President Trump

“Do you feel like the Department of Justice is trying to indict you, Mr. President?” Hewitt began, unleashing the inevitable torrent of Russia-infused verbal ...

[Sponsored](https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/an-seo-crash-course-for-the-legal-field/) “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” “I’m just saying what my opinion is. “I think they’d have big problems, big problems. But Trump wanted to answer a different question, and that question was, how close can you get to inciting violence without actually satisfying the Brandenburg test. With the news that Durham’s [grand jury is disbanding](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/durham-inquiry-trump-russia.html), even Hewitt can’t work up the energy to pretend to give a shit about Danchenko. And anyway, the subpoena which Trump ignored called for the return of all documents bearing classified markings, which are definitionally the property of the government. Also, let the record reflect that none of the statutes implicated in the warrant rest on the classification status of the government documents seized. And if you look at the presidential, if you look at the act that was passed, it talks about what you can do, what you can’t do, how you negotiate with NARA, and then if you look at what’s running NARA, it’s radical left run, radical, radical left, and then you take a look at Hillary with her 33,000 emails that were deleted, and you take a look at Obama and others, and people say Trump’s gotten treated very, very unfairly. “But I have the absolute right to declassify, absolute. “Well, the Russia Russia Russia story is over,” he said, attempting to steer the former president back on track. The people are not going to stand for this stuff.

Former US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he departs the White House. Trump wants to run for President a third time, and he has little apparent ...

“They have not asked me.” But Trump was the one who said they had asked in the first place. He will find aides and advisers who will do his bidding, unlike the faithless traitors who surrounded him before. He will run the same plays again and again. Was he telling the truth the first time? Most starkly, from the start of his tenure, he sought to weaponize and politicize the institutions of the U.S. When we went to interview Trump in Mar-a-Lago for our book, a year after his defeat, the first thing he told us was a lie. But Trump somehow keeps challenging our ability to believe he will really do the things he openly says he will do. “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it,” he said, of an indictment. He wanted to get out of NATO and Afghanistan and to withdraw U.S. He has not retired to the ranch to paint portraits, like George W. The book, “ [The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,](https://www.amazon.com/Divider-Trump-White-House-2017-2021/dp/038554653X)” began as an effort, with my husband, Peter Baker of the Times, to better understand the uniquely disruptive four years we’d just been through. Hewitt asked the former President, who was promoting a campaign rally this weekend for candidates he’s endorsed in Ohio, whether he feared being indicted by the Justice Department for bringing [top-secret classified documents](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/exhibit-a-of-trumps-recklessness) with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office and refusing to return them.

The removal of top secret documents from former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month signalled the investigation into his handling of classified ...

But legal analysts expect Judge Dearie to be primarily tasked with determining what - if anything - is covered by privilege. It speaks volumes that Trump proposed him and the justice department did not object." In 2012, Judge Dearie was appointed by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to a seven-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They told Reuters that he was widely respected, fair and calm. In one trial of an al-Qaeda suspect, he allowed British MI5 officers to protect their identities by wearing wigs, glasses and makeup. "He has handled major cases and intense media interest." Judge Dearie will review the documents and then submit his recommendations or findings to the judge in the case. including federal cases involving national security". "As a judge, he applied the law. (Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for long-serving judges). During his time on that court, he was one of the judges who signed off on a request from the FBI and Department of Justice to monitor Mr Trump's former campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Judge Dearie served as chief judge in the district from 2007 to 2011, and is now a senior judge there.

Judge Cannon appointed Judge Raymond Dearie to vet documents and denied the DoJ's plea to continue reviewing the seized records.

Cannon was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2020. Dearie served as US attorney in Brooklyn before being appointed to the federal bench there by Republican president Ronald Reagan in 1986, and was chief judge of that court from 2007 to 2011. The justice department had said in a court filing on Monday that Dearie’s experience as a judge qualified him for the special master role, but opposed the other candidate proposed by Trump’s team, private attorney Paul Huck. During a search of the property, FBI agents seized more than 11,000 records and Trump will be required to pay costs associated with the special master. Florida-based US district judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday appointed Dearie to serve as a special master in the legal fight between Trump and the Department of Justice over government documents the former president kept at his

US federal judge Raymond Dearie has been chosen to review the files seized in the FBI's search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home.

