DOJ served Trump subpoena for classified docs months before FBI raid: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
By: David Badash, The New Civil Rights (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
solomon is a highly questionable source for truth in the media, but if true, it looks like the wheels just fell off the trumpster no subpoena outrage bus...
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The U.S. Dept. of Justice served Donald Trump with a grand jury subpoena months before the FBI raided the former President's Mar-a-Lago home Monday, according to a right wing media outlet.
News of the existence of the grand jury subpoena being served on Trump months ago comes from Just the News, a website created by John Solomon. Solomon is a longtime journalist who in 2019 was labeled by The Daily Beast as "the Trumpian right's favorite 'investigative reporter,'" and the "Trump-friendly scribe" whose "Biden-Ukraine conspiracies were cited multiple times in the whistleblower memo."
"Many of his co-workers are ashamed to be associated with him," The Daily Beast reported, citing "his questionable reporting, which often seems specifically tailored to stoke the flames of right-wing paranoia."
Solomon on Thursday writes: "Two months before his Florida home was raided by the FBI, former President Donald Trump secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives, and voluntarily cooperated by turning over responsive evidence, surrendering security surveillance footage and allowing federal agents and a senior Justice Department lawyer to tour his private storage locker, according to a half dozen people familiar with the incident."
If accurate, that's news.
"Very clearly not the intention of that John Solomon article, but it inadvertently reflects very well upon the Justice Department," NBC News Justice reporter covering the DOJ, Ryan J. Reilly observes. "A subpoena was issued to the former president of the United States and it held for nearly three months, until Trump's own team publicly disclosed it!"
National security and civil liberties journalist Marcy Wheeler adds: "Here's what propagandist John Solomon says FBI had reason to believe Trump didn't turn over in the original 15 box collection of stolen documents: Correspondence with foreign leaders."
She points to this section of Solomon's article:
"The subpoena requested any remaining documents Trump possessed with any classification markings, even if they involved photos of foreign leaders, correspondence or mementos from his presidency."
According to multiple news outlets, FBI agents carted away an additional 10 to 12 cartons on Monday, in addition to the 15 the National Archives was forced to travel to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve earlier this year.
Even Rupert Murdoch's Trump-friendly New York Post on Tuesday reported a "showdown over the materials first erupted back in January when the National Archives said it had retrieved 15 boxes of White House records — including classified information — from Mar-a-Lago that Trump should have turned over when he left office. The feds took another 12 boxes of material on Monday."
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I guess a rwnj POTUS is above the law for life... /s
Funny that the raw story left out the part where Trump cooperated with the subpoena.
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try reading more than the headline.
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