Today is Monday, August 22, 2022. Befitting his status as a petulant, truth-denying egomaniac, Dumpf lashed out at a lawful search warrant conducted on his Florida home on August 8 by taking a truly repulsive delaying tactic today by seeking his legal team to ask a federal judge to appoint a “special master” to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search two weeks ago. This is just insane on his part; do you think this move just has “delay, delay, delay” written all over it so that attention is redirected from indicting the former president of something, anything? Thus the former president is asking for a special master – a third-party attorney – to oversee the review of evidence gathered from the beach club in the criminal probe and for the judge to pause federal investigators’ work related to the evidence until the review is done, according to a new filing. This absurd strategy designed to halt the continuing investigation into crimes committed by the Orange Blob for taking classified documents to his Florida home is covered in an online article by Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, and Tierney Sneed entitled “Trump’s legal team asks for ‘special master’ to go through Mar-a-Lago evidence and determine if some should be returned.”

This new worthless lawsuit marks the first legal filing by Dumpf’s team after FBI agents carried out their authorized search on August 8 and underscores how his legal team has struggled to coalesce around a singular strategy. This case has been assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated by the Orange Menace in 2020. Can you believe this shitbag is arguing his constitutional rights were violated and that there may have been privileged materials seized? The guy spirits 300 – 300 – classified documents (from reporting tonight from The New York Times as heard on the Rachel Maddow show) out of the White House, asserting that they belonged to him, not to the American people!

The Justice Department wasted no time in responding to this ridiculous lawsuit, saying, “The Department is aware of this evening’s motion. The United States will file its response in court,” as Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley stated in response to the new filing.

According to documents unsealed by a judge last week, the Justice Department removed 11 sets of classified documents from Dumpf’s home. The inventory shows that some of the materials recovered were marked as “top secret/SCI,” which is one of the highest levels of classification.

The department has already signaled that it is using an internal filter team to review the seized items, to separate material that could be subject to privilege claims. Some items have already been returned to the ex-whiner-in-chief that fall into that category like two expired passports and his diplomatic passport.

Overall, the department has said in court documents that it believed evidence it collected at Mar-a-Lago will support its criminal investigation into the mishandling of federal records, including national defense material, after Dump’s team took boxes of records to Florida when he left office. We should also know that the investigation is looking at potential obstruction of justice in the investigation, so these are very serious charges that the former arsonist is facing.

As of this writing, a federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida is now weighing whether to make more details about the investigation public.

The lawsuit also recounted a message for Attorney General Merrick Garland that Dumpf’s counsel gave to a top Justice Department official over the phone on August 11, a few days after the search. To me, the message sounds like a veiled threat to the top justice official of the United States delivered by an orange-haired citizen acting like a mob boss, not a sitting president. It reads: “President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from People [why cap this word?] all over the country about the raid. If there was one word to describe their mood, it is ‘angry.’ The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let me know.” I don’t know about you, but this message appears to say to Garland that by withdrawing his investigation, the heat will simmer down. The heat that is being created by this lawful search is the “heat” that Dumpf himself is fomenting, just like he did before and on January 6, 2021. The only people that are “angry” are those idiots on the far-right and his fringe supporters, not reality-based Americans. They want him to be locked up as badly as he led his stupid supporters in the chant to lock up Hillary right before the 2016 election. As poetic justice, Hillary must be really smirking at this beleaguered orange-haired demagogue and his myriad legal entanglements. This even hints of obstruction of justice once more on the part of the devil in Florida! Another charge to be indicted on.

As expected of the perennial complainer in him, Dumpf argued in his lawsuit that the FBI and the Justice Department are biased against him and that the Florida house search was meant to derail his political career! What bullshit from a premier bullshitter! His political career should be thrust into the dust from the outcome of this investigation.

Concerned citizens must be asking themselves tonight what the former dictator-to-be (and now possibly traitorous ex-president) did with those documents before they were seized by the FBI in August? The choices are varied and quite alarming in their scope.

The news is awash with more disturbing Dumpf allegations about these seized documents tonight, as I’m typing this. Now I’m hearing that the soon-to-be (fingers crossed!) indicted former president went through those documents himself in 2021 before taking them home to his Kane-ish “Xanadu” resort. This is a reference from the one film that Dumpf supposedly appreciates: 1941’s Citizen Kane. This is what Elliot reminds me all the time, but I have no evidence that this man knows what a good film actually is, especially one like Citizen Kane that tops every 100 best film list for decades. Maybe the fate that greeted the washed-up newspaper mogul at the end in the film will be Dumpf’s fate after all. Dumpf might privately be terrified of this happening to him. It’s difficult to tell what really is in his head at any point. His defiance in the face of a serious Justice Department inquiry, though, will blow up in his face, I truly feel.

Let’s see what headlines will now be written on this ongoing story.

Stay safe and be well.