2022

September

Thursday the 29th

• Judge Rules Trump Can Ignore Special Master Order To Prove Claim FBI ‘Planted’ Docs Judge Aileen Cannon lets Trump skate — for now — on his highly suspect claims that the FBI planted files in records seized from Mar-a-Lago.
• Charlie Kirk and Newt Gingrich suggest the FBI planted evidence in Mar-a-Lago

Friday the 23rd

• Special Master Calls Out Lawyers On Trump’s Claim That FBI ‘Planted’ Mar-A-Lago Records Raymond Dearie tells the legal team to detail what Trump claims was “planted” at his Florida resort, even though the ex-president watched the search on video.

Friday the 2nd

• DOJ releases inventory of items seized from Mar-a-Lago, including over 100 classified docs, and classified folders with missing documents

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August

Saturday the 27th

• Every defense of Mar-a-Lago docs scandal has ‘been blown up by Donald Trump’: former prosecutors A pair of former prosecutors mocked Donald Trump’s efforts to defend himself in the face of an FBI search of his Mar-A-Lago home.The Department of Justice executed a search warrant two and a half weeks ago at his Florida residence seeking classified documents the National Archives had been seeking u…

Friday the 26th

• DOJ releases heavily redacted Mar-a-Lago Search Affidavit

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Monday the 22nd

• Trump Stashed, Oh, Only 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago: Report Embattled former president filed a lawsuit earlier Monday requesting a federal watchdog be appointed to further oversee the investigation into his hoarding of state secrets
• Trump Had 300 Classified Documents At Mar-A-Lago, Called Boxes ‘Mine’: Report It’s unclear what type of classified information officials found, but the documents reportedly pertained to national security interests.
• Trump’s lawyers admit to him violating the Espionage Act in their own court filing: legal analyst Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe walked through the “strange” court filing from Donald Trump calling for a court-appointed reviewer of the documents taken from his golf club after a search warrant. But among the things that were the most unexpected is the admission of guilt. Legal analyst…

Thursday the 11st

• Trump Launches Conspiracy Theory That FBI ‘Planted’ Evidence At Mar-a-Lago And Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has joined the right-wing influencers backing him up.

Monday the 8th

• FBI Executes Search Warrant At Trump's Mar-a-Lago Residence, Finds Classified Nuclear Documents

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  • NATIONAL SECURITY

  
• New Photos Lift Lid On Trump’s Alleged Toilet Document Dump Habit New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN that “gross and important” are “the two important words” to this story.

June

Friday the 3rd

• FBI Serves Grand Jury Subpoena, Collect National Security Documents From Mar-a-Lago. Stopped by lawyers from checking storage room where additional classified would later be found

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  • NATIONAL SECURITY

  

May

Thursday the 12nd

• A grand jury is convened to investigate the improper removal of Classified materials from the White House to Mar-a-Lago by Donald Trump

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  • NATIONAL SECURITY

  
• Legal expert: DOJ believes there 'could be some level of criminality' in how Trump handled classified documents On Thursday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," former federal prosecutor Elie Honig walked through the significance of the DOJ convening a grand jury to examine former President Donald Trump's handling of classified information.The development, he argued, is a sign that they are taking seriously the pos...
• DOJ Probes Trump’s Handling Of Classified Records

Friday the 6th

• Trump Lawyer Alina Habba claims she conducted a diligent search of Mar-a-Lago for all requested records

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April

Thursday the 7th

• The DOJ Has Opened an Investigation Into the 15 Boxes Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago Sources have indicated that the inquiry is still in its early stages.

February

Tuesday the 22nd

• Garland confirms classified material found among records taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago But the attorney general would not confirm that a federal probe on the matter is underway. He said the Justice Department would “look at the facts and the law and take it from there.”
• Trump took classified material from White House to Florida, National Archives says Former President Donald Trump took classified information to his Florida home after leaving the White House, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter to Congress on Friday about the 15 boxes of documents it recently recovered.

Friday the 18th

• National Archives acknowledges classified documents were found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left office The National Archives acknowledged Friday it has discussed with the Department of Justice that classified records were found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago after former President Donald Trump left office, according to a letter from Archivist David Ferriero to the House Oversight Committee.

Wednesday the 9th

• National Archives seeks Justice Department investigation of Trump’s handling of White House documents The National Archives has asked the Department of Justice to investigate former President Donald Trump’s handling of White House records, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Tuesday the 8th

• Former White House officials describe Trump’s habit of ripping up documents and haphazard record-keeping Former President Donald Trump would routinely rip up documents, drafts and reading materials, and he took several boxes to Mar-a-Lago when he relocated to Florida after leaving the White House -- raising concerns about his preservation of presidential records as required by federal law.

January

Monday the 17th

• 15 Boxes of Trump's Presidential Records, including classified documents, retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)

  • LAW AND ORDER
  • NATIONAL SECURITY