They wanted to get their hands on the “Crossfire Hurricane” documents so that Trump could not use them against them. They also wanted to gather any information they could find on his plans and intentions to start preparing countermeasures.
There was no real expectation that they would find anything they could actually use against him (although they were hoping), but they still considered it worth doing because if it all falls to pieces, the Democrats will just step back, point to the FBI and say it was all their fault.
“could be enough to obliterate the Department of Justice’s case against Trump.”
Facts don’t matter these days.
The paperwork could have obvious outright fabrications and lies and it doesn’t matter.
The DOJ has a case against Trump? I had no idea.
language seems vague for an affidavit
who cares what an affiant believes?
Hence the reason damn near the entire thing is one big sharpie.
“there is probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises,” ….. for there to be obstruction, there has to be an action that prevented law enforcement from doing something.
The National Archives or the radical leftist running it, cannot be obstructed.
If Pres Trump ignored a subpoena, then the court/judge that issued the subpoena would demand that he show, in court, for a hearing to explain his actions.
Now, if he didn’t show up for court he gets banged for Failure to Appear, which could be obstruction
If the judges orders him to hand over stuff requested in the subpoena and he doesn’t, obstruction.
I really haven’t been following this whole thing all that much. Perhaps someone can clarify. Where does the judge work? What part of the country? Is he a federal magistrate in a Florida or DC?
If I’m working in A County and I need to go to B County to look for evidence, an A County judge can’t approve a search warrant for the location. I would have to go to B County and present my case to a judge there.
In the non-get-Trump world, there have been murder trials lost because of evidence excluded as a result of a single tiny error in a search warrant.
The Dersh seems to feel that they can get something they can use on Trump. But the Dersh is still a member of the dimmocommie party...
If only Trump had just released copies of the documents right after he de-classified them.
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$600,000 to build a classified document storage facility on premises to store documents he is now not supposed to have?
That seems more than just a little odd doesn’t it?
Of course it does. This is all a setup.
They knew all along they would never have a case against him that would hold up in court. What they wanted is to play it up in the media with selective leaks and lies that he is guilty. Then they will enpanel a grand jury in DC which will be 95 percent Obama people and the rest never Trumpers. They will then indict him. the DC appeals court is all Biden and Obama judges they will uphold it. It will eventually get to the supreme court. Meanwhile is all you will hear on the news is that he is guilty and indicted. The brainless masses in the country will believe indictment means you are convicted
What case, the whole thing is a made-up fraud to change the election.
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It doesn't make sense to me that Trump would later store important documents in a place where his enemies could get at it.
I have seen claims that Biden has waived executive privilege with regard to Trump. That seems ridiculous on its face. No President has the authority to decrease the power of the Presidency. That power is created by the Constitution and is not Biden's to modify. The claim that Biden has the power to re-classify documents that have been declassified by Trump would seem to be something that ought to be addressed by the Supreme Court on an emergency basis.
I'm thinking that Trump may be so certain about the support he might get from the Supreme Court in this matter that he may be purposely dragging his feet so as to get his enemies to over-reach and extend their conspiracy.
I'm still waiting for Durham to reveal who sent Mifsud to Papadopolous. Who provided the $10,000 cash that Tawil supplied to George? Who sent the FBI to intercept George's flight home? Durham is mistaken if he thinks all of us will simply forget about all this.
Are the feds stupid enough to believe that there was only one set of info on “crossfire hurricane”? They are screwed!
This tells me the affiant is that National Archives Trump hater.
If the Archive gods get in such a panic about these documents then WHY are the Presidents allowed to leave with them? Let Archive take them all and let the President go to them and pick out what he wants. Then the god of the Archive will forever be in charge and happy-until the dems are in charge and then it is OK to take them.
The strategy for the FBI is in for a penny, in for a pound. Getting an indictment on Trump would be gravy, and they were certainly not concerned with breaking the law. They went there for nine hours with over thirty armed agents with loaded backpacks when that kind of effort is blatant overkill.
They were looking for something, and when they could not find it in the vault, they broke into the safe, and when they couldn’t find it in the safe, they went looking in Melania’s closet. They must have ransacked every square inch of the place.
I hope that Trump is prepared for future raids and the Crossfire Hurricane may be an attempted crossfire.