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He's not the sharpest tac in the box, is he?

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The only reason to steal classified information is to use it as leverage.

Why would Trump need that type of leverage?
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You missed Operation ShapeshiftUSA

It's now David Trump. Totally new entity.

The Old Testament beard is being kept back for the official 2024 run.
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US court unseals list of seized Mar-a-Lago material
A US court has made public a detailed inventory of the material seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month.

According to the filing, agents took 33 boxes of documents including dozens of empty folders marked classified.

It also reveals several documents marked secret and top secret were recovered from Mr Trump's office.

Mr Trump, who is being investigated over his handling of classified records, denies wrongdoing.

Among the items recovered after the unprecedented 8 August search of Mar-a-Lago were:

3 documents marked confidential
17 documents marked secret
7 documents marked top secret
43 empty folders with classified banners
28 empty folders labelled "Return to staff secretary/military aide"


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With the empty folders he has clearly been re-cycling them to save the government money and protect the environment. This is laudable and you people should leave him alone.
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Court win for Trump
A judge has granted Donald Trump's demand for a "special master" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials.

Mr Trump is being investigated for allegedly taking documents with him when he left the White House.

But the "special master" is an independent lawyer who decides if any of the records are covered by attorney-client or executive privilege.

The move is seen as a blow to prosecutors and a win for Mr Trump.

The former president had asked for the special master to be appointed, while prosecutors had strongly opposed it - and the appointment is likely to slow down the justice department's ongoing criminal investigation.

That is because the judge has banned the government from reviewing or using the seized materials for its investigation until the special master's independent review has been completed.


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Given that the governmet has already seen the documents will it have any practical effect?
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Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:04 am Court win for Trump
Given that the governmet has already seen the documents will it have any practical effect?
Surely the practical effect is that trumps own appointed lawyer will go "nah these files are fine, all good" so the judge can say "whew! I've avoided this nightmare" and throw it out the window. So the MAGA cult can go "See! Its a witch hunt. Look how hard they looked into this but not Hunter Bidens Nintendo DSi where he stores all his murder victim photos blah blah blah"
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Team trump's involvement in trying to rig/overthrow the election keeps getting deeper.

Mike Lindell (the pillow idiot) planes that flew from trump's house to towns in Georgia full of people whose job was to overturn the election.

Just have a look at this article

https://www.ajc.com/politics/video-show ... USH6ALTGU/
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Our apologies, unfortunately our website is currently unavailable in most European countries due to GDPR rules.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 3:52 pm Our apologies, unfortunately our website is currently unavailable in most European countries due to GDPR rules.
Thank you Mr Marginal.


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By Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Trump backers and conspiracy theorists gathered in Coffee County

Security camera video made public Tuesday shows that a phony elector who tried to reverse the results of the last presidential election escorted a group of computer experts into the elections office in Coffee County, where they copied confidential software and files in January 2021.

The video also reveals later visits to the county elections office by Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, who led a controversial Republican ballot review in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election, and Jeff Lenberg, a computer security consultant who analyzed voting equipment in Michigan and New Mexico.

The recording is the latest evidence of an effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to take sensitive data from voting equipment manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems in several states. Previously disclosed documents indicated that Trump attorney Sidney Powell paid Atlanta tech firm SullivanStrickler for the data extraction.

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Handling of Georgia election breach investigation questioned
The video surfaced last week, 20 months after it was created, when it was turned over by attorneys for Coffee County in response to an ongoing election security lawsuit.

“It looks to be a coordinated effort at the highest levels of the Trump campaign,” said David Cross, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “What we see here is what looks to be an interstate effort to get access to the Dominion voting equipment and in particular the underlying software.”

On the video, Cathy Latham, the chairwoman for the Coffee County Republican Party at the time, greets four technicians for SullivanStrickler outside the county’s elections office on Jan. 7, 2021. She then walks them into the office, where they copied half a terabyte of files from an elections server, memory cards, ballot scanners and other computers.

Latham was one of 16 Republicans who met behind closed doors in the Georgia Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast the state’s electoral votes for Trump even though Democrat Joe Biden had won by nearly 12,000 votes. She is now the target of a Fulton County criminal investigation.

Allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 election have repeatedly failed to withstand scrutiny. Three ballot counts, multiple court cases and repeated investigations have upheld the election results. That hasn’t stopped Trump and his backers from continuing to claim the election was stolen.

Latham exercised her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination about 300 times during a deposition last month, according to a transcript. She didn’t return calls to her listed phone numbers Monday.

Before the video surfaced, Latham had denied that Trump supporters were given access to election equipment, telling The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in May, “That’s bull hockey. If that had happened, that would have been all over town.”

Elections servers and computers are supposed to be kept secure to reduce the risk of tampering. Coffee County’s former elections director, Misty Hampton, who resigned in February 2021, can also be seen on the videos with Latham and the tech experts. Hampton couldn’t be reached for comment Monday.

