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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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Love it when they come out and say the truth
Gary does not have an answer to that on any level. I wish it wasn’t like that, but that’s the way it is. It’s a whole system.
That is really flipped out, Man! (I must sound like a stoned Hippy) I used to think Sam Harris, despite having some naive ides, was a generally critical thinker. But apparently he’s way out there in power-hungry, self gratifying leftist land. There is almost no coming back from those authoritarian-loving statements he made. That is literally “jumping the shark!”
By the way, I just love the Red Eye radio guys! I consider them the most informative and level-headed pundits in the business. Been listening for nearly 20 years, or however long they’ve been on.
Again, I think he reacts to whatever the news is, then take3s time to think on it. Should be the other way around, but I get it.
Maybe he reacts to whatever the news is, but each time the news stops – maybe just for a day – he starts moving back to “The FBI/DOJ/etc are rock-ribbed patriots who never do anything untoward.” So the speed of his oscillation depends on how often and how quickly the contradictory information comes out.
But his last anti-FBI tirade had years of examples. His skepticism should have been in play all along when he defended the FBI and the DOJ.
Maybe as soon as he stops talking/writing about some bad thing the FBI/DOJ/etc did, he goes “back to sleep” and dreaming of their halcyon days.
One paragraph from the cited article by McCarthy:
“We have to be honest: Things are headed in the wrong direction. Over the last decade, as it took on the cast of a spy agency, the bureau returned to its Hooverian roots, becoming enmeshed in politics and serving a partisan agenda — inevitably that of the Democratic Party because Democrats are the party of government and the bureau knows where its bread is buttered. There is a reason the FBI, taking cues from its political masters, now translates the term domestic terrorism to mean the right-wing extremism of white supremacists, even as left-wing radicals and the criminals they coddle destroy America’s cities.”
This article is the best thing I’ve ever read by Andrew McCarthy. You can get a one-time relief from the paywall.
But will he still be writing the same way next week? Tune in next time, same Andy McCarthy time, same Andy McCarthy station!
Same Bat $#it!
This has wonderful quoting of the transcript.
I’m sure if the FBI goofed, the section of the affidavit the judge will encourage them to release won’t refer to this situation at all. Instead, anything at all relating to this key situation will be withheld, so that the investigation against Trump can continue unimpeded.
McCarthy is simply one of the Beltway lizards.
Imagine the world these lizards inhabit. After all, each day they mingle with Talking Heads – who are all to the Left of Che Guvara.
Except that unlike Che, who at least used arguments fully allowing for his listeners or readers to realize how he was all in on The Revolution, the Fox Talking Heads hide their support for The Revolution behind the idea that good Americans must always wish with all their hearts to honor Emily Post-style elegant manners. So then as decent citizens, we must never speak ill of The FBI.
One listen to the way the Fox personnel all piled in on the notion of love and light being wished for The FBI during their recent interview of Rand Paul on the subject of the Mar-a-Lago raid should illustrate what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGpRaKEu9U
What does the part to be released say?
Mark Levin read Trump’s lawyers letter to the judge. First hour.