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Another day, another leak to the Washington Post.

A Trump employee told the FBI he moved boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago on the former president’s orders, according a report published by the Washington Post late Wednesday.

Apparently only Trump isn’t allowed to take possession of his own presidential records.

Barack Obama was never harassed or accused of violating the Espionage Act for storing highly classified documents at a warehouse.

According to The Post, the claim from Trump’s worker is corroborated by security footage.

Trump’s worker was told to move the boxes after the former president received a subpoena in May for classified documents.

According to WaPo, this worker initially denied handling Trump’s documents, but in the second interview with the feds, he admitted he moved some boxes for Trump.

Now this…

The ‘key witness’ who moved Mar-a-Lago boxes on Trump’s orders is a former White House employee and Navy veteran.

The Washington Post identified the key witness as Walt Nauta, a 39-year-old who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago.

The Washington Post reported:

A key witness in the ongoing Justice Department and FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents is a Navy veteran who followed the former president to Florida after serving as a valet in the Trump White House, people familiar with the matter said.
Walt Nauta is the witness in question, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The 39-year-old worked as a valet for Trump in the Oval Office suite, according to former White House staffers, and served as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s residence and private club in Florida.
Nauta is originally from Guam, according to public records. He enlisted in the Navy and eventually became a cook in the White House mess, a small dining facility run by the Navy in the basement of the West Wing. In 2013, he entered a military culinary competition, part of a team representing “presidential food service.”

LEAK: 'Key Witness' Who Moved Mar-a-Lago Boxes on Trump's Orders Identified | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Another day, another leak to the Washington Post.

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Trump first responded to the sham committee’s airing of never-before-seen footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.y.) huddling in the basement of the Capitol building during the Jan. 6 protests. The committee highlighted several scenes in which Pelosi can be seen consulting with various officials regarding a military and police response to the protests.

It’s thought by some that the House committee aired the footage to sort of vindicate the Democratic speaker, who many still believe is responsible for the chaos that occurred that day due to a lack of proper response before and during the unfolding dangerous event, as Trump noted in his post.






The former president, in his third post, asked a question echoed by several pundits in the wake of today’s hearing, which was technically reclassified as a “business meeting.” Why did the committee wait until its final hearing to call Trump forward as a witness? That’s pretty much the opposite of the entire point of an investigation.

“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total “BUST” that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly – A laughing stock all over the World?” the former president wrote.

Any honest observer can deduce that the House J6 committee used the subpoena vote as a political weapon to muddy Trump’s name ahead of the midterm elections, and especially ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Trump Exposes House J6 Committee as a 'BUST' in Response to Final Hearing

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House GOP probing whether National Archives conspired with Democrats in Trump records dispute​

"Committee Republicans have learned that NARA's actions initiated the Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal investigation against the former president the same day committee Democrats inquired about whether a referral to DOJ had been made," the two lawmakers wrote.

The two Republicans demanded access to NARA documents that would help them determine "whether and to what extent Congressional Democrats influenced and coordinated" with the National Archives to prompt the probe, which led to the unprecedented FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Among the evidence being sought are "all documents and communications between or among employees or agents of NARA and DOJ referring or relating to the Trump Administration's control, transfer, storage, or other handling of documents subject to the Presidential Records Act."

 

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Anonymous Trump Employee’s Witness Account Gave DOJ Grounds for Warrant​

Donald Trump, Department Of Justice, FBI, Mar-A-Lago Raid, Mar-A-Lago, Classified Information

AllSides Summary​

An unidentified Mar-a-Lago employee cooperating with the ongoing Department of Justice probe former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents told investigators that Trump directed him to move boxes containing the documents. This claim from the anonymous worker, plus security footage featuring a Trump aidemoving boxes on the property, were part of the DOJ’s justification for obtaining a warrant to search the property.
Key Quotes: The story first broke in the Washington Post (Lean Left Bias), which stated that “agents have gathered witness accounts indicating that, after Trump advisers received a subpoena in May for any classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told people to move boxes to his residence at the property.” Trump disputed these claims on Wednesday in a post on Truth Social, stating “there is no ‘crime’ having to do with the storage of documents at Mar-a-Lago.”
For Context: The FBI executed a warrant search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence on August 8. During the search, agents seized around 11,000 documents, roughly 100 of which contained classified markings.
Where the Media Agreed: The anonymous report was covered across the spectrum.
Where the Media Disagreed: The New York Times (Lean Left Bias) and Reuters (Center Bias) both entertained speculation that Trump aide Walt Nauta was the anonymous source. The New York Post (Lean Right Bias) and the Washington Post (Lean Left Bias) did not mention Nauta.

