Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "FBI search of Mar-a-Lago" in English language version.
The night before pleading not guilty to federal charges ... Joining them around the table was a large group that included Trump's political advisers, his lawyer Christopher Kise, Nauta's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, and right-wing media figure Tom Fitton.
As the Department of Justice's National Security Division explained to you on April 29, 2022: '... According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages.'
Former President Trump's representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives. As required by the Presidential Records Act (PRA), these records should have been transferred to NARA from the White House at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021.
Wall specifically cited official business that was conducted 'using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded [appropriately]' as an area of particular concern ... Wall said the Archives will consult with the DOJ on whether to 'initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed' – as in the case of the DOJ's lawsuit against former White House adviser Peter Navarro in August.
The 31 charges Trump faces for retaining documents all concern documents seized in the FBI's search or those handed over by Corcoran in response to the May 23 subpoena. Trump is not charged with retaining any of the documents he voluntarily handed over to NARA earlier in 2022.
Numerous Republican officials quickly issued statements criticizing the raid and supporting Trump ... Some, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested the Department of Justice during President Joe Biden's administration had been weaponized against its political opponents. Even former vice president Mike Pence, whom Trump has considered an enemy ever since Pence refused to reject key electoral votes confirming Biden's win in the 2020 election, said he felt "deep concern" about the "unprecedented" move. The letters sent Friday morning cited numerous threatening posts from Truth Social that "coincided" with the rhetoric from GOP leaders.
Attorney 1, who is not named in the indictment, tracks with the role Evan Corcoran played in searching for Mar-a-Lago for documents responsive to the May 2022 subpoena.
None of the statutes listed in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant requires that the materials at issue be classified, although the classified status of such documents may be relevant to a court's determination under the Espionage Act as to whether the documents contain information that is closely held by the government and thus meet the definition of national defense information.
GRAND JUROR: So you're instructed to take some of these boxes up to Pine Hall, yes? WITNESS: Correct. GRAND JUROR: But you're not instructed to take any particular boxes? WITNESS: Correct. GRAND JUROR: You just pick some off of the top? WITNESS: Yes. GRAND JUROR: So you don't know what the contents of the boxes you're taking -- WITNESS: I do not.
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While probable cause is a lower legal standard than beyond a reasonable doubt or preponderance of evidence, experts said it's likely the federal case is airtight given the gravity of raiding the residence of a former president.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Only Trump's staunch ally and former Pentagon official Kash Patel has publicly backed Trump's claim that he had issued a 'standing order' to declassify anything removed from the White House.
Copies of both the warrant and the FBI property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former President's counsel, who was on site during the search.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, FBI agents with security clearances worked in "taint" teams as they examined the documents stored in his office, and other areas of Mar-a-Lago to ensure that they did not collect any "privileged" correspondence between Trump and his attorneys. If they were to cross that line, that could risk compromising some of the evidence uncovered and seized in the Justice Department's investigation.
NBC News and other news organizations obtained the documents shortly before a federal judge was expected to authorize their public release.
'Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,' Patel said then [in May 2022].
For the record, the White House has said President Biden learned of the search from media reports and, as of late Tuesday afternoon, had not been briefed on the investigation by the Justice Department. No credible reporting has surfaced to contradict those claims.
Mr. Philbin was interviewed in the spring ... It was unclear when Mr. Cipollone was interviewed. Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin were Mr. Trump's representatives to deal with the National Archives; they were named to the positions shortly before the president's term ended, in January 2021. At some point after National Archives officials realized they did not have Trump White House documents, which are required to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act, they contacted Mr. Philbin for help returning them.
Each of the 31 counts is based on a different sensitive document...
The closest thing to a legal quarterback in Mr. Trump's orbit is Boris Epshteyn, a onetime lawyer at the firm Milbank who was a political adviser to Mr. Trump in 2016, ultimately becoming a senior staff member on his inaugural effort and then a strategic adviser on the 2020 campaign. Mr. Epshteyn has championed Mr. Trump's claims, dismissed by dozens of courts, that the election was stolen from him, and has risen to a role he has described to colleagues as an 'in-house counsel,' helping to assemble Mr. Trump's current legal team.
Former President Donald J. Trump misrepresented a standard Justice Department policy to claim the F.B.I. was ready to kill him when searching his home in 2022.
Despite that threat, one day later, when the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News published the warrant underlying the Mar-a-Lago search, it did not redact the names of the F.B.I. agents on the document. Almost immediately afterward, posts on a pro-Trump chat board referred to them as 'traitors'.
But legal experts assert there would have been a very high standard of probable cause to execute such a politically charged operation.
Trump has been a multi-faceted national security threat since he arrived on the national stage.
On January 17...TRUMP provided only 15 boxes, which contained 197 documents with classification markings. On June 3...TRUMP's attorney provided to the FBI 38 more documents with classification markings. On August 8...the FBI recovered...102 more documents with classification markings.
Trump time and again rejected the advice from lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and instead took the advice of Tom Fitton, the head of the conservative group Judicial Watch, and a range of others who told him he could legally keep the documents and should fight the Justice Department, advisers said. Trump would often cite Fitton to others, and Fitton told some of Trump's lawyers that Trump could keep the documents, even as they disagreed, the advisers said.
The night before pleading not guilty to federal charges ... Joining them around the table was a large group that included Trump's political advisers, his lawyer Christopher Kise, Nauta's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, and right-wing media figure Tom Fitton.
