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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday October 10th 2022. Today Trump seeks to withhold two folders from the Department of Justice, Donald tried to trade crossfire hurricane documents for the ones he stole.

The Fulton County DA is seeking testimony from Mike Flynn and Newt Gingrich, an associate of the fake Rothschild that infiltrated Mar-a-Lago has been shot in Canada after cooperating with the FBI and Durham's last stand appears to be going nowhere. I'm your host Allison Gil.

Hi everybody, it's A.G. I'm on the road. So if it's a little echoey in here or you hear some sort of maybe ambulance or cop cars drive by that is why I'm in a hotel room. So thank you for bearing with me. Dana will be back tomorrow, but I have a big show for you today, including a nearly hour long interview with the host of the Maya Culpa podcast and author of the new book that drops tomorrow. It's called revenge. And he's the founder of essential consulting himself, Mr. Michael Cohen.

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All right, we have a lot of news to get to. So let's hit the hot notes hot notes. All right, first up late last year as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on Donald to return those boxes of records he stole from the White House.

He came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown. It was a quid pro quo. Mr. Trump still determined to show he had been wronged by the FBI investigation into his 2016 campaigns ties to Russia was angry with the National Archives for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims in exchange for those documents. Trump told advisors he would return to the National Archives. The boxes of material he'd taken tomorrow.

And then he was a logger. Trump's aides never pursued the idea, but the episode is one in a series that demonstrates how Donald spent a year and a half deflecting delaying stonewalling and sometimes leading aides to disemble when it came to demands from the National Archives and ultimately the Justice Department to return the material he stole.

And that's according to interviews and documents around November of last year. Trump lawyer cannon who told others he was worried that some of the materials that were taken were documents being sought in the January 6th inquiry.

That's around the time Donald loaded the idea of returning the boxes of documents in exchange for Russia probe documents. Trump advisors never acted on that absolutely ridiculous notion.

And fast forward to now where we are with the special master reviewing non classified documents. Donald Trump is seeking to withhold from the Justice Department to folders marked as containing correspondence with the National Archives and signing sheets that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.

That's according to court filings in the special master review of the confiscated documents. And this story is coming from Hugo Loll at the Guardian. He says, quote, the former US President's privilege assertion over the folders, which appear to have direct relevance to the criminal investigation into whether he retained national defense information and obstructed justice are significant as they represent an effort to exclude the items from the inquiry and keep them confidential.

Most notably Trump asserted privilege over the contents of one red folder marked as containing quote, NARA letters and other copies unquote. And a second manila folder marked as containing NARA letters one top sheet plus three signing sheets.

And that's according to a review of the court filings.

The former president also asserted privilege over those 35 pages of documents titled the president's calls that included the presidential seal in the upper left corner and contain handwritten names, numbers, notes about messages and four blank pages of miscellaneous notes.

The documents, the former president is attempting to withhold from the criminal investigation by asserting some sort of privilege. And by the way, it wasn't clear whether he was asserting executive or attorney client privilege over them. It, well, that became clear after a Friday ruling by the special master who decided that he didn't assert any privilege and there wasn't any in a three page order.

Raymond Deerey, the special master, he made public the unique identifier numbers for documents for which Trump is not claiming privilege. It's also of note that the Department of Justice returning the three documents they are returning the three documents that can and based her entire need for a special master on because there was a medical record in there, which by the way was the letter from the doctor in Brooklyn that he made public about his greatest health ever.

The one that said he will be the healthiest president ever elected and he made that public that was one of the documents the other were a couple of tax letters, I believe.

And so those are the documents that judge can was like, look, if they're going to take those, then we can't trust anything. All of the documents the DOJ took are subject to inquiry.

And that's why we need a special master. But now those are being returned the DOJ wanted to return a while ago before this whole fiasco started.

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