Since there is speculation out there about what the special counsel is doing (or really doing) regarding Trump, I decided to go back and look at what has been going on in Trump's lawsuit over the MAL raid.

The filings in that case are here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64911367/trump-v-united-states/

Here are the relevant happenings, as far as I can tell. Some of it is kind of funny, actually:

8/22/22 - Trump files legal complaint regarding MAL raid to have a court order requiring (a) a special master be appointed to oversee of the procedure and handling of the items taken, (b) prevent the feds from looking at anything until a special master is appointed, require the feds to give a detailed receipt of what was actually taken, and (d) require the feds to return all items that were not listed in the search warrant.

8/26/22 - Trump's lawyer files summons against federal government (informing them they have been sued, and must respond within 21 days).

8/26/22 - Interesting twist! Someone named Raj Patel filed a Motion to Intervene in the case. This is a 3rd party (neither the Plaintiff nor the Defendant) who wants to join in the case. If you are suing your neighbor because their dog is barking all the time, I could potentially intervene as another neighbor and join the case, too. I am not a party to the original case, but I want to join in because I agree with you, and want the dog barking stopped, too. Here, Patel is claiming that he plans to run for President, and has a legal right to be a part of this case, because any ruling regarding "presidential records" might eventually affect him, too. Of course, it is a "motion," which means asking the judge "permission" to let him into the case. Fat chance, right? Right.

8/27/22 - Judge issues a notice of intent to grant Trump's request to appoint a special master, but sets a hearing for 9/1/22 where both parties can argue their position on the issue; also, Defendant (feds) must file a Response to Trump's motion by 8/30/22, as well as a detailed list if items seized, and an explanation about what has already been looked at of the seized material; these documents will be sealed; then, Plaintiff has to file a Response to that by 8/31/22. (8/30 - feds have to respond to Trump's Complaint, and provided info on what they took and what they looked at; 8/31 - Trump responds to what they say on 8/30; 9/1 - Both parties to be at hearing about the matter on 9/1).

8/27/22 - Judge denies Raj Pate's Motion to Intervene.

8/30/22 - Raj Patel is not giving up. Files a motion to get the judge to change her mind about letting him get involved in this case.

8/30/22 - DOJ provides list of items taken. Some are personal items, some are documents with "CLASSIFIED," "SECRET," and "TOP SECRET" markings. DOJ claims that these are being evaluated by intel agencies and cannot be further disclosed at this time.

8/30/22 - More people join the party. Several people file an Amici Curiae ("friend of the court"), which is a notice to the court they they want to join in because they have some sort of interest. These people are trying to stop Trump from getting a special master appointed. They are not trying to be parties, but basically trying to "help" the DOJ by giving their own legal opinion as to why the judge should rule against Trump. These people are: Donald Ayer, Gregory Brower, John Farmer Jr., Stuart Gerson, Peter Keisler, William Weld, and Christine Todd Whitman. If you want a list of people who are anti-MAGA, this would be a good place to start. Whitman was a RINO governor of New Jersey, has "served" in GOP administrations, and endorsed Biden over Trump. Showing her true ugly colors here.

8/30/22 - DOJ files their Response, that the judge required, explaining why they think a special master should not be appointed to oversee the items taken from MAL.

8/31/22 - Several "media" companies file a Motion to Intervene, for the purpose of getting access to those seized documents. This includes ABC, CBS, NBC, Associated Press, and others.

8/31/22 - Trump's legal team file their Reply to the DOJ's Response, also required by the judge, giving their side, and saying why the DOJ's claim that a special master should not be appointed is legally wrong.

8/31/22 - Raj Patel also files a Reply to DOJ's Response. He also wants a special master appointed. He also wants to be the one to decide who the special master is. ;-) He does have some interesting ideas and case law in his briefs, but his writing is terrible, and he will not be taken seriously due to how corrupt the system is -- judges and "licensed attorneys" hate anyone getting into the courts without their permission and following their made-up rules, even though we all have a right to access the courts directly, without their permission. Anyhoo ...

9/2/22 - An entry in the case file says that the court held a hearing on 9/1/22 for the parties (does not say whether Raj Patel was invited -- lol) to present their positions in the case to appoint a special master, etc.

9/2/22 - LOL! Get this -- Someone not part of the case sent a letter to the judge, and filed it in the case file, making it an official document of the case. O'Rane M. Cornish, Sr., "A distressed U.S. Citizen," wrote a letter to the judge stating they were "offended and repulsed" that Yahoo News ran an article, in which is referred to Trump as "President Trump" and not "Movant Trump." He/she/it also says, "see what happened on January 6th?" as a reason to not use the word "President" when referring to Trump. Wants the judge to order the attorneys in the case to stop calling him "President Trump." LOL. Can't make this stuff up!

9/5/22 - Judge orders a special master to be appointed to oversee the review of the items taken from MAL, that are (a) personal items and documents, and (b) items that fall under attorney-client privilege; also says the DOJ cannot use the items for investigative purposes, until after the special master's job is completed; however, judge allows intel agencies to review any classified materials; both parties have to get together and agree to who the special master will be, and file that decision with the court by 9/9/22.

9/6/22 - Judge issues orders to deny Amici Curiae requests, and also Raj Patel's request.

9/6/22 - LOL. Several people file letters with the judge, wanting to be the special master (I think they are all random people). Was it any of you frogs?

9/8/22 - DOJ files an appeal of the judge's order, but also wants to be able to proceed to "investigate" the items, while the appeal is pending.

