The Corrupt DoJ and the FBI/Trump Home Raid

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/08/13/the-big-problem-with-the-trump-warrant-n611552

The warrant used by the FBI to raid Donald Trump’s home was released on Friday.

In yet another laughable, hypocritical shift by the mainstream media, they demanded the former president release the warrant for two days, asserting that not doing so would signal his guilt. Trump did just that, giving it to Breitbart to publish, at which point wailing and gnashing of teeth commenced because it wasn’t redacted. You know, because it’s Trump’s job to do that for the government who could have just released it themselves.


In other words, everything is stupid because everything centers on getting the bad orange man. There are no rules that won’t be bent or broken to accomplish that end, and the FBI itself is no different in following that philosophy.

That leads me to the big problem with the government’s explanation for the warrant: It’s way too broad.


Andrew McCarthy wrote a piece that expands on that idea in more detail, and it’s worth the read. Here is the money shot that really exposes what’s going on with some added emphasis to make things pop.

Where things get really, shall we say, elastic is subsection (c). It permits the seizure of “any government and/or Presidential Records created” throughout the four years of Trump’s presidency.

Plainly, this has nothing to do with classified information. It is mainly designed to use the criminal law — the search warrant, an intrusive tactic for retrieving evidence of crimes — to enforce the Presidential Records Act, which is not a criminal statute.

Can DOJ get away with this? Perhaps. Section 2071 is very broad, targeting anyone who “removes” or “destroys” “any” government record. If you are wondering how this did not apply to Hillary Clinton’s removal of tens of thousands of government-related emails and willful destruction of tens of thousands of others, you are not alone. In any event, Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permits the seizure not only of evidence of a crime but also of “items illegally possessed.” It seems clear from the context that this phrase is meant to apply to items derived from criminal activity. Literally, though, it is clearly broader than that.

Since Congress did not choose to attach criminal penalties to violations of the Presidential Records Act, what we see here amounts to the Justice Department fashioning a new crime for Donald Trump. This is not my idea of the even-handed enforcement of the law — no partisan discrimination — that Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted he pursues in his remarks on Thursday. But there will be plenty of time to discuss that.


The insinuation here isn’t hard to figure out. The government misused the Presidential Records Act, reinterpreting it as a criminal statute so that they could have a blank check to raid Trump’s home. That means the warrant allowed for the confiscation of absolutely anything related to Trump’s presidency, and the breadth of what was seized went far beyond just the excuse of needing to protect classified information (which the former president had the power to declassify).

So what were they really after? I offered some speculation on that shortly after the raid became public.

Which only underscores how out of bounds the entire raid was. The justification is so paper-thin that it’s only logical to assume the FBI had other motives, and given the DOJ’s obvious coordination with the January 6th committee, wouldn’t that seem likely?

That’s gotta be what this is, right? AG Merrick Garland has been shamelessly coordinating raids and seizures for months now with the January 6th committee. We saw it with the raid of Jeff Clark’s home and the recent taking of phones from GOP members of Congress. Liz Cheney and company say jump, and the DOJ asks how high.

In this case, it just makes no sense that the government was so super-concerned about Trump having classified documents that they waited 18 months to go get them. Instead, it sure looks like the floundering January 6th committee has found nothing (as I’ve said many times) and is now using the DOJ to try to fish for more “evidence” of an organized coup.


The question is how far the DOJ is willing to take this. They are now targeting Trump under the same statute they let Hillary Clinton walk free on. Are they brazen enough to try to charge the former president criminally for something the FBI has already said no reasonable prosecutor would pursue? Or was this just a shameless political attack meant to try to bolster the January 6th committee? Or was it both?

It’ll take some time to figure that out, but the longer the DOJ doesn’t bring charges, the more it looks like they simply abused the criminal justice system to try to dig up dirt on Joe Biden’s most likely 2024 opponent. That’s a level of corruption that can’t be tolerated, and no matter what Republican wins the White House next, they must dismantle these agencies.

BUT THE AFFADAVITS have not been released and my guess is they don't want anyone to see those affadavits.

They have made a YUGE BONEHEAD MOVE....

