Posted on 08/11/2022 9:11:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Days after the unprecedented raid of Donald Trump’s Florida home, AG Merrick Garland finally decided to address the public on Thursday regarding the matter. Some naively hoped that he’d provide a legitimate justification for the raid, but as expected, that didn’t materialize, mostly because there was no justification.
Instead, Garland danced about while revealing a few noteworthy things. One, we learned that he was the one that ordered the raid, which is not surprising given he’s a partisan who obviously holds a grudge against the former president. Two, the DOJ is asking the judge in the case to unseal the warrant, which may or may not tell us anything depending on whether the affidavit is included. Lastly, the attorney general angrily rebuked those who would dare question the integrity of the FBI, an assertion that drew richly deserved laughter on the right.
But I think we learned something more than what Garland chose to admit.
DoJ’s willingness to unseal the warrant suggests there is not a larger criminal investigation at work here—that this was about the documents.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) August 11, 2022
Ken Dilanian was one of the journalists that Fusion GPS used throughout the Mueller investigation to target Trump. I point that out to say that he is in no way sympathetic to the former president. Instead, his admission likely comes with much sadness, but I think still he’s onto something here.
For days, we have had numerous leaks about what the FBI was after, and all of them have pointed to the seizing of documents under the guise of the Presidential Records Act. That’s in contention with those who had hoped the raid was part of some bigger criminal probe regarding January 6th. Add that to Garland’s willingness to immediately release the warrant without a fight, and it suggests there is no grand plan here to frog march Trump over the possession of classified information.
Besides, as I stated on Tuesday, presidents have total power over classification. While I’m sure Garland would love to nail Trump, proving that he didn’t have the power to declassify and keep the documents he had would be extremely difficult. It would also come across as partisan and petty given that past presidents have had similar disputes and have never been bothered about it, much less had their homes raided.
Then there’s this extension of that theory, which may shed light on the motivation.
Personal theory: They used classified documents as the excuse to search, but were really looking for January 6 related materials. They didn't find them. So they're now pushing back claiming it really was the classified docs all along.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) August 11, 2022
In other words, the resistance libs got played here. They thought they finally had the bad orange man and it looks like Garland’s raid was nothing more than a failed hit under the guise of recovering some documents the National Archives (run by a Biden appointee and likely hack) wanted. Yes, it was meant to embarrass Trump, but it doesn’t look like it did anything to prove some kind of larger criminal conspiracy.
Still, don’t confuse what I’m saying with excuse-making for the FBI and DOJ. The fact that there don’t appear to be criminal charges on the horizon actually makes the government look worse. They abused their power to weaponize federal law enforcement to harass a president over something that was already being handled through the courts in a completely uncalled for and unjustified manner. Garland wanted to stick his finger in Trump’s eye, and he did so, showing how blatantly political his department is.
But the resistance libs thought this was going to be so much more. If I’m right, though, and this was just a show of force with nothing undergirding it, they will once again be left shouting at the sky. Further, they’ve only made Trump stronger.
All hat and no cattle.
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The Comey plan
Holier than thou - suggest guilt is in Classified info that, conveniently, I can’t show you.
Lies
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The people behind the Trump attacks fully know that Trump won’t be convicted of anything, just like they knew he wouldn’t be removed from office after being impeached - twice. This is done to motivate leftist voters and distract everyone from what the other hand is doing. Beware of what is not reported. Let’s not forget August starts with ‘A’, which means it is Afghanistan month. Anything will be reported to avoid mentioning that fluster cuck.
McConnel is still an awful Republican Senator, but thank The Lord he blocked this man-child from being on SCOTUS.
Will obamas multiple homes be raided as he still has 33 million documents?
All hat and no cattle. All show and no rod. All sizzle and no steak. All thunder and no lightning. All bluster and no courage. FBI Raiders exposed themselves as they really are: cowards.
Notice Garland ran away before he could be asked if Biden or any of his cabal were aware of the raid. Would love to see that question asked and answered when he is under oath.
Never.
They’ve come this far if they have to fabricate criminal charges they’ll do it. We’re in unprecedented territory and it’s probably going to get worse, way worse.
They wanted to also take the focus off Biden and Hunter (note they both went on vacation together this week). So using Trump was an easy choice since they’re all harrassing him daily anyway. But this time with police sirens flashing and the media ready to run with the story.....in order to show how ‘serious’ this was.
All you need to do to know how bad this is, is to watch how dems distance themselves from it. They probably figured Garland would have to take one for the team to provide cover for all the others, who can now duck and hide and say the orders came from “above”.
If it had gone according to plan it would have been a very different press conference.
It looks like Merrick ‘The Undertaker “ Garland is taking one for the DOJ team. There is zero clarity on the continuing harassment of President Trump by these Alphabet Agencies. Garland is a political operative/hack who is either “in on it” or has “lost control of it.” Either way he’s incompetent and needs to resign.
As far as that prick Christopher Wray goes, he fits into his own special category of stupid. Plus, his attitude when testifying before Congress was an embarrassment.(As usual)
Well said!
Yeah; I guess we have to give him that one and blocking Obambam from nominating judges to be on the Supreme Court.
He’s still a slimy POS but he has done a couple of good things over the years. He’s no good down deep though and McCarthy is next to worthless as a Uniparty Marxist in my opinion.
We need guys or gals like Rand Paul, Jim Jordon, Matt Gaetz, and MTG in those positions.
Uh huh, yeah, you bet. Protecting the Big Guy as a loyal soldier ought do.
I have a confession, I am rather tired of the whole trump thing, but this fiasco, brings me closer to him....
Because people are now just beginning to realize what Trump has been saying all along: "They're after you, I'm just in the way."
Trump brought into the light just how corrupt our government and media are!! He brought out in the open just how far they will go when WE THE PEOPLE choose a person OUTSIDE of the corruption to govern our country!! I THANK Trump for that AND I thank him for standing in the breech regardless of everything they have thrown at him, I am BEYOND STUNNED to see in the sunlight at what our government has become we would not have known without Trump!! WE ALL have known they were mostly scum HOWEVER to SEE the corruption in EVERY DAMN DEPARTMENT is truly shocking!!! There is NO ONE else on God’s green earth that could have withstood what Trump has NO ONE!!
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