THREAD🧵Former President Trump said June 8 that he had been indicted by special counsel #JackSmith as part of the investigation into his handling of #ClassifiedDocuments.
Jan. 20, 2021
This is the day of President Biden's inauguration as the 46th president, although Trump disputes the election results. He has not conceded. theepochtimes.com/trump-on-the-2…
A Trump representative informs @USNatArchives that about a dozen boxes of presidential records had been located at Mar-A-Lago and that staffers were continuing to search for more. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@USNatArchives releases a statement, saying that some of Trump’s presidential records “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump,” and taped back together by White House staff.
The same day House Democrats write a letter expressing concern about Trump’s records, @USNatArchives sends a referral email to the #DOJ, stating the boxes contained “highly classified records” that were “intermixed with other… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In a letter responding to a Trump lawyer, @USNatArchives says that access to presidential records is generally restricted “for several years after the conclusion of a President’s tenure in office.” cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/…
In all but one of the 15 boxes, #FBI agents find documents with classification markings. Among the records, 67 documents were marked “confidential;” 92 records “secret;” and 25 records, “top secret,” the FBI  affidavit said. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2226…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In response to a May 11 subpoena, a Trump attorney hands over an envelope to @USNatArchives, containing 38 documents with classification markings, including 5 documents marked “confidential,” 16 marked “secret,” and 17 marked “top secret,”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
June 4, 2022
Former Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore appears on NBC’s “Meet The Press” and described the process that ordinarily happens with presidential records. nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…
The #DOJ sends a letter to Trump’s attorneys, stating that “Mar-A-Lago does not include a secure location authorized for the storage of classified information.” apnews.com/article/biden-…
The agents are divided into 2 teams: investigators and a team tasked with reviewing materials that might contain privileged attorney-client information.
A federal judge unseals the warrant that allowed the #FBI to search Mar-a-Lago; the document shows agents are investigating possible violations of federal laws, including the Espionage Act. apnews.com/article/florid…
@USNatArchives releases a letter revealing that the Biden administration asked NARA to allow the #FBI to review the Mar-A-Lago records months prior to the raid.
The #DOJ reveals new details about the investigation, asserting that classified materials were “likely concealed and removed” from a Mar-a-Lago storage room to obstruct the investigation.
At the request of Trump’s lawyers, a federal judge appoints US District Judge Raymond Dearie as special master to review the Mar-A-Lago documents. theepochtimes.com/here-is-what-w…
Dearie was tasked with weeding out records covered by executive privilege, attorney-client… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That same day, Conservative radio host @hughhewitt posts on Twitter that Trump told him everything he took to Mar-A-Lago was declassified, and that he had done nothing wrong in connection with alternative slates of electors.
@USNatArchives releases 11 pages of communication with Trump representatives and 54 pages documenting its contact with other agencies about the Trump records; about 1,500 pages are withheld, citing privileged communications with federal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@USNatArchives denounces “false and misleading” reports implying that records of several former presidents took records with them or that the records were housed in “substandard conditions.” twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
No information about the Biden documents is revealed publicly until 2 months later, well after… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nov. 3, 2022
@USNatArchives contacts Biden’s lawyers to arrange to pick up boxes of Biden records from the @PennBiden Center, they learned that other records had been moved to the Boston law office of Pat Moore, another Biden lawyer, according to a letter NARA later sent in a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The #DOJ appoints #JackSmith as special counsel to oversee 2 probes of Trump: the documents case and “whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
An appeals court rules that the special master’s review of documents must stop. The appellate judges say they cannot “write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jan. 9, 2023
The @WhiteHouse publicly discloses the Biden document concerns for the first time. In response, Trump points out the disparate treatment between him and Biden on his Truth Social platform. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
Biden’s lawyers acknowledge that more classified documents were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than had been previously reported. House… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In a letter to Sen. @ChuckGrassley and @SenRonJohnson, the @USNatArchives says it has not delved into the Biden records, and that they were transported to NARA’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
After a series of shorter statements and records releases, @USNatArchives issues a lengthy statement disputing reports that NARA has been “untruthful” about its activities. archives.gov/press/press-re…
The agency says it provided similar help to “the three previous Presidential transitions,” adding: “The packing of boxes and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Trump’s attorneys ask for a meeting with top #DOJ officials to discuss “the ongoing injustice” that Trump is facing under Smith’s investigations of the documents matter and Trump’s alleged interference with transferring power to the Biden… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Citing “multiple sources,” @CNN releases an exclusive report alleging that federal prosecutors had obtained an audio recording of a 2021 meeting in which Trump reportedly acknowledged that he “held onto a classified Pentagon document about a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The House @JudiciaryGOP Committee begins investigating whether bias in the #FBI, revealed in the #DurhamReport on May 15, has tainted Smith’s investigations of Trump.
