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Foreign Nuclear Secrets Among Docs Found in Trump Raid: Report

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In a stunning leak from the Department of Justice, a report on Tuesday disclosed information about top secret documents that were reportedly among the files seized by FBI agents at Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month.

Citing sources “familiar with the search,” The Washington Post said the documents detailed a foreign government’s military defenses and nuclear capabilities and can only be viewed by a select group of top officials.

The disclosure was published Tuesday, a day after the former president’s legal team won a request for a special master to review the documents over his lawyers’ concerns the feds would “impugn, leak, and publicize select aspects of their investigation.”

The foreign government described in the highly sensitive documents was not revealed by the sources but the news reportedly heightened concerns about the more than 100 classified documents found at the property and hundreds of others voluntarily recovered from Mar-a-Lago — some of which detail top-secret US operations that even senior national security officers were not aware of, according to the report.

Some special-access programs detailed in the documents were only authorized to be viewed by the president, some Cabinet members, and a couple dozen other government employees on a need-to-know basis, the article said. (Read more from “Foreign Nuclear Secrets Among Docs Found in Trump Raid: Report” HERE)

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Judge Halts Prosecutors From Using Trump Mar-a-Lago Materials for Criminal Investigation

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A judge placed a roadblock on federal prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of documents until a special master is appointed and has completed his or her work.

“The Court does not find that a temporary special master review under the present circumstances would cause undue delay” to the investigation, said U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, granting Trump’s motion for a third-party review to look for privileged materials. She said the government is “temporarily enjoined from further review and use of any materials seized from” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last month “for criminal investigative purposes” until the special master’s review process is complete.

Trump’s legal team argued its client’s constitutional rights were violated and that there may have been privileged documents among those taken by federal officials, and the former president is pursuing the appointment of a special master, often an attorney, to review independently the evidence that the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last month. The Justice Department opposes a third-party review of the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago, warning of the harm such a process could have to national security and the criminal investigation.

Cannon, a Trump appointee, granted Trump’s motion to appoint a special master “to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney client and/or executive privilege.” Cannon ordered that the special master “review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendations thereon, and evaluate claims for return of property.” (Read more from “Judge Halts Prosecutors From Using Trump Mar-A-Lago Materials for Criminal Investigation” HERE)

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Trump Medical Records, Tax Documents Seized in FBI Raid: Judge

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A federal judge revealed Monday that former President Trump’s medical records and documents related to his accounting information and taxes were seized during the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home.

U.S. District Judge from the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen M. Cannon ordered Monday that an independent special master be appointed to review Trump’s records for attorney-client and executive privilege. The judge also ordered the Justice Department stop its own review of the material for investigative purposes.

In the order, Cannon revealed the types of documents that had been seized during the raid.

“According to the Privilege Review Team’s Report, the seized materials include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information,” Cannon wrote.

A source familiar told Fox News that the FBI seized 40 years of Trump’s medical records from Mar-a-Lago during the search. (Read more from “Trump Medical Records, Tax Documents Seized in FBI Raid: Judge” HERE)

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Special Master Granted by Judge in Shock Win for Trump’s Legal Team

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A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint an independent special master to review the documents seized in last month’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, in a shock victory for the former president.

“The court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege,” U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in an order Monday.

The decision has put a “brief pause” into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) ongoing investigation of Trump, as government investigators are now barred from “reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes” until the special master’s review is complete.

Trump’s attorneys requested the appointment of a special master to protect the former president’s rights, arguing that some of the documents taken in the search are “presumptively privileged” because they involve presidential communication with advisers. (Read more from “Special Master Granted by Judge in Shock Win for Trump’s Legal Team” HERE)

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What George W. Bush and Donald Trump Have in Common Is Loaded With Irony

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Donald Trump and George W. Bush may be in the same fraternity because they’re both former presidents, but that doesn’t mean they are friends or allies. Trump openly blamed Bush for buoying the rise of Barack Obama when he first mulled running in 2012. He’s hurled some harsh criticism of the Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan as being a heinous waste of American resources and power. The cessation of endless wars was a Trump foreign policy item, along with the end of neoconservative projects abroad that generated mixed results regarding exporting liberal democracy to the Muslim world, which also came with a ruinously expensive price tag. On foreign policy, the two camps—Bush and Trump—couldn’t be further apart, though on domestic policy—precisely tax policy—the two presidents do share a common trend, and it heavily involves the Democratic Party.

You cannot make up the irony that’s woven into this story. Both presidents proposed massive tax cuts that generated months of sustained economic growth. The Trump tax cuts caused an unprecedented job-creating climate that saw a slew of companies, Apple included, repatriate vast sums of offshore profits. Numerous small businesses doled out bonuses to their workers. Consumer confidence and those of small business owners reached historic highs. The Bush tax cuts led to 52 months of uninterrupted economic growth in the early days of his presidency. The Democratic Party hated both tax bills. Both were used in campaign materials; the Democrats fundraised from them. It was the big giveaway to the wealthy—a trite talking point that doesn’t resonate are carry the same punch with voters since Democrats have an agenda that has abandoned most if not all priorities that benefit the working class. It’s about keeping white, woke, college-educated voters satisfied. (Read more from “What George W. Bush and Donald Trump Have in Common Is Loaded With Irony” HERE)

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Trump Blasts Biden for Attack on ‘MAGA Republicans’

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Former President Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden at a rally Saturday night over a series of presidential speeches that attacked the former president’s supporters.

