A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
New reporting from the New York Times reveals that some 300 documents marked classified have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago since Trump left the White House. 300! Let’s get into the key revelations, many of which point in the direction of possible obstruction of justice:
But, but, he just filed the motion to end all motions!!1!!!
The biggest, best, most perfect motion ever filed!1!!1111
You know how we know that? Because he apparently wrote it himself.
Because it’s two weeks too late, AND he reiterated his threat to Merrick Garland…IN HIS COURT MOTION.
New reporting from the New York Times reveals that some 300 documents marked classified have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago since Trump left the White House. 300!
Let’s dance!!!
Sure hope the last administration didn’t boost the penalties for mishandling classified materials…
Haha
Late, Lame And Laughable: Trump Sues Over MAL Raid
Two weeks after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Trump finally got around to actually challenging the feds in court. In a doozy of a lawsuit full of Trumpian rants, misstatements, and admissions, the former president throws a bunch of stuff against the wall, very little of which will stick.
WaiT. Carbon DIOxide is A pollutant? wHat wiLL the TREES breATHE?
How utterly on-brand for TFG to sue the DOJ.
Irony loses to self-parody once again.
Loving that the national news is all over TFG’s criminal activity.
The government made three efforts to retrieve the documents. Trump went through all of them while at Mar-A-Logo. The first batch of documents returned about 1/2 of the classified documents. The National Archives figured out they didn’t have all of them so the government sent a security expert to Mar-A-Lago who was able to wrest some more classified documents and was given a document signed by Christina Bobb saying that all the classified documents had been delivered. The government figured out there were still classified documents missing so after months they decided to conduct the raid. They found more classified documents.
I am sorry but I would have found my ass in jail if I had a single classified document in my possession illegally. Trump was handled with kid gloves. He and his lawyers chose to lie to the government repeatedly. The entire crew should be indicted starting with Donald J. Trump private citizens.
What’s the odds his written-in-crayon insurrection plan is one of those classified docs?
But here’s the best part, per Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American this morning:
This afternoon, Trump’s lawyers asked a federal judge to stop the FBI from looking at the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago until a special master reviews them. But the filing appeared to have been less about the law than about asserting power over the Republican Party. While legal analyst Bradley Moss called it “just garbage” legally, it stated its political principle at the start: “President Donald J. Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run.”
The delusion is strong with this one.
Lock him up. arrest everyone who touched those boxes without appropriate clearance.
I just obtained a copy of the current redacted version from my secret source:
Whereas---------------------------------------------So Ordered.
Trump’s philosophy: What’s mine is mine and what’s your’s in mine too.
This morning’s attitude:
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This was always going to end in the stupidest and most dangerous way possible:
“Mr. Trump went through the boxes himself in late 2021, according to multiple people briefed on his efforts, before turning them over.”
“It revealed people moving boxes in and out, and in some cases, appearing to change the containers some documents were held in.”
And there will be plenty more where that came from.
Since he probably wrote the motion himself I’m surprised it didn’t include a plea for money.
Oxygen, Eustace…just like you and me.
