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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FBI and DOJ goons
Goons
Acting as enemies of The United States on behalf of nations hostile to The United States.
“Passports” don’t appear on the receipt of documents taken by the FBI. Funny that.
It was found before it was lost.
“Over-collected?”
Interesting way of putting it. I wonder if the warrant can be quashed and anything taken be ruled inadmissible?
Poisoned fruit.
I had read they claimed they didn’t take his passports.
Imagine what they will do to mere citizens.
Why does it take two weeks to return what was illegally taken?
Taking attorney-client privileged information has become standard practice for the FIBbers. They did the same to Project Veritas and then leaked it to the press.
They will not stop this stuff until some top people go to jail for a substantial amount of time. Unfortunately, republican party leaders are all words and no action. They make an appearance of being outraged and then hold things off for their friends.
“after they LOOK at all the documents protected by attorney-client privilege they will gladly return them!”
That’s actually pretty serious. They apparently confiscated every piece of paper they could find. Correspondence between Trump and his lawyers could give them all sorts of bad ideas and noone would ever be able to prove to satisfaction of a Justice Reinhart or other Obama/Epstein judge that they got their lead from privileged information.
It boggles my mind how the FBI operates. If they can’t hack into your electronic accounts, if they can’t twist someone’s arm to lie about you, then they will find a reason to go into your home and grab everything on paper in the hopes of finding contacts, secret notes, appointment schedules, whatever. They raided Project Veritas, they raided Trump’s attorneys, they indicted his former assistants, and now they raided Trump’s own home. What next? Will they will give him truth serum, interrogate him in some dingy basement, and imply that people who keep their mouths shut have healthier families?
No! HEADS NEED TO ROLL ON THIS! This is NOT an oops moment!
When regular humans do this it’s called a home invasion.
ALL they had to do was check the database for passports, it lists who leaves the country, 2 weeks you can fake anything.
When I had to do my Patriot Act Recertification, the DL just photo copied my passport and handed it back.
AFTER they ZEROX-———
I hear from a reliable source that they found several overdue library books during the raid and that Trump will be prosecuted for possession of these books.
Yea, NorDUH O'Donnell had that news on her show last night.
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile Aamerican sheeple will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Two weeks??? WTF???
Two weeks?? That’s interesting, because it only took the FBI 8 days to go through 650,000 of Hillary’s missing emails that they found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
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