heard over at Empty Wheel, I don't understand the prominence given to it by tRump (or the FBI for that matter), it was listed separately by the FBI so I am assuming it was not chucked in a box somewhere.

    The first 7 items listed in the numbered receipts were more specific than the rest, my gut feeling is they were in the safe. Stone's clemency, leather boxed super duper classified docs, binders of photos, handwritten note. tRump's kompromat stash?

    I could see the leather bound box as some kind of trophy box he would whip out to impress people but Stone's clemency is nowhere near one of his greatest hits.

    The photos are interesting I am assuming the FBI wouldn't be grabbing the family pics or meet and greets he had with world leaders.

    The hand written note could be anything but it all seemed significant to tRump and the FBI.

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