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.
Some pundits keep repeating that the FBI will find nothing which may be true. However, whatever they don’t find, they will manufacture.
You are very correct. I am reading the book that Jordan Peterson recommended, "The Gulag Archipelago". You can take today's latest events and replace them with events from the past, it is scary how similar this communist take over is.
Hope he had private cameras. Preferably hidden. He knew this was coming. Just another chess move.
This is not America.
His house was never raided. He took it "inadvertently" they said. He did not take any earth rocks inadvertently.
True story.
wearing backpacks?
>>>Ya I seriously doubt he would have anything incriminating at his house... They got nuthin..
Yeah but it’s legal to lie! Recall Adam Schiff altering President Trump & President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telephone transcripts even before the official WH transcripts were released?
There are very insidious acts going on even in public & it seems all one sided.
This was my very first thought.
Not that they would do anything unethical . .
And you don’t think the oligarchs are lusting for that as their excuse to declare ... oh never mind, this banana republic will be full of surprises through November. The oligarchy wants violence ... they will fabricate whatever they need to deny we the peope any chance at reclaiming our sovereign responsibilities as the actula rulers of a now dead American Republic.
That was a story released from a book deal with some NY Times reporter.
“Spilling the beans” has a negative connotation. If all you read is the headline then it reads as “Trump’s attorney confesses.” Probably this is intensional.
While Trump was in office how much data on Biden’s crime family could he have accumulated? How dangerous to the regime is such data? Why would the regime not raid Trump’s home(s) to remove such data from ever being aired to we the people? I mean, Hunter’s laptops are fbi protected so the big guy needs protecting, too! ...
“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”. I would have been concerned that they were stealing the silverware and all of the MAGA hats that they could find.
The only way IMO the FIB could really press charges would be to plant something and then get the trial moved to the District of Corruption. Outside of their little DC fiefdom, nobody who is not a hardcore Leftist trust the FIB at all anymore. The fact that they insisted the cameras be turned off means no jury is going to buy whatever it is they try to sell.....aside from a DC jury of course....
Last paragraph says they wanted the cameras turned off.
Sorry friend - we will never get there. Deep State will make sure of that, with election-stealing tactics doubling what they did last time.
AND Trump will be both indicted and convicted by then, and likely imprisoned.
There is no one to stop them.
No one.
But God..........
The FBI is created out of a presidential executive order. We can only hope Trump gets back in and cancels the FBI.
...and God is busy judging America for its many sins...primarily abortion and gay marriage...
Who else wears backpacks? (Antifa)
I’m amazed Trumps Secret Service unit didn’t raise more of a ruckus. Especially when they wanted surveillance cameras turned off.
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