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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-florida-classified-documents-dismiss-rcna143135
NBC News
Judge denies one of Trump's motions to dismiss classified documents case
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued the ruling after hearing daylong arguments from lawyers for the former president and special counsel Jack Smith's office.
March 14, 2024, 4:00 AM PDT / Updated March 14, 2024, 2:31 PM PDT
By Katherine Doyle, Dareh Gregorian and Gary Grumbach
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The judge presiding over the federal criminal case involving former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents on Thursday denied one of his two motions to dismiss the case, saying the motion was premature.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon found that Trump's argument that the main statute prosecutors are using against him is unconstitutionally vague as it applies to presidents is better-suited to be addressed at a later time "in connection with jury-instruction briefing and/or other appropriate motions."
The judge issued the ruling shortly after the conclusion of a daylong hearing on the former president's motions to toss the case, with Trump in attendance. Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, made it clear she was skeptical of his attorneys' arguments on their other motion to dismiss, which contends that the Presidential Records Act bars his prosecution.
The judge said at the end of the hearing that she'd rule on Trump's motions "promptly."
Trump’s legal team contended the bulk of the charges should be thrown out because of the 1978 law that governs the preservation of information during and following a presidency.
“It’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” the judge said at one point.
Special counsel Jack Smith has called on Cannon to reject Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from prosecution because classified presidential records “can be transformed into ‘personal’” records by removing them from the White House. Trump has said that he designated the materials he took to Mar-a-Lago as personal records while still in office. A president's personal records are excluded from the act's requirements.
David Harbach, a prosecutor from Smith's office, told the judge, “The documents charged in the indictment are not personal records. Period. They are nowhere close to that.”
Smith was in court for the hearing, as well, and Trump eyed him during a break in the proceedings and again when they concluded. The former president, who's been animated while attending other court proceedings, appeared to listen intently to the arguments, often with his arms crossed. He focused mainly on the judge and occasionally whispered and passed notes to one of his attorneys, Todd Blanche. He sat stone-faced at one point when the judge clashed with Blanche over one of his arguments and called it a "red herring."
Cannon at times seemed more sympathetic to Trump's arguments and noted that no other former president has faced criminal charges related to the law. “There has never been a situation remotely similar to this one,” Jay Bratt of the special counsel's office responded.
Blanche argued that “presidents since George Washington have taken materials out of the White House” at “their own discretion,” but Cannon seemed skeptical of his arguments involving the Records Act.
The sides also argued the motion that the main statute used against Trump can’t be used against him.
Trump attorney Emil Bove told the judge that “the government cannot make decisions based on selective criteria and political bias” and that the indictment should be thrown out. He pointed to other instances in which presidents were found to have retained classified information and mentioned special counsel Robert Hur's decision not to charge President Joe Biden for classified material he had in his possession dating from his time in the Senate.
In his report explaining why he declined to charge Biden, Hur said that there were “clear” distinctions between the two cases and that unlike “the evidence involving Mr. Biden, the allegations set forth in the indictment of Mr. Trump, if proven, would present serious aggravating facts.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he wrongfully held on to classified information after leaving the White House. Trump's co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, were in court Thursday, as well.
Their lawyers have sparred with the government over the timing of the trial
From 5/9/2015 ( premiere USA film "Tomorrowland" ) To 3/14/2024 ( Today , Thursday ) is 3232 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/8/1974 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Proclamation 4311 - Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon ) is 3232 days
IMDb
Tomorrowland
Quotes
Nix: Let's imagine... if you glimpsed the future, you were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? You would go to... the politicians, captains of industry? And how would you convince them? Data? Facts? Good luck! The only facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. But what if... what if there was a way of skipping the middle man and putting the critical news directly into everyone's head? The probability of wide-spread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it. To scare people straight. Because, what reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they've ever known or loved? To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But, how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair!
excerpts
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-announcing-decision-resign-the-office-president-the-united-states
The American Presidency Project
RICHARD NIXON
37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974
Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States
August 08, 1974
Richard Nixon: I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first.
IMDb
Backdraft (1991)
Quotes
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: [at Ronald's parole hearing] What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?
http://www.flasking.com/blog/fast-facts-richard-m-nixon-americas-lousiest-president/
Flasking
Fast Facts About Richard M. Nixon, America’s Lousiest President
WORDS BY JEF HARMATZ
POSTED ON AUGUST 8, 2014
Early in his congressional career, Richard Nixon would frequently urinate in the offices of his staff. The future president considered it “hilarious,” and, as photography became less expensive in his later life, wished that he had been photographed during one of these acts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-starship-third-test-launch-thursday-rcna143286
NBC News
SpaceX launches Starship rocket into orbit on test flight, but loses spacecraft during return to Earth
In the rocket’s third and most ambitious test flight yet, it achieved two milestones: Starship successfully reached orbit and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere for the first time.
March 14, 2024, 3:00 AM PDT / Updated March 14, 2024, 9:02 AM PDT
By Denise Chow
SpaceX’s next-generation mega rocket launched Thursday morning, thundering into orbit on a key test flight meant to demonstrate new technologies and techniques that will be crucial on future missions to the moon and beyond.
The flight, held on the 22nd anniversary of SpaceX's founding, was the rocket’s third and most ambitious such test, according to the company. The event was closely watched because the nearly 400-foot-tall booster, known as Starship, is expected to play an important part in NASA’s return-to-the-moon program.
The rocket lifted off at 9:25 a.m. ET from SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas. On this outing, SpaceX achieved two major milestones over previous Starship tests: The spacecraft successfully reached orbit, then re-entered Earth’s atmosphere for the first time more than 40 minutes later.
“This is the furthest and fastest that Starship has ever flown,” SpaceX officials said during their live broadcast of the event.
However, data suggests the spacecraft was lost while it returned to Earth, before it reached the splashdown in the Indian Ocean that SpaceX had hoped for.
After Thursday's test flight concluded, the Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating a “mishap” involving the Starship vehicle and the rocket’s first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy.
“No public injuries or public property damage have been reported,” the agency said in a statement. “The FAA is overseeing the SpaceX-led mishap investigation to ensure the company complies with its FAA-approved mishap investigation plan and other regulatory requirements.”
The FAA will need to conclude its investigation and SpaceX will be required to take any corrective actions identified by the agency before Starship can fly again.
Despite the undesired ending, SpaceX called it a “phenomenal day.”
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) To 3/14/2024 ( Today , Thursday ) is 17420 days
17420 = 8710 + 8710
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/7/1989 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Remarks to the Crew of United Air Lines Flight 232 ) is 8710 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-report-denies-ufos-aliens-160005185.html
Yahoo! News
Pentagon report denies UFOs are aliens. Experts accuse the government of misrepresenting the truth
Rae Hodge
Thu, March 14, 2024
by me, Kerry Burgess: August 17, 2023
Is it not TRUE that Ryan Graves is just a crybaby who could not handle the stress of being a US Navy aviator?
Is that not what his superior officer's thought about him?
He could not handle the stress so now he's crying about it and creating a *false crisis* BECAUSE of it?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:12 PM Pacific-time USA Thursday 03/14/2024
