30 Aug, 2022 11:26

French officials using AI to tax private pools

Authorities took in an additional $10mn in tax revenue amid severe drought across the country

Tax officials in France are using a new AI program to find thousands of undeclared private swimming pools and have reportedly generated $10 million in additional tax revenue thanks to the technology.

France’s Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) told AFP on Monday that during a year-long beta phase AI uncovered 20,356 previously-undeclared swimming pools in nine French departments. The program will now be extended across the country, and officials hope the system will be able to identify other withheld property improvements.

Under French tax laws, any modifications to a property, such as the inclusion of a swimming pool, must be declared. Property taxes in France are based on rental value, meaning that any improvements carry with them an increase in taxes. Local media estimated that a typical 30-square-meter pool would mean an extra $200 in taxes a year.

Developed by Google and Capgemini, the so-called 'Innovative Land' system cross-checks aerial images with land registry databases. As the system is expected to be rolled out across the entire country, tax officials hope it will learn to also recognize undeclared annexes, extensions, outbuildings, large garden sheds and verandas and bring French municipalities an additional $40 million in 2023.

The software still has a 30% margin of error, sometimes mistaking solar panels, tents and other rectangular shapes for swimming pools, meaning tax officials must double check the program's findings. It is reported that there are some 3.2 million private swimming pools in the country.

Meanwhile, environmentalists have been calling for a complete ban on private swimming pools amid the summer heatwave that had caused severe drought in many parts of France. Authorities have introduced varying degrees of drought warnings throughout the country’s municipalities, with at least 66 receiving the highest, 'crisis' level, restricting water use for health, civil security, drinking and sanitation uses.

The 'crisis' level also means it is prohibited to water gardens, golf courses, private crops, to fill pools, wash cars or operate water parks. The measure can also extend to limiting water usage to people, livestock and aquatic species.

https://www.rt.com/news/561798-france-tax-ai-pools/

Next the are developing AI to find out if people are laughing too much or if their life is too happy!

JPMorgan's Frankfurt Offices Raided As Part Of Cum-Ex Tax Fraud Probe

BY TYLER DURDEN

WEDNESDAY, AUG 31, 2022 - 08:50

German lawmakers have called it the "greatest tax heist" in history: the loophole in the tax law of Germany, Denmark, and the UK to pocket hundreds of millions of euros, if not billions, via a trading strategy known as "Cum-Ex" - or "With-Without."

In the past, we have noted Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Plc, and Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch's Frankfurt offices were raided as part of a money laundering probe.

This week, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Frankfurt office was raided as part of a widening Cum-Ex scandal centered on cross-border tax fraud.

"A spokesman for Cologne prosecutors on Wednesday said searches at an unidentified bank started on Tuesday and included the homes of four suspects and an auditing firm that isn't a target in the probe. More than 50 officers are involved, including specialists, to unearth evidence buried in emails," Bloomberg reported Wednesday morning.

JPMorgan confirmed to Reuters that their "Frankfurt offices were visited this week" by "German authorities on their ongoing investigation" in the share-trading scheme that cost taxpayers billions of euros.

Cum-Ex reportedly diverted "at least 10 billion euros" in government revenue by exploiting German tax laws that allowed multiple investors to claim refunds of a tax on dividends that were paid only once, Bloomberg reported.

For those who aren't familiar with Cum-Ex, here's a quick rundown showing how it works, courtesy of the Conversation:

Party One, typically an asset manager who owns valuable company shares, "lends" its stock to Party Two, a bank. Under the agreement, the title and ownership of the stock is temporarily transferred to the borrower in return for a fee. Such practices are not only legal but a common part of "short selling," the practice featured in the 2015 film The Big Short. Essentially, it is where an investor borrows a stock (for a fee), sells it, then buys it back later at a lower price to return it to the original – on the expectation the stock's value will fall and a profit made.

