This week in Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents that Jack Smith fought to keep hidden. And you'll soon find out why. Among the documents unsealed were extensive exhibits, motions, and other filings shedding light on the intricate web of communication between the Biden White House and the National Archives and Records Administration in the lead-up to Trump's indictment.
Investigative journalist Julie Kelly found something interesting in the documents that could change everything. The first things is testimony from an FBI agent who testified that the General Services Association (GSA) had been in possession of Trump's boxes in Virginia before ordering Trump's team to come get them.
"So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago," Kelly notes. "Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with 'classified markings.'"
"I will double check indictment but I don't recall this event in the timeline," she added.
So, it appears that the Biden administration may have been responsible for shipping classified information to Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This development is significant because Trump has previously blamed the GSA for packing the boxes that contained the classified documents, only to later accuse Trump of essentially stealing them and using that as pretext for sending the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022.
"It was a set-up from the get-go," remarked Tom Fitton, the founder of Judicial Watch.
[RedState] A secret recording was leaked on Friday showing New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham slamming Joe Biden's border policies, but not for the reason one might think. Her anger at the administration wasn't for not securing the border. Instead, her anger was being pointed at Border Patrol agents for doing their job and seizing drugs.
How this recording made it into the public eye is not yet known, but as you'll see, this isn't going to help her already-shot credibility.
LUJAN GRISHAM: I'm going to put extra borders going and beyond, for the love of God, put him at the border in Sunland Park where I don't have a single border patrol agent, not one, and people pour over, and so I'm cranky with the secretary. He knew that was coming, he did not say a word to me. Politico wants to write an article. Every single major press group is asking repeatedly, basically accusing me of being feckless, and uh, Huffington Post, I mean, they're all going to write about it.
They're saying that they are worried about fentanyl so they're taking all of our cannibis, and they tried to, and they're detaining people. We've never done that. We just use discretion, and look the other way. But the press also knows that the bad Border Patrol is taking a hard stance, and the only way is either we have to adjust it or I have to send you a letter saying, "You're persecuting the states, you are not using your discretion, you are not working with me on immigration," and I don't want to send that letter, but I'm boxed in hard.
Her words are just incredible. With all the problems in New Mexico and at the Southern Border, her concern is about the supposed bad press she may receive from drug shipments being seized. In her comments, she expressed outrage that the "bad Border Patrol" are doing their jobs and taking cannabis shipments when they stop vehicles.
For full context, she appears to be talking about in-state-grown marijuana, which Democrats have deemed "legal" in the state. Federal law still prohibits it, though. It is not the Border Patrol's place to "look the other way" and break the law to help out a left-wing governor's drug trade.
LUJAN GRISHAM: Here's what also the secretary said to me, just so you know: "Oh, who cares? They make a lot of money." Well, first of all, (inaudible) so I was really offended by that. Shame on him, and then secondly, we're the only state that lets baby producers in. If they lose a load, their business goes belly up. Yeah, I thought that was really inappropriate. Whatever you all want to do about that, it was really inappropriate.
Yeah, if you can, I've held off the press so I'll send it to you. You know I got a nasty "The governor is feckless, and she's going to let Biden walk all over her." I can't have that.
It is incredibly tone-deaf to whine about the Biden administration, not for its horrible pro-illegal immigration policies, but for some rank-and-file agents doing what they swore to do, which is uphold the laws as they stand today. Lujan Grisham is more worried about facilitating drugs in her state than helping her residents, and that says a lot about her failed tenure as governor.
I understand that New Mexico legalized marijuana, but as long as it remains illegal federally, there will be the risk of seizure by federal agents. Border Patrol agents are under incredible stress, and they don't have the resources to figure out who is working for a "baby producer" and who is working for the drug cartels when they make a stop. That Lujan Grisham is furious about that and not the actual border crisis is ludicrous.
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How is BP supposed to know whether the cannabis they intercept in working against border drug smuggling is foreign or domestic? Doesn't Lujan want to keep out the foreign competition?
[NYPost] Rep. Jamaal Bowman and his campaign were duped by the parody social-media account of the fake "Chief Rabbi of Gaza."
The phony X account of "Rabbi Linda Goldstein" is infamous for spouting anti-Zionist vitriol to ensnare unsuspecting progressives unaware that it is satirical.
The rabbi messaged Bowman about sponsoring a fundraiser for his Democratic primary campaign.
"I really hope you win, I would love to host a fundraiser with you," Goldstein messaged Bowman in a private X message on April 11. The message prompted a reply from the congressman's account just 30 minutes later.
"Thank you, how do we get in touch with you?" Bowman asked. Goldstein promised Bowman she has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars before, adding "my anti-zionist community can't wait to help."
[Gateway] Newly unsealed transcripts of a witness interview with a DOJ prosecutor further prove Trump was set up.
Judge Aileen Cannon ordered documents unsealed in Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.
An unidentified witness told DOJ prosecutor Michael Thakur that after the Trump Administration ended, the General Services Administration (GSA) stored six pallets of boxes in Virginia. They eventually contacted Trump’s team and told them to come pick up the boxes.
These were the boxes that ended up having documents with "classified markings" on them. The boxes were dumped outside of DC in Virginia and then ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
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I don’t think they added anything to the pallet, but they had an exact inventory and were in a hurry to get the material into Trump’s hands. Canceling his Q clearance without telling him
was key. All planned during the Trump Admin. You know what you call when the Executive staff conspires to set up a sitting president. It’s called treason.
