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EXPLOSIVE late-night court filing fomr National Archives details what Trump is trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from obtaining.

They include "daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointments showing White House visitors, activity logs" and records of calls to Trump/Pence.
The records include files drawn from Mark MEADOWS, Stephen MILLER, and hunreds of pages from binders of Kayleigh McAneny.

They also include a draft proclamation marking the deaths of Capitol Police officers. Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.
The first tranche: Meadows, Miller, Philbin, White House logs, call records >>> Image
The second tranche: McEnany, draft speech to "Save America" march, and "a handwritten note from former Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows’ files listing potential or scheduled briefings and telephone calls
concerning the January 6 certification," Image
The third tranche: Talking points on election "irregularities" in Michigan, an email chain from a state official,a document containing "presidential findings" on election integrity. Image
Full filing from the National Archives: politico.com/f/?id=0000017c…
TRUMP has pressed the National Archives to block 750 of the 1,600 pages identified so far as related to the Jan. 6 investigaiton — it's a far broader attempt by Trump to stifle access than previously known.
The Jan. 6 committee filed its own legal brief tonight too, rejecting Trump's claims of executive privilege as 'weak' and legally unsupported. Upholding them, they say, could impede efforts to prevent a future attack on elections.

politico.com/f/?id=0000017c…
The moral of this story: Never sleep on NARA!
NEWS: The National Archives has publicly identified the records Trump is trying to withhold from Jan. 6 probe:

-Call/visitor logs
-Draft speech to Jan 6 crowd
-Notes and files from Meadows, Miller, McEnany
-Emails from a “state official”

Much more here:

politico.com/news/2021/10/3…
The Archives is joining the Jan. 6 committee in opposing Trump’s sweeping executive privilege claims.

He is attempting to block 750 of the 1,600 pages identified so far — but NARA says he can’t overrule Biden, who wants the docs out.

politico.com/news/2021/10/3…
The National Archives catalogue of Trump’s Jan. 6-related records is startling, but equally eye-opening is its legal takedown of Trump’s lawsuit. politico.com/news/2021/10/3… Image
One factor is that presidents have throughout history waived executive privilege on matters of national significance, like Bush post-9/11 — and Trump himself when he decided not to block the Mueller report from coming out. 👀

politico.com/news/2021/10/3… Image
MORE: Overnight, executive privilege experts filed a persuasive brief arguing that there is literally no scenario in which a former president can override a sitting president’s waiver of privilege. ImageImage
AND: Trump has no ability to claim attorney-client privilege over advice given to “the office of the president.” Image
Here’s who filed the brief Image

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May 7
From afar, I would be surprised if Trump's lawyers don't move for a mistrial when Stormy Daniels is off the stand, given the level of detail Daniels went into that even seemed to bother the judge — and even after he warned prosecutors to steer clear.
That's not to say I think he'll *get* a mistrial. I just expect him to ask for it, given the judge's clear frustrations with the scope of Daniels' testimony.
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Apr 30
Justice MERCHAN says Trump can go to Barron's graduation on May 17, per @eorden

politico.com/live-updates/t…
READ Justice Merchan's contempt order: nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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👀 MERCHAN says he'll consider jailing Trump for future violations because the max $1,000 fine isn't really a deterrent. nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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Apr 25
NEW: Takeaways from today’s SCOTUS argument:

1) Donald Trump could win by losing because in this case losing his most extreme argument means further delay of trial — and for Trump, delay is almost as good as an outright win

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2024/04/2…
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2) The conservatives on the court contorted themselves to avoid discussing the specific case in front of them — Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election. They talked about FDR, Nixon and future presidents. But they rarely engaged w the present.

politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

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3) Alito and Sotomayor, the court’s two ideological poles, engaged in a clarifying colloquy. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

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Apr 24
BREAKING: Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 election. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…
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There are *seven* additional people charged in this indictment who have not yet been served. So their names remain redacted. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…
MORE: Trump is an *unindicted coconspirator* in this indictment. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…
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Apr 22
There's some wild stuff in this newly unsealed (but heavily redacted) FBI interview from a high-level Trump-world person related to the classified docs investigation.

For example: the witness was afraid to have the interview recorded for fear of reprisal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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And while the interview is primarily about the docs investigation, this person apparently witnessed Jeff Clark hand Trump the letter about Georgia electors: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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This person has a very low opinion of "person 24," who apparently tried to overplay a relationship with Trump and pushed the post-hoc claims that Trump had "declassified everything." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Apr 19
JUST IN: The DC Circuit has upheld the conviction of former Ron/Rand Paul aide Jesse BENTON for orchestrating an illegal payment from a Russian national to the Trump campaign and RNC. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…
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Trump had previously pardoned Benton for *other* campaign finance crimes. The story of this particular contribution is really incredible. the Russian, Roman Vasilenko, really wanted to meet Oprah, Stephen Seagal or Jimmy Carter. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…
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Benton concealed Vasilenko's role in paying for tickets to a joint Trump/RNC fundraiser. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…

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