Posted on 09/02/2022 8:33:46 AM PDT by dalight
On June 21, Patel announced that he and Solomon had been appointed by Trump to obtain the declassified Russiagate documents from the archives: Patel said he was going to post them on his website. DOJ, however, already knew what Patel and Solomon would only discover a month later: The archives didn’t have the declassified documents. So if Patel said he would post them, law enforcement may have wondered, where would he get them from?
The answer must have seemed clear: Mar-a-Lago. On June 22, the Justice Department subpoenaed surveillance video footage of the storage locker. According to a New York Times story, sourced to “people familiar with the tapes,” “video showed boxes being moved out of the storage room sometime around the contact from the Justice Department.” Video “also showed boxes being slipped into different containers.” With this, the FBI was ready to move on Trump’s home.
Still, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland deliberated for weeks about whether to raid a a former president’s home. It had never been done before. Was it his destiny to be the man who ushered the United States into such dangerous territory? But the pressure to get Trump was building. It likely came from below (Monaco) and above: President Biden told aides he wanted his top law enforcement officer to target Trump. Garland finally resolved to pull the trigger. On Aug. 5, the FBI got the warrant for the raid, which took place three days later.
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Its clear you haven’t been reading Tablet. Perhaps you are thinking about the Forward.
Yes, you’re right. The only interesting thing I’ve ever read in Forward was that Israel would be 50% Orthodox Jewish by 2030. I don’t know how close Israel is to that number, but I change it to 2040.
I have been pleased and stunned by how good the writing in Tablet has been over the last few years. I have really enjoyed their work and I frequently send links to pieces written on this site.
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