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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Tuesday September 6th 2022.

I'm John Puthwarts the editor of commentary magazine. We are almost two months away from the commentary roast of Barry Weiss are either 11th or 12th annual roast.

I can never remember the number. Maybe it's 13. I think it's 11, but it could be 12. Barry Weiss roast great event New York City Sunday November 13th.

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This is a miracle of planning logistics and conception commentary was to Barry Weiss commentary dot org slash roast with me as always executive editor a green wall. Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine.

And associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans. No, Ross, I know. Hi, John. Donald Trump has superpowers. This we now have to acknowledge these are not the superpowers of, you know, a profit or of, you know, of a of a Marvel character.

It is the superpower of injecting chaos at the at at at moments that are unbelievably advantageous to him. And this is what happened, I guess on Friday, when a judge in Florida.

And he was excited to his wishes and said not only that the Department of Justice needed to appoint a special master to go through the 11,000 document seized at Mara Lago.

And the in the warranted search. But that all investigation into the documents that were seized not these are just the ones seized in that warrant in that in that warranted search, not the ones that were taken by agreement with Trump and his lawyers earlier.

And they had they could not investigate them. They could not ask questions relating to them. They could not follow any investigative pass because of them. And since that.

Theoretically has already happened because the judge waited nine days to deliver her decision.

Everything is now thrown into chaos because in theory, if her decision is upheld, any move that Justice Department might make in relation to these documents might now be considered inadmissible.

Anybody who saw them may have to be taken off the cases having a prejudicial having been prejudiced by information that they should not have been allowed to see.

It is and apparently she is also taken up a very weird question relating to executive privilege that I barely even understand. So what this says to me is he's done it again.

One exception. She is allowing the ongoing examination of the documents from a national security perspective to see if there are any risks there that is continuing to be allowed and that that's ongoing even as the other ones have so.

But in other words, like there was all this like, can you believe how bad Trump was he didn't even object say there should be a special master at the very beginning. That's what you should have done the night that they did the raid and he should have done this and why didn't they do that and they could have dotted this sign they could have crossed this tea and in fact.

This is the best possible outcome for him the investigation is now totally shadowed unless the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals completely, you know, like meets on bank very fast and overturns this decision.

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