The, FBI raids former President Donald Trump’s home, and it was a worldwide shocker and there are going to be political consequences for this, and you have to wonder: Who made that decision?
The White House denies any prior knowledge of FBI's Mar-A-Lago Raid. They want the world to believe Merritt Garland made a decision to raid a former President's home without informing the White House? Okay, let's see a show of hand of who and how many actually believe that? The first thing I thought of when I saw this was Obama's evaluation of Joe Biden: "Never underestimate Joe's ability to screw things up".
And the reason for this raid?
The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on the scene while agents were at the resort. “They’re looking for presidential records, what they deemed to be presidential records, and anything that could potentially be classified,” Christina Bobb, the lawyer, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 9.“We had been very cooperative with them before. And it’s unclear to me why they went to such drastic measures to do this. But they did. And as far as the probable cause goes, they wouldn’t give that to us,” she added.
Agents initially resisted showing Bobb the warrant but ultimately did. But the agents would not allow any representatives of the former president to oversee the search, Bobb said. The justification for the search also remains under seal. Trump’s legal team plans on asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal the search warrant affidavit, which would outline why authorities asked for the warrant.
“We don’t know what the probable cause is. I don’t think there is a good cause to do such a drastic thing. But they did,” Bobb said.
The legality, or at least the ethic of this, has already been questioned:
Especially, since Trump was already cooperating with National Archives, so why the dramatic, unprecedented raid? The motive was political! This was a spin for the midterm elections and a souped up lying Democrat narrative supported by criminals, i.e, a Soviet style Department of Justice and a weaponized FBI in search of a crime.
"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime."
They broke into Trump's safe which was empty, which may have been illegal, since it seems no one was told what were the parameters of the warrant's search, and the DOJ is refusing to share that information publicly. While this raid was unique, this isn't the first search done by the FBI which demonstrates this is nothing more than an illegal fishing expedition:
An anonymous source told the Washington Post that a variety of different items were taken from the Trump residence in Mar-a-Lago, claiming that the list of unclassified items that were taken is roughly 100 pages long. The Washington Post noted that “items that were improperly taken to Mar-a-Lago include a cocktail napkin, a phone list, charts, slide decks, letters, memos, maps, talking points, a birthday dinner menu, schedules and more.”
The real reason?
Russia Hoaxer Spills the Beans, Reveals What the FBI Raid Is Really All About ........As our friend Mollie Hemingway noted, "the guy who
created the Russia collusion hoax in 2016 and orchestrated the
widespread, coordinated campaign to change election laws and processes
in 2020 admits this is about the regime rigging yet another election."
- Marc Elias boasts about the real motive behind the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid August 9, 2022 Instead, he boasts about it.
The political fallout has been intense:
- Hawley: Attorney General Merrick Garland ‘Must Resign’ After Raid on Trump’s Home
- Youngkin: This raid on Trump reminds me of DoJ's attempts to criminalize parental objections; Update: Garland must explain this, says Pence
- House GOP rallies to Trump after Mar-a-Lago search, vows to probe FBI in 2023
- McCarthy vows probe over DOJ Mar-a-Lago raid
- McCarthy calls for investigation into Garland following FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago
- …McCarthy Promises Merrick Garland Investigation: ‘Preserve Your Documents and Clear Your Calendar’…
- Kevin McCarthy vows to retaliate, probe DOJ over Trump raid: ‘Preserve your documents
- Banana Republic': Ron DeSantis slams FBI Mar-a-Lago raid
- Sabatini Calls on Florida Legislature to ‘Sever All Ties with DOJ Immediately
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn Blasts FBI for Raiding Trump but Not Obama, Clinton
- Rep. Elise Stefanik Calls for ‘Immediate Investigation’ into FBI Raid of Trump
- GOP’s Tom Emmer Warns of IRS Weaponization After Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Rubio on FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid: ‘This is What Happens in Places Like Nicaragua … They’re Playing With Fire’
- Exclusive — Ambassador Ken Blackwell: Biden is Turning America ‘into a Police State’
- Kristi Noem: FBI Raid a ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ
- Gingrich: If They Can Do This to a Former President, 'What Can They Do to You?'
