Hello? Poison control hotline? What do I do if I’ve had too much schadenfreude all at once?
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
Laugh! Out Loud! Now keep doing it.
I believe his attitude towards this case may be the same as Michael Caine’s towards Jaws 4:
*I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
I think broadly speaking both speculations amount to the same thing, that Kise by all accounts is a very competent lawyer, and you cannot be competent at what you do and be a Trump toadie at the same time. Kise was, after all, smart enough to get Trump to part with $3 million upfront.
So whatever the specific reason that he was “sidelined”, I’m pretty sure that one way or another it was for not being a Trump toadie as expected. As for why he was sidelined and not fired outright, see above about the $3 mil upfront! 
Why the F do they need to create a web portal?
Presumably the portal includes tools to administrate and track access to these documents. It’s not like the government can just send a google drive link.
Shit like that is how Alex Jones got screwed.
Why not? It seems like at least some attorneys are using Google Drive and similar tools already:
Legitimately don’t know about the answer regarding Google Drive, but I am pretty sure the government is going through its list of already pre-approved vendors.
Right–I’m sure their pre-approved vendors had to go through some formal process to be approved, meeting a list of requirements. But there’s no de facto reason why Google wouldn’t be one of them, except that they might not have bothered.
Google may not be an approved vendor for the specific task that the Justice department is seeking. (This is pure speculation on my part, of course.)
I agree; it’s just that without the list, one can’t flatly say “It’s not like the government can just send a google drive link”. They may be able to do just that if Google was approved and selected.
Good thing they never had to do this before portals and google.
Sure, you can accomplish the same thing, more slowly, with FedEx. Or hire some street urchins to shuttle the documents back and forth. I assume they’re trying to speed up the process a bit via technology.
Am I mistaken in thinking that a DoJ-approved vendor is supposed to build the portal, but that Mexico is supposed to pay for it?
after they build the firewall
FedEx $50
Portal creator $20,000
That strikes me as a possibility as well.
I think by ‘create’ it means host an instance of a web portal – not implement a web portal system.
From the doc it seems that the vendor is responsible for scanning and processing the docs and that is likely the majority of the work and expense.
And, AFAIK, Google docs doesn’t offer that feature. And I know USB sticks don’t.
I just find it interesting he can’t see them in person.
We already know he has sticky fingers and thinks these things belong to him. I wouldn’t let him touch them again with a 40-foot pole.