Ok this is the best clue yet that there is some really highly classified top secret stuff Trump took to Mar a Lago. This is just a shitted pants desperation red thing for a lawyer to say.


Trump attorney: No proof 'something wasn't planted' in FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago

David Edwards
August 09, 2022



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Christina Bobb, an attorney for President Donald Trump, objected to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago because she said her client is "extremely cooperative."

In an interview on Real America's Voice, Bobb said that she was at Trump's Florida home during the Monday raid but "was not allowed to observe."

"I was his legal representation, his counsel on the ground there," she said. "They kept me out of everything, all the facilities. They say that's standard protocol. I could not see. I could not observe."

"I thought it was particularly alarming because we had been very cooperative," the attorney continued. "This is a Washington, D.C. case coming out of Joe Biden's Department of Justice. We've been extremely cooperative."

Real America's Voice host Karyn Turk wondered if the FBI had "planted" evidence.

"Nobody observed it," Bobb confirmed. "No, there wasn't. To your point, this was a completely unnecessary power flex. It was a weird flex. It's quite honestly sad to see what they have done to our country."

"No, there is no security that something wasn't planted," she added. "I'm not saying that's what they did."

The FBI may have raided Mar-a-Lago because Trump has a history of refusing to comply with subpoenas.

“We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump said at one point during his presidency.

In one case, a New York judge found Trump in contempt of court for refusing to comply with subpoenas for financial documents.

Watch the video below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/christina-bobb-trump-raid/

 

I am not really willing to give John Dean credit for this even though he's the one saying it now. Because I was watching CNN this morning and Former FBI director Andrew McCabe came on explaining a few things.

First and foremost being that as standard practice anytime classified material gets out of a secure location the first thing the FBI is required to do is make a national security assessment. They have to find out what the classified material is and how big of a threat to national security it is. They also have to assess who has it. And where its at. And the potential threat to national security is what guides their investigation from then on.

And their assessment of the risk to national security is not enough. In this case they also had to convince a federal judge of the risk to national security as well as convince the judge a crime has been committed and the evidence of that crime will be found in the location they want to search. And in this case a judge would probably rather soak his coat in gasoline and run through hell than sign a search warrant for Mar a Lago because its going to blow up like Nitroglycerin.

Then McCabe explained if the FBI assesses a real threat to national security like down at Mar a Lago they will have someone on the inside keeping an eye on the classified material, what it is, where its at, and who is coming and going from the unsecured location. And in this case whoever that was told the FBI and a federal judge they need to move and move now to keep the classified material from being leaked and/or destroyed. Which is why the FBI felt it necessary to move in with an immediate search.

And John Dean may also know what he is talking about but Andrew McCabe was way ahead of him.



'They may have an inside source': John Dean considers what evidence of possible crimes the FBI had to get a warrant

Sarah K. Burris
August 09, 2022



John Dean, Former White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon (Photo: Screen capture)

To get a search warrant, the FBI would have to have evidence of possible crimes being committed. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, the day after former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club had a visit from FBI agents, former White House Counsel John Dean, who served under Richard Nixon, speculated whether there was an insider giving information to the FBI.

In a statement, Trump compared the FBI to the Watergate burglars, who attempted to set up wiretaps on the phones of the Democratic Party.

"He doesn't understand what happened during Watergate or he's just trying to distort what happened there at his home," said Dean. "And it doesn't work at all, the analogy."

"It tells me that they were cooperating but somehow Trump cut them off and did something that provoked this action," Dean said about the reason that the FBI would swoop in.



Eric Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that his father had been working with the FBI for months, after the National Archives took 15 boxes of documents that had been taken from the White House.

"They obviously are very aware of what he has," said Dean. "They may have an inside source that sees some abuse of that material. so they had to take an extraordinary action to protect the national security documents. That appears what this is. The National Archives is very aggressive with this sort of thing. I know a former Nixon White House aide who happened to not get all his papers turned in, later he cooperated with a journalist on a book, [and the] next morning, the FBI was at his door. And it was not a friendly visit. So, this is something they're very concerned about that national security information and presidential records are not where they should be."

Dean said that he figured out that the case had to do with the National Archives documents when Trump ranted that Hillary Clinton "got away with her emails."

"I said, uh-uh, he is dealing with documents that are missing and hasn't turned in or something of that nature," Dean said. "This has been months in development. You have an agency that is very protective of its documents and wants them and — this is a perfect example to make a point that not even a former president can walk off with classified documents."

IN OTHER NEWS: GOP's Doug Mastriano abruptly ends Jan. 6 interview after refusing to answer 'a single question'

He went on to recall Bill Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger, who never went to jail but was issued a hefty fine and scolded by the judge about how stupid it was to take such documents.

"So this is something that is aggressively pursued," Dean explained. "It appears to be separate from Trump's many other problems, but while they were there and serving that subpoena, if they saw anything that related to his involvement in the overturn of the election, they could take that. So we don't know, and what Trump should do is turn over and open up the warrant and let us all see what they wanted."

Watch video below.




https://www.rawstory.com/john-dean-inside-source/

 

So much speculation, so much wishful thinking.
So many "sources familiar with the situation" .......... sources.

