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Apr 22, 2024 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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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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This appears to be describing an attempt to leverage Trump family members to push him to return classified docs: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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It won't take long for people to crowdsource the identities of many of the people redacted from these documents. It's pretty easy to decipher a good number of them to a high degree of certainty, which speaks to why Jack Smith wanted more significant redactions/sealing
In a passage about how Trump's legal team came together, there's a detail that someone "dressed like" someone/something else in Trump's line of sight until they got hired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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The newly unsealed docs include a helpful breakdown of the classified records found in the initial tranche of boxes provided by Trump to NARA in Jan. 2022. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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FBI had some concerns about DOJ/Jay Bratt's antagonistic relationship with Trump lawyers, so asked to lead on the Mar-a-Lago search in order to keep it "professional" and "low key." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Here's the FBI's minute-by-minute account of the Mar-a-Lago search and coordination with the Secret Service. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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FBI discussed doing "loose surveillance" of Trump plane to see if he took any boxes with him from Mar-a-Lago on the day DOJ attorneys went down to meet him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Fun detail: The FBI codename for the Trump documents probe was "Plasmic Echo." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."
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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Breyer stays his order until noon tomorrow, which should be enough time for Trump to seek emergency appeal at 9th Circuit and perhaps Supreme Court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing in Newsom v. Trump, re dpeloyment of the Guard and Marines.

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Breyer asks a hypothetical: If Trump didn't follow the letter of the statute in calling up the guard, would his order be invalid?

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NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors."

The man's lawyer plans to demand his return.

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The Trump admin sought to speed his removal last month. politico.com/news/2025/05/3…
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BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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The three-judge panel that ruled against Trump? Appointees of:

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XINIS says she intends to do as much of this in open court as possible, despite discussion of privileged materials. they can use the husher/phones if they need to reference confidential info, she notes.
XINIS signals frustration with the Justice Department for not making available officials with firsthand knowledge of Abrego Garcia's status and efforts to facilitate his return, despite her order. She notes the depositions were crammed with "I don't knows" from the witnesses.
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