Party Two then sells the shares with-dividend to Party Three fractionally before the Record Date. However, the shares are delivered without-dividend just after.

Timing, speed and complexity are key. Like a magic trick, the shares "disappear" fractionally before the Record Date and "reappear" with a new owner just after. The aim is to obscure exactly who – Party One, Two or Three – owns the stock on the Record Date. As a result, two parties can simultaneously claim ownership of the one stock.

Up until 2011, a loophole in the German tax code allowed both Party One (the owner of the original stock who had received the dividend and paid tax on it) and Party Three (the holder of the stock just after the Record Date) to claim a tax reimbursement. All colluding parties would then split the gains.

The practice was abolished in 2012, but prosecutors in Cologne are probing about 1,500 people and increasing pressure on international banks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpmorgans-frankfurt-offices-raided-part-cum-ex-tax-fraud-probe

Watch: Border Patrol Head Testifies That Biden "No Consequences" Policy Has Caused Border Crisis

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Raul Ortiz, The Head of The U.S. Border Patrol has testified under oath that he believes the Biden administration’s policy of “no consequences” for illegal immigrants trying to enter the country has made the border less safe, caused an exponential increase in people attempting to cross, and has directly caused what he believes constitutes a “crisis”.

The footage of Ortiz’s comments was obtained by Fox News and comes from a deposition from last month relating to a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody.

The suit alleges that Biden’s ending of Trump administration policies, such as the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy where migrants were not allowed into the U.S. until fully background checked, has led to a mass migration emergency in the last year and a half.

“In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,” Ortiz said during the deposition, adding “There is an assumption that if migrant populations are told that there is a potential that they may be released, that, yes, you can see increases.”

“So, it will increase at an exponential rate. Is that what is being suggested here?” the attorney further probed.

“Well, I do think it will increase, yeah,” responded Ortiz.

The attorney also pointed to a spring 2021 memo that disclosed Biden’s immigration policies, asking Ortiz “Since President Biden was elected, does this document indicate that aliens illegally entering the United States perceive that they will be able to enter and remain in the United States?”

“Yes,” Ortiz replied.

Watch:

Ortiz further described the southern border as being in “crisis” and replied in the affirmative when asked if the border is “less safe for Americans and aliens alike.”

Ortiz also agreed with a statement by the plaintiff attorney that “unprecedented numbers” of migrants have illegally entered the U.S. this year.

According to data from Customs and Border Protection, more than two million people have attempted to cross the border in the 2022 fiscal year so far.

That figure equates to a 22 year high.

The Biden administration has also repeatedly attempted to lift Title 42, which is aimed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases in the country by turning back those trying to enter from a country where that disease is rife.

Critics have pointed out that while vast numbers of undocumented and unvaccinated migrants are being bussed from the border to American cities, the administration has barred non vaccinated visitors, including high profile figures such as tennis star Novak Djokovic.

Responding to Ortiz’s deposition, AG Moody stated “The Biden administration caused the surge, made the border less safe and is flagrantly violating the very federal laws they swore to uphold. The Biden administration is putting hard-working border patrol agents in impossible and untenable positions — risking their lives and safety, and I want to thank Chief Ortiz for testifying truthfully at his deposition.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-border-patrol-head-testifies-biden-no-consequences-policy-has-caused-border-crisis

Netherlands' Admin Capital Is First City To Seek "Temporary Exemption" From EU Sanctions Against Russia

Remember when Europe showed Putin who's boss when it demonstrated virtue-shattering solidarity with Ukraine by committing economic suicide and imposing sanctions on most Russian energy exports?

Well, a little over six months later, Europe is facing a historic economic and social catastrophe thanks to energy hyperinflation which has been unleashed just as the ECB is set to hike rates into a frigid winter recession. Worse, not only have western sanctions have been an unmitigated disaster, the pain has been compounded by the fact that Russia is enjoying a new Golden Age for its oil exports (as the WSJ describes in "Russia Confounds the West by Recapturing Its Oil Riches").