Lets cut to the chase, shall we?
If the FBI/DOJ search didn't produce something really significant, then those guys are in deep shit.

Worse than the FISA warrants. Remember them? Based at least in part on the dirty politics of the despicables and their head witch Clinton?

Yep. If they got nothing, the blowback will be impressive. Especially if it all comes out after mid terms, eh?

 

A source close to the Trump administration who choose to remain anonymous told Distant Lover off the record that Trump is "a low down, dirty @&*$#+!"

 

What you say is true, and the reason I am confident that they got some really rancid dirt on the Orange Mistake.

 

Judge who green-lit raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home donated thousands to Obama
Bruce Reinhart, who reportedly signed off on the raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, previously donated to Obama's campaign and victory fund.
The federal judge who reportedly signed off on the raid at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence donated thousands of dollars to former President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and victory fund in 2008.

Bruce Reinhart, a Florida federal magistrate judge, donated $1,000 to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and added $1,000 more to the Obama Victory Fund that same cycle, according to federal filings.

Reinhart later contributed $500 to Jeb Bush's failed 2016 presidential campaign, federal filings show. Reinhart did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry on his donations.
According to the same New York Post report on the donations, Reinhart also represented employees of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in connection to a sex trafficking investigation. Reinhart previously told the Miami Herald that those he represented included Epstein’s pilots, his scheduler, Sarah Kellen, and a woman named Nadia Marcinkova.

FBI agents executed a search warrant of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday evening. Sources told Fox News Digital that the search was part of the DOJ's investigation into whether Trump improperly took government materials from his time in office.

The FBI agents confiscated 15 boxes of classified materials during the raid, according to the sources.
"Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," Trump said in a statement Monday. "After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate."
In response, Republican lawmakers, conservative commentators and some Democrats expressed serious concern that the raid was politically motivated.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., threatened to probe the DOJ over the raid if the GOP takes majority control in the fall, and House Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Banks, R-Ind., said the action was "un-American."

 

Let me show you another scam the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have going here. They are screaming for the DOJ to release more information because they know the DOJ can't. Going clear back to Nixon and Watergate it has always been DOJ policy not to comment on ongoing investigations until an indictment(s) is actually issued.

But do you know who can release more information? If fact release all the information not only contained in the search warrant but also what evidence the FBI took with the warrant? Traitor Trump that's who. There is nothing stopping Trump and his lawyers from release everything they have including any and all negotiations leading up to the search.

So this is just another treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican con job trying to cover up for their Chosen One Traitor Trump while they scream DEFUND THE POLICE!!!!


GOP pressures DOJ for answers on Trump raid
by Emily Brooks - 08/09/22 3:58 PM ET

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Republicans are pressuring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to explain its rationale for executing a search warrant on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence Monday.

House GOP leaders already skeptical of the DOJ criticized the search as being politically motivated.


Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), House Republican Conference chair, called the search a “dark day in American history” and accused President Biden’s administration of “weaponizing this department against their political opponents.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, said on Fox News on Monday night that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland should testify to his committee on Friday, when the House will be back in session in order to act on the Democrats’ tax, climate and health care reconciliation bill.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pledged “immediate oversight” of the department if Republicans win the House majority next year, directing attention at Garland.


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“The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” McCarthy said in a statement Monday. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

GOP hostility toward the DOJ and the intelligence community have both been building amid Trump’s own criticism of the government.

Republicans decried warrants that allowed the FBI to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page during the 2016 presidential campaign, with the Justice Department later declaring two of the four warrants invalid.


They also allege a double standard, pointing to Hunter Biden’s business activities and the DOJ’s handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton having classified emails on a private server. The FBI declined to charge Clinton with any crime, and business activity of President Biden’s son is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

Not all Republicans immediately asserted, though, that the search of Mar-a-Lago was politically motivated when asking for information.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Wray requesting a briefing on the warrant.


“I am unaware of any actual or alleged national security threat posed by any information, data, or documents in the possession of former President Trump,” Turner wrote. “Congress deserves immediate answers from you as to the actions you ordered.”

Republicans in the Senate similarly called for explanations from the DOJ. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) called for the department to “quickly and transparently tell the American people who approved this raid and why it occurred.”

“Transparency brings accountability & if the FBI & DOJ aren’t transparent about raiding a former presidents home they risk further damaging their credibility,” tweeted Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.


The search at Mar-a-Lago appears to be connected to the former president’s failure to turn over some presidential records. Authorities previously retrieved boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago that included classified information. Neither the DOJ nor Trump has revealed the content of the search warrant.

Demands for answers stretched across a spectrum of ideological factions in the GOP and included Republicans who Trump has politically targeted.

Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Twitter that “the appearance of continued partisanship by the Justice Department must be addressed,” calling for a “full accounting” from Garland.


Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 attack last year, lost a primary challenge to a Trump-backed opponent last week. But he also expressed concerns about “propriety and politicization” related to the raid.

