DOJ requests classified documents found in the Mar-A-Lago raid be WITHELD from special master's review- as he calls hearing for September 20

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested the classified documents found in the Mar-A-Lago raid be withheld from the special master's review

The DOJ sought the intervention after Judge Aileen Cannon declined the request to lift the temporary prohibition of the usage of the 100 classified documents

Cannon also cast doubt on the top secret documents, questioning whether or not items were actually classified

Special Master Judge Raymond Dearie has also requested the DOJ and Trump's lawyers meet in NYC for a preliminary conference on September 20

Both parties have until September 19 to submit 'proposed agenda items' for discussion at the meeting

Dearie has until November 30 to complete his review of the 11,000 documents

September 16, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested the classified documents found in the Mar-A-Lago raid be withheld from the special master's review ahead of the preliminary meeting.

The DOJ requested the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals to allow its own criminal investigators to review the classified information and to exclude it from Special Master Judge Raymond Dearie's review.

The Department sought the intervention after US District Judge Aileen Cannon - a Trump appointee - declined the DOJ's request to lift the temporary prohibition of the usage of the 100 classified documents found in the raid. The DOJ's investigation is being stalled due to the special master's review.

The department told the 11th Circuit in Atlanta that the judge's hold was impeding the 'government's efforts to protect the nation's security' and interfering with its investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago. It said the hold needed to be lifted immediately so work could resume.

'The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay,' Department lawyers wrote in their brief to the appeals court.

Earlier this month, Cannon directed the Department to halt its use of the records until further court order, or until the completion of a Dearie's report, whose job is to inspect the documents and weed out any covered by claims of legal privilege.

Cannon also cast doubt on the top secret documents in Thursday's order, questioning whether or not items were actually classified. She also said she wasn't putting the nation at risk by stalling the DOJ's investigation, according to CNN.

The Justice Department argues that the documents could, in no way, be Trump's personal property, as the former president is trying to claim.

'None of those rationales applies to the records bearing classification markings: The markings establish on the face of the documents that they are not [Trump]'s personal property,' the DOJ said.

The DOJ is investigating three potential crimes, including violations of the Espionage Act, illegal handling of government records and obstruction of justice.

The request also comes as the Department of Justice and Trump's lawyers have been called to a New York City court for a 'preliminary conference' by the special master who will review the 11,000 documents taken from the Mar-A-Lago raid.

Dearie has asked the two parties to attend the conference on September 20 at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse.

Both parties have until September 19 to submit 'proposed agenda items' for discussion at the meeting, according to Fox News.

Dearie was appointed by Cannon to review all the documents taken from the Florida estate on August 8. He is also tasked with identifying any personal materials of Trump's that should possibly be returned to him.

The FBI says it took about 11,000 documents, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office, while serving a court-authorized search warrant at the home.

In appointing Dearie on Thursday, she granted him access to the entire tranche of documents, including classified records. She directed him to complete his review by November 30 and to prioritize the review of classified documents, and directed the Justice Department to permit the Trump legal team to inspect classified records with 'controlled access conditions.'

Sauce: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11221393/US-asks-appeals-court-lift-judges-Mar-Lago-probe-hold.html

Ex-Trump press secretarySarah Huckabee Sanders reveals cancer treatment

September 16, 2022

Former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders revealed Friday that she had undergone surgery in Arkansas to treatthyroid cancer.

“During a check-up earlier this month, my doctor ordered a biopsy on an area of concern in my neck and the test revealed that I had thyroid cancer,” the 40-year-old Sanders, the Republican candidate for governor of the state, said in a statement.

“Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free,” she added.

Dr. John Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock, said Sanders was treated for Stage I papillary thyroid carcinoma.

“Sarah is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck,” he said in a statement.

“The surgery went extremely well, and I expect her to be back on her feet even within the next 24 hours.”

He added that her diagnosis is “the most common type of thyroid cancer and has an excellent prognosis.”

“While she will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine, as well as continued long-term follow-up, I think it’s fair to say she’s now cancer free, and I don’t anticipate any of this slowing her down,” Dr. Sims said.

Meanwhile, the mother of three vowed to get back on the campaign trail “soon.”

“I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love, prayers, and support,” she said in her statement.

“I look forward to returning to the campaign trail soon. This experience has been a reminder that whatever battle you may be facing, don’t lose heart. As governor, I will never quit fighting for the people of our great state.”

Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is favored to defeat Democrat Chris Jones in the Nov. 8 election. Arkansas has not elected a Democratic governor since 2010.

Sanders joined the Trump White House in 2017 after working as a senior adviser to the Republican’s successful 2016 presidential campaign. She initially served as deputy press secretary under Sean Spicer and took over as press secretary in July 2017. She stayed in the role for two years before stepping down in July 2019 and later went to work for Fox News as a contributor.

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/ex-trump-press-secretary-sarah-huckabee-sanders-reveals-cancer-diagnosis/

What is going on..

>>17531083

The feds seized several cellphones, and a grand jury blasted out 40 subpoenas as the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe shifted into higher gear.

September 16, 2022

The Jan. 6 criminal investigations got a hell of a lot more real this week.

Suddenly it seems like the feds are everywhere. Some 40 subpoenas were blasted out at top MAGA-world figures by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., which is reportedly seeking answers on practically every aspect of the insurrection.

