An unprecedented FBI raid for cocktail napkins and birthday dinner menus.
https://t.co/Ouk45KCfNl pic.twitter.com/o9T0BmSXcl
— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) August 9, 2022
Posted on 08/10/2022 9:37:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We are starting to get more details on what occurred during the FBI’s nearly 10-hour raid of Donald Trump’s home in Florida, though, it’s not the government that’s providing them. On Tuesday evening, Trump’s lawyer revealed that authorities didn’t even want to present a warrant, and when they finally did, the warrant had the probable cause sealed.
As to what was seized, the list is illuminating, and not in a good way for the FBI’s conduct. According to a report from The Washington Post, citing information leaked to them by the government (which says a lot on its own), the boxes taken were full of what would mostly be considered personal effects and mundane presidential records.
An unprecedented FBI raid for cocktail napkins and birthday dinner menus.
https://t.co/Ouk45KCfNl pic.twitter.com/o9T0BmSXcl— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) August 9, 2022
There were rumors many months ago that this is all that the National Archives was after. Not really important things related to national security or some such, which even still wouldn’t justify the raid, but scribblings on napkins and letters from heads of state. If this report is correct, that’s what the FBI carried out an unprecedented raid on a president for. 33,000 stolen emails put on an illegal server weren’t enough to raid Hillary Clinton, but the National Archives wanting a letter from Kim Jung Un was. The abuse of power is off the charts.
But is that all the FBI was actually after? Color me skeptical given how corrupt that agency and politically weaponized the bureau is. Sure, the collection of those records may have been the convenient pretext they needed, and the only one they could legally acquire, in order to search Trump’s home. But you can bet that while they were there riffling through the entire premises for nearly half a day, they were searching for other things that could bolster the other pursuits against Trump. The FBI just needed to get into the door and they could do whatever they want.
Which only underscores how out of bounds the entire raid was. The justification is so paper-thin that it’s only logical to assume the FBI had other motives, and given the DOJ’s obvious coordination with the January 6th committee, wouldn’t that seem likely?
This is not how the Presidential Records Act has ever been enforced. Even if the FBI felt it had probable cause to seize the materials it took, all it would have taken was a phone call and a few plain-clothed agents. Instead, the government chose to send rifle-wielding agents in full body armor to raid the premises of a former president, ostensibly for some dinner napkins.
That’s objectively insane, and anyone still defending this raid or claiming we just need an “explanation” is exposing their own hypocritical tolerance for blatant political targeting by the government.
I think the cocktail napkin etc was from earlier this year, as the image shows. Red State got this wrong.
A man’s home is his FBI raid.
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(Almost) All the Trump Endorsed candidates were winning. Trump led Biden in Polls. Their hope for Liz Cheney to take him out faded. Kent just won, they were spooked.
This was about taking everything they could to build a case, and they no doubt also got Electronic Surveillance on his whole family and Advisers.
Or something like that anyway.
Is that on the list?
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Yep, a definite witch hunt, one of Hamilton Burger’s ‘fishing expeditions.’ Hoping to find evidence.
But...it’s still not clear that they didn’t manufacture evidence and ‘find’ it.
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Please remind me when it became a matter of national security to “Archive” a presidents every fart, belch, and butt scratch “For posterity”?
Why no similar demand of LBJ, Clintoon, or O’Bummer?
Who is going to go over all those records, except Grant funded academics and opposition-research dweebs?
Give me a break. They got the main details of the article wrong!
This is what you call a fishing expedition.
Even if they don’t find something incriminating, they might find things that are derogatory which of course will be made public.
The FBI needs new leadership and the axe needs to go after the top and two levels down from there. The FBI needs a Stalin like purge (without the executions).
The FBI became a political bootlicking organization under Comey, during the Obama-Holder/Lynch era. Unofficially, there was damn near a political litmus test to get into the senior ranks.
I stand by my suspicions that in the end we will find information presented to the hack judge who supposedly approved the warrant came from info gathered via more Trump targeting by FISA investigations.
Sometimes they can’t find anything incriminating. So they mskr stuff up (fake documents or other things) c look aomii I ng they found them in the raid. Consider that they can also bring fake “incriminating” items with them andclaom they found them in the raid.
( also, Anything small and valuable that’s actually found in the raid can be stolen )
Pretty certain I recall that warrants must be presented at the time of any search, and that you may call your lawyer to examine it to verify its validity, and to observe the search.
So clearly the FBI was skirting the Constitution.
Demanding the security cameras be turned off is just another step too far.
As a former FFL I know perfectly well how Gov. Org. twist the laws to side-step and gain access to documents and records they are SPECIFICALLY prohibited from making copies of.
Typically along the lines of, “Let us make copies and we will be done here today, insist on your rights and we will be here for two weeks”.
Of course you are shut down until they leave.
The FBI is just vindictive dishonest political trash. They must be disbanded. The Efram Zimbalist Jr era is long gone.
Also did anyone notice how those FBI fags showed up in tactical gear like they were going after Bin Ladin. Were they expecting a Trump family shootout?
Damned idiots should have been a couple of men in business suits. (and of course, it was all a big lie, so there should have been nobody)
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Makes perfect sense.
I’ll lay my chip down at this point: her part in this seditious conspiracy will cause Cheney to lose her primary by 35 points
Since this seems not to have worked out as they expected, are we expected to believe that a certain individual decided to end it with two to the back of the bean?
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