Posted on 08/16/2022 6:53:18 AM PDT by CaptainK
That brings us to the second question: Why weren’t the passports listed on the inventory? FBI agents certainly know what passports look like. The inventory is a legal record of everything the FBI took out of Trump’s home in executing the search. There may be some understandable fuzziness on the identity of each and every single sheet of paper in those boxes, but passports are unique and instantly recognizable — and look nothing like the documents in question.
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I would go further to opine that taking something like a passport may be a tactic to later help create the illusion of wanting to follow the rules when they are returned. A bit like placing some demand in a negotiation that you fully intend to give up so the other guy will feel he’s getting something for what he’s giving up.
It’s all part of the daily catch from the illegal FBI fishing expedition that Merrick Garland authorized as part of his domestic terrorism program. Everyone connected to this needs to be fired.
It was the easiest way to make whatever stories they’re going to make up, match his entry stamps. Or, maybe, add a few of their own.
Melania better check her underwear.
They know the camera footage can be posted and any time.
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Yes, but will it?
Personally, I wouldn’t release it all at once. Better to drag it out by showing snippets at opportune times. JMHO
I suspect that the DOJ/FBI has some internal conflicts over this mission, and perhaps their instructions from 2446 Belmont Road, NW have not ben completely clear.
The DOJ/FBI has completely be-clowned itself.
Not one person will be fired.
The Swamp protects its own.
And that includes all the players from the top to the bottom of the establishment.
So, fishing, looking for a crime, establishing a timeline, in other words.
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The JC inquisition is obviously struggling to find anything on Trump.
I agree 100%.
On TS I suggested making campaign ads using snippets of footage.
But save that Ace in the hole.
Make plenty of copies.
Also Box marked A14 is not a description. This thing was totally unprofessional.
With that much time and people they could have documented, photographed and measured every single item.
If they wanted to.
It made for a great story that Trump was a “flight risk” and the left ate it up.
AMEN
All recent US Passports contain an RFID chip already.
The fbi broke the law and its agents need to spend their remaining miserable lives in jail.
They didn’t return them — Trump’s team had to go pick them up.
The corruptiFeds® should have driven to Mar-a-Lago and delivered them along with anything else that they stole — including Melania’s panties...
Agreed. By admitting they took it, the “Fruit of the poisoned tree” rule means the chain of custody of virtually everything else is tainted. Thus whatever was in the search should be thrown out.
That is, of course under normal American Jurist Prudence rules.
This is wrong on so many levels. Having done multiple search warrants you normally have one person who does the inventory. He/she lists every item that is taken with a description that can be readily identified. If there are multiple like items (tax returns) they can be lumped together as “tax returns 2010-2020” then placed in a box and be box sealed by the officer taking inventory just to maintain chain of custody.
The return looks like a hot mess. There is nothing that indicates what document was found, where it was found, and who found it. There is no “chain of custody” established for most of what was taken. A good attorney and a honest judge would excoriate whomever applied for the warrant. In a “real” court of law, it’s doubtful anything found in the search and labeled “documents” would be admissible.
Are there any laws that actually govern how these enforcement agencies are meant to behave? This all seems so far above and beyond their formal mandate.
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