“Joe Biden came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to give the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president,” Trump told a massive crowd at the rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “Vilified 75 million citizens plus another, probably 75 to 150, if we want to be accurate about it, as threats to democracy and as enemies of the state.”

Biden labeled Trump supporters as a “threat to democracy” in his Thursday speech in Philadelphia but appeared to walk back the remarks on Friday after questions from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy. Biden also accused Republicans of embracing “semi-fascism” during remarks at an Aug. 25 fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and attacked “MAGA Republicans in a Tuesday speech at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

“The enemy, you want to know the enemy of the state, is him and the group that control him which is circling around him,” Trump said. “‘Do this, do that, Joe, do this Joe,’ right? I think Philadelphia was a great choice to make the speech of hatred and anger. His speech was hatred and anger. By the way, the next morning, he forgot what he said.” (Read more from “Trump Blasts Biden for Attack on ‘MAGA Republicans’” HERE)

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Trump Vows to Give Full Pardon and Apology to the Hundreds Convicted in J6 Protests

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Former President Trump promises to protect those convicted in connection to the January 6 protests at the Capitol.

During an interview, Trump vowed to pardon and apologize to the hundreds of people who are currently under investigation if he is elected to a second presidential term in 2024.

“I will tell you, I will look very, very favorably about full pardons. If I decide to run and if I win, I will be looking very, very strongly about pardons. Full pardons… I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” Trump said, adding, “I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind.”

The former president called it a “disgrace” what the government is putting nearly 800 people through.

“And mostly, it’s… they’re firemen, they’re policemen, they’re people in the military,” Trump continued to say. (Read more from “Trump Vows to Give Full Pardon and Apology to the Hundreds Convicted in J6 Protests” HERE)

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Detailed Inventory of Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI Raid Released

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A government inventory of items seized at Mar-a-Lago included a number of classified documents — and dozens of folders marked “classified” that were empty.

The rundown of documents federal agents took, revealed by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, also indicates that agents who took part in the Aug. 8 raid on the 45th president’s home even took such innocuous items as the former president’s clothing, as well as magazine and newspaper clippings he kept.

In all, the property list indicated that 11,179 government documents and photographs seized by the FBI bore no classification markings at all.

By contrast, 54 documents removed from the Palm Beach, Fla., resort were marked “SECRET,” 31 were labeled “CONFIDENTIAL” and another 18 were called “TOP SECRET.”

Agents also took 48 empty folders labeled with “CLASSIFIED” banners while another 42 empty folders were labeled “Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.” It is not clear from the inventory list why the folders were empty. (Read more from “Detailed Inventory of Trump Mar-A-Lago FBI Raid Released” HERE)

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DOJ’s ‘Classified Documents’ Narrative Feels Like a Get-Trump Trick We’ve Seen Before

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Since news first broke of the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Department of Justice has primed Americans to believe that former President Donald Trump hid classified documents at his Florida home in defiance of a grand jury subpoena. But even with leaks pushing claims that the documents seized included potential nuclear secrets, the public remains equally split on whether the Biden administration abused its power in targeting Trump.

With criticism of the raid remaining high nearly a month after the FBI executed the search at the former president’s home, the DOJ on Tuesday escalated its public-relations pitch by releasing several documents that seemingly establish that Trump failed to comply with the subpoena and that his representative lied to the government about the documents retained at Mar-a-Lago. While nothing is impossible, this narrative seems extremely unlikely.

To convince the country of the righteousness of its raid, the DOJ filed three seemingly damning exhibits in the separate lawsuit Trump had filed against the United States seeking the appointment of a special master to oversee the government’s handling of the seized documents. Specifically, the DOJ filed a copy of the subpoena issued to the “Custodian of Records” of “The Office of Donald J. Trump” that directed the custodian to provide “any and all documents or writings in the custody or control of Donald J. Trump and/or the Office of Donald J. Trump bearing classification markings.”

The DOJ attached as another exhibit the “Certification” of the “Custodian of Records,” which noted, “based on the information that has been provided to” the custodian, she was authorized to certify that “a diligent search was conducted of the boxes that were moved from the White House to Florida” and that “the search was conducted after receipt of the subpoena in order to locate any and all documents responsive to the subpoena.” The certification then noted that “any and all responsive documents accompany this certification.” A third exhibit filed by the DOJ depicted several sets of documents with various cover sheets showing their classification marking, such as “Top Secret.” (Read more from “DOJ’s ‘Classified Documents’ Narrative Feels Like a Get-Trump Trick We’ve Seen Before” HERE)

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Biden Tries to Walk Back Speech From Hell: ’I Don’t Consider Any Trump Supporter to Be a Threat’ — After Calling Trump Supporters a Threat

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President Joe Biden tried Friday to walk back his dark political speech from the night before after receiving considerable backlash for trying to portray supporters of former President Donald Trump as radical extremists who threatened the United States.

“I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,” Biden replied when asked by reporters at the White House about why he decided to say that Trump and his supporters were a threat to democracy.

The president tried to narrow his definition of exactly who he was talking about when he said “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country” in his speech Thursday night at Independence Hall in Pennsylvania.

“I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when it’s used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rule – you count votes,” he said. “That is a threat to democracy. Democracy. And everything we stand for.”

Biden tried to walk back his darker assertions, noting that all Trump supporters did not support everything he did. (Read more from “Biden Tries to Walk Back Speech From Hell: ’I Don’t Consider Any Trump Supporter to Be a Threat’ — After Calling Trump Supporters a Threat” HERE)

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