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Trump disqualified from holding office? Clinton-linked lawyer points to US Code after FBI raid
Washington Examiner ^ | 8 Aug 22 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 08/09/2022 12:17:21 PM PDT by seanmerc

With news of the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago, buzz quickly bubbled up Monday evening about whether former President Donald Trump could be disqualified from holding office again.

The FBI search of the Florida resort was related to Trump's handling of presidential records, including classified documents, after leaving office, sources told CNN. The search warrant was connected to the National Archives, a senior government official told NBC News.

Such reporting had Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign who has drawn scrutiny for his role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071. "The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics," Elias said in a tweet.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonistas; clintonstink; clintoons; dims; djt45; dumbocrats; elias; fakenews; hillaryclinton; hypocrites; liberalmeatheads; lyingliars; marcelias; mrsbillclinton; presidenttrump; rats; rulesforthee; russiarussiarussia; stasiraid; thehildebeast; trump; washingtonexaminer
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To: bray
His opinion and 10 bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

If you can find one thats open and not filled with homeless druggies shooting up in the bathrooms...

21 posted on 08/09/2022 12:35:14 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: seanmerc

The left (and that includes trash like Graham and Christie) are *so scared* of Trump.


22 posted on 08/09/2022 12:35:54 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: seanmerc

Trump has a choice.

Get out of the country with his family.

Or get removed.


23 posted on 08/09/2022 12:38:03 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: LilFarmer

He did the same in NC, PA, MI, WIS and AZ. See a pattern there? Ga and those other 5 states ALL stopped counting at the same time.


24 posted on 08/09/2022 12:44:10 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: seanmerc

“You can’t remove biden. There’s no path to it.”

Look!!!!! They broke every rule, law, constitution!!! They performed a coup!!!
Anyone who says we can’t stop this is weak and obliging to surrender rather than to fight.

No way? Who has authority?
The side who pulled the coup or the elected President?

Inside the box, the weak rep party folds and all this happens..
We are losing.. we have no fight.. no outside the box plans .

My country ..... don’t sit and talk while it is burning....


25 posted on 08/09/2022 12:48:19 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Az Joe

Shapiro and dershowicz said constitution trumps that. So yes he’s eligible


26 posted on 08/09/2022 12:50:12 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: seanmerc

I fail to see how Trump can be disqualified when we let someone from Kenya be elected.


27 posted on 08/09/2022 12:53:51 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: seanmerc
Some Rat Party hack said exactly that yesterday on MSLSD...get him convicted of a particular crime (can't recall its name) and he then becomes ineligible to hold elected office again.
28 posted on 08/09/2022 1:05:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: seanmerc

They could legally disqualify Trump and it would take years to go through the courts. Would cause much chaos...


29 posted on 08/09/2022 1:07:17 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Donnafrflorida

We are past what they say... Biden is in by disregarding law or constitution.
Yesterday happened disregarding law or constitution.

But this side has to do everything right?
Thats how you get picked on. Thats how they throw you out .. thats how they win and you lose.

Trump is playing chess.. they are playing checkers.. get his “army” rounded up and take biden out.

They did all this by force .. its a spiritual war.. fight like its the last stand..

What the Washington elite has given a path.. children used.. open border and criminals entering.. rapes going on..
Biden and son guilty of treason and forbidden acts.

The elite in control want control to live like that.. they want a good man out of the way and you are next.

Evil does not.. cannot ...live along side with Godly principles.

They don’t care about you or this country.. they want control to live in their chosen pit.. without interference.

Their soul is so dark, they can’t stand to be in the light.

I hope it is revealed just how dark their lives are.


30 posted on 08/09/2022 1:07:18 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Az Joe
That law is unconstitutional.

The Constitution precisely lays out the qualifications to be President.

That law goes directly against that.

Of course, the Constitution and the laws only matter so long as everyone agrees that we're following both of them in the correct order of precedence.

