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Turncoats, weasels, traitors, quislings and enemies of the people? There are [objective] ways to apprehend reality ... Notable are the 80 people and organizations cited on pages 2 to 5 as having an interest in the filing, from Judge Cannon through Trump lawyers Evan Corcoran and Christopher Kise ... to Kash Patel, Judge Reinhart and of course, Donald Trump himself. The central contention of the amici argument (in support of the government's motion for a partial stay) is that Trump has no 'possessory interest.' From the argument: First, former President Trump has no right to possess the 100 or so classified records at issue here because no private citizen has a “possessory interest” in the U.S. government’s classified records. [...] This proposition is not controversial; even former President Trump’s own brief opposing the Government’s request for a stay did not argue he has a possessory interest in classified documents. One thing that stands out for me is that in none of the Trump filings have his lawyers claimed that he "declassified" what the government says they own. While court-watchers can be insanely partisan and emotional at times, this lack of formal legal claim is what floats to the top of the cauldron of opinion from the [traitor/quisling/turncoat] side. Today, the Trump side is due to respond to the DOJ's filing before the 11th circuit. Detail from Reuters.

Another filing on the 11th Circuit docket.

Link to Eurostats: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/recovery-dashboard/

And the 11th Circuit says to the Trump side, "Let's hear from you no later than noon, Tuesday next." Trump attorneys given until Tuesday for response to DOJ motion on classified docs WWW.FOXNEWS.COM A court gave former President Trump's lawyers until Tuesday to respond to a DOJ request to continue to use classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. -- at 2PM, the parties are due before Special Master Dearie, who is taking over a courtroom in Brooklyn for his work. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, an eleven-judge banc, meets in Atlanta. In not related news, from the Trump rally tonight, some Trump watchers with partially treatable DS are having their onions grilled again. See, eg, kerfufflage over a purported "QAnon song" supplying some coincidental oomph to proceedings. Most of the bug-eyed by Trump-loathing crew predictably get worked up about Judge Cannon. Much blather about her being an appointee of President Trump and another alum of the Federalist Society. A fair bit of emotional, loaded language about her ipso-facto corruption and fealty to the people who steered her to the bench. Other sufferers of derangement are more charitable -- considering Cannon to be smart and to have done her darndest to be fair to the office or status or honour of President Trump (while still hideously incorrect and/or sloppy). Me, I think she's neither corrupt nor beholden. I tend to believe she's doing her best to afford Trump every advantage to plead a broad "hold everything" case, to affort his side the benefit of the doubt, with reasonable care taken to hear from the DOJ. She may have her order stayed, she may have some or all of her rulings reversed by the 11th Circuit in the pending appeal. It won't cause scandal if she is reversed. That's what appeals courts are for, fine-tuning and clean-up. DS mini-comglomerate Meidas Touch gets anxious and kvetchy about everything Trump, but here is one of the Meiselas brothers in a relatively stable mood, with an 'alert.'

Another expected move -- The DOJ put a motion for a partial stay of Cannon's ruling before the 11th Circuit. From the Conservative Treehouse: DOJ Files Appellate Court Motion for Partial Stay Against Judge Cannon Ruling, DOJ Does Not Want Classified Documents Reviewed - The Last Refuge THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE.COM As the DOJ-NSD originally threatened, they have filed an appeal of the ruling by Judge Cannon in the Trump Mar-a-Lago document case. [Pdf Here] The DOJ is requesting the 11th Circuit Court to intervene and... Full text of motion: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/doj-partial-appeal-special-master/8f788549b848ec04/full.pdf

How do we know he talks to people high up in the intelligence communities? On his say-so? He is probably more than a kook. One does not preclude the other? From his quiescent YouTube channel, this excerpt is eye-opening.

Following what some perhaps-insane Russian folks perceived as a rout (a desperate retreat) in the Kharkiv region, a number of the same folks are further pissed off at their military leadership, strategy and morals. And it gets ugly. This is from WarTranslated, a hive of Ukraine-positive observers and commentators. In this case the 'communication traffic' is mostly via Russian-language Telegram and official media. Russians reacting to the 16 September attacks in Kherson and Luhansk • WarTranslated WARTRANSLATED.COM Several missile attacks shook the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine, Kherson and Luhansk cities specifically. As a result, several occupational officials were killed, including the Prosecutor General of...