- 'Intolerable': Republicans Promise Investigation of FBI Raid at Mar-A-Lago
- RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Calls ‘Outrageous’ FBI Raid on Mar-A-Lago ‘Abuse of Power’
- FBI Raid of Trump's Home Unleashes Political Firestorm
- Never Trumper Walsh: FBI Raid ‘Pissed Off’ Moderate Republicans into Backing Trump
- FBI's Raid on Mar-a-Lago the Biggest In-Kind Contribution to Trump's 2024 Bid?
Double Standard
Over the years the FBI never raided the Bidens, Clintons, Russia Hoaxers or Black Lives Matter, all of whom have a history of lies and corruption. When the Clintons left the White House they took with them "over $190K worth of furniture, china, flatware, art, and other gifts." When Sandy Berger got stealing classified intelligence he was fined fifty thousand dollars, and the Clintons acted like it was big joke. The FBI has ignored the pro-abortion violence "by pro-choice extremists vandalizing and harassing pro-life groups"...........“The FBI isn’t doing anything about the groups vandalizing Catholic Churches, firebombing Pro-Life groups or threatening Supreme Court justices But they find time to raid Mar A Lago.”
Epilogue
There
a some things that should be obvious to the most casual observer, and
it's plainly obvious the nation is being run by weird, incompetent,
treasonous mobsters who hate America. The left has infested and slowly
corrupted all of the nations institutional structures, including the
media, entertainment at every level, commerce, education, the churches
and government, and it's been going on for over 125 years, and those who
have pointed it out for decades have been dismissed as "conspiracy
theorists". Well, since everything they've been saying is coming true,
they've run out of "conspiracies", and we're now dealing with the
reality of those warnings. Truth and time are on the same side, and
now we've reached the apex of reality, and that reality is unpleasant.
It's a Time for Choosing: The Regime or America Ben Weingarten, Newsweek - It wasn't enough for The Regime to concoct claims of treasonous Russian collusion to spy on his campaign, and then use the subsequent "investigations" to divert and destabilize his administration while covering up its misdeeds.It wasn't enough for The Regime to execute two farcical impeachments and sabotage his every act in open insubordination and contempt—effectively forestalling a peaceful transfer of power, and depriving Americans of a full four years from which we would have all more richly benefited. It wasn't enough for The Regime to do everything in its power to "fortify" the 2020 election against him, just as it wouldn't be enough for The Regime to disqualify him from the 2024 ballot—in defense of "democracy," of course—under the fraudulent pretext of an "insurrection."........
On August 8, 2022 Adam Mill asks: How Do We Get Rid of the FBI?, saying:He goes on to describe things that could limit their scope of activity....it's not going to happen. One of My 200 Rules is, "There's nothing like a good firing to get everyone's head on straight." If you fire the ones who deserve to be fired, and a lot of them, the problem will largely be self regulating. People are like nations, they will act in their own best interests.
But as for now, they're out of control, and this has come up at times,
Bernard Kerik says he’s ‘deathly afraid’ Dems may try to assassinate Trump after FBI raid. If this is a potential, and given how many people around the Clintons have died, it could very well be. The FBI is now totally radicalized, and in it's current state, if this were to unfold, would the FBI do anything to stop it?
Raid on Mar-A-Lago, Part II
- J6, 87,000 IRS Agents, and Mar-a-Lago Raid are All Connected
- Exclusive — John Solomon: Whistleblower Said FBI Office Behind Mar-a-Lago Raid Has a Political Manipulation Problem
- The Mar-a-Lago Raid is a Preview of a Rigged 2024 Election
- The Democrats will prosecute their way to victory.
- Gingrich: Mar-a-Lago Raid ‘Desperation of a National Machine’ on the Edge of Being Defeated, Eliminated
And if we're to believe the White House and the Department of Justice, no one authorized all this! Imagine that!
What Are Their Goals?
It's clear this is nothing more than a tyrannical tactic of intimidation in a effort to stop Trump from running in 2024, making sure all their little myrmidons keep playing ball. But their long range goal is to crush those who believe in traditional American and Judaic/Christian values that created America, all of which they hate. But this is backfiring on them, big time. These are weird and arrogant people who self-righteously believe anyone who disagrees with them are vile and they should be allowed to do everything in their power to destroy those who oppose them.
Well what do you know, it turns out that's the America people: Trump-Backed Candidates Sweep Board Day After FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago.
