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Why Did the FBI Raid Mar-a-Lago?
Tablet Magazine ^ | September 1, 2022 | Lee Smith

Posted on 09/02/2022 8:33:46 AM PDT by dalight

On June 21, Patel announced that he and Solomon had been appointed by Trump to obtain the declassified Russiagate documents from the archives: Patel said he was going to post them on his website. DOJ, however, already knew what Patel and Solomon would only discover a month later: The archives didn’t have the declassified documents. So if Patel said he would post them, law enforcement may have wondered, where would he get them from?

The answer must have seemed clear: Mar-a-Lago. On June 22, the Justice Department subpoenaed surveillance video footage of the storage locker. According to a New York Times story, sourced to “people familiar with the tapes,” “video showed boxes being moved out of the storage room sometime around the contact from the Justice Department.” Video “also showed boxes being slipped into different containers.” With this, the FBI was ready to move on Trump’s home.

Still, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland deliberated for weeks about whether to raid a a former president’s home. It had never been done before. Was it his destiny to be the man who ushered the United States into such dangerous territory? But the pressure to get Trump was building. It likely came from below (Monaco) and above: President Biden told aides he wanted his top law enforcement officer to target Trump. Garland finally resolved to pull the trigger. On Aug. 5, the FBI got the warrant for the raid, which took place three days later.

(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...


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The first coherent explanation of Mar-a-Lago raid, why it happened, and the theory of the crime that the DOJ is pursuing.
1 posted on 09/02/2022 8:33:46 AM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight

Two fold:

To collect evidence against themselves in the event Trump wins in 2024

To dirty up Trump so he doesn’t have a chance in 2024.


2 posted on 09/02/2022 8:36:20 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

This is the larger frame, but the small frame is that the underlying assumption is that Trump unlike any other president isn’t entitled to his personal records and records vital to his presidency. As Trump pointed out Obama took 30 Million pages of documents and hasn’t even bothered to make copies as of yet.

But, this whole deal is using the NARA as a bludgeon to suppress the Russiagate documents that Rick Grennell unearthed. Nunes already forked over these documents for review and the administration sent them to the darkness never to be seen again. So when Patel started talking about releasing them.. they went nuts trying to decide where the copies that they didn’t have hidden could be located and came up with Mar-a-Lago. Then they saw records being moved and reboxed and decided this was an attempt to hide these records so they jumped. They say the point of hiding them is obstructing their work in recovering the NARA documents.

All hinges on the criminalization of the President having any of this stuff from the Presidency which has already been settled law in the case of Bill Clinton’s retention of tapes sought by Judicial Watch.


3 posted on 09/02/2022 8:45:45 AM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight

Trick question?


4 posted on 09/02/2022 8:46:16 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: dalight

Lost in the fog of lies is that the President is the decision-maker on what is “classified,” not professional affirmation-action bureaucratic parasites.


5 posted on 09/02/2022 8:46:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: dalight

Coherent? Not even close. Reread the paragraph:

On June 21, Patel announced that he and Solomon had
been appointed by Trump to obtain the declassified
Russiagate documents from the archives: Patel said he
was going to post them on his website. DOJ, however,
already knew what Patel and Solomon would only discover
a month later: The archives didn’t have the declassified
documents. So if Patel said he would post them, law
enforcement may have wondered, where would he get them
from?

At the time Patel said he would post them he didn’t know they were not in the archives.


6 posted on 09/02/2022 8:48:35 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

why don’t you just read the article.. not the teaser. This is an excerpt.


7 posted on 09/02/2022 8:51:12 AM PDT by dalight
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is an intentional misdirection and gas-lighting that isn’t supported by law.. but I have seen numerous Republicans getting sucked into the discussion as if this wasn’t the fact.


8 posted on 09/02/2022 8:52:36 AM PDT by dalight
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

In only 2 replies !


9 posted on 09/02/2022 8:54:47 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: dalight

Indicting Trump is just another step in the Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats ... way to cheat and give them a veto proof House and Senate and usher in their long sought after the United Socialist States of America and a one party rule with them in charge.


10 posted on 09/02/2022 8:55:35 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Raycpa

Enlighten me on what is not coherent there.


11 posted on 09/02/2022 9:00:02 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: dalight

So if Patel said he would post them, law enforcement may have wondered, where would he get them from?.

Sounds like let something slip through their fingers cover up incomplete?.

2024 going to a very interesting year.


12 posted on 09/02/2022 9:08:40 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Yes and had nothing else to do. grrrr


13 posted on 09/02/2022 9:11:43 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: gloryblaze

Agreed. Great article and dissection of events and timings. Makes good sense to me.

Desperation of Deep State to cover their Russiagate asses, so Trump baiting Biden/Garland/DoJ ? He’s usually a step or two ahead.

From 30K ft; stop Trump by however means necessary and take attention away from their despicable record.


14 posted on 09/02/2022 9:16:54 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

It puts Trump on all the front pages, which helps Dem turnout for the midterm elections. Every day we talk about Trump instead of Inflation, gas prices, collapse of Afghanistan, Iraq civil war, Iranian nuclear weapons.


15 posted on 09/02/2022 9:23:43 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: dalight

Attempted political intimidation, of a guy who cannot be intimidated!


16 posted on 09/02/2022 9:32:19 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: dalight

BECAUSE THEY COULD!!!

17 posted on 09/02/2022 9:40:24 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: dalight

bump


18 posted on 09/02/2022 9:52:48 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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The first coherent explanation of Mar-a-Lago raid, why it happened, and the theory of the crime that the DOJ is pursuing.

Excellent article. Concise and well-written. It cuts through all the crap, even in conservative publications, of people who don't fully understand what its all about. And why should they understand? Deep state lawfare, arcane laws and bureaucratic processes, combined with MSM propaganda, make the situation as clear as mud.

19 posted on 09/02/2022 11:10:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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In TabletMag.com? They’re so anti-Trump & anti-Torah/Orthodox Judaism, I’m astounded they’ve actually printed this. Apparently, the actions of Fuhrer Biden are scaring even them.


20 posted on 09/02/2022 7:18:23 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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