Posted on 08/11/2022 12:57:38 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
Was it John Barron..?
Good post—makes sense.
By raiding Mar-A-Lago, they just showed their hand...and revealed that they are weaker than we thought they were.
Did anyone other than me sense the utter futility of some inherently unlikable little man tell using we should respect the men and women of the FBI? After the FBI’s performance the past 30 years?
I didn’t expect Herr Garland to play the sympathy/victim card.
I didn’t see that coming.
There’s one aspect to what RetiredTexasVet posted, that show his post to be true.
They’re going to have to show how they got the information. And that can only come from a person, unless they tapped into any CCTV, which they would need a warrant for and again, have to show PC for.
So, whoever came them the info better be able to show how they got the information they provided to the FBI. If whatever they were after was in the SCIF or the safe, then it’s more than likely going to have to be someone on the very inside and with a clearance. Of course, they could have left something out and the cleaning lady saw something, but that would mean she has been compromised and working for them the whole time.
What I’d like to know is the sequence of actions on the objective, as they say in the military. They had someone in there to crack the safe, right?
What the first thing they did? Did they go straight to the SCIF and get the safe open after being told that was where the ‘goods’ were being kept? If so, after seeing that it was empty did they start going through every thing out of frustration?
With search warrants, at least under the rules that I used to have to abide by, you can only look in places that could hide/store the evidence you were seeking. IE...if you’re looking for a stolen car, the warrant didn’t give you the authority to look under someone’s bed or go through their panty drawer. You can only look in the driveway, garage, backyard or an outbuilding big enough to hide the car.
Clearly you enjoy mocking Trump and/or his supporters.
Fear and panic can cause a person to not think straight.
And act irrationally.
I think the OP may be on to something—and probably the exact opposite of WH claims is what happened (the rule of opposites).
That would mean the planted “evidence” was debated around the Just Us Department and the White House by staff—probably a big email trail and a bunch of meetings discussing whether it was real or not.
My guess is that the decision was not unanimous or even close to unanimous, but the majority of the Ruling Central Committee decided to “take a chance” knowing the mass media would have their back in the worst case.
I hope Trump anticipated this likelihood and created a fake doc admitting everything back to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, made a recording of him and his lawyers discussing the setup, then slipped the fake doc into the storage boxes. Email the video to himself to get a date stamp.
All that’s needed then is to set up “confidential informant” by telling them the doc is in there and wait for the knock on the door.
They punked themselves. I mean seriously, Garland's presser was a nothing burger garnished with nothing. And Wray only gets a footnote in the archives for his historic "Wray's Panty Raid".
Possibly he punked them. I also have a hard time believing any documents he felt he needed he didnāt back up.
Can you just imagine Trump telling one person something was hidden in the safe and Melania’s closet; then telling another they were hidden in Barron’s room and the chef’s walk-in fridge; and another still that they were hidden in the pool-side cabana and the kitchen pantry?
When I was younger I did not grasp this idea of a "bubble" of thought that surrounds a group of people.
Now I have seen so many examples of it that it makes me wonder if the majority of the people can ever be made to see things clearly and objectively.
Yes, Washington DC exists in a thought bubble of like minded people reinforcing each others thinking.
Supposedly they are saying the one who told them was a secret service member
You forget, Trump is vindictive, for just reasons, and is out for blood. It would not surprise me at all if this were a setup to trap the FBI.
Absolutely. And not just “can”...”do.”
When I was living in NYC back in the ‘80s, Trump was always pulling some kind of prank on the media.
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I’m not saying they didn’t find anything at Mar-A-Lago, but one of the very first things I was thinking is that I would be surprised if Trump actually allowed anything seriously important to be taken.
People forget, Trump is NOT a dumb guy. Look at how far ahead of the curve he was against his ‘adversaries”, like even back in the campaign when he said he was being spied on and amost everyone scoffed at it.
I like your angle too. He isn’t just smart, manically restless, and always thinking, but he I think he likes the game. He lives for it. Some people call it 4-D chess, but it definitely seems like he has contingencies for contingencies and his plans always seem to have traps for the unwitting.
Well garland can take his anger and kiss my ass the look on his face tells the story they got played and they failed
I read an interview with Trump's liberal sister who is a Federal Judge (in New York, I think). She was asked if she ever got into conflicts with Donald when they were younger. Her answer was "I used to, but he always won. He always won."
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