Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"To the catalogue of Donald Trump’s malign personality traits, add one that might be called “document narcissism.” According to the New York Times, Trump insists he has a right to keep classified documents because they’re “mine.”

Trump’s lawyers are right to be worried about the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of the former president’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. That’s not because the probe is “overbroad” and “political,” as Trump’s lawyers claimed in an overheated motion on Monday — but because it is very specific and based on multiple “confidential witnesses,” as the federal magistrate who approved the search warrant just affirmed.
This case reflects the central nightmare of the Trump post-presidency. He seems to believe, in the words of the French King Louis XIV, “L’etat, c’est moi,” meaning: “I am the state.” Trump’s stationery still bears the p**********l seal. He still appears to covet the permanent power of a leader like China’s Xi Jinping, of whom he said in 2018: “He’s now president for life. … Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.

Trump at Mar-a-Lago is like Lear in angry exile. He has left the throne, but imagines that he can keep its privileges. He rages at enemies and broods over his lost realm. The Times article portrayed him rummaging last year through boxes of classified documents, relics of former power, before deciding what to return to the National Archives.

A former Trump administration official who knows him well likens Trump’s retention of classified documents to “a toddler who takes a toy and sees how much the other kid is upset and decides, I’m going to take it anyway. The more someone wants to take it back, the more he wants to keep it.”
Trump’s presidency was a war against what he imagined was a “deep state” of FBI agents, intelligence officials and Justice Department lawyers conspiring to smear him and block his e******n and ree******n. In the words of his lawyers’ motion, these antagonists behaved with “complete disdain and bias against President Trump and his supporters, while they were entrusted with probing the farcical Russian collusion claims.”

A field commander in Trump’s battles against the intelligence community has been a former congressional staffer named Kash Patel, now one of Trump’s representatives in dealing with the National Archives. I profiled Patel’s role as Trump’s advocate against the intelligence agencies last year, and again recently. After bringing Patel to his National Security Council staff in 2019, Trump wanted to make him deputy FBI director, then deputy CIA director.
“Trump also had the idea of making Patel a Special Assistant for White House Oversight — a position that would seek to expose the deep state” in the White House entourage, said Charles Kupperman, a former deputy national security adviser, who was in the room with Trump when he made the proposal in 2019. When Kupperman and White House counsel Pat Cipollone objected, Trump relented, the official said.

A spokeswoman for Patel didn’t respond to a query about Kupperman’s account of the 2019 incident but accused the author of being a “disinformation fountain” for “radical-left politicians in D.C.”


Trump’s notion of supreme personal power — his document narcissism — might have caught up with him in the Mar-a-Lago search. His problem isn’t simply with the Biden Justice Department, but with informants who are presumably within his own circle. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, who granted the warrant, made that clear in his order delaying a final judgment about unsealing the affidavit that accompanied the warrant.

“I agree with the Government that the Affidavit ‘contains, among other critically important and detailed investigative facts: highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government,’” Reinhart wrote. Notably, he said that revealing details could “impede the ongoing investigation through obstruction of justice and witness intimidation or retaliation.” He also cited obstruction as “one of the statutes for which I found probable cause” in authorizing the search.

No wonder Trump’s lawyers filed a motion designed to slow things down, portraying the case as a political vendetta and aimed at slowing the review of documents. They simply ignored the gravity of the charges — calling the search “a shockingly aggressive move” against “the clear frontrunner” in 2024, “should he decide to run.”

The Trump lawyers asked for a “special master” to sift the evidence, and that might be a useful way to tamp down public concern about bias. But the Trump team’s own chronology confirms the former president’s slow compliance with document requests. Initially, he even resisted letting the FBI review the 15 boxes of documents he had sent to the National Archives in January, which included some codeword, “Special Access Program” documents, the government’s most sensitive secrets, according to a May 10 letter from the acting archivist. The Aug. 8 FBI search turned up more than a dozen additional boxes, including 11 sets of highly classified material.
Wh**ever those documents contain, Reinhart shared Justice’s worry that they weren’t being given back promptly or securely held.

Trump’s motion also cites the veiled threat he sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland: “President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid. If there was one word to describe their mood, it is ‘angry.’ The heat is building up. The pressure is building up.”
Trump concluded with a seemingly generous offer: “Wh**ever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.

The answer is simple: Stop denigrating the rule of law. Respect it."

David Ignatius

Triple G

Does anyone else see a disparity between the mega-MAGA retort that b****s should “just comply” to end police brutality toward them

And the mega-MAGA excuses for trump’s non-compliance with both casual and official requests from NARA and FBI?

https://www.salon.com/2015/07/31/just_comply_fox_news_hosts_recommend_black_men_stop_resisting_arrest_if_they_dont_want_to_die/

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

25 out of 31 of your last threads are about Trump, you suffer from a serious case of TDS. DUDE, stop letting Trump control your daily thought patterns, it's messing you up.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

You took the time to research my thread topics, and I’m messed up?

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

If he starts taking your advice, we'll know he's messed up.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Research? It's on your first page and tool 2 minutes lol. So you are deflecting. So you took the time to research Trump for all those threads on your first page and you think I'M messed up for looking at your first page of threads? I can guarantee you it took tons and tons more time and effort to post all those threads from your first page than it was for me to count your Trump threads.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Yes, too much of my focus was in the past on "Shocking, Fearful, Devastating," descriptors before the news tells again something about Trump's world which we were already told the week before. I came to the point that my opinion did not direct the world and that those in charge would do what they do regardless. Better to watch a review on how to use my Topaz Megapixel etc. Calms my soul and informs me of something that affects me directly in a beneficial way.

None of the news even thinks about Trump could photograph a top secrete document with a disposable phone and send it by multiple relays to Mr Putin who would appreciate it and send rubles to Trumps Swiss account. It is a difficult to trace spy world.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Your article states, "Reinhart shared Justice’s worry that they weren’t being given back promptly or securely held."

Did Reinhart, Justice, or you ever consider the filing of a subpoena as is usually done in the next step?

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Thanks for bringing us knowledge of how the ex-N**is operated in your old c*******t Argentina.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

On June 3, 2022 Trump was served a subpoena to release documents that were stored at his residence. On that date, boxes of documents were turned over to the FBI, but obviously not all the boxes of documents. So, in fact, Trump did comply in part with the June 3rd subpoena. The Justice department subsequently learned that there were more documents (which in t***h there were) at the residence that had not been turned over. If Trump had complied with the subpoena in full, the August 8 raid would not have been necessary. Trump stupidly thought he had got away with keeping stolen documents, by surrendering only a part of them. He thought people in the Justice department were stupid, and too easily duped.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Again, you seriously need to get a new life.

wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma

here we go again.boohooboohooboohoo

wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma

you have to realize he is an admitted toadie of AOC...lockstep..that shouldsay enough about pullem

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

A lot of 'stupids' in your reply. The DOJ being smart must then know exactly what documents they want.

There is no such thing as a "carte blanche" search warrant for 'everything' you have. Any search warrant must detail particulars as the last part of the 4th amendment to the Constitution states, ..."and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” but it never stated the documents they wanted. Why not?

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

I addressed your concerns about a subpoena, but still you continue. The FBI had to follow through, knowing or not knowing, what documents had been secreted at a personal residence, unsecured—in the interests of National Security. The warrant was properly requested, finding probable cause by a judge, and properly administered—totally legal. And it was for cause—-classified top secret documents were recovered on August 8, despite previous efforts for Trump to relinquish them. Why Blane the NARA, the Justice department, and the FBI for doing their jobs?