September 11, 2022 / by emptywheel

 

Trump Document Theft Resources

 

Primary Documents

January 14, 2021: John Solomon Podcast bragging of detailed knowledge of what Russian investigation materials would be released in the coming days) described having newly obtained a January 20, 2021 Mark Meadows memo to DOJ instructing them to declassify documents from the Russian investigation.

On December 30, 2020, DOJ provided Trump a binder of material from the Russian investigation.

On January 8, 2021, Mike Ellis attempted to retain a compartmented NSA report for White House archives, initially refusing efforts to return it.

January 19, 2021: Trump letter to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, FPOTUS designating (among others) Pasquale (Pat) Cipollone and Patrick Philbin as his representatives with the NARA

January 19, 2021: Trump order declassifying Russian investigation documents

January 20, 2021: Mark Meadows memo on declassification

March 2021: Nauta moves boxes to business center

April 5, 2021: Discussion about moving them out of business center

May 6, 2021: Gary Stern to Pat Philbin and others

May 2021: Move to storage room

May 2021: Trump takes boxes to Bedminster

June 24, 2021: Move to storage room (80 boxes)

July 21, 2021: Interview

August 2021: Nauta becomes body man

October 18, 2021: Trump lawsuit attempting to enjoin the Archives from complying with January 6 Committee subpoena

October 21, 2021: DOD IG report on Mike Ellis appointment, including discussion of his efforts to take sensitive NSA documents in January 2021

November 10, 2021: Judge Tanya Chutkan opinion denying Trump’s motion for an injunction against NARA

November 12, 2021: Employee 2 provides picture of docs

November 17, 2021: Nauta, picture of boxes?

November 25, 2021: Pictures of boxes

November 29, 2021: Could you bring up 4 more boxes?

December 7, 2021 Nauta texts picture of spilled doc (count 8)

December 9, 2021: DC Circuit order upholding Judge Chutkan’s decision releasing Trump records to the January 6 Committee

December 29, 2021: Would love to have a number to him — 12

January 13, 2022: Tracking boxes

January 15, 2022: Nauta I marked too much

January 17, 2022: Commercial truck to NARA

January 19, 2022: SCOTUS order upholding Chutkan’s decision

On January 31, 2022, NARA completed an initial inventory of the retrieved documents. It discovered over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) material.

February 9, 2022: Referral.

February 18, 2022: NARA to Carolyn Maloney

March 30, 2022: Open investigation.

April 11, 2022: FBI letterhead memorandum asks NARA for access to Trump documents

April 12, 2022: NARA informs Trump of access request

April 26, 2022: Grand jury

April 29, 2022: NSD to Evan Corcoran letter laying out NatSec urgency (not public)

April 29, 2022: Evan Corcoran letter to NARA asking for further delay (not public)

May 1, 2022: Evan Corcoran letter to NARA asking for further delay (not public)

May 3, 2022: Jennifer Little posts picture from Mar-a-Lago

May 4, 2022: Little posts additional picture from Mar-a-Lago

May 4, 2022: Alina Habba searches Bedminster

May 5, 2022: Habba searches Mar-a-Lago

May 5, 2022: Evan Corcoran asks for access to the Trump records for representatives (not public)

May 5, 2022: Kash Patel claims Trump mass declassified

May 10, 2022: Steidel Wall to Corcoran advising him she would give FBI access starting May 12

May 11, 2022: Subpoena

May 11, 2022: Bratt to Corcoran Subpoena Letter

May 22, 2022: Nauta retrieves box

May 23, 2022: Meeting with Corcoran

May 25, 2022: Corcoran to Bratt Letter (non-public, referenced here)

May 25, 2022: Corcoran to Bratt Letter laying out why Trump can’t be criminally investigated

June 3, 2022: Bobb Certification

June 17, 2022: Corcoran tells Gary Stern that Trump will make Kash Patel and John Solomon representatives to NARA on June 19 and they want access on June 21

June 19, 2022: Trump letter to NARA making Kash Patel and John Solomon representatives

June 22, 2022: Kash Patel announces he has been named Trump’s representative at NARA; John Solomon asks Stern for Russia binder

June 23, 2022: Stern explains that Meadows didn’t declassify the Russian docs, as discovered when Justin Clark made same request previous fall (probably September 2021)

June 24, 2022: Subpoena for surveillance video; call with Evan Corcoran

July 10-12, 2022: Trump returns to MAL

July 12, 2022: Kash tries to get clearance by insisting he has clearance

July 14, 2022: Stern sends Meadows memo a second time

July 20, 2022: John Solomon claims to have recently received Mark Meadows memo declassifying RU materials

