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what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news ov ....
Enemy is not in russia, written in black bars over their eyes. deeply disturbing photograph. just reminder of qanon is, conspiracy theory built around an anonymous account. the new york times describes it this way, millions of qanon followers believe that an imaginary sex trafficking, is a tan worshipping liberals controlling the government and donald trump is leading the fight against it. news guard, a media watchdog that monitors misinformation, found that trump, who has nearly 4 million followers on his truth social account has promoted 30 different qanon accounts for total of 65 posts since joining the site in april. those numbers do not include yesterday s posting which made upmost of trump s morning. chris murphy had this reaction, posting on twitter, i just think everyone, including the mainstream press, needs to take seriously the growing coordination between the trump operation, the extremist 4chan/q ....
They chose to seek a search warrant in the very first place. we saw the doj show that they believe that trump was taking efforts to conceal these documents, right? doj said they found some of these documents in a desk drawer, for example, at mar-a-lago and co-mingled around other nonclassified documents, right? we see in the picture that doj released, for example, next to these classified documents there s a copy of time magazine, right? and so, that was one of my main take aways here. and the other one would be just simply how the trump team almost ered in a little bit in causing all of this. right? if the trump team had not sued to try to appoint this so-called special master, right, to filter out these documents and to get things back to the former president, there wouldn t have been an opportunity in the first place for doj to present all of this. yeah. and that picture you mentioned released by doj last night, ....
Privilege. on the other hand the doj makes a very compelling argument which is the rules cited, if you look at rule 53, i don t mean to get into the weeds, this isn t a situation that applies especially when both parties do not consent. so, procedurally i think the rules are in favor of doj, but because this is such an unprecedented situation, you might see a judge just take the approach of well, just in an abundance of caution, maybe i should appoint a special master. it could go either way. danny cevallos, we appreciate it. we ll have much more on the breaking news as the show continues. meanwhile, the former president spent yesterday posting dangerous conspiracy theories on his social media website. trump posted qanon slogan and fringe content as well as a post that is a photo of president biden, vice president kamala harris and house speaker nancy pelosi with the words, your ....
Classified documents, time magazine, sort of the perfect trump tableau if you will. we know how obsessed he was with that magazine s cover. nicholas wu, thank you for being with us. we ll be joined by cnbc for the latest on wall street. the markets are mostly flat before the bell continuing a rough stretch that began friday. we re back with that in just a moment. friday. we re back with that in just a moment listen, i m done settling. because this is my secret. i put it on once, no more touch ups! ....