Posted on 08/09/2022 8:21:08 AM PDT by bitt
The court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is another unmistakable signal that the Justice Department is trying to build a criminal case against him arising out of the Capitol riot.
Ostensibly, the search relates to a long simmering dispute between the former president and the government over Trump’s potentially illegal retention and mishandling of classified information. But don’t be deceived.
National Archives officials alerted the Justice Department months ago regarding missing records and possible classified information violations. That owes to the chaotic atmosphere in which the Trump family decamped to Florida from the White House following the Capitol riot – with impeachment proceedings and even talk of removing Trump from office under the 25th Amendment then underway.
Reportedly, about 15 boxes of records were removed from the White House and shipped to Mar-a-Lago. The National Archives subsequently explained that much of the material should have been kept in the government’s possession, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act. After extensive negotiations, Trump agreed to return some of the materials in January 2022. Upon receipt, National Archives officials advised the Justice Department that the returned materials included classified information.
If true, that raises several issues. If Trump had not declassified these materials while he was president, then his continuing possession of them in a non-secure location was probably illegal. While presidents have unilateral authority to declassify intelligence, they only maintain that authority while in office – it may not be exercised in the post-presidency. The returned documents were thus potentially evidence of crimes. In addition, since it is believed Trump did not return everything that was shipped out of the White House in those hectic days of January 2021, there was significant reason to suspect he continued to retain classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
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What is the evidence that Trump failed to return everything the MarxistDemocrats asked for?
McCarthy still thinks he colleagues at DOJ/FBI have integrity and it’s 1992. Those people are gone and replaced with Marxist partisan scumbags from the AG and FBI director to the field agents, secretaries to the bloody janitors who clean the toilets. If your resume has FBI/DOJ on it and it’s turned into me it’s going straight to the trash can you cannot be trusted and in the last seven years your oath-word is worthless as a bucket of goat snot.
Once a praetorian, always a praetorian.
I heard that some woman died.
I think the raid was about trying to seize whatever Trump has on the FBI.
I understood he couldn’t if arrested.
Nope, he could run for President from jail if he wants to.
Well I don’t know about that but hopefully will never see that.
Well I don’t know about that but hopefully will never see that.
McCarthy is a douchebag, always has been. His one redeeming character is that he ultimately yields to reality.
If you read the article, you’ll see his argument for the headline, that maybe there is evidence the FIB found in the documents that shows that Trump knows that the 2020 election was not stolen.
Disingenuous argument that assumes that the election was not stolen.
Anyone got McArthy’s email to send him a link to 2,000 Mules?
Ahole.
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