An unprecedented FBI raid for cocktail napkins and birthday dinner menus.
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— 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.
Trump should instantly sue them for illegally taking “certain items of women’s lingerie and undergarments”. Who cares whether they did or not, play dirty like they do, make them look like a bunch of souvenir-hunting perverts.
“As president, I could have declassified anything I wanted and needn’t have told anyone since I was the chief executive of the executive branch and commander in chief of the military and, by extension, the national security establishment that can classify information.
It is literally impossible for a president to mishandle classified information since the ability to classify it and manage its handling is vested in me.
The Justice Department and FBI should know that unless they were sick the day they taught law at law school.”
Defund the FBI. Fire every single one of them
How many pairs of her panties did they snag?
/10% for the big guy
Watch Trump’s Attorney Lindsey Halligan discuss Mar-a-Lago raid and how they denied her the viewing of the warrant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv518A8PjRM
I wonder if Pres. Trump has really good cyber-sleuths that can remove the bugs planted by the FIB?
I’m sure they planted many just as they did in the Trump Towers in 2016.
Lol a birthday dinner menu.
These absolute clowns. I am ready to defund the FBI now. I doubt their importance anymore.
Operation Qanon trust might just as well be an FBI KGB operation at this point.
What a effing joke.
There was no limit to whatStalin was going to use to try shame, mock or useagainst his oponents before hauling them to the gulag or execution.
These communists and deep staters never provoke a duel against an opponent with equal arms. They first trick them or seek to weaken them in general or in the public eye, and then the killing is easier.
“FBI fags”
Don’t know about the males but the woman with a machine gun sure looked butch.
It's time to think the unthinkable...
It's time to think the unthinkable... a leftwing coup is in process...
Calling them names will do no good but what a bunch of dickweeds.
Excellent interview!
I recommend that everyone view this video.
She wasn’t FBI. Federal police. Wanna be wash outs from the ATF.
Adding to watch list
You have to know about the hierarchy in the National Archives to understand their hatred for Trump and their covered up professional failures to see behind a lot of this.
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