July 23, 2022: Trump returns to MAL

July 27, 2022: Last date of discussion (as published in Solomon lawsuit) about Kash’s clearance

August 5, 2022: Sealed search warrant affidavit (unsealed August 26); less redacted version (unsealed September 13); still less redacted (unsealed 7/5/23)

August 5, 2022: Warrant Application Cover Sheet

August 8, 2022: Search Warrant and Receipts

August 11, 2022: Solomon regurgitates story describing “cooperation” in June, including Secret Service involvement in June 3 meeting and aftermath

August 17, 2022: Last date of NARA correspondence included in Solomon exchange with NARA; Stern asks Solomon to tell Trump to stop lying

August 18, 2022: Unseal Additional Documents

August 22, 2022: JustTheNews posts the text of letter from Debra Steidal Wall to Trump

August 22, 2022: Motion for Special Master

August 25, 2022: List of Redactions

August 25, 2022: Proposed Redactions filing

August 29, 2022: First Emergency Request for Grand Jury Information; Order

August 29, 2022: Notice of Receipt of Preliminary Order

August 30, 2022: Government Response to Special Master Request; privilege status report (sealed until October 3); unredacted privilege logs (accidentally released)

August 30, 2022: Exhibits to Government Response, including letter from Debra Steidel Wall to Evan Corcoran

August 30, 2022: More Detailed Inventory; unsealed privilege inventory (accidentally unsealed October 3)

September 1, 2022: Transcript of Hearing before Judge Aileen Cannon

September 5, 2022: Cannon opinion in which she leaks details about substance of privilege review

September 8, 2022: DOJ motion to unseal Privilege Statuts Report

September 8, 2022: FBI Assistant Director of CI Alan Kohler Declaration

September 8, 2022: Motion for Stay of Injunction on Investigating Classified Documents

September 8, 2022: Motion to Unseal Privileged Status Report

September 9, 2022: Common plan for Special Master; Trump Special Master plan; Government Special Master plan

September 12, 2022: Trump response on motion for stay

September 13, 2022: DOJ reply on motion for stay

September 15, 2022: Cannon opinion denying stay; Cannon’s order of appointment; Raymond Dearie declaration; Office contact Trump for more documents

September 16, 2022: DOJ motion for a stay

September 19, 2022: DOJ topics for initial Dearie conference; Trump topics for initial Dearie conference

September 20, 2022: Trump 11th Circuit response; DOJ 11th Circuit reply

September 21, 2022: 11th Circuit opinion granting stay

September 22, 2022: Cannon order removing documents marked as classified from Seized Materials covered by her order; Dearie proposed work plan

September 23, 2022: Protective order; amended case management plan; motion for extension of time

September 25, 2022: Trump objections to Dearie ordered (released on September 28)

September 26, 2022: Sworn affidavit with more detailed inventory; Julie Edelstein

September 27, 2022: Dearie interim report; Staffing proposal; Government motion for extension and to adopt case management plan

September 28, 2022: Trump objection that DOJ didn’t ask for enough additional time

September 29, 2022: Cannon order alters Dearie work plan

September 30, 2022: DOJ motion to extradite 11th Circuit appeal

October 3, 2022; Trump response to 11th Circuit; motion to seal privilege log; original privilege status report unsealed

October 4, 2022: Trump SCOTUS appeal of part of 11th Circuit decision; Motion to Compel

October 5, 2022: Notice of Vendor Selection; Submission of designations of partially-privileged materials (sealed)

October 7, 2022: Order regarding filter materials

October 11, 2022: Update on scanning; DOJ response to Trump SCOTUS appeal

October 12, 2022: Spreadsheet matching Bates numbers with boxes; Notice of completion; Kash Patel invokes the Fifth Amendment

October 14, 2022: DOJ appeal to 11th Circuit

October 20, 2022: DOJ filing showing disputes between two sides; Trump filing unilaterally claiming extension until Monday

October 25, 2022: Alleged search of Bedminster by Tim Parlatore

October 26, 2022: Kash Patel’s immunized testimony; date of Parlatore declaration

October 27, 2022: Sealed hearing on MTC

November 9, 2022: Global issues briefs to Dearie (DOJ; Trump); partial Motion to Compel

November 10, 2022: Trump response

November 12, 2022: Summary of disputes

November 14, 2022: Alleged search of GSA storage units

November 15, 2022: Alleged search of GSA office; Parlatore describes finding 2 more documents

