Sharing my tweets after covering Friday's court hearing in Florida on Special Counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump for keeping national defense information and obstructing the investigation.
Why is this case even going to trial. Trump isn't denying that he had documents. His argument is that he had the right to have them based on the Presidential Records Act. The issues are: does the Presidential Records Act permit the President to keep and maintain documents, if the Presidential Records Act does permit Trump to have the documents, can the Espionage Act be used to circumvent the Presidential Records Act when there is no espionage and was Jack Smith lawfully appointed and could he bring the case in the first place (Ed Meese brief). These are all legal issues that should be decided at summary judgment and BEFORE anybody worries about what box moved where. All of these cases are the same. They have serious legal issues that should have been resolved before even looking at the facts. I cannot understand how these bogus cases have gotten this far..
The justice system is totally corrupt. Question is how long can Judge Canon hold up trying to act accordingly. They may "find" kiddie porn on her computer.
I agree with you. It needs to be firmly established under what statute this case is being prosecuted. Espionage? It continues to look like a legal jumble. Definitely not the way it is supposed to proceed. What a colossal mess.
All of Trump's cases are like that. It is Unconstitutional to impose a fine that is not calibrated to damages, through a civil proceeding without all of the due process required of a criminal penalty. Yet, that goofy NY judge did it.
At the risk of seeming anti-Trump, which I am not at all, I think the thing they have him on is not being fully responsive to the subpoena, yes? In addition to the Espionage Act charges. My question all along has been why was he subpoenaed? This never should have gotten to criminal court. It seems, from other reporting I've heard, that the National Archivist was out to get Trump from the start. It feels very much like a setup. It also seems terribly obvious at this point that all POTUS's have docs that perhaps they shouldn't. This should be settled by quiet means. Maybe another POTUS calls Trump and asks him to be cooperative instead of a raid at Mar a Lago? Or maybe the govt bends over backwards to secure the docs regardless and supports Trump's interpretation as a due courtesy.
An aspect of this that I think isn't obvious to many is that POTUS is the third co-equal branch of govt. There are institutional issues at stake. By comparison, Congress's transparency requirements are much less stringent wrt do documents, and an individual congressional rep or senator's records never become part of the record to begin with. To go to this extent to attack a former POTUS is just so unseemly and unnecessary.
Last. In any event, I have no problem with a former POTUS having classified docs, so...Doesn't bother me in any way shape or form, and to see it as some kind felony is just beyond anything our govt should be doing to a former POTUS, Trump or Obama or Biden.
Walt Nauta is indicted for moving boxes - not destroying them - without knowledge that the FBI had even issued a subpoena. Joe Biden’s ghostwriter destroys evidence that Biden provided him classified documents. He’s not indicted. This tells you everything you need to know.
We have a radical DOJ and radical prosecutors who view criminal proceedings and investigations as a political tool. We have judges who either are radical themselves or insist on treating these political persecutions as if they are legitimate efforts at law enforcement. So, there is no justice for the targets.
Good luck with that...They are breaking, lawyer/client privilege in these cases. Something they found almost impossible in Mob cases. The damage they are doing to American's faith in justice is immeasurable. They don't care. They've gone stark raving mad.
If a defendant can't be confident that his/her conversations with counsel are privileged...Well, you get the picture.
The drones, missiles we shot down tonight headed towards Israel were probable our own !!! ...some of the weapons we left in Afghanistan when Biden and his people orchestrated that brilliant exit 🤨😵💫🤯 ??...
Lucky we have blinken, sullivan, butigeg ....and the rest of that star studded cabinet on the job looking out for us ... 😵💫
So, where is the espionage? I have not heard one shred of anything pointing to espionage. This case should have been dismissed one minute after it was filed. Ridiculous!
I think the visit by an author and publisher in his Bedminster office. The audio has him ruffling papers around and saying “it’s too bad they are still classified, or I could let you see them. But they are classified”. I think Trump wanted to get rid of them. I heard the audio but don’t think there is video. Meaning no proof. That’s my theory.
Julie reading you going over the details of this documents case ......
What is chance in your mind that before trial begins ... one of Trump's lawyers can pick an appropriate spot/issue to use and he can just go for the homerun ???
