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Previous Guy's SCOTUS could divert attention from his stolen property by breaching national security [1]
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Date: 2022-10-04
Trump seems hell bent on trying to declassify by disclosure a list of the files being assessed by the Special Master. Trump hopes to nullify the investigation of his theft of government property. Also at work in the background is that revealing such a classified list might omit other stolen documents still in his possession somewhere. So much desperation. Much like his attempt to sue CNN for defamation, there’s the usual nuisance lawfare, keeping attorneys employed.
It weighs in at 240 pages but legal experts are still mocking Donald Trump’s emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an 11th Circuit Court ruling and allow the special master to continue to inspect the 103 classified documents retrieved from him Mar-a-Lago home. [...] “Just watch SCOTUS turn Trump down 9-0. (Or 8-1 if Thomas dissents . . . ),” writes retired Harvard professor of law Laurence Tribe. “Will The Donald start calling ‘his’ three justices traitors? Will he say they have a ‘death wish’ as he did with McConnell?” Weissmann took another hit at Trump’s Lawsuit, declaring it “nutty.” “Trump argument to SCOTUS: 11th circuit had power to stay Cannon decision BUT it [could] not take the classified docs away from SM Dearie review. Nutty and if he won Dearie wd just say he won’t review the docs bc they are not Trump’s.” University of Texas School of Law professor of law Steve Vladeck says that while the lawsuit is “not *entirely* laughable,” but he thinks “it’s both (1) doomed to fail; and (2) unlikely to accomplish much even if it succeeds.” Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti says, “I would not be surprised if the Supreme Court decides not to hear it.” www.rawstory.com/... x Since the 11th Circuit has stayed the special master's review of the classified docs, Judge Dearie doesn't even have those docs. Guess who else doesn't have a copy? Team Trump. 2/ — Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) October 4, 2022 x Trump wants his own copy of the 103 classified documents, pure and simple. And telling the Supreme Court that an appeals court had no jurisdiction to stop Dearie's review of those records is their vehicle for getting them. FIN — Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) October 4, 2022 x Interesting. But I don’t think Dearie will give him copies. At most, limited access to the docs and then only if there is a sworn certification they are declassified.
https://t.co/YGhqNnNJJ5 — Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) October 4, 2022
David Corn lists four hypotheses:
The Double-Agent Theory. The most outlandish notion is that Trump hung on to these papers because he wanted to sell or give these secrets to another government. The Russians? The Saudis? He’s either an operative in cahoots with a foreign power or an operator who wants to cash in.
… They’re Mine! Throughout his presidency, Trump demonstrated that he’s a big believer in that old French saying, l’etat est moi. He was not the custodian of the US government and the servant of the national interest; he was the government and his interests were the government’s interests. In this warped view, all these records belong to him and exist for his benefit.
… Gimme Ammo. Did Trump have a use in mind for these documents when he grabbed them on his way out of the White House? Could this material somehow be leveraged or weaponized? Did it contain ammunition to be deployed against his political enemies?
… As I’ve written several times, one of Trump’s great motivators is revenge—which is a cousin of spite. He is obsessed with revenge and has acknowledged it as a driving force for many of his decisions. As he told an audience in 2011, “One of the things you should do in terms of success: If somebody hits you, you’ve got to hit ’em back five times harder than they ever thought possible. You’ve got to get even.” Undoubtedly, Trump left the White House with a tremendous thirst for revenge. These documents could possibly help him seek vengeance.
… We Can’t Let Anyone Know This! The public court filings in this case do not indicate if these documents are a hodgepodge of records or focus on particular issues. But one possibility is that Trump did not pilfer them to exploit them but that he purloined them because he didn’t want anyone else to see them.
A fifth possibility could be that there’s some J6 evidence in among the documents and multiple indictments might converge.
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