#trump-tower

#trump-tower

The news of the indictment of former President Trump immediately took over cable news channels and the country's main broadcast networks on Thursday.On Fox News, the host Sandra Smith interrupted the network's roundtable show The Five around 5:30 p.m. with the breaking news, eliciting gasps from her fellow co-hosts: We have just gotten word: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York.

Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, said Thursday that he testified before a grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago for several hours in December 2022 about additional searches for classified documents at Trump properties.I chose to go in there because I felt that it was a good opportunity as a trial lawyer for me to go in and be able to speak directly to the grand jury to explain to them what we did, to explain to them how we had complied with the subpoena, how there was no obstruction, Parlatore told CNN.

Given the news that Alina Habba appeared before the grand jury investigating Trump's stolen documents, I wanted to go back to the declaration she submitted in the NY State investigation pertaining to diligent searches for documents in that investigation back in May 2022.Politico reported on it before the public release about details of the stolen classified documents, and as such was taken as a claim that Habba conducted a search of the locations where documents were known to have been stored.

The Trump Organization's former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, arrives at court Tuesday in New York.The longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud pleaded guilty for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks.

(CNN)Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over more materials with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.The Trump attorneys also handed over an empty folder marked "Classified Evening Briefing," sources said.

DOJ request to identify private investigators who conducted November search "suggests an increasing breakdown in trust."Former President Donald Trump departs after speaking at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 15, 2022.Alon Skuy / AFP via Getty Images A federal judge on Wednesday ordered former President Donald Trump's lawyers to turn over names of private investigators who searched Trump's properties last month for additional classified documents, according to The New York Times.

WaPo and CNN both have stories about searches by a professional firm on additional Trump properties, looking for stolen classified documents.In addition to at least three paragraphs that are affirmatively misleading (one that does not push back on a bullshit quote about how cooperative Trump has been, one that described Trump's outright obstruction as a "breakdown ... in trust," and one that claims Trump is trying to avoid another high profile search when the further search was ordered by Chief Judge Beryl Howell) WaPo describes only searches of Bedminster and, later, Trump Tower.