Remind Cannon of the hypocrisy of how Biden handled documents without being charged, draw clear lines to political/selective prosecution..... and that given history of other President's document handling it was reasonable for Trump to possess documents and contest wanting to turn them over etc...etc...etc.. ???...
And Cannon responds by a firm gavel to the desk and dismisses all charges ???
Thank you Julie, like usual. I have to say... I am 55 years old, an engineer designing profitable USA durable goods paying LOTS of taxes, a volunteer firefighter, and a VFW soldier of many years. Donald Trump, Ronaldus, Nixon, JFK, and Abe are my top five. You will notice that all of them had government operatives work against them in disastrous ways.
I can't even read the fvcking transcript as the government operatives are not named. The Federal Bureau of Intimidation can go fvck themselves. Trump could have simply went along with the corrupt bureaucracy like his four predecessors and didn't. That should be all you need to know with whom to align.
I have long argued that this case should be, more correctly, in a civil court to determine whether or not the papers need to be returned to the National Archives or Mara Lago. My understanding has been that the Clinton, "Socks Drawer" case was the present state of the law and that if there were a difference of opinion about that, the civil courts were where you resolve such matters not the criminal courts.
The only obstruction to that being, the accusation of obstruction on the part of President Trump. A slim argument for Smith to hang his hat on, but at least an argument. Well, this blows that all ta hell, doesn't it?
Julie, I think I'm beginning to love you. Don't tell my wife. 🙄🤷♂️
"The transcript reveals another Michael Flynn-style FBI ambush of a Trump confidant under the ruse of helping agents investigate a matter with national security implications." So disturbing.
So, Walt Nauta and Mr. Olivera both must have Superman X-Ray vision, right?!?!? AND the FBI had a particularly sensitive tracking device ON AND IN THOSE BOXES with on-camera capabilities that recorded the actual event of these men moving boxes.
Prior to the actual moving of the boxes, each of these men used their X-Ray vision to look into the boxes. They did that to identify and obviously had the notable ability to bypass all of the other papers in the box or boxes to make copies of each of the individual papers that had anything to do with any sort of espionage type notations. And, BTW, also those specific materials that indicated that President Trump was already campaigning against Joe Biden for the upcoming presidential election sequence of events.
Of course, including the commotion and already fully planned out invasion and rousting of any of Mayor Muriel Bowser Capitol Police and the rest of her policing agencies that were totally equipped and obviously versed on how to deal with any riotous actions taken by the hordes of infidels who were in the loop to attack the Washington, D.C. Capitol Building on 1-6-21)!
SO, the actual FBI Swat Raid at Trump's address in Florida, was just superfluous actions taken by the gentle and kind FBI agents that were simply passing some time at Mar-A-Lago and just for the fun of it they decided to outfit themselves in riot gear, were fully armed with Swat military firearms including a lighting system and recording gear to capture the beauty of the expansive (yet not very expensive facility and grounds) of President Trump's residence that also encompassed complete and bonafide security provisions for any and all SCIF offices/rooms that may contain those "boxes" that Walt Nauta and Mr. Olivera happened to move from one location to another location within that SCIF office space, that was locked and properly secured (unlike a garage at a beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, that obviously no one could access EVER).
Uh huh... I sure like that my tax dollars are not only going to each and every 3:00 a.m. FBI Swat raid of every single person who was present in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 in any capacity, but I am also paying for Matthew Graves (the Washington, D.C. US Attorney) who is deliberately targeting innocent citizens to prosecute with verve and at the full extent of the Democrat DOJ's, FBI's and CIA's, etc, LAW ability to convict and then incarcerate people of any age and gender (or lack thereof) under Judge Tanya Chutkan's specified desire to push her own special design of TDS proclivities with her henchman Mr. Graves at the helm to carry out such politically Democrat bully pulpit DIRECT LAWFARE!
I just finished reading 102 pages of transcript. I believe the transcript testimony. I do not trust public claims of "video" "showing" "him moving boxes in and out of rooms" directly contradicting hus testimony. SEALs have honor.
The world at psy-ops is a scary pkace. Learn to discern!