According to Mr Trump, he told them: "Whatever you need, just let us know" Trump says that request was quickly fulfilled - 5 September - Judge grants Mr Trump's demand for a "special master" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials - 25 August - Judge orders justice department to release a redacted version of court papers that convinced him to authorise a search of the Trump estate Mr Trump's lawyers have argued some of the documents are covered by attorney-client privilege - a part of US law that allows people to keep conversations with their lawyers private. The Department of Justice resisted Mr Trump's request saying that any presidential records seized in the FBI's 8 August search of Mar-A-Lago "belong to the United States, not to the former president".

A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records seized during an FBI search of former ...

founder and billionaire Chip Wilson is donating $100 million to the B.C. Although Apple announced that the upcoming iPhone 14 and 14 Pro models in the U.S. A huge shift is about to be underway for the second-most widely circulated cryptocurrency. The House of Commons held this historic opportunity to allow MPs to pay tribute ahead of Monday's national commemorations. [World](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world) [Woman arrested in S. CTVNews.ca spoke to experts about the security involved in planning for such a large and monumental event. Dearie was chief judge of the district from 2007 to 2011, when he took senior status. He has also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes Justice Department wiretap applications in investigations involving suspected agents of a foreign power. Trump's lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and filter out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. The Justice Department has been investigating for months the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. She turned aside the department's position that Trump could not have any ownership interests in the documents, and said she was receptive to the possibility that the former president could raise valid claims of privilege over at least some of the records. District Judge Aileen Cannon empowered the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, to review the entire tranche of records taken in the Aug.

A federal judge has appointed Raymond J. Dearie, a former chief federal judge in New York, to sort through the more than 11,000 documents — including ...

Prosecutors had claimed the two inquiries were “inextricably intertwined,” because the FBI is an intelligence agency, and some of the tasks necessary to conduct a risk assessment would have to be done by the FBI. Cannon roundly rejected those arguments in her filing, saying that whether the documents marked classified were actually classified is a matter of dispute. Cannon’s rulings in the case have not made clear how she would define such a privilege. He will do a credible job, and will do it quickly.” [ruled in Trump’s favor ](https://docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub/publish_document/58724e3a-5bff-4a1e-97e3-2a13164ce651/published/58724e3a-5bff-4a1e-97e3-2a13164ce651.pdf)and said the special master should examine about 100 documents with classified markings, and said Dearie should prioritize those materials over the more than 11,000 nonclassified documents that were taken in the Aug. Cannon’s 10-page ruling rejects that argument, saying FBI agents can do what is needed for the risk assessment, even though they cannot proceed with the criminal investigation. 6 that the seized material included information on a foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities and other sensitive documents so closely held that only a small circle of top government officials are permitted to access them. The government said that delaying investigators’ access to those documents could pose national security risks. [Thursday night ruling](https://docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub/publish_document/58724e3a-5bff-4a1e-97e3-2a13164ce651/published/58724e3a-5bff-4a1e-97e3-2a13164ce651.pdf), Cannon rejected Justice Department arguments that her decision will cause serious harm to the national security investigation. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. But the two sides still disagree on whether searching through the highly sensitive classified documents taken by the FBI should be part of the special master’s responsibilities. She denied a bid by prosecutors to allow them to use the seized material in their ongoing criminal investigation before Dearie conducts his review.

US federal court judge Aileen Cannon grants former US President Donald Trump's request for special master to review classified records seized from ...

Trump's lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and segregate any that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. Reuters reported quoting the Judge that she would be instructing Dearie to prioritize reviewing the classified records first and to complete the review of all seized materials by November 30. A federal judge blocked the Justice Department from any further review of records seized from former US President Donald Trump's Florida property.

US federal judge Raymond Dearie has been chosen to review the files seized in the FBI's search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home.

