The Fargo Public School Board in North Dakota voted on Tuesday to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at school board meetings, citing diversity concerns and the Pledge’s use of the phrase "one nation under God."
The action overturns an earlier decision by the school board to begin reciting the Pledge at meetings. The motion to include the Pledge was approved in March on a 6-2 vote, with Vice President and current board member Seth Holden as well as current board member Jim Johnson voting against the measure.
"I move that the Fargo board of education rescind the action it took on March 22nd, 2022 in which it voted to begin each regular meeting with a Pledge of Allegiance immediately following the call to order," Holden said in the Aug. 9 meeting of the Fargo School Board. Thank you for self-identifying, assholes. Next election? Buh-bye
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The term Banana Republic has been tossed around. The usual suspects are calling it racist. In actuality, the term describes a government where the office holders are irrelevant as an overriding corporate interest is truly calling the shots. Do we fit that definition? All evidence points to yes.
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Beau help him put his jacket on?
So Hunter named his son after the girl he was fvking's husband?
Take off the jackets and the security and this is some real white trash shit.
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Bite-One will resign after talking to family. … forgive us our trespasses as we forgive Bite-One for trespassing….
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Family gathering away from normal risks of surveillance and eavesdropping to pump and dump his meds and consider the off-ramp plans being offered by the Magic Kenyan/Rice/Klain and the power cabal behind them. Hunter's overt presence is a key indicator that his off-ramp pardon has to be a part of the decisions as well as the need to sell the plans to his father. I wish someone could verify the brother Jim shows up in person. These kinds of things need to be exclusively face-to-face.
[Townhall- August 4] The hearing—titled "Revisiting Gain-of-Function Research: What the Pandemic Taught Us and Where Do We Go From Here" and held by the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Subcommittee examined federal investment into the research method that involves the manipulation of pathogens, such as enhancing the transmissibility of viruses to be more contagious and severe to humans.
This public panel on gain-of-function research follows a grave milestone: the COVID-19 health crisis has claimed the lives of over 1 million people in the U.S. alone. Paul, a ranking subcommittee member, noted on Twitter that it was "a year-long process" to get congressional Democrats to "finally agree to a hearing" on the contentious matter "that should've happened long ago."
After more than a million U.S. deaths due to COVID-19, the American people deserve answers. Lots of old news, to Rantburgers, but discussed in Congress, and one Doctor says he will debate anyone who says it did not come from a lab.
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Gain of function is a palatable term for biowarfare research. The biowarfare research that Obama supposedly ended continued off shore, China and other locations. Fauci and the others that allowed this are criminals. As much as I dislike Obama, he did the right thing here and these folks put America at risk. My question to congress and the rest is, while this virus is out and there is nothing we can do about it, where are the rest of the biowarfare weapons in development??? Because we know Wuhan is not the only site, it has the release Obama was worried about, but the other sites are continuing operations. We got lucky with COVID, there are others out there.
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As much as I dislike Obama, he did the right thing here and these folks put America at risk.
You're saying he didn't know that Fauci would continue funding the research in China? Maybe not but that's a real stretch for me.
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Obama and Spector visited and arranged funding for the Ukrainian labs that no one talks about. His policies moved the research overseas where everyone's kids owned a state in the research facilities.
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Washington (CNN)The Internal Revenue Service is finally about to get the additional funding its officials have long been waiting for.
The Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act calls for delivering nearly $80 billion to the IRS over 10 years. After months of negotiations over the sweeping spending package, the Senate passed the bill earlier this month, sending the legislation to the House for a vote before it reaches President Joe Biden's desk.
The funding would help support the work of the IRS -- including but not limited to audits -- and in turn, is expected to bring in more federal tax revenue to help offset the cost of the Democrats' plan to lower prescription drug costs and combat climate change.
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For one year. Appropriations are still an annual event for Congress and sometimes even longer as they seem to be unable to do the one job they're elected for. In Constitution V.2 include the statement that "If Congress fails to pass individual appropriations for each Department and Agency of the Executive and Judicial Branch within one calendar year, all members are barred from reelections, appointments, or contracts for 10 years."
#5
Recruitment problems right off. This is the dream world of a Democrat. Political leanings and social media history will bar most. So you are left with Antifa types who are anti social thug types who for many don't want a job. Emphasis on minority and females. So place those you have given a pass, immigrants; no degree, no drug tests, no basic formal education, no green card, no requirements as applied to American citizens.
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#1 - Apparently they sealed it without giving an actual copy to Trump or his Atty. Makes you say "WTF?", amirite?
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...The warrant is still sealed, and that restriction applies to both parties - were Trump to release it himself before a judge signs off on it, it could land him in a world of hurt. The fact that he's encouraging its release may be a good thing, but we'll see.
As far as 'nuclear weapons', here's the thing - ANYTHING, no matter how trivial it may seem to normal people, involving nuclear weapons is classified unto the seventh generation, selah. It could be a single line on a single page mentioning the budget for general testing or maintenance, and it's classified. It seems like a technicality, but it's absolutely legal. And unfortunately, although the President has the absolute and unquestioned right to declassify (or classify) anything they doggone well please, if there's no paperwork to back up that action, it doesn't count.
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...cause it is 'sealed'. It has judicial implications that parties may not reveal contents until the 'seal' is removed. You can bet if any Trunk associated person would reveal it, they'd be prosecuted on that pretext. If they were Donks, or government agents who released it to their tool the New York Times, nothing would happen.
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If the warrant was in any way beneficial to the dems machinations, NYT and WaPo would have already published it as a "leak."
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"Trump has a copy of it and can make it public whenever he wants, if he believes the FBI, Justice Department and the judge who approved the warrant application acted politically or otherwise in bad faith.
The search warrant, as is often the case, was sealed for a reason, and unsealing it to appease political supporters of Trump – or his detractors – would go against long-standing Justice Department policy and tradition."
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"William Jeffress, a criminal defense attorney who represented former President Richard Nixon, agreed that Trump is "perfectly free to release the warrant and the inventory of items taken."
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Wow. What part of "sealed/could be prosecuted if they (Trump's team) release it" don't you get?
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EC understand they're looking for anything to hammer Trump and his supporters. A Deep State lawyer can lie on a FISA application, get a slap on the wrist and a 'temporary' suspension to practice in DC. They've been going after any lawyer associated with Trump, just look at Giuliana's experience and the number of firms that have dropped Trump upon threats. I don't about 'tradition' cause the enemy doesn't care about tradition, if they can nail someone on the slightest violation they'll do it. The law says you are an officer of the court, you may not violate the rules of the court, period.
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The Atlantic is a once-venerated literary magazine that turned to shit went woke a few years back. I am not saying they are wrong about Trump's attorney having the warrant. I am saying I would not hang my argument on that single source alone.
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The DoJ may have given Trump's attorney... something. Later the "Double secret warrant" will be revealed, if it ever comes to that. I still say the entire situation is another Get Trump™ bomb that blew up in its makers' faces.
I see shredders at DoJ and FBI HQs working overtime.
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"What part of "sealed/could be prosecuted if they (Trump's team) release it" don't you get?"
It seems US Today doesn't get it either:
"Trump has a copy of it and can make it public whenever he wants, if he believes the FBI, Justice Department and the judge who approved the warrant application acted politically or otherwise in bad faith.
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The reason search warrants are sealed, along with the accompanying sworn affidavit by an investigating federal law enforcement agent, is that they provide confidential details of a criminal probe that is operating in secret so as not to tip the government’s hand to those under investigation, according to David Kelley, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
This can't apply to the document that Trump (or his lawyers) were given. I guess this copy only contains what Trump is entitled to know at this point.