November 17, 2022: DOJ reply brief to 11th Circuit; Trump asks for 11 days to search Trump Tower

November 18, 2022: Jack Smith appointed; deadline for Custodian

November 21, 2022: Parlatore supervises search of Trump Tower

November 22, 2022: Trump motion for Judge Cannon to force DOJ to share the affidavit; 11th Circuit hearing Special Master

November 23, 2022: Parlatore declaration, not claiming to be custodian of records

December 1, 2022: 11th Circuit vacates Special Master; Bobb testimony

December 8, 2022: DOJ moves for contempt

December 9, 2022: Show cause hearing

December 12, 2022: Aileen Cannon dismisses Trump’s Special Master order

December 16, 2022: Revised certification after another search of MAL

January 4, 2023: Judge Howell orders Trump to turn over names of those who conducted search to DOJ

January 5, 2023: Harris’ box and Trump’s empty folders

Early January, 2023: Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb appear before grand jury

February 2, 2023: Tom Fitton appears before grand jury

March 9, 2023: Crime fraud hearing

March 17, 2023: Beryl Howell rules some Evan Corcoran and Jennifer Little communications crime-fraud excepted

March 22, 2022: CADC denies stay of challenge to crime-fraud designation

March 24, 2023: Evan Corcoran crime-fraud appearance before grand jury

June 8, 2023: US v. Trump and Nauta

June 21, 2023: Response discovery order

June 23, 2023: Motion to implement special conditions

July 6, 2023: Supplemental response discovery order

July 10, 2023: Defendants’ response motion for continuance

July 13, 2023: Government reply motion for continuance

July 17, 2023: Supplemental response discovery order

July 18, 2023: Status hearing (Lawfare); transcript

July 27, 2023: US v Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira, renewed motion for a classified protective order

July 31, 2023: Supplemental response discovery order

emptywheel Posts

The Superseding Stolen Documents Indictment: Buying Loyalty

May 20, 2024: Aileen Cannon’s Still Not Totally Unreasonable Order

Poof! How Jack Smith Made 800,000 Pages into 4,500

Jay Bratt to Chris Kise: You Already Made that Frivolous Presidential Records Act Argument

Nine Months of Surveillance Video: Trump’s Newfound Worries His Discovery Will Leak

When “Lock Her Up!” becomes “Wait Till Later!”

Stanley Woodward Tests Judge Aileen Cannon’s Patience

Walt Nauta and the Single Box

Trump’s Stolen Documents: Newly Unsealed Numbers

Susie Wiles Named in A(nother?) Trump-Related Indictment

Moving the Boxes: Trump’s Valet and Alleged Co-Conspirator Buys the Boss a Three-Week Delay in His Trial

Aileen Cannon’s Not-Abnormal Orders

The Approach to Classification in Trump’s Stolen Document Case

Walt Nauta Testified to the Grand Jury before DOJ Obtained Surveillance Video

Aileen Cannon Issues Another Perfectly Routine Order

Filling the Surveillance Footage Gaps: Place and Payments

Aileen Cannon Did Something Normal

No Crime Alleged in the Mar-a-Lago Indictment Occurred in DC; Other Crimes Did

Down a Mouse Hole with Bill Clinton’s Cat, Socks

On Judge Aileen M. Cannon

Republicans Demanded Independence for John Durham and Got Robert Hur and Jack Smith in the Bargain

Trump and Nauta’s Release Conditions

Expected Response Is Expected, Redux: Trump, Post-Arraignment (from Rayne)

Trump’s “Beautiful Mind Paper Boxes:” Jack Smith’s Points of Leverage

Trump Needs Cleared Lawyers, Not Just Any Lawyers

Scooter Libby, Whom Trump Pardoned, Serves as Precedent for the CIPA Challenge His Prosecution Presents

31 Flavors of Stolen Classified Documents

Mind the Gap: It Was the Musician, in the Storage Closet, with the Five Eyes Secrets

Jack Smith Knows his Justice Robert Jackson (from Peterr)

Hillary’s Revenge: Trump Promised Voters He Would Protect Classified Information

The Mar-a-Lago Indictment Is a Tactical Nuke

The Flavors of Trump’s Obstruction

Defendant-1’s 38 Count Indictment

Lock Him Up! Trump Charged with Crimes He Believes Candidates Can Be Charged With

Prosecutors Interviewing Witnesses Who Knew Trump Was Hoarding Documents

This Indictment Will Likely Come Too Early for Trump to Consolidate the Party

Dry Run: The Filing Room Came to Trump

NYT’s Pre-DOJ Meeting Attempted Rebuttal

The Dog Drained My Pool to Try to Destroy Surveillance Video

Tim Parlatore Quit After Trump Lawyers Couldn’t Find the Iran Document

In March, DOJ Asked Trump for the Iran Document; In April, DOJ Asked for His Saudi Business Records

Lordy, There Are Tapes [of Trump Acknowledging He Had Stolen Classified Documents]!