- Report: FBI Agents Refused to Show Trump Lawyer the Search Warrant For Mar-a-Lago Raid; Kicked Her Out of the House
- Report: At Least Three DOJ Attorneys for Merrick Garland Joined FBI During 9 Hour Raid of Trump Mar-a-Lago Compound — While Blocking Trump Attorneys from Building
Allegedly the FBI's actions that led to Mar-A-Lago was they had information about where all these "classified" documents were being stored. So, if they knew where these alleged document were being stored, what were 30 heavily armed agents doing there for nine hours? Planting evidence? It isn't like they've not done it in the past as Jessie Waters noted:
"This isn’t like, 'Oh, well, you know, let’s just see what’s in the warrant.' They have been doing this. This is the third election. This is the third election. We know they doctor evidence. We know they plant evidence. We know they hide evidence. We know they lie. We know they leak. This is not anything new,...
Lyndsay Graham:
If this was all legal and above board, why did they refuse to show the warrant? Why keep anyone out who had the right to object to what they were doing and had all the security cameras shut off to prevent anyone from even knowing what they were doing?
A Search Warrant and Double Standards - The Biden administration and their friends on the January 6th inquisition committee are doing everything in their power, including weaponizing federal law enforcement institutions, to take down Mr. Trump and prevent him from running for president again. They are following the playbook of Joseph Stalin’s head of the Soviet Union’s secret police, who said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
Comparing
this to the Soviet Union, or even Putin's Russia, really? They can't be
serious can they? Well, yes they can, and deadly serious. You might
wish to confirm that with this Foreign Affairs piece, Putin’s New Police State:
As the FSB
spearheads a transformed, increasingly paranoid, and heavily
securitized state bureaucracy, the shift has profound implications for
the nature of Putin’s rule. In contrast to the largely
surveillance-oriented agency of previous years, the FSB has become a far
more expansive arm of an increasingly ruthless state. In its sweeping
reach into domestic society, foreign affairs, and the military, the FSB
has begun to look less like its late-Soviet predecessor,
the KGB. It now resembles something much scarier: the NKVD, Stalin’s
notorious secret police, which conducted the great purges of the 1930s
and maintained an iron lock on Russian society into the early years of
the Cold War.
Raid on Mar-A-Lago, Part III
By Rich Kozlovich
Since I started this series I've had some interesting feed back, mostly positive, but one long time conservative friend, who I've known, admired and respected for almost 30 years, took an opposing view blaming Trump for all this, which brings me to a series of questions that need to be answered.
- Was this search avoidable? Yes,
"Trump
should've adhered to the proper retention policies", but I'm coming back to that.
- Was there classified material in those boxes? No, the President has the authority to declassify anything he wishes and any material there that was once classified was declassified.
- Was
it really all that sensitive? We don't know as of yet, but I doubt it,
at least in a detrimental way to the nation, and I will address that
also.
- Was
the National Archives really all that concerned about this material? I
think that's nothing but a red herring to justify this raid, and that's
what it was, a raid, which I will discuss later in this piece.
- Some are upset the "good folks" at the DOJ & FBI are being maligned improperly. No, they're not being maligned improperly, and we're going to explore just how good these fine folks are.
- After searching his home for nine hours they found what? Nothing!
- Has the GOP lost it's way? No, they just found it.
Personally, I didn't, and still don't understand, why he kept that material. Is there more to this than is being exposed? Was he saving documents that had information involving Spygate documents implicating the FBI in wrongdoing?
As reported earlier today — President Trump declassified a binder on January 19th, 2021 that contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. It contains damaging information about the corrupt actors involved with our government. Two different DOJ Attorney General’s have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the binder in the Federal Register. It’s been 19 months as the DOJ defies the order, and every FOIA request to make it public. Can we now raid the homes of acting AG Monty Wilkinson, and Merrick Garland?
If that's true, and I'm betting it is, then if these documents were outlining the corruption of the DOJ and the FBI on this and the SpyGate scandal went to the National Archives does anyone believe they would have survived? The DOJ and the FBI have staged an amazing magic act over the years that involved disappearing information, and Hillary Clinton was part of that.
The FBI Raided Trump Because He’s A Threat To The Deep State - The intelligence apparatus is targeting Donald Trump in an attempt to disqualify him from running for president in 2024..........On July 28 in Compact Mag, Michael Anton, a former National Security Council staffer in the Trump administration, said, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.”
We need to explore all this, and it's clear, far more transparency is needed because nothing is ever as it seems, ever. So let's get started!
The good and fine people at the DOJ and the FBI.
