BTW "evidence impairment" element is not "gloss" as Jack Smith describes it.

The language is literally in the f*cking statute.

Controversy over the use of 1512c2 centers around a few factors.

One, proof that the individual acted "corruptly," seeking a benefit for himself or… pic.twitter.com/qeUgZpFcqm

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 9, 2024

That brief is from the DC case, not this Florida case.

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3390092/1#discussion

So Smith will never be Bobby Knight.

Crooked Joe Biden and his crew of Hacks and Thugs, led by Merrick Garland and Deranged Jack Smith, are working overtime to try to illegally intimidate and harass respected Federal Judge Aileen Cannon. They are calling her terrible names, wrongfully threatening her with…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 11, 2024

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Does that mean it would be OK if the Government lawyers tossed a chair at Judge Cannon?

30 minute or so Gouveia stream on the latest dust up in the documents case. I am losing track of these "tranches" of sealed versus unsealed evidence. And all of this is because of the CIPA procedures frontloading these pretrial matters well before trial preparation. Not a delay by Trump but a delay due to the procedures invoked by Smith.

Let's not forget that the drafters of the US Constitution were heavily influenced by the abuses of the Star chamber where special prosecutors were appointed to go after politically prominent people, and prosecutions were also conducted on the basis of secreted evidence.

Point is that Trump and human nature has got people so sideways that we in 2024 and back using the same tactics people left England to get away from.

It really is unbelievable that we arguing over the process by which the a chief political rival will be convinced of a felony without the average person being able to look a the evidence for themselves.

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This. There was an abuse that the Founders wanted to address so it would not happen here.

NEW: Judge Cannon's hits against Special Counsel Jack Smith's demands for secrecy keep coming.

In advance of tomorrow's hearing on defense motions, Cannon is authorizing the release of Walt Nauta's voluntary 2022 FBI interview. Should be interesting. pic.twitter.com/j3UP3ER2sO

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 11, 2024

NEW filings overnight by Walt Nauta, Trump's WH valet and so-called "body man" after he left the White House related to charges in the "classified docs" case.

Jack Smith claimed Nauta moved boxes to conceal classified files from Trump's attorney and FBI. Nauta says--prove it: pic.twitter.com/ntIr3FJtXd

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 12, 2024

This interview was conducted after Trump received a subpoena for additional "classified" documents but before FBI and DOJ's Jay Bratt visited Mar-a-Lago to receive 38 more papers with "classified" markings.

Nauta also challenges DOJ to produce specifics as to his alleged role in… pic.twitter.com/X4FGSf8dfJ

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 12, 2024

Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

Mr. Nauta has good legal representation, it would seem.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Smith keeps talking about "documents with classified markings." That is not the same thing as classified documents. Trump's team was in negotiations over what should/would be turned over. And now the government wants to prevent anyone from knowing what documents they're even referring to. This is fascism, and what our forefathers were vehemently against.

I know you think lawfare is good. May you become the victim of it.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Within the White House, the Office of Records Management supports the incumbent administration in identifying and transferring presidential records to the National Archives. The National Archives provides records management guidance and assistance with transferring presidential records based on its institutional knowledge and expertise to the incumbent administration. The National Archives has no authority to enforce records management within the White House.

Presidential records are defined as: "documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President's immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President." [44 U.S.C. 2201(2)]. These records can be in any format, including textual, audiovisual, and electronic records. Presidential records are governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which applies to records from the Reagan administration forward.

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How many "classified documents" did Obama take with him? The answer is they don't know because he digitized them for his "digital" presidential library. I can guarantee you that some of them document his spying on the Trump campaign.

It's been said on here many times but with almost any doubt you can bank in the documents Trump took were related to efforts the left took to spy/harass/investigate him that he took as insurance. That's why they are fighting so hard to get them back/keep them secret in court

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Then let's see the proof. We don't do secret evidence in America. We have learned that the fascists in power say anything that is expedient for them. The truth is completely optional.

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And he 100% had the right to declassify and keep them. He does not have to follow any procedure. And the PRA has no criminal component to it.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Smith keeps talking about "documents with classified markings." That is not the same thing as classified documents. Trump's team was in negotiations over what should/would be turned over. And now the government wants to prevent anyone from knowing what documents they're even referring to. This is fascism, and what our forefathers were vehemently against.

