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What Was the Purpose of the Raid on Mar-a-Lago?
It’s been almost two weeks and the purpose of the raid is unclear. Leaks indicating that they were looking for nuclear secrets appear to be far-fetched. If Trump took nonclassified records that didn’t belong to him, that could have been resolved given his cooperation in June. Some of the FBI people were also participants in the Russia hoax.
Some have suggested, including a Newsweek reporter, that they were looking for Russiagate documents, including Crossfire Hurricane ones. But it seems improbable that Trump would have only one copy of these records. Wouldn’t copies and scanned versions have been made of anything related to Russiagate? What think ye?
If the raid was to retrieve Russiagate documents, then it’s not about Trump malfeasance but is instead about covering up the illegal and unethical activities of the FBI, CIA, etc.
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Of course, the main reason to never vote for them is because they are the Party of Satan.
Clearly.
This is the way I see it. It’s the simplest answer that acknowledges Three-letter Agency (TLAs) malice over incompetence.
It is accepted that Trump declassified Russiagate documents, but they were never released.
It is reported that Trump is suing top officials of the TLAs and the DNC and their lawyers.
It has been suggested and is likely that the documents Trump had were declassified Russia-gate documents.
Nobody among those named in the law suit were concerned about what Trump had.
The time of the court case is approaching, people realize that Trump may have the goods on them.
They make a friendly check on the documents and see what they are.
Now they talk about it and they know that they are in trouble.
They want to take the all documents from Trump — including any xeroxed copies and electronic copies he might have made.
They need to physically search for any and all of these copies.
They make an excuse to search for the documents, with a politically aligned librarian at the Archives to be their witness — he saw Trump carrying out a box when he left the White House.
They get a search warrant.
They hope to do this as quietly as possible, and the search will take time.
They wait until Trump is out of town and they don’t notify his lawyers.
They begin to search his house.
Trump loudly lets the cat out of the bag.
So they say that he’s got Archive documents, but that doesn’t cut it with the public.
So they say they’re classified documents, but that doesn’t cut it.
They say they’re NUCLEAR classified documents, but no one believes it.
So they say he was spying — remember: Russia!
And just for good measure they say he’s obstructing an unspecified investigation.
They don’t intend to handcuff Trump, or arrest him, or prosecute him.
They just don’t want Trump to use the documents for the court case.
And they don’t want these documents to be made public.
Everything else is just gravy.
FLICKER IS REALLY SMART NOBODY IS ON THAT LEVEL!
General Flynn was on Joe Pags this week. Thursday and Friday.
I was with you up until this point. I think the Left is murderous, and not just targeting DJT.
They might find something useful, but Flicker is probably right from top to bottom. They’ll just sit on them. It works unless Trump made copies of useful stuff.
#Washington: The more known about the warrant, the less known. Dan Henninger, WSJOpinion
https://audioboom.com/posts/8142955-washington-the-more-known-about-the-warrant-the-less-known-dan-henninger-wsjopinion
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I bet the FIB agents look maahhhhvelous when they wear Melania’s underwear that they took.
Well, they didn’t kill anyone. But I think they are making allowances for such things, what with the nearly 100,000 new armed IRS criminal investigators. But I really think the raid grew out of a need to just vacuum up all the documents.
And it may have mushroomed a little in the execution out of malignant arrogance.
And you know, it may be that Garland still isn’t aware of all the details of the Russia-gate, and is just doing what he’s told. “You need to search for the documents? Okaaay. Then do what you need to do.” But he’s highly uncomfortable with it all. How often does someone get so nervous that he can’t swallow?
Word on the street is that they put Melania’s panties over their heads and peered out through the leg holes, making faces and taking selfies.
I’m not saying I believe it. But it’s a data point.
The raid looks to me like an attempt to unjustly discredit Trump and, more importantly, to make people shun supporting him out of fear of government persecution.
And their behavior implies that they have no expectation of ever being out of power again. They stole the 2020 election, and they will steal more.
Their behavior implies they intend to sacrifice every principle to which they give lip service in order to keep from ever being out of power again. That’s for sure.
Of course, though, it’s important to remember that the people who decided on this raid probably saw it as a way not just to cow those seeking to stay employed, viewed as respectable, and out of trouble. The other purpose of the raid is to provoke the foolish into doing something that can be used to validate the the Left’s “right wing extremism” spiel.
The rule of thumb is now this: Anything the FBI does is to defend itself and its masters from the American people.
If you recall the techniques used by the Clintons , try excuse #1 , doesn’t fly , ok excuse #2 , doesn’t fly ,ok try excuse #3 and so on until they find one that semi-fits.
the press never asks, if that’s true then why they didn’t they say it in the first place?
It’s quite clear that the purpose of the raid was to get and shred any internal FBI documents that would prove embarrassing to the bureau when the House Investigations Committee starts its probe in early 2023.
You mean whoever called it about that supposed justification, or whoever called it about Andy McCarthy going back again to believing the FBI/DOJ/etc are fine people who would never do anything untoward? Because if the latter, that might be me.
FWIW:
The latter. Someone (or several someones) suggested that for all his talk about how the FBI/DOJ overreached, he would eventually return to the (new) “fine people” hoax.
Peter Robinson seemed repeatedly “shocked” by such bad behaviors too, but either he’s developing deeper insights or he just keeps his “shocked” to himself more, these days.
I think it’s possible that McCarthy got a phone call.
McCarthy probably has the circle of friends he has had for 30 years. Once an insider, always an insider.
Okay, now Andrew McCarthy has gone full berserk on the FBI in this article published yesterday. He excoriates them like I’ve never seen before from any conservative pundit. I don’t get it, the guy is all over the place. Maybe he is bipolar!? Whatever it is, it is getting worse.
I can’t read the full article since it’s behind a paywall, @stevenseward. My first thought from the many-link-filled, very promising first paragraph of the article, though, is that @donG may be onto something when he says Andy McCarthy has many decades-long friendships that influence his thinking.
I have seen McCarthy speak in person just one memorable time. In 2018 my husband and I drove 2 1/2 hours to attend a small National Review Institute event in Palm Beach where he interviewed his good friend Rush Limbaugh. I believe this sudden change in attitude may have Rush’s heavenly fingerprints all over it.
The other one to consider is arrogance. Meaning we’re going to do it because I say so, and the public can jam it, because we are in charge of them.
The deep state, the ruling class, the uni-party, etc. have financial interests and they think they can run everything better. They all live in the same neighborhood and they all know each other and that is how they think. Sociopathic parasites and central planners.
Act accordingly.
I think he comments based on what information he has, then changes his opinion as more information comes in. Strange how that happens.
The only trouble is, the stuff he is excoriating the FBI for in the article yesterday, is stuff from five years ago or more, like the phony FISA Court applications and hiding the truth about the Steele Dossier and Hunter Biden. In last week’s article the FBI could do no wrong.
Analysis including a segment I hadn’t heard before:
This is even better analysis and commentary on Sam Harris revealing himself as an elitist communist on the trigonometry podcast. Start at 16:00 and it goes for about 15 minutes:
https://omny.fm/shows/red-eye-radio/red-eye-radio-8-19-22-part-2
Red Eye Radio is really excellent as long as the news they are talking about doesn’t break late in the day, because they sleep before the show starts. They are really good at talking about complicated and multi dimensional things. Really thoughtful conservatives that can explain things really well.