Perhaps they're talking about Vanita Gupta, the associate Attorney General, who has some seriously radical views, such as Americans are all racists, along with every American institution. When she was asked, “Do you believe all Americans are racist?” she replied, under oath, “Yes, I do.” Her view is:
“the rule of law,” and “equal justice for all,” and “equal protection” aren’t the great bulwarks for our liberty, aren’t the signal achievements of our republic and our constitutional form of government, but instead “code words,” code words—that’s what she called them—for some kind of twisted racism. Anyone who thinks that “the rule of law” or “equal justice for all” or “equal protection” are simply “code words” for racism is unfit for any position in our government, but especially a position of leadership in the Department of Justice.............She accused four different jurists currently on the Supreme Court—currently on the Supreme Court—of being liars, extremists, “dangerous,” or “opposed to civil and human rights.”
Or how about Attorney Merritt Garland, whose DOJ is the real threat to the Republic, not the parents at school board meetings. Garland claimed he didn't know about this raid and now admits he authorized it? And there's just a bit of history of bad actors at both the FBI and the DOJ involving what could only be considered crimes involving Donald Trump.
FBI, R.I.P.? by Victor Davis Hanson - The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law.
- Victor Hanson: 'We Don't Have Rule of Law in Washington ...
- FBI is Beyond Redemption'For the Rule of Law to Reign, the Bureau Must Be Destroyed
- There's Andrew McCabe who repeatedly lied under oath, and the DOJ dropped the charges against him.
- Then there's the corruption behind efforts to destroy General Flynn to get at Trump by the FBI.
- FBI Lawyer Says He Briefed McCabe, Comey on Sketchy Trump–Russia Claims
"Then
came Lois Lerner. The IRS violated rights protected by the First Amendment when the agency targeted Obama’s political opponents. Then
Lois Lerner and the IRS destroyed computers,
withheld documents, and lied to Congress about the whole debacle. The
DOJ did send someone to investigate, but conveniently for them, it
happened to be a big-time Obama donor. Do you remember what happened next?" Nothing happened!
"Eric Holder has repeatedly lied under oath with impunity, and was never prosecuted." Was James Comey one of those "good and fine" people at the FBI? How about Lisa Page, Peter Strozk, and the blatantly illegal election meddling from The FBI/DOJ during The 2016 election? How about the DOJ's history of double standards, and the lessons from Ruby Ridge?
- Breaking: Whistleblower Reveals Former Notorious FBI Official Jill Sanborn Led Campaign to Pad Domestic Terrorism Data – The Same Agent Who Denied Knowledge of Ray Epps
- FBI harasses a Republican congressman, and what will the GOP do? August 11, 2022 If an FBI agent dared to seize the phone of a Democrat, the entire Democrat caucus would be on the steps of the Capitol denouncing this expression of fascism in America. More
And that's the tip of the iceberg about these "good and fine" people at the DOJ and the FBI. Outside Washington there are good and fine people at both the DOJ and the FBI, but they're not in Washington, they're not in charge, they don't have a say in policy, and that doesn't change the need to condemn both the DOJ and the FBI for their illegal and/or unethical action.
The FBI's malicious deeds at Mar-a-Lago. The FBI executed a surprise search warrant on August 8th at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago when more than thirty FBI agents, some armed, descended on the home of the former president and potential presidential candidate in 2024. The raid was an unprecedented display of abuse of power in the United States, which is supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a third world autocracy. The dubious pretext for the day-long search, which included breaking into Mr. Trump’s safe and searching Melania Trump’s closet, was to look for classified documents that Mr. Trump allegedly had taken with him after leaving office. More likely, as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote, the search was all about gathering evidence to build a criminal case against Mr. Trump in connection with the January 6th Capitol riot.
- Joe Biden’s FBI Raid Crossed the Rubicon
- FBI’s Trump Raid Reinforces Deep-State G-Men as the Bad Guys Deep State Infighting: DOJ Fingers FBI for Mar-a-Lago Raid Disaster
On August 8, 2022, the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's Florida residence. Such an act against any president, past or present, has never been done before. The FBI served their warrant, searched the Trump family home, and even pried his safe open. They found...nothing. Not even Ashley Biden's lost diary.
What was Donald Trump's supposed crime that justified such an extreme measure?
- Bribery? Nope, that's a Biden thing.
- Treason? Nope.