So having realized just how meaningless and futile the sanctions were, Europe's "virtue-shattering solidarity" is starting to shatter, and one by one, participants in the unbreakable alliance are quietly hoping to sail away from the European Titanic before it loses all power.

Take the Dutch city of The Hague - the country's administrative and royal capital - which last Thursday said it would ask for a "temporary" exemption of EU sanctions against Russia, as it struggles to find a replacement for its contract with Russian gas supplier Gazprom in time, according to Reuters.

The Hague, which lost its existing access to Russian gas after the Ukraine invasion, has to find a new supplier of gas to replace its existing agreement with Gazprom. The city said it held an EU-wide tender in June and July, but failed to attract any bids from potential suppliers.Spoiler alert: it will find suppliers… it will just have to pay a lot more, something which apparently nobody in Europe realized back in Februarywhen everyone threw themselves off the sanctions cliff.

Individual talks with suppliers were certain to lead to an agreement, alderman Saskia Bruines wrote in a letter to the city council, but not before the Oct. 10 deadline.

"We will ask for an exemption for our current arrangement until Jan. 1 2023 to guarantee the safety of supply and to facilitate negotiations," she said, adding that she was confident the delay would be granted, as The Hague had fulfilled the condition of holding a timely tender without a positive result.

However, she added that any new contract set to enter into effect on Jan. 1 would be significantly costlier than the city's current arrangement with Gazprom. In other words, despite going back to square one, the Dutch metropolis will now have to spend order of magnitude more.

The Hague is one of many Dutch municipalities that have an energy contract with Gazprom, but is the first to indicate it will ask for an exemption to the sanctions. If granted what it seeks, expect every single other European municipality to follow suit.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/netherlands-admin-capital-first-city-seek-temporary-exemption-eu-sanctions-against-russia

Dominoes will crumble from here!

Swiss Politicians Petition For Country To Keep Nuclear Power

Switzerland is the latest country to get on board the "nuclear power before country-wide blackouts" trend, following in the recent footsteps of countries like Germany. In fact, a group of Swiss politicians has launched a petition with the intent of revising the country's energy policy to keep nuclear as part of the mix, as a way to guarantee having enough power going forward.

The country had planned to close its 5 nuclear reactors after a decision was made post-Fukushima in 2017. it has already shut down one reactor.

Now, politicians are trying to gather the 100,000 signatures necessary for a referendum to change the country's constitution and prevent nuclear from being shut out. Outcomes can take years to be put into effect after signatures are gathered, Reuters wrote this week.

The politician group, called "Stop Blackouts" said this week: "Until recently, Switzerland had safe and virtually CO₂-free electricity production: the environmentally andclimate-friendly combination of hydro and nuclear power is to be abandoned for no reason at all."

President of the committee Vanessa Meury said: "We cannot do without nuclear power plants."

Like Germany, Switzerland is also dealing with potential energy shortages as a result of the Russian war in Ukraine. It has already mulled the idea of four hour regional blackouts in the case of shortages.

As we noted days ago in a piece by Felicity Bradstock at OilPrice.com, an unjustified fear of nuclear energy is preventing the industry from moving forward.

It pointed out that despite a lack of public understanding of nuclear technology, meaning that it can sometimes be confused with nuclear weapons, there was a general optimism around nuclear energy when it first emerged several decades ago. It seems that the current negative public perception of nuclear power stems mainly from the nuclear disasters that were seen around the world in real-time.

Although relatively few died during these incidents compared to deaths worldwide from other energy operations, the incidents were widely televised and the fear of the unknown spread rapidly.

The piece also postulated that perhaps the only way to improve public perception of nuclear energy is through re-education that highlights the relative safety of the technology compared to other energy operations.