Those who check my claims can check this -- while things have moved quickly in Judge Cannon's handling of this case, Special Master Dearie has until November 30 to report back to her.

The Tina Peters Story is a helluva narrative, with a cast of about a dozen main characters. I don't think Mike himself is the target of future indictments as much as folks like Doug Frank and Conan Hayes and maybe money-man and convenor Patrick Byrne. The names in the Lindell subpoena were all allegedly involved in the Mesa County breach case that is heading to trial. Meanwhile in Judge Cannon docket news, the Trump side has achieved procedural victory. And the DOJ is already on the appeal circuit docket, woudn't you know.

Donald Trump interview with Hugh Hewitt, September 15 2022. Via HughHewitt.com

The video shownotes for Klingenstein's YouTube video give a link to a PDF transcript: https://tomklingenstein.com/assets/pdfs/trumps_virtues.pdf Trump’s Virtues Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. They say we need someone with Trump’s virtues but without his vices. Fair enough, but that formulation does not get us very far unless we have a proper accounting his virtues. Other Republican politicians say some version of, “I like his policies but don’t like the rest of him.” But this gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the “rest of him” that contains the virtues that inspired a movement. Trump was born for the current crisis: the life and death struggle against the totalitarian enemy I call “woke communism.” The “woke comms” clench the Democratic party by the scruff of its neck. They tell us lies and silence those who challenge the lies. Like most totalitarian regimes, they have a scape goat (white males), a narrative (America is systemically racist) and a utopian vision of society where there are equal outcomes for all preferred identity groups in every area of human life. The woke comms control all the cultural, and economic centers of power in the country from where they ruthlessly push their agenda. That agenda rests on the conviction that America is thoroughly bad (systemically racist) and must be destroyed. As Trump once said, “their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America." Make no mistake, we are in the midst of a cold civil war. Trump awakened the public the public to this fact. You cannot win a war unless you know you are in one. Trump critics say he caused or exacerbated the divide in this country. No, he did not. He revealed—not caused--the divide. [...]

Drip drop ... headline "DOJ accepts Special Master nominee" ... your mileage may vary. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.86.0.pdf Dockety do! ... plus. A few more redactions have been removed from the search warrant affidavit by Judge Cannon Reinhart; liberal hyenas are already chowing down on details:

4D golf! Steve Bannon was right, except that subpoenas aren't as sexy as Night of the Long Knives or Put Their Heads on Pikes. He named Epshteyn and cited the Josh Dawsey Washington Post story. Since his Charlie Kirk encounter there has been a storm of reporting from The Usual Suspects aka Enemies of the People. I'll get to names and context, if the mental weather holds. Sometimes the density of events is really difficult to summarize. Slapping together emotive, loaded language is not the fun it once was. This could be due to age. Or, of course, moral-epistemological defects. The metaphor of the moment ... Charlie Kirk show today.

[Michael's post contained the blurb from an embedded link] Benjamin Harnwell, one of Steve Bannon's go-to wonks on Ukraine/Russia has a new gig. First 30 minute video is up at GETTR (with technical difficulties). “Bannon’s WarRoom: Rome” launches 9:30pm central european time Ben “MAGAlomaniac” Harnwell on GETTR : “Bannon’s WarRoom: Rome” GETTR.COM “Bannon’s WarRoom: Rome”

Drip drop ... headline "DOJ accepts Special Master nominee" ... your mileage may vary. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.86.0.pdf

