FBI agents who raided disgraced former President Trump’s Floridian palace of sin and sexual deviancy on Monday found eleven different sets of classified documents, including intel on the “President of France” and “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” per a document of the search reviewed by Wall Street Journal reporters. “TS/CSI” means “top-secret/sensitive compartmented information,” as in “shit you’re not supposed have stored in your hooker pad.”

And apparently the Wall Street Journal actually has the warrant and will be updating.

“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!” says disgraced former President Trump in yet another statement claiming that he didn’t do anything wrong but not actually denying that he has classified government documents in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago.

NBC’s Sahil Kapur reports he overheard on Friday New York Dem Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney telling a colleague he wants to bring up a bill to defund the FBI, forcing Republicans to go on the record and put up or shut up with their shit talk. Kapur then approached and asked Maloney about it he didn’t back away, telling Kapur “Kevin McCarthy’s words speak volumes. They put a target on the back of a bunch of FBI agents and he should be accountable for it.”

Famous author Salman Rushdie, who wrote some book that really pissed off hardcore Muslims, was either punched or stabbed furiously Friday by a guy who rushed the stage and wanted Salman to die. The whole thing was witnessed by an AP reporter who specifically said either punched or stabbed. So to reiterate, Salman Rushdie either got his ass kicked or stabbed, probably to death. We’re thinking stabbed though. Usually a punch gets thrown at the head, not at the torso.

The AP’s completely exigent reporting here is almost as good as the AFP’s “A loud bang was heard behind former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who then collapsed to the ground.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a judge to demand Republican Senator and fainting couch enthusiast Lindsey Graham appear before a grand jury investigating allegations of election tampering, saying in a motion that the only way Graham’s claim of protections from the Constitution’s “Speech and Debate” clause can be reasonably applied if all other facts of the case are dismissed.

Graham claimed that his call to Georgia elections officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the department’s Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling was part of the legitimate legislative function of a US Senator.  Graham, who represents South Carolina, does not have any authority over state elections operations in Georgia, nor can he propose legislation in Georgia.

Graham made multiple calls to Georgia officials in December 2020 as Donald Trump publically and privately pressured Republican Georgia election officials to “find 11,780 votes” that would swing the state from a Joe Biden victory to Trump’s ledger.  Graham claims his calls were to investigate claims of election fraud to determine if he could support Georgia’s official state of electors to the Electoral College. 

That’s not a verbatim quote in the headline. What Congressman Mike Turner actually said was “It depends on what the nuclear information is. You can say nuclear weapons. There are things that are highly classified. There are things that are not extremely classified,” in response to a question.

Turner was one of the more level-headed and “normal” Republicans who spoke at this shitshow of a press conference (which we reported earlier was canceled – not incorrectly as this one was called by a different group). Markwayne Mullin asked reporters “Where’s this same media frenzy when there was 33,000 classified emails on a server in a bathroom with Hillary Clinton?” which was six years ago. Funny enough after she lost Devin Nunes sponsored and then Trump signed a bill increasing the criminal penalties for mishandling classified information.

Highly classified signals intelligence–intercepted radio and other electronic communications from adversarial governments–were among the information Donald Trump took to Mar-a-Lago, an official with knowledge of the search warrant targets told the Washington Post.

In the 15 boxes of illegally taken documents previously reacquired, officials found pieces of highly-sensitive signals intelligence, the very existence of which can tell foreign governments about the methods and sources of information collected by US national security agencies.  Disclosure of signals intel can prompt targets to change their methods, which results in reduced effectiveness of American collection techniques in the future.

Although the source country of the information is unknown, such documents could be used in multiple ways, such as blackmailing a foreign government to hide embarrassing or criminal information, like the kidnapping and murder of a journalist, to obtain significant amounts of money for a family member.  Or it could be sold to a foreign country seeking to seal up its communications network from American intel.