In addition, as the public and international organizations put pressure on state governments to go green, better marketing of nuclear energy could help shift the public perception, as people begin to see the carbon-free energy source as necessary for a green future. However, for now, governments are feeling the mounting pressure to ‘get it right’, with the potential for any mishap to add to the long-term demonization of nuclear power.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/swiss-politicians-petition-country-keep-nuclear-power

Understanding The Tyrannical Mind And How It Operates

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us

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All people seek to control their environment to a certain degree. They want a reliable level of management over their world, and to remove whatever doubts they might have about their survival in the future. If they can, people will take measures to remove any potential pain or struggle and establish a life of perpetual comfort. The easy road is the dream for most, and in order to get it human beings see power as a formidable tool.

I’m exploring this common condition because I want to make it clear that almost ALL PEOPLE desire power to a degree. Sometimes this even means controlling the actions of others to prevent them from disrupting the oasis of comfort we construct around us. Sometimes there are destructive people that we feel we are forced to inhibit and cage in self defense. And still other times, we try to control those around us out of irrational fear.

The tyrannical mindset is not exclusive to the Stalins, Maos and Hitlers of history, it is a deep rooted shadow that lurks in the majority of us at times. It is this condition that political tyrants try to exploit to their advantage, because no authoritarian government can ever be successful without the help of millions of little tyrants supporting them. They find a way to feed our desire for control and predictability while simultaneously enslaving us.

The point is, tyrants need us. We all have a little dash of tyranny in our souls; we are linked, but we are different.

This is not to say that order in itself is evil or that social structures are inherently oppressive. People need boundaries because not all people are good or sane; some are vicious, some are lazy, some are crazy, some are incompetent and some are dishonest and they drag the rest of us down. Anarchy is not the solution, but neither is totalitarianism. It’s all about who sets the boundaries and how.

This is where we uncover a specific human element that is obsessively attracted to control, not because they are afraid, and not because they want comfort, but because they enjoy the feeling of power. They are addicted to it. I’m speaking specifically about narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths; they are members of our species but they are lacking the key psychological traits that make us human, such as empathy, conscience, imagination, love and shame. In almost every case of government gone wrong it is because these types of people were able to slither into positions of authority and take advantage.

Despite the exaggerated depictions in movies and TV, your average psychopath is not all that complex or interesting – The fact of their existence is interesting, but as people they tend to be boring. The idea of them is fascinating because they are a biological anomaly, an evolutionary mistake or maybe a spiritual deformity. Around 1% of any given population is prone to psychopathy and an even smaller percentage are high functioning psychopaths that are adept at hiding their monstrous natures.

Most average psychopaths eventually end up in prison or involved in an endless succession of life failures. They can’t get it together and maintain relationships and build a normal life because they are too self obsessed and dangerous and eventually the people around them notice. These types of people are what I would call the “little tyrants.” They seem to rise to the surface of society when times are desperate; when people are distracted by crisis is when psychopaths feel it’s safe to show their true natures.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/understanding-tyrannical-mind-and-how-it-operates

>>17470708

Understanding The Tyrannical Mind…

Part 2 of 3

For example, during the covid pandemic lockdowns and the government attempts to introduce draconian vax mandates the little tyrants were everywhere. They just appeared out of the ether and swirled around the authoritarian vortex like it was a feeding frenzy. They took pleasure in the opportunity to order others around about masks and vaccines and “social distancing,” even though none of these measures made ANY difference whatsoever to the spread of covid or the rather minor median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.23%.

They were being tossed scraps from the table of power and they savored every minute of it. The real science wasn’t on their side, but they didn’t care; the media and the government were on their side and that’s all that mattered. They were happy to be used as weapons against other citizens that just wanted to be free.

Beyond the symbiotic (or maybe parasitic) relationship between big tyrants and little tyrants, there are a set of standards that have to be met for tyranny to be successful:

Destruction Of Choice

At the core of tyranny is the removal of choice. Centralization is all about eliminating options for the public while telling them their lives will be streamlined, easier and safer. If people have options outside the establishment system or ideology then they might question the validity of the power structure. They might ask themselves “What if there is a better way than this?”

