Trump is now experiencing increasing paranoia, and rage of betrayal. Let's take delight in what pain past few days have given Trump
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First up: Allen Weisselberg. Trump's accountant of 40 years worked for Trump's crooked scumbag slumlord dad Fred Trump. Allen was Trump's money man, knew all money matters including not just tax fraud, but Trump's money laundering and all bribes Trump took
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Weisselberg just pleaded guilty in Manhattan to 15 counts of criminal tax fraud and agrees to testify against Trump's businesses. That wipes out Trump's businesses. Trump cannot trust anyone about his money - well, he's a #Debtonaire so he doesn't have any
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What about Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows? Trump paid Mark one million dollars of hush money to not rat Trump out (not Trump's own money, he is broke, this is money from Trump campaign, so it is Maganutter money). Trump thought Mark was loyal
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We have speculated for 5 months that Meadows has flipped and is ratting Trump out. His behavior is certainly consistent with a flip.
A few weeks ago we learned Trump own attorneys tell Trump, Meadows has flipped. That is gonna sting
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The Mar-A-Lago search was directed by someone on the inside. The DOJ has admitted in court documents, they have an insider. Trump knows, it has to be someone REAL close, like a family member, because of what the DOJ knew (it wasn't Meadows or Weisselberg)
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When asked, the two who know Trump family the best, Michael Cohen and Mary Trump both said, they think Jared has flipped. I've told you Jared behavior is consistent with a flip. Also Tom Barrack behavior is consistent with Jared winning & Tom losing that flip
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Separately, a week ago, Trump was complaining that Don Jr will go to jail. This came out of the blue? It had to be Trump's own ATTORNEYS who told Trump this. That after Jr did not plead the fifth in NY. Note.. Ivanka did not either. Who is wearing a wire?
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Trump home Mar-A-Lago was found to contain 11 boxes of classified government documents. The search warrant was procured partly due to an informant. DOJ told the judge, that informant is also assisting DOJ on an UNRELATED crime (so not espionage/theft of docs)
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Immediately after the search of Mar-A-Lago the DOJ filed three new items with the courts. These are three new crimes, Trump had previously not even been investigated for.
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And then there is Rudy. Giuliani testified for 6 hours in Georgia under oath. He did not dare to show his face after, and escaped TV cameras by rear exit. The only person Rudy could blame for his criming in GA was Trump. Sounds like Rudy did.
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So Trump is having a miserable time. Now with Jan 6th, and Espionage, and the FBI taking Trump's Extortion Files (see my pinned Tweet) - there are Republicans turning against Trump. That will feel like the ultimate betrayal. Trump is seething
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At 26 boxes, if we assume each filled to 75% of capacity = 3,000 pages per box = 78,000 pages were taken from Mar-A-Lago
What happened NEXT to that stash of paper? It went to a 'filter team' first
We know that 11 of 26 boxes containted government documents. That is about 33,000 pages. I estimated at 8 page average size of classified document and 16.6 page average size of top secret document, that was
361 top secret documents stolen by Trump
3,375 classifed docs stolen..
The Department of Justice did not see the files when taken by FBI. The DOJ set up a 'Filter Team', because DOJ knew, Trump will likely have had confidential 'client-attorney' privileged documents among his papers, because Trump has been in court over 3,600 times (usually lost)
I was curious about that number of secret DOCUMENTS that Trump stole. I was certain we will have some government calculation of the number of pages per secret document, on average.. and I FOUND one.. in 2005 a storage filing facility..
..in 2005 a storage facility for classified documents was moved. The moving job indicated number of files involved, both as documents and as pages. It had both classified documents listed and top secret documents listed. We get a fair estimate of the number of pages per document
From their count:
This facility had 3,613 documents of active top secret material which is 60,000 pages. Ave document 16.6 pages long
And had 9,388 docs of active classified material of 75,000 pagees, ave length 8 pages per document
Ukraine war interrupted by regular updates to our Paths but with Rudy testifying under oath in Georgia, let's do update to Giuliani path to take Trump to prison for life
Trump faces SIX paths that take Trump to prison for life. + dozens with less
Aug Update Giuliani Path 2/
Donald Trump faces 6 paths that EACH take him to prison for life
1. Weisselberg (NY taxes) 2. Giuliani (Ukraine) 3. Matt Gaetz (selling Presidential pardons) 4. Roger Stone (Jan 6th) 5. Tom Barrack (UAE & Qatar) 6. Mark Meadows (Mar-A-Lago espionage)
Aug Update Giuliani Path 3/
UNDERSTAND Giuliani raid by FBI
This has NOTHING to do with Jan 6th (or Georgia). This is an OLDER crime, two years before Jan 6th, which is now being prosecuted against Rudy Colludy
Rudy's Jan 6th trials will come AFTER this Ukraine criminal trial
The Weisselberg flip did mess up my schedule, for understandable reason. Weisselday only comes once in a lifetime. A lifetime of prison :-)
We had 5 Paths that take Trump to Prison. I wrote updates to Path 1 (Weisselberg) & Path 5 (Tom Barrack)
Obviously with Weisselberg flip, I have to update Path 1 (Weisselberg) to reflect the flip. I will do that LAST
Next up, I promised I will do Path 2: Giuliani (Ukraine extortion etc). That I hope to get done this wkend.
After Rudy we do Path 3: Matt Gaetz (selling pardons)
And then the biggie will be Path 4: Roger Stone which is about January 6th
So much has happened in Jan 6th, that we learned via Jan 6th Hearings, that this update will be... should I say an epic Tomi Thread haha. But yes. I will of course update Path 4
Not all were classified documents belonging to government (I estimated 21,000 pages were Trump's Extortion File)
But let's do a bit of math on the 11 boxes of classified docs... :-)
(Yay! Math! We .. love? .. math?)
1 filing box can contain about 4,000 pages if fully packed. Let's leave room for some other stuff like tapes, photos, whatnot. And assume 3,000 pages per box
11 boxes of classified government documents = 33,000 pages of stolen secret documents. That is world RECORD in espionage
Now what could be a fair count of a file size? Let's say one top secret document on average is 10 pages long (some are much longer, but some are just 1 or 2 pages long). If we say average classified document is 10 pages long, Trump would have stolen 3,300 classified documents