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☆ The special master Trump pushed for is asking for proof of his claim that the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The special master reviewing Mar-a-Lago records asked Trump's team for proof that the FBI planted evidence at his home, as Trump has claimed. Trump has repeatedly and publicly claimed the FBI illegally planted evidence when searching Mar-a-Lago. This isn't the first time Dearie has essentially asked Trump's team to put their money where their mouth is. The line appears to reference the former president's public claim that the FBI planted evidence when executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last month. Thursday wasn't the first time Dearie had essentially asked Trump's lawyers to put their money where their mouth is and back up his public claims.
☆ Trump's path to stall documents probe narrows after legal setbacks
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Luc Cohen Sarah N. Lynch | Luc Cohen | Sarah N. Lynch | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Trump's lawyers, however, have stopped short of stating in court that he declassified the documents, though they have not conceded that they are classified. Trump's lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Dearie pressed Trump's lawyers to make clear whether they plan to assert that the records had been declassified as Trump claims. Trump's lawyers proposed Dearie to serve as special master. Dearie on Thursday asked trump's lawyers to provide any evidence backing this up.
☆ Trump described himself as a 'former' president in a Fox News interview then immediately tried to take it back
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump referred to himself as "former" president in a Fox News interview, then quickly reversed. Trump has yet to admit losing the 2020 election in public, though reports said he has in private. In the interview, Trump discussed security at his Mar-a-Lago residence, where FBI agents retrieved stashes of government records, including classified information which should only be kept in highly secure government facilities. As you know, we had tremendous Secret Service they are unbelievable people. Despite maintaining that he ought to be president still, Trump has accepted the Secret Service detail granted to former presidents.
☆ Trump baselessly claimed he could have declassified documents just by thinking about declassifying them
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Trump claimed that he could instantly declassify documents during his time in office. Trump said that, as president, he could get documents classified just by thinking about it. I declassified everything," Trump claimed, adding that he believed the National Archives and Records Administration was run by a "radical left group." While sitting presidents can declassify documents, there is a process to get these documents declassified that involves proper documentation. This refusal to provide evidence earned a solid rebuke from Dearie, who told Trump's lawyers that they cannot "have your cake and eat it."
☆ A federal appeals court allowed investigators to resume review of classified records seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lauren Frias | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A federal appeals court granted the DOJ's request to resume a review of classified materials seized from Mar-a-Lago. The ruling overturned Judge Aileen Cannon's decision that paused the review until a special master review. The decision appeared to embrace the DOJ's claims that a further delay in the review would hurt national security. "It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in 'exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'" the 11th Circuit judges wrote. The 11th Circuit panel included two Trump appointees — Judges Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant — along with Judge Robin Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee.
☆ Alex Jones' billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +22 min
Robbie Parker was later falsely called a crisis actor, and the Parkers are among those who sued Alex Jones for defamation. Longtime informal adviser to Donald Trump, Roger Stone (right), and and Alex Jones (left) speak to reporters in December 2018. Picture showing a computer screen displaying the Twitter account of Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones taken on August 15, 2018 in Washington DC. "Alex Jones is likely to continue being Alex Jones, which means he's likely to try all kinds of shenanigans to avoid accountability," said Holt. "The money awarded in damages does not repair what Alex Jones has done to those parents' lives, but it could be a step towards dismantling the toxic empire that Alex Jones has built around his brand."
☆ New York’s lawsuit against Trump is different from his other legal troubles: It’s personal
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is no stranger to legal scrutiny, but there's something different about the $250 million civil lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against him Wednesday: This time, it's as personal for him as it is political. It’s a personal blow for him that this even happened.”Upping the stakes, James named Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as co-defendants in accusing the former president's companies of manipulating business records to secure favorable loans, fool insurers and win tax benefits. "As executive vice presidents, the three children were intimately involved in the operation of the Trump Organization's business," James' lawsuit alleges. Allies say that, if anything, James' lawsuit will rally Republicans around him. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took to Twitter, accusing James of using their family to advance her own political interests and those of the Democratic Party.
☆ Trump's allies are baffled over his increasing support of the QAnon movement: Rolling Stone
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Some sources suggested to Rolling Stone that Trump was trolling for likes among his supporters. "Fuck if I know," an unnamed Trump ally told Rolling Stone when asked about the former president's apparent support for the fringe group. "He's said that he thinks some of their memes and images are 'funny,'" a source close to Trump said, per Rolling Stone. "I do not remember his exact words, but [Trump's response] was along the lines of: There are plenty of bad and sick people in Hollywood" and among the "liberal elite," the source told Rolling Stone. Speaking to Insider on Monday, Figliuzzi said Trump's support of QAnon was indicative of "increasing desperation," which could lead to violence within the movement.
☆ Former FBI assistant director says Trump is getting 'increasingly cornered' and that his embrace of QAnon is the 'last act of a desperate man'
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said Trump is drawn to QAnon like a moth to a flame. Figliuzzi said Trump is embracing the movement because he feels "increasingly cornered." Figliuzzi warned that violence could ensue if the QAnon movement felt threats to its leader. Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, was weighing in on Trump's links to the QAnon movement during a Monday appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House." Figliuzzi referenced Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where a QAnon song played during Trump's speech.
☆ 'No one' gets to keep classified information, says Mike Pompeo, an apparent criticism of Trump in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid. He said that no one has a right to possess classified material outside a secure setting. Executing a search warrant, agents retrieved stashes of classified information they believe Trump wrongly kept hold of after leaving office. "No one gets to keep classified information outside of a place classified information should be. The DOJ has appealed a ruling that denied them access to classified material they seized until the special master is done, arguing that the delay could harm US national security.
