FBI raid on Trump's home

[Parkbandit]

Dumbest request ever.

I would say it was the dumbest post ever.. but let's be honest: You currently have 6271 dumb posts.. it's difficult to say which one is THE dumbest.

[~Rocktar~]

I would say it was the dumbest post ever.. but let's be honest: You currently have 6271 dumb posts.. it's difficult to say which one is THE dumbest.

Yeah, every time you claim "this is the dumbest" Seran takes it as a "Hold my soy latte" moment.

[Parkbandit]

Yeah, every time you claim "this is the dumbest" Seran takes it as a "Hold my soy latte" moment.

One thing is factual: Seran doesn't have a single post that anyone would consider dumb on this day as of 11:48am.

[~Rocktar~]

One thing is factual: Seran doesn't have a single post that anyone would consider dumb on this day as of 11:48am.

The day is young yet.

[Seran]

Additional indictments for Trump, stone cold evidence of attempting to obstruct or destroy evidence, not a good month for the orange man.

Mar-a-Lago worker De Oliveira makes his first court appearance in Trump’s classified documents case

MIAMI (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance on Monday on charges in the classified documents case against the former president but did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent him.

Carlos De Oliveira is accused of scheming with Trump to try to delete security footage sought by investigators probing the former president’s hoarding of classified documents at his Palm Beach club. De Oliveira was added last week to the indictment with Trump and the ex-president’s valet, Walt Nauta, and faces charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to investigators.

De Oliveira, wearing a blue suit and tie, answered questions from a magistrate judge during a brief hearing in Miami federal court. He was ordered to turn over his passport and sign an agreement to pay $100,000 if he doesn’t return to court. He was represented by Washington, D.C.-based attorney John Irving, but under court rules he needs local counsel to proceed with his arraignment, which was scheduled for Aug. 10 in Fort Pierce.

https://apnews.com/article/carlos-de...b46279b150bdf9

[Methais]

One thing is factual: Seran doesn't have a single post that anyone would consider dumb on this day as of 11:48am.

Additional indictments for Trump, stone cold evidence of attempting to obstruct or destroy evidence, not a good month for the orange man.

Seran was trying to prove you wrong, but he probably doesn't understand how to tell time so he missed it by a minute.

[ClydeR]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch..

The Justice Department (DOJ) is teeing up the possible disqualification of the attorney representing Walt Nauta, one of former President Trump’s alleged co-conspirators in the Mar-a-Lago case, warning the lawyer may have conflicts of interest after representing numerous witnesses in the probe.

Stanley Woodward has represented “at least seven other individuals who have been questioned in connection with the investigation,” including those who have testified about Nauta, the DOJ disclosed Wednesday.

The DOJ is requesting a so-called Garcia hearing with Woodward’s clients “to inform them of potential risks and inquire into possible waivers,” noting that the court could provide an additional independent counsel to Nauta to assess whether he is being fairly represented by Woodward.

“Nauta should be thoroughly advised of the potential conflicts and attendant risks. Witness 1 and Witness 2 should also be present at the hearing and apprised of the risk that Mr. Woodward may use or disclose confidences he obtained from them,” the DOJ writes, referencing others that have testified about Nauta.

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When and if this case goes to trial, how will Nauta's attorney be able to question witnesses against Nauta, when Nauta's attorney previously represented those witnesses and knows confidential information that they told him?

[Seran]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch..




When and if this case goes to trial, how will Nauta's attorney be able to question witnesses against Nauta, when Nauta's attorney previously represented those witnesses and knows confidential information that they told him?

He can't. You're unable to represent opposing parties, having represented witnesses testifying against the accused is disqualifying.

[ClydeR]

ABC News has also reviewed an early draft of the prologue to Meadows' book, "The Chief's Chief," about his time serving as Trump's chief of staff for the final months of the Trump White House, which includes a description of Trump having a classified war plan "on the couch" at his office in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a meeting attended by Meadows' ghostwriter and publicist, but not by Meadows himself. The reference to that document being in Trump's possession was removed before the book was published.

Multiple sources tell ABC News Meadows acknowledged to investigators that he asked that the paragraph be changed, and that it would be "problematic" had Trump had such a document in his possession. Sources tell ABC News that Meadows told special counsel investigators that he did not discuss making those edits with Trump.

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What if?

What would have happened if Meadows had not deleted the problematic passage from his book? It's fun to speculate. I think what would have happened is that there would have been a lot of criticism directed against Trump when the book was released in 2021 about his mishandling off classified information, perhaps so much criticism that Trump would have quietly turned over the documents requested by the National Archive, instead of trying to trick them. If Meadows had not held back in his 2021 book, Trump might never have committed the cover up that caused the most serious of the four criminal cases against him. And Meadows would have sold more books! Meadows' attempt to protect Trump backfired.

[ClydeR]

It appears Trump was right to put trust in Nauta and De Oliveira, who, assuming their Trump-paid lawyers have fully explained the situation to them, are both willing to go to jail for Trump, but not in the "PAC Representative," who appears to be cooperating with prosecutors.

Did you hear about this? Any criminal defendant in this case should be wary of an attorney who is being paid for by another defendant.

A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

The aide — described as “Trump Employee 4” in public court filings but identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras — held the title of director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago. He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony” and detailed the alleged effort to tamper with evidence related to the investigation of the handling of classified information stored at Trump’s Florida home, the new submission said.

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