DOJ can resume criminal probe of Mar-a-Lago documents

A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and resort.

The emergency intervention upends a trial judge's order that had blocked federal investigators' work on the documents, and is a strong rebuke of the Trump team's attempt to suggest without evidence that materials were somehow declassified. Trump's options to block the criminal investigation are now dimming with one of his only remaining possibilities being an emergency request to the Supreme Court.
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  1. I could only hope that organizations like the FBI, and the CIA, and homeland security are keeping a close watch on potential threats. There’s a good number of mouth breathing Trump supporters that are up in arms about all this.

    1. Sadly, The Traitorous Grifter will have stragglers still being led by his empty words, his lies and deception. Simply because they can’t fathom being wrong. A Grifters Dream
      On the bright side, some are waking up to the truth.

    2. Are these”mouth breathers” prepared to take on the US military?He may be delusional enough to believe this is his second term but the sane ones know he was voted out.

    1. @Bill Turner sht whos crying were laughing our asses off yo 🤣😆😂🤣😆😂 its getting better and better grab your popcorn bags people..

    1. @Pam Jones I can appreciate that. I do have a genuinely hard time understanding how some can still look at Trump as this all-knowing “leader.” In 2016 he practically ran on this idea that Clinton cannot be trusted because she had personal emails on her State Department server. Fast forward to ‘22 and people are actually saying that an ex president can simply claim that he declassified top secret documents and suddenly… they’re cool with it. I mean, how utterly INSANE it that???!!!

  2. And none of this would have happened if he had just stayed a reality TV host but no, he had to satisfy his ego that only he could solve the world’s problems!

    1. Judge Canon was Suffering from corruptionesia who knew seems like it’s spreads among maga morons is a first sign of its side effects….🤷🏾‍♂️🍿

    1. @C B whats wrong with having documents they are classified but trump can see them? No way nothing will ckme of this if they had anything they would be playing that card already cause mid terms are around the corner theres nothing is a big massive nothing ball.

    2. @Sam’s Mom thats not true….could you all get some facts how weird is this witch hunt of trump is.

    3. @Lynne Posada So Obama can or could have declassified Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and that would be OK with you and the rest of the cult.

    1. Something NEEDS to be done with her.Her logic in her rulings point out no reasonable argument in law or judgement,not to mention the urgency of a national security matter.

    1. I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire 11th Circuit have already read the filings and know this case. Its such a simple but impactful case

  3. So is Judge Dearie’s duty as special master now moot? Or does he still sift through 900 remaining documents (to arrive at the forgone conclusion that Mar-a-Lago isn’t a lawyer’s office and a SM isn’t appropriate) before a possible indictment? CAN WE JUST GET ON WITH IT?

    1. I would speculate there could be unclassified documents regarding Trump’s financial fraud or Jan. 6th criminality, that weren’t part of the search warrant. I’m not sure the DOJ could have access to them?

    2. @Pete
      Yep, everything that isn’t considered dumps privileged or personal property is another NARA violation.

  4. But Trump explained that he could declassify the documents in his mind……No process was needed….
    So, I guess everything is OK. 🤣

  5. Imagine an average worker gets fired, and refuses to leave his job, he talks up a crowd to the point of violence against his employer, and people die. Then he takes home the businesses top secrets. Imagine that the DOJ brings him up on charges, and he gets to appoint his judge, and when he loses, he gets to appoint his Supreme court. This of course has no place in reality, but would you elect him for dog catcher?

    1. Considering that he started inciting the insurrection when he claimed the 2016 election was rigged. He spent four years campaigning and inciting, telling his cult that the only way he could lose in 2020 would be if the election was rigged. When he lost in 2020, he said,”I told you so!” The incitement increased up to Jan 6th, when the insurrection became physical. Since then, the incitement has continued unabated. Threats of violence have escalated, and the insurrection has continued its slow progress toward widespread open bloody rebellion. As the leader of the insurrection, he should be automatically barred from holding any public office, including dogcatcher!

    2. If it makes the appropriately belligerent noises against minorities and traditionally “othered” groups, some people will vote for a ham sandwich

  6. Aileen’s Cannon’s permanent legacy will be that in a decision that mattered to the security of the country, she favored the former president who appointed her over the welfare of the country.

    1. @Courage Karnga Who would even want to risk doing that to someone associated with Trump, you never know what you may catch 🤣!

  7. Didn’t take long. Even though they were trying to delay. Thank goodness for the judge’s that are not standing for it.
    The Florida judge needs to be investigated

    1. @Satanic Microchip v5 A federal judge only answers to congress. Garland has no position of authority over a federal judge.

