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Get Trump!
https://www.powerlineblog.com ^ | December 17, 2025 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 12/18/2025 7:18:02 AM PST by bitt

Yesterday, the FBI delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee emails relating to the search of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Senator Charles Grassley has released what I take to be all of the responsive documents.

Comments you may have seen on the emails are correct: the FBI didn’t think there was probable cause to search Trump’s home, but Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice insisted. The FBI thought they should communicate with Trump’s lawyer and likely be able to reach an agreement. Garland’s DOJ refused. The FBI pointed out that President Trump likely had a good legal argument on the documents; DOJ didn’t care.

Here are some extracts from the emails. “WFO” stands for the Washington Field Office of the FBI:

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1 posted on 12/18/2025 7:18:02 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/18/2025 7:18:25 AM PST by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Garland had his orders from The Big Guy.


3 posted on 12/18/2025 7:24:08 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: bigbob

Which Biden handlers were the Big Guy? Biden was the figurehead used to make the country over into the woke, festering sore they wanted.

Maybe Biden did want to get Trump and Garland appeased him with that campaign, but it seems to me all the officials running under Biden had an agenda much bigger than Biden’s wishy-washy not-so-smart political views he held in earlier times.


4 posted on 12/18/2025 7:28:53 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
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To: bitt
I liked the pictures posted to FR sometime back of the documents in question delivered to Mar-a-Lago by another government agency.

The boxes of classified documents were just left in the driveway.

5 posted on 12/18/2025 7:32:30 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: bigbob

The “Big Buy” didn’t give those orders. He could barely mumble his way through two sentences coherently, and had trouble figuring out how to walk off stage most of the time. No, the orders were from someone else. Obama? Shrillary? The swarm of unelected members of the unelected Biden administration?


6 posted on 12/18/2025 7:32:45 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Pretty obvious Karin Jean Pierre was running the show. Do I need a sarc tag?


7 posted on 12/18/2025 7:39:04 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: bigbob

We dodged a bullet when Ruth Bader Garland didn’t make it to the Supreme Court.


8 posted on 12/18/2025 7:42:23 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Alas Babylon!
"...but it seems to me all the officials running under Biden had an agenda much bigger than Biden’s wishy-washy not-so-smart political views he held in earlier times."

If Biden had a functioning brain, he would have likely cleared all the classified documents from his garage and other sites before going after Trump. Obviously, the real handlers of this witch hunt had no idea that Biden had so many classified documents from his time as V.P. spread all over Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.

9 posted on 12/18/2025 7:42:26 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Is this not considered treasonous? They actively conspired against the American people and the president they elected. I’d say hangings are in order.


10 posted on 12/18/2025 7:43:56 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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all worthless right wing media fodder unless someone is held accountable.


11 posted on 12/18/2025 7:44:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: EandH Dad
Pretty obvious Karin Jean Pierre was running the show. Do I need a sarc tag?

LOL French Dip LOL

12 posted on 12/18/2025 7:45:12 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: bigbob

“ Garland had his orders from The Big Guy.‘’

The Big Guy who was compromised by both China and by Ukraine.

The need for gallows grows ever stronger.


13 posted on 12/18/2025 7:48:05 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: bitt

And...who’s been charged? Who’s been arrested?


14 posted on 12/18/2025 7:59:04 AM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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And just like that nobody got arrested.


15 posted on 12/18/2025 8:00:16 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: mass55th
Obviously, the real handlers of this witch hunt had no idea that Biden had so many classified documents from his time as V.P. spread all over Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.

From his time as Senator. He was illegally stealing and stashing classified documents for many years. I suspect a lot of congress people, with their bloated egos and sense of entitlement, have done it as well. We peons go to jail for that, they shrug and wait for DOJ to say 'well no reasonable prosecutor would indict...'

16 posted on 12/18/2025 8:31:01 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Sicon

Or the chicoms.


17 posted on 12/18/2025 8:42:38 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: kiryandil
We dodged a bullet when Ruth Bader Garland didn’t make it to the Supreme Court.
And Garland was PO'ed about it. Hence, he was extra hot to "get Trump."
18 posted on 12/18/2025 9:15:57 AM PST by citizen (A transgender malel competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: bigbob

Garland is DIRTY!


19 posted on 12/18/2025 9:17:42 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bitt
The lawfare against President Trump was indefensible. It was truly "we couldn't do this normally, but since Trump is such a bad guy and is probably doing something wrong, it is justified."

Obviously, Trump actively opposing those warrants and claiming a right to retain those documents -- right or wrong -- indicated that there was no risk of those documents being destroyed. Without that risk, there was no reason not to try to work something out as the FBI itself recommended.

20 posted on 12/18/2025 9:23:25 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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