Just yesterday, we reported on Donald Trump’s bizarre and truly desperate lawsuit he’s now lodged against the federal government of the United States, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, demanding that a federal judge appoint a so-called special master (watchdog) to review the documents that were seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump’s demands for a special watchdog on the case are part of a larger effort, via the lawsuit, to prevent the Biden Department of Justice from further reviewing any of the material that was taken by Trump from the White House and later seized during the raid.
Trump specifically stated that a federal judge should block the DOJ from “further review of seized materials,” hailing from the raid that he suggests was politically motivated in his lawsuit, until such a point when his requested special master has been appointed.
The whole thing is truly just… Weird, and it certainly highlights the depths of the former guy’s depravity and desperation as the walls finally begin to close in on him. In other words, not too much crazier than your average Tuesday when it comes to Donald Trump. However, there was one noteworthy included in the lawsuit that we honestly weren’t quite prepared for — an apparent admission of guilt.
Trump is, as we’re all aware at this point, now under investigation for multiple possible violations of the Espionage Act. Taking to Twitter Marcy Wheeler, a legal analyst with EmptyWheel posted an excerpt of the new Trump lawsuit documents, along with her analysis of what certainly appears to be an admission of guilt on Trump’s behalf by his very own legal team.
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In the court filing, it clearly states that a subpoena was issued against Donald Trump on May 11, 2022, and “On June 2, 2022, President Trump, through counsel, invited the FBI to come to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve responsive documents.”
It took a month after the subpoena was issued before Trump allowed the FBI to come into his Mar-a-Lago resort to see and/or retrieve the documents he stole from the White House. Yet, there were still enough documents left at his compound after June 2nd to necessitate a search and seizure warrant from the DOJ…
As pointed out by Wheeler in her analysis, not just once but twice in Donald Trump’s own court filing, he admits to taking government documents from the White House to his Palm Beach compound — a move that is blatantly against the law under not only the Espionage Act but the Presidential Records Act as well.
This sentence is a confession to a violation of the Espionage Act.
Written by lawyers claiming to represent the former President, who they call the President. pic.twitter.com/pXTPzErmVW
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 22, 2022
The lawsuit document reads, “On June 8, 2022, Mr. Bratt wrote to counsel for President Trump. His letter requested, in pertinent part, that the storage room be secured. In response, President Trump directed his staff to place a second lock on the door to the storage room, and one was added.”
This bombshell analysis comes hot on the heels of brutal reporting from top New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who revealed yesterday evening that the documents stolen from the White House by Donald Trump ultimately contained more than 300 pieces of highly classified material, much of which pertained to the NSA, CIA, and FBI. Her report also revealed that the documents were not only stored in a storage room, as originally believed, but also inside a container in a closet in Donald Trump’s personal office. It remains unclear as to whether the FBI was aware of the container of documents in Trump’s office prior to the search warrant.
See Marcy Wheeler’s full analysis on Twitter here.
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