"Even if Trump decides to go public with the warrant, he only has a copy of the application for the search warrant. FBI agents never leave the document that spells out the scope and depth of the investigation, which is the affidavit, or statement of facts, filed by one of the investigating agents as part of the application for the search warrant that is presented to a judge, Laufman said."
If he weren't allowed to publish this copy he would have gotten a legal warning.
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I'm not a lawyer and I've never slept in a Holiday Inn but if someone says they have a warrant to search my place but I can't see it, they can piss up a rope.
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I guess people still are naive about the two tiers of justice playing out these days. One set of rules for those who are and work with the Inner Party and another set of rules for those who are not.
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Can we agree at least that classified documents have no business to be stored in Mar-a-Lago?
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I think something being overlooked far and wide on this situation is that it's a definite indicator that the "powers that be" have decided J6 is a damp squib, as far as its potential for ensnaring Trump.
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Ref #23: Can we agree at least that classified documents have no business to be stored in Mar-a-Lago?
My guess (and only a guess) is that the only "classified docs" to possibly be found at Mar-a-Lago were either slipped into the WH boxes while being packed, or carried into the Florida residence by the bureau.
Interesting isn't it, so much of the alleged Trump skullduggery involves matters pertaining to the Intelligence Community? I wonder why that is ?
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I suspect the "nuclear documents" at MAL is the Kim Jong-un letter(s). The DOJ is willing to say anything.
To EC, there are two parts of the sealed warrant. The part the Trump side has and the part the DOJ is still filling out.
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European Conservative, consider my comments from yesterday regarding the Ratcliffe Declassification of the classified holdings regarding criminal abuse by the FBI contractors in 2016 to spy on Trump before the election. Ratcliffe declassified those docs at Trumps direction, a Presdential Power, but there appears to be a claim brewing that the agencies didn't agree they were declassified based on protecting sources and methods. So Trump would think holding them was legal as declassified Presidential papers, and the FBI/Deep State could contend they were still TS/SCI documents.
My comment From Yesterday:
"The complex declassification miasma at the end of the Part 3 article explains in excruciating detail the trap the Deep State/DoJ/FBI have used to keep the final declassification from being completed. It is stunning in its complexity but essentially, even the Presidential Power seems stymied."
* The people making this accusation looked the other way when the Obama Administration doxxed every covert agent from the previous forty years by transferring the OPM database management to Communist China.
* They also looked the other way at the creation of the Sars-CoV-2 virus via funding by Peter Daszak.
* It's all fake drama meant to distract from very real atrocities and protect the perpetrators thereof.
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I did a search for "Trump walls closing in". The earliest article was from December 2016, or about a month after he was elected. This has become sort of like the Road Runner cartoons.
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Let me guess....Russian Nukes!
No no no no, that would be Hillary! and her uranium transfers, keep going, nothing to see there.
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Someone is getting intellectually curb-stomped here...
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"Why would you believe anything the Bolsheviks of the Democratic party and the Deep State have to say?"
It's not about believing someone. Consider me the German who's from Missouri.
I run a company, and if an employee who's been terminated took home sensitive company documents, he'd be in a world of hurt.
It seems to be an undisputed fact that Trump DID take documents (classified or not). We know that because he actually returned some of them after negotiations.
I still wonder: Why did he take them in the first place? Sentimental value? A love letter from Kim?
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See above EC. They are the smoking gun documents that prove the illegal use of our NSA resources to spy on Trump during the 2016 campaign. See the link posted above for the details. The were declassified by the Director of National Intelligence before his departure from office. It is the Intel Community trying to have the DoJ and FBI assert that they were not, in fact, properly de-classified based on protecting sources and methods. This is setting up the protracted legal fight over the President's classification authority, but will actually allow for a protracted legal battle to bar him from the 2024 nomination pending its outcome. He kept the docs because upon a return to office, they name names and criminal acts that would crucify many of the faces behind the puppet show! Thus the desperation and motive for so unprecedented an act against a former President.
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I doubt Trump packed the boxes or gave any thought to classified documents. Careless staff sorters and packers yes. Malicious Orange Man, probably not.
Includes links to warrant and two-page list of property carted off.
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EC. With COVID so many people have been working from home and so many offices were closed because of COVID that argument holds no water. NONE.
Your workers would not have been able to work from home without sensitive documents because in today's corporations every document is considered sensitive. You need documents to work from home.
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I'm talking about employees taking home company documents AFTER their contract has been terminated.
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Let's fine tune this analogy a bit: Let's assume *you* are the CEO of the company, the records in question are your personal notes and records of meetings and expenses. You consider them your property. The government says the records pertain to your taxes and so belong to them.
I think we already know what documents the FBI and DOJ were on a mission to retrieve, and they had nothing to do with nuclear secrets. Try to avoid the shiny things, the pushed narrative, and keep the full context of the last SEVEN YEARS of DC targeting operations as the primary intellectual filter.
Donald Trump held evidence of a politically weaponized U.S. intelligence and justice system. To include an extensive paper trail showing how the DC apparatus under the Obama-era intelligence system, Dept of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Security, Dept of Justice and FBI coordinated with the Hillary Clinton campaign to install her into office {Go Deep}. THAT is the top-secret classified intelligence that must NEVER reach sunlight.
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EC so having documents at home, when you worked from home, prior to being terminated would not be a violation. Think about it. Think hard about it. For a long long time...
Hell they might even be in your deleted files in windows like a president's drug addicted son's laptop.
#46
Do knee-jerk Never Trumpers ever think at all? Can they?
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Oh and is he a real president or a patsy installed by a coup of the deep state and the Democratic (Bolshevik) Uni-Party?
I remember taking heat in Pub in the City of London over him for stealing a speech from Lord Kinnock the leader of the Labour Party.
I was living a penthouse of the company I worked for then in first Apt building just behind and part of the Barbican Centre and Kinnock was in the next building. The man razzing me was the bartender at a different place - The Barbican Hotel who was the head of the local communist party in that part of the City Of London.
I was laughing my head off with the commie bartender that anybody would be so stupid as to plagiarize Kinnock.
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I'm talking about employees taking home company documents AFTER their contract has been terminated.
Well, when the "company" has been funding stuff like Ecohealth Alliance, and creating artificial viruses to kill large numbers of people, it's kind of immoral not to break the classification laws and steal whatever evidence of malfeaseance is available. IMHO. (Hypothetically speaking).
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"Let's fine tune this analogy a bit: Let's assume *you* are the CEO of the company, the records in question are your personal notes and records of meetings and expenses. You consider them your property. The government says the records pertain to your taxes and so belong to them."
First of all, I'm not the CEO of my company, I'm its sole owner. So I can do with the documents what I please. I still need to follow legal requirements (for tax purposes, government regulations etc.).
A CEO doesn't own his company. He might have a lot of discretion with what he can do with company documents, but this power ends when he's rfelieved of his post. So the company can ask or force this Ex-CEO to return company documents. They are not his property.
Presidential records are the property of the United States.
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I hope it isn't new-clear weapons; the Great War of Enunciation in the early 2000s was brutal. Friends lost, lives ruined, semantics in shatters. Drunken unemployed bar flies telling graduates of college chemistry and physics, "You're saying it wrong!" Mass ruin.
#51
If the President doesn't have the authority to declassify documents then damn sure the head of the CIA shouldn't have the authority to classify anything either.
The President is mentioned in the Constitution, powermad praetorians running the CIA or FBI aren't.
