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Since the time they jointly signed a declaration that falsely claimed there were no more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ would be trying to figure out whether Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb are witnesses ... or potential co-conspirators.

Trump's court filing was more performance art and serial confession. What it was not is the promised significant Fourth Amendment filing he promised.

There are four things that would be going on right now in the Trump Espionage Act and obstruction investigation, even beyond any additional investigative steps: filter, scope, and classification reviews, as well as an inventory of what was seized.

After years of suggesting that Robert Mueller was only investigating Trump for obstruction, Maggie Haberman now ignores that DOJ has shown probable cause that Trump's ripping, flushing, and hiding of documents was an effort to obstruct investigations.

It seems increasingly likely DOJ is investigating Trump's obstruction of investigations. It's just not clear, yet, which investigations are included in the scope. 

In August and December 2021 and May of this year, I laid out how subpoenaing the records the January 6 Committee had already gotten Joe Biden to review for privilege was a solution to a tricky constitutional problem with investigating the former President. In May, DOJ did just that.

Pat Philbin would have firsthand knowledge about some of the documents Trump refused to return to the National Archives. More importantly, he would have firsthand knowledge about why Trump refused to give them back -- and a legal incentive to share that with the FBI.

This graphic shows what we know about how the Trump search was conducted so far.

The CFR guidelines regarding standards for storing classified information not only dictate what type of lock one must used, but it also requires that someone inspect the Secret information stored in non-compliant closets every 4 hours, which may be why DOJ subpoenaed Trump for his surveillance footage.