Trump’s lawyers handed over one Redweld envelope to the Justice Department in June, weeks after receiving a subpoena demanding any classified records that were still at Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department got a grand jury subpoena in May, demanding any classified materials that were still at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s lawyers turned over some subpoenaed documents in June.

There were 17 documents marked “top secret” in the envelope. This is the highest level of classification.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/09/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-numbers/

That was the June raid.

The FBI recovered 18 classified documents marked “top secret” during its search of Mar-a-Lago in August. This is the highest level of classification.

17(copies)+1?

The article takes a particular care when the documents discovered are 'unique' (new).

This could be a way to mask that it is only 1 unique document.

What could that document be? Highest classification?

#PEAD

#checkmate

#trumpcard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Action_Documents

The Trump card here, hypothetically, is a classified document listing activation for PEADs in the event of the very scenario we face. Where the very situation the document was procured occurs.

In 1973, the Congressional Church Committee, attempted to uncover various unconstitutional acts by the Executive Branch in the wake of The Watergate Scandal. This committee ended up finding copious amounts of evidence that presidents and their agents had routinely violated the Constitution going back to at least the Roosevelt Administration. The conclusions of the Committee were that the President indeed could: “seize property and commodities, seize control of transport and communications, organize and control the means of production, assign military forces abroad, and restrict travel." They also revealed that States of Emergency had been implemented and remained permanent for decades. The Committees findings were largely ignored by the public, as the Ford Administration did their best to thwart their activities, and a bill they eventually passed to terminate national emergencies after six months was completely ineffective and eventually forgotten. In 1977 Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Office of Foreign Assets Control which expanded the Presidents ability to declare National Emergencies and implement unconstitutional policies.

No memoranda that are more recent than 1979 have been found that contain references to PEADs. However, CNN reported in 1991 that the Reagan administration had continued COG planning and revealed plans drafted by then Vice President George H. W. Bush that included a separate line of succession to the presidency conflicting with the Constitution.

Subsequent investigations have revealed that the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have continued COG planning and maintained previous PEADs or developed new ones. The Security Index is also still maintained, now known as "Main Core," and is reported to contain eight million names. Since February 2000 PEADs are retained by FEMA "permanent[ly,]" until "superseded obsolete."

History doesn't repeat, it echoes.

https://time.com/6248089/church-committee-congress-house-republicans-weaponization/

Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) are draft classified executive orders, proclamations, and messages to Congress that are prepared for the President of the United States to exercise or expand powers in anticipation of a range of emergency hypothetical worst-case scenarios, so that they are ready to sign and put into effect the moment one of those scenarios comes to pass. They are defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the "Final drafts of Presidential messages, proposed legislation proclamations, and other formal documents, including DOJ-issued cover sheets addressed to the President, to be issued in event of a Presidentially-declared national emergency."

https://youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k

Y the MCA?

Y=25th Amendment

Y the 25th, in context?