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More problems emerge with the Mar-a-Lago affidavit: The headlines about “classified” or otherwise protected material are either ignorant or dishonest
American Thinker ^ | 08/29/2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 08/29/2022 8:24:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Paul Sperry is an independent journalist who pays attention to facts rather than following the mindless herd that is the mainstream media. That’s why he closely examined the Mar-a-Lago affidavit—or, at least, the parts that remained after DOJ was done with redacting it. That examination was fruitful because Sperry discovered all sorts of problems and inconsistencies on the document’s face (what little of it we can see). Also, I’ll use this post to remind everyone again that nothing in Trump’s possession is classified or can ever be considered classified (or top secret or anything else).

Twitter booted Sperry from the site within a short time of his August 9 tweet (very soon after the Mar-a-Lago) raid, saying that there was speculation that the FBI conducted the raid to grab copies of documents related to the Russia Hoax. Despite the ban, Sperry is continuing to investigate and, with the help of friends, disseminating the results of his investigations.

Image: Mar-a-Lago. YouTube screen grab.

This time around, Sperry has noticed some very strange anomalies in the available portions of the heavily redacted affidavit that purports to justify raiding the property of a former United States president:




pic.twitter.com/6u7FG4RONg — RCInvestigations (@RCInvestigates) August 27, 2022





pic.twitter.com/qxNLpnmf9M — RCInvestigations (@RCInvestigates) August 28, 2022

Add it to the list!!!


pic.twitter.com/Yqo6wqsCFL — 2001Governmenttakeover ALL BY DESIGN (@2001Great) August 27, 2022

That’s heavy-duty stuff: suspiciously cagey language, potential traps, possible destruction of evidence harming the FBI, and a list of proven hoaxes against Trump. No wonder Twitter doesn’t want Sperry on the site: He’s the truth bomb that could blow up all the lies about Mar-a-Lago.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affidavit; classified; maralago; raid
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1 posted on 08/29/2022 8:24:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably both.


2 posted on 08/29/2022 8:26:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The author also found the following on Facebook, that needs to be addressed:



Retrieved in January 2022

184 unique classified documents

92 secret documents

67 confidential documents

25 top secret documents

ABC news.

Every single one of those highlighted words is completely wrong. Those classifications (which should not have been leaked, of course) come from pencil pushers; that is, hired bureaucrats assigned those classifications to the documents. There is only one person in the land who can officially classify and declassify documents, and that is the President of the United States. He gets that plenary power through the Constitution and the will of We the People, who elected him.

To the extent bureaucrats assign classifications to documents, they do so only through delegated power. No matter how many little red rubber stamps they use to mark up documents, it is the president who has the final say. Not the Department of Justice, not the FBI, and certainly not some soggy little bureaucrats in the National Archives.

In this case, Trump issued a standing order declassifying all documents related to the Russia Hoax. That is enough to override everything else. But even if he hadn’t given a standing order, his plenary power means that, when he acted in a way that effectively declassified the documents, that action had the full force and effect of a verbal order doing so. The power is all his. Because there’s no evidence that Biden tried to re-classify the documents, they are declassified, and everything to the contrary is sheer ignorance or a blatant lie. (This charge of ignorance or dishonesty applies to RINO GOP Sen. Roy Blunt, of course.)

The Mar-a-Lago raid gets stinkier with every passing day, and the media is spinning more frantically. I only hope that Trump’s lawyers and spokespeople are capable and can make the right case both in the court (which has no right to override Trump’s declassification actions) and to the American people.

3 posted on 08/29/2022 8:26:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s lots of problems with the affidavit the biggest problem being constitutionally, you don’t present the affidavit AFTER the search, you present it BEFORE the search and it must contain reasonable evidence or PROBABLE CAUSE of a crime.


4 posted on 08/29/2022 8:29:42 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently the creeps at the highest levels of governments have found they can manuipulate millions with hyperbolic headlines.

BLM, covid, the Ukraine, the “big lie”, and now this.


5 posted on 08/29/2022 8:31:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Go with “DISHONEST”. And that’s putting it mildly.