Part of this dispute is built around the idea that the people who are really the President's employees have authority but the President himself doesn't.
#52
It was new-culur. And it drove a lot of people out of their minds.
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Presidential records are the property of the United States.
Except for Bath House Barry's. Also, who knows how much of Billy Jeff's "work product" was disappeared?
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CTH calls the the Fourth Branch of Government TFSM. Its their power that they think superseded that of the President. And they aren't accountable to anyone except themselves, hidden behind the National Security apparatus many of us, me included so carefully built and Obama/Holder weaponized. This is existential for them because Trump plans to drive a stake into it when reelected.
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Noted German members of Bilderberg Group (Wikipeida)
Germany
Joschka Fischer (2008), Foreign Minister 1998–2005[48]
Ursula von der Leyen (2015-2016, 2018–2019),[16][49][50] Minister of Defence
Thomas de Maizière (2016),[16] Minister of the Interior, Federal Ministry of the Interior
Angela Merkel (2005), German Chancellor[48]
Wolfgang Schäuble (2016),[16] Minister of Finance
Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor[14]
Klaus Schwab (2016),[16] Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Jens Spahn (2017),[29] Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Ministry of Finance
Peer Steinbrück (2011), German Chancellor Candidate[51]
Linda Teuteberg (2019),[50] General Secretary, Free Democratic Party
Stanislaw Tillich (2016),[16] Minister-President of Saxony
Jürgen Trittin (2012), Environment Minister 1998–2005[48]
Guido Westerwelle (2007),[52] Chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany (deceased)
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48 Hour Rule, guys. Events are moving quickly around this thing, and soon enough we will have facts, not just speculation and cries of rage published from both sides of the political spectrum... though the number of those who until Wednesday were anti-Trump and are now appalled at what the FBI and the Justice Dept have wrought is growing — a hopeful sign for the Republic.
In the meantime, a recollection that European Conservative in on our side, even if he has never liked or trusted Mr. Trump, is in order, and vice versa.
[Washington Examiner] The documents sought by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate this week included material labeled "special access," a label reserved for information even more classified than "top secret," according to reports.
The classified information that Justice Department officials believe Trump took with him to his West Palm Beach, Florida, home after leaving the White House last year was so sensitive that authorities wanted to take it into possession immediately, according to the reports.
Sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News and the New York Times that the DOJ and the FBI were looking for material labeled "special access," which is a designation beyond top secret and reserved for documents accessible only by the highest level security clearances that are only available to a limited number of individuals. The reports indicate that sensitive documents, related to some of the most highly classified U.S. programs, had national security implications, and government officials expressed concern that allowing the materials to remain at Mar-a-Lago could leave them vulnerable to foreign adversaries seeking to acquire them.
The documents wanted by the FBI that prompted the raid on Trump's home appear to have been related to nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. It remains unclear whether the agency found any nuclear documents.
The inventory of items taken from Mar-a-Lago provided to Trump’s team after the raid is unlikely to reveal details about the specific documents he kept in Florida because of the sensitive nature of the material, according to the reports.
The ABC News report claims that federal investigators have questioned individuals close to the former president, including some members of his current staff and some former White House officials, about the documents he stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump reportedly received a subpoena in the spring in search of documents that investigators believed he had failed to hand over earlier in the year when 15 boxes of material from the White House were turned over to the National Archives. Archivists discovered several pages of classified material among the boxes of documents and flagged their discovery to the Justice Department, according to the New York Times, which prompted officials to come to believe that more classified material remained at Mar-a-Lago.
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...labeled "special access," a label reserved for information even more classified than "top secret," according to reports.
Your reports are wrong. There is no more classified than top secret. The most restrictive version of it is a Top Secret SCI (sensitive compartmented information) most often known as TS/SCI and the most sensitive stuff out there usually has a lifestyle polygraph with it.
#9
/\ He had a second 'football' with launch codes in Melania's thong and sock drawer. SAP caveat (STIFF THONG). Fear based 'duck & cover' tactics. But, but, but they always worked in the past.
Ahiiiiiii! Look dimmit! Over here...we're all going to die....someday.
[WSJ] FBI Quest for Trump Documents Started With Breezy Chats, Tour of a Crowded Closet: Why interactions between FBI, Trump team soured remains a mystery
Around lunchtime on June 3, a senior Justice Department national security supervisor and three FBI agents arrived at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida to discuss boxes with government records sitting in a basement storage room along with suits, sweaters and golf shoes.
In the following weeks, however, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club after the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier in the year, people familiar with the matter said. And Justice Department officials had doubts that the Trump team was being truthful regarding what material remained at the property, one person said. Newsweek earlier reported on the source of the FBI’s information.
Two months later, two dozen Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were back at Mar-a-Lago with a warrant predicated on convincing a federal magistrate judge that there was evidence a crime may have been committed. After hours at the property, the agents took the boxes away in a Ryder truck.
Many elements of what happened between those events—one seemingly cordial, the other unheard of—remain unknown. But the episode points to a sharp escalation in the Justice Department’s inquiry into Mr. Trump, which also includes an investigation into the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol. And it has prompted outrage from Republicans, who have rallied around Mr. Trump as he contemplates running again for president.
The mystery may only be resolved by the Justice Department’s next steps. FBI Director Christopher Wray, appointed by Mr. Trump in 2017, on Wednesday referred questions to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.
Mr. Trump and his lawyers contend they have cooperated with a monthslong effort by the government to retrieve some of the material he took from the White House and expressed outrage with Monday’s unannounced visit to Mar-a-Lago. A timeline of events, they say, demonstrates this cooperation, down to quickly fulfilling the June request to place a new lock on the storage door.
Monday’s search came after weeks of internal deliberation among senior Justice Department and FBI officials and marked an escalation of their investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified material, people familiar with the matter said.
The controversy began after Mr. Trump left office, when the National Archives and Records Administration reached out to his team to ask for what it thought were missing records. All official documents are required to be turned over under the Watergate-era Presidential Records Act.
The Archives in January retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from Mar-a-Lago.
The boxes contained some documents archives officials described only as “classified national security information,” prompting them to refer the matter to the Justice Department for investigation.
Aides to Mr. Trump have said they had been cooperating with the department to get the matter settled. The former president even popped into the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, shaking hands. “I appreciate the job you’re doing,” he said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. “Anything you need, let us know.”
Five days later, Trump attorney Evan Corcoran received an email from Mr. Bratt, the chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section, who oversees investigations involving classified information.
“We ask that the room at Mar-a-Lago where the documents had been stored be secured and that all the boxes that were moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago (along with any other items in that room) be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice,” according to what was read to The Wall Street Journal over the phone.
Mr. Corcoran wrote back, “Jay, thank you. I write to acknowledge receipt of this letter. With best regards, Evan.” By the next day, according to a person familiar with the events, a larger lock was placed on the door. It was the last communication between the men until Monday’s search of Mar-a-Lago, according to the person.
On June 22, the Trump Organization, the name for Mr. Trump’s family business, received a subpoena for surveillance footage from cameras at Mar-a-Lago. That footage was turned over, according to an official.
On a sunny Monday morning, Aug. 8, a new set of agents arrived and began a search for documents at around 9 a.m. The warrant, signed by a judge in Palm Beach County, refers to the Presidential Records Act and possible violation of law over handling of classified information, according to Christina Bobb, a lawyer for the former president. The warrant hasn’t been made public by Mr. Trump nor has the inventory of documents retrieved by the government.
