Posted on 08/10/2022 4:17:49 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The attorneys for President Donald Trump are now spilling the beans on some of the issues with the FBI raid of his home and the search warrant.
Trump attorney Alina Habba appeared on Fox News with Jesse Watters. She said that they had been cooperating with the National Archives over the records and that this was completely “unconstitutional.” “Our country should be terrified—I am terrified,” Habba exclaimed. She said the FBI went in when he wasn’t even there, and then told his attorneys to leave, that they couldn’t watch or be there. “That doesn’t sound good to me,” she declared.
Habba said the agents came in wearing backpacks, and she was concerned that they could have planted things since they were trying to get the attorneys out of there. Habba said she believed this was all part of the effort to try to take Trump down, and that people were “working in tandem” with other efforts.
“There is more than people know that you’ll be hearing,” Habba explained. “If he wasn’t ahead in the polls, this wouldn’t be happening.” It’s “100 percent” politically motivated, she declared. “I don’t trust the government, and that’s a very frightening thing as an American,” she said. “This is third-world stuff, this is Cuba. This is not our country.”
Watters asked about the warrant, and Habba said the attorneys on the ground weren’t given the warrant during the raid — they were only allowed to look at it.
Now, here’s Trump attorney Christina Bobb on Real America’s Voice. She was the attorney who was on site. She explains that they initially wouldn’t even let her see the warrant, but then did; they were reluctant to let them have it. It’s not clear from what she says if they ultimately were able to obtain it at some point. She also explained that the probable cause for the warrant was sealed, so that they can’t even know what it was unless they go to court to find out.
She confirmed that it was due to the Presidential Records Act, which the host indicated has never been prosecuted–one of the many reasons this “rationale” to seize documents from Trump’s home is ridiculous. She said they also were looking for classified documents. “The irony of both…is it is the president [Trump] himself who gets to decide what is a presidential record. So, why they get to redefine that is unclear and why they get to search, why that’s even in a warrant, it doesn’t really make any sense,” she said. “The same thing with any potential classified information.”
What is ridiculous about all this is how opposed this is to how they treated Hillary Clinton, whose home was never raided, who was never gone after for getting rid of her emails or having classified documents on her private server.
Bobb explained to RSBN how this was completely unprecedented to pursue a former president this way — that Hillary Clinton even took furniture and other items from the White House when the Clintons left, and she just got an email to return things.
On top of what the attorneys said, as I noted in my Trump family reaction story, the FBI also wanted the Mar-a-Lago security cameras shut off while they were conducting their raid. Why? The only thing one can think is that they didn’t want the camera to catch something that they were doing.
So, there’s a lot to be concerned about with the overreach here.
First thing I thought of was FBI planting papers.
did they shut off the cameras? i hope not
I thought one of the main purposes of a warrant was to give a copy to the subject; as in “This is proof we’re allowed to be doing this.”
I wonder how many bugs and video cameras were planted while they were there?
Patriots will be on a razor’s edge heading into November - ANY hint of election fraud may very well light the (short) fuse.
“I don’t trust the government, and that’s a very frightening thing as an American.”
So far as the FBI was concerned, mission accomplished. The intent all along has been to spread fear and intimidation.
If the government cannot make people love them, then surely, they can force people to fear their might.
Per the article
“the FBI also wanted the Mar-a-Lago security cameras shut off while they were conducting their raid. Why? The only thing one can think is that they didn’t want the camera to catch something that they were doing.”
These Rats have 2.5 years left to pull this crap. Think about it.
Someone needs to go over Mar-a-Lago with a fine tooth comb before the family returns to the residence. I trust the FBI about as far as I can throw Hillary.
Why bother planting physical evidence? They can just fabricate it like the “Steele Dossier.” In fact, they probably have “Steele Dossier II” all ready to go.
Obviously the FBI isn’t concerned about being accused of planting evidence, which leads one to believe they are. Russia-gate proved they are capable of any kind of lying and fraud. They have acquired the tactics of the KGB without reservation.
President Trump’s first EO in ‘25 should be to declassify ALL government documents and release everything. We need a clean reset. No more ‘SECRETS’. The FedGov cannot be trusted.
“Overreach”?
How about “storm trooper tactics”
That’s what I’ve always thought, too (based on watching lots of tv cop shows).
Boy, were we dumb and naive to believe that!
This administration needs to be in Venezuela or some other 3rd world shitehole, not the USA.
Will this be their Calctsieu moment? If not, it damn sure should be.
Whadda buch of commie POSs. AINOs: American In Name Only.
Probably microphones the size of a needle planted in the walls. Wow, and CNN scoffed when he said way back when that he was under surveillance. No wonder CNN has lot’s it’s credibility. Why would anyone give them a glance.
Pretty SPINELESS ATTORNEYS!!! And you KNOW that the CORRPT FBI CREEPS PLANTED CRAP...you just KNOW because they are EVIL PEOPLE!
Time to sell the house, its bugged. Hopefully trump took the real docs and hide them in an undisclosed location. I would have left a not in the safe, “your getting warm”
Come in with back packs. My first thought was they will plant something. They can take the boxes and plant something later. Was hoping this political theater. Maybe not. I really hope he had hidden private security cameras..
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