And, since there is always a better way than fear and slavery, tyrants have to engage in a constant war with all alternative ideas and principles. The only way they can be sure that people won’t rebel someday is to erase the existence of choice. Not only that, but they have to convince the masses that to even suggest another choice is sacrilegious and dangerous. The system must become absolute in all things and in every area of daily life.

Create A False Moral Paradox

Freedom is slavery – Ignorance is strength. It’s the old Orwellian paradox that perverts the meaning of words and deeds to justify tyranny. An extension of this twisted way of thinking is the religion of the “greater good”; the idea that all evils are justified as long as the “greater good” is accomplished. But what is the greater good? It’s anything the tyrants say it is; usually anything that helps them to gain more power. One would think that a “good” that is “greater” would entail more freedom and less fear, not less freedom and more fear.

As a part of the tactic of removal of choice, tyrants often create a fake moral conundrum in which people are told that their freedom is actually harmful to others, therefore their freedoms must be taken away “for the greater good.” Again, the covid medical tyranny experiment was built completely around this argument. What if your choice to not wear a mask, to not stay locked in your house and to not take a questionable vaccine harmed hundreds or thousands of others? Doesn’t that justify taking your choices away? These claims are complete fantasy, of course, but in the heat of a national panic people can be led to believe that the false paradox is real.

Obsessive Compulsive Expansion

As noted, tyrants are usually psychopathic personalities, and a part of this mindset is the compulsion to expand and devour. Like a growing amoeba, or that creature from the movie ‘The Blob.’ Their hunger for control is never sated, they will always want more.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/understanding-tyrannical-mind-and-how-it-operates

>>17470710

Tyranny

part 3 of 3

People will be told that they are only losing one freedom, or two freedoms, or that their freedoms will be restricted “for a short time.” This is always a lie. Once tyrants gain new power they will hold onto it obsessively as if it is oxygen and without it they might die. And, then they will seek more powers because what they have is never enough. A friend of mine once described it this way:

Piled before the tyrant is a feast of kingly proportions, like a Thanksgiving Day feast flowing across his dinner table. You sit quietly without access to the table, but in your hands you do hold a little crust of bread. This is all you have and you cradle it carefully because it must be made to last. And even though the tyrant’s belly is full and he has more than he could possibly ever eat in a lifetime, all he can think about is YOUR little crust.

All he wonders about day and night is why you have that crust when it should be his. He grinds his teeth frothing in desperation for your meager meal. Then one day he decides he will not stop until your bread crust is in his hands while you starve. This is now his mission in life – To take your crust and crumbs and leave you with nothing. Any other outcome would be unimaginable.

He not only wants to steal your crust, but he wants to see your despair when he does it. He wants you to know he has your last meal, and he wants to see the pain in your face when he takes it away. Then, he wants you act like you love him for it.

This is how the mind of a psychopath works. Why do their brains function this way? There are many theories but no one really knows for certain. The majority of evidence suggests that they are actually born the way they are; with no conscience and no counterbalance to the madness.

The bread crust story is a metaphor, but it illustrates how psychopathic authoritarians view various freedoms – They are pieces of life that tyrants cannot tolerate you having in your possession. It drives them insane to know you have that little spark of light and joy in your hands and they scheme and plot and scream and wail and claw until they can get it away from you.

Tyranny Cannot Be Defeated Unless It Is Understood

There will be people out there that make the common ignorant argument that all of this is an exercise in futility because it doesn’t “address solutions.” There are many solutions to authoritarian systems, I have been writing about them for over 16 years now. We can talk all day about decentralization and localism and organization and revolution, but none of that matters unless we understand how our enemies think and the tactics they use. If we do not know them we cannot defeat them.

