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Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:41 pm So, bets on who the MAL mole is?

FBI decision-makers in Washington and Miami thought that denying the former president a photo opportunity or a platform from which to grandstand (or to attempt to thwart the raid) would lower the profile of the event, says one of the sources, a senior Justice Department official who is a 30-year veteran of the FBI.

The effort to keep the raid low-key failed: instead, it prompted a furious response from GOP leaders and Trump supporters. "What a spectacular backfire," says the Justice official.

"I know that there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it is really the best and the worst of the bureaucracy in action," the official says. "They wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet [they] got exactly the opposite."

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:41 pm So, bets on who the MAL mole is? They knew what they were looking for and they knew which three rooms to search. If they walked out with about a dozen boxes, it sounds like they found it. Who would trump share that information with? I'd assumed his Secret Service buds were all kissing his hiney, so was he showing it off to someone else, someone who grew a conscience?

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 1:03 pm The Newsweek article is very good when it came to facts, but had an obvious spin.

keith wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:14 pm

tek wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:11 pm

It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government.

Why would Andrew Yang know anything at all about this?

Yeah. Yang struck me as smart but rather silly. Silly can be overcome with a bit of effort, but I'm afraid he's lost me now. This is beyond silly, it's bald face pandering, bordering on goveling.

Is he in trainng for a Senate run somewhere in 24?

𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative 1h
Hillary testified for eleven hours and never plead the fifth.

Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell 3h
As Donald Trump was pleading the Fifth like a two-bit mobster, Biden signed a bill to help Vets exposed to toxic burn pits. Your choice: lawbreaker or lawmaker.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 1:03 pm That "senior Justice Department official" is blatantly lying if he's saying that a firestorm was not predicted. Everyone could predict that! The key was having the actual operation kept out of the news as it was happening. The FBI succeeded spectacularly in that.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:19 am What I wondered about was searching a property that has a private residence as well as guest rooms, food service operation, etc.

What if one of the members is a hostile agent and tfg was helpfully giving them access? That would be something.

Early Wednesday morning, 45th President Donald J. Trump confirmed on his TruthSocial platform that no civilians, including his attorneys, were permitted to “be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago” on Monday morning by the FBI under the authority of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Justice Department has not commented on the reasons for the raid, and neither the Trump camp nor the DOJ has unsealed the warrant. The federal magistrate who approved it, Judge Bruce Reinhart, is a two-time Obama donor and former defense lawyer for several former employees of the late Jeffrey Epstein, multiple sources reported, citing a 2018 article from The Miami Herald.

The Herald did not allow The Post & Email access to its article even after we disabled our ad-blocker for the site.

In March, Trump filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against more than two dozen plaintiffs, among them “Hillary R. Clinton”; the law firm Perkins Coie; current national security adviser and former aide to Clinton Jake Sullivan; “Steele Dossier” compiler Christopher Steele, whose work product was largely discredited after years of investigation showed no evidence of the 2016 Trump campaign having “colluded” with Russia; former FBI employees Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe and Kevin Clinesmith; former FBI Director James Comey; the United States of America and former Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Approximately three months after its filing, Reinhart recused himself from the case.

The New England states currently have no Republican members in Congress.

7 Aug 10, 2022 PAPERLESS ORDER taking under advisement 6 Motion to Unseal Document (Times Union). On or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 2022, the Government shall file a Response to the Motion to Unseal. The response may be filed ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal. In that event, the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record. If it chooses, the Government may file a consolidated Response to all Motions to Seal. Signed by Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart (BER). Signed by Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart (BER) (Entered: 08/10/2022)

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First president to be impeached twice.

First president to attempt a coup d'état.

First president to have his home searched by the FBI.

First president to take the Fifth.

It's just so impressive.

RVInit wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:33 pm I was hoping CNN would upload a video clip of the Strzok interview from yesterday. That is the one where he said that Hillary was served multiple search warrants during the investigation of her servers. His interview was the basis of my statement that actually Bill Clinton is the first ex-president that has had search warrants executed on his private residence. That is assuming of course that Hillary and Bill were both living in that residence where they had the server, but I'm pretty sure that is the case or wouldn't have said it. It would be nice to have that video clip documented here.

If anyone else finds it anywhere, if you feel like it, can you post it? I will keep an eye out for it myself.

The Democrat 45 Pogrom
"NOT SO FAST, MARC"
22 hours ago by Joseph DeMaio

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(Aug. 9, 2022) — Late last month, your faithful servant offered “The Shortest DeMaio P&E Post Ever.” The pithy post posited that the Democrats have forever – as in “perpetually” – forfeited any claim of right or competence to govern a free people. That empirical fact is being driven home with every passing day…, just look around.