Perhaps moving the needle of SEAL Walt Nauta's trustability is government's "tried-& true" methodology to break apart his courtroom reliability. . .one baby step at a time will aggregate to a big step. If they can't destroy what's his name, they can wound him by destroying those close to him. . .and all those "nothing-burger" J6 refugees.
Our country right now is a dumpster 🔥 when it comes to identifying, scrutinizing facts, evidence etc...
Navy veteran bobulinski - who's record has been verified by the navy itself, under oath before congress testifies to lies, wrongdoings of Joe Biden and his family. What comes of it? Nothing.
Donald Trump on other hand is impeached for perceived "implications" of words in a phone call.
Trump being prosecuted for words in Rally where he explicitly states "peaceful".
And as we all know......It goes on and on and on...... dozens of examples...very sad.
Calmer minds WILL prevail if God is in this. . .& His work to establish us (Great Awakening) proves we are a beloved thing & there is far too much of His remnant left in US to turn His gracious back to. Is the left worried. YES they know they've been on thin ice & J6 is akin to Haman's gallows to flaunt Mordecai's execution on. It will be the instrument of their own destruction - & as defendant 503 I have paid an excruciating price since the FBI opened my investigation in March of 2021 including my marriage (served papers 3 weeks after 18 SWAT M4 machine guns assaulted my home dragging wife & daughters out of bed), career (no one hires a terrorist reputation), home (lost $500k on forced divorce sale).
Moving boxes isn't a crime last time I checked. Without x-ray sight there is no way to say what's in them. Nauta also says he moved boxes, but they were going to an oversized truck for transport to the National Archives. So where's the crime?
Why is this case even going to trial. Trump isn't denying that he had documents. His argument is that he had the right to have them based on the Presidential Records Act. The issues are: does the Presidential Records Act permit the President to keep and maintain documents, if the Presidential Records Act does permit Trump to have the documents, can the Espionage Act be used to circumvent the Presidential Records Act when there is no espionage and was Jack Smith lawfully appointed and could he bring the case in the first place (Ed Meese brief). These are all legal issues that should be decided at summary judgment and BEFORE anybody worries about what box moved where. All of these cases are the same. They have serious legal issues that should have been resolved before even looking at the facts. I cannot understand how these bogus cases have gotten this far..
The justice system is totally corrupt. Question is how long can Judge Canon hold up trying to act accordingly. They may "find" kiddie porn on her computer.
I agree with you. It needs to be firmly established under what statute this case is being prosecuted. Espionage? It continues to look like a legal jumble. Definitely not the way it is supposed to proceed. What a colossal mess.
All of Trump's cases are like that. It is Unconstitutional to impose a fine that is not calibrated to damages, through a civil proceeding without all of the due process required of a criminal penalty. Yet, that goofy NY judge did it.
Jack Smith should have to prove espionage beyond a reasonable doubt. I he is not able, the PRA prevails over these facts. Motion to dismiss.
Because the DOJ is corrupt and DC judges are biased against anyone connected to DJT. Same goes for NY judges. It’s sick.
At the risk of seeming anti-Trump, which I am not at all, I think the thing they have him on is not being fully responsive to the subpoena, yes? In addition to the Espionage Act charges. My question all along has been why was he subpoenaed? This never should have gotten to criminal court. It seems, from other reporting I've heard, that the National Archivist was out to get Trump from the start. It feels very much like a setup. It also seems terribly obvious at this point that all POTUS's have docs that perhaps they shouldn't. This should be settled by quiet means. Maybe another POTUS calls Trump and asks him to be cooperative instead of a raid at Mar a Lago? Or maybe the govt bends over backwards to secure the docs regardless and supports Trump's interpretation as a due courtesy.
An aspect of this that I think isn't obvious to many is that POTUS is the third co-equal branch of govt. There are institutional issues at stake. By comparison, Congress's transparency requirements are much less stringent wrt do documents, and an individual congressional rep or senator's records never become part of the record to begin with. To go to this extent to attack a former POTUS is just so unseemly and unnecessary.
Last. In any event, I have no problem with a former POTUS having classified docs, so...Doesn't bother me in any way shape or form, and to see it as some kind felony is just beyond anything our govt should be doing to a former POTUS, Trump or Obama or Biden.
