Yahoo News, which was most assuredly pulled from somewhere else.
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That attorney, former Florida solicitor general Christopher Kise, had proposed such a search months earlier. Many of the other lawyers on Trump’s team have rebuffed Kise’s advice, and he has taken a reduced role in the classified documents case while taking a larger role in the New York investigations into the former president, the people said.
A few more details on the storage unit, and the GSA’s involvement, from the WaPo article:
If this is accurate, then (a) yes, the GSA was involved, though apparently as a facilitator, (b) it wasn’t at an actual government storage facility, and (c) the documents were mixed in with all matter of other, uncataloged stuff.
In other words, the same sloppy, careless trail of detritus from a narcissist who’s never had to tidy up after himself and has always had flunkies (of dubious quality) to see to such crap.
The docs were buried in the casket. /s?
So, here again - it was ‘after he left office’ from an office used by ‘Trump staffers’.
How many more rules are broken in just that sentence?
Alternative conspiracy theory of my own invention:
Perhaps the documents in question were in Trump’s personal possession in Mara largo or Trump tower or wherever. The FBI knows they are missing and Trump knows the FBI knows so he has to get them back. But he can’t actually just walk up and hand them back because he will get in even more trouble for knowingly holding on to them. So he hires a team to “search” the GSE storage facility and “find” the documents there.
Good one!
Way back in 1932, in Ellery Queen’s The Greek Coffin Mystery, he deduces that the missing will must be in a just buried coffin. When they disinter the coffin the will isn’t there: but another body is. Things get complicated after that.
As a plot, an oldie but goodie.
Swords and wrestling belts? Cosplay gifts from MAGAs?
You might be onto something here. It has the ring of truthiness about it.
I wondered about that, too. And why would Trumpie have “suits” in a storage shed? Maybe they were suits of armor, to go with the swords.
My WAG is that the ‘suits’ are pro-wrestler’s costumes. It would make sense with the belts (and maybe the swords?).
Haven’t attorneys for Trump already sworn that there are no classified documents in Trump’s possession (before the FBI search)?
This makes my already low opinion of Mr. Garland sink even lower. He’s the worst kind of lawyer–he’s a Washington lawyer. Two minutes after the FBI found the first stash, Garland should have had more warrants to search everything associated with Trump including his underwear. I can hardly wait to read his lame excuse in his autobiography (inappropriate, inopportune, impossible, impolite?)
I really feel sorry for the teams of people trying to discern what classified information has been compromised when.
What this entire farce needs about now is a Tony Ulasewicz type character to show up for comic relief.
The swords I don’t know about, but Trump has had a working relationship in various forms with the WWE dating back to the late '80s. He actually appeared on a show as late as 2006 or 2007 I believe. That’s most likely where the belt came from. Apologies if this is considered a hijack.
Not the same attorneys. The different inhabitants of Trump World all have different stories. The Master of Them All, Trump himself, tells all the different stories simultaneously, sometimes even achieving the remarkable feat of actually contradicting himself in the same sentence. His sycophants are fine with it.
There was a wrestler called the Gothic Knight, some years ago. He was a champion in his promotion, and had the heavyweight belt for quite some time; and while his publicity photos showed him wielding a sword, that object never made it into the ring. Instead, his squire (his valet) would be holding on to it well away from the ring.
So it’s possible. If there was one such wrestler, there might have been others, after all. And Trump was at Wrestlemania 23 in 2007. So who knows? Maybe it’s not as much of a WAG as it seems.
I believe what someone may have been referring to is that Judge Cannon told Trump’s law-talkin’ guys that they needed to make an argument for why she should have any jurisdiction in the case at all, and even after they didn’t even make any argument after having been asked to, she granted “equitable jurisdiction” anyway, making arguments on their behalf. Details here, as I understand, are that federal courts would not normally be the place to bring a suit like he was doing, but there are conditions for an exception that would allow her to take the case.
Here’s a cite: Prosecutors Ask Eleventh Circuit To Sh*tcan Judge Cannon's Special Master Order For Being ... Total Sh*t - Above the Law
Right and if memory serves wrestlemania’s four and five, wish were held in 88 and 89, happened at the Trump plaza? I want to say that’s correct I think it was an Atlantic City New Jersey.
About the sword weirdly enough there is a current wrestler who does carry a big Scottish Claymore to the ring. Its certainly not unheard of.
I believe it was explained earlier in this thread that you cannot legally do that. You need some semblance of evidence that there may something at a specific site to get a warrant. You cannot go on a fishing expedition, hitting every place Trump owns (including his underwear), just because he is an untrustworthy bastard who may have stashed documents hither and yon. The latter is certainly true, but it isn’t enough.
The swords are probably from Saudi Arabia, or other foreign powers. The article said that the storage unit had “gifts”.
Remember that in many parts of the world it’s common to give a sword as a gift from one powerful person to another.