I know you think lawfare is good. May you become the victim of it.

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This is a document with classified markings:



Oh noes...TexAgs is going to jail now.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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Since the POTUS has original classification authority, they CAN say "POOF! This document is now unclassified".

Then it's up to the agencies UNDER the POTUS to do all the documentation that records that declassification.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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How did Biden get his documents he shared with his ghost writer? He stole them. Why did he store them at his Penn center that was funded by china? Why didn't he get charged?

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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How did Biden get his documents he shared with his ghost writer? He stole them. Why did he store them at his Penn center that was funded by china? Why didn't he get charged?

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The Special Counsel determined that he was mentally deficient to stand trial.

Second--and stunningly--Jay Bratt basically admitted they do not have proof that Walt Nauta, charged with conspiring with Trump to conceal classified files from Trump's lawyer then the FBI to impede grand jury investigation, moved boxes that actually contained papers with…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 12, 2024

My guess is Cannon will again deny motions to dismiss based on vagueness of 1512 charges.

But not sure what she will decide in terms of defense request for a bill of particulars to further elucidate DOJ's evidence. Bratt really struggled to explain how Nauta and DeOlivera knew…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 12, 2024

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Second--and stunningly--Jay Bratt basically admitted they do not have proof that Walt Nauta, charged with conspiring with Trump to conceal classified files from Trump's lawyer then the FBI to impede grand jury investigation, moved boxes that actually contained papers with…

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Just as I sad. Show us the evidence.

They're trying to say "Just take our word for it." People who have lied to us repeatedly about everything great and small. People who have leaked and leaked and leaked lie after lie to sway public opinion. People who have tweeted misleading pictures. That's their play now. Just trust them while they don't actually show any evidence It's so blatantly unamerican. They did it with J6, also. These are fascists. They're evil.

One thing I find amusing as a reporter on the *right* actively covering J6 and Trump related court proceedings is seeing what corporate news reporters omit from their articles.

For example, I don't see any coverage of Jay Bratt (Jack Smith prosecutor) apparently admitting…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 13, 2024

Plasmic Echo!

Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about "independence" from investigations into Trump.

The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement--it appears the… pic.twitter.com/UhHPtRkVlR

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

Biden Dept of Energy also involved in the cover up.

DOE discovered after Smith handed down his indictment that Trump had an active security clearance--so they retroactively terminated it. pic.twitter.com/mXa7hXcWcw

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

"And the weather map request" I can't believe these morons are in positions of power. (Yes I can.)

This is the "sharpie" scandal map of Hurricane Dorian.

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

LOL Trump and his lawyer were so uncooperative and obstructiony that HE EMAILED JAY BRATT (DOJ chief who visited MAL in June 2022 and now heads Jack Smith's team in classified docs case) TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF.

This is BEFORE DOJ sent a subpoena in May 2022 for more records. pic.twitter.com/RfKOVF6ASz

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

A month later, AG Merrick Garland gave it the green light pic.twitter.com/VM7qU7pch2

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

DETAILS previously under seal related to August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago: pic.twitter.com/gGfJJYZOGg

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

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— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

Trump delayed heading to Bedminster for the summer to greet Jay Bratt and FBI agents on June 3, 2022 to assist in the "search" for more classified docs.

Washington FBI wanted agents to spy on Trump's private plane to see if any boxes were being loaded before departure. pic.twitter.com/n7YOFUKk1q

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

Please, libs. Defend this.

Stalinist. Ghoulish.

Unites States v. Trump
(Docs Case)

New Motion to Compel Discovery filed by Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira. https://t.co/40hzAK0oup pic.twitter.com/68sLyHbR7m

— Just Human (@realjusthuman) April 23, 2024

Oh look, more shameless political thuggery to 'get Trump.'

Judge Cannon is on an unsealing binge.