6 posted on 08/29/2022 8:34:07 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did the FBI hire that Spy that tried to infiltrate the facility and gain access to info


7 posted on 08/29/2022 8:34:16 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Jim W N

Breaking: DOJ reveals they found a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney client privilege items”.

Seems to me that should be up to a special master to determine. It also supports the claim this was a general search warrant, nothing was specifically mentioned.

Furthermore, the fact they cracked a safe supports a claim the warrant was based on incorrect information. The fact they searched for something and not found it where it was claimed to be is exculpatory.


8 posted on 08/29/2022 8:36:26 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe that PDJT didn’t, just, declassify everything to do with the Russian Collusion Hoax, but also the Shrillary email investigation.
Possibly, the DNC email / Wikileaks thingy?
That last one is just a guess.


9 posted on 08/29/2022 8:37:53 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lady Democracy starts to look like a low-cost hooker. At least, that’s how the Democrats use her.


10 posted on 08/29/2022 8:39:51 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw this morning that Newt Gingrich expects President Trump to be indicted.

I agree with Mr Newt. I too expect him to be indicted AFTER the November election. The Uniparty is scared poopless of a second Trump Term and are desperate to get him out of the picture. The Uniparty and their Just-us Dept. know with any indictment will come a pretty fierce pushback. But after the election, nothing will come of that pushback.
So, with an indictment, they are one step closer to having President Trump declared ineligible to hold public office.


11 posted on 08/29/2022 8:43:51 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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To: Mouton
Breaking: DOJ reveals they found a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney client privilege items”.

The issue is that anything taken from this search is FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE and INADMISSABLE AS EVIDENCE because it was unreasonably and illegally obtained from an unconstitutional search that failed a show of PROBABLE CAUSE BEFORE THE SEARCH thus violating the 4th Amendment.

If they ever charge Trump, he will immediately move to exclude and dismiss based on the whole flawed and illegal process.

12 posted on 08/29/2022 8:44:29 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Those classifications (which should not have been leaked, of course) come from pencil pushers; that is, hired bureaucrats assigned those classifications to the documents. There is only one person in the land who can officially classify and declassify documents, and that is the President of the United States. He gets that plenary power through the Constitution and the will of We the People, who elected him.”

Although POTUS is the ultimate classification authority, there are thousands of “classification authorities” (people who can determine the classification level of a document), and they range from senior NCOs to general officers and civilians with the appropriate clearance and training.


13 posted on 08/29/2022 8:51:57 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Tupelo

He can run and be elected even from prison. The only qualifications for POTUS are in the Constitution. Any laws passed by Congress cannot add any new qualifications. Only amending the Constitution can change the requirements.


14 posted on 08/29/2022 9:01:26 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It isn’t ignorant. It is both dishonest and malignant.


15 posted on 08/29/2022 9:08:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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So the FBi warned Twitter that Paul Sperry was spreading “disinformation?”


16 posted on 08/29/2022 9:10:44 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden?)
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To: jagusafr

Their power to classify is a delegated power that flows from the President.


17 posted on 08/29/2022 9:19:42 AM PDT by curious7
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To: Jim W N

“The issue is that anything taken from this search is FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE and INADMISSABLE AS EVIDENCE because it was unreasonably and illegally obtained from an unconstitutional search that failed a show of PROBABLE CAUSE BEFORE THE SEARCH thus violating the 4th Amendment.”
That is definitely one of the arrows that the Trump legal team will be using. Trump’s 3 passports were taken illegally. Also, some of the documents that were taken may involve Trump getting advice while serving as President.


18 posted on 08/29/2022 9:19:47 AM PDT by convoter2016
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To: PghBaldy

“He can run and be elected even from prison.”

I am sure you are much More knowledgeable than I.

By the way, there was at one time a Constitutional requirement that a president had to be a “Natural Born Citizen”.
So my question to you is; Which amendment changed that?


19 posted on 08/29/2022 9:28:12 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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To: curious7

Correct, but the statement made it sound like POTUS personally is the only class’n Authority.


20 posted on 08/29/2022 9:37:35 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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