Crooked Media - What A Day: For whom the Don stole

I know, I know, another digest about disgraced former president Donald Trump: but he’s just so…guilty! Of so many crimes!
 

• After Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s bluff yesterday by saying the Justice Department would seek to make the FBI search warrant used at Mar-a-Lago public, Trump snapped back with a response of his own saying he wouldn’t oppose it, as if he had nothing to hide! Maybe he learned his lesson after losing the fight to conceal his tax records, but probably not. Trump world finally leaked the warrant and property receipt and it shows that the FBI took tons of shit, much of it highly classified. Agents recovered a trove of top-secret and other records that belong to the federal government. 
   

• It also shows that the FBI is investigating three felony crimes, including a potential violation of the Espionage Act. Haven’t heard about that one in a while! Documents accompanying the search warrant showed that investigators were hunting for “illegally possessed” items including “any physical documents with classification markings” and any presidential records or those relating to the government from Trump's time in office, in addition to any evidence of the “knowing alteration, destruction or concealment of any government and/or Presidential records, or of any documents with any classification markings.”
   

• The search warrant and property receipt were released late this afternoon. The written inventory says the FBI took about 20 boxes of items from Mar-a-Lago including photo binders, information about French President Emmanuel Macron, and a variety of classified material explicitly labeled Top Secret. Without more specificity we can't say for sure but the information is consistent with theft of nuclear secrets. Plus Trump world has been fixated on selling nuclear tech to the Saudis for years. Of course, Trump baselessly called the nuclear secrets issue a “hoax” and suggested the FBI planted evidence, and he’s such an honest guy we should probably take him at his word.

Don’t worry: The right wing is, as always, playing it super cool
 

• Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said the FBI’s move was “not just unprecedented, but unnecessary -- and now they are leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponization of government against their dominant political opponent. This is outrageous.” On his scam social-media site Truth Social, Trump complained, acted like he would never oppose the release of the warrant, and made the false claim that Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified.” The National Archives and Records Administration immediately corrected the record in a statement detailing that they obtained “exclusive legal and physical custody” of all of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017, and that 30 million pages Trump referenced were unclassified documents that were transferred to a NARA facility in Chicago, where NARA still has full custody of them. You know, like what happens when the president isn’t a criminal.
   

• Trump’s most loyal sycophants have taken to Fox News and social media to air their grievances about leaks and all manner of unrelated issues surrounding the FBI investigation into their most special favorite man, ignoring the whole potential nuclear espionage situation staring them in the face. Among Trump’s civilian supporters, there has also been a horrifying uptick in extremist rhetoric and threats of violence. 

His puppet Budowich inadvertently got one thing right: Donald Trump is America’s dominant political opponent. Trump didn’t invent the homegrown fascism and resulting violence he has helped foment, they existed long before his political ascendance, but he is their nucleus. It's now Trump vs. America, there’s no straddling the line anymore.

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The House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act!

Thousands of Brazilians flocked to a law school in Sao Paulo today in defense of the nation’s democratic institutions, underscoring the country’s widespread concern that their far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro may reject upcoming election results. Sounds like someone else we know!

Actor Anne Heche passed away today after suffering severe injuries following a devastating car crash. 

Legislative analysts have noted that the Inflation Reduction Act has a great number of built-in incentives and benefits for West Virginia residents and industries, and I’m sure you can guess why. 

One year since the Taliban returned to power, it is uncertain whether Afghan girls will ever be allowed to go back to school. 

Prominent epidemiologists and members of the global health community claim that earlier outbreaks of monkeypox, which were first reported in 2010 then again in 2017, were ignored on the public-health stage.  

Former Louisville, KY, detective Kelly Goodlett intends to plead guilty this month to federal charges in connection to the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor for helping to falsify a search warrant and filing a false report to cover it up. This would be the first conviction in the nationally-watched case. 

The polio virus has now been detected in New York City’s sewage, suggesting the virus is circulating and spreading. 

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has opened a second investigation into Amazon after three Amazon workers at the company facilities in New Jersey died in the past month. We really cannot say enough bad things about this mega-corporation!

Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey says he feels “like socialists are taking over,” though offered no concrete examples. Honey, we wish!

Two years after former NFL players sued the league over the treatment of Black retirees in the organization’s $1 billion concussion settlement, hundreds of men whose medical tests for dementia were rescored to eliminate race bias now also qualify for monetary compensation. A 2020 lawsuit unearthed the horrifying fact that dementia tests had previously been adjusted by race according to a framework that assumed that Black people have a lower cognitive-baseline score. Of the 646 Black men whose tests were rescored, nearly half now qualify for dementia awards. 

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An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the Capitol on January 6 with a fellow officer was sentenced to more than seven years in prison yesterday. 

​The U.N. successfully brokered a deal to allow ships to transport Ukrainian grain to millions of hungry people in Ethiopia, as the grain had been previously trapped by Russia. 

A New York State judge ruled today that the criminal fraud and tax evasion prosecution can proceed against the Trump Organization and its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will debut a new YouTube channel today with videos about top election issues for young Hispanics in Spanish and English, in an effort to combat misinformation and energize Latinx voters. 

Turns out, you can recycle single-use face masks.