All posts tagged "Mar-A-Lago"

A Trump biographer believes the president's latest overture to Moscow is the opening move in a plan reaching far past his term.

Michael Wolff said in a Tuesday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," the podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles, that President Donald Trump's recent deal to buy Russian diesel is the "first stage" of an effort to cash in on his relationship with Vladimir Putin and fund an "alternative White House" at Mar-a-Lago after he leaves office.

Wolff argued that a close bond with the Russian leader has been Trump's goal "from the beginning of his political career," and that Putin offers him a template for both power and profit....

A former federal prosecutor predicts President Donald Trump's latest bid to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's report hidden is about to fall apart.

Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney, said in a Thursday episode of "Talking Feds" that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is likely to reject a request from Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta to delay a November 2 oral argument over the release of Volume II of Smith's report.

Volume II covers Smith's investigation into Trump's alleged hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, has blocked its release since dismissing the case on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed....

A federal judge ordered the Trump Justice Department to fast-track a watchdog group's request for Epstein files, including records mentioning President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the ruling in a memorandum opinion filed Wednesday. She granted in part a motion for summary judgment from Democracy Defenders Fund, finding the group is entitled to expedited processing of three Freedom of Information Act requests it submitted to DOJ in July 2025.

"BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public," Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, celebrated in a post on X after the ruling. "Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire."...

President Donald Trump's "grand conspiracy" case against everyone who has prosecuted him in the past took a twist this week, as officials involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case sought clarification from Aileen Cannon, the far-right Trump-appointed district judge who ordered all findings from that case sealed, whether they can testify about it to the grand jury in Trump's case or communicate to their lawyers about it.

This entire situation has Cannon — and Trump — trapped in an impossible bind, former FBI agent Michael Feinberg told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace.

"I don't even know where to begin, but I do think it's important to remind people how crazy the grand conspiracy investigation is," said Wallace. "What is the development about the FBI agents communicated on the part of their lawyer mean?"...

FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago asked a judge to protect them before testifying to a grand jury probing an alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump.

The motion, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, asks U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to clarify her February 23 order barring the Justice Department from sharing Volume II of former special counsel Jack Smith's final report.

The agents want the court to confirm they can "freely discuss non-public information related to their work on the investigation with individuals outside of the DOJ," including a federal grand jury and their own lawyers....

A former Justice Department pardon attorney believes President Donald Trump "very likely" has a secret stash in his Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

DOJ whistleblower Liz Oyer made this claim during a Saturday episode of "The Jim Acosta Show" during which she suggested Trump has quietly prepared clemency for people around him in case he suddenly leaves office.

"It is a near certainty that he will pardon broadly his cabinet members, his family members, those advisers who are in good graces with him by the end of the administration," Oyer said. "And I think it's very likely that he has already signed off on some of those pardons just in case something should happen to him before he gets to the end."...