FIB and DoH asses assess terrorism threat after they made a YUGE mistake of raiding a former president's home.  
I think they are looking for a little sympathy and a hug. Dey so stupid and dey gone double down on stupid.

https://beckernews.com/the-biden-regime-issues-threat-assessment-for-domestic-terrorists-acting-out-against-trump-raid-at-mar-a-lago-46374/

https://100percentfedup.com/brave-reporter-julie-kelly-explains-connection-between-fbi-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-jan-6-and-raid-on-mar-a-lago-video-2/

reporter julie kelly says there is a connection between J6, whitmer kidnapping hoax and the raid on Mar-a-lago. She explains.....video at link.

pretty funny.

Hilliary's home should be raided to see if evidence can be found of Bill ever being there...he has a habit of leaving his DNA in places.

why is jeffrey epstein's attorney a federal judge?

Democrats came on immediately and said...HE WAS A TRUMP APPOINTEE.   Not directly...President trump would have had no oversight of this appointment.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-trump-appoint-judge-who-approved-fbi-mar-lago-raid-1732495

about the same as when he apponted that scumbag Wray as FBI director when he fired comey.... President trump was lied to by snakes in his administration and really...what other choice did he have?

The US gov't from top to bottom is corrupt and self serving.

About those Obama presidential papers.  I see what he did.  Lots of people are buying the left media story. Don't.

He actually paid them a bribe....they call it contribution...of over 3 million to leave  him alone with all those papers saying he was going to digitize them at his own expense.  To date none to very little have made it to the National Archives.

https://100percentfedup.com/while-fact-checkers-play-defense-for-obama-heres-the-truth-about-30-million-pages-of-his-regimes-records-that-were-trucked-to-chicago/

The FBI has revealed that it was searching. for boxes of classified information from Donald Trump’s presidency during its raid of Mar-a-Lago. Trump now faces accusations of violating the Presidential Records Act, a law that was enacted in 1978 after former President Richard Nixon tried to claim his secret Oval Office tapes and other records were his ‘personal property.’




The law states that “the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records.”

David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, said, “The Presidential Records Act is critical to our democracy, in which the government is held accountable by the people.”

However, while the Left is making it seem like this law is held sacred by our country’s leaders, presidential records are mostly kept hidden from the public for decades after the president leaves office.



The Nixon Library did not release all his secret tapes until 2013 – 39 years after Nixon left office. Similarly, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library delayed the release of his secret tapes until 2016, which was 47 years after he left office.

The Obama administration didn’t do things any differently, delaying the release of thousands of pages of records from Bill Clinton’s presidency. Barack Obama also had 30 million pages of records from his administration transported to Chicago, where he promised he would digitize them and put them online.




The Obama Foundation estimates that 95% of Obama administration records were “born digital,” meaning they could very easily be released online. And, in 2017, the Obama Foundation announced it would fund the digitization of the records that were not already digital. However, over five years after his presidency ended, the National Archives webpage shows that no pages have been digitized or disclosed yet.

{obama foundation also gave the National ARchives fund almost 3.5 million to make their agreeing to his proposal more palatable.}


The National Archives Museum
While Americans are mostly prohibited from seeing official records from Obama’s presidency, Barack and Michelle Obama were advanced $65 million for their memoirs.

In 2011, Obama’s Justice Department proposed that federal agencies should be able to falsely claim that FOIA-requested documents didn’t exist. This recommendation was criticized as a law that would “permit federal law enforcement agencies to actively lie to the American people.”

So, while Obama touted his administration as “the most transparent” in history, it was really no more open than the Nixon administration in terms of government secrecy.



People are able to file requests under the Freedom of Information Act, but even getting a response from presidential libraries can take years, or more than a decade if the information is classified.

Donald Trump addressed this double standard on August 12, saying, “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”

Trump also asked whether federal agents would be “breaking into Obama’s ‘mansion’ in Martha’s Vineyard.”

However, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), responded to Trump’s statements, saying that “former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration,” and that NARA has “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017.”

The Justice Department has yet to reveal what documents it confiscated at Mar-a-Lago and what, if any, legal charges may be filed.

I was listening to those two guys who have allegedly replaced Rush.   they aren't doing it...but one said.  President Trump should throw his hat in the ring NOW for a presidential run.  That would make any action against him look even more like a leftist attack on the opposition.   I'm rather in agreement...unless someone can convince me otherwise.

https://100percentfedup.com/while-fact-checkers-play-defense-for-obama-heres-the-truth-about-30-million-pages-of-his-regimes-records-that-were-trucked-to-chicago/