HOLD THE TALKING POINTS PRESSES GOP! We’ve got a great idea! Just hear us out! What if you go on Fox News and say Trump was just protecting the nuclear documents from Hunter Biden? You might be able to sell that one, that maybe if Hunter Biden was so careless with his laptop that maybe he would sneak into the White House and steal the secret nuclear documents and that Trump was being really patriotic and taking the stuff to Mar-a-Lago to protect it from the new president’s crack smoking son. It could totally work as long as you don’t say it to Brett Baier or the other guy who sometimes fucks up and throws hardballs. Bill Hemmer, right? Yeah don’t tell him.

Just say it. If it doesn’t work we’ll come up with something else for you. You can trust National Zero. We’re almost like a politics factory here. We just crank out politics all day like it was an assembly line. Lots of people can tell you there’s quality politics here. In fact we already have a backup line: If the Hunter Biden one doesn’t work then say Trump was hiding it from the Deep State. They shouldn’t get their hands on nuclear weapons data. Could you imagine if the military-industrial complex or even the Pentagon got a hold of that info? It would be terrifying to Americans.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved. Why wouldn’t the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer’s, or others, present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn’t let them get even close – said “ABSOLUTELY NOT.” Planting information anyone? Reminds me of a Christofer Steele Dossier!

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Please correct us if we’re wrong here, but isn’t Trump’s claim the FBI planted nuclear weapons documents at Mar-a-Lago mean he’s confirming there were nuclear weapons documents at Mar-a-Lago?

A group of House Republicans have called off a Friday press conference they had planned to bitch about the “witch hunt” FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

Probably a smart move all things considered. Otherwise they might end up saying something like “Well at least Trump didn’t take anything about those dead aliens we have at Area 51” only for the New York Times to report an hour later that he did steal that and maybe tell MBS about it too.

The House Democrats are going to vote on something on Friday, think it was that Manchin thing from Sunday in the uh, Senate which they passed or whatever… which was the day before FBI agents swarmed Mar-a-Lago looking for nuclear weapons information that Trump stole from the government and holy shit the search warrant is going to be unsealed this afternoon! WOW! That’s big freaking news right?!? And Garland totally called Trump’s bluff on it! There’s some details about the Democrat socialist takeover of the government thing in this morning’s Politico Playbook.

But it also says that Trump watched the FBI agents on the Mar-a-Lago surveillance cameras! Holy shit! He saw the whole thing happen while he was in New York City before his deposition! That’s crazy news, right?!? He probably started drafting his statement then but waited until news the broke to put it up on Truth Social. That’s a really important detail we should cover more of.

Trump released a statement on Truck Sopwell Toot Sandal Truth Social, so no one saw it, claiming that he’s going to authorize the release of the warrant text relating to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.  Of course, the permission isn’t official until 3 p.m. ET Friday, so Trump will have ample opportunity to back out of the statement.

Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years…

 

…My poll numbers are the strongest they have ever been, fundraising by the Republican Party is breaking all records, and midterm elections are fast approaching. This unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement is inappropriate and highly unethical. The world is watching as our Country is being brought to a new low, not only on our border, crime, economy, energy, national security, and so much more, but also with respect to our sacred elections!
Release the documents now!

Thomas Robertson, a former police sergeant in Rocky Mount, Virginia arrested for participating in the Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Thursday, Reuters reports.

The federal jury found Robertson guilty of six counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding and obstructing justice and sentenced him to 87 months in prison, matching the longest sentence a January 6th domestic terrorist has received to date.

Robertson dug himself a deeper hole when he started to amass a cache of weapons and ammunition while he was out on bail and constructed a rudimentary improvised explosive device in his garage.