According to Mr Trump, he told them: "Whatever you need, just let us know" Trump says that request was quickly fulfilled - 5 September - Judge grants Mr Trump's demand for a "special master" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials - 25 August - Judge orders justice department to release a redacted version of court papers that convinced him to authorise a search of the Trump estate Mr Trump's lawyers have argued some of the documents are covered by attorney-client privilege - a part of US law that allows people to keep conversations with their lawyers private. The Department of Justice resisted Mr Trump's request saying that any presidential records seized in the FBI's 8 August search of Mar-A-Lago "belong to the United States, not to the former president".

District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied the Justice Department's request to exclude classified documents from the special master review and ...

[SCOTUS declines to block order requiring Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ club](/2022/09/14/supreme-court-yeshiva-lgbtq-religion) [affidavit](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.125.0_1.pdf) shows that the Department of Justice sought "any and all surveillance records, videos, images, photographs ... [recognize an LGBTQ club](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/yeshiva-university-supreme-court-lgbtq). [has been determined](https://www.axios.com/2021/07/23/biden-judicial-federal-court) to maximize its own stamp on the courts. [unsealed new portions](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/12/trump-search-warrant-unsealed-doj) of the affidavit related to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant for former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. [Biden outpacing Trump with blistering pace of judicial confirmations](/2022/09/14/biden-judicial-confirmations-trump) [would accept Dearie](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/doj-trump-special-master-agreement), who now serves as a senior judge on the New York circuit, in the role. [wrote in the ruling](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.89.0.pdf). [Judge unseals new portions of redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit](/2022/09/14/judge-unseals-portions-mar-a-lago-search-warrant) [classified documents](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/justice-department-asks-judge-block-trump-review-request) from the special master review and appointed former New York federal judge Raymond Dearie to oversee the review. The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined in a 5-4 vote to block a lower court order requiring Yeshiva University to [Politics & Policy](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy)

Raymond Dearie, a veteran New York jurist and prosecutor, has been given access to all materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for independent ...

Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and filter out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. The Justice Department has been investigating for months the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. Cannon rejected both positions Thursday, directing the special master to prioritize in his review the documents marked as classified, “and thereafter consider prompt adjustments to the Court’s Orders as necessary.” She set a deadline of Nov. The Justice Department said last week that it did not believe that the special master should inspect records with classified markings or evaluate the former president’s claims of privilege. In the meantime, she continued to block the department from using for its investigation roughly 100 documents marked as classified that were seized. District Judge Aileen Cannon empowered the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, to review the entire tranche of records taken in the Aug.

Former President Donald Trump weighed in on possible indictment against him as his legal problems mount.

I can't imagine being indicted I have done nothing wrong," Trump said on the Hugh Hewitt Show. Former President Donald Trump told a talk show host on Thursday that even if he is criminally indicted he would have "no prohibition" against running for president again in 2024. - Trump said he could run again for president even if he is criminally charged.

Former president Donald Trump warned that if he were indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be ...

[told Fox News ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-riots/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20)last month that there would be “riots in the street” if Trump is prosecuted. “It would not take you out of the arena,” Hewitt said, trying to clarify the former president’s position. After noting that five people died as a result of the attack and 149 law enforcement agents were injured that day, the senator said Trump’s “careless and inflammatory rhetoric has its consequences.” Trump’s lawyer has argued that the former president cooperated with federal authorities and that many of the documents were covered by executive privilege. I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it,” Trump said. [contributing columnist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/hugh-hewitt/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) for The Washington Post, then noted that critics would describe the comment as inciting violence, and he asked Trump to respond to the claim.

Raymond Dearie has received access to the entire tranche of documents seized from the former president's property.

Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and filter out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. The Justice Department has been investigating for months the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. Cannon rejected both positions Thursday, directing the special master to prioritize in his review the documents marked as classified, “and thereafter consider prompt adjustments to the Court’s Orders as necessary.” She set a deadline of Nov. The Justice Department said last week that it did not believe that the special master should inspect records with classified markings or evaluate the former president’s claims of privilege. In the meantime, she continued to block the department from using for its investigation roughly 100 documents marked as classified that were seized. District Judge Aileen Cannon empowered the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, to review the entire tranche of records taken in the Aug.