☆ Trump's legal team is trying to avoid turning over information about whether or not the documents found at Mar-A-Lago were declassified
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Dearie asked Trump's team to hand over specific information about files he claims he declassified. Dearie is asking that Trump's team hand over specific information regarding whether files were declassified or not. In a September 19 filing, Trump's team appealed Dearie's request in order to avoid revealing details about the top-secret materials. Dearie has until November 30 to finish reviewing the documents seized by the FBI. He was appointed, upon Trump's request, as a third-party neutral investigator in Trump's legal tussle with the FBI over documents seized in the agency's raid of Mar-a-Lago.
☆ Donald Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago and raging about FBI agents not taking off their shoes while searching his bedroom
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump said on Truth Social that he's finally had a look around Mar-a-Lago. He said FBI agents did not take off their shoes in his bedroom. "It was 'ransacked,' and in far different condition than the way I left it," Trump wrote on Truth Social. This is not the first time Trump has expressed anger at the FBI agents who searched through his personal items. Earlier this month, Trump claimed the FBI made him look sloppy by purposely scattering documents on the ground to photograph them during Mar-a-Lago raid.
☆ Trumpworld theorizes that Mar-a-Lago special master's involvement in previously botched FBI case makes him the best bet to help out the embattled former president
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trumpworld suspects Raymond Dearie may be skeptical of FBI operations after experiencing a bad one. Dearie was one of the judges who signed off on surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Dearie's role as special master in the Mar-a-Lago case doesn't involve reviewing the FBI's conduct. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. Trump and his allies will soon learn whether Dearie is on the same page as they are.
☆ Joe Biden says it was 'totally irresponsible' for Donald Trump to keep top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
President Biden sat down with "60 Minutes" in an interview that aired on Sunday night. Biden said that Trump's retention of classified documents was "totally irresponsible." "I don't want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the Justice Department should move or not move on certain actions they could take," Biden told "60 Minutes." Biden also reiterated that he was not given advance notice of the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8. In the wide-ranging interview with "60 Minutes", Biden also declared that the "pandemic is over" and that he wouldn't commit to running again in 2024.
☆ Justice Dept. asks appeals court to allow review of classified documents in Trump probe
  + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Jacqueline Thomsen | Thomson Reuters | Based In Washington | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Companies Us Justice Department FollowWASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to let it resume reviewing classified materials seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. The Justice Department must now convince the Atlanta-based appeals court, with a conservative majority, to take its side in litigation over the records probe. The government's motion comes after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected the same requests from the Justice Department. REUTERS/Al Drago/File PhotoThere were roughly 100 classified documents among the 11,000 records gathered in the FBI's court-approved Aug. 8 search at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort. If Cannon's ruling stands, experts said, it would likely stall the Justice Department investigation involving the government records.
☆ Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
A former high-level FBI agent who was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election has himself come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his ties with Russia and other foreign governments. A witness subpoena obtained by Insider indicates information that federal prosecutors were seeking about former FBI official Charles McGonigal. "It's very rare that former FBI people at all, and certainly former senior FBI people, wind up as grand-jury targets," the official said. McGonigal used his official FBI letterhead to try and arrange a business meeting with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania. Since he left the FBI, McGonigal has continued to trade on his expertise in counterintelligence.
☆ How Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner built their $1.1 billion fortune and how they spend it
  + stars: | 2022-08-22 | by ( Ellen Cranley | Erin Snodgrass | Weekend News Reporter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were a high-profile couple long before they became fixtures in the White House. Coming from two prominent real-estate families, some estimates project the couple's net worth to be $1.1 billion. Jared Kushner spoke about the Mar-a-Lago raid following speculation that he may have tipped off the FBI. But Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump have long courted media speculation and frenzy as a high-powered celebrity couple. Both hailing from prominent New York City real-estate families, Kushner and Trump had impressive houses and habits since before they settled in Washington, DC.
☆ George Conway says individuals defending Trump over his handling of presidential records are 'basically desperate'
  + stars: | 2022-08-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
George Conway during a CNN interview was highly critical of Trump's handling of classified documents. "Having top-secret FBI information in our home? Conway said individuals defending Trump and criticizing the FBI were "basically desperate." On CNN, Conway proceeded to lambast individuals who have backed Trump's claims regarding the FBI's search. He had no business bringing top-secret FBI material from the Situation Room or the Oval Office up to the residence.
☆ The night the Lord of the Skies got away
  + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +38 min
It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years. But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station. The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico. It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone. Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."
☆ Inside the little-known tool that gives JPMorgan Chase the power to collect data about everything its employees do at work
  + stars: | 2022-05-27 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +22 min
Insider learned about the WADU system through interviews and leaked internal documents that explain what kinds of data it captures. Though the use of Palantir was reportedly for security purposes, JPMorgan employees who spoke to Bloomberg said the situation quickly escalated. When companies are opaque about how they use employee data, the consequences can be detrimental — from harming employee "engagement" to eroding their "mental health," Garr said. Companies that fail to do this run the risk of cultivating the kind of mistrust that JPMorgan employees claim is running rampant through their ranks. "It does not sit well with me, what they're doing," said the US-based staffer with direct knowledge of the WADU system.
☆ The January 6 committee did not finish the job
  + stars: | 2021-01-06 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
The legislation establishing it directed the committee to report on the entire set of "facts, circumstances, and causes" surrounding the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The January 6 committee report contains extensive documentation of forewarnings of violence that were percolating up from confidential sources, open-source analysts, and senior officials. On January 4, Senator Mark Warner, chair of the Senate intelligence committee, called the FBI's deputy director with his concerns. As the committee notes, a threat analyst noted a "tenfold uptick in violent online rhetoric targeting Congress and law enforcement." Looming over the January 6 committee's report is the report by the 9/11 Commission, which was far from perfect, but much more comprehensive and unsparing.
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