And THE GRIFTER of the century returns once more.

Obviously didn't buy himself a few spa days with HIS grifted loot.

I can't see a picture of Steve Bannon without thinking about how bad he must smell. He likes being gross!

TFG means "the former guy" aka Trump. At least that's the polite interpretation of TFG!

NEWS

SCHOOLED: Justice Dept. humiliates Trump-appointed judge in special master response

The Justice Department has appealed Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon's incomprehensible and widely criticized ruling granting Donald Trump's request for a special master to review materials seized in the August 8th FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. DOJ Prosecutors challenged Judge Cannon's decision to halt its federal probe into the ex-President's removal and storage of classified documents after leaving the White House in January 2021 – citing national security risks and concerns within the intelligence community.

Politico reported:

"[I]n order to assess the full scope of potential harms to national security resulting from the improper retention of the classified records, the government must assess the likelihood that improperly stored classified information may have been accessed by others and compromised," Justice Department counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt argued in the filing. "But that inquiry is a core aspect of the FBI's criminal investigation."

MSNBC's Larry O'Donnell gave a scathing summary of the DOJ's motion, saying "The Justice Department conducted a kindergarten class on national security in its motion today for the judge."

"No special master can possibly have any authority over classified material."

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Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control of the National Security Division Jay Bratt and United States Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez sought a temporary stay of the court's order on Thursday, "limited to the Order's directives with respect to the seized classified records." They assert that that part of the opinion "will cause the most immediate and serious harms to the government and the public."Sponsored Links

Pointing out that the law and precedent are in favor of the DOJ, a stay pending appeal is both warranted and appropriate – re-iterating again, that the former President has no claims to executive privilege in this matter because the materials retrieved belong not to him, but the United States government.

"Plaintiff has not shown that he had standing to seek relief, or that this Court properly exercised its equitable jurisdiction, with regard to the classified records. The classified records are government property over which the Executive Branch has control and in which Plaintiff has no cognizable property interest," the DOJ filing read.

The Department of Justice and Trump each submitted two choices for special master consideration.

The DOJ proposed a G. W. Bush-appointed judge, Thomas Griffith, who served on the DC Court of Appeals for 15 years. Griffiths served as a legal advisor for both sides during former President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and was counsel to the U.S. Senate. Barbara Jones, a Clinton nominee and a former special master in multiple cases involving Trump's inner circle, rounded out the federal government's choices.

"The government will suffer irreparable harm…"

Trump's two nominees include attorney Paul Huck Jr., who represented the former President's 2016 campaign and is married to Eleventh Circuit of Appeals judge Barbara Lago, who was considered a potential Trump SCOTUS nominee, creating a potential conflict of interest.

But curiously, the ex-President's second pick, Raymond Dearie, is one of the judges who approved federal investigators' requests to surveil Trump campaign advisor Carter Paige in the probe into foreign interference in the 2016 election, CNN reports.

As O'Donnell points out, the FBI is a part of the intelligence community, and there is "no reason" for the appointment of a special master, per the DOJ. As Judge Cannon continues to receive backlash and criticism for her seemingly partisan decision that wilfully disregarded both precedent and the rule of law – the law enforcement body of the Justice Department is the only one within the IC that has the authority to address the security risks imposed by the issues at hand.

The Trump Train is crashing, and Judge Aileen Cannon is going to find it difficult to stand on the quicksand she's claimed as solid ground. The Dept. of Justice has made clear its intent to appeal if Cannon continues to forget what the law and her position on the District Court dictate.

Read the motion here.

Around these parts, it is not uncommon to see homeless people on the CTA trains, wearing several layers of everything they own even on brutally-hot days, because they have nowhere safe to store it. What's Bannon's excuse?

I looked up - why does Steve Bannon wear more than one shirt. Found several articles. Here’s the answer for sloppy Steve -

Why does Steve Bannon wear so many shirts?

Bannon's penchant for wearing multiple collared shirts at once is well-documented, but interestingly enough he has actually never spoken about it directly. According to The Cut, who spoke with Chris Bannon (his younger brother) and close friends of the former White House official, Bannon has enjoyed wearing multiple shirts for some time now.

Apparently, the style choice is something that he picked up while he was in Benedictine College Preparatory military school in Virginia. Mike Forster, who also attended the school, said, "I don't know what the uniform was exactly when Mr. Bannon was here. It ranges from wearing camouflage fatigues and sometimes dress shirts, or pants and tunics. There's not multiple shirts."

Here’s the full article - https://www.distractify.com/p/why-does-steve-bannon-wear-so-many-shirts

In jail, can he wear multiple orange jump suits

I remember this reaction and it is pure Loon.

Must be "alternative" if they can't even spell "loyalty."