The Mar-a-Lago incident is simply a document storage dispute

[Septua]

This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is unprecedented and misguided...a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control.

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked a federal judge on Monday to deny the Justice Department’s request to immediately restart a key part of its criminal investigation into his hoarding of sensitive government documents at his residence in Florida.

Renewing their request for an expansive independent review of records seized from Mr. Trump, the former president’s legal team argued that documents marked as classified should remain off limits to the F.B.I. and prosecutors. They asked the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, to maintain her order barring agents from using any of the materials taken from his estate until an outside arbiter, known as a special master, has vetted all of them.

The 21-page filing was an aggressive rebuke of the Justice Department’s broader inquiry into whether Mr. Trump or his aides illegally kept national security secrets at his property, Mar-a-Lago, or obstructed the government’s repeated attempts to retrieve the materials. It played down the criminal inquiry as a “storage dispute” and insinuated that officials might have leaked information about the contents of the files.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/politics/trump-doj-special-master.html

[Septua]

1. How can any judge look at the results of the search...

..and boil it down to a storage dispute?

[underpants]

2. Rubio was the first I heard say that

That’s probably a thing in RW world.

[edhopper]

3. It's easy

if they were appointed by Trump and there loyalty is to the GOP and not the Law.

[Blue Owl]

4. Nice try, fuckos

Anyone with half a goddamned brain knows it's a wee bit more than just that....

[MiniMe]

5. Just a storage problem

[kimbutgar]

6. But what about her emails?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Just like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg stored some 'documents' inadequately.

Just like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg stored some 'documents' inadequately.