FBI officials showed up with instructions to keep the search as unobtrusive as possible, with agents dressed in plainclothes and told not to take any weapons, people familiar with the plan said. The Secret Service was notified and then Mr. Trump’s lawyers. On site, the FBI asked for several things, according to a person familiar, including a diagram of the sprawling building and that surveillance cameras be turned off, citing officer safety.
Dressed in T-shirts and cargo pants, the agents targeted three rooms—a bedroom, an office and a storage room, one of the people said. The agents went undetected for most of the day until a Florida political blogger tweeted about it and Mr. Trump issued a statement saying his home was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
At the end of the day, they hauled away roughly 10 more boxes of material, some of the people said. The seized documents remain with the FBI’s Miami field office, a person familiar with them said.
“Monday’s brazen raid was not just unprecedented, it was completely unnecessary,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said. “President Trump and his representatives have gone to painstaking lengths in communicating and cooperating with all the appropriate agencies.”
In the days since then, Mr. Trump’s associates have been reaching out to defense attorneys to see if they would represent Mr. Trump in the matter, a sign of concern over the former president’s potential legal trouble.
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UPDATED: OCT 16, 2018 | ORIGINAL: JUN 12, 2018
How Presidential Records Became Public After Watergate
After President Nixon refused to release his secret tapes, Congress ruled that they were the government’s property, not his.
BY BECKY LITTLE
When it comes to the office of the president, all official documents belong to history. That’s due to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which Congress passed to avert another Watergate.
Before the Presidential Records Act, archiving presidential records was an unofficial norm. Franklin D. Roosevelt set the precedent in 1940 when he established the first presidential library and began donating his papers there. After that, records preservation became a policy that Congress didn’t feel the need to enforce through legislation until the 1970s, when Richard M. Nixon very publicly broke it.
Following more recent elaborate presidential scandals, it’s easy to forget that the 1972-74 Watergate scandal was a complex mess. One of the big legal questions involved whether or not Nixon had an obligation to turn over his secret tapes, which Congress suspected might contain incriminating information.
At the time, presidential records were still legally considered a president’s private property. Nixon could donate them to the National Archives, but the archives could not demand them—and Nixon didn’t think Congress could either. Rather than face impeachment, Nixon resigned in 1974 and threatened to destroy the tapes.
Transcripts of edited versions of many of President Nixon's Watergate conversations arriving on Capitol Hill to be turned over to the House Judiciary Committee.
As a stopgap measure, Congress passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 to seize Nixon records pertaining to Watergate and government abuse and preserve them in the National Archives. The government obtained most of the recordings, though it never discovered what had been on one of the tape’s famous 18-and-a-half-minute gap.
Four years later, Congress passed the broader Presidential Records Act that required every president to archive official records (the 1974 act only applied to Nixon). The new act went into effect in 1981, when Ronald Reagan began his term.
Crucially, the 1978 act established that presidential records are not a president’s private property; they are public property that belongs to the government. In 2014, Congress updated the act to include electronic records like email and Twitter, the latter of which President Donald Trump regularly used to make public announcements about firings, policy and foreign relations before being banned from the service.
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Since the enactment of the PRA, several executive branch appointees have been held in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents when requested.[9]
In June 2018, Politico reported that President Donald Trump frequently and routinely would tear up papers he received, resulting in government officials taping them together for archiving to ensure that Trump did not violate the Presidential Records Act.[10]
In July 2018, Business Insider reported that President Trump gave his personal cellphone number to various world leaders, having unrecorded conversations with them completely without U.S. officials' knowledge.[11]
In July 2018, CNN reported that The White House had suspended the practice of publishing public summaries of President Donald Trump's phone calls with world leaders, bringing an end to a common exercise from previous administrations.[12]
In May 2019, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the National Security Archive, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging that President Donald Trump and senior advisers such as Jared Kushner were failing to meet their legal obligations under the Presidential Records Act to create and to preserve records of top-level meetings with foreign leaders.[13][14]
In October 2019, an outgoing information security officer warned that with the transfer to the White House Communications Agency, political appointees would be in charge of electronic records.[15]
In December 2020, a group of historians sued (National Security Archive v. Trump, 20-cv-03500, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) the Trump administration over its failure to preserve historical records in violation of the Presidential Records Act. Specifically they claimed that Jared Kushner was in violation of the Act by taking screen shots of his WhatsApp posts that do not include metadata, attachments, or other digital artifacts needed to authenticate the information.[16][17] In January 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed the lower courts to dismiss the CREW v. Trump case (and a similar case brought by Maryland and the District of Columbia) as moot, because Trump was no longer president.[18]
In February 2022, it was revealed that 15 boxes of documents containing important records from his presidency, such as communications, gifts, and letters from world leaders, had been recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence by the National Archives the previous month. This suggests that Trump used his Florida home to retain possession of presidential documents in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act.[19][20] Some of the recovered documents were marked as classified, including some at the "top secret" level.[21][22]
On August 8, 2022, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents executed a search warrant of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence as part of the investigation into his mishandling of presidential documents.[23] However, as of August 11, 2022, no violation has been alleged.
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44 USC Ch. 22: PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS
From Title 44—PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 22—PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS
Sec.
2201.Definitions.
2202.Ownership of Presidential records.
2203.Management and custody of Presidential records.
2204.Restrictions on access to Presidential records.
2205.Exceptions to restriction on access.1
2206.Regulations.
2207.Vice-Presidential records.
2208.Claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure.
2209.Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–187, §2(a)(3), (e)(2), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2005, 2007, added items 2208 and 2209.
1 So in original. Does not conform to section catchline.
§2201. Definitions
As used in this chapter—
(1) The term "documentary material" means all books, correspondence, memoranda, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures, including, but not limited to, audio and visual records, or other electronic or mechanical recordations, whether in analog, digital, or any other form.
(2) The term "Presidential records" means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President's immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term—
(A) includes any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of the President's staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; but
(B) does not include any documentary materials that are (i) official records of an agency (as defined in section 552(e) 1 of title 5, United States Code); (ii) personal records; (iii) stocks of publications and stationery; or (iv) extra copies of documents produced only for convenience of reference, when such copies are clearly so identified.
(3) The term "personal records" means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion therof,2 of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term includes—
(A) diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;
(B) materials relating to private political associations, and having no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; and
(C) materials relating exclusively to the President's own election to the office of the Presidency; and materials directly relating to the election of a particular individual or individuals to Federal, State, or local office, which have no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.
(4) The term "Archivist" means the Archivist of the United States.
(5) The term "former President", when used with respect to Presidential records, means the former President during whose term or terms of office such Presidential records were created.
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 552(e) of title 5, referred to in par. (2)(B)(i), was redesignated section 552(f) of title 5 by section 1802(b) of Pub. L. 99–570.
Amendments
2014—Par. (1). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(b)(1), substituted "memoranda" for "memorandums" and "audio and visual records" for "audio, audiovisual" and inserted ", whether in analog, digital, or any other form" after "mechanical recordations".
Par. (2). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(2), substituted "the President's" for "his" in introductory provisions and in subpar. (A).
Pub. L. 113–187, §2(b)(2), substituted "advise or assist" for "advise and assist" in introductory provisions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 95–591, §3, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2528, provided that: "The amendments made by this Act [enacting this chapter, amending sections 2111 and 2112 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section] shall be effective with respect to any Presidential records (as defined in section 2201(2) of title 44, as amended by section 2 of this Act) created during a term of office of the President beginning on or after January 20, 1981."
Short Title of 1978 Amendment
For short title of Pub. L. 95–591, which enacted this chapter, as the "Presidential Records Act of 1978", see section 1 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.
