Posted on 08/16/2022 8:47:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When a phalanx of SWATted-out FBI agents descended upon Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, they also walked off with boxes of what the DOJ claimed were “classified” documents, photographs, the former president’s passports, and privileged legal documents that, the last time we checked, the Trump-Russia collusion hoaxers or any other government actor shouldn’t put their prying fingers on.
Now, according to Just the News, we’ve learned that the FBI will give back President Trump’s passports and documents containing privileged information between the former president and his attorneys. No doubt the Justice Department will be reading and copying the documents as they prepare to return them. It may be why the DOJ estimates it will take two weeks to get Trump back his property.
The department was making plans Monday evening to return the passports and has also alerted defense lawyers the FBI may have obtained materials covered by various privileges that will be returned in the next two weeks, two sources told Just the News.
DOJ has designated a process for separating materials that could be covered by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege, the sources said.
“Occasionally a warrant collection can grab things outside the scope authorized by the court and the department is now following a procedure we would for any person affected this way,” one official said Monday night.
The sources spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the communications between the two sides are confidential.
This announcement came after The Daily Beast’s Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who now works at a New York City law firm, wrote, “Former President Donald Trump says the Department of Justice must ‘immediately’ return the documents seized from his office and residence at Mar-A-Lago because of alleged violations of ‘attorney-client’ material and ‘executive’ privileged material.”
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This issue of the taking of the passport would not have been known had Trump not made a big stink about it in his Truth Social media platform ( had he tweeted it on Twitter, it might not even see the light of day )
Considering that the warrant was overly broad, which used to be unconstitutional, the fact that FBI agents took Trump’s passports and privileged legal documents to which they weren’t entitled may not be so surprising.
The fact that the DOJ is fighting to hide the reasons behind the raid does nothing to inspire the already rickety confidence in the department.
Clearly, a fishing expedition.
Why in the f*** does he Trump to wait two weeks? So the FBI can reproduce fakes to implicate him in something else?
after they LOOK at all the documents protected by attorney-client privilege they will gladly return them!
I wonder how long the FBI agents took sniffing Melanie’s panties.
I thought I read that his passports HAD been given back.
Maybe not. If not, they’ll play a waiting game, never intending to return the documents. Trust in the US Justice Dept. has evaporated, as long as Merrick has anything to do with it.
He should demand them now like today like within an hour! POS! I’m telling you no one trust the FBI anymore this shenanigan scam they pulled literally destroyed any credibility they had.
You don’t say! Who woulda thunk it...
‘Next Two Weeks’
Yeah. That should give them enough time to go over the privileged information in the documents pretty thoroughly.
They need time to make copies and decide what they can alter to create a crime.
Two weeks?
I’ll be goshdamned.
It took 9 hours to take everything...they should only take 9 hours to return the requested documents.
The FBI is backpedaling. Got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It will be hard for them to run away from their stink.
Indict Trump and his supporters on bogus “crimes.”
Show trials in DeeCee with corrupt judges and Swamp juries.
Send the FBI Gestapo to raid any Federal judges who may rule against the crooked proceedings.
What’s most obvious in the war on Trump and we “deplorables” and J6 show farce is it’s a back door confession the 2020 election was stolen (they know we know). If Bogus Joe really got 81 million votes why would they care and show such fear of a “defeated” president. The Deep State is a wounded animal and very dangerous.
But the judge hasn't done that.
Every day Trump is without his belongings should be very expensive to those who took them.
After the criminal FBI has copied all attorney client privileged paperwork.
Disband theFBI.
But this is the first time they said atty/client documents would be returned.
I believe Trump called for a Special Master which is what Hillary had....AFTER her attorneys had "wiped a lot of her emails" with a cloth.
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