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Donald Trump breathes fire on Biden, calls FBI and DoJ 'vicious monsters'

He was speaking at a huge election rally in Wilkes-Barre, Penn, in support of Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano

Trump calls Biden 'enemy of state' during 1st rally since Mar-a-Lago search

Donald Trump has lashed out at his successor Joe Biden by branding him an "enemy of the state" at his first rally since the FBI searched the former US president's Florida estate for sensitive classified files. Trump hit back at President Biden's assertion last week in Philadelphia that the former leader and his die-hard Republican supporters are undermining American democracy. Biden in his address outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday night said: This is a nation that rejects violence as a political tool. We are still, at our core, a democracy. Yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and the willingness to engage in political violence is fatal in a democracy. Trump, 76, slammed Biden's remarks as the "most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president". "He's an enemy of the state. You want to know the truth. The enemy of the state is him," Trump said on Saturday. "There can be no more vivid example of the very real

Experts point to Trump's unprecedented disregard of post-presidency norms

Donald Trump isn't the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records, but national security experts say recent revelations point to an unprecedented disregard of post-presidency norms established after the Watergate era. Document dramas have cropped up from time to time over the years. Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson's national security adviser held onto explosive records for years before turning them over to the Johnson presidential library. The records showed that the campaign of his successor, Richard Nixon, was secretly communicating in the final days of the 1968 presidential race with the South Vietnamese government in an effort to delay the opening of peace talks to end the Vietnam War. A secretary in Ronald Reagan's administration, Fawn Hall, testified that she altered and helped shred documents related to the Iran-Contra affair to protect Oliver North, her boss at the White House National Security Council. Bara

What the FBI found at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, by the numbers

Taken together, the government's court filings since the Aug. 8 search show that the FBI and other federal officials have retrieved 325 documents with classified markings from Mar-a-Lago

Trump and his followers trying to undermine American democracy: Biden

President Joe Biden has warned Americans that his predecessor Donald Trump and his die-hard followers are trying to "undermine" democracy and asked them to confront the "extremists" who fan the flames of political violence in pursuit of power. Delivering his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans in a prime-time speech from the iconic Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the US Declaration of Independence was signed nearly 250 years ago, Biden warned that the supporters of Trump's "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) agenda are a threat to American democracy. "As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault," Biden, a Democrat warned, ahead of crucial mid-term elections in November that will determine control of Congress. "Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and MAGA (Make America Great Again) Republicans represent an extremism that threatens our very republic. MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution," the 79-year-old

Trump, allies threaten democracy, says Joe Biden at Independence Hall

President Joe Biden warned that equality and democracy are under assault in the US as he sounded an alarm about his predecessor, Donald Trump, and MAGA Republican adherents, labelling them an extremist threat to the nation and its future. Aiming to reframe the November elections as part of a battle for the nation's soul the work of my presidency," Biden used his Thursday night prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to argue that Trump and Make America Great Again allies are a challenge to nation's system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens' way of life. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic," Biden declared. He said they are determined to take this country backward' they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence. The explicit effort by Biden to marginalise Trump and his adherents marks a sharp turn for the president, who preached his desire to

People must defend US democracy from 'MAGA Forces', says President Biden

"MAGA" refers to the "Make America Great Again" slogan of former US president and political rival Donald Trump. Trump has yet to formally announce or file for a 2024 presidential campaign

Trump accuses justice dept of criminalising his possession of records

Donald Trump's lawyers made the broad argument that the Presidential Records Act allows a president to take whatever document he wants

Trump's 'Truth Social' app fails to get Google nod to arrive on Play Store

Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump to counter Twitter, is yet to get approval from Google Play Store

Feds cite efforts to 'obstruct' probe of docs at Donald Trump's estate

The US Justice Department has said it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified records at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. The assertion was made in a court filing on Tuesday night that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the presence of the documents at Mar-a-Lago. In the filing, the Justice Department said FBI agents had uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that Trump and his representatives had failed to fully comply with a subpoena to turn over classified records and that additional classified documents remained at Mar-a-Lago.

Donald Trump may get a 'special master' review of documents seized by FBI

Federal agents are investigating missing White House records left with 20 boxes of documents, including 11 sets of classified material

Trump wrong on legal status of Biden's student loan write off: US edu dept

The US Education department, brain behind US President Joe Biden's massive billion dollar write off program on student debt, pointed out it has proper legal status under the HEROES act

Trump mixed top secret documents with magazines, other items: FBI

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday. No space at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI's rationale for searching the property this month, including probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found. The 32-page affidavit heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and the integrity of the ongoing investigation offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government's concerns that the documents were there illegally. The document makes clear how the haphazard ..

Trump denies mention of 'nuclear' in redacted affidavit, criticizes judge

On a recently released and redacted version of an affidavit used to back a raid on Former US President, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump said that the document makes no mention of nuclear information as he criticized the judge handling the case."Affidavit heavily redacted!!! Nothing mentioned on 'Nuclear,' a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ, or our close working relationship regarding document turnover - WE GAVE THEM MUCH [sic]," Trump said in a statement via social media.Earlier on Friday, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida released a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify a search warrant on Trump's residence. An FBI investigation, prompted by a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, determined that there was probable cause to believe that sensitive records may be improperly kept at Mar-a-Lago, according to the affidavit, according to The Hill.Trump further criticized the judge ..

Meta's Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica Suit over user data

Facebook had argued it disclosed its practices in user agreements. It had also said that anyone sharing their information on a social network shouldn't count on holding onto their privacy

Trump's stash at Mar-a-Lago had highly classified documents: FBI affidavit

Those boxes initially retrieved from Trump also included information barred from release to foreign nationals, and information that can be disseminated only with the approval of its originator

Judge orders unsealing of redacted affidavit in Trump's Mar-a-Lago search

A judge ordered the Justice Department on Thursday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents. The directive from US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart came hours after federal law enforcement officials submitted under seal the portions of the affidavit that they want to keep secret as their investigation moves forward. The judge set a deadline of noon Friday for a redacted, or blacked-out, version of the document. The order means the public could soon get at least some additional details about what led FBI officials to search Mar-a-Lago on August 8 as part of an investigation into classified documents being retained at the Palm Beach property. Documents already made public as part of the investigation show that the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level. Search warrant ...

'Didn't have any advance notice': Biden breaks silence on FBI's Trump raid

US President Joe Biden claimed that he had no advance notice on the FBI raid on his predecessor Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago (Florida) residence that led to the seizure of 11 boxes of documents

More than 100 classified Donald Trump documents recovered back in Jan

The National Archives recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totalling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence with the Trump legal team. The numbers make clear the large volume of secret government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, well before FBI officials returned there with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and removed an additional 11 sets of classified records. The warrant also reveals an FBI investigation into the potential unlawful retention of the records as well as obstruction of justice. The figures on documents were included in a May 10 letter in which acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall told a lawyer for Trump, Evan Corcoran, that the Biden administration would not be honouring the former president's claims of executive privilege over the documents. Corcoran had weeks earlier requested additional time t

Trump seeks 'neutral' special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed. The attorneys on Monday asserted in a court filing, their first since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago, that the sets of documents taken from the residence were presumptively covered by executive privilege. This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely adequate' safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege, the attorneys wrote. Separately on Monday, a federal judge acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search might be so extensive as to make the document meaningless if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its ...