Posted on 08/10/2022 8:19:33 AM PDT by Starman417
Spending time on Twitter can be illuminating. Never have I seen so much spamming going on from the left all about how Trump "stole" classified documents. You could call it the "Crapper Caper." I have repeatedly pointed out that the President can declassify anything he chooses. But it's not about that. It's about something very different.
Trump and his lawyers were cooperating with the National Archives and had already returned 15 boxes of materials. Than came a June meeting:
Trump's attorneys were present at that meeting and the sources say the former president himself stopped in to say hello for a few minutes."Perceived lack of cooperation." Note that Trump was not present. Perceived lack of cooperation is subjective. Without question, the Feds decided to perceive a lack of cooperation as a premise to ransack Trump's place. Lawyers were not allowed to observe as the FBI took everything, relevant to the visit or not.The meeting came months after the National Archives -- with assistance from the Justice Department -- was able to get 15 boxes of documents sent back to Washington, D.C. after expressing concern they were in Florida.
The June meeting was about additional documents that were being sought. But following it, the Justice Department and FBI felt they weren't getting the same cooperation they had been receiving earlier in the probe, according to a source with knowledge of negotiations between Trump's team and the federal entities.
The perceived lack of cooperation is why a search warrant was requested and ultimately executed on Monday, Aug. 8 at Trump's Palm Beach property.
Today Andrew McCarthy opined that the raid was not about classified documents, but rather a fishing expedition for the Jan 6 Satr Chamber
The Justice Department obviously used the potential classified information as a pretext to obtain a warrant so it could search for what it is really looking for: evidence that would tie Trump to a Capitol riot offense – either a violent crime, such as seditious conspiracy to forcibly attack a government installation (which is highly unlikely), or a non-violent crime, such as conspiracy to obstruct the January 6 joint session of Congress to count electoral votes, or conspiracy to defraud the government.He may be right or partly right. As we've noted previously, Kash Patel asserts that the documents present at Mar a Lago were already declassified but did not have the appropriate markings. Back in May Patel made a pretty good prediction:
“If they selectively leak stuff — and given this week’s Supreme Court leak, you can’t put it past anyone at the NARA or Congress who might have some of these documents and leak them to advance a false political narrative,” he said.That is what transpired. This, however, is what I find interesting:
“They are not a classification authority. I don’t believe they have unilateral authority to reclassify something the president declassified. They are the holder of records,” he said.That's important as it dovetails into something I wrote about late last night. Paul Sperry had a similar notion and posted this, and was immediately suspended by TwitterPatel did not want to get into what the specific documents were, predicting claims from the left that he was disclosing “classified” material, but said, “It’s information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything from Russiagate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco to major national security matters of great public importance — anything the president felt the American people had a right to know is in there and more.”
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Great reply.
I will be using it in situations like this.
The fbi is where young admirers of naziism ...
Judge Reinhart was previously an Assistant District Attorney for South Florida, involved in the Jeffrey Epstein coverup. It is alleged that the Israeli government government intervened on Epstein’s behalf, and thus classified documents would likely be involved.
Perhaps Trump had the client list of Epstein and Maxwell. That is unavailable to regular citizens and voters.
They are going to take away our beer. When that happens all hell will break loose.
They are HIS documents. All presidents take thousands to write a book.
Just because he wrote a note doesn’t make it classified. Is he supposed to keep his soiled toilet paper?
This desperate raid was so blatantly out of order and handled so poorly with regard to decency and legality, I am suspicious of a motive far darker than any I have seen. Try looking at it as an act of desperation.
The FiBI does not care if the warrant is thrown out. They do not care if they find evidence of wrongdoing with either classified docs or Jan 6.
They may have heard that PJDT has a copy of the E p s t e in /Max - well black book and may expose a lot of big names, including Brandon, Clints, comee, Shoomrr, and more.
Whether they found it or not, all other things will be returned with an oopsie and a story about info so classified nobody can talk about it.
Your analysis is 100% correct.
All the left has are their lies and violence.
They lack facts, and reason isn’t in their toolset.
“The part that amazes me is that those on the Right continue to treat the Right/Left “conversation” as if it is a serious and worthwhile debate over ideas “
The part that amazes ME is that the Right continues to capitulate to the Left believing that if they do kiss their asses, the Left will LIKE them and won’t call them names.
The Left NEVER will like them, and will ALWAYS call them names. When will they learn?
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