A couple weeks ago, Biden gave a speech in Philadelphia, declaring the MAGA movement a threat to democracy. The speech said a lot of true things about that ...

The core challenge now is to show by word and deed that this is a gross exaggeration. A Democratic candidate who steps outside the culture/identity war narrative is going to have access to the voters who need to be moved. I doubt someone so emotionally flat and charmless can win a nomination in the age of intensive media. The proper strategy in this situation is to scramble the identity war narrative. That’s what the Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman is trying to do in Pennsylvania. We are in the middle of a cultural/economic/partisan/identity war between more progressive people in the metro areas and more conservative people everywhere else. A couple weeks ago, Biden gave a speech in Philadelphia, declaring the MAGA movement a threat to democracy. You have to rearrange the underlying situation. If those questions were asked, the straightforward conclusion would be that most of what we are doing is not working. It has probably pulled some college-educated Republicans into the Democratic ranks and pushed some working-class voters over to the Republican side. There was the immorality strategy: Thousands of articles were written detailing his lies and peccadilloes. We were never going to shake the hard-core MAGA folks.

Donald Trump sounded off about the possibility of "big problems" if the Department of Justice indicts him. Read more about his alarming comments on TAG24.

Instead, the 76-year-old spent much of the time airing out his [grievances](https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/donald-trump/trump-rants-about-biden-and-the-fbis-evil-and-demented-persecution-2601814). [ violent insurrection ](https://www.tag24.com/politics/us-politics/american-insurrection-congress-certifies-bidens-victory-after-trump-supporters-storm-capitol-1787681)at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to which Trump replied, "That’s not, that’s not inciting. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it," Trump reiterated. I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it." "I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. [illegal removal](https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/donald-trump/trump-may-be-hiding-more-illegally-removed-docs-oversight-committee-says-2611129) of [highly classified docs,](https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/donald-trump/dojs-unsealed-inventory-list-puts-donald-trumps-legal-team-in-a-tricky-place-2600539) some of which [contained nuclear secrets](https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/donald-trump/trumps-battle-with-the-doj-intensifies-as-fbi-reportedly-finds-nuclear-docs-at-mar-a-lago-2605765).

Rather than the "deep state", it was President Trump's own presidential appointees who most visibly resisted his directives.

Trump was not the only president to have conflicts in his White House staff or who requested the resignations of cabinet secretaries. The danger is that in a second term Trump would not make the “mistake” of appointing officials with integrity and courage. Trump had four secretaries of defense, four attorneys general, and four secretaries of homeland security (including acting secretaries). For all of his posturing about the military power of the United States, President Trump did not respect the norms of military leadership. In the spring of 2017, Trump ordered the removal from South Korea of the U.S. At the White House level, Trump had four chiefs of staff, four national security advisors, five directors of National Intelligence, four press secretaries, and six communications advisors (including acting officials). Secretary of Defense Mattis refused to carry out the direct order until he was able to talk the President out of his decision. Though White House staffers are powerful, cabinet secretaries are officers of the United States and hold the most authority in the executive branch, short of the president. President Trump demonstrated his attitude toward his secretaries of state and defense as well as military leaders. Yet Trump’s appointees in the White House, cabinet, military, and intelligence community refused to carry out many of the president’s directives to an extent unprecedented in the modern presidency. During the Mueller investigation about possible Trump campaign coordination with Russia, Trump ordered White House Counsel Donald McGahn and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to have Mueller removed, but they refused. President Trump often complained about the “deep state” of career civil servants who, he asserted, were determined to undermine his presidency.

Here's what we know so far after a special master was appointed Thursday to review the White House documents that former President Donald Trump brought back ...