9/9/22 - Until now, the list of items seized was under seal. Now, the DOJ wants it to be unsealed, so the media can look at it. Uh huh. So, this is how the list of items seized became public knowledge -- DOJ wanted to get it to the media, due to "SECRET" and "TOP SECRET" markings on some documents.

9/9/22 - Both parties provide their list of candidates for special master.

9/9/22 - Everything on hold, pending appeal to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, regarding judge's order to appoint special master.

9/12/22 - Trump files an opposition to DOJ wanting to be able to continue to use the items seized in their "investigation," since that was not the judge's order.

9/12/22 - DOJ files notice to judge that it wants 1 of 3 people to be the special master. Each side had listed 2 candidates, 4 total, and DOJ wants one of Trump's candidates to be out.

9/12/22 - He's baaaaack. Raj Patel files another document, basically saying the court should side with Trump, and order that the DOJ cannot prosecute him.

9/15/22 - Judge issues order to DENY the DOJ's request to allow them to continue investigating, at least for now.

9/15/22 - Judge appoints Raymond Dearie, as Special Master. This is one of the candidates proposed by Trump. Special Master is to: review all items seized from MAL, determine if the list of items provided by the DOJ is full and accurate, (is DOJ hiding anything), reviewing "privileged" information, and identifying personal items.

9/16/22 - News "media" files notice that they want in on this whole thing.

9/16/22 - Special Master Raymond Dearie serves notice to parties to get this thing started.

9/16/22 - Raj Patel files another document, which is very interesting, as it is loaded with case law. Just a shame it is also loaded with some really weird stuff, which will give the judge a reason to dismiss it, and ignore the case law. He wants the whole case to be dismissed, and says that Trump cannot be prosecuted because he was the Executive, and his documents are his to classify or not, and the current AG cannot prosecute him for having those documents.

9/19/22 - HOLY SH*T. Joseph Lednardi, a 3rd party, files an "EMERGENCY MOTION" to put all government employees on notice that they must follow the law. It is 184 pages, and I don't have time to read it all. But skimming through, he cites the United Nations, Nuremberg, Human Trafficking, Crimes Against Humanity, Rape, Torture, Murder, the whole kitchen sink, basically. Might be interesting to read, if you have time. The judge will ignore it, because courts are corrupt and they don't want to look at this type of stuff.

9/19/22 - LOL. Steve Colon, a 3rd part, sends a letter to the judge, in response to the person who was "offended" by people calling Trump the "President." This guy says that Trump won the 2020 election, and he is still the President, so calling him President Trump is correct. Lots of stuff going on in this case!

9/20/22 - Judge issues order to clarify how the seized materials should be handled -- they are under seal.

9/22/22 - Appeals court has issued an order that the district court must allow the DOJ to use any CLASSIFIED documents in their investigation, but everything else cannot be used in an investigation, at least while this case is ongoing. At this point, Trump has mostly got what he wanted: A special master has been appointed, personal items will be returned, attorney-client privileged material will be reviewed to see if it can or cannot be used in an investigation, but documents that have a classified marking on them can be used by DOJ, without special master review.

10/3/22 - While special master stuff is happening, and various legal documents going back and forth, Raj Patel tries again by filing another document to get the case dismissed. He brings up some very interesting case law, which the judge completely ignores. But then, he is not a party to the case, so it is up to the judge as to whether or not to pay attention. If Patel was a party to the case, and the judge ignored his pleadings, it would be a violation of oath of office by the judge. Here, he can only make requests, which the judge consistently ignores.

10/4/22 - Judge grants media's motion to intervene, for the purpose of accessing court records in this case. Notice, when a "licensed attorney" for the media files a Motion to Intervene, it is taken seriously by the judge. When a 3rd party "non-licensed attorney" also intervenes, and does so in a way that would threaten the legitimacy of the court's jurisdiction, the judge just ignores without explanation. I will say, however, that it is possible that Raj Patel is not following procedure. If a motion is filed, then a hearing MUST be scheduled. If he did not do that, and there is no indication that he did, then the simple filing of the document means nothing. I am guessing he does not know that.

10/20/22 - For the past few weeks, the special master and both parties have been going back and forth about the seized items. Trump is claiming Executive Privilege (ironically, the same thing Raj Patel is claiming), and DOJ is claiming they are not subject to Executive Privilege; with some documents, Trump is claiming they are Presidential documents, and DOJ claiming personal documents.

NOTE: On 10/21/22, the fake January 6 Committee in Congress issued a subpoena to Trump. Was this their attempt to get at those documents in another way, or to make them public when they were under seal?

10/27/22 - Raj Patel tries again. Now, he wants a jury trial for this whole thing.

11/3/22 - Raj Patel again. It would be interesting if he really was a party to this case, what might happen.

11/7/22 - Trump and DOJ are in dispute on some documents, with Trump claiming Executive Privilege, and DOJ saying otherwise. Special master will check with National Archive on guidance.

As of today, 11/19/22, the parties are going back and forth, via special master, to determine which documents/items are Executive Privilege and which are not.

11/18/22 - AG Garland appoints a special counsel. Garland claimed it was to investigate whether anyone violated the law to interfere with the "lawful transfer of power," following the 2020 election, or the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. He also said his reason for doing it was that BOTH Trump and Biden would be running for office.

Seems like this move has NOTHING to do with the case Trump has regarding the MAL raid, or even classified materials.

The only real violation of law regarding the Electoral College vote and the transfer of power was the election fraud of 2020, and the unconstitutional certification of the Electoral College vote.

Looks like they want to make people think, or generate some rationale, to claim that those classified documents that are NOT within the scope of the special master in the MAL case, somehow show that Trump tried to stop the election fraud from resulting in a coup to overthrow the duly-elected president.