- Assault (perhaps on a Secret Service agent)? Nope.
- Espionage? Nope, that's a Swalwell thing.
- Cutting the tags off pillows? Nope.
The Clinton administration provides a good point of comparison. Bill Clinton's former national security adviser, Sandy Berger, smuggled documents out of the National Archives in his pants and then destroyed them. It is believed that the documents would have embarrassed President Clinton during the 9/11 investigation. Was Berger's home searched? Nope. Did he go to jail? Nope, he was sentenced to...community service. Does anybody think Merrick Garland has community service in mind for Donald Trump?.............In other words, there was no rational reason to execute a search warrant on Trump's home. This also means that the FBI most certainly lied on the affidavit for the warrant — as they have a history of doing. Kevin Clinesmith has forever tainted the FBI's credibility on such matters...................
Then there's that Joe Biden Senate papers which are still hidden from the public. 1,875 boxes of them including "415 gigabytes of electronic records spanning Biden’s time in the Senate between 1973 through 2009. The documents include “committee reports, drafts of legislation,” and Biden’s personal correspondences with his Senate colleagues." Biden also said the documents include “a lot of confidential conversations”..........and I'm betting as time goes by we'll find this is a pattern with others who've not been raided. .
- Did the FBI jump the tarantula? This insidious, freedom-crushing engine never works against the Clintons, the Obamas, Comey, Clapper, Wray, Garland, Waters and the rest of the people who purport to believe in “democracy.” But the engine does seek out the meek, those who want peace, individual liberty, and a vibrant and prosperous hands-off free-market. Never one to stop making things worse, the collective Left scrupulously avoids the real troublemakers and targets political enemies like Christians, conservatives, and libertarians — desire for freedom is the greatest sin to the domineering Democrats.
Finally:
You’ve Got to Be Kidding: These Are the Items That Led to the FBI Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago by Matt Vespa - Gobble the red pill. Pull your head out of your Pelosi and understand. Our Republic is under attack. The norms are gone. The people you want to give the benefit of the doubt to want to give you and your base the benefit of a gulag. How many times does Trump-appointee Christopher Wray have to mock you and laugh at you as he lies through his teeth to you in your oversight committee sessions before you get it?
These are bad people. There are no good apples – name one FBI agent who quit rather than suit up to SWAT-raid the current president’s political opponent. Stop embracing the comforting lie that everything is fine and that these Deep State dwellers deserve our trust and respect.
They deserve nothing but contempt and disbandment, and take notice you GOP soft-boy saps – if you don’t have the stones to loot, pillage, and level the organizations that have taken the lead in oppressing your base, then we will elect people who do.
I will be following this intermittently and will publish whatever arises out of all of this, either way. Truth and time are on the same side, but make no mistake about it. This has been about one goal and one goal only. Prevent Trump from being elected in 2024 and destroying the corrupt Deep State.Raid on Mar-A-Lago, Part IV
By Rich Kozlovich
This is foundational: The patterns of life repeat over and over again, and history is everything.
How quickly, and easily, people can be cowed into submission when foundational values are abandoned. How easily it has been for the evil of the world to make it happen. The elite of both parties hold values that are antithetical to the traditional values of America. The Republican elite not only abandoned Donald Trump, they actively work against him, and tomorrow they'll just as easily abandon the Constitution.
Have no doubt America is facing a dark, dismal and frightening crisis, and I fear where this all may be taking not just this nation, but the world. When people believe in nothing, they can be made to do anything.
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit
of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to
get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to
coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man
to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would
blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
People are afraid, and with good reason, as this piece Arizona Should Not Facilitate The FBI’s Reckless Political Prosecutions by
Today every Republican finds themselves asking a new question: “If I speak out will the FBI come for me next?” Last week, the LD3 Republican Committee heard a “Resolution to censure the FBI as the Arm of the Leftist Police State in Maricopa County.” The fear in the room was palpable, for nobody knows any longer where the First Amendment ends and “sedition” begins.
And there's reason to be concerned on how out of control these agents have become. The computer repair guy who turned in Hunter Biden's laptop with all that incriminating information was threatened by a federal agent.
The repairman, who had volunteered to hand the laptop over to the feds two months earlier, said the alleged threat came after he made a joke, telling them: “Hey, lads, I’ll remember to change your names when I write the book.” “Agent Wilson kept walking but Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me,” ........ “It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”...........