They are not complex and they are not necessarily ingenious but they are relentless and their simple methods can sometimes be very effective. Underestimating their obsession with control would be disastrous. That said, the one thing they value more than power is their own lives, and (if we're going to address solutions) until these people are made to understand that their lives could be the cost of their compulsions they will never stop. There is no reasoning with them. There is no diplomacy or compromise. There is no middle ground. They will continue to take until the losses they face outweigh the gains of treachery. Knowing their mindset brings us several steps closer to shutting them down.

>>17470718

Tyranny Cannot Be Defeated Unless It Is Understood

They are not complex and they are not necessarily ingenious but they are relentless and their simple methods can sometimes be very effective. Underestimating their obsession with control would be disastrous. That said, the one thing they value more than power is their own lives, and (if we're going to address solutions) until these people are made to understand thattheir lives could be the cost of their compulsions they will never stop. There is no reasoning with them. There is no diplomacy or compromise. There is no middle ground. They will continue to take until the losses they face outweigh the gains of treachery. Knowing their mindset brings us several steps closer to shutting them down.

Excellent this is what we are doing here!

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sues to get secret FBI files on his ‘60s bandLee Brown

Mark Zaid is his attorney

He’s no longer monkeying around.

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sued the Justice Department on Tuesday to try to get secret files the FBI compiled on the pop rock band while they protested the Vietnam War in their 1960s counter-culture heyday.

The 77-year-old singer — the sole surviving member of the made-for-TV band — filed the lawsuit in Washington, DC, federal court after his attempts to obtain the records via the Freedom of Information Act were ignored, the legal papers say.

“This lawsuit is designed to obtain any records the FBI created and/or possesses on the Monkees as well as its individual members,” it says of the “renowned and beloved rock band.”

The FBI’s website confirms the band is a subject of two files — including, mysteriously, one that is “redacted entirely.”

The other is a 1967 Los Angeles Field Office memorandum that was released in a heavily redacted form in 2011 — unknown at the time to Dolenz and his attorney.

Under the misspelled subject “THE MONKEYS,” the file said it had looked into “four young men who dress as ‘beatnik types'” who “sang as a ‘combo.'”

An FBI informant — whose identity was redacted — detailed how The Monkees played live with “subliminal messages” on a stage — which “constituted ‘left-wing intervention of a political nature.’

“These messages and pictures were flashed of riots, in Berkley, anti-US messages on the war in Vietnam, racial riots in Selma, Alabama, and similar messages which had received unfavorable response from the audience,” the file said.

There was no mention of further action.

Dolenz did not even realize the redacted document existed when his lawyer pal and self-proclaimed “big fan”Mark Zaidfirst suggested on a whim that they see if the FBI had a file on him, Zaid told Rolling Stone.

That redacted document “just kind of reinforced for me that there was actually something here,” Zaid told the rock mag.

“It’s not just a fishing expedition. I mean, we’re still fishing, but we know there’s fish in the water,” he said, conceding that the completely redacted document “may be peripheral” to the band.

“Theoretically, anything could be in those files,” Zaid noted. “We have no idea what records even exist. It could be almost nothing. But we’ll see soon enough.”

The lawsuit noted that Dolenz and his late bandmates — Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones — hung out with other rock stars eyed by the FBI, such as Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon.

And, despite being a fun-loving pop band, The Monkees also sprinkled anti-war sentiments into chart-topping songs like “Last Train to Clarksville,” Zaid noted.

The FBI at the time “was infamous for monitoring the counterculture, whether they committed unlawful actions or not,” the attorney stressed.

The lawsuit seeks “reasonable costs,” fees and relief as well as expedited copies and attorney’s fees as well as expedited copies of the withheld files “in their entirety.”