 

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Trump subpoena coming 'shortly,' Liz Cheney says​

"So we'll be issuing a subpoena shortly, both for his testimony under oath as well as for documents. And we'll take whatever next steps we have to take assuming that he will fulfill his legal obligation and honor the subpoena, but if that doesn't happen, we'll take the steps after that," Cheney said.

Cheney, who is vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 committee, made the remarks days after Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL), the other Republican member of the panel, told George Stephanopoulos on This Week that Trump is "required by law to come in."

 

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New scrutiny of Biden rental to Secret Service as Dems target Trump hotels​

President Joe Biden collected rent payments from the U.S. Secret Service long before former President Donald Trump took office in January, 2017.

It was reported in 2011 that Biden was charging the Secret Service $2,200 per month to stay in a cottage on his property in Wilmington, Del. The total payments made were $117,600, according to federal government spending records.

In August, the New York Post and other news outlets reported that the Secret Service is renting a mansion in Malibu near the home of Hunter Biden, the president's son, for $30,000 per month.

This week, House Democrats are criticizing the Trump Organization for the rates the company charged the Secret Service for hotel rooms booked in protecting Trump and his family members at properties that he owns.

The Associated Press reported that the House Oversight Committee found that the Secret Service was "charged room rates of more than $800 per night at least 11 times when agents stayed at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and other properties."

The Secret Service also paid as much as $1,185 per night when Trump stayed at his company's Washington, D.C. hotel in 2017, the records reportedly showed. The hotel has since been sold.

The House Oversight Committee reportedly obtained records showing that $1.4 million in payments were made in total to the Trump Organization.

Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said the rates charged were “exorbitant” and has asked the Secret Service for more information about the amounts paid.

 

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While observant Jews typically support conservative politics, Reform, Conservative, and secular Jews have traditionally voted overwhelmingly with liberal politics for decades for a variety of reasons. Too many rabbis and Jewish leaders have been more concerned with pandering to secular political causes, “social action,” and leftist media than they have with teaching the Torah or traditional Jewish values. With President Trump’s election and the amazing work that was done for Jewish causes and Israel under his administration, some of that support shifted towards the Republican Party. The values of the Republican Party are much more in sync with Jewish values and objectives, but there is still much work to do in order to bring the majority of American Jews to the point where they recognize that for a Jew to support the Democratic Party as it now stands is analogous to a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

Those who condemn Trump like Greenblatt are actually not leaders of the Jewish people or teachers of their values, and haven’t been for a long time. Under Greenblatt’s leadership, the ADL has morphed from an important organization into a useful tool for progressives to promote the anti-Semitic agenda of the far left. While Trump championed Israel and the Jewish people, the ADL has championed anti-Semites and hate-filled causes. Let’s just compare what the ADL has done in recent years under Greenblatt to the pro-Israel and pro-Jewish actions that President Trump accomplished.

The ADL, an organization supposedly concerned with primarily Jewish matters, supports the hate of Black Lives Matter, champions the cause of calling George Floyd’s death a result of an unjust and racist system, and desires “systemic change”. Conversely, Trump made the lives of all American Jews, especially Jewish children, safer with his inclusion of anti-Semitism as hate crimes in Title VI. While the ADL partnered with CAIR and the ADL opposes anti-BDS legislation, Trump created the first real steps towards peace between Israel and the Arab nations with the Abraham Accords. Although the ADL is an organization founded to help protect Jewish rights and support Israel, it currently fights for abortion and other political leftist causes. Trump, on the other hand, did fight for Israel and fulfilled the commitment made by his predecessors of over two decades by moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel–the manifestation of bi-partisan legislation approved by Congress going back to 1995. It would seem that it is the ADL that threatens American Judaism, while Donald Trump fights for it. And despite all of Trump’s support for Jews and Israel, The Forward has the audacity to claim that Trump is “harassing Jews” and that Presidents Carter and Obama were both better for Jews and Israel. While Trump has made Jews around the world and in this country safer, these supposedly Jewish organizations are the ones that have actually put Jews directly in danger through their support of leftist causes. The hateful words of vitriol against Trump by The Forward and the ADL are not the words of the leaders of Judaism, but the diatribe of politically progressive leaders who happen to be Jewish.

Trump Is Right: American Jews Must 'Get Their Act Together'

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Trump Gives Deposition in Case of Woman Who Accused Him of Raping Her and Called Rape ‘Sexy’​

After all this cross talk, Carroll’s lawyers were mum about exactly what happened when Trump gave his deposition. Their statement was a model of terseness: “We’re pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today. We are not able to comment further.” Trump’s attorney Alina Habba, however, stated: “As we have said all along, my client was pleased to set the record straight today. This case is nothing more than a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump.”

