Epstein Secrets

HE NEWS • Justice Department Tells Texas That Floating Barrier On Rio Grande Raises Humanitarian Concerns • Judge Sets A Trial Date For Next May In Trump's Classified Documents Case In Florida • Director Wray Defends FISA, Says Law Used to 'Detect and Thwart' Chinese Hacking COUNTERTERRORISM • Man Who

Artifacts Meant for a White House Party Ended Up at Mar-A-Lago. Awkwardness Ensued. CAPITOL VIOLENCE NEWS • Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows Joked About Trump's Election Claims • Georgia Governor Contacted By Trump Special Counsel In 2020 Probe • Judge Rejects Jail For Oath Keepers' Jan. 6 'Operations Coo

imes (07/23, Thrush, Protess, Feuer, Goldman) reported that Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing criminal investigations into former President Donald J. Trump, employs 40 to 60 career prosecutors, paralegals, and support staff, augmented by a rotating cast of FBI agents and technical specialists, according

d a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retai

ate "a major setback to the DOJ's crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process" and said the "extensive sc

l these efforts and their concurrent expenses is Mr. Trump's own behavior — his unwillingness to accept the

ing criminal investigations into former President Donald J. Trump, employs 40 to 60 career prosecutors, para

der in a 2021 shooting had subpoenaed the Antioch police officers to testify about heavily redacted text messages made public in April by the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office. The article noted that the text messages came out as part of an ongoing joint investigation launched in March 2022 by th

ere will be a resurgence: Trump Fuels Prediction That Russia Investigators Will Face Prison. Politico (8/20, Samuelsohn, 4.29M) reports President Trump and his allies have claimed on Twitter and TV interviews that the FBI and US intelligence agencies "are on the verge of being exposed for planting s

he Justice Department "is ignoring centuries of presidential investigations in an attempt to dramatically curtail Congress' power to probe President Donald Trump." House lawyers "said the Justice Department's call to invalidate a subpoena for Trump's financial records was so sweeping it would essentially inoc

ically curtail Congress' power to probe President Donald Trump." House lawyers "said the Justice Departme

on. Politico (8/20, Samuelsohn, 4.29M) reports President Trump and his allies have claimed on Twitter and TV int

en it comes to addressing America's gun problem, Mr. Trump has proved both conventional and weak. As the sho

Cambridge professor and an FBI informant against Trump's campaign, "demanded the claims in the US Distric

, his attorney wrote in sentencing motions last week." On Monday, Sergio Rubalcaba, 24, 'was sentenced to time served for his role in an East Contra Costa County drug trafficking conspiracy." In February 2018, "Rubalcaba, his cousin Sergio Vasquez-Gonzalez and two others...were all charged with methamphetamin

. On Oct. 4, 2018, known New York City mobster Sylvester was gunned down in what law enforcement described as a mafia-style assassination at a Bronx McDonald's drive-thru while ordering a cup of coffee. The article quoted FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael Driscoll, who said, "Zottola had not one, n

erg) reported that two nonprofit groups, Free Speech for People and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, are preparing to challenge Donald Trump's eligibility to appear on ballots in multiple states for the 2024 election. According to the article, they plan to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendmen

residential electors from those states. While many of the false electors have claimed they weren't told that they were going to become components in Trump's Jan. 6 plans — only that their actions were necessary to preserve legal challenges — others were more intimately involved with figures in Trump's

n in favor of Democrat Joe Biden over Republican Donald Trump. The article noted that Dominion had sought

told that they were going to become components in Trump's Jan. 6 plans — only that their actions were neces

ned to shoot their black mayor in a series of racist texts, according to law enforcement. According to the article, documents released by the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office and the FBI show that 17 officers sent racist memes and messages filled with slurs to each other between 2019 to EFTA001

he South- ern District of Texas, Gabrielle K. Mc- Donald, J., dismissed counterclaims, and appeal was tak

capacity es Untied States Attorney for the Northern Ca; O'Mal- ley, William A., individually and in his capacity as District Attorney for Con- tra Costa County; Underwood, Lon, in- dividually and in his capacity as regis- trar of voters for Contra Costa County; Smith, Arlo, individually and in his ca- pacit