Separability
Pub. L. 95–591, §4, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2528, provided that: "If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter, amending sections 2107 and 2108 of this title and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section] is held invalid for any reason by any court, the validity and legal effect of the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby."
1 See References in Text note below.
2 So in original. Probably should be "thereof,".
§2202. Ownership of Presidential records
The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
§2203. Management and custody of Presidential records
(a) Through the implementation of records management controls and other necessary actions, the President shall take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of the President's constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented and that such records are preserved and maintained as Presidential records pursuant to the requirements of this section and other provisions of law.
(b) Documentary materials produced or received by the President, the President's staff, or units or individuals in the Executive Office of the President the function of which is to advise or assist the President, shall, to the extent practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately.
(c) During the President's term of office, the President may dispose of those Presidential records of such President that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value if—
(1) the President obtains the views, in writing, of the Archivist concerning the proposed disposal of such Presidential records; and
(2) the Archivist states that the Archivist does not intend to take any action under subsection (e) of this section.
(d) In the event the Archivist notifies the President under subsection (c) that the Archivist does intend to take action under subsection (e), the President may dispose of such Presidential records if copies of the disposal schedule are submitted to the appropriate Congressional Committees at least 60 calendar days of continuous session of Congress in advance of the proposed disposal date. For the purpose of this section, continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the days in which Congress is in continuous session.
(e) The Archivist shall request the advice of the Committee on Rules and Administration and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight and the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives with respect to any proposed disposal of Presidential records whenever the Archivist considers that—
(1) these particular records may be of special interest to the Congress; or
(2) consultation with the Congress regarding the disposal of these particular records is in the public interest.
(f) During a President's term of office, the Archivist may maintain and preserve Presidential records on behalf of the President, including records in digital or electronic form. The President shall remain exclusively responsible for custody, control, and access to such Presidential records. The Archivist may not disclose any such records, except under direction of the President, until the conclusion of a President's term of office, if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, or such other period provided for under section 2204 of this title.
(g)(1) Upon the conclusion of a President's term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President. The Archivist shall have an affirmative duty to make such records available to the public as rapidly and completely as possible consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
(2) The Archivist shall deposit all such Presidential records in a Presidential archival depository or another archival facility operated by the United States. The Archivist is authorized to designate, after consultation with the former President, a director at each depository or facility, who shall be responsible for the care and preservation of such records.
(3) When the President considers it practicable and in the public interest, the President shall include in the President's budget transmitted to Congress, for each fiscal year in which the term of office of the President will expire, such funds as may be necessary for carrying out the authorities of this subsection.
(4) The Archivist is authorized to dispose of such Presidential records which the Archivist has appraised and determined to have insufficient administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value to warrant their continued preservation. Notice of such disposal shall be published in the Federal Register at least 60 days in advance of the proposed disposal date. Publication of such notice shall constitute a final agency action for purposes of review under chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code.
(Added Pub. L. 95–591, §2(a), Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2524; amended Pub. L. 104–186, title II, §223(9), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1752; Pub. L. 113–187, §§2(c), 8(3), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2006, 2011; Pub. L. 114–136, §3, Mar. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 305.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2016—Subsec. (g)(3), (4). Pub. L. 114–136 added par. (3) and redesignated former par. (3) as (4).
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(A), substituted "the President's" for "his".
Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(1), substituted "preserved and maintained" for "maintained".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(B), substituted "the President's" for "his".
Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(2), substituted "advise or assist" for "advise and assist".
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(C)(i), substituted "the President's" for "his" and "those Presidential records of such President" for "those of his Presidential records" in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(C)(ii), substituted "the Archivist does" for "he does".
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(D), substituted "the Archivist does" for "he does".
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(E), substituted "the Archivist considers" for "he considers" in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(4), added subsec. (f). Former subsec. (f) redesignated (g).
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(3), redesignated subsec. (f) as (g).
Subsec. (g)(1). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(5), substituted "this chapter" for "this Act".
Subsec. (g)(3). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(3)(F), substituted "the Archivist has" for "he has".
1996—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–186 substituted "House Oversight" for "House Administration".
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Committee on Governmental Affairs of Senate changed to Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of Senate, effective Jan. 4, 2005, by Senate Resolution No. 445, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Oct. 9, 2004.
Committee on House Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on House Administration of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999.
Committee on Government Operations of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999. Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019.
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Executive Documents
Classified National Security Information
For provisions authorizing Archivist to review, downgrade, and declassify information of former Presidents under control of Archivist pursuant to this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 13526, §3.5(b), Dec. 29, 2009, 75 F.R. 718, set out as a note under section 3161 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
§2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records
(a) Prior to the conclusion of a President's term of office or last consecutive term of office, as the case may be, the President shall specify durations, not to exceed 12 years, for which access shall be restricted with respect to information, in a Presidential record, within one or more of the following categories:
(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and (B) in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order;
(2) relating to appointments to Federal office;
(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than sections 552 and 552b of title 5, United States Code), provided that such statute (A) requires that the material be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of material to be withheld;
(4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;
(5) confidential communications requesting or submitting advice, between the President and the President's advisers, or between such advisers; or
(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
(b)(1) Any Presidential record or reasonably segregable portion thereof containing information within a category restricted by the President under subsection (a) shall be so designated by the Archivist and access thereto shall be restricted until the earlier of—
(A)(i) the date on which the former President waives the restriction on disclosure of such record, or
(ii) the expiration of the duration specified under subsection (a) for the category of information on the basis of which access to such record has been restricted; or
(B) upon a determination by the Archivist that such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, or of any significant element or aspect of the information contained in such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, has been placed in the public domain through publication by the former President, or the President's agents.
(2) Any such record which does not contain information within a category restricted by the President under subsection (a), or contains information within such a category for which the duration of restricted access has expired, shall be exempt from the provisions of subsection (c) until the earlier of—
(A) the date which is 5 years after the date on which the Archivist obtains custody of such record pursuant to section 2203(d)(1); 1 or
(B) the date on which the Archivist completes the processing and organization of such records or integral file segment thereof.
(3) During the period of restricted access specified pursuant to subsection (b)(1), the determination whether access to a Presidential record or reasonably segregable portion thereof shall be restricted shall be made by the Archivist, in the Archivist's discretion, after consultation with the former President, and, during such period, such determinations shall not be subject to judicial review, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section. The Archivist shall establish procedures whereby any person denied access to a Presidential record because such record is restricted pursuant to a determination made under this paragraph, may file an administrative appeal of such determination. Such procedures shall provide for a written determination by the Archivist or the Archivist's designee, within 30 working days after receipt of such an appeal, setting forth the basis for such determination.
(c)(1) Subject to the limitations on access imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), Presidential records shall be administered in accordance with section 552 of title 5, United States Code, except that paragraph (b)(5) of that section shall not be available for purposes of withholding any Presidential record, and for the purposes of such section such records shall be deemed to be records of the National Archives and Records Administration. Access to such records shall be granted on nondiscriminatory terms.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to confirm, limit, or expand any constitutionally-based privilege which may be available to an incumbent or former President.
(d) Upon the death or disability of a President or former President, any discretion or authority the President or former President may have had under this chapter, except section 2208, shall be exercised by the Archivist unless otherwise previously provided by the President or former President in a written notice to the Archivist.
(e) The United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction over any action initiated by the former President asserting that a determination made by the Archivist violates the former President's rights or privileges.