Walt Nauta is indicted for moving boxes - not destroying them - without knowledge that the FBI had even issued a subpoena. Joe Biden’s ghostwriter destroys evidence that Biden provided him classified documents. He’s not indicted. This tells you everything you need to know.
It seems the FBI interview interviewing Nauta without his attorney present would work in his favor.
We have a radical DOJ and radical prosecutors who view criminal proceedings and investigations as a political tool. We have judges who either are radical themselves or insist on treating these political persecutions as if they are legitimate efforts at law enforcement. So, there is no justice for the targets.
Good luck with that...They are breaking, lawyer/client privilege in these cases. Something they found almost impossible in Mob cases. The damage they are doing to American's faith in justice is immeasurable. They don't care. They've gone stark raving mad.
If a defendant can't be confident that his/her conversations with counsel are privileged...Well, you get the picture.
Right-why bother to even have an attorney?
How many people are interviewed by the FBI and they don't even realize what's going on? Mike Flynn as an example.
They got that poor bastard to plead guilty so they would leave his son in peace. Geezzzz, some people's children...
Yes sir!
You're doing yeomen's work, Julie. Thank you for providing information State Media won't publish.
The drones, missiles we shot down tonight headed towards Israel were probable our own !!! ...some of the weapons we left in Afghanistan when Biden and his people orchestrated that brilliant exit 🤨😵💫🤯 ??...
Lucky we have blinken, sullivan, butigeg ....and the rest of that star studded cabinet on the job looking out for us ... 😵💫
Nicely put SS USA!
Mayor Pete you have military experience. Lucky we have you. I'm sure you are a fearless, dynamic warrior.
So, where is the espionage? I have not heard one shred of anything pointing to espionage. This case should have been dismissed one minute after it was filed. Ridiculous!
I think the visit by an author and publisher in his Bedminster office. The audio has him ruffling papers around and saying “it’s too bad they are still classified, or I could let you see them. But they are classified”. I think Trump wanted to get rid of them. I heard the audio but don’t think there is video. Meaning no proof. That’s my theory.
Julie reading you going over the details of this documents case ......
What is chance in your mind that before trial begins ... one of Trump's lawyers can pick an appropriate spot/issue to use and he can just go for the homerun ???
Remind Cannon of the hypocrisy of how Biden handled documents without being charged, draw clear lines to political/selective prosecution..... and that given history of other President's document handling it was reasonable for Trump to possess documents and contest wanting to turn them over etc...etc...etc.. ???...
And Cannon responds by a firm gavel to the desk and dismisses all charges ???
Any chance ??
Thank you Julie, like usual. I have to say... I am 55 years old, an engineer designing profitable USA durable goods paying LOTS of taxes, a volunteer firefighter, and a VFW soldier of many years. Donald Trump, Ronaldus, Nixon, JFK, and Abe are my top five. You will notice that all of them had government operatives work against them in disastrous ways.
I can't even read the fvcking transcript as the government operatives are not named. The Federal Bureau of Intimidation can go fvck themselves. Trump could have simply went along with the corrupt bureaucracy like his four predecessors and didn't. That should be all you need to know with whom to align.
I have long argued that this case should be, more correctly, in a civil court to determine whether or not the papers need to be returned to the National Archives or Mara Lago. My understanding has been that the Clinton, "Socks Drawer" case was the present state of the law and that if there were a difference of opinion about that, the civil courts were where you resolve such matters not the criminal courts.
The only obstruction to that being, the accusation of obstruction on the part of President Trump. A slim argument for Smith to hang his hat on, but at least an argument. Well, this blows that all ta hell, doesn't it?
Julie, I think I'm beginning to love you. Don't tell my wife. 🙄🤷♂️
"The transcript reveals another Michael Flynn-style FBI ambush of a Trump confidant under the ruse of helping agents investigate a matter with national security implications." So disturbing.
Brilliant as always Julie. Looking forward to your coverage as you run from trials to hearings to motions. Thank you for bringing us the truth.
Did SA 1 & SA 2 ambush Nauta? 6 charges. Video?!
I read as much of the Walt Nauta FBI interview. It sounded like a guy trying to schmooze a girl to get into her pants the way the FBI was acting.
Imho, the only way to ever answer the FBI, is the preface every answer with, 'To the best of my recollection'.