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FROM CTH 24 Apr 24; link below:
"Last year, CTH outlined a four-part series of articles going deep into the background of the DOJ-FBI raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, along with the outline into why it was important to them. It doesn’t matter how many different legal angles and Deep State justifications the DOJ attempts to deploy in order to divert away from what took place; the background of who, what, when and why they raided Mar-a-Lago will not change.
In Part One, we outlined the background of the modern Deep State {Go Deep}. In Part Two, we outlined the specifics of how President Trump was targeted by political operatives using tools created by the DC system {Go Deep}. In Part Three, we outlined how and why President Trump was blocked from releasing documents {Go Deep}. And then finally, in Part four {GO DEEP} , we assembled the specifics of what documents likely existed in Mar-a-Lago.
It is important to remember, the Presidential Records Act –the presented pretext for the document conflict– is not a criminal statute. An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago was a retrieval effort where the DOJ/FBI were looking for evidence of their misconduct that Donald Trump may have taken with him after his time in office.
That’s it, that was the core purpose.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) documents issue was the auspices or justification for the raid, but that wasn’t the intent of the raid.
The DOJ/FBI was on a search mission to retain full control of the evidence that showed corrupt and illegal conduct by people in the Obama administration. The DOJ, FBI, DOJ-NSD, FBI Counterintelligence Division, ODNI, CIA, SSCI and Legislative Gang of Eight, all participated or were willfully blind to the 2016/2017 activity of a weaponized government targeting a Republican political candidate. This action was grossly illegal and unlawful. Every action taken post-election was taken to mitigate the legal risk of the participants.
Jack Smith (remember, it’s really McCord, Eisen and Weissmann) was hunting for evidence of the DOJ/FBI misconduct. That’s the background context her...
The special counsel was looking for documents held by Donald Trump that touched on declassification and/or pertained to John Durham and Crossfire Hurricane. They were looking for documentary evidence against them that Trump may have held (he did and likely still does).
Again, (1) Crossfire Hurricane, (2) Robert Mueller and (3) John Durham was all one long continuum with a shift in operational intent. CH was the original targeting, RM was the continuation of the targeting and coverup, JD was the coverup and run out the clock operation that never looked at anything RM did.
The number (4) in the continuum was/is Jack Smith.
Judge Aileen Cannon can clearly see the construct of the fraudulent case against Donald Trump; however, she needs to tread carefully. Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen are using “national security” as a tool to subvert and control the judicial branch while railroading President Trump."
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Well, don't worry. I'm sure Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson and Senator Ron Johnson will be all over this and get to the bottom of this. There WILL be reprocussions!!!! not
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I generally refrain from contentious remarks about other Rantburgers, but this passes a certain triggerpoint. You may find the enormous levels of research and opinion from CTH et al as inaccurate, or negative, but I read it extensively, find it often insightful, and in none of the things Sundance and his spouse have written would the word "scum" be accurate or fitting. Pissing contests here are tedious and unhelpful, as I have noted in your past interactions with others, so I will avoid that waste of time. But this comment is unwarranted!
[JustTheNews] The Republican National Committee (RNC) has reportedly requested that the Secret Service increase protester restrictions for its upcoming July convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The RNC letter was first obtained by The New York Times and stated it was opposed to the designated area where demonstrators are supposed to conduct their protest.
Counsel to the RNC, Todd R. Steggerda, said those attending the convention would have to pass by the demonstrators to go to the convention.
The security plan the Secret Service put in place has the protesters at Pere Marquette Park, roughly a quarter of a mile from the convention center, the letter reads.
“Packing demonstrators into a park essentially boxed in by the two streets that thousands of attendees will be using to enter the convention site will only serve to heighten — rather than prevent and diffuse — any tension,” Steggerda wrote. He added that “forced proximity heightens tensions among peaceful attendees and demonstrators of differing ideologies and increases the risk of escalation to verbal, or even physical, clashes.”
As of now, the RNC hasn't pitched a different location where the protesters could conduct their demonstration.
The Secret Service has reportedly not responded to the letter at this time, stating that they have not formally received the letter. The Times said it received a copy of the letter that had been sent to the Secret Service director "via hand delivery."
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If the RNC was smart, it would have a backup plan to quickly relocate the convention to a more secure location, say on a cruise ship anchored off the docks of Milwaukee.
[ZERO] With the presidential election still more than six months away, President Biden's handlers are under increasing pressure to divert Americans' eyes from his obvious and accelerating mental and physical decline.
Where his deteriorating mental abilities are concerned, we've already seen them using tactics like drastically minimizing his spontaneous interactions with reporters and excessively stage-managing his rare press conferences -- down to furnishing him with answers to questions submitted in advance.
Now comes news that Team Biden's latest stage-management innovation is focused on obscuring his frailty: Uncomfortable with the way Biden looks as he unsteadily shuffles across the White House lawn, one or more staffers now walk at his side, helping to prevent close scrutiny of his gait. Biden's new shoes.
Biden advisors have told Axios they're uneasy about how he looks when walking and shuffling by himself, [dead man walking?]
particularly across the White House lawn. The outlet analyzed video of Biden's navigation to Marine One helicopters and pegged when the new hide-the-invalid routine started:
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For the past few months, there have been a constant stream of letters to the editor in the local weekly on the theme of "Age is just a number". All quite generic with none of them mentioning the Prez by name. Somebody is obviously concerned about the optics.
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.
[NYPost] Rep. 
[ZERO] With the presidential election still more than six months away, President Biden's handlers are under increasing pressure to divert Americans' eyes from his obvious and accelerating mental and physical decline. 