Unsealed records detail allegations that Jay Bratt, Jack Smith's lead prosecutor in classified docs case, threatened Stanley Woodward--atty for Walt Nauta--with sinking a judicial nomination if he didn't get his client to flip on Trump: pic.twitter.com/X8aTyOB5PK

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 24, 2024

Bratt/Jack Smith referred the matter to DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (LOL). I'm sure a diligent investigation is underway 🙄

Date here must be incorrect--June 2023 not 2022. pic.twitter.com/sDZY2DPFXx

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 24, 2024

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This week in Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents that Jack Smith fought to keep hidden. And you'll soon find out why. Among the documents unsealed were extensive exhibits, motions, and other filings shedding light on the intricate web of communication between the Biden White House and the National Archives and Records Administration in the lead-up to Trump's indictment.

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WELL WELL WELL I am pretty sure we never heard this part of the "classified documents/box" story!

More from unredacted motions in FLA--this is from an unsealed transcript of witness interview.

FBI agent says GSA was holding large quantity of Trump's boxes in VA and then ordered… pic.twitter.com/0i4tGdWZ9A

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 27, 2024

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"So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago," Kelly notes. "Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with 'classified markings.'"

"I will double check indictment but I don't recall this event in the timeline," she added.

So, it appears that the Biden administration may have been responsible for shipping classified information to Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This development is significant because Trump has previously blamed the GSA for packing the boxes that contained the classified documents, only to later accuse Trump of essentially stealing them and using that as pretext for sending the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022.

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Even so, it still raises other legitimate questions. For example, if the GSA had been in possession of the boxes, why wasn't a review of the materials conducted before they instructed Trump's team to get them? When it comes to classified information, they wouldn't have expected Trump and his staff to be responsible for ensuring that classified documents weren't among the records. Perhaps they did review the contents of the boxes and knew classified documents were contained in them before they told Trump's people to come get them.

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Hat tip to nortex from the hush money thread.

There have always been two major pieces of the puzzle, the GSA and the longstanding White House Documents office. It was their jobs to keep track of documents, classified and otherwise. It was NARA;s job to secure warehouse space near Mar A Lago fo Trump's ability to peruse them, just like they have done for every other former President. And it is NARA that works with the GSA for obtaining the archive material and knowing where it is located.

Happy Unredaction Sunday!

Unsealed filings in classified docs include FBI affidavit to get search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago. (Left is most recent publicly available affidavit that I'm aware of)

This is how DOJ shifted investigation from classified docs to Espionage Act case: pic.twitter.com/ecOpt15Zjq

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 28, 2024

Why would this need to be redacted?

And keep in mind--as I flagged yesterday--two pallets of Trump's boxes were transported from GSA facility in VA to MAL in early August 2021.

This affidavit makes it sound like all the boxes originated from WH in Jan 2021. pic.twitter.com/Hh4xF1bFu9

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 28, 2024

FBI wanted the dimensions of Melania's bedroom: pic.twitter.com/MK9qYUv56g

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 28, 2024

Direct evidence Wray has cleaned nothing up as he loves to say under oath to Congress every single time he's on the hill. The FBI is a bunch of corrupt clowns and they always will be.

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Direct evidence Wray has cleaned nothing up as he loves to say under oath to Congress every single time he's on the hill. The FBI is a bunch of corrupt clowns and they always will be.

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And Jack Smith should know better than to manufacture grounds for probable cause for that search warrant and then try to redact that out and hide it.

I remember going back and forth with some posters about whether the probable cause affidavit had ever been released in full or if only a redacted version had.

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Biden's (his admin) complete lack of integrity or ethical bounds is appalling.

They continually make general claims that they can't even prove, but just count on the fact that judges won't allow them to be challenged at all. Thankfully, Nauta's attorneys are pushing back. This is a huge prosecutorial overreach that serves only to interfere with the election. No other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.

Jack Smith should be disbarred and run out of this country.

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Can you name another president that REFUSED to hand over classified documents when asked? Or tried to hide them, or collude with his assistants to do so? Maybe that's why no other president has ever been challenged over documents in this way before.....because it hasn't happened this way before. Or a president claiming that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, magically! Just a thought.

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Clinton and his hack wife when she stole a bunch of files from the FBI

Or how bout when Mrs. Clinton bleached bit her emails

Those come to mind right away