Donald Trump and The Stolen Secret Documents Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Republican Donald Trump is a fascist and a multiple bankrupt and a racist and a crook and a sexist pig;
the really sad part is that Trump was the best that the Republican Party could come up with to run for President of the U.S.A. in 2016.
And then a large number of racist, xenophobic, reality-averse dimwits elected the man President!

Donald trump receives much more media attention than he deserves, yet websites reporting actual facts are scarce. The original real estate tycoon Donald J. Trump Page includes his business crimes up thru his term as President; the second page is for Emperor Trump and his fascist administration; the third page describes his subsequent banishment, prosecution, and deterioration. The detail on this page was cut after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

hoist on his own petard, as it were:
“Anyone being investigated by the F.B.I. is not qualified to be the president of the United States.”
~~~ tweeted by @realDonaldTrump on 8/3/2016, 9/7/2016, 10/15/2016, 10/20/2016, 10/21/2016, 10/25/2016, 10/30/2016

“[Trump's] dishonesty has no limits.” ~~ John O. Brennan, former head of the C.I.A. - in April 2020

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          the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987
          listed among the Top Thirty Dirtbags of the One Percent in 2011
          numbskull Donald Trump almost ran again in 2011 for the 2012 race. (The domain www.impeachTrump.com was registered in January 2011; the minimum bid for auction in 2017 was $10,000; by Election 2020 the minimum bid was $15,000.)

Federal charges against Donald Trump that are being investigated include removal or destruction of records, obstruction of justice, and violating
the Espionage Act of 1917 – which can encompass crimes beyond spying, such as the refusal to return national security documents upon request.
Conviction under these statutes can result in imprisonment or fines. Technically, a conviction on such charges would also disqualify Trump from
holding federal office again, though legal experts say that enforcing that law would likely require litigation.

Business History
The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's businesses remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page.

2016 July: Trump won the Republican Party nomination and chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence for VP.

2016 Nov 8: Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million, but won the national election with 304 electors to 227 for Hillary.

2017 Jan 20: Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as U.S. President/Emperor #45 in Washington, DC.

2018 Feb 22: Amnesty International officially declared Donald Trump a human rights violator.

2018 April 9: F.B.I. agents raided the office, home, and hotel room of Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael D. Cohen; the material seized included documents related to Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels; Cohen reportedly is being investigated for bank and wire fraud, and for campaign finance violations.

2019 Jan 21: President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years in office - in Year One, he averaged 5.9 lies per day; in Year Two, that nearly tripled to 16.5 lies per day. ~~ per The Washington Post Trump changes residency from New York to Florida

2019 September: lifelong New Yorker Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump filed paperwork to change their residency from Manhattan to Trump's Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

2021 Jan 6:

Donald Trump gave a speech to the mob gathered in Washington, DC inciting them to violence on his behalf. The subsequent ruckus left five Americans dead and is widely known as the January 6th Capitol Riot. (By the end of April, the F.B.I. and other agencies had indicted 400 participants in that riot.)

2021 Wed Jan 13 about 1pm EST:

President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for the second time; the charge is that he "threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government", doing so in a way that rendered him "a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution" if he were allowed to complete his term. Trial in the Senate was an unknown at this point.

2021 Tue Jan 19:

President Trump said in a videotaped 'farewell address' released late Tuesday that "the movement we started is only just beginning". He did not mention President-elect Joe Biden by name, but Trump said that he was preparing to "hand power over to a new administration at noon Wednesday", and extended his "best wishes". Trump touted his economic and foreign policy record, and criticized the deadly January 6th attack against the U.S. Capitol that led the House to impeach him on the charge of inciting an insurrection. "Political violence is an attack on everything [that] we cherish as Americans," Trump said. "It can never be tolerated." Trump also called for Americans to set aside political rancor.

. . . looking forward to former President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial on February 8th

Donald Trump Is Going To Jail

2022 January: The National Archives & Records Administration demanded and received 15 boxes of documents and other items from former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as reported by The Washington Post on Monday February 7th. Trump had taken them to his resort residence in Palm Beach, Florida instead of turning them over as the Presidential Records Act of 1978 requires. Some of the documents had been torn up and taped back together, lending credence to news reports during Trump's presidency that he was constantly ripping up documents that were supposed to be preserved, and aides had to retrieve them from wastebaskets and tape them up. Archives officials were so concerned about what they discovered that they referred the matter to the Justice Department and also notified the agency that there still were papers missing.
Trump advisers say that the former president did nothing wrong by keeping the boxes, saying that they contained gifts and letters from world leaders.
Some of the material recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January contained highly classified national security information. "The law governing the preservation of White House materials, the Presidential Records Act, lacks teeth, but criminal statutes can come into play, especially in the case of classified material." – per The New York Times. "Officials can face up to five years in prison for removing classified materials to an unauthorized location." per The Wall Street Journal.

