FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

[Rick Plant]

DOJ completes review of Trump documents

While former President Donald Trump's legal team pushes for specical master oversight, the Department of Justice completed its review of the documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago. (Aug. 29)

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[Rick Plant]

There's a reason why hoarding classified documents is a crime

The National Archives and the Department of Justice gave too much deference to Trump and for far too long
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/what-do-labels-classified-documents-mean-does-trump-have-defense-n1298387

[Rick Plant]

In the three weeks since the DOJ had the FBI carry out a search and seizure warrant at Donald Trump’s home for the classified documents he stole, we’ve said it was anybody’s guess as to when the DOJ would decide to indict and arrest Trump. There’s been the primary question of when the classified documents charges will be procedurally ready to go. And there’s the secondary question of whether the DOJ will indict Trump now for the classified documents scandal and then indict him later on 1/6-related and election related charges, or if the DOJ will wait until it has all the charges lined up against Trump before bringing any of them. Now we’re suddenly getting what may, or may not, be hints of what’s coming.

First the DOJ revealed on Monday that it’s already finished sorting the documents it seized from Trump’s home. This revelation was further explained by reporting on Monday evening that the DOJ had been lining this up since May, so that once it did seize the documents, it could process them immediately, despite their sensitive nature and limited access.

Then the DOJ asked the judge for permission to make a whopping forty page filing about the criminal case it’s built against Trump – a rare move – and the judge agreed. This suggests the DOJ is looking to dump a ton of information out there about Trump’s guilt, so that the public will have a full sense of what Trump has done wrong, and what’s coming.

So is this truly a sign that the DOJ is preparing to imminently indict Donald Trump? That’s still anyone’s guess, depending on how one interprets the above moves. Just for kicks, there’s also President Biden’s primetime speech this Thursday, during which he’s expected to touch on Trump’s extremism. And Trump’s money man Tom Barrack reportedly just parted ways with his criminal defense attorney ahead of his trial. It’s being blamed on scheduling issues, but changing an attorney just before a trial can sometimes be a precursor to cutting a plea deal.

So those dominoes are all worth watching. It could be that they’re all just coincidental, aren’t set to knock each other over, and aren’t a sign that anything is imminent. But they could also be a sign that the DOJ really is on the verge of arresting Trump, and that everyone else is making moves accordingly. Stay tuned.

[Rick Plant]

These days Donald Trump routinely melts down on his failed social network Truth Social, but any media worth their salt will only occasionally cover it, because most of it either doesn’t deserve public exposure or is too incoherent to even try to parse. But after the DOJ got the best of Trump in court yesterday, Trump woke up this morning and had his most unhinged meltdown to date. Notably, his meltdown appears to have just cost him dearly.

Various folks have counted it up and determined that Donald Trump has posted on his social network more than sixty times thus far today. More to the point, his posts have been even more inappropriately deranged than usual. He’s been posting full QAnon stuff. He called for martial law. He shared a supposed tweet from his own daughter that wasn’t even real. And that’s just the half of it.

After Trump went on his morning bender, Google announced right around lunchtime that it was banning the Truth Social Android app from its Google Play app store. Google says that this is because the app “standards for content moderation.” But given Google’s lack of action on the moderation front up to this point, and its sudden move after Trump’s dangerous meltdown this morning, it’s pretty clear why Google pulled the trigger today.

So now Trump has cost himself the ability to reach the second biggest mobile platform through an app – and there’s now a good chance Apple will do the same with its App Store. That would cut Trump off from reaching virtually anyone through an app. Users can still theoretically view his social network through a mobile browser. But his social network was getting minimal reach to begin with, and now he’s just cost himself one of his key distribution channels. He’s self destructing in real time, and this is before the DOJ indicts him!

[Rick Plant]

DOJ releases photos of highly classified documents it seized from Trump’s home, which were mixed in with framed Time Magazine covers. DOJ just proved Trump guilty of narcissism and espionage at the same time. Lock him up!

[Rick Plant]

Remember, this filing is officially for the DOJ to prove to the judge that Trump’s special master request is invalid.

But the DOJ received permission to make a forty page filing, and is using it to unofficially show the public just how guilty Trump is.

[Rick Plant]

DOJ says it seized some of the classified documents from inside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago desk.