Posted on Sep 22, 2022
Trump’s defeat in the Mar-a-Lago "special master" case, explained
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"The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit’s decision in Trump v. United States utterly savages former President Donald Trump’s efforts to slow down a criminal investigation into classified documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida residence. It is equally dismissive of Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal district judge in Florida who ordered the Justice Department to halt this criminal investigation, at least temporarily."
Trump’s defeat in the Mar-a-Lago "special master" case, explained
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My take aways:
- His puppet judge was overruled about the DOJ having to cease looking at the documents.
- Trump is saying evidence was planted by the FBI. Without evidence of course.
- Trump is saying he unilaterally declassified the documents. However, I would make the prima facia argument that declassifying sensitive documents entails a stringent process and there is nothing indicating that has transpired.
The special master hand picked by the Trump team is saying give him proof the secret documents were declassified or Trump would be guilty of illegally having secret documents. Due to the special master’s experience, he is well versed on handling secret documents and the various processes associated with them. The Trump team is incapable of bringing to court said evidence because the declassification never occurred or the Trump team would be crowing about it.
Trump will go down swinging and that means catering to far right groups like Qanon because they will be his foot soldiers. January 6 is proof Trump will resort to violence and does not care who will get hurt and the harm to the country.
- His puppet judge was overruled about the DOJ having to cease looking at the documents.
- Trump is saying evidence was planted by the FBI. Without evidence of course.
- Trump is saying he unilaterally declassified the documents. However, I would make the prima facia argument that declassifying sensitive documents entails a stringent process and there is nothing indicating that has transpired.
The special master hand picked by the Trump team is saying give him proof the secret documents were declassified or Trump would be guilty of illegally having secret documents. Due to the special master’s experience, he is well versed on handling secret documents and the various processes associated with them. The Trump team is incapable of bringing to court said evidence because the declassification never occurred or the Trump team would be crowing about it.
Trump will go down swinging and that means catering to far right groups like Qanon because they will be his foot soldiers. January 6 is proof Trump will resort to violence and does not care who will get hurt and the harm to the country.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM - You are most welcome. I like the proceedings to an extent because the judges beside his primary one are not listening to Trump's BS and appear to be holding his feet to the fire.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
I like the fact he can’t lie to influence the process and he comes across as stupid.
He has said the documents were planted. Then he said just thinking about declassifying the documents will suffice.
I believe the special master has experience with rules, regulations, and laws about classified materials and will call BS on Trump’s verbiage about declassification.
He is also saying give me the proof for planting the papers.SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM
He has said the documents were planted. Then he said just thinking about declassifying the documents will suffice.
I believe the special master has experience with rules, regulations, and laws about classified materials and will call BS on Trump’s verbiage about declassification.
He is also saying give me the proof for planting the papers.SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM
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No one is above the law! Trump is richly getting the attention he craves!
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LTC Eugene Chu
..."Allow me to summarize a federal appeals court decision gutting a series of pro-Trump orders with a single scene from the 1995 failson comedy Billy Madison: As the appeals court decision makes clear, everyone who read Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions benefiting Trump is now less intelligent for having done so.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit’s decision in Trump v. United States utterly savages former President Donald Trump’s efforts to slow down a criminal investigation into classified documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida residence. It is equally dismissive of Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal district judge in Florida who ordered the Justice Department to halt this criminal investigation, at least temporarily.
Notably, the appeals panel includes two other judges who, like Cannon, were appointed by Trump. But these two Trump judges give Cannon no quarter. Their opinion identifies more than a dozen legal errors in Cannon’s decisions, some of them quite obvious and egregious.
One of the central issues in this case, for example, is whether Trump could require the FBI to return more than 100 documents seized from his residence, all of which are marked as classified, because they may be his property. But, as the 11th Circuit notes, the executive order laying out the rules governing classified documents states that such documents are “owned by, produced by or for, or [are] under the control of the United States Government.”
Classified documents, by definition, are not the property of a former government official like Trump.
The upshot of the 11th Circuit’s order is that the FBI may continue its criminal probe into whether Trump violated federal criminal laws governing the handling of national defense information, including the Espionage Act. Trump could conceivably ask the Supreme Court to reinstate Cannon’s original decision, but he is unlikely to prevail there. While the Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority often takes extraordinary steps to ensure that the conservative policies Trump supported during his administration remain in effect, they’ve shown far less personal deference to Trump himself."...
..."Allow me to summarize a federal appeals court decision gutting a series of pro-Trump orders with a single scene from the 1995 failson comedy Billy Madison: As the appeals court decision makes clear, everyone who read Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions benefiting Trump is now less intelligent for having done so.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit’s decision in Trump v. United States utterly savages former President Donald Trump’s efforts to slow down a criminal investigation into classified documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida residence. It is equally dismissive of Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal district judge in Florida who ordered the Justice Department to halt this criminal investigation, at least temporarily.
Notably, the appeals panel includes two other judges who, like Cannon, were appointed by Trump. But these two Trump judges give Cannon no quarter. Their opinion identifies more than a dozen legal errors in Cannon’s decisions, some of them quite obvious and egregious.
One of the central issues in this case, for example, is whether Trump could require the FBI to return more than 100 documents seized from his residence, all of which are marked as classified, because they may be his property. But, as the 11th Circuit notes, the executive order laying out the rules governing classified documents states that such documents are “owned by, produced by or for, or [are] under the control of the United States Government.”
Classified documents, by definition, are not the property of a former government official like Trump.
The upshot of the 11th Circuit’s order is that the FBI may continue its criminal probe into whether Trump violated federal criminal laws governing the handling of national defense information, including the Espionage Act. Trump could conceivably ask the Supreme Court to reinstate Cannon’s original decision, but he is unlikely to prevail there. While the Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority often takes extraordinary steps to ensure that the conservative policies Trump supported during his administration remain in effect, they’ve shown far less personal deference to Trump himself."...
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