Edit: please pay attention to the first two words of this headline. We don’t actually know if Trump received a target letter, he could be lying out of his ass to mess with the investigation.

  • Chainweasel
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    The big question is, will “judge” aileen cannon get this case too?

    • @[email protected]
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      No.

      She is on the Southern District of Florida, and the crimes of January 6 did not take place in Florida.

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        Well the stolen documents were taken from DC, and yet the case was brought before the Florida Southern District Court, so why not give the stolen documents case to a DC circuit? Not trying to argue, just trying to make sense of it.

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          Those charges aren’t really about taking documents. They are about refusing to return them, lying about whether they had all been returned, and possibly showing them to unauthorized individuals. The documents were in Mar-a-lago when this was going on.

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          The taking of the documents is the least important of the charges. In fact, they didn’t charge him with taking documents. They charged him under the espionage act where he hid defense secrets, obstructed, lied, and conspired, shared those secrets, after numerous attempts by the authorities to retrieve them. And that all took place in Florida. Had they charged him in DC it would have delayed* the trial. The venue was a calculated decision of time vs judge/jury pool.

          There’s also a good chance he’ll be charged in NJ for separate crimes regarding those documents since some of them were moved there. Separate case though.

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            Exactly. And so if anyone ever asks “Why weren’t Biden or Pence indicted?”, you’ll know the answer. They didn’t lie about their documents and they didn’t get in the way when the government took them back.

            In case anyone is wondering, “Why was nobody charged for taking them?”, the answer is probably intent. Trump, Biden, and Pence could all claim that they weren’t responsible for removing the documents. But of those three, only one of them is on tape saying something like, “Yeah, I’ve still got these secret documents that I probably should have given back”. He’s the one they indicted.

        • FuglyDuck
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          But held in Florida.

          And many of the secondary crimes were also held there.

          Rememeber, he’s not being charged with taking them. He’s being charged with keeping them and refusing tk give them back, and storing them improperly

    • FuglyDuck
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      For the life of me, I can’t see why the insurrection grand jury would be in florida