ABC Reports that Sources Familiar Say 2 + 2 = 5

The Potential International Grift Hiding behind the Stolen Documents Investigation

DOJ Subpoenaed Over Five Months of Mar-a-Lago Surveillance Video

Where the Trump Investigations Stand: Stolen Documents

“Lock Him Up!” Trump Calls on Congress to Halt the Criminal Investigation into Joe Biden

The Espionage Act Evidence WaPo Spins as Obstruction Evidence

Kash’s Castles of Scatter and Evan Corcoran’s BCC

Happy Crime-Fraud Exception Day, for Those Who Celebrate

Remember: DOJ May Still Suspect Trump Is Hoarding Classified Documents

Lordy, There Are [Transcribed] Tapes

Evan Corcoran: You’re the Next Contestant on Trump’s Crime-Fraud Reality Show

Trophy Documents: The Entire Point Was to Make FBI Obedient

Did Steven D’Antuono Make It Easier for Trump to Steal 47 Classified Documents?

Trump’s “Receptionist of the US” Deletes Her Trip to Russia

Pence’s Previously Redacted Documents and The Corcoran Scapegoating

Where Alina Habba Didn’t Personally Search

Some People Have Sex Toys; Trump [Claims He] Has Empty Classified Evening Briefing Folders

A Book Author, A Religious Leader, and A Pollster Walk into Trump’s Classified Document Bar

“Classified Evening Briefing:” Mishandled and Stolen Documents Update

The Trump-Biden-Pence Documents Story Is Not (Yet) about Overclassification

Donald Trump’s Contemptuous Leaking

Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Donald Trump’s Documents Challenge

DOJ Moves for Contempt as Injunction Finally Lifted

Two Inconsistent Stories on Additional Searches of Trump’s Property

11th Circuit to Trump: You’re Not Special

Trump Finally Describes How FBI Injured Him: By Taking his Celine Dion Picture

Ransacked! 120 Minutes before 11th Circuit Hearing, Trump Attempts to Create a Fourth Amendment Injury

11th Circuit Showdown: The Fight to Get the Documents to Charge against Trump

Merrick Garland Names War Crimes Prosecutor Jack Smith to Oversee Trump Investigations

Aileen Cannon’s Special Master Review Helped DOJ Prepare for a Key Witness Interview

Devlin Barrett’s “People Familiar with the Matter”

Government Asks Raymond Dearie to Recommend Judge Cannon Lift Injunction on 2,794 Documents

Merrick Garland Hasn’t Done the Specific Thing You Want because DOJ Has Been Busy Doing Things They Have to Do First

Andy McCarthy Gives Frothers Permission to Approve of a Trump Indictment

Trump’s Secret Document, with the Post-Administration Pollster Communication, in His Desk Drawer

Judge Raymond Dearie Prepares to Consult with the Archives

Boris Epshteyn’s Clearance Problems

In Both Bannon and Stolen Document Cases, Trump’s Associates Claim He Is Still President

Jim Trusty Tells Hand-Picked Special Master Raymond Dearie to Fuck Off

Judge Aileen Cannon Risked the Safety of the Country to Protect Two Probably Public Letters

Judge Dearie Confirms Trump Has Claimed Executive Privilege Over a Personal Document

On August 8, There Were at Least 73 Items Where the FBI Had Seen 50-55 Boxes on June 3

Before SCOTUS, DOJ Argues Trump Has Shown No Harm

Boris Epshteyn Enters the Three-Person Chat

Trump’s File B-076: Calvinball Ping Pong

After 37 Days, Raymond Dearie Ends the Harm Judge Aileen Cannon Deliberately Inflicted on Donald Trump

Trump’s SCOTUS Appeal Hypothetically Could Do Damage Beyond Delay

Judge Aileen Cannon Treated a Public Letter about Trump’s Health as More Sensitive than America’s National Security

How Trump’s SCOTUS Appeal Shows Why He’s Got a Weaker Legal Argument than a [Former] Gitmo Detainee

