TRUMP: "ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK"
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— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 12, 2022
Posted on 08/12/2022 6:47:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The left was coming after President Donald Trump, daring him to release the warrant regarding the FBI raid on his home.
Trump isn’t blinking. He’s not acting like someone who thinks he has a lot to fear from this. He announced he was all for releasing the warrant, and he now he’s commented on how the raid was completely unnecessary. He had been in talks with the National Archives for a while and had already turned over several boxes of documents in June. So that’s why the raid isn’t making logical sense.
We wrote about the warrant being unsealed and some of the documents that were allegedly seized. But we also reported how they got the warrant on August 5 but didn’t serve it until August 8. So if there was some big national security concern about the documents, why did they wait three days? They didn’t exactly make it seem like there was anything urgent by doing that.
As Trump commented on Friday, all they had to do is ask.
TRUMP: "ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK"
pic.twitter.com/RGfjbbmVTD— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 12, 2022
That’s the big question here — why they just didn’t ask? Trump had already been turning over documents cooperatively, as evidenced by his turning over boxes in June. The DOJ has not explained that it wasn’t possible to ask or even issue a subpoena to get what they wanted. According to Fox, it isn’t even like Trump had packed the boxes — the GSA packed them. So Trump didn’t even remove them, they were sent to him. So if there’s something funny in there, ask the GSA. But if the FBI had asked, then they wouldn’t get the big headlines and the controversy that someone might hope would hurt the chances of Trump and the Republicans in the future elections. As we noted, if someone had that thought, that seems to have backfired on them, with it increasing Trump’s support and him still topping the betting odds to win in 2024.
Trump also questioned why the FBI wouldn’t let his lawyers watch the search. His lawyers had raised concerns that leave open the possibility that things could be planted.
But then here’s another problem with the warrant: talk about being overbroad, it said they were seeking any document created the whole time that Trump was in office. This is just ridiculous.
Tell me without telling me the Trump raid was a fishing expedition.
pic.twitter.com/zIH1gejQcP— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) August 12, 2022
It also extended to any room in the home that could contain documents. There were reports that they even searched the bedroom and Melania’s closet. That screams fishing expedition too.
The comparison between how Trump is being treated by the FBI versus how Hillary Clinton was treated is stark. There was no raid on her home. This even though she set up a whole private server to avoid inspection and had classified information on it. Unlike Trump, she could not declassify the information. Let’s not forget how she deleted some 30,000 emails that she tried to claim were just wedding invitations and such things. Then, there were the destroyed Blackberrys. But all that got a pass.
If you think rules do not apply to you, they make an example of you. Pretty basic.
Trump: Return of documents to Archives viewed as routine and 'no big deal' February 10, 2022Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the National Archives had recovered 15 boxes of White House records from Mar-a-Lago.
where is the affidavit from the CI???
where is probable cause???
I just put the Search warrantup there on 3 different threads for discussion
Politicized justice. Merrick Garland is ruining the FBI due to its misuse. We can no longer trust the FBI. They will not reform themselves. They must be defunded, then the good agents rehired. All management must go in January 2022.
Feds served subpoena, seized documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in June: report August 11, 2022CNN reported that the subpoena was issued shortly before an early June meeting, during which Justice Department officials were shown the basement storage room where boxes of documents and other memorabilia from Trump’s four years in the White House were reportedly kept. The outlet added that the 45th president’s attorneys handed over all documents that were marked “top secret.”
CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump greeted the agents at the start of the meeting, with the Journal quoting him as saying: “I appreciate the job you’re doing” and adding: “Anything you need, let us know.”
Good answer.
You gonna go far with that kind of thinking.
The FBI was ruined long before Garland became AG.
Evidently, they did not get what was listed,
Think about post #22 and #26 and get back to me.
I think either Kushner is the informant, or someone saw Kushner showing off documents to the Saudis during the golf tournament (he got a looottt of money from them), got nervous, and went to the FBI
Why in the world wouldn’t they have gotten it? They were there, they had the subpoena, they examined the documents. Do you think Trump’s lawyers would have prevented Justice Dept. officials from carrying out the subpoena? How?
Different boxes of other documents.
Where did that come from? Show me any article from any source that has claimed that.
I was told right here on FR they waited until the weekend was over and they'd do the warrant during regular FBI weekday hours.
They moved like lightening because this was a top level national security issue.
When nuclear devastation is imminent the FBI is only 18 months away!
That these weren’t the same boxes of documents already taken in February?
FU never Trumper POS!
This is as bad as the prostitutes Trump paid to pee on some bed....gak...This crap is right out of grade school.
Now they’ll try to convince those drooling in cups that Trump is a Russian agent.
Or the ones seized in June.
Please show me where you heard these were documents not taken in February or June.
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