That seems likely. Carroll didn’t help her case when she sat down with Anderson Cooper not long after she made her initial accusation, and the interview quickly turned into one of the most bizarre exchanges ever broadcast on national television. Cooper asked Carroll: “So you don’t feel like a victim?” To that, she responded strangely: “I was not thrown on the ground and ravished. Which, the word ‘rape’ carries so many sexual connotations. This was not sexual. It just, it hurt.”

Whether or not she was thrown to the ground and ravished has nothing whatsoever to do with Anderson Cooper’s question, or with the accusations she made against Trump. And her point about the rape not being sexual is likewise completely off any point Cooper was trying to get her to make. Cooper tried to get the proceedings back on track by gamely following up with: “I think most people think of rape as a violent assault. It is not sexual—” To that, E. Jean Carroll responded with her oddest statement of all: “I think most people think of rape as being sexy.”

 

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Hillary Clinton Demands Trump Pay Her Legal Fees After Clinton Judge Tosses RICO Lawsuit Over Russia Collusion Hoax​

Hillary Clinton’s lawyers on Monday filed a motion demanding Donald Trump pay Clinton’s legal fees after a Bill Clinton judge tossed the RICO lawsuit over the Russian collusion canard.

President Trump filed a federal RICO suit in Miami, Florida in March against Hillary Clinton and others over the Russia collusion hoax orchestrated by the Clinton campaign in 2016 to undermine Trump’s candidacy and derail his presidency.

Trump asked for treble damages of expenses and losses of more than $24 million.

In April President Trump requested the Clinton-appointed judge overseeing his Russiagate case against Hillary Clinton and others be removed from the case due to obvious conflicts of interest.

 

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President Trump Sues New York Attorney General Letitia James​

President Trump Wednesday evening announced he is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“Today, I filed a lawsuit in Florida State Circuit Court against the corrupt Attorney General of New York State, Letitia “Peekaboo” James. New York State is one of the most crime-ridden places on earth with murders, robberies, drug deals, and every other form of crime setting records on a weekly basis. While James does nothing to protect New York against these violent crimes and criminals, she attacks great and upstanding businesses which have done nothing wrong, like the very successful, job and tax producing Trump Organization that I have painstakingly built over a long period of years.” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Crooked and highly partisan James now thinks it is the business of the State of New York to go after my revocable trust and pry into my private estate plan, only to look for ways to recklessly injure me, my family, my businesses, and my tens of millions of supporters…” Trump added.

 

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U.S. House committee gives Trump until next week to produce documents ​

Summary by Ground News

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has extended the deadline for former President Donald Trump to turn over documents as part of a subpoena issued last month, while reiterating its request for a sit-down interview. The panel — comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans — issued a statement late Friday saying it is in communication with Trump’s attorneys. Friday had been the committee’s deadline for Trump to produce an extensive number of documents and communications with lawmakers.

 

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Fact-Checking the AP's Fact-Check on the 30 Million Classified and Unclassified Presidential Records Obama Moved to Chicago​

Reading Massara’s AP fact-check it is clear he didn’t do any independent reporting but instead relied on press releases issued by the National Archives to declare these two facts “FALSE”:

1. Obama took 30 million documents to Chicago upon leaving the White House
2. Many of the 20 million documents taken to Chicago were classified

First, the decision to house Obama’s presidential records in the former Plunkett Furniture showroom outside of Chicago was made by the President of the United States and not NARA. Obama’s presidential records were safely stored in a DC-area National Archive facility where they could be processed, documented, and scanned. When and if President Obama built a presidential library they would be transported there where the processing, documentation, and scanning could be completed (if necessary). Instead, and against the advice and wishes of NARA, Obama ordered NARA to sign a six-year $12 million lease for the former Plunkett Furniture showroom in the Chicago suburbs. Then just two months before leaving office he ordered NARA to relocate 30+ million presidential records from the DC-area NARA facility to the newly leased building outside of Chicago. Obama wanted to get his documents out of NARA’s sphere of influence as his team feared Trump would install his own National Archivist who might not respect Obama’s privacy.