2022 Spring: F.B.I. badge

F.B.I. agents paid a visit to Mar-a-Lago to try to get more information about the documents that Trump took, including whether there were still some hidden there. They became convinced that Trump was not being honest with them.

2022 May: The Justice Department subpoenaed more documents from the Archives and also started questioning Trump-era White House officials, leading to speculation that there was a grand jury investigating the documents removal. Sure enough, Trump's team soon received a subpoena for more documents at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump handed over more.

2022 Summer: Former President Trump spent much of the the summer at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, "preparing for a deposition with the New York attorney general in a civil matter related to his finances".

2022 Monday Aug 8: F.B.I. badge

F.B.I. agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and seized 20 boxes of classified and top-secret papers among 10,000 documents that should have been returned to the National Archives. {Are we going to call this the 'Mar-A-Lago-Gate Scandal' ?} Trump lawyer Christina Bobb was present during the search and said that F.B.I. agents 'seized paper'.

2022 Monday evening Aug 8:

Former President Trump said in a statement from New York City that the F.B.I. executed a search warrant at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump said that Mar-A-Lago "is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of F.B.I. agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate." He went on to claim that this "is prosecutorial misconduct" and "the weaponization of the justice system," adding that "such an assault could only take place in broken, Third World countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe!" White House officials said that President Biden and his aides learned of the raid from news reports.

2022 Aug:

A judge unsealed the F.B.I.’s recent warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida mansion, revealing that the agency was looking for evidence of possible violations of the Espionage Act, as well as signs of removing or destroying evidence and obstruction of justice. A newly public property receipt shows that the agency seized 11 sets of 'top secret' documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as those meant to be available only in designated government facilities. Trump, meanwhile, maintains that he declassified all the material before leaving office.

2022 Aug 16: The New York Times reported that federal authorities have interviewed Pat Cipollone, who served as former President Trump's White House counsel, and Cipollone's deputy, Patrick Philbin, in connection with the boxes of purportedly classified and top-secret documents that were stored in Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. Cipollone and Philbin are the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to be interviewed in the documents case. Philbin was reportedly interviewed in the spring; it is not clear when Cipollone was questioned. Philbin tried to help the National Archives get the material back, but Trump said, "It's not theirs, it's mine."

2022 Aug 22:

Former U.S. President Trump asked the Appeals Court to appoint a special master to review the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago two weeks prior.

2022 Fri Aug 26: F.B.I. badge

The Justice Department released a redacted version of both the affidavit and memo related to the recent F.B.I. raid on former President Donald Trump's Florida mansion; the DOJ even redacted portions of the documents in which it explained the rationale behind the redactions - as a result, many of the pages didn't reveal much information. “The warrant shows that federal law enforcement was investigating Trump for removal or destruction of records, obstruction of justice, and violating the Espionage Act of 1917 – which can encompass crimes beyond spying, such as the refusal to return national security documents upon request. Convic-tion under the statutes can result in imprisonment or fines.”
The inventory list shows that agents recovered four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, three sets of confidential documents, and a set marked 'top secret/SCI', a higher level of classification; agents also seized binders of photos, a handwritten note, and the executive grant of clemency for Roger Stone.

2022 Mon Sept 5: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, granted Trump's request for a special master to review the seized materials; the ruling also said that the Justice Department can't use the materials in its investigation of Trump's handling of classified and top-secret documents until the independent review is completed, a win for Trump. Legal scholars called the ruling 'gibberish', "laughably bad" and an "unprecedented intervention" by a judge into a national security investigation.

2022 Fri Sept 9: The Justice Department announced that it will appeal the widely disparaged ruling by Judge Aileen Cannon appointing a so-called special master to handle stolen documents recovered from Trump's Florida resort and demanding an indefinite halt to the department's criminal investigation of Trump. The appeal comes with risks: the appeals process could take longer than any document review by the special master, and there is no guarantee that the government would prevail, particularly if the case were to reach the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three Trump appointees.

2022 Mon Sept 12: The Justice Department indicated in court papers that it would accept one of former President Trump's two proposed candidates for special master to review documents seized in a search of Trump's home in Florida; if Judge Cannon selects that candidate, former New York federal judge Raymond Dearie, as special master, then the review could start soon. Trump's lawyers asked Cannon to deny a D.O.J. request to restore F.B.I. access to the material for its criminal investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents and other papers that belong in the National Archives. Judge Cannon has told the F.B.I. and prosecutors that they can't use the material until a special master has determined whether some documents are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege.

2022 Thu Sept 15: U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon appointed Raymond Dearie as the special master to review more than 11,000 documents, some highly classified, that F.B.I. agents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida residence last month. Dearie, 78, is a former chief federal judge in New York. The Justice Department disagreed with Cannon on including about 100 documents marked classified in the special master review; Cannon denied D.O.J.'s request to let prosecutors use the material before the review is finished; the Justice Department said that delaying their investigation could risk national security; they are likely to appeal.

