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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That's a blatant lie. It was clear theft. They knew they were passports and took them anyway.
In many other countries wouldn’t all in involved in the raid be held on treason charges?.
Why won’t they release the findings in their charges.
Top. Men.
I saw that. Also that Trump’s people had to go get the passports.
Exactly. They admit they took privileged documents. This “judge” needs be impeached. Same crap with his attorney having his work products being perused. Someone needs put that judge on the record for why he feels a fishing expedition through privileged documents needs be done. Watch the bastard hem and haw on that one because there is NO reason. We will give them back in a few weeks is NOT the proper reason. Proper to not take them, somewhat proper to return them ASAP, not after they go through them.
They would never have done this to Bill And Hillary Clinton who are real criminals.
Two weeks? How does it take to make copies?
Oh they finally finished investigating the Ark?
The judge, Rienheart, had just recused himself, as judge in PDJT’s civil suit against Shrillary and others, over the Russian collusion hoax.
He, also, quit working for the prosecutors in Epstein’s powder puff plea deal and went to work for Epstein.
A real, slimey POS.
Hereafter known as the “Coordinated DNC - FBI 8/8 Trump political opponent home invasion”. If they can do it him then no one is safe in the USA!! (You know they purposely did it on the anniversary of the Nixon resignation! The warrant was issued on 8/5!)
Ah, just enough time to copy all relevant docs in their hands before returning them.
So, if you take things during a RAID, that the court did not authorize you to take, what do you call that?
Is there a legal definition of the unauthorized removal of items?
Would it not be theft?
“occasionally “ we take things we shouldn’t.
2 weeks should be long enough to figure out what directions to proceed in...
They “over collected”?
How about: “they violated the Constitution and committed gross illegal acts”.
Not only that, have the estate checked for the presence of KungFlu virus, just in case, ya know. Who knows how many of those disease carriers left little ‘cooties’ behind?
Be sure it is reported internationally... “the public needs to know” after all.
“DOJ Admits FBI Over-Collected Trump Docs In Their Raid, Will Give Back Passports and Privileged Docs in the ‘Next Two Weeks’”
After they copied them.
“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.
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What a casual, breezy and flippant statement regarding violating the 4th Amendment Rights of a former President of the United States.
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