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The WaPo's story that many are taking as a condemnation of Merrick Garland is mostly a story about Steve D'Antuono's obstruction of the investigation.

In their motion for a protective order in Trump's stolen document case, DOJ not only told Trump and everyone else that there's an ongoing investigation, but they revealed they have location data that may help to fill existing gaps in surveillance footage.

If the threat of prosecutors charging Trump's enemies "regardless of the facts" is worth reporting, than Durham's ongoing corruption must be covered, not covered up.

The crimes with which Trump has been charged happened in Florida. That is why they were charged in Florida.

The New York Times is out with a long, interesting, piece on SDFL Judge Aileen M. Cannon by Schmidt and Savage. I won't call it a hit piece, but it is extremely negatively framed, and in some regards disingenuously so. For a news article, there…

Trump will be able to speak to the many witnesses against him who continue to work for him as he awaits his trial, but he won't be able to speak about the case.

As hard as it would be for the Intelligence Community to declassify 31 highly classified documents for trial, it might do as much damage to Trump's psyche to have the contents of "his" "beautiful mind paper boxes" shared for the entire world to see. And that may give Jack Smith leverage over Trump in any plea negotiations.

The CIPA processes of Josh Schulte -- who was the topic of Donald Trump's first classified compromise -- and Scooter Libby -- whom Trump pardoned -- will be key precedents to this CIPA process.

The Trump indictment reveals why investigators were asking most of the questions that made the press coverage. But it doesn't reveal when the surveillance gaps are, who put them there, and why.

As a former prosecutor at The Hague, Jack Smith learned from Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg how to prosecute the crimes of national leaders, and the indictment of Trump reflects those lessons well.