Matt Vespa says the FBI's raid on Trump's home is beyond laughable saying:
The Russian collusion hoax was a damaging, politically biased investigation aimed to hamstring the Trump presidency from governing efficiently. It was a total circus that did lasting damage to Trump and the credibility of the media and the Department of Justice. It showed the lengths these supposedly apolitical and professional government workers would go to sabotage a presidency because they didn’t like an election result. The ‘Deep State’ is real—it’s still a threat. As the 2024 election becomes visible on the horizon, these same diabolical agents who do the dirty work for their allies in the Democratic Party have fired warning shots by executing a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This ransacking of the residence was done to threaten the former president not to run for the White House again.
Actually, it's not just beyond laughable, it's probably criminal as it turns:
Feds Who Raided Mar-a-Lago Are Under Investigation by John Durham... for Russiagate Hoax -. There seem to be only three possibilities. Either the report is wrong, the FBI is stupid, or the Deep State is so comfortable with their power they don't care what the people think. With every layer of the FBI corruption that gets peeled back, the whole thing smells worse and worse. The latest report reveals that those who raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home should have been recused because of connections to and an investigation regarding past malfeasance.
According to investigative journalist Paul Sperry:
"Sources say the FBI agents and officials who were involved in the raid on former President Trump's home work in the same Counter Intelligence Division of the FBI that investigated Trump in the Russiagate hoax and are actively under criminal investigation by Special Counsel John Durham for potentially abusing their power investigating Trump in the Russian fraud and therefore have a potential conflict of interest and should have been RECUSED from participating in this supposed "espionage" investigation at Mar-a-Lago."
It's a long sentence, so let's break it down. According to Sperry's sources, some or all of those who raided Mar-a-Lago were also involved in the Russiagate scandal. They are currently under investigation by John Durham for possible crimes.
There will be more on the long term consequences of this prosecutorial misconduct and the deep state corruption in Part V tomorrow, in the meantime it appears the Republicans are looking at the polls and reading the tea leaves, all of which generate an epiphany that America doesn't like this, and doesn't like Republican legislators who aren't speaking out. So, now Sen. Chuck Grassley is demanding answers from FBI Director Wray, which should be interesting as Director Wray is taking a page right out of the Hillary playbook on how not to get elected and offend almost everyone, and calling American patriots ‘deplorable’. Imagine that!Raid on Mar-A-Lago, Part V
By Rich Kozlovich
"Let’s start with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In other words, everything. Every drawer, every bookshelf, between mattresses, inside underwear drawers, and so on. Was the objective to retrieve official records or to intimidate and humiliate the former president by desecrating every private corner of his personal home?
Third question: Did the FBI really exhaust all of the less-intrusive alternatives?
Trump willingly cooperated with investigators to ensure mutual agreement on a process for securing the records during negotiations over the materials that should be returned to the National Archives.......Nothing in the search warrant or property receipt indicates that the FBI found the records in any location other than the dedicated basement room to which the FBI had already been given access. Did the warrant affidavit claim the records were in imminent danger of being destroyed or shared with foreign adversaries? We don’t know because the FBI is predictably keeping its justifications secret.
Fourth question: What did the FBI take and where did it find it?
Although the FBI had exclusive access to Mar-a-Lago from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., it apparently scooped up documents indiscriminately without bothering to ascertain whether the records were the target of the search. The receipt of property contains 39 separate entries. With 30 agents working for over 9 hours, there should have been more than enough time and manpower to describe in particular detail what it needed to seize, and to leave behind materials not relevant to the search. What we hoped to see is a detailed description of documents gathered demonstrating that the FBI had reasonably calculated those to be the records sought.
This is disturbing since they can claim they found evidence of wrongdoing that really wasn't there, since it appears whatever was taken wasn't documented before they left the house. In short, there could be planted evidence after the fact.
Fifth question: Why would the Justice Department seek all records from the Trump presidency in Mar-a-Lago Raid?
The warrant confirms recent reports that federal authorities were searching Trump’s residence for boxes of White House documents Trump may have brought with him from the White House. The warrant also authorized the FBI agents to seize “information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material.” However, it also appears the search warrant contained a catch-all provision that allowed federal authorities to seize any documents found from the Trump White House. The search warrant authorized FBI agents to seize “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021.”
“The demeanor of the three Justice Department lawyers who accompanied the FBI was described by one eyewitness as ‘arrogant,’ and they repeatedly told Trump representatives: ‘We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere.’”
