Posted on 08/16/2022 6:17:20 AM PDT by TBP
There’s a problem with the FBI warrant given to Donald Trump before his Mar-a-Lago home was raided, Glenn says, that may make it entirely unconstitutional. The warrant seems to be, ‘pretty much,’ a general warrant for the former president’s entire house. So what is a general warrant and why does the Fourth Amendment protect AGAINST them? That answer goes all the way back to King George III and our Founding Fathers. In this clip, Glenn and Stu explain...
Transcript Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Let me ask you: What is the -- what is the problem with the warrant? Have you heard the real problem with the warrant for Donald Trump?
What are you hearing?
STU: The problem from our perspective, or the problem from --
GLENN: The constitutionally.
STU: I mean, it just seems like they -- it strikes me as basically a general warrant, right?
GLENN: What is the general warrant? Excellence.
STU: To just go search. Looking for stuff. Basically, a free pass for a fishing expedition.
GLENN: Right. You can go in, and look anywhere. And grab papers that you might think. Okay?
And that's pretty much what the warrant says. It is a general warrant for his whole house. Okay?
Any papers lying around us. You can grab them. Any boxes with papers. You know, you can look in these places. But any part of the House.
STU: And it's a big House. It's a big House.
GLENN: That's called a general warrant. And the reason why this is in our Fourth Amendment, is because this is the way the king would get his own citizens over in England. And they were outlawed in England, I think in 1600. Something like that. And they were -- they just came in to a guy's house. And started searching everything. Not for illegal papers. Just papers. And he's like, I -- I wasn't committing a crime. You guys came in, and you're just doing a general warrant. You cannot do it. And it's where the castle doctrine actually started. A man's home is his castle, okay? Well, the king was doing that to us. This is, according to John Adams, the spark that lit the revolution. Because in 1755 or '4, before the Declaration of Independence, let's leave it at that one. Do your own homework. I urge you. But, anyway, the king just said, general warrants. And so any cop. Anybody could just go, I got a general warrant here from the king. And they could go into your house. And take anything they wanted. And just say, you're under suspicion.
That's why the Fourth Amendment exists. This is what happened to Donald Trump. This is -- this allows them to kick the door down, in the middle of the night. You're not charged with anything. They're just looking. They're just looking to see. If they have anything. I wonder what they've got in there. They can use it to hassle you. They can do it just to see. Does he have anything he shouldn't have? That's a general warrant. We don't do that, in America. And it's a fundamental principle of America, and a fundamental principle in justice. Imagine what the south could have done and what the south probably did do, until we started enforcing the Fourth Amendment, from the federal government and saying to these states, you're not doing that. Imagine you're black, and you're living in a southern state. What they could do, and probably what they did do, just going in with a general warrant. What am I suspected of? What am I -- you're all guilty. You know it. You're all guilty. We know you. And they could just go terrorize your family and bust in at any hour, and just take whatever they wanted. That's not justice. That is not justice. Also, one other thing: When I heard they charged him with the Espionage Act, excuse me? Or they're thinking about it. No --
STU: That was the basis for the warrant.
GLENN: He might be violating the Espionage Act. Really? Really? You think Donald Trump is taking nuclear secrets and selling them to, whom? Beyond that, you know, I don't know if you have thought this out as a society or in a Justice Department.
You know, the nuclear secrets, that's kind of big. They're not just like in a file cabinet in the drawer of the President. Okay? If he wants a nuclear secret, he's got to ask for it and it's the kind of thing that usually comes over with a handcuff on a briefcase. And then that person shows it to the president, and they have to sign for it if they want to keep it, and somebody has to stay there. It's not like, hey, so I was on the crapper this morning, and I picked up accidentally nuclear secrets documents. I'm going to keep it.
Team Trump likely has given this some thought; it would raise interesting issues and, in any event, almost certainly land in a federal court.
A very high percentage of the damage has probably already occurred. Although, it certainly gives the nation a bona fide wake-up call vis-s-vis Wray, Garland, Biden, Biden's handlers and the Dem party.
That most of the nation despises the FBI misses the essential point and doesn't serve us in the larger view.
They’re not about to let a little thing like the Constitution stop them. When have they ever?
Another way of stating the question:
Is it constitutional to arrest the political opposition?
I have no doubt.
The Constitution is an annoying hinderance to the left and they ignore it as it benefits them.
“After January 6, 2021, Trump was impeached and acquitted for his actions as President making the entire issue moot.”
The 4th amendment violation renders everything they did last week forever moot... Oh, and they need to order EVERYTHING returned ASAP!
If that fails, then your argument is primary.
And/or papers related to their role in the Russiagate hoax?
They were there for 10 hours. That is more than enough time to hide or remove bugs. They could have removed the papers in under an hour.
The legal buzzwords are “Vague and Overbroad”
Of course the warrant was illegal. For starters it was too broad. But there are lots of other issues with it. But let’s not go down that rat hole. Lets point to the raid itself. The FBI stole Trump’s stuff. The FBI denied legal supervision. This whole thing is illegal from top to bottom.
Remember Watergate:
Nixon was forced from the Presidency because some underlings broke into an office and took a few pictures.
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posted on 8/16/2022, 6:27:53 AM by iamgalt
Well, the radical left always hated the FBI, because it was the FBI cracking down on Soviet-backed radical groups, and the members of those groups now make up much of the leadership of today’s left.
Now we banned that behavior from the FBI in the 70s, but it seems some on the left remembered how effective it was and decided to bring it back, but targeting the right instead. It would take another “Watergate” and another “Church Committee” to fix this mess, but I doubt our government is still functional enough for that process to even happen this time around.
Guess there were no Cubans around.
BOL!
No Cubans in Floriduh?!
Jan 21st 2023. Defund the Justice Department. Disband the FBI. The states will handle the execution of laws. Federal Laws should be moot.
I think a few of these agencies will be disbanded or defunded in the next year or two.
I wonder if they know enough to change the nuclear codes with each new President. Likely every so often with the same President.
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