From 2020 to today, there has been intimidation, and the latest mention of it is in a Palmer report as to Trump allegedly trying intimidation on DOJ.
I do not know how many of you remember the great Mailbox confiscation caper by DeJoy, on Trumps orders to disrupt mail delivered ballots. But it was terrifying when it happened and here is the thing. Palmer report mentioned coded shakedown language uttered by Trump as to a reference as to "turning down the heat", almost as to have a 1-1 linkage with the bedlam being created by false GOP attacks. This is intimidation and worse,. It is when Trump is facing about 20 years in prison for felonies associated with Mar A Lago,
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Dan Abrams told ABC host Jonathan Karl that the Department of Justice could indict Trump for multiple crimes after finding classified documents during the search.
"They're very serious," Abrams said of the charges. "And the one that's being talked about most is this espionage act because it has the word espionage in it. But the truth is that when it comes to potential criminal sentences, the obstruction of justice statute is the one with the most potential prison time."
"There you're talking about up to 20 years behind bars," he added. "So these are not sort of minor crimes we're talking about here. We're talking about the potential for serious felonies with regard to all three of the crimes being investigated."
Now here is the shake down language
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Shortly before Mr. Garland made the announcement, a person close to Mr. Trump reached out to a Justice Department official to pass along a message from the former president to the attorney general. Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Garland to know he had been checking in with people around the country and found them to be enraged by the search.
“The country is on fire,” Mr. Trump said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. “What can I do to reduce the heat?”
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And blackmail from the Russian Federation. Sweet
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Russia-1 reported on the raid in a segment?shared to Twitter ?late Friday evening by Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the Russian Media Monitor. During the segment, state-run television host Evgeny Popov mentioned the reporting about nuclear weapons.
Turns out that the investigation against Trump has to do with the disappearance of secret documents from the White House, related to the development of nuclear weapons by the U.S.," Popov said. "The FBI isn't saying what kinds of weapons, or what they found in Trump's estate. Obviously, if there were any important documents, they've been studying them in Moscow for a while."
"What's the point of searching?" Popov then asked, suggesting that protecting the classified information was already a useless endeavor.
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Grand slam next
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"The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room," Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush?reported . "That activity prompted concern among investigators about the handling of the material. It is not clear when precisely the footage was from during the lengthy back-and-forth between Justice Department officials and Mr. Trump’s advisers, or whether the subpoena to Mr. Trump seeking additional documents had already been issued.
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MAFIA level extortion pure and simple
Start with the honor roll, NOW
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August 14, 2022
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Fomer US President Donald Trump attends a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Former US president Donald Trump described Germany as a "hostage of Russia" in comments to "Fox Business" on Tuesday. Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
A legal analyst for ABC News pointed out that former President Donald Trump is potentially facing 20 years in prison for "serious felonies" after the search of his Mar-a-Lago home.
Dan Abrams told ABC host Jonathan Karl that the Department of Justice could indict Trump for multiple crimes after finding classified documents during the search.
"They're very serious," Abrams said of the charges. "And the one that's being talked about most is this espionage act because it has the word espionage in it. But the truth is that when it comes to potential criminal sentences, the obstruction of justice statute is the one with the most potential prison time."
"There you're talking about up to 20 years behind bars," he added. "So these are not sort of minor crimes we're talking about here. We're talking about the potential for serious felonies with regard to all three of the crimes being investigated."
But Abrams threw cold water on the idea that a Trump prosecution would be easy.
"The fundamental question is going to be intentionality," he opined. "How much do they believe that they did this on purpose? Were they intentionally ignoring subpoenas? Were they literally destroying documents?"
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Whereas here is the shakedown language
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Shortly before Mr. Garland made the announcement, a person close to Mr. Trump reached out to a Justice Department official to pass along a message from the former president to the attorney general. Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Garland to know he had been checking in with people around the country and found them to be enraged by the search.
“The country is on fire,” Mr. Trump said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. “What can I do to reduce the heat?”
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Extortion. Pure and simple
And there is more
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"The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room," Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush?reported . "That activity prompted concern among investigators about the handling of the material. It is not clear when precisely the footage was from during the lengthy back-and-forth between Justice Department officials and Mr. Trump’s advisers, or whether the subpoena to Mr. Trump seeking additional documents had already been issued.
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And again there is STILL more
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Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti noted the story and?tweeted , "It sounds like DOJ has reason to be concerned that it *still* may not have recovered all of the classified material taken by Trump."
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What does Donald Trump think he’s getting at with this?
