This unprecedented move in History in exchange for a Billion dollars was in MAR 2016. Over Six years ago.
Think they would get to it by now.
Posted on 08/23/2022 7:21:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, had “no legal basis,” according to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by former White House and Department of Justice lawyers David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey.
In their op-ed, Rivkin and Casey argue that the Presidential Records Act of 1978 allowed Trump to have the records allegedly in his possession, and that the general statutes cited in the search warrant — such as the Espionage Act — do not override it.
They note:
The warrant authorized the FBI to seize “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§793, 2071, or 1519” (emphasis added). These three criminal statutes all address the possession and handling of materials that contain national-security information, public records or material relevant to an investigation or other matters properly before a federal agency or the courts.
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The PRA lays out detailed requirements for how the archivist is to administer the records, handle privilege claims, make the records public, and impose restrictions on access. Notably, it doesn’t address the process by which a former president’s records are physically to be turned over to the archivist, or set any deadline, leaving this matter to be negotiated between the archivist and the former president.
Read the full op-ed here.
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Rule of Law left the building awhile ago.
They can get Trump simply because they don’t like him. Just need to find the right judge.
It’s not the Rule of Law. It’s the Rule of $Judge$
OBVIOUSLY.
When the newspaper “of record” in the United States of America prints the headline, “Trump Kept Over 700 Pages of Classified Documents, Letter Says”, trying to imply Trump did a very illegal thing, when he in fact did not, because as president the law allows him to instantly classify/declassify records, you know they’re purposely gunning for him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-fbi-letter.html
They don’t care that the headline is an outrageous lie, and that lie is explained in the details—it’s enough just to get that flung on the wall so the busy reader might not know it is indeed a lie.
I wonder if any of the “reporters” at the top papers are old enough to remember the Oklahoma City Bombing?..../s
If I had to pick one man I would trust with classified, top secret info, more than anyone else, it would be DJ Trump...And so would they.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-fbi-letter.html
They don’t care that the headline is an outrageous lie, and that lie is explained in the details—it’s enough just to get that flung on the wall so the busy reader might not know it is indeed a lie.
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Such is the sad state our precious country had slid into. Smear pukes with no integrity formerly referred to as “journalists”.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
So let’s raid the homes of GW Bush, the Clintons, the Obama’s. And as soon as Joe B is out, let’s raid his stuff.
Why wait? SWAT Joetato’s office now.
He proved that Executive Privilege is a sham so he deserves the consequences.
I agree. Also, the nuclear launch codes.
The WSJ seems right on top of this, now that half of the
nation is on the record.
Maybe the paper sounded off before.
“Also, the nuclear launch codes.”
Seriously, if the codes were not changed when the Resident was we should not even consider paying taxes.
If they want to call them double classified blue dog pinky swear secrets so what? Bust em all. The institutions should come clean on their own, but they wont.
Of course the codes were changed.
Doesn’t matter.
Just enjoy the ride toward communism, peasants!
The DOJ and the judge should all be criminally charged under Rico since they all conspired to commit a criminal act.
The codes are changed daily, sometimes hourly.
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