The FBI had been planning the raid for weeks after receiving information from a confidential source about allegedly classified documents being stored at Mar-a-Lago. Newsweek reported the informant both identified the documents and told investigators where they were located.
A senior Justice Department official condemned the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as a “spectacular backfire” for triggering a tsunami of backlash against the Justice Department.
Two senior DOJ officials spoke with Newsweek and disclosed new details about what led up to the raid.
According to one official, the FBI specifically planned to conduct the raid when former President Donald Trump was not present at Mar-a-Lago. Trump was in New York at the time of the raid, Fox News reported.
“What a spectacular backfire,” the senior DOJ official said of the FBI’s attempt to keep the raid “low-key.”
We have no reason to trust AG Garland’s integrity after he directed the DOJ to investigate parents who were protesting school boards over issues critical race theory and mask mandates as terror threats.
Here’s the narrative: Donald Trump, the president of the United States, stole classified nuclear documents after wrestling the steering wheel from a secret service agent, peeing on Russian prostitutes, and spitting on wounded veterans, and if you doubt this you’re an agent of Putin. If the FBI waited 18 months to seize “nuclear documents” from a country club, everyone at the agency should be fired.
Quick Notes:
Presidents have the inherent constitutional (and statutory) authority to declassify anything they want.
They don’t need to label it.
They don’t need to report it.
They don’t have to tell anyone.
They can do it through their actions.
As a matter of law, no President can be charged under the Espionage Act for “mishandling” classified records.
When President Trump had the records sent to Mar-a-Lago, they were declassified.
Former presidents don’t have this power.
But Trump did this as the President.
All Presidents take records when they leave.
They don’t pack their own boxes.
National Archives takes the position that almost everything is a “presidential record.”
It’s routine for any Office of the Former President to negotiate with the National Archives.
They could’ve alerted Congress.
The Biden DOJ could’ve filed a civil lawsuit.
They could’ve sought a subpoena.
But unprecedented home raid?!
AG Merrick Garland attempted to defend the indefensible in his political press conference.
He left more questions than answers.
He’s a former federal judge and prosecutor.
He should be ashamed of himself for politicizing the Justice Department so dangerously.
He must resign.
All former Presidents get a federally funded office.
Office of the Former President.
With staff.
And security clearances.
And Secret Service protection.
And secure facilities (SCIFs) for classified records.
Even if Trump had classified records, they were protected.
Period.
The Office of Former President Trump—like every other former president’s federal office—is equipped and secure enough to handle these declassified records.
This is a routine dispute with bureaucrats at the National Archives about whether these are presidential records.
oh, this article isn’t going to age well at all.
Hey, J Wheaton, what it is, dude!
I figured that you would be showing up again for some red meat, and lo and behold, abracadabra and all of that, there you are big as life with another wrong prognostication in a long line of wrong prognostications, which is what makes your posts so fun to read, never knowing what king of shenanigans you’ll be coming up with next, and maybe you don’t, either.
And there you are again, taking personal shots at people, not even attempting to argue a fact.
I’ll be sitting back laughing as people try to paint Trump as a law-abiding citizen and the Search Warrant as a miscarriage of justice.
Are you going to be the first Paul?
Then, by all means, let us look into the homes of the Bush, Biden, Pelosi, Obama, and Clinton crime families.
and I ask you, once again, Who died and left you in charge?
Mr Bell, it would absolutely be a delight if you could actually argue a point.
Note: Doesn’t an actual point have to present for this happen?
“Personal shots,” J Wheaton?
Not hardly, dude!
And let me recap that for you so that you can better understand.
Here is what you said:
J Wheaton says @ AUGUST 14, 2022 AT 12:42 PM: oh, this article isn’t going to age well at all.
That, J Wheaton clearly is a prognostication on your part, where a prognostication is defined as “the action of foretelling or prophesying future events.”
And here is my response to your prognostication:
Paul Plante says @ AUGUST 14, 2022 AT 6:07 PM: lo and behold, abracadabra and all of that, there you are big as life with another wrong prognostication in a long line of wrong prognostications.
So that is hardly a “personal shot,” J Wheaton, and no, J Wheaton, I’m not going to try to paint Trump as a law-abiding citizen, because that is NOT what this thread is about.
As I read it, this thread is about the obvious POLITICIZATION of the DOJ under Joe Biden.
So IF I were going to comment, that is what I would be commenting on, the obvious POLITICIZATION of the DOJ under Joe Biden.
