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Eric Trump revealed FBI agents refused to hand over the search warrant for their raid on Mar-a-Lago and kicked an attorney off the property in a new, incisive account of the Monday operation at the Florida estate. Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, the former president's son said the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off – but they refused. He also said that the attorney was forced to stand at the end of the Mar-a-Lago driveway while the team searched inside - and allegedly used safe crackers to break into his father's safe. He...

One thing that neither Barack Obama nor his acolytes in politics and the media lacked was confidence. DAVID BROOKS: So there's a lot of very smart people [around Obama], and it's a testament to Obama's confidence. You know, there was a great quote in a Ryan Lizza piece in the New Yorker about Obama's confidence. And I'm not going to get it exactly right, but he essentially said, "I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policy than my policy directors. I think I'm a better political director than my political director." It was a speech of...

H/T to Patterico It's truly an upsidedown world. This AM I get an email from Curt asking me to do a post on the above report by Patterico. It's an eye-opening piece on the "Self-styled police “expert” Merrick Bobb", and his habitual forgetfulness to disclose a conflict of interest with one of his own, in-house consultants when playing civilian "police watchdog". With the civilian micromanaging and "recommendations" being thrust upon the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department by Bobb for over a decade, this is a subject near and dear to Curt's heart. Our FA "founding father", however, finds himself unable to...