Had Hillary campaigned in Michigan in 2016, we'd already be past that point. The DoJ, FBI, good portion of the federal workforce, 48-50 current US senators depending on the day, the entire potential jury pool in DC and half of the judges in this country are happy with abandoning anything that would stop them from gaining and holding on to power, and a few supreme court justices being appointed is all the difference.

Maybe the tide will turn against them in November, but that side of America has made it very clear about the lengths it would go to when it has the chance.

31 posted on 08/09/2022 1:13:26 PM PDT by jz638
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To: seanmerc

Kark Elias is behind all the lilliputian lawfare tactics against us. Same guy who just tried to get MTG thrown off the ballot recently.

He’s well funded by Soros and Tides, and other dark money. He was advisor to Weissman’s group of carnivores during the Meuller investigations, too.

Someone needs to go talk to this guy.

Mark Elias. One-man rock in our shoes.


32 posted on 08/09/2022 1:20:22 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: seanmerc

With Marc Elias spouting off, the stench of the Clinton’s is heavily wafting throughout this event. What did the decrepit old whoremonger and the putrid skanky harridan have to do with this insanity?!


33 posted on 08/09/2022 1:22:47 PM PDT by Scott Kraut (Diversity for the sake of diversity is flat out stupidity. )
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To: seanmerc

They are afraid. Very afraid.


34 posted on 08/09/2022 1:26:21 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump pp& MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: Az Joe

It is well established legal doctrine that lawmakers—Congress—cannot add or modify requirements for becoming POTUS beyond the clear letter qualifications listed directly in the Constitution.

They’ve tried in the past, and the USSC shot them down.

This is a nuisance effort, hoping to tie up Trump in legal wranglings before he gets nominated. That’s the entire basis of the banana republic raid. Basically, a hail mary attempt.

Tried similar stuff with MTG recently. Failed.

Elias does this, and always loses. But he has a big fan base in the DOJ, especially Weissman’s people. He had no shortage of willing traitors in DOJ willing to carry the ball on it.

DOJ and FIB need to be defunded and disbanded.


35 posted on 08/09/2022 1:27:33 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: seanmerc

Since when has being ineligible stopped anyone from being president.

Obama. Not eligible.

Biden. Stole it. Not legitimate.

Suck Machine. Not eligible.


36 posted on 08/09/2022 1:28:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: seanmerc

Did they take, or did they place? No doubt planting evidence is completely within their wheelhouse.


37 posted on 08/09/2022 1:30:36 PM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: seanmerc

Andrew McCarthy made him look like a child on his review of the message.


38 posted on 08/09/2022 1:31:20 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: seanmerc

Okay, riddle me this.

The President of the United States is the chief classification authority in the US government. Not the Congress, not the FBI, not any of the mysterious three-lettered agencies, the President.

If a sitting President decides to declassify a document, any document, that is a possession of the US government, he has that authority. Therefore, until the time when he is not the President, he can declassify ANYTHING. Now, would it be right, would it be intelligent, would it be a good thing to declassify certain documents aside as those are deeper questions that each President must answer for himself, he has that authority and can do so.

Now, if a subsequent President, upon learning that a certain document was declassified by his predecessor, decides to reclassify that document he can do that. At that time, the former President must be informed that the document is once again classified and may be required to return it to the US government for safekeeping. BUT, this does not imply that his removing the document in the first place was a felony. It can’t be since, at the time of the removal, the document was properly declassified.

So, by what stretch of legal imagination are they trying to claim that this raid was about classified documents in the possession of the former President? Inquiring minds want to know.

No, FBI claims aside, this is an attempt to smear President Trump’s name in the media and that alone since he can’t be guilty.

If my logic is faulty, let me know where I went wrong here, but I don’t think it is.


39 posted on 08/09/2022 1:34:45 PM PDT by Have Ruck - Will Travel (It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: seanmerc

Except the US Constitution says the qualifications of the president, not law. The liberals suck at law. They abuse it and read things into it, but no law can trump (hehe) the constitution.


40 posted on 08/09/2022 1:36:01 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They have!)
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