Aileen Cannon Deliberately Harmed Trump To Create an Excuse to Help Him

What Happened with the Potentially Privileged Documents Seized from Mar-a-Lago

NARA Asked for 24 Boxes … Trump Gave Them 15

Aileen Cannon’s Calvinball Special Master

“Somewhat Convoluted:” Debunking the Judge Cannon Claims

Aileen Cannon Is Stiff-Arming the Press

Aileen Cannon Stomps on the Scales of Trumpy Injustice

The Claimed 200,000 Pages Trump Stole Include Press Clippings

Under Seal, Trump Accuses Hand-Picked Special Master of Not Following Orders

(from Peterr) Three Questions at the Start of an Intelligence Review

Just Following Orders: Raymond Dearie’s Strict Compliance with Aileen Cannon’s Orders

Cause the Harm, and Then Say Nothing: Trump Has Had Aileen Cannon’s Proof of His Injury for a Week and Said Nothing

Granting Stay, 11th Circuit Scolds Aileen Cannon for Ignoring Executive Assertions on National Security

DOJ Raises Prospect that Trump Continues to Obstruct Investigation, Including of Empty Folders

Trump Sweeps Evidence of Obstruction under the Appellate Rug

Don’t Analyze Trump Legal Filings Based on the Law, Analyze Them Based on Power

Trump Wants Two Weeks to Review 64 Documents; DOJ Expects Review of 500 Documents a Day

“The Rule of Law is not assured:” The Cascading Constitutional Crisis Judge Aileen Cannon Deliberately Created

In Motion for a Stay, DOJ Raises Prospect that Trump Leaked Classified Documents

Trust: In Bid for Stay, DOJ Likened Trump to Catastrophic Intelligence Compromise

Aileen Cannon’s Special Master Is Designed to Preempt Decisions Reserved for a Jury

Judge Aileen Cannon Deems Grand Jury Subpoenas Toilet Paper

Aileen Cannon Orders Government to Share Classified Information with Trump’s Counsel

Evan Corcoran’s Two May 25 Stall Letters

Yes, Trump Was Taking Notes on Classified Documents

“A Coat Rack with Suit Jackets, as Well as Interior Décor Items Such as Wall Art and Frames”

Carolyn Maloney Provides NARA Cause to Assert Standing

Donald Trump Agrees He Is Living By Barack Obama’s Rules

The Full-Fitton: Trump’s Funny Math with the Federal Records Act

In Bid to Keep Executive from Accessing Executive Branch Documents, Trump Confesses to Obstruction

18 USC 793(g): Aileen Cannon’s Order Would Not Forestall Flipping Trump’s Custodian of Records

DOJ Has at Least One Card Left to Play: Congress’ Instinct for Self-Preservation

Trump Proposes a New Plan to Steal Classified Documents

Perfect Specimen: Government Records about the Mazars Lawsuit and Trump’s COVID Treatment Would Be Government Records

A Likely Looming Battle in the Stolen Document Case: Classified White House Counsel Documents

The Tactics of DOJ’s Request for a Partial Stay of Judge Cannon’s Order

Team Trump Knows Details of the Investigation that Jay Bratt Does Not — and Trump’s Already Leaking Them

NARA May Have Pre-Existing Legal Obligations with Respect to Documents Covered by Aileen Cannon’s Order

Aileen Cannon Prioritized Donald Trump’s Reputation over CIA Assets’ Lives

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Funny Ideas about Being Owned

Aileen Cannon Calls an Investigation into “What’s Literally a Stolen Diary” … “Politicized”

Judge Aileen Cannon Thinks 64 Tax and Medical Records No Investigator Has Read are More Important than 11,282 Stolen Government Documents

Evan Corcoran Keeps Arguing that Evan Corcoran Didn’t Do a Diligent Search

The FBI Seized No Boxes with Press Clippings that Postdate November 2020

Beryl Howell Says the Surveillance Video Subpoena Was June 24, Not June 22

Return to Sender: DOJ Seized Evidence that Up to 90 Highly Sensitive Documents May Have Disappeared

No One Puts Roger Stone in a Box

(from Peterr) That Bratt-I-Am, That Bratt-I-Am, I Do Not Like That Bratt-I-Am

How DOJ Continues to Build Its Case that Trump Improperly Retained National Defense Information

Christina Bobb Claimed No Copies of the Stolen Classified Documents Had Been Made

Trump Stored Some of the Nation’s Most Sensitive Secrets with His Framed Time Magazine Cover

“The President Was … Working in a Filing Room”

One Big Potentially Pending Question: What Happens to Trump’s Impeachment 1.0 Papers?