Visits to Coffee County, located 200 miles south of Atlanta, continued later in January 2021. Logan and Lenberg were there on Jan. 18 and Jan. 19, and Lenberg returned for four more days from Jan. 25 to Jan. 28. Both are under investigation for alleged breaches of voting equipment in Michigan, and their efforts reached other states as well.

The ballot review in Maricopa County, Arizona, by Logan’s company, Cyber Ninjas, concluded that Biden won but cited potential problems in the election — allegations that county election officials disputed. Logan didn’t return a message seeking comment Monday.

Lenberg was part of a team that recently published a “vulnerability assessment” of elections equipment in Otero County, New Mexico, which state election officials said showed now evidence of fraud.

A plane owned by Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow who peddled conspiracy theories about the election, also traveled to Coffee County on Feb. 25, 2021, Cross said. Video from late February was unavailable, but a flight tracking service shows the plane flew that day from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to Washington, D.C., to Douglas, Georgia.

Besides copying election data on Jan. 7, the ultimate purpose of the trips to rural Coffee County remains unclear. The surveillance video shows the front door of the county elections office but doesn’t display images from inside the office.

An attorney for SullivanStrickler has said its computer experts were authorized by Powell — a private lawyer — to do the work for the purpose of preserving records. There’s no indication the company contracted with the county or sought a court order to unseal confidential election records.

The GBI opened a criminal investigation of computer trespass last month, and the secretary of state’s office has said it has been investigating since March.

But almost all information about intrusions in Coffee County have been revealed as a result of subpoenas and depositions in the election security lawsuit, which is seeking to hold elections in Georgia with paper ballots filled out by hand rather than printed by computers.

Expert witnesses for the plaintiffs say that data taken from election computers could be used to create hacks or malware that could be used to manipulate election results, though there’s no evidence that has happened in any Georgia election.

Georgia officials say the state’s election system remains safe because it would be difficult to infect more than one voting machine at a time, and security precautions are designed to prevent outsiders from gaining access to voting equipment.

“None of this is a long-term security issue because of our procedures and processes and paper ballots,” said Interim Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling last week. “The office takes all investigations seriously, and we will follow the information methodically and carefully so as to preserve options for potential prosecution.”

Others present at the Coffee County elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, included Eric Chaney, who was a member of the county elections board at the time; Scott Hall, an Atlanta bail bondsman and election skeptic, and Ed Voyles, a former county elections board member.

Intrusions of voting equipment are also under investigation in other states.

In Colorado, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters has been indicted based on allegations that she helped an unauthorized person make copies of sensitive election data. Peters lost the Republican primary for Colorado secretary of state in June.

In Michigan, the attorney general’s office is investigating attempts to gain access to Dominion equipment, including participation by Logan and Lenberg.

— Staff writer Johnny Edwards contributed to this article.
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We'd all laugh if that was in Africa and deride it as some kind if lawless, backward Banana Republic.
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This was all over the (BBC World?) news on my drive home from work....

Apparently some of the documents at his gaff detailed a foreign nations nuclear capabilities. This is double secret probation level stuff that only the top level of the top level have clearance for. It certainly shouldn't be stuffed away in Melania's knicker drawer.

If true, I still doubt if anything will happen but the next few days could be interesting....

https://news.yahoo.com/document-seized- ... 33778.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found in the FBI's search last month of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The Post report, which cited people familiar with the matter, did not identify the foreign government discussed in the document, nor did it indicate whether the foreign government was friendly or hostile to the United States.

An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on the report. Trump representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug. 8 search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, according to court records.

According to the Post report, some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations that require special clearances, not just top-secret clearance.

Some of the documents are so restricted that even some of the Biden administration's senior-most national security officials were not authorized to review them, the Post said.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Trump for removing government records from the White House after he departed in January 2021 and storing them at Mar-a-Lago.

On Monday, a federal judge agreed to Trump's request to appoint a special master to review records seized in the FBI search, a move that is likely to delay the Justice Department's criminal investigation.

(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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They could find a warhead in his orange facial spray room at MOL and he still wouldn't get arrested and charged.
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WCpete wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 6:45 pm They could find a warhead in his orange facial spray room at MOL and he still wouldn't get arrested and charged.
He will be the president his country deserves. For sure.
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Just the same way Agent Merkel was what Germany and Europe needed?
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Wonder what there is for him to be doing in DC on a Monday morning? "Just asking" :chin:

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bitter-iron-ny wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:22 am Wonder what there is for him to be doing in DC on a Monday morning? "Just asking" :chin:
They won’t have any daylight over there for a few hours yet. So that snap wasn’t taken on Monday (today).
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Friend or Foé wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:29 am They won’t have any daylight over there for a few hours yet. So that snap wasn’t taken on Monday (today).
The tweet clearly states that Trump was landing at Dulles yesterday evening, hence bitter-iron-ny's rumination about why Trump might need to be in Washington Monday morning. :newthumb:
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