(f) The Archivist shall not make available any original Presidential records to any individual claiming access to any Presidential record as a designated representative under section 2205(3) of this title if that individual has been convicted of a crime relating to the review, retention, removal, or destruction of records of the Archives.
(Added Pub. L. 95–591, §2(a), Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2525; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, §107(b)(7), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2287; Pub. L. 113–187, §§2(a)(2)(A), (d), 8(4), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2005, 2006, 2011.)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), probably means Pub. L. 95–591, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2523, known as the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which enacted this chapter, amended sections 2107 and 2108 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 2201 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1978 Amendment note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(4)(A)(i), substituted "a President's" for "his" in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(4)(A)(ii), substituted "the President's" for "his".
Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(4)(B)(i), substituted "the President's" for "his".
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(4)(B)(ii), substituted "the Archivist's discretion" for "his discretion" and "the Archivist's designee" for "his designee".
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(a)(2)(A), inserted ", except section 2208," after "chapter".
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(d), added subsec. (f).
1984—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted "National Archives and Records Administration" for "National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration".
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1984 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Executive Documents
Executive Order No. 12667
Ex. Ord. No. 12667, Jan. 18, 1989, 54 F.R. 3403, which established policies and procedures governing the assertion of Executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in connection with the release of Presidential records by the National Archives and Records Administration pursuant to this chapter, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 13233, §13, Nov. 1, 2001, 66 F.R. 56029, formerly set out below.
Executive Order No. 13233
Ex. Ord. No. 13233, Nov. 1, 2001, 66 F.R. 56025, which related to further implementation of the Presidential Records Act, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 13489, §6, Jan. 21, 2009, 74 F.R. 4671, set out below.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in connection with the release of Presidential records by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pursuant to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) "Archivist" refers to the Archivist of the United States or his designee.
(b) "NARA" refers to the National Archives and Records Administration.
(c) "Presidential Records Act" refers to the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2201–2207.
(d) "NARA regulations" refers to the NARA regulations implementing the Presidential Records Act [of 1978], 36 C.F.R. Part 1270.
(e) "Presidential records" refers to those documentary materials maintained by NARA pursuant to the Presidential Records Act, including Vice Presidential records.
(f) "Former President" refers to the former President during whose term or terms of office particular Presidential records were created.
(g) A "substantial question of executive privilege" exists if NARA's disclosure of Presidential records might impair national security (including the conduct of foreign relations), law enforcement, or the deliberative processes of the executive branch.
(h) A "final court order" is a court order from which no appeal may be taken.
Sec. 2. Notice of Intent to Disclose Presidential Records. (a) When the Archivist provides notice to the incumbent and former Presidents of his intent to disclose Presidential records pursuant to section 1270.46 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist, using any guidelines provided by the incumbent and former Presidents, shall identify any specific materials, the disclosure of which he believes may raise a substantial question of executive privilege. However, nothing in this order is intended to affect the right of the incumbent or former Presidents to invoke executive privilege with respect to materials not identified by the Archivist. Copies of the notice for the incumbent President shall be delivered to the President (through the Counsel to the President) and the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel). The copy of the notice for the former President shall be delivered to the former President or his designated representative.
(b) Upon the passage of 30 days after receipt by the incumbent and former Presidents of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Archivist may disclose the records covered by the notice, unless during that time period the Archivist has received a claim of executive privilege by the incumbent or former President or the Archivist has been instructed by the incumbent President or his designee to extend the time period for a time certain and with reason for the extension of time provided in the notice. If a shorter period of time is required under the circumstances set forth in section 1270.44 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist shall so indicate in the notice.
Sec. 3. Claim of Executive Privilege by Incumbent President. (a) Upon receipt of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Attorney General (directly or through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel) and the Counsel to the President shall review as they deem appropriate the records covered by the notice and consult with each other, the Archivist, and such other executive agencies as they deem appropriate concerning whether invocation of executive privilege is justified.
(b) The Attorney General and the Counsel to the President, in the exercise of their discretion and after appropriate review and consultation under subsection (a) of this section, may jointly determine that invocation of executive privilege is not justified. The Archivist shall be notified promptly of any such determination.
(c) If either the Attorney General or the Counsel to the President believes that the circumstances justify invocation of executive privilege, the issue shall be presented to the President by the Counsel to the President and the Attorney General.
(d) If the President decides to invoke executive privilege, the Counsel to the President shall notify the former President, the Archivist, and the Attorney General in writing of the claim of privilege and the specific Presidential records to which it relates. After receiving such notice, the Archivist shall not disclose the privileged records unless directed to do so by an incumbent President or by a final court order.
Sec. 4. Claim of Executive Privilege by Former President. (a) Upon receipt of a claim of executive privilege by a living former President, the Archivist shall consult with the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel), the Counsel to the President, and such other executive agencies as the Archivist deems appropriate concerning the Archivist's determination as to whether to honor the former President's claim of privilege or instead to disclose the Presidential records notwithstanding the claim of privilege. Any determination under section 3 of this order that executive privilege shall not be invoked by the incumbent President shall not prejudice the Archivist's determination with respect to the former President's claim of privilege.
(b) In making the determination referred to in subsection (a) of this section, the Archivist shall abide by any instructions given him by the incumbent President or his designee unless otherwise directed by a final court order. The Archivist shall notify the incumbent and former Presidents of his determination at least 30 days prior to disclosure of the Presidential records, unless a shorter time period is required in the circumstances set forth in section 1270.44 of the NARA regulations. Copies of the notice for the incumbent President shall be delivered to the President (through the Counsel to the President) and the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel). The copy of the notice for the former President shall be delivered to the former President or his designated representative.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001, is revoked.
Barack Obama.
1 So in original. Probably should be "2203(g)(1);".
§2205. Exceptions to restricted access
Notwithstanding any restrictions on access imposed pursuant to sections 2204 and 2208 of this title—
(1) the Archivist and persons employed by the National Archives and Records Administration who are engaged in the performance of normal archival work shall be permitted access to Presidential records in the custody of the Archivist;
(2) subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke, Presidential records shall be made available—
(A) pursuant to subpoena or other judicial process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction for the purposes of any civil or criminal investigation or proceeding;
(B) to an incumbent President if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of the incumbent President's office and that is not otherwise available; and
(C) to either House of Congress, or, to the extent of matter within its jurisdiction, to any committee or subcommittee thereof if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of its business and that is not otherwise available; and
(3) the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or the former President's designated representative.
(Added Pub. L. 95–591, §2(a), Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2527; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, §107(b)(7), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2287; Pub. L. 113–187, §§2(a)(2)(B), 8(5), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2005, 2012.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–187, §2(a)(2)(B)(i), substituted "sections 2204 and 2208 of this title" for "section 2204" in introductory provisions.
Par. (2)(A). Pub. L. 113–187, §2(a)(2)(B)(ii), substituted "subpoena" for "subpena".
Par. (2)(B). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(5)(A), substituted "the incumbent President's" for "his".
Par. (3). Pub. L. 113–187, §8(5)(B), substituted "the former President's" for "his".
1984—Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted "National Archives and Records Administration" for "National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration".
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1984 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
§2206. Regulations
The Archivist shall promulgate in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Such regulations shall include—
(1) provisions for advance public notice and description of any Presidential records scheduled for disposal pursuant to section 2203(f)(3); 1
(2) provisions for providing notice to the former President when materials to which access would otherwise be restricted pursuant to section 2204(a) are to be made available in accordance with section 2205(2);
(3) provisions for notice by the Archivist to the former President when the disclosure of particular documents may adversely affect any rights and privileges which the former President may have; and
(4) provisions for establishing procedures for consultation between the Archivist and appropriate Federal agencies regarding materials which may be subject to section 552(b)(7) of title 5, United States Code.