The Justice Department is [conducting](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/08/trump-save-america-pac-reportedly-under-investigation-in-january-6-probe/?sh=17d6c9ce66a2) a [separate probe](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/15/trump-lawyer-herschmann-subpoenaed-in-dojs-jan-6-probe---heres-who-else-has-been-asked-to-testify/) into the January 6 attack on the Capitol Building and Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to it, with investigators reportedly [becoming](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/trump-jan-6-justice-department.html) more interested in recent months in Trump himself and conversations witnesses had with the then-president. [said](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/12/trump-opposes-doj-request-to-block-special-master-from-seeing-classified-documents/?sh=687ddba665af) in a court filing the DOJ can’t say that documents with classified markings are actually classified, given that Trump could have downgraded them. New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading civil and criminal probes into alleged financial wrongdoing at the Trump Organization, which may result in Trump [soon being sued](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/15/ny-ag-james-may-sue-trump-soon-and-his-kids-after-reportedly-rejecting-settlement-offer/), and the criminal investigation is being undertaken alongside a separate ongoing probe from the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The White House materials seized in August come after Trump already voluntarily turned over 15 boxes of documents in January to the National Archives, and his attorneys gave federal prosecutors 38 documents with classified markings in June in response to a grand jury subpoena. The ex-president’s attorneys have not told the court Trump did actually declassify any documents, however, and legal experts have [said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/19/trump-fbi-documents-classified/) it’s [unlikely](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/us/politics/trump-classified-documents.html) he could have declassified documents without following the proper protocols. The district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Georgia, is [conducting](https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/09/15/georgia-election-probe-some-could-go-to-prison-lead-prosecutor-reportedly-says/) an investigation into Trump’s post-election efforts in that state, including a call he had with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump asked him to “find” enough votes to change the results. Trump will pay all the costs for the special master’s 11-week review, and while the order blocks the DOJ from using the White House materials in its criminal investigation, the agency is still allowed to investigate the documents storage at Mar-A-Lago as long as their actions don’t involve the actual content of the documents. The Justice Department is expected to appeal Cannon’s ruling allowing Dearie to review classified documents to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. [Judge Picks Special Master In Mar-A-Lago Case—And Rejects DOJ’s Request To Exclude Classified Documents](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/15/doj-cannot-keep-classified-mar-a-lago-documents-from-special-master-judge-rules-siding-with-trump/?sh=1f50f74363b0) (Forbes) [What the FBI Found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate, by the Numbers](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/what-the-fbi-found-at-trump-s-mar-a-lago-estate-by-the-numbers?sref=LfZwdw4Z) (Bloomberg) [Trump and the Mar-a-Lago documents: A timeline](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/30/mar-a-lago-timeline-trump-documents/) (Washington Post) [Tracking Trump: A Rundown Of All The Lawsuits And Investigations Involving The Former President](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/02/10/tracking-trump-arundown-of-all-the-investigations-and-cases-involving-the-former-president/?sh=6eb61dad7f24) (Forbes) [appointed](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/15/doj-cannot-keep-classified-mar-a-lago-documents-from-special-master-judge-rules-siding-with-trump/?sh=348bca45363b) former federal district Judge Raymond Dearie to serve as the special master and rebuffed a request from the Justice Department to exclude approximately 100 classified documents from his review, and the review is set to end by November 30—with the DOJ not allowed to use the White House materials for its criminal investigation in the meantime. [granted](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/05/judge-sides-with-trump-grants-special-master-to-review-mar-a-lago-documents/) a special master to review the documents seized to filter out any materials covered by attorney-client or executive privilege—despite the DOJ arguing such a review would be unnecessary and hamper its investigation, and that materials can’t be shielded under executive privilege from the actual executive branch. [search warrant](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/12/federal-search-warrant-released-in-fbis-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/?sh=196b0235748e) it used to search Mar-A-Lago and a redacted version of the [affidavit](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/26/doj-releases-redacted-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit---heres-what-it-says/?sh=5af9a0286f07) used to obtain it, in response to more calls for transparency, which revealed what agents took from Mar-A-Lago and that they believed there was probable cause there would be “evidence of obstruction” at the Florida estate and more documents that hadn’t been turned over.