That's a question and an attitude that I think will come back to haunt them.
Sixth Question: What is their argument for "ransacking" the home of a former President of the United States?
The fallout from the Department of Justice’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home continues as the search warrant was unsealed. ..... The document was an avalanche of nonsense about obstruction of justice, a retread allegation from former attempts to indict Trump, and violations of the Espionage Act... FBI agents were reportedly rummaging for related to classified nuclear secrets. The Justice Department’s crusade against this former president has overreach layered upon overreach, and this raid topped it off.
The National Archives received 15 or so boxes in January containing items like cocktail napkins and dinner menus, which might have been the impetus for this more extensive operation on Monday. Yes, a cocktail napkin might have played a part in this fiasco. .........Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, took an ax to the crux of the legal arguments justifying the raid. And this isn’t some new interpretation; the Supreme Court affirmed it in 1987.
Seventh Question: And while this isn't about the raid, it's a pattern of concern related to the raid. Why did they Rep. Scott Perry: FBI seize Rep. Scott Perry's phone?
Perry described the seizing of his phone by the FBI as “an incredible violation” of his constitutional rights and privacy. “I have an official phone and I have my personal phone,” he stated. “Just to be clear, they seized my personal phone, which unfortunately, and so oftentimes unwittingly, you kind of go back and forth. I talk to my wife and my family almost exclusively on my personal phone. There are texts, emails, photographs of my children playing and growing up, pictures of our pets, and the dog, and all those kind of things on there, but there are also conversations, emails, etcetera, with other legislators and other constituents, and I think that’s a point that needs to be made.”
Eighth Question: Why did they sieze Trump's passports?
The law enforcement agency will have to return the travel documents to Trump, one of the lawyers said. Their comments come after the former Republican president took to social media Aug. 15 to complain that the FBI “stole” his passports during the recent raid. “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” Trump wrote on his @realDonaldTrump page at Truth Social in a post that was time-stamped 1:22 p.m. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!” he added.
The Justice Department then claimed that didn't happen, but again, that backfired on the DOJ, and those passports they didn't steal, they're now returned them. How can you trust anything they say and do, or the spin the media puts on their actions? It is incompetence, corruption or a combination of both?
Ninth Question: How could the DOJ and the FBI become so diminished in the public's confidence?
Let’s put Garland’s decision to approve the raid on Mar-a-Lago in the
context of the past seven years. The Justice Department and FBI in 2016
interfered in a presidential election in two major ways: They exonerated
Hillary Clinton’s clearly illegal use of a private server and her
destruction of subpoenaed data. The FBI hired Clinton operative
Christopher Steele as an informant and gave its “Crossfire Hurricane”
imprimatur to the entire Russian collusion hoax, feeding a 2016 left-wing mantra that Trump was a Russian “asset.”
In this piece Victor Davis Hanson outlines the history of the lies, misdirection, election interference, and double standards of the DOJ and the FBI, and the nation noticed it was happening. How did the Justice Department's credibility drop in eyes of the nation: They "did it the old fashioned way, they earned it."
Tenth Question: If the warrant has been released, why is the "Department of Justice opposing the release of the underlying affidavit justifying its unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago, just days after it agreed to unseal the warrant approving the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida resort."
The DOJ claims:
“Disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would, by contrast, cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation,” the DOJ argued, saying the affidavit contains “highly sensitive” information about witnesses, specific investigative techniques, and information “required by law” to be kept under seal.
Reality is:
“Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything,” Trump said on Truth Social, his social media website, last week when condemning the search. “They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request.” The property to be seized included documents constituting “evidence” of violations of the listed criminal statutes, including “any physical documents with classification markings” along with any boxes containing that information and any other containers stored with those records. The FBI also looked for “any government and/or Presidential Records” from Trump's presidency.
More will come on this since "a host of congressional Republicans have condemned the raid and called on Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and the National Archives to provide answers. Senior members of the Republican Party have also said they believe a double standard was on display with the DOJ’s handling of its investigation into Hunter Biden when compared to the Trump raid. "
- DOJ Begs a Judge to Keep the Details of the Mar-a-Lago Raid Secret
- Republicans Call for Release of Affidavit That Justified FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid
- House Judiciary Republicans Hit DOJ, FBI with Preservation Notices After Trump Raid, Demand ‘Complete Cooperation’
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