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 2203(f)(3), referred to in par. (1), was redesignated section 2203(g)(3) of this title by Pub. L. 113–187, §2(c)(3), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2006, and subsequently redesignated section 2203(g)(4) of this title by Pub. L. 114–136, §3(1), Mar. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 305.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
1 See References in Text note below.
§2207. Vice-Presidential records
Vice-Presidential records shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter in the same manner as Presidential records. The duties and responsibilities of the Vice President, with respect to Vice-Presidential records, shall be the same as the duties and responsibilities of the President under this chapter, except section 2208, with respect to Presidential records. The authority of the Archivist with respect to Vice-Presidential records shall be the same as the authority of the Archivist under this chapter with respect to Presidential records, except that the Archivist may, when the Archivist determines that it is in the public interest, enter into an agreement for the deposit of Vice-Presidential records in a non-Federal archival depository. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the establishment of separate archival depositories for such Vice-Presidential records.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–187 inserted ", except section 2208," after "chapter" in second sentence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to Presidential records created during a term of office of President beginning on or after Jan. 20, 1981, see section 3 of Pub. L. 95–591, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Construction
Pub. L. 113–187, §2(a)(4), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2005, provided that: "Nothing in the amendment made by paragraph (2)(C) [amending this section] shall be construed to—
"(A) affect the requirement of section 2207 of title 44, United States Code, that Vice Presidential records shall be subject to chapter 22 of that title in the same manner as Presidential records; or
"(B) affect any claim of constitutionally based privilege by a President or former President with respect to a Vice Presidential record."
§2208. Claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure
(a)(1) When the Archivist determines under this chapter to make available to the public any Presidential record that has not previously been made available to the public, the Archivist shall—
(A) promptly provide notice of such determination to—
(i) the former President during whose term of office the record was created; and
(ii) the incumbent President; and
(B) make the notice available to the public.
(2) The notice under paragraph (1)—
(A) shall be in writing; and
(B) shall include such information as may be prescribed in regulations issued by the Archivist.
(3)(A) Upon the expiration of the 60-day period (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) beginning on the date the Archivist provides notice under paragraph (1)(A), the Archivist shall make available to the public the Presidential record covered by the notice, except any record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) with respect to which the Archivist receives from a former President or the incumbent President notification of a claim of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure under subsection (b).
(B) A former President or the incumbent President may extend the period under subparagraph (A) once for not more than 30 additional days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) by filing with the Archivist a statement that such an extension is necessary to allow an adequate review of the record.
(C) Notwithstanding subparagraphs (A) and (B), if the 60-day period under subparagraph (A), or any extension of that period under subparagraph (B), would otherwise expire during the 6-month period after the incumbent President first takes office, then that 60-day period or extension, respectively, shall expire at the end of that 6-month period.
(b)(1) For purposes of this section, the decision to assert any claim of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of a Presidential record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) must be made personally by a former President or the incumbent President, as applicable.
(2) A former President or the incumbent President shall notify the Archivist, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate of a privilege claim under paragraph (1) on the same day that the claim is asserted under such paragraph.
(c)(1) If a claim of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of a Presidential record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) is asserted under subsection (b) by a former President, the Archivist shall consult with the incumbent President, as soon as practicable during the period specified in paragraph (2)(A), to determine whether the incumbent President will uphold the claim asserted by the former President.
(2)(A) Not later than the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the Archivist receives notification from a former President of the assertion of a claim of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure, the Archivist shall provide notice to the former President and the public of the decision of the incumbent President under paragraph (1) regarding the claim.
(B) If the incumbent President upholds the claim of privilege asserted by the former President, the Archivist shall not make the Presidential record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) subject to the claim publicly available unless—
(i) the incumbent President withdraws the decision upholding the claim of privilege asserted by the former President; or
(ii) the Archivist is otherwise directed by a final court order that is not subject to appeal.
(C) If the incumbent President determines not to uphold the claim of privilege asserted by the former President, or fails to make the determination under paragraph (1) before the end of the period specified in subparagraph (A), the Archivist shall release the Presidential record subject to the claim at the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date on which the Archivist received notification of the claim, unless otherwise directed by a court order in an action initiated by the former President under section 2204(e) of this title or by a court order in another action in any Federal court.
(d) The Archivist shall not make publicly available a Presidential record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) that is subject to a privilege claim asserted by the incumbent President unless—
(1) the incumbent President withdraws the privilege claim; or
(2) the Archivist is otherwise directed by a final court order that is not subject to appeal.
(e) The Archivist shall adjust any otherwise applicable time period under this section as necessary to comply with the return date of any congressional subpoena, judicial subpoena, or judicial process.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019.
§2209. Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
(a) In General.—The President, the Vice President, or a covered employee may not create or send a Presidential or Vice Presidential record using a non-official electronic message account unless the President, Vice President, or covered employee—
(1) copies an official electronic messaging account of the President, Vice President, or covered employee in the original creation or transmission of the Presidential record or Vice Presidential record; or
(2) forwards a complete copy of the Presidential or Vice Presidential record to an official electronic messaging account of the President, Vice President, or covered employee not later than 20 days after the original creation or transmission of the Presidential or Vice Presidential record.
(b) Adverse Actions.—The intentional violation of subsection (a) by a covered employee (including any rules, regulations, or other implementing guidelines), as determined by the appropriate supervisor, shall be a basis for disciplinary action in accordance with subchapter I, II, or V of chapter 75 of title 5, as the case may be.
(c) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Covered employee.—The term "covered employee" means—
(A) the immediate staff of the President;
(B) the immediate staff of the Vice President;
(C) a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President; and
(D) a unit or individual of the Office of the Vice President whose function is to advise and assist the Vice President.
(2) Electronic messages.—The term "electronic messages" means electronic mail and other electronic messaging systems that are used for purposes of communicating between individuals.
(3) Electronic messaging account.—The term "electronic messaging account" means any account that sends electronic messages.
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Congressional Records and State Department records are regulated as strictly as the above Presidential Records. However, Hillary Clinton deleted many records rather than have them archived and was not the subject of an FBI SOJ investigation for doing so.
Also, when Joe Biden was VP and met with Hunters by sin3s associates in the White House, no records were kept of those meetings in clear violation of Records Acts.
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Lastly, Obama had "Beer Summits", meet9ngs at a picnic table on the back lawn of the White House that no records were created there of, a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act.
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Many elements of what happened between those events—one seemingly cordial, the other unheard of—remain unknown.
Just a guess, but I'm thinking if Trump had simply retired and renounced another run for president in 2024 none of this would be happening. My nose is not very sensitive but I smell fear.
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But if they are so afraid of another Trump run for the White House it can only be a good thing.
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The message was unmistakable at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday, two days after former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... ’s Florida home was raided by the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... .
There, boarding Air Force One at 1:20 p.m., shoulder to shoulder with his father, the president, was Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... , whose home has never been raided.
Despite a snail’s pace grand-jury investigation into his suspect business dealings by the US attorney in Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... ’s crony state of Delaware, despite copious documentary evidence that he accepted millions of dollars from America’s adversaries in exchange for influencing his father, the then-vice president, despite actively working with Communist China to extend "belt-and-road" imperialism across the globe to undermine America, Hunter, 52, looked as if he didn’t have a care in the world.