2022 Tue Sept 20: The former president and Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. were indicted on charges of business fraud by the New York Attorney General; the suit alleges that the Trump family flagrantly manipulated property valuations to deceive lenders, insurance brokers, and tax authorities. (This was 608 days after Donald Trump left office as U.S. President.)

2022 Wed Sept 21: A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled that the Justice Department can resume its review of classified documents seized during a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home in August. The judges - two appointed by Trump and one by former President Obama - said that it's 'self-evident' that the public has an interest in knowing whether Trump's storage of classified records damaged national security; the decision reversed a ruling by District Judge Cannon barring the Justice Department from using the roughly 100 classified documents in its criminal investigation until an independent special master has completed a review of them, plus 11,000 other files taken from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump can appeal to the Supreme Court.

2022 Fri Sept 23: The appointed special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, ordered Trump's team to affirm or challenge the F.B.I.'s inventory of items taken during their August search of Mar-a-Lago, effectively making them take an official position on Trump's public claims that the F.B.I. planted some of the evidence.

2022 Thu Sept 29: Judge Cannon ruled that former President Trump's lawyers don't have to comply with an order by special master Judge Raymond Dearie to review documents that the F.B.I. seized from Trump's Florida residence; she overruled that requirement and rejected Dearie's October 21 deadline for Trump's lawyers to sort through the 200,000 pages of documents and flag those that they argue are shielded by attorney-client or executive privilege; they now have until mid-November.

2022 Fri evening Sept 30: The Department of Justice filed a motion to fast-track its appeal of a ruling by Judge Cannon that halted the federal investigation into documents seized from former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago; Judge Cannon's controversial ruling said that the D.O.J. had to wait until November to comb through the documents, a decision that most in the legal community said went against precedent.

2022 Sat Oct 1: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said in a recent letter addressed to the House Oversight Committee that a number of records from the former Trump administration are still missing. While all presidential records should have been turned over under the Presidential Records Act when former President Trump left office, the letter said that gaps in the records remain. This includes records related to "non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts", which administration employees were required to do.

2022 Wed Oct 5: Former President Trump's attorneys filed an emergency request asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute over classified documents that the F.B.I. seized in the August 8th search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Trump's team isn't asking the high court to reverse an appeals court decision to let the Justice Department access 100 documents marked as classified as it investigates Trump's handling of government secrets; instead, they argue that the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was wrong to prevent the special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, from reviewing the presumptively classified material, saying Dearie's independent review is needed to determine whether the material is 'in fact classified'. (The executive branch, not the judiciary, usually controls classification status.)

2022 Fri Oct 14: The U.S. Department of Justice formally filed a motion with a federal appeals court seeking to stop the work of a special master appointed by former President Trump to review documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home by the F.B.I.; the brief was filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and seeks to end the independent review by the special master, who was appointed by lower court judge Aileen Cannon, following the F.B.I.'s raid. The DOJ argued in its filing that Cannon did not have any legal authority to interact with a federal investigation, writing that "district courts have no general equitable authority to superintend federal criminal investigations".

2022 Tue Oct 21: Trump adviser Kash Patel appeared before a grand jury in the stolen documents case, which some observers say indicates an increased likelihood of a future indictment.

The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's pre-Emperor writings, et cetera remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page;
post-presidency content will be coded here as it occurs.

Works About Donald Trump
The entries & links concerning books about tycoon Trump remained on the original Donald J. Trump Page and post-inauguration works were coded on the Emperor Trump Page
as they appeared, but Donald Trump is the subject of so many non-fiction and parody and fiction books that these pages got yuge real fast, so the 'Books About' portions
were cut from both and combined as DJTrump-books.htm in early 2020.

article "Calling Trump The F-Word" September 2022 by Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Magazine critic
What matters about identifying the Trumpist line as fascist is that it is diagnostic.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/calling-trump-the-f-word

The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's pre-Emperor appearances remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page;
post-inauguration events will be coded here as they occur.

aerial view of the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida

Mar-a-Lago National Historic Landmark [built 1924-27]
built by breakfast cereal heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post [1887-1973] between 1924 to 1927; bequeathed to the National Park Service, but the upkeep was too expensive, so it was returned to the Post Foundation by Congress in 1991. Donald Trump purchased Mar-A-Lago for $7-$10 million in 1985; he used the mansion as a residence for eight years, before converting it into the Mar-a-Lago Club in 1994.

"‘Tis The Season For Treason! #MarALego" [Dec 2022]
satirical TV ad for "MarALego: Search and Seizure Edition" shown
on Jimmy Kimmels' late night show on A.B.C. on December 9th
watch 12/2022 fake ad [1:25] online at YouTube

New York Attorney General Letitia James
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_James

Attorney Chris Kise, who was hired on August 30 for $3 million to represent Donald Trump in the investigation into his handling
of classified documents, was reportedly sidelined from the case after less than a month.

National Archives and Records Administration
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero

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