And while we are on that subject of obvious POLITICIZATION, IF I were to comment, it would be to say that I find myself quite curious as to how someone, in this case, the judge who signed off on the FBI raid of Donald Trump’s Florida mansion, Bruce Reinhart, who had previously defended numerous employees for the deceased pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, including a scheduler and pilots for the infamous Lolita Express, after leaving his position at the U.S. Attorney’s office in 2008 to set up a private legal firm, and who was also accused in a lawsuit at the time of breaking Justice Department’s policies by using information from his previous government job to aid his work as a private attorney, ended up being the TOP PICK out of 64 well-qualified individuals who applied for the magistrate judge positi9on he now fills.
That’s IF I were to comment.
I would also be curious why the National Law Journal would be running an article titled “Court Pulls Info for Judge Who’s Believed to Have Signed Trump Order” on August 9, 2022.
You’re in the trade, J Wheaton, and so have the inside scoop on this kind of stuff, what’s up with that, do you think?
What are they trying to hide here?
And IF I were to comment, it also would be on the obvious differences in the way the POLITICIZED FBI and Joe’s pet poodle, Merrick Garland, treat Joe’s boy Hunter versus the way they treat Trump.
Sauce for the goose versus sauce for the gander?
But what am I saying – of course it is!
America sleeps as the Democrat Stooges bring us closer to civil war. This will not end well if Democrats remain in office. In November it is time to correct this attack on the Republic. Get out and vote. Send the Democrats packing.
Let The Games Begin!
J Wheaton says
AUGUST 15, 2022 AT 12:59 PM
‘Mr Bell, it would absolutely be a delight if you could actually argue a point.
“I do not argue with fools, and You Sir, are a Damned Fool….period.
If you still believe the CIA, FBI & 90% of news outlets are not extensions of the Democrat Party then your head must be so far up your azz it would be impossible for you to breath. VOTE, VOTE, & VOTE!
https://rollcall.com/2022/03/28/biden-budget-seeks-10-billion-over-decade-to-improve-elections-make-ballots-postage-free/
China Joe will get 10 Billion dollars of our money to send everyone in the USA a mail-in-ballot??? Really? Between those ballots, the Dominion machines and the lessons they learned from the 2020 steal….no chance they will let go of power…they are drunk with it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10661165/Largest-increase-climate-spending-10B-free-ballots-309M-border-security.html
https://www.newsmax.com/us/biden-usps-election-funding/2022/03/28/id/1063188/
https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/03/white-house-wants-give-usps-5-billion-boost-mail-voting/363785/
Hey, Copy and Paste man, not sure what those links have to do with Trump breaking the law or this article claiming the search was illegal, but go ahead and tell me how great he is.
Funk you, biden, trump, bush, clinton, obama, pelosi, sanders, cruz, gore, pence, rubio, gaetz, cheney, graham, bannon and your little dogs too.
Mr Moore, you have to be the most ignorant person on the peninsula. Do you actually believe the CIA, FBI, and 90% of the new outlets are extensions of the Democrat Party? Did all the Republican employees quit when Trump left office? Can you see how your misinformed statement isn’t based on any kind of reality? Your problem Sir is you can not find your own ass.
I am not sure which D. Moore that is but the one I am thinking is a United States Coast Guard retired veteran. You would do well to apologize and show some resect.
You would not say that to his face, so why do it here?
Coward!
The Washington Examiner
“Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal gestapo’ after Trump raid”[/b][/color][/size]
Paul Bedard
18 AUGUST 2022
The Justice-backed FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago winter resort home has increased the percentage of Americans who believe that President Joe Biden is using the G-men as his “personal gestapo.”
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 53% of likely voters agreed that “there is a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI that are using the FBI as Joe Biden’s personal gestapo.”
The new survey was suggested by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine who wrote today that conservatives especially have had it with the FBI while liberals, once the agency’s biggest critics, have found a new love.
“Liberals are happy because a politicized agency is coming after their ideological enemies, particularly their bête noire, Trump.”
“It’s a stark turnaround from the days of decrying the FBI’s efforts to target Martin Luther King.”
“The left has discarded any pretense of caring about civil liberties or injustice and instead sneers at conservatives who they claim are the ones who have jettisoned their core principles and now are ‘anti-cop,’” she wrote.
“The agency’s standing is at rock bottom among Republicans and conservatives, and not too healthy with independents and moderates,” wrote Devine, the author of Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.