Once Obama left office and could no longer call the shots at NARA, the agency began taking steps to retrieve the documents the former president had ordered removed. Within months of ordering NARA to load his presidential records on 40 tractor-trailers for delivery to the Chicago suburbs, the Obama Foundation informed NARA that the president was breaking with tradition and would not build a presidential library. Instead, the former president notified NARA in the Spring of 2017 that he was building a presidential center and museum that would be privately owned and operated and would not house Obama’s presidential records.5




Obama’s September 11, 2018 letter to the Archivist supports reports that the former Plunkett Furniture showroom was ‘NARA-controlled’ in name only. As far as NARA was concerned they wanted nothing to do with the facility. The 2018 letter reveals that even Obama admitted that the Hoffman Estates building wasn’t NARA-controlled as they agree to transfer NARA $3,300,000 to pay for the move of the classified and unclassified documents to a NARA-controlled facility.6 The letter also seems to admit that the Hoffman Estates building did NOT ‘conform ot the agency’s archival storage standards’.

 

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Some conservatives turn on Trump for attacking Ron DeSantis ahead of midterms: ‘What an idiot’​

Trump mocked DeSantis as "Ron DeSanctimonious" while discussing the 2024 Republican presidential primary at a rally in Pennsylvania. The pair is widely considered to be the top contenders for the Republican nomination, though DeSantis has offered no indication he intends to run. Commentators called out Trump for creating division in the ranks just three days before the midterm elections.

"DeSantis is an extremely effective conservative governor who has had real policy wins and real cultural wins. Trump isn’t going to be able to take this one down with a dumb nickname. He better have more than that up his sleeve," wrote Matt Walsh, a commentator at The Daily Wire and a leading voice among social conservatives.


"Also, nice job launching your public attack against the most popular conservative governor in America three days before the midterms when we’re all supposed to be showing a united front," he added.

 

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A Nation Rejoices! A Humiliating Defeat for Trump!​

Which Republicans most under performed?

ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia -- two nominees hand-picked by Trump.

The first horror of a long Tuesday night came soon after the polls closed in Pennsylvania, with the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Mastriano, getting clobbered. Some of the tipoffs that Mastriano might not have been the strongest candidate for the GOP were:

-- A week before the primary, he spoke at a QAnon rally, featuring a film claiming 9/11 was an inside job and that John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated because he "knew too much."

-- He called abortion the "No. 1 issue" and promised to ban all abortions with no exceptions even for rape, incest or the life of the mother. He also said women who violated the ban should be charged with murder.

-- He vowed to de-register all Pennsylvania voters and make them re-register to vote and said that, as governor, he would choose who was allowed to certify elections.

Naturally, Trump endorsed him. After all, Mastriano had slavishly supported the ex-president's stolen election claims -- convening slates of fake electors and even showing up at the Capitol on Jan. 6. That's just the ticket for a purple state, no?





JFC no wonder this guy lost ... how out of touch can one person be ... Seriously a QA rally and a total aportion ban ... I despise abortion, but that isn't happening in a state like PA

 

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Ex-Trump Org CFO Weisselberg Testifies Trump and His Sons Were in the Dark on Tax Fraud Scheme​

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August to 15 tax crime felonies.

Weisselberg pleaded guilty to all 15 crimes in exchange for a reduced sentence in a plea deal with prosecutors.

The plea deal also requires that Mr. Weisselberg to testify as a witness.

The trial, which began last month, took a turn on Thursday when Weisselberg testified that Donald Trump and his sons Eric and Don Jr. were in the dark about the tax fraud scheme.

Weisselberg said Trump and his sons signed the checks but they had no knowledge of any fraud.

The Trump Organization last summer was hit with criminal charges by crooked Manhattan DA Cy Vance’s office.

The case was tied to tax-related conduct amid claims Trump Organization employees illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as apartments and car leases.’

These types of cases are almost never pursued, but the witch hunt of Trump and everyone connected to him never ends.

Last July the corrupt DA in Manhattan frog-marched the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg into a New York court to be arraigned on bogus tax charges.

According to the indictment unsealed last summer, Weisselberg was accused of a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme for receiving $1.7 million in illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as apartments and car leases.’

In August Judge Juan Manuel Merchan sentenced Weisselberg to five months in Rikers Island jail.

 

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Finally, it appears the Mar-a-Lago raid story is dying a sad, lonely death. The Washington Post ran a narrative-resetting story earlier this week headlined, “Investigators See Ego, Not Money, as Trump’s Motive on Classified Papers.” The sub-headline explained, “A review by agents and prosecutors found no discernible business interest in the Mar-a-Lago documents, people familiar with the matter said.”

Uh-oh!

The story reported that FBI investigators have not found any of the U.S.’s nuclear secrets among the classified documents seized from Trump’s home in South Florida, or anything else that shows criminal intent. Nor have the witnesses interviewed by the FBI turned up anything useful:

FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.​

It’s weird how this story is starting to go away, now that we’re past the elections, isn’t it? Probably just a coincidence!

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