to the government. that s what we learned more details about last night on top of all this other information, was that there were 17 documents in there that were marked top secret, 38 unique documents that bore classification markings. that s an interesting component of this because after in response to this grand jury subpoena trump officials turned over a bunch of documents they weren t supposed to have, setting aside they weren t supposed to have any presidential records. they turned over a bunch of documents that were top secret. even after that, two months later, lo and behold after the fbi actually searched mar-a-lago, they found all of these additional documents and all of these including in trump s own office. included in this filing last night was the detail that some of those documents were found directly next to those passports. the passports thing is interesting because there s a
really comes at such an important moment for them, because they ve really struggled to make their case here. as you point out, it s extraordinary this is a real lawyer. he s being represented right now in the mar-a-lago case by the former host of an obscure conspiracy tv network. you re also reporting that the republican national committee is not picking up the legal bills for this one. why is that significant? yeah. this is an interesting detail that we reported yesterday. the rnc, a source told me they are not going to be paying for trump s legal bills in this instance. this is sort of a departure from what we ve seen lately. the rnc has covered trump s legal bills, for example, with the new york attorney general leticia james investigation into trump s businesses. the rnc people have said in the past that s because they believe these cases were politically
by the way, trump s legal team keeps inviting this information being made public by asking for a special master and all these other things. it s definitely sort of an own goal here. they ve invited this upon themselves. all these filings from the doj wouldn t be made unless they went through and made this initial filing. exactly. mika, i ll spare you the full post, but the former president is on his social media site today saying, it s terrible the way the fbi haphazardly threw documents all over mar-a-lago. wow. i m glad i m not on truth social. the qanon stuff was just horrid yesterday, spreading conspiracy theories and crack ideas. donald trump has hired former florida solicitor general chris