The central new web address of the True the Vote duo is called Open dot Ink. https://open.ink Two items from True the Vote -- Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht. The first is a lawsuit ... https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22279273/konnechs-lawsuit-against-true-the-vote.pdf The second item concerns True the Vote and 2000 Mules, the book. The book, as I noted elsewhere, was subject to a total recall -- due to what the publisher Regnery said was a publishing error. Of course, some enterprising folks when out on a hunt to see if every last book had been sent back, and luck would have it the folks got hands on it, and reported that the recalled book "named names." At least six names were in the recalled edition -- names of the supposed 'stash houses' organized by 'non-profits.' Gregg and Catherine have "moved on," saying that they have absolutely nothing to do with the book. Which book is now due in stores October 25. Amazon.com WWW.AMAZON.COM

Docket! Donald Trump's lawyers have filed their motion due today. The DOJ is expected to drop their filing before the day is out. 21 pages of strong argument. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.84.0.pdf Intro: This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided. In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records. By way of its Motion [ECF No. 69], the Government now seeks to limit the scope of any review of its investigative conduct and presuppose the outcome, at least as regards to what it deems are “classified records.” However, the Court’s Order [ECF No. 64] is a sensible preliminary step towards restoring order from chaos. The Government should therefore not be permitted to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion WSJ: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump pressed a federal judge to allow an independent attorney to review all of the documents the FBI seized in its search of Mar-a-Lago, including those marked classified, saying they didn’t trust the Justice Department to accurately represent what was in them. “The Government has not proven these records remain classified. That issue is to be determined later,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote in a Monday morning filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who last week ordered the appointment of a special master in the matter. [...] Via Memeorandom: Diana Glebova / National Review: Trump Lawyers Push Back on DOJ's ‘Misguided’ Request to Examine Classified Mar-a-Lago Docs Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post: Trump team slams ‘out of control’ classified doc probe in response to DOJ appeal Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit: Trump's Lawyers Hit Back at Biden's Corrupt DOJ in Dispute Over ‘Classified’ Documents

I shoulda looked the query up first, but I will post this anyway. Verification seems at hand ... so sad and shitty.

Ignore Julia Davis's editorial bias and self-satisfied tone one more time, and see what you think of the exchanges broadcast on this Russian TV programme. This sort of general bifurcation is what has been coming through from Russian Telegram: mobilize or get out, to reduce it to black and white. Mobilize meaning declare war and go whole hog, get out meaning achieve a ceasefire and the beginning of peace talks. The former comedian and TV tycoon currently atop the [Nazi-marbled] regime in Kyiv uttered some scripted lines to the people during his last nightly address. In context, it seems he was reacting to apparent retaliation bombings of Ukrainian power plants. Stanza two -- "Without light or without you? Without you." Almost seven minutes of "frank exchanges of views" during prime time: ____________________ 1. "Do you still think that we are one nation? Do you still think you can scare us, break us, make concessions? You really haven't understood anything, have you? Don't you understand who we are?"

Wow. I didn't expect this. I've collected a few media items from here and there that shed light on who was served with a subpoena and who was subject to a knock and search and seizure. In the grand jury subpoena redacted by Dhillon there is a clue to why names have not been published -- of the dozens (Bannon says 35) "raided" or subpoenaed folks from so-called MAGA World. In that Dhillon client's subpoena there is a 'request' (not a demand) that the fact of service and compliance be kept confidential:

Donald Trump was interviewed by Indian television's NDTV.

Confirming that at least one person has been served a grand jury subpoena. From Harmeet Dhillon's Twitter account, via RedState:

The FBI is turning into Nazi goons in the popular image. Including participation in a Night of the Long Knives. How many died during this awful Night? It's not easy to tell who was served subpoenas and who had their doors kicked down and then were taken out and shot by the SS, to be subsequently dumped into an unmarked mass grave. It might need a detour through "enemy of the people" territory to find out what exactly happened, grotesque hyperbole notwithstanding. Give this a listen or two and see if Charlie and Steve come up with a single name who can be quoted about the executions, be they executions of a search warrant or an execution of ... ‎The Charlie Kirk Show: MAGA Under Siege—A Lesson in Fighting Back with Steve Bannon on Apple Podcasts PODCASTS.APPLE.COM ‎Show The Charlie Kirk Show, Ep MAGA Under Siege—A Lesson in Fighting Back with Steve Bannon - Sep 9, 2022