Special Counsel Jack Smith brought charges against an additional Mar-a-Lago employee on Thursday, bringing the number of those charged in Trump’s alleged attempt to retain national security records to three.
EDIT…
I got ahead of myself here. My response comes from thinking about the coming January 6 indictments.
IMHO the MAL stuff will rack up legal bills but the case itself is irrelevant in the face of what comes with a January 6th indictment.
Forget Judge Cannon and the MAL case…this is the real deal.
BONUS… as I understand D.C. has laws that will serve to mute tfg should when he continues to make his pissy little threats.
A January 6 indictment and the repercussions are gonna be really interesting.
#buthunter…
Oh! We got a consolation prize!
But he first came onto the radar of those following the probe for reportedly using the pool to flood a room which held servers that had footage for security cameras at Mar-a-Lago.
Water damage to a server wouldn’t destroy the security camera footage, would it?
That Jack Smith is a real comedian. Look … here in D.C. No, here in Florida. Haha, fooled ya.
Dang! I was hoping that Judge Cannon was the new defendant.
For the first time in a long time, I’m feeling today like Trump (assuming he isn’t able to squeak into the Oval and pardon himself) will be held accountable for SOMETHING. Sure, the FL jury will be biased in his favor, but I can’t see them declaring him Not Guilty on every single one of these charges. At least one of these is going to stick.
Well, Judge Cannon will clearly need LOTS of time to review the changes and give Trump’s team more time to respond, sooooooooooooooooo, let’s postpone the trial until after the election.
If the footage is stored digitally on the server, then yes.
Nope.
This is far more promising than Mar a Lardo.
Oh you know that inexperienced judge wants to delay it until 2070 at least!
Did they use the Deep End of the pool to destroy the servers?
Sounds like something the Deep State would do.
But would not decent IT have remote backups?
Oh, never mind. I used the word decent.
I wonder if any of the footage would be in the cloud, but I assume Jack would have determined that fairly early. I would be surprised if it weren’t, since it would be a standard practice to protect the data against accidental mishaps.
Wellllllllllllllll, it’s possible to fry some components (the motherboard, for example) which may or may not also fry the storage media. If these were older servers using magnetic media, it would likely be possible to recover the footage. And even with digital storage, the “drives” might survive.
Next up: someone spilled Diet Coke™ on the backup tapes.
There seems to be a lot of testimony from people who were told to do pretty incriminating things. Are they going to accept jail time/felony convictions in order to cover for their superiors? And once the flipping starts, will it reach Nauta and de Oliveira?
Interesting times.
In my experience, security camera servers usually do NOT have backups, they just rollover after a certain amount of time.
SLAs don’t always specify doing a good job …
I’ll bet you 785 cents that any SLA Honest Don has on his security system at the resort at which he is not supposed to be living full time is solely focused on people stealing things from him and is fully exempt from providing evidence of any crimes he might commit. Seriously…$7.85 is yours if you can prove otherwise!