The feds want to know about the so-called fake electors scheme, sure. But they’re also poking around to learn more about the planning of former President Donald Trump’s rally on the Ellipse, and even fundraising for Trump’s Save America political action committee.

In other words, the first whiff of autumn is in the air—and so is that faint, burnt-leaf smell of accountability.

The Department of Justice’s upshift into a higher gear comes after critics spent months lambasting Attorney General Merrick Garland for moving too slowly. That chatter now seems likely to subside.

Federal agents seized the cellphones of top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and campaign strategist Mike Roman. Subpoenas were served on former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and Trump’s former social media director Dan Scavino.

Mike Lindell, aka “the pillow guy,” did not escape the dragnet.

FBI agents pounced on the MyPillow CEO and prominent election conspiracy theorist in the drive-thru lane of a Minnesota Hardee’s and ordered him to turn over his phone. (Imagine, for a moment, that a genie let you travel back in time to warn your past self about our discordant future—but you could only transmit that one, bizarre sentence.)

Hardee’s capitalized on its trending moment with a pillow pun on Twitter: “Now that you know we exist… you should really try our pillowy biscuits.”

Lindell—never one to sit quietly, even under legal scrutiny—also made much of the incident, discussing every detail in frenetic media appearances and even posting his warrant on social media.

Judging from the document, Lindell’s run-in with the feds appears linked to an investigation that’s formally separate from the big Jan. 6 subpoena blast. Instead, it’s tied to the widening investigation of a breach of election voting systems in Colorado and the prosecution of former Colorado election official and regular BtV cast member Tina Peters.

Peters, you might recall, has been charged with state-level crimes and pleaded not guilty. She is specifically named in the seizure warrant for Lindell’s phone, which was approved by a federal grand jury in Colorado and posted online by Lindell.

What happens next, after all this frothy action? Some lawyers and former prosecutors say they expect the DOJ may tamp down overt investigative or prosecutorial activity during the run-up to November’s midterm elections. The recent spurt might have been an attempt to make headway before the DOJ’s so-called “60-day rule” sets in. Ditto, perhaps, for the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club for sensitive secret government documents in August. After all, nothing focuses the mind like a deadline.

That reasoning also suggests that officials will be unlikely to announce criminal charges against Trump himself before the Nov. 8 elections.

By the same token, prosecutors won’t want to make big moves right before the next round of presidential campaign primaries officially begin, likely in very early 2024, either.

In other words, it’s plausible the next two months will be relatively quiet, from a strictly prosecutorial point of view. After that, if officials feel indictments are warranted, they’ll have an incentive not to sit on their hands too long.

Trump, for his part, was asked by radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday whether picking up a criminal charge would stop him from running for president. Trump replied with his usual reserve: “It would not.”

Sauce/more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34y3a/trumps-cronies-are-getting-slammed-with-subpoenas

>>17531205

Agree, but "in the unlikely event" it's true…

>>17531227

>fundraising?

Sounds suspiciouslyPOLITICAL

Election Interference

Criminal AF

They know it's illegal but they're fully committed to all means necessary.

Sounds like PANIC

>>17531266

>Life size cutouts

This marketing plan is genius, a Hunter action figure, WITH accessories

>>17531142

>bread stuck in ceiling fan

Hard to believe, Potato lied. Never saw that coming [meme]/sarc[/meme] Biden lies about his visit to see Commie/Black Supremacist Mandela:

Biden admits to lie: ‘I wasn’t arrested’ trying to see Mandela

September 16, 2022

Resident Biden on Friday came clean during a visit to the White House by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa — admitting, “I wasn’t arrested” trying to visit Nelson Mandela, despite saying so at least three times in 2020.

But Biden proceeded to tell Ramaphosa that he was “stopped” trying to visit Mandela — a claim that also has faced withering fact-checks and contradiction even from Biden supporters.

Biden admitted that his past remarks were untrue while welcoming Ramaphosa to the Oval Office.

“One of the great moments of my career was when — the first time Nelson Mandela came to the United States [in 1990]. And we were in — I was a senator at the time, and we met in the Senate Foreign Relations executive committee room,” Biden told Ramaphosa.

“We all stood there and said hello to him and the like and afterwards, he asked if he could come by my office and he came by to say thank you because he heard I had been stopped trying to get to visit him, to see him in prison.”

Biden then fessed up, “And I said once — I said I got arrested. I wasn’t arrested, I got stopped, prevented from moving. But he was extremely gracious.”

Biden said at least three times that he was arrested attempting to visit Mandela on his prison island near Cape Town. The story attracted scrutiny because of glaring geographical issues — including the fact that he claimed to be arrested in Johannesburg, more than 760 miles from Robben Island.

Biden’s team later admitted it was untrue and that he was simply “separated” from other congressmen at an airport during a 1976 visit to Lesotho, a country that borders South Africa. But even that revision was contradicted by another congressman on the trip.

The Washington Post’s fact check column called Biden’s claim that he was arrested in South Africa “ridiculous.”

On one occasion in February 2021, Biden told a South Carolina audience that “I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Mandela] on Robbens [sic] Island.”

In separate remarks the same month in Nevada, Biden said that in 1977 he “came back from South Africa, trying to see Nelson Mandela and getting arrested for trying to see him on Robbens [sic] Island.”

Sauce/more re Liar in Chief: https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/biden-admits-to-lie-i-wasnt-arrested-trying-to-see-mandela/