Asked by Fox host and Aryan cosplayer Laura Ingraham if she’s knows for sure that there were no classified documents pertaining to nuclear capabilities in the boxes of government property Trump stored behind an unguarded locked door at his Mar-a-Lago supper club and crash pad, Trump’s unknowingly pro bono lawyer Christina Bobb gives a less than convincing answer:

I don’t believe they were. … I… eh… I have not spoken to the President about what nuclear… ah… er… materials may or may not have been in there.  I do not believe there were any in there.  The legal team has done a very thorough search and we’ve turned over, we’ve been very cooperative with, ah, the Biden Administration and the DOJ and turned over everything that we found, that we had.  My understand, on very good belief on a thorough investigation, is that there was nothing there.

Am I hearing this right?  Is this lawyer claiming her legal team–who are not government lawyers and presumably do not have security clearances–went through all the papers, including the classified information, to decide what needs to be turned over?  And if they “turned over everything,” how come there were at least 12 boxes of materials in a basement room just two months ago?  It seems Ms. Bobb doesn’t really know what she’s talking about.

With Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly declaring he was requesting the release of the search and seizure warrant executed at his Florida supper club and vacation residence Mar-a-Lago, the spotlight moves squarely to Donald Trump.  Normally, it’s a place he loves, but not this time.

As summarized by USA Today, Trump and his cracked legal team have 24 hours from Garland’s filing to respond, where they can contest the release of the warrant with a claim that the release could do irreparable harm to Trump or his chance of a fair legal outcome, or that the release would cause some other kind of “injury” to Trump.  We’ll know by 3 p.m. ET Friday if Trump will challenge the release.

Will he, or won’t he?  If he doesn’t, the public will learn, likely Friday, what the FBI agents who conducted the search were searching for; multiple media outlets have said the documents were classified Top Secret, with the Washington Post reporting some of them dealt with nuclear weapons. 

Seems like a really good time for a CARAVAN. The LARGEST EVER CARAVAN should’ve started like, yesterday at the latest. Don’t the Republicans have their guys on the ground in Mexico to start a new CARAVAN? Can’t they just whip one up? Shouldn’t take that much, all you need is a couple of hundred t-shirts that say “JOE AND KAMALA LET US IN” for the people at the front of the CARAVAN to wear. Might as well get them a few “I ? ISIS” and “YO MUCHO GUSTO SOROS” shirts too.

Seriously, it would really help out Republicans right now, so what the hell are they waiting for? And it’s not like they even really need a real CARAVAN anyway. Why doesn’t Fox News just recycle some old b-roll and act like it was taken this week? It’s not like anyone’s going to call them out for faking it, and even if they do it’s not like their fans are going to give a shit what Media Matters or the Daily Beast says. Get this fucking CARAVAN started, whether it’s real or fake. They have to stop reacting to that shit with Trump stealing nuclear documents from the White House and get busy changing the subject to some made up bullshit about a giant horde of brown people coming to defile white America. We know they can do it. Let the CARAVAN-a-mania begin!

A Colorado-based “Hotshot” wildfire parajumper was killed Wednesday battling a wildfire in Oregon after he was struck by a falling tree in the Willamette National Forest, NBC News reports.

Collin Hagan, from the Craig Interagency Hotshots out of Colorado, was killed in one of the 59 active wildfires burning in Oregon.  The fire he was battling is 0% contained and has consumed nearly 120 acres, having been started by a lightning strike.

So hours after Merrick Garland says that DOJ only speaks through its filings in court, they go out and leak this story to the Washington Post. https://t.co/farxNnnCtR

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 12, 2022

FBI agents sought documents detailing aspects of military nuclear capability and weaponry when they executed a search and seizure warrant Monday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago’s supper club and flophouse, the Washington Post reports.

It’s unclear whether the documents dealt with existing US military capabilities or were assessments of a foreign power’s capability.  Why a former president would have such documentation in his personal possession and what his intentions were with the documents is also highly questionable.

The sources who spoke with the Post did not say if the documents were recovered during the search of Mar-a-Lago, but the fact that the FBI undertook the search in the first place is a sign that the government had high confidence in their existence and storage at the Trump club.