Key Details about Evan Corcoran that Evan Corcoran Did Not Disclose to Judge Aileen Cannon

Six Days: Trump’s Second Whack Filing Is Too Late

Did Kash Patel Already Confess to Illegally Disseminating Carter Page FISA Information?

The Elements of the Offense for an 18 USC 793e Prosecution

Trump Had Human, Signals, and FISA Intelligence in an Insecure Room at Mar-a-Lago for a Year

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart Accepts DOJ’s Proposed Redactions

Christina Bobb, Custodian of Records and Coup Conspirator

The Day After Paul Sperry Claimed Trump Had Been Hiding January 6 Documents, DOJ Subpoenaed the Archives Again

A Roger Stone Pardon for MacronLeaks Isn’t As Crazy as It Sounds

Mastering Obstruction: Two of Trump’s Attorneys May Be Witnesses or Suspects

Archives Letter Demonstrates Import of Past Kash Patel Claim of Declassification

Trump’s Reneges on Promised Significant Fourth Amendment Filing

Next Steps in the Trump Stolen Documents Investigation

Maggie Haberman: Heads It’s Only Obstruction, Tails It’s Not Obstruction

The French President May Be Contained Inside the Roger Stone Clemency

Which of the Many Investigations Trump Has Obstructed Is DOJ Investigating?

The Known and Likely Content of Trump’s Search Warrant

The ABCs (and Provisions e, f, and g) of the Espionage Act

Trump’s Latest Tirade Proves Any Temporary Restraining Order May Come Too Late

How Trump’s Search Worked, with Nifty Graphic

Pat Philbin Knows Why the Bodies Are Buried

Trump’s Timid (Non-Legal) Complaints about Attorney-Client Privilege

18 USC 793e in the Time of Shadow Brokers and Donald Trump

[from Rayne] Other Possible Classified Materials in Trump’s Safe

Trump’s Stolen Documents

John Solomon and Kash Patel May Be Implicated in the FBI’s Trump-Related Espionage Act Investigation

[from Peterr] Merrick Garland Preaches to an Overseas Audience

Three Ways Merrick Garland and DOJ Spoke of Trump as if He Might Be Indicted

The Legal and Political Significance of Nuclear Document[s] Trump Is Suspected to Have Stolen

Merrick Garland Calls Trump’s Bluff

Trump Keeps Using the Word “Cooperate.” I Do Not Think That Word Means What Trump Wants the Press To Think It Means

[from Rayne] Expected Response is Expected: Trump and Right-Wing DARVO

DOJ’s June Mar-a-Lago Trip Helps Prove 18 USC 793e

The Likely Content of a Trump Search Affidavit

All Republican Gang of Eight Members Condone Large-Scale Theft of Classified Information, Press Yawns

Some Likely Exacerbating Factors that Would Contribute to a Trump Search

FBI Executes a Search Warrant at 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480

Statutory Background

18 USC 793: Espionage Act

18 USC 1512: Obstruction

18 USC 2071: Removal of Government Documents

18 USC 1519: Obstruction

44 USC 2201ff: Presidential Records Act

32 CFR Parts 2001 and 2003: Rules on storage of classified information

Other links

Recommended expert explainers:

Existing legal requests for Trump materials from the Archives

  • A series of subpoenas from the January 6 Committee that the Supreme Court has already ruled has precedence over any claims of privilege made by Trump
  • Two subpoenas from DOJ’s team investigating January 6, one obtained in May, covering everything NARA has provided to the J6C, and a second one served on NARA on August 17; these subpoenas would also be covered under SCOTUS’ ruling rejecting Trump’s privilege claims
  • Discovery in Tom Barrack’s case, whose trial starts on September 19 (DOJ informed Barrack they had requested Trump White House materials from NARA on April 5)
  • A subpoena from Peter Strzok in his lawsuit over his firing and privacy act violations

Other Key Reports

August 13, 2022: Fox News Report identifying which receipt includes items identified as potentially privileged onsite

August 23, 2022: WaPo Report on document turnover, including description of Trump packing himself

September 6, 2022: WaPo Report reporting seizure of material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities

September 16, 2022: WaPo report that, on September 21, Pat Philbin told NARA that Mark Meadows told him the boxes were full of clippings.

Other 18 USC 793 dockets

Hal Martin

Nghia Pho

Daniel Hale

Jeremy Brown

Kendra Kingsbury

Robert Birchum

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