In the classified documents case, federal investigators have gathered new and significant evidence that after the subpoena was delivered, Trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession, the people familiar with the investigation said.
A former president falsely accusing his successor and rival of posing a threat to his life is without precedent in modern U.S. history.
On January 17...TRUMP provided only 15 boxes, which contained 197 documents with classification markings. On June 3...TRUMP's attorney provided to the FBI 38 more documents with classification markings. On August 8...the FBI recovered...102 more documents with classification markings.
None of the statutes listed in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant requires that the materials at issue be classified, although the classified status of such documents may be relevant to a court's determination under the Espionage Act as to whether the documents contain information that is closely held by the government and thus meet the definition of national defense information.
As the Department of Justice's National Security Division explained to you on April 29, 2022: '... According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages.'
Former President Trump's representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives. As required by the Presidential Records Act (PRA), these records should have been transferred to NARA from the White House at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021.
Trump time and again rejected the advice from lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and instead took the advice of Tom Fitton, the head of the conservative group Judicial Watch, and a range of others who told him he could legally keep the documents and should fight the Justice Department, advisers said. Trump would often cite Fitton to others, and Fitton told some of Trump's lawyers that Trump could keep the documents, even as they disagreed, the advisers said.
Mr. Philbin was interviewed in the spring ... It was unclear when Mr. Cipollone was interviewed. Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin were Mr. Trump's representatives to deal with the National Archives; they were named to the positions shortly before the president's term ended, in January 2021. At some point after National Archives officials realized they did not have Trump White House documents, which are required to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act, they contacted Mr. Philbin for help returning them.
In the classified documents case, federal investigators have gathered new and significant evidence that after the subpoena was delivered, Trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession, the people familiar with the investigation said.
Attorney 1, who is not named in the indictment, tracks with the role Evan Corcoran played in searching for Mar-a-Lago for documents responsive to the May 2022 subpoena.
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But legal experts assert there would have been a very high standard of probable cause to execute such a politically charged operation.
While probable cause is a lower legal standard than beyond a reasonable doubt or preponderance of evidence, experts said it's likely the federal case is airtight given the gravity of raiding the residence of a former president.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, FBI agents with security clearances worked in "taint" teams as they examined the documents stored in his office, and other areas of Mar-a-Lago to ensure that they did not collect any "privileged" correspondence between Trump and his attorneys. If they were to cross that line, that could risk compromising some of the evidence uncovered and seized in the Justice Department's investigation.
Copies of both the warrant and the FBI property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former President's counsel, who was on site during the search.
NBC News and other news organizations obtained the documents shortly before a federal judge was expected to authorize their public release.
Each of the 31 counts is based on a different sensitive document...
For the record, the White House has said President Biden learned of the search from media reports and, as of late Tuesday afternoon, had not been briefed on the investigation by the Justice Department. No credible reporting has surfaced to contradict those claims.
Wall specifically cited official business that was conducted 'using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded [appropriately]' as an area of particular concern ... Wall said the Archives will consult with the DOJ on whether to 'initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed' – as in the case of the DOJ's lawsuit against former White House adviser Peter Navarro in August.
The closest thing to a legal quarterback in Mr. Trump's orbit is Boris Epshteyn, a onetime lawyer at the firm Milbank who was a political adviser to Mr. Trump in 2016, ultimately becoming a senior staff member on his inaugural effort and then a strategic adviser on the 2020 campaign. Mr. Epshteyn has championed Mr. Trump's claims, dismissed by dozens of courts, that the election was stolen from him, and has risen to a role he has described to colleagues as an 'in-house counsel,' helping to assemble Mr. Trump's current legal team.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Former President Donald J. Trump misrepresented a standard Justice Department policy to claim the F.B.I. was ready to kill him when searching his home in 2022.
A former president falsely accusing his successor and rival of posing a threat to his life is without precedent in modern U.S. history.
'Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,' Patel said then [in May 2022].
Only Trump's staunch ally and former Pentagon official Kash Patel has publicly backed Trump's claim that he had issued a 'standing order' to declassify anything removed from the White House.
Numerous Republican officials quickly issued statements criticizing the raid and supporting Trump ... Some, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested the Department of Justice during President Joe Biden's administration had been weaponized against its political opponents. Even former vice president Mike Pence, whom Trump has considered an enemy ever since Pence refused to reject key electoral votes confirming Biden's win in the 2020 election, said he felt "deep concern" about the "unprecedented" move. The letters sent Friday morning cited numerous threatening posts from Truth Social that "coincided" with the rhetoric from GOP leaders.
On January 17...TRUMP provided only 15 boxes, which contained 197 documents with classification markings. On June 3...TRUMP's attorney provided to the FBI 38 more documents with classification markings. On August 8...the FBI recovered...102 more documents with classification markings.
Trump time and again rejected the advice from lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and instead took the advice of Tom Fitton, the head of the conservative group Judicial Watch, and a range of others who told him he could legally keep the documents and should fight the Justice Department, advisers said. Trump would often cite Fitton to others, and Fitton told some of Trump's lawyers that Trump could keep the documents, even as they disagreed, the advisers said.
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Each of the 31 counts is based on a different sensitive document...
Former President Donald J. Trump misrepresented a standard Justice Department policy to claim the F.B.I. was ready to kill him when searching his home in 2022.
A former president falsely accusing his successor and rival of posing a threat to his life is without precedent in modern U.S. history.