    2. @Satanic Microchip v5 Well, unless I’m mistaken the only way to remove a federal judge would be through impeachment. However, that could be incorrect.

    3. @GreatWhiteBuckwheat
      Yeah, maybe I’m not 100% on that either, but somewhere in the back of my mind I have some recollection from a law class in highschool, that impeachment is required for the Supremes, but federal judges are a life time appointment that serves at the pleasure of the President as long as they don’t give just cause to be removed.
      So they can’t be moved for partisan reasons, like being appointed by an opposition party administration, but can for deliberate miscarriage of justice, prejudicial rulings, corruption, willful Constitutional/rights violations, etc..
      I think they’re also subject to the state bar they serve under.
      So as long as they just do their job, it’s for life.
      I meant to look it up, but didn’t.
      I could be totally in the weeds too.

    4. @GreatWhiteBuckwheat
      Nope.
      Impeachment by simple house majority, but a 2/3’s senate majority for removal.
      So, yeah…
      I needed an AP elective.
      I barely remember anything from that HS law class, I believe it was one of two C’s I got.
      The other was definitely organic chemistry.
      That sh!t is still confusing.
      And I was a physics nerd..

  8. A million people died on his watch including my father. REMEMBER THAT. A LOT OF USELESS DEATH ALL FOR HIMSELF AND POWER. HE NEEDS TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT

    1. … sorry about your loss …
      What annoyed just about every sane person around the globe is that he made fun of it, people were dying and he was actively contradicting his own health experts, then going on the media and talking about alternative therapies, he promoted hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin … both didn’t work, however the available vaccines did work. He was more interested in Voodoo science and maintaining his public ratings than doing what a country’s leader should be doing, that of listening to the experts and following their advice …

    2. I’m voting for the party that tracked and killed bin Laden, not the party that ignored a presidential DB titled “bin Laden determined to strike within the US”, letting him take down the towers, killing thousands.
      I’m voting for the party that encouraged masks and vaccines, not the party who downplayed the virus and mocked the advice of our own experts, leading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary COVID deaths.
      NEVER forget.
      NEVER again.
      NEVER reward a Republican with your vote.

    3. ​@A its more than a mishandling issue , he was lying to the american people for the sake of his campaign re-electability meant more to this selfish scumbag than a million plus American people young & old , he came up with every excuse under the sun , “the china virus ” the dems hoax” ” flu is worse ” bleach ” he defunded the national strategic stock pile of PPE and other stock piles of medicines in the event of a pandemic which Clinton Bush and Obama and every senior WH official knew was getting closer to being a reality in the USA post Ebola . he lied to america for a straight year ,and cashed out stock ( he & his spawn ) when the lockdown decision was finalized knowing markets would crash and burn

    4. I can relate to you my dad passed away while he was in office of covid. Had he handled it differently and not with his eagle, understand that the vaccine could have been out well before it came out. He is a monster in the human flesh.

  9. Trump said to Hannity on Fox news that ‘the President can de-classify documents and send them to Mar a Lago or wherever’
    OR WHEREVER?! There are DEFINITELY more documents somewhere!

    1. I wondered which was more pathetic, tRump claiming telepathic declassification or Hannity squirming because he knows he has to kiss his a-, uh, ring.

    2. Not another Trump investigation…..they are still trying to drum up charges because if there was anything he would of been gone by now…Wonder will the DOJ ever properly go after the Biden family? Oh sorry, they are the untouchable Democrats….all this money trying to nail Trump and still Nada, but hey Trump is the bad guy…

  10. As a Conservative Independent and Discerning Christian, I say AMEN to the appeals court! Thank You God for Your justice!

    1. @Roselande because all independents aren’t the same. I’m a non partisan independent. At least i was, until Fuhrer trump was elected. Now i will vote blue, until the maga fascists, are purged from what used to be the republican party.

    2. Richard L. This outcome, however welcome..,has nothing to do with any “god”. Just thé lawful conduct of responsible and competent human beings. Cut this sanctmonious Bs. As is typical of your ilk, you seem to exploit any issue, in order to proseliysing your own personal beliefs. So as to ram it in people-minds This constitutes a violation of basic human rights. One does not need a religious faith template in order to behave honorably . So, please refrain. If you can.

    3. @Dominique Brasseur the point of America is freedom from religious persecution. Even atheists can appreciate that. So please refrain.

  11. There’s a lot of people in the GOP that are stoned-tripping-high out of their minds like Mad-Matt-Gaetz thinking they’re going to get away with this noise.

    1. I think a few realise its a house of cards, but they have committed themselves and they are a slave to that really poor decision … knowing there is no easy way out. They also know if they do jump and try to distance themselves that literally everyone will laugh at them

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