So, Walt Nauta and Mr. Olivera both must have Superman X-Ray vision, right?!?!? AND the FBI had a particularly sensitive tracking device ON AND IN THOSE BOXES with on-camera capabilities that recorded the actual event of these men moving boxes.
Prior to the actual moving of the boxes, each of these men used their X-Ray vision to look into the boxes. They did that to identify and obviously had the notable ability to bypass all of the other papers in the box or boxes to make copies of each of the individual papers that had anything to do with any sort of espionage type notations. And, BTW, also those specific materials that indicated that President Trump was already campaigning against Joe Biden for the upcoming presidential election sequence of events.
Of course, including the commotion and already fully planned out invasion and rousting of any of Mayor Muriel Bowser Capitol Police and the rest of her policing agencies that were totally equipped and obviously versed on how to deal with any riotous actions taken by the hordes of infidels who were in the loop to attack the Washington, D.C. Capitol Building on 1-6-21)!
SO, the actual FBI Swat Raid at Trump's address in Florida, was just superfluous actions taken by the gentle and kind FBI agents that were simply passing some time at Mar-A-Lago and just for the fun of it they decided to outfit themselves in riot gear, were fully armed with Swat military firearms including a lighting system and recording gear to capture the beauty of the expansive (yet not very expensive facility and grounds) of President Trump's residence that also encompassed complete and bonafide security provisions for any and all SCIF offices/rooms that may contain those "boxes" that Walt Nauta and Mr. Olivera happened to move from one location to another location within that SCIF office space, that was locked and properly secured (unlike a garage at a beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, that obviously no one could access EVER).
Uh huh... I sure like that my tax dollars are not only going to each and every 3:00 a.m. FBI Swat raid of every single person who was present in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 in any capacity, but I am also paying for Matthew Graves (the Washington, D.C. US Attorney) who is deliberately targeting innocent citizens to prosecute with verve and at the full extent of the Democrat DOJ's, FBI's and CIA's, etc, LAW ability to convict and then incarcerate people of any age and gender (or lack thereof) under Judge Tanya Chutkan's specified desire to push her own special design of TDS proclivities with her henchman Mr. Graves at the helm to carry out such politically Democrat bully pulpit DIRECT LAWFARE!
Oh Whell...it's fun times in the USA, ay!
I just finished reading 102 pages of transcript. I believe the transcript testimony. I do not trust public claims of "video" "showing" "him moving boxes in and out of rooms" directly contradicting hus testimony. SEALs have honor.
The world at psy-ops is a scary pkace. Learn to discern!
Perhaps moving the needle of SEAL Walt Nauta's trustability is government's "tried-& true" methodology to break apart his courtroom reliability. . .one baby step at a time will aggregate to a big step. If they can't destroy what's his name, they can wound him by destroying those close to him. . .and all those "nothing-burger" J6 refugees.
Learn to discern. . .
Our country right now is a dumpster 🔥 when it comes to identifying, scrutinizing facts, evidence etc...
Navy veteran bobulinski - who's record has been verified by the navy itself, under oath before congress testifies to lies, wrongdoings of Joe Biden and his family. What comes of it? Nothing.
Donald Trump on other hand is impeached for perceived "implications" of words in a phone call.
Trump being prosecuted for words in Rally where he explicitly states "peaceful".
And as we all know......It goes on and on and on...... dozens of examples...very sad.
Calmer minds WILL prevail if God is in this. . .& His work to establish us (Great Awakening) proves we are a beloved thing & there is far too much of His remnant left in US to turn His gracious back to. Is the left worried. YES they know they've been on thin ice & J6 is akin to Haman's gallows to flaunt Mordecai's execution on. It will be the instrument of their own destruction - & as defendant 503 I have paid an excruciating price since the FBI opened my investigation in March of 2021 including my marriage (served papers 3 weeks after 18 SWAT M4 machine guns assaulted my home dragging wife & daughters out of bed), career (no one hires a terrorist reputation), home (lost $500k on forced divorce sale).
PTSD is real!
Moving boxes isn't a crime last time I checked. Without x-ray sight there is no way to say what's in them. Nauta also says he moved boxes, but they were going to an oversized truck for transport to the National Archives. So where's the crime?