Bill Palmer ?|?9:09 am EDT August 14, 2022
When the news surfaced on Saturday that one of Donald Trump’s attorneys signed a letter in June asserting that there were no classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, it helped explain why the search warrant listed this as an obstruction investigation in addition to an espionage investigation. Such a false claim is clearly obstruction of justice. But there’s more to it.
The same New York Times article that broke the June letter news also included a passage so?bizarre , all we can do is quote it:
Shortly before Mr. Garland made the announcement, a person close to Mr. Trump reached out to a Justice Department official to pass along a message from the former president to the attorney general. Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Garland to know he had been checking in with people around the country and found them to be enraged by the search.
“The country is on fire,” Mr. Trump said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. “What can I do to reduce the heat?”
Wait,?what? Based on his consistent track record of stoking violence, we know that Trump wouldn’t have had any legitimate interest in helping to prevent violence. Instead, this has to be interpreted as Trump making the implied threat of stoking violence and seeking favors in exchange for not stoking violence, in true mafia style fashion.
It’s not clear who the “person close” to Trump is, though it’s apparently someone who has a communication channel with the DOJ, suggesting it could be a Trump ally in the House or Senate. Nor is it clear who gave this tidbit to the New York Times or why. But given that the rest of the article serves to implicate Trump and his legal team, it’s possible the DOJ is the source of the article – and it added the “country is on fire” exchange in order to help justify why it had to carry out a search warrant to get the documents back from Trump.
In any case, it’s not difficult to guess that the DOJ would have seen such an exchange as an attempt at obstruction. When the Feds carry out a warrant against you signed by a judge, and you respond by making implied threats of violence, the Feds are certainly going to see that as obstruction – even if you use coded language. It also raises questions about the legal exposure of whatever intermediary delivered such a message. The inclusion of obstruction on the search warrant makes clear that the DOJ isn’t messing around with this kind of thing.
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There were moments of concealment of evidence here :
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August 13, 2022
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Donald Trump / Gage Skidmore.
Donald Trump's legal predicament may have worsened, legal experts said, after a?bombshell report ?published Saturday evening by?The New York Times.
"The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room," Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush?reported . "That activity prompted concern among investigators about the handling of the material. It is not clear when precisely the footage was from during the lengthy back-and-forth between Justice Department officials and Mr. Trump’s advisers, or whether the subpoena to Mr. Trump seeking additional documents had already been issued.
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti noted the story and?tweeted , "It sounds like DOJ has reason to be concerned that it *still* may not have recovered all of the classified material taken by Trump."
Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks?said , "obviously that raises many questions since it was false. If true, FBI couldn't have left with 21 more boxes in August."
Law Prof. Rick Hasen?wrote , "Do any of us doubt that someone besides Trump or someone in Trump's orbit who lied about possessing such documents and didn't give them back would already be held in custody pending further proceedings?"
Attorney Pam Keith?said ?Attorney General Merrick Garland "still hasn’t detained or even questioned Trump. People are acting like that’s normal or justifiable. Given what we know, It’s INSANE!!"
"So what’s the excuse today for Trump not being arrested?" Keith?asked . "I stand by my conclusion that Garland is too scared."
Bestselling author Don Winslow wanted Trump indicted long ago.
"What happened when Donald Trump was not indicted for 50 years? He became President of the United States and committed four more years of crimes," Winslow?wrote . "When does it stop?"
Bill Kristol, who served as Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff?said , "Whoa. Let me amplify. WHOA."
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And now the Russian claim
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Moscow Already 'Studying' Top-Secret Records From Trump Raid: Russian Media
BY?JASON LEMON? ON 8/13/22 AT 1:06 PM EDT
Hosts on Russia's state-owned Russia-1 television channel said that officials in Moscow have already been "studying" top secret and other?classified documents ?the?FBI ?sought through a search warrant of former President?Donald Trump 's Mar-a-Lago resort home.
The FBI, with the approval of Attorney General?Merrick Garland ,?carried out a raid ?of Trump's Florida residence looking for top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents, on Monday.?The Washington Post?reported on Thursday that records related to nuclear weapons were sought by the federal agents, but Trump described that reporting as a "hoax."
Russia-1 reported on the raid in a segment?shared to Twitter ?late Friday evening by Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the Russian Media Monitor. During the segment, state-run television host Evgeny Popov mentioned the reporting about nuclear weapons.
Turns out that the investigation against Trump has to do with the disappearance of secret documents from the White House, related to the development of nuclear weapons by the U.S.," Popov said. "The FBI isn't saying what kinds of weapons, or what they found in Trump's estate. Obviously, if there were any important documents, they've been studying them in Moscow for a while."
"What's the point of searching?" Popov then asked, suggesting that protecting the classified information was already a useless endeavor.
Newsweek?reached out to Trump's press office for comment.
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD