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Revelations about the documents former President Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago home have left Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) "deeply alarmed," she told ...

[Gunman kills 3 at Houston property after starting fire to lure victims out](/2022/08/28/houston-shooting-kills-3-fire-rental-property) The suspect, whose name was not released, is a man in his 40s who had been recently told he would be evicted from the complex. [FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/13/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-trump-fbi). Details: The shooting happened at around 1 a.m. I imagine he knows that very well now as well," he added. - "I think it's powerfully important we give the Justice Department the space to follow the evidence wherever it leads, without fear or favor. Revelations about the documents former President Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago home have left Sen. [authorities said](https://www.facebook.com/Houstonpolice/videos/787418305942233/). If they have the evidence, they will bring the charges and prosecute appropriately. [evaluate the natural security risks](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/27/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-security-risks)of the top secret documents obtained from Mar-a-Lago. [released a redacted version](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/doj-fbi-affidavit-trump-mar-a-lago) of the affidavit that led to the FBI's search of Trump's residence this month. [Axios' Erin Doherty and Alayna Treene write](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/doj-document-trump-affidavit-mar-a-lago).

Few Republicans appeared on the major Sunday talk shows to defend the former president. Those who did indicated that they would rather be talking about ...

Turner of Ohio, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News that he believed Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents sounded “more like a bookkeeping issue than it is a national security threat, which means it doesn’t rise to the level of justifying raiding the former president’s home.” With the release of the affidavit, the former president’s allies agents](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/us/politics/more-money-for-irs-spurs-conspiracy-theories-of-shadow-army.html) in hopes of rallying small-government conservatives to the polls. Other Republicans have been similarly direct in their comments, stating that the more Mr. 26 of a partly redacted affidavit used by the Justice Department to justify its search of former President Donald J. Last week, the publication revised its projection to a more modest gain of 10 to 20 seats. Some [reacted with fury](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-right-reaction.html), attacking the nation’s top law enforcement agencies as they called to “defund” or [“destroy” the F.B.I.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/politics/republicans-fbi-trump-search.html) Others invoked the Nazi secret police, using words like “ [Gestapo](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/columnists/cotterell/2022/08/14/rick-scott-rhetoric-fbi-search-trump-bill-cotterell/10305001002/)” and “ [tyrants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RGS7kcRcw).” [Polls showed an increase in Republican support for Mr. [search of Mar-a-Lago](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid), which followed repeated requests over more than a year and a half for Mr. The release on Aug. Those worries were on display on Sunday morning as few Republicans appeared on the major Washington-focused news shows to defend Mr. Biden — and the high inflation and gas prices that have bedeviled his administration — is being complicated by all-encompassing attention on the legal exposure of a different president: his predecessor, Donald J.

Justice department faces deadline for more detailed inventory of files while ex-president's team must argue for review by special master.

Our Sam Levine in New York does a lot of the reporting on this issue. The DoJ is updating us in gobbets. And Trump’s legal team also has a deadline as they prepare for a hearing before a judge in Florida to explain why the former president believes a so-called special master is needed to supervise a review of that FBI search. Meanwhile, Cannon will hold a hearing on Thursday in district court in West Palm Beach, south Florida, involving Trump’s request for the appointment of a so-called special master to conduct an independent review of what was seized in that FBI search. Federal judge Aileen Cannon, in south Florida, has given the DoJ a deadline to produce the details as well as an update on the Biden administration’s review of the boxes of documents and other materials that were taken in that event on 8 August. The Department of Justice has until tomorrow to present a “more detailed list” of items that were seized from former president Donald Trump’s club resort and residence, Mar-a-Lago, when the FBI searched the premises earlier this month.

Classified records kept at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate could include information on US intelligence gathering and spying.

On Friday, Trump again called the FBI raid a “break-in”. Some of those documents were labelled “top secret”, the highest level of US classification, according to documents released by the Department of Justice (DOJ). During the August search, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents seized 11 sets of classified records, according to a property receipt, although the contents of those records have not yet been released.

Experts have warned of the danger to human sources used for intelligence gathering, and that classified documents could have been vulnerable to spies.

[Donald Trump](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump) for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle ... [A lengthy investigation by the State Department concluded](https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-cleared-wrongdoing-private-email-probe-1466426) there was no evidence of deliberate mishandling of classified information in that case. "Former President Trump has been out of office for going on two years now," he said. "And if you're a foreign intelligence service and you want to target the United States government, what's the number one place you want to target? The man, Ricky Shiffer, was later shot dead after an hour-long standoff with law enforcement. [Some have indicated that the former president's legal woes could harm the GOP](https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-mood-shifting-midterms-gop-faces-challenges-1737655) ahead of the November midterms, and boost [Democrats](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/democrats) seeking to retain control of [Congress](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/congress). "I think they were vulnerable, even at the White House, since they seem to have been mishandled at the White House as well, right? The White House." "So there's a lot of spying going on in Washington, right?" officials, Morell said, and even more are never caught. as the damage assessment goes forward, I think they need to look at both of those places." [said](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-stealing-documents-hurts-america/) on [MSNBC](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/msnbc).

Some in the legal profession are already willing to close the case on the FBI warrant to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home based on the heavily redacted ...

[CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER](https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters) [going after President Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump). Fourth, perhaps nowhere do the redacted portions have more work to do than the alleged evidence of obstruction. Admittedly, the legal bar here is quite low. Fifth, the unredacted portions still do not answer the question "why now?" government, and the affidavit reads more like a document dispute in a civil case in which lawyers for both sides conduct a back-and-forth chock-full of legal arguments. Third, we still do not know who the target – or targets – of this warrant are. If it’s in there, it is redacted since no visible language alludes to any individual "willfully" retaining documents or otherwise violating the laws that the FBI alleges have been broken. president’s unfettered ability to declassify documents, and it fails to inform the court that a former U.S. Further, the affidavit references the applicable law but withholds any mention of court decisions regarding a U.S. While it includes a letter from Trump’s lawyers, it does not acknowledge potential advice of counsel defense or any authority to bring such a case against a former U.S. Surprisingly, in a case seeking to tread this kind of new legal ground, there is no accompanying memo from the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel defending its legality.

The lawyers representing the former president in the investigation into his handling of classified documents have tried out an array of defenses as they ...

Mr. The message Mr. Epshteyn has championed Mr. Even before Mr. A Justice Department spokesman would not say if the message ever made it up to Mr. Corcoran joined the team, Mr. Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, said only that Mr. Often tinged with Mr. Two lawyers who are working with Mr. As the partial release of the search warrant affidavit on Friday, including the May 25 letter, illustrated, Mr. It amounted to a three-page hodgepodge of contested legal theories, including Mr.

Reverberations over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago will escalate this week as Donald Trump challenges the Justice Department in court and US intelligence ...

House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney said in a joint statement that they were "pleased" that Haines has launched the damage assessment of classified documents found at Trump's home in Florida. The political and legal shock waves surrounding the Mar-a-Lago search will play out this week as a behind-closed-doors investigation into the potential national security questions raised by Trump's apparently cavalier treatment of classified material gathers pace. The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection has painted a damning picture of the ex-President's conduct on one of the darkest days in modern US history and is expected to soon ramp back up its hearings. This trend, along with some recent wins by congressional Democrats -- including the passage of Biden's big health care and climate bill -- and the Supreme Court's move on abortion, have given fresh hope to Democrats as November looms. The relative lack of information has offered a vacuum that Trump and his acolytes have filled with misinformation and conspiracy theories, which is now being used by more mainstream Republicans to cast doubts on the DOJ's conduct. The fact that Cannon, a Trump nominee, gave an indication she might grant his request has been greeted by some of the ex-President's allies on social media as a victory. US District Judge Aileen Cannon asked the Department of Justice to file a public response by Tuesday and also to file under seal records going into greater detail about what was taken in the search. The White House has said Biden had no advance warning of the search, stressing the priority he's placed on making the Department of Justice independent. But the idea that the search was simply cooked up to distract from the President's low approval rating is belied by the evidence of court documents and other material about the case, which suggest months of efforts to get the classified material back from Trump amid his delays and refusals to hand it over. But in his comments on Sunday, Blunt also betrayed the political pressure Republicans feel to stand with Trump, the dominant figure in their party, even though the Missouri senator is retiring at the end of this year. The affidavit, which was used to convince a judge of probable cause that a crime had been committed, also showed the bureau expected to find "If there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle ...

Republican South Carolina senator cites 'the 'Clinton debacle' and claims the FBI failed to investigate Hunter Biden.

… If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement, there will literally will be riots in the streets. “But threats of violence should NEVER stop the pursuit of justice. He continued: “How can you tell a conservative Republican that the system works when it comes to Trump? “I see and hear those threats all the time,” he wrote. In his interview with Gowdy he slammed Biden’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, then returned to his theme. [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans), including me, believe when it comes to Trump, there is no law. Public officials are [obliged] to call for the rule of law.” I’ve never been more worried about the law and politics as I am right now.” I love the law. there’ll be riots in the streets.” He is reportedly close to announcing another White House run. There’s a double standard when it comes to Trump.”

Digital World Acquisition Corp. is trying to extend the deadline to complete its merger with former President Donald Trump's Trump Media and Technology ...

[DWAC warned last week that damage to the former president's dwindling popularity ](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/22/trump-popularity-decline-could-hurt-his-social-media-company-dwac-warns.html)could hurt the deal. Trump has been at the center of a criminal investigation into the allegedly improper removal of sensitive and secret documents from the White House. On that day, hundreds of Trump's supporters stormed the building in a bid to block Congress from confirming Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. The former president created Truth Social to compete with Twitter after he was banned from the platform over his tweets regarding the Jan. The current deadline to take Trump Media public is Sept. DWAC has warned that it may be forced to liquidate if the deadline is not extended.

It is generally understood that any indictment of former president Donald Trump would be rejected out-of-hand as corrupt by many of his most fervent ...

One response to the riot at the Capitol was that the left had engaged in a spate of violence the previous summer, (More people voted for Trump in Los Angeles County than voted for him in half of the states in the country.) It seems unlikely, though, that a Trump indictment would spur an uncontested demonstration in the heart of a major American city. What made the Capitol attack happen as a riot was a call by Trump and others to come to D.C. If Trump is indicted, we can expect violence and it’s the government’s fault because it brought the indictment. There are a lot of Trump supporters in blue states and in cities. Graham’s angry, pointed declaration of what would come was predicated on the idea that riots would in some way be justified, that a universe of Trump supporters who have come to understand investigations as unwarranted would understandably engage in violence. We must note that this attempt to rationalize potential violence in advance is based on a view of law enforcement’s actions that’s deeply rooted in false or exaggerated right-wing narratives. In other words, Graham’s explanation for why we might expect violence is rooted in false claims that he himself was elevating and validating. Trump, eager to throw any roadblock in front of a criminal probe, readily amplified that suggestion. Graham was stating that he understood that the aftermath of an indictment was likely to be violence — which, again, we knew. a good job, there’ll be riots in the streets.” It is generally understood that any indictment of former president Donald Trump would be rejected out of hand as corrupt by many of his most fervent supporters.

PITTSBURGH (The Borowitz Report)—Eating classified documents was “an essential part of President Donald Trump's super-healthy diet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz has ...

Speaking at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Oz said that Trump’s diet consisted of “the four food groups: the hamburger group, the ketchup group, the Coca-Cola group, and the classified-documents group.” nominee for the U.S. Oz, the longtime television host and, more recently, Pennsylvania’s G.O.P.

Sen. Lindsey Graham has warned that there "literally will be riots in the street" if former President Donald Trump is prosecuted.

8 raid on Trump’s Florida estate in the hunt for classified documents. [ attempted to storm the FBI’s Cincinnati field office](https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/suspect-who-tried-to-storm-fbi-posted-a-call-to-arms/) days later had cited the raid as a “call to arms,” telling his online followers, “People, this is it.” [according to a leaked bulletin](https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/trump-raid-led-to-calls-for-civil-war-dirty-bomb-attack-on-fbi-report/). [Russian interference in the 2016](https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/justice-dept-memo-exposes-shameless-deceit-of-muellers-russiagate-probe/) election a “joke of an investigation” in which “people lied and manipulated the evidence.” [censorship of The Post’s](https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/zuckerberg-blames-fbi-for-censoring-the-posts-hunter-biden-scoop/) shocking exposés on the first son’s outrageous behavior. [unprecedented Mar-a-Lago raid ](https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/affidavit-behind-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-finally-released/)to the lack of action against either Hunter Biden or [former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.](https://nypost.com/2022/05/21/hillary-clintons-sordid-legacy-of-lies/)

Lindsey Graham said that he expects civil unrest if Donald Trump is prosecuted for mishandling the classified documents that were seized during the ...

On Sunday, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Donald Trumps ally, being ominous, warned of riots in the streets if the former President is ...

In this probe, Lindsey Graham is battling a subpoena to appear before the grand jury. [Joe Biden](/news/joe-biden)of the Democratic Party defeated Donald Trump and became the 59th President of the United States. During the call, Donald Trump could be heard asking for votes to turn his 2020 presidential campaign from defeat to victory. If politicians made violent threats like riots in the streets were made during every investigation, what would the citizens do? These boxes contained classified documents and some highly confidential information that should never have gone out of the White House. [Trump](/panache/panache-people-101/donald-trump/profileshow/79057526.cms)with a few charges regarding some classified documents.

Trump's “essentially threatening the country with violence if the laws are applied to him," George Conway says.

"The heat is building up. Yet they're fine when Trump riots are actually putting democracy at risk, when they're trying to overturn an election result," he said. If there was one word to describe their mood, it is 'angry,'" the unidentified attorney told Bratt, according to a "Lindsey, if you are trying to stir up Republican riots, if you think Republicans are going to riot in the street, Republicans are going to riot in the street, they're not above the law," he said. "If there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle… 6 are going through." The pressure is building up. "The irony is so rich, these people that talked about riots, Black Lives Matter riots, it's all they talk about... [both used private email accounts](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cummings-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trumps-private-emails-texts-raise-security-concerns) and messaging apps to conduct government business while working in the Trump White House. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Florida lawmaker and ex-Trump ally, called out Graham for downplaying the Jan. Trump's team has similarly issued warnings to Attorney General Merrick Garland of potential unrest as the Justice Department investigates why he refused to return classified documents. Former President Donald Trump on Sunday shared a video on his struggling Twitter knockoff Truth Social of Sen.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said there'll be riots if Trump is prosecuted for mishandling classified government records while Hillary Clinton was not.

The Justice Department said Trump brought sensitive and classified documents with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office, according to court records. "If they tried to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement there literally will be riots in the street," he said. [ominous re-post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/108903626915945048) of Graham's appearance on Fox News, highlighting the message on his Truth Social platform. A years-long State Department investigation that ended in 2019 found Clinton's use of a private email server put classified information at risk but that there was "no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information." "Most Republicans including me, believe when it comes to Trump, there is no law. [Fox News' "Sunday Night in America."

Justice department's move could undermine former president's request to have a special master filter the documents.

But the justice department’s note in the filing that they had already finished going through the seized materials could serve to undercut Trump’s motion. The to address potential privilege disputes, if any,” [to have a special master](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/20/trump-mar-a-lago-search-fbi-legal-motion) sort through the seized materials to ensure the FBI does not hold on to potentially privileged documents, arguing the justice department should not itself decide what it can use in its investigation. [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mar-a-lago) have completed a review of the documents and identified a number of files that may be privileged and set aside from the evidence cache. [Donald Trump’s](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) resort in Florida were privileged, the justice department said in a court filing on Monday that could undermine the former president’s request to have a special master filter the documents.

Only a "limited set" of the documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home may be protected by attorney-client privilege, ...

[earlier this month](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/serena-williams-retirement-us-open) that she plans to "evolve away from tennis" after the U.S. [Musk lawyers subpoena Twitter whistleblower](/2022/08/29/elon-musk-subpoena-twitter-whistleblower) [Serena Williams' last dance](/2022/08/29/serena-williams-us-open-retirement) It could be the last time we ever get to see the GOAT in action. Make sure you're by a TV Monday night for Serena Williams' first-round match at the U.S. In some respects, it may exceed that benchmark. [flooding in Pakistan](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/28/pakistan-flooding-death-toll-climate-change) from two months of unusually heavy monsoon rains is drawing comparisons to the devastating rains of 2010. [search affidavit](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/donald-trump-fbi-search-lawsuit)for the handling of privileged material, it added. [ODNI also conducts its own assessment](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/27/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-security-risks)of the natural security risks of the top secret documents obtained. [lawsuit filed by Trump](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/donald-trump-fbi-search-lawsuit) last week seeking the appointment of a special master to review the materials seized and prevent the FBI from examining the seized documents until the special master is in place. [willingness to grant the request](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/28/donald-trump-judge-special-master)for a special master and ordered the DOJ to file a public response to Trump's request as well as file, under seal, a more detailed list of the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago and the status of the review of the materials by Tuesday. [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/donald-trump-home-raided-fbi) home may be protected by attorney-client privilege, the Department of Justice said in a [court filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.31.0_5.pdf) Monday.

Trump legal team has requested a special master to review the seized documents for materials covered by legal privilege.

Trump has said he declassified all documents that were at Mar-a-Lago, though there does not appear to be any written evidence of that. The lawsuit is also seeking a “more detailed” property receipt “The Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (“ODNI”) are currently facilitating a classification review of materials recovered pursuant to the search,” the court document reads.

Former President Donald Trump speaks. Former President Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in ...

While Trump has claimed that many of the records are covered by executive privilege, legal experts have raised doubts about how that would apply in this context. The filing Monday did not say explicitly whether Justice Department investigators have actually reviewed the records seized on Aug. Bratt and Gonzalez noted that the filter-team procedures had been approved in the search warrant, granted on Aug. It’s unclear if the team has already done so in this case. the search warrant affidavit to address potential privilege disputes, if any,” the prosecutors wrote. Trump’s delay in filing the motion — he waited nearly two weeks after the Aug.

The Justice Department has completed its review of materials seized in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's home Mar-a-Lago, including some ...

It indicated that FBI agents were looking for materials showing violations of laws against obstruction of justice and the removal of official records, as well as the U.S. The ODNI "is also leading an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of these materials," he wrote. The National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in January. But "the government notes that, before the Court issued its Preliminary Order, and in accordance with the judicially authorized search warrant's provisions, the Privilege Review Team ... Attorney-client privilege often refers to the legal doctrine that protects the confidentiality of communications between an attorney and their client. Cannon ordered the government to publicly respond to Trump by Tuesday.