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June 1, 2023

*THIS* is the kind of document that the Saudis would pay billions of dollars for.

Marcy Wheeler of EmptyWheel gives more highly informed speculation on what the reporting about the Trump/Bedminster recording might mean.

First, it’s certainly possible this is one of the documents pertaining to Iran that WaPo has reported were among the ones obtained in the search in August 2022.

If it is, then it would be a document that Trump transported back and forth from Florida — something that would make it easier for DOJ to charge this in DC instead of SDFL.

If it’s something DOJ didn’t obtain in the search, but also didn’t obtain among the documents Trump returned in either January or June 2022, then … then we have problems. If this is among the documents that DOJ thinks Trump didn’t return, then we have problems, especially given Jack Smith’s focus on Trump’s LIV golf deal, because this is the kind of document that the Saudis would pay billions of dollars for.

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The document is, as CNN reports, evidence that Trump knew he had stolen classified documents.


WAY MORE:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/05/31/lordy-there-are-tapes-of-trump-acknowledging-he-had-stolen-classified-documents/
June 1, 2023

Digby's Deal Cheat Sheet

Don’t say it out loud until the debt ceiling is raised and we can breathe again, but the fact is that the Republicans got rolled. Shhhhh. They’re busy passing around internet memes about how Chik-fil-a is woke and don’t realize that Kevin just put on a very sad little kabuki dance.
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https://digbysblog.net/2023/05/31/deal-cheat-sheet/

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