The #DOJ announces that its investigation into possible mishandling of documents found at the home of Trump’s former vice president, @Mike_Pence, without filing charges against Pence. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
June 4, 2023
Countering other reports predicting Trump’s imminent indictment in the documents probe, a former Trump lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, tells @NBCNews’ “Meet The Press” questions whether such a prosecution would make sense. theepochtimes.com/ex-trump-lawye…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Speculation about the documents investigation nearing a conclusion goes into overdrive after 2 events.
3 Trump attorneys—Lindsey Halligan, John Rowley, and James Trusty—are seen leaving #DOJ headquarters in Washington. They had been inside… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In a series of Truth Social posts, couched as “tirades” by some media, Trump accuses the #FBI and #DOJ of being “Marxists and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
June 7, 2023
Taylor Budowich, a former Trump aide who continues supporting the former president via a political action committee, confirms via Twitter that he testified to a grand jury to meet his legal obligation.
Trump calls for the #DOJ to shut down the case against him and for the @JusticeOIG to investigate the DOJ for prosecutorial misconduct. He alleges that top prosecutors tried to bribe and intimidate an attorney into getting a witness to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
THREAD🧵Many of the corruption allegations swirling around President Biden have been around for years, dating back to his son #HunterBiden’s early trips to #China with him on Air Force Two.
This includes allegations from 2 separate whistleblowers—one with the #IRS involving the #HunterBiden criminal probe and another who’s alleging corruption and potential bribes on the part of Joe Biden.
On April 16, 2014, then-Vice President Biden met at the White House with #HunterBiden’s business partner, Devon Archer. Although it isn’t known what was discussed at that meeting, it appeared to have set many events in motion.
In fact, he had been arrested in Maryland in 2013 by federal Park Police for being drunk and disorderly, something the FBI analyst could have easily discovered by searching federal law enforcement databases.
THREAD🧵#DurhamReport: It will take weeks, months, and perhaps even years to fully take in every aspect of the #FBI’s scheme against President Trump.
Until last week, the official story was that a Trump campaign adviser, @GeorgePapa19, got drunk in a London bar and told an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, about a secret plot between #Russia and the Trump campaign to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
While Papadopoulos has always denied the story, the first official hint that something was amiss came when @JusticeOIG Michael Horowitz released his December 2019 report into the FBI’s handling of its investigation of the Trump campaign.
THREAD🧵#DurhamReport: The #FBI did not interview people connected to the information it used to open a investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, the report shows. theepochtimes.com/durham-report-…
The bureau rushed to open the initial investigation based on unvetted intelligence from Australia, according to #JohnDurham, who has spent nearly 3 years investigating the origins of the #FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.
#LindaYaccarino, Twitter’s new CEO, has had decades of experience with the advertising industry and has a position at the @wef.
Billionaire @elonmusk, who has been running Twitter since he bought it last fall, said he is “excited” to welcome Yaccarino to the post, which she will take on in about 6 weeks. theepochtimes.com/elon-musk-anno…
THREAD🧵The @NIH has reinstated a grant that had been terminated by President Trump in April 2020.
However, a document first obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveals that the #NIH’s conditions for reinstatement have not been met. theepochtimes.com/analysis-why-w…
The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was originally awarded in 2014 by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID.
Under the terms of the grant, @EcoHealthNYC, a government-funded nonprofit that purportedly engages in research to prevent pandemics, was awarded… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In May 2016, the grant was suspended after Erik Stemmy, a NIAID program officer, noticed that federal government funds may have been used for prohibited #GainOfFunction experiments at the #WuhanLab in #China.