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Files Seized From Trump Are Part of Espionage Act Inquiry
NYTimes ^ | 08/13/2022

Posted on 08/13/2022 5:34:34 AM PDT by devane617

Federal agents removed top secret documents when they searched former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence on Monday as part of an investigation into possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws, according to a search warrant made public on Friday.

F.B.I. agents seized 11 sets of documents in all, including some marked as “classified/TS/SCI” — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to an inventory of the materials seized in the search. Information categorized in that fashion is meant to be viewed only in a secure government facility.

It was the latest stunning revelation from the series of investigations swirling around his efforts to retain power after his election loss, his business practices and, in this case, his handling of government material that he took with him when he left the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; burger; creepstate; deepstate; maralagoraid; mediabias; nothing; policestate; singlepartystate; tyranny
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I hope someone else reads this article because I gather the NYT is describing a big nothing-burger. Seems to me like this article tries to knock off the sharp corners of this situation because after a review they know it's all BS.
1 posted on 08/13/2022 5:34:34 AM PDT by devane617
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They are throwing EVERYTHING at Trump in the desperate hope that something sticks. And, really, they have been doing that ever since he announced in 2015. Unfortunately, I think most people with a brain are wise to their machinations.


2 posted on 08/13/2022 5:38:01 AM PDT by rbg81
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SCIF. I have had access to a sensitive compartmented intelligence facility in both a contractor facility and a government facility. So a SCIF could be established in a former president’s home.
So there.


3 posted on 08/13/2022 5:41:29 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: devane617

It is amazing how so many people have so different theories as to what was going on in the raid.


4 posted on 08/13/2022 5:41:49 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: devane617

The democrat party propaganda machine is in full afterburner.


5 posted on 08/13/2022 5:42:42 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: rbg81

They got nothing but Melania’s underwear. Merrick Garbage is a laughingstock. Deserves hanging. Along with every piece of human, low IQ garbage in the FBI.

Not a single piece of shit down to the guy who cleans the toilets is not a traitor.

Losers.


6 posted on 08/13/2022 5:44:28 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: devane617

Buncha pearl clutchers.

The Slimes has an array of strategically placed fainting [feinting?] couches?


7 posted on 08/13/2022 5:45:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: mountainlion

It does not make sense that they are looking for classified information.

They know Trump has the power to declassify anything.

Something else is afoot or they are really stupid.


8 posted on 08/13/2022 5:51:34 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: devane617

Any articles put out by The NY Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, MSNBC, NBC, THE AP, BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, YAHOO NEWS and others will be carefully crafted and worded propaganda fed to them by the deep state apparatus.
1. Peter Strozk and Lisa Page planned and texted one another about a “leak campaign“ to the Washington Post” against Trump and this is documented.

2. They leaked info about Carter Page.

3. James Comey leaked to a college professor classified information which was then further leaked to The NY Times about a private meeting with Trump.

We have the pattern now.

Deep state does dirty deed or in some way instigates a set up operation.
A large portion of their strategy is to leak lies to one of the media outlets mentioned above and then point to the news story to justify their unlawful behavior.

So this weekend I am looking for the planted leaked stories that will be put out. Case in point: The weird article about nuclear secrets put out by the Washington Post. If you read it it doesn’t have any facts, just wild here say from “ someone who spoke on the condition of anonymity “

How stupid do these folks think we are?

And Fox News will echo all of this false narrative stuff for days especially Brett Bair.


9 posted on 08/13/2022 5:52:48 AM PDT by DOGHEAD
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To: rbg81

Now the Federal persecutors (not prosecutors, there is no discretion available to them) are just making $h!+ up. There is no “espionage”, and this is not an inquiry in any way, shape, form, or manner, it is just and ever-expanding accusation and presumed guilt.

And never, ever, count on the majority of people having the necessary critical thinking to see through this farce.

“Get all the fools on your side, got the majority in any town.”


10 posted on 08/13/2022 5:53:59 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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Trump spends four years as President, and all they can come up with is 11 documents that are a year and a half old? They must not be very important. Was he trying to sell them? Make his own nuclear bomb in his basement?
Another nothingburger.


11 posted on 08/13/2022 5:56:05 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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So we’re supposed to get upset because Trump is the first person in American history to bring formerly classified documents into his house.

Right...

If this doesn’t get him, the Deep State’s only recourse will be to prosecute him for jaywalking.

After all, no one is above the law.


12 posted on 08/13/2022 5:56:53 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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Let’s pray that their evil attempts to falsely accuse Trump backfire Bigly on them and result in democrat losses for decades to come because of their despicable deceit. Thr ruddia nonsense should,have been enough to cause Americans to vote the ,iars out of office, and I guess it kind of did, but this latest despicable false accusations agaisnt Trump may hopefully be a bridge too far, and causemeven liberals to turn on them


13 posted on 08/13/2022 5:58:22 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: devane617

To resolve this raid and these “Espionage” lies in court will take months. The Dems have used this tactic from 2016 onward, During these 4-5-6 months, the leaks and agitprop come out to trash Donald Trump so much so, that he cannot run effectively.
And the judicial process will take place in DC where jurors are 100% brainwashed Democrap. So all bets are off as far as truth and fair verdicts coming out.

Prediction -— It will be Governor Ron DeSantis vs Governor Hair Gel in November 2024


14 posted on 08/13/2022 5:59:28 AM PDT by dennisw
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It will be Trump. Brain dead.


15 posted on 08/13/2022 6:02:31 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Bob434

All that matters is the accusation that will solidify the leftwing. Any losses of leftwing vote, no matter how small, is disaster and the end of the radical left wing Democrat party.

The premise for the hoax is that ninety days of incessant propaganda will solidify the party and assure voter turn out.


16 posted on 08/13/2022 6:02:32 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: devane617

I refuse to read it, as well, but the tell in these articles is usually in the last paragraph, in weaselly forms such as,

“Sources caution that pending additional scrutiny and corollary investigations the matter remains indeterminate.”


17 posted on 08/13/2022 6:04:06 AM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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To: Erik Latranyi

They know the media and the base will support them if it concerns Trump and in reality any republican.

For whatever reason many seem to think the law, facts or precedent matter. They raided an rx-presidents house after all. .


18 posted on 08/13/2022 6:07:27 AM PDT by ALX
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To: devane617

It is all a lie, of course. President Trump declassified the documents.


19 posted on 08/13/2022 6:09:34 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: joma89

Yep. All former democrat presidents, including GWB, should be worried. Once Pandora’s box is opened, it won’t be shut.


20 posted on 08/13/2022 6:09:42 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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