Until a few days ago, the most recent proof of that reality was the passage by the Senate – with zero GOP support and a tie-breaking vote by Kamala (“Ms. Word Salad”) Harris – of the fraudulently-named “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.”

Never mind that the bill would actually violate 18 U.S.C. § 1001 criminalizing the creation and dissemination of false documents, among other outrages, it appropriates funds to hire nearly 90,000 new IRS agents. And if you think all of those agents will be auditing only those making over $400K annually, you are likely joining the Goofball’s ne’er-do-well son in a drug binge. You should stop. Sober up.

Instead, those agents will likely not differ much from George III’s “swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance…” condemned in the Declaration of Independence. And we all know what happened after that…, don’t we?

Now, however, comes the latest outrage: the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s Florida residence. The purported reason for the search-warrant-supported raid was to look for documents which “45” had retained from his presidency and which the National Archives claimed needed to be turned over.

Really? Seriously?

It has been suggested by Perkins Coie cockroach Marc Elias that the motivation for the raid lies in an attempt to criminalize and indict President Trump under 18 U.S.C. § 2071. Under that statute, a person committing any of the described acts – including possession – of an identified document (there are many) if convicted can be fined and/or imprisoned.

In addition, however, subsection (b) of the statute provides that the person convicted “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.” If 45 could be convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2071(b), he would, according to the Democrats, be disqualified from holding any future office of the United States, including the presidency.

If the Wretch of San Crapcisco’s “J6” kangaroo kabuki court cannot secure enough evidence to indict, perhaps such evidence can be discovered – or even concocted…, nah…, that couldn’t happen with Marc Elias opining on it…, could it? – and a conviction obtained, voilà, 45 would purportedly be disqualified. Elias even emphasized in his “tweet” the “disqualification” provision in subsection (b).

And with a D.C. jury pool consisting of over 95% registered Democrats and more Democrat federal district court judges than spots on a leopard, what are the odds of getting a “fair trial” there? What are the chances of getting a change of venue? What are the chances of allowing due process of law to occur? The answer to all three questions is, of course: slim to none, and “none” just left town….

Ahhh…, but not so fast, Marc. As with your “Russia collusion” hoax and your selective, careless reading of the statute, you have failed to note that subsection (b) of the statute, where the “disqualification” restriction appears, limits its reach and application to “such documents” as referenced in subsection (a). The antecedent of “such documents” referenced in subsection (b) is to those identified in subsection (a), but only those which have previously been “filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States.” (emphasis added).

The manifest purpose of the statute is to address the removal or purloining of previously-filed or deposited documents from the safekeeping of “any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States.” And because it is a criminal statute, it must be strictly construed to limit its application only to documents previously filed or deposited with the noted persons or agencies and subsequently stolen or purloined…, and none others. Full stop.

This of course is the statute under which former Slick Willie Clinton aide Sandy Berger was charged and fined back in 2005, but given no jail time (tell me again that “equal justice under law” exists in D.C.) when he stole classified documents from the National Archives and destroyed them.

Finally, as if the foregoing were not enough to eviscerate the roach’s legal opinion as to the applicability of 18 U.S.C. § 2071(b), he also ignores the final sentence of subsection (b) of the statute: “As used in this subsection, the term ‘office’ does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.”

Because President Trump, as Commander in Chief of all of the nation’s armed forces, was retired from the office following the 2020 general “election” – the legitimacy of which remains a topic of heated debate – even if he were to be convicted under subsection (b) of the statute, that would not – in a rational world capable of reading plain English – disqualify him from running for and, if elected, again serving the nation as its President. Period.

In conclusion, and to reiterate the admonition of your humble servant’s prior “shortest” P&E post, the Democrats should not be allowed within two light years – about 12 trillion miles – of the reins of governmental power. Ever. They have forfeited any contrary claim, as current events prove. Vote very…, very carefully in November 2022 and November 2024.

Bob68 says: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 12:04 PM
“Late Tuesday evening, Sirius XM host opined on her show that “there is no way that’s what they were searching for…This is about January 6, and the never-ending desire to get Donald Trump on something…”

A real investigation into “Who is Barack Hussein Obama” would quickly unravel the “mystery” of why do both political parties fear Trump and want him never to be president again. Unfortunately, all complicit in The Obama Fraud know this and will never allow it to happen. To the many complicit in The Obama Fraud and it’s never ending cover-up watching America die is acceptable as long as they remain untouched for their part in enabling and covering for The Obama Fraud……
Something simple and easy to understand has been made to to seem so complicated that all involved will die of old age before the truth is allowed to take it’s first breath………………