Dressed in a suit and tie and accompanied by wife Melissa Cohen and toddler son Beau Biden, he made his way slowly up the stairs of the presidential jet, alongside Joe, exchanging private jokes before stopping at the top to turn and face the waiting cameras, father and son, giving the world a lingering view of their brazen smiles before they jetted off for a seven-day vacation to a favorite family haunt, Kiawah Island, SC.
"We are untouchable" was the unspoken message.
They may as well have given the middle finger to half the country.
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Because they already have enough evidence. They are just trying to figure out how to get him off the hook when everybody with internet access knows that he is guilty.
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Former President Trump’s son Eric Trump reveals key details on the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ’s raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Trump told the Daily Mail that the FBI refused to to hand over the search warrant for their raid on the Florida residence.
He also recalled about 30 FBI agents kicking his attorney off the property.
"So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant," Trump said.
"There’s 30 agents there... They told our lawyer ... you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras," Trump said.
He said that the former president’s attorney Christina Bobb was forced to stand at the end of the Mar-a-Lago’s driveway during the raid.
Calling the event another "coordinated attack" on his father, Trump said Bobb was confused why a lawyer for the person's home being raided by the FBI was not able to see or obtain a copy of the search warrant.
He questioned whether a real warrant even existed, saying that he would be "thrilled" to know.
"When I arrived and kind of announced myself as the legal representation for President Trump. I asked to see a copy of the warrant," Bobb recalled.
She said that once she was able to see the warrant, it was partly sealed which made it impossible for her to read why the judge granted a raid on the property.
"Initially they refused and said, 'You know, we don't have to show it to you.' And there was a little bit of an exchange about whether it was appropriate to withhold the warrant when you're searching the residence of the former president, who's likely to be the Republican nominee in the next election, though they conceded and let me see it, they did not give me a copy of it right away, but they did let me see it," Bobb said.
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She says that she was not able to see the underlying probably cause affidavit because it was sealed. The affidavit is what we want to see so that we can determine whether it was truthful.
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Might have gone differently if her name were "Bobbit" rather than "Bobb".
#4
Creates an opportunity to retroactively fill in the warrant based on anything they found, or claimed to find. Of course, the FBI would never do anything like that. Ever.
FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... Director Christopher Wray refused to address questions Wednesday about an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... 's Mar-a-Lago residence conducted this week but did denounce "deplorable" threats against law enforcement in his first public comments since the search in Florida.
Reporters pressed Wray about the Monday raid, which is reportedly tied to an investigation into whether Trump took classified materials from the White House after he left office, during a visit to the FBI's field office in Omaha, Nebraska. As Republicans in Congress have demanded Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... speak out or even be removed from their positions, Trump raised the prospect of agents planting evidence.
Asked to respond to Trump's suggestion, Wray declined to jump into the fray. "As I’m sure you can appreciate, that’s not something I can talk about," he said. Wray then referred such a question to the Department of Justice. Both the DOJ and FBI have so far declined to comment publicly about the raid.
Wray's refusal to comment on behalf of the bureau is unlikely to placate GOP politicians clamoring for an explanation and warning that the silence will hurt the public's trust in the FBI.
"If Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray do not make public statements today explaining to the American people exactly what they did at Mar-a-Lago and why, they will have lost what little public trust they may have had and no longer deserve to remain in office," Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said in a statement.
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At this point the only public comment I want to hear from Wray or Garland is," Ugh," after somebody swift-kicks them in the balls. Note- they need to be kicked hard enough to induce vomiting.
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[Washington Examiner] Former CIA Director Michael Hayden responded approvingly to a tweet talking about executions for those who spill nuclear secrets after it was reported that FBI agents were searching for classified documents related to nuclear weapons during their raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
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So if Trump is executed, can he still be re-elected? Or does that only work for Marion Berry?
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Interesting how the story has morphed from Trump has presidential documents in violation of the Presidential Records Act => Trump has classified documents => Trump has nuclear secrets => Nuclear secret leakers should be executed.
I'm gonna put my chips on a cocktail napkin from a meeting that falls under the Presidential Records Act.
[NYPOST] Billionaire troll Elon Musk mocked the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... for hiring an additional 87,000 employees on Thursday.
The IRS will be making the hires using funds from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which is expected to pass through Congress in the coming days. Musk remarked that "Fate [loves] irony" and posted a meme on Twitter pointing out that the US first broke with England over taxes.
"When the country that revolted over taxes hires 87,000 new IRS agents," the meme reads, placed above a photo of a laughing British Army officer from the movie The Patriot.
One Twitter user replied that "They’re not going after you, they’re coming after us," to which Musk responded, "True. I already get audited every year by default."
The new hiring has been widely criticized by Republicans, who cited a job posting on the IRS website seeking "Criminal Investigation Special Agents."
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President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....... ’s top spokesperson was accused of lying on Wednesday in a tweet touting "0% inflation in July" — even as federal data indicated that the consumer price index rose by 8.5% year over year.
"We just received news that our economy had 0% inflation in July," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted on Wednesday.
"While the price of some things went up, the price of others, like gas, clothing, and more, dropped."
Jean-Pierre also hailed the dip in gasoline prices, which she called "the fastest in a decade" which was "saving American families with two cars $106 per month on average."
In the same tweet thread, Jean-Pierre wrote that "real wages went up for the first time in almost a year." She also urged the House to pass the Inflation Reduction Act "as soon as possible" in order to "lower health care, prescription drug, and energy costs."
But Twitter users pushed back against Jean-Pierre’s claims.
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So the drop in gas prices made it look like people were paying less even though food and housing prices continued to rise month over month. The drop in gas prices is due to a drop in demand which indicates economic activity is slowing. The slowing of economic activity while many basic costs for consumers continue to rise is not a good thing. This is just the band on the Titanic swapping sheet music to prepare to play a new song.
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[NYPOST] Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed Thursday that he "personally approved" requesting the search warrant that triggered Monday’s unprecedented raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and revealed the Justice Department had asked a federal magistrate judge to unseal copies of the warrant — if Trump and his legal team do not object.
"The Department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president’s public confirmation with the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter," Garland told news hounds.
"Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy, upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing," he continued.
Garland, who spoke for four minutes and took no questions, confirmed that copies of the search warrant and FBI property receipt were given to Trump’s attorneys on Monday and added that they were "on site during the search."
While the DOJ has been criticized for failing to publicly address the raid — which is reportedly connected to classified documents the 45th president may have kept at Mar-a-Lago, Garland insisted "Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye."
"We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations," he added.
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While you are releasing the search warrant, how about also releasing the Crossfire-Hurricane documents he declassified while he was POTUS? Quit slow-walking these declassified documents.
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No mention of Junior not being on the flight list. And if trip was to 'shore up' US/Taiwan relations, then why even have Junior on board and use that spot for a military annalist?
But that's alright; she really stuck it in the eye of those Chinese eh?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall- August 4] The hearing—titled "Revisiting Gain-of-Function Research: What the Pandemic Taught Us and Where Do We Go From Here" and held by the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Subcommittee examined federal investment into the research method that involves the manipulation of pathogens, such as enhancing the transmissibility of viruses to be more contagious and severe to humans.
The funding would help support the work of the IRS -- including but not limited to audits
[Washington Examiner] The documents sought by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate this week included material labeled "special access," a label reserved for information even more classified than "top secret," according to reports.
/\ He had a second 'football' with launch codes in Melania's thong and sock drawer. SAP caveat (STIFF THONG). Fear based 'duck & cover' tactics. But, but, but they always worked in the past. 
/\ "You didn't make that"....personal property. Everything are the governments. 
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the 
...... 46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.......
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
