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New reporting indicates that last year, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago flooded a room full of security servers while draining a pool, which has attracted the suspicion of prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith on the classified documents case — and while there was reportedly no damage to the servers, it has triggered questions about whether it was an accident or an intentional effort to destroy evidence.
Speaking to CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Monday, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig outlined what he would want to know about the pool incident if he were investigating this case.
"Prosecutors — I'm just curious, what would they have to prove — what would they have to do, I guess, in order to prove there was sabotage with this pool incident?" asked Camerota.
"Okay, in order for this to mean anything to prosecutors, they'd have to prove this was intentional, as opposed to an accident," said Honig. "I would sit with a bunch of questions I have, maybe these are more from our experience with pools than that as a prosecutor, right?"
"How often are they draining this pool?" asked Honig. "Is it a scheduled or not scheduled maintenance? How often did it end up that pool engineering would drain away from sensitive areas, and not into areas where servers are? And what you are also looking for is any sort of testimony or statement showing that somebody said, hey get down there, let the pool loose, let's see where it goes, that kind of thing. That's where they seized the phones which they are surely analyzing."
Trump has maintained that he did nothing wrong and has the unlimited right to declassify documents, even without telling anyone or going through any sort of formalized channel — despite audio evidence he in fact doesn't really believe this.
Watch the segment below or at this link.
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Neighbor who fatally shot Florida mom can’t yet be arrested under state’s ‘stand your ground’ law
June 06, 2023
A Florida mother was fatally shot outside a neighbor’s home over an ongoing dispute over children playing, but the shooter can’t be arrested until potential self-defense claims are ruled out under the state’s “stand your ground” law, The Associated Press reports.
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said at a news conference Monday that deputies responding to an Ocala home Friday night on the report of a trespassing found Ajike Owens suffering from gunshot wounds. The 35-year-old mother of four was taken to an area hospital, where she died.
Owens and the woman who fatally shot her were involved in an ongoing feud since January 2021, Woods said, noting that deputies had responded at least a half-dozen times to the address in connection with the dispute.
“I wish our shooter would have called us instead of taking actions into her own hands,” Woods said. “I wish Ms. Owens would have called us in the hopes we could have never gotten to the point at which we are here today.”
The AP reports that “Woods said detectives are working with the State Attorney’s Office, and they must investigate possible self-defense claims before they can move forward with any possible criminal charges. The sheriff pointed out that because of Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law, he can’t legally make an arrest unless he can prove the shooter did not act in self-defense.”
Owen’s children were playing in a field near the shooter’s home on the night of the shooting when at some point the woman started yelled at the children and threw a pair of skates, striking one of the children, Woods said.
An argument ensued when Owens confronted the woman at her apartment before the woman shot Owens through the front door, authorities said.
Woods said the children who witnessed the shooting have not yet been interviewed by investigators because the agency wants them to be interviewed by child experts.
Woods said most of what investigators know about the incident is from the shooter.
“There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth,” Wood said of the shooter’s account.
“Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door.”
During a vigil Monday Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, said she was seeking justice for her daughter and her grandchildren.
“My daughter, my grandchildren’s mother, was shot and killed with her 9-year-old son standing next to her,” Dias said. “She had no weapon. She posed no imminent threat to anyone.”
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Ron DeSantis is all-in on a war on “woke” strategy that he hopes to parlay into a ticket to the White House, but a conservative columnist is warning the Florida governor’s strategy could backfire.
Matt Lewis writes for The Daily Beast that DeSantis’ recent proclamation that “We will wage war on the woke. We will fight the woke in education; we will fight the woke in corporations; we will fight in the halls of Congress. We will never ever surrender to the woke mob” that channeled Winston Churchill’s famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech shows the extent to which the Florida governor has made the war on woke the centerpiece of his political agenda.
“We get it. We get it,” Lewis writes. “You’re clearly doubling down on the fact that fighting woke-ism is your raison d'être. This is your Make America Great Again. This is your Build Back Better. But does casting opposition to woke-ism as DeSantis’s bête noire make sense, politically? I’m not sure.”
A recent USA Today/Ipsos poll support’s Lewis’ assertion.
The poll shows a split between those who view “woke” to mean being aware of social injustice, which is considered the Democratic party view of the term, and others who associate the term with political correctness taken to an extreme, which is how Republicans typically characterize “wokeness.”
According to the poll, 56 percent of Americans view the term to mean “to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices,” and 39 percent consider it to be “overly politically correct and police others’ words.”
DeSantis isn’t alone in pushing an anti-woke agenda, Lewis writes, noting many other Republican presidential candidates who have expresses similar views.
But even Donald Trump sees the term getting a little stale.
“It’s gotten sick, and I don’t like the term woke, because I hear woke, woke, woke,” Trump said Thursday at a Westside Conservative Breakfast in Urbandale, Iowa.
“You know it’s like just a term they use half the people can’t even define it. They don’t know what it is.”
It doesn’t help DeSantis and fellow anti-woke Republicans that most people don’t even know exactly what the term means.
“It might even be interchangeable with terms or phrases like ‘liberal indoctrination,’ ‘identity politics,’ ‘political correctness run amok,’ or ‘Newspeak,’ Lewis writes.
“Maybe you call it ‘elite paternalism’ or even ‘liberal fascism.’ These ideas are not new, and it’s unclear why we should pretend that they are just because they have been given a new label.
“For broader appeal, why not say Florida is “where liberalism comes to die” or “where progressivism comes to die”?
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