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/the-monkees-micky-dolenz-sues-doj-to-get-secret-fbi-files/

A 60’s musician didnt know this? Hard to believe

>>17470826

Thats what Sundance said this am on his DOj Lawfare article, its all for media to start more rumors amd lies

>>17470392 DJT Truth about hot August & perp walks

Now how would POTUS know that thibault was screamed and yelled at? Hmmm…kek

He also said that “Thibault was assigned to find election fraud” he didnt or sonething, not to worry we got a Lot without him (something like that)

I really don’t think we know the extensive info that the team has.

(This is exactly why the DOJ would do this, right on cue. 4 am talking point confirmation)

Liz Cheney reacts to FBI image of Trump documents from Mar-a-Lago

by Misty Severi, Breaking News Reporter

August 31, 2022 09:47 AM

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took to Twitter after the Department of Justice released a photograph of classified documents obtained during the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

Cheney, who has been a major critic of the former president, claimed the image revealed "yet more indefensible conduct by Donald Trump revealed this morning," according to a tweet posted Wednesday from her account.

The congresswoman, who recently lost her reelection bid to represent Wyoming in Congress, claimed she could have won the party's nomination in a tweet last week, had she decided to side with the former president in his allegation that the 2020 election was "stolen" by widespread voter fraud.

ased in the DOJ's response to Trump's request for a special master to look at the materials taken by federal officials during the search, was apparently taken at Mar-a-Lago. The photo provoked ridicule from the former spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, Symone Sanders-Townsend.

"1) I cannot believe pictures of these documents are on the internet," Sanders-Townsend tweeted. "Truly I would have never imagined this when I worked at the WH. 2) WTF is going on with this carpet?!?"

The DOJ said the image was a "redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container in the '45 office," according to the court filing.

The photo shows the cover pages of classified documents, including some marked "top secret" that were outlined with yellow borders. The photo has been digitally doctored to cover any sensitive material and information with white boxes pasted over some of the pages.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/liz-cheney-reacts-fbi-trump-documents-mar-a-lago

Who is Christina Bobb? DOJ suggests evidence of obstruction by Trump counsel

Former conservative media host Christina Bobb is part of former President Donald Trump's team of legal representatives who may have sought to conceal and remove classified government documents stored in a hidden room at Trump's Florida estate, according to court filings from the Justice Department.

Bobb, 36, worked for the right-wing One America News Networkwhen she touted Trump's 2020 election fraud claims and raised money for the 2021 audit of the Arizonaelection, a monthslong project last year that found no proof of fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election in the state two years ago. Now, Bobb is in the spotlight for the DOJ's allegations that she "likely" submitted false testimony on June 3 claiming all materials stored at Trump's estate had been handed over to authorities.

The former OANN host and attorney joined Trump's political organization Save America in March and has been part of his legal counsel since.

Officials at the DOJ published a 36-page filingTuesday saying a search warrant at the West Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, was obtained after gathering evidence "that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation," with the former president's lawyers falsely claiming all sensitive recordshad been forfeited by the former president, adding that such records were "likely concealed and removed."

The "custodian" of Trump's records signed a sworn certification letter saying "any and all" records were handed over to the government on June 3, though the DOJ disagrees, citing evidence it gathered as part of the Aug. 8 FBI raid at Trump's estate.

DOJ records do not specify whom the signee of the certification letter is, though multiple sources with knowledge about the investigation have suggested Bobb signed off,according to the New York Times.

A statement from Bobb attached to the DOJ's Tuesday filing said that "based upon the information that has been provided to me," there had been a "diligent" search and all documents responsive to the subpoena were being returned.

Following Bobb's work at OANN, she began volunteer work with Trump's legal team in November 2020. Bobb has also been tapped as one of six of the former president's lawyers to be subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christina-bobb-doj-suggests-obstruction-by-trump-counsel

Here we go, Trump has an OAN person on his legal staff? The horror, utter horror!

>>17471209

The problem with these articles reporting propaganda from NYTs is when the truth comes out that Bobb did nothing wrong, no one will ever remember it.