“I will not add to baseless speculation, but Director Wray and AG Garland owe transparency on the justification for setting such a striking precedent,” Meijer said in a tweet.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been noticeably absent from the GOP debate, and he declined to answer a question about the raid at a Tuesday press conference to discuss flooding in Kentucky.


Some Republicans are reacting with caution.

“As opposed to rushing to judgment, the most important thing that we could do is let it play out,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said on CBS on Tuesday morning, while also warning that the FBI’s credibility could be in danger if it can’t show something of “incredible magnitude” that led to carrying out the search warrant.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) issued a warning for those in her party not coming to Trump’s defense.


“If you’re a Republican with any kind of voice, and not speaking up for President Trump tonight don’t expect any of us to speak up for you when your time comes. You may not realize it yet, but they’re coming for all of us,” Boebert said in a tweet Monday night.

Democratic infighting threatens policing package Former Nixon White House counsel: Trump comparison of FBI search to Watergate ‘doesn’t work at all’
Republican probes into the handling of the search warrant would come on top of other congressional GOP investigations into alleged political bias in the DOJ.

McCarthy has repeatedly brought up the Department of Justice’s handling of strategies to address threats directed at school board members and teachers. House Judiciary Committee Republicans say that according to whistleblowers who have contacted them, the FBI opened investigations into parents.


Grassley has similarly said that “multiple Justice Department whistleblowers” have approached his office about alleged political bias in the department revolving around election and campaign finance investigations and matters revolving around Hunter Biden.


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3594707-gop-pressures-doj-for-answers-on-trump-raid/

 

Shitting yourself after only 24 hours?

Mid-terms fading fast and no analysis other than the bleeding obvious.

Too funny!

Thinskin

 

Funny how the Republicans complain about political witch hunts, and then tell us they will do their own "when they get power"...

 

And we sure as fuck never heard them screaming about the FBI being the Gestapo when they were investigating Hillary and announced they were reopening the investigation 11 days before the election. Why they were just heroes doing their job back then.

 

OMG just hilarious. This is just too damned rich. I can't believe this.



Clinton email investigator: Trump's abuse of classified information is not the same thing

Matthew Chapman
August 09, 2022



Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

On Tuesday, POLITICO reported that the Department of Justice counterintelligence official who helped oversee the 2016 investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server — a case that focused on whether she had improperly retained classified information on her personal devices — says the investigation into former President Donald Trump's removal of classified information is in a completely separate league from what he was investigating.

"'People sling these cases around to suit their political agenda but every case has to stand on its own circumstances,' said David Laufman, who led the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section until 2018 and is now a partner at the firm Wiggin and Dana," reported Kyle Cheney. "Laufman has the credentials to judge the severity of these matters. In addition to the Clinton case, he managed the investigation of David Petraeus, the former general and CIA director who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for mishandling classified material. CNN reported that one of the DOJ officials involved in the Trump investigation is his immediate successor."

The analysis comes after the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida, where they reportedly confiscated 10 boxes of documents — an extraordinary and unprecedented legal action against a former president.

“For the department to pursue a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago tells me that the quantum and quality of the evidence they were reciting — in a search warrant and affidavit that an FBI agent swore to — was likely so pulverizing in its force as to eviscerate any notion that the search warrant and this investigation is politically motivated,” said Laufman.

The Clinton email case, which dominated the news cycle in 2016 and wounded her presidential campaign, ultimately ended in no charges, although then-FBI Director James Comey publicly chastised Clinton for her "careless" records retention policies. Trump, then a presidential candidate himself, relentlessly claimed Clinton was guilty of national security crimes, and "Lock Her Up!" became a common chant at his rallies.

"In the absence of more detailed information about the investigation, it’s unclear what potential crimes DOJ is probing," noted the report. "Notably, Trump — after a fierce campaign against Clinton in which he called for her to be jailed for her handling of classified material — signed a law in 2018 that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from one year to five years, turning it into a felony offense."

ALSO IN THE NEWS: Trump ally's cellphone nabbed by FBI agents in new search warrant: report

https://www.rawstory.com/hillary-clintons-emails/

 

Your tirade is so baseless the only appropriate reaction is laughter.

 

LOL... another attempt to dis-qualify Trump....this too, will back fire on the hack fuck leftists...

 

They don't call Eric the dumb one for nothing. Yes that's the way it worked in the Trump White House because Trump is the most mentally ill, stupid and ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, deadly, and treasonous president in US history. So yes just like a mad king tin horn dictator Trump wold use the DOJ as his own personal lawyers and strike force.

But that is not the way it is supposed to work. The DOJ is supposed to be independent of the White House and president. And President Biden and Merrick Garland make sure the DOJ operates that way. And how do we know that? If President Biden was giving orders to the DOJ he would have told Garland to wait until after the midterms before exercising the search warrant at Mar a Lago. Things were going really good for President Biden and the Democrats, They are passing big legislative wins. Gas oil and inflation are coming down. They have ab0rtion, gun control climate change and democracy to campaign on. This is the time to garb the spotlight and brag to the American people about their accomplishments. But instead the search at Mar a Lago has grabbed all the news cycles and kicked a hornet's nest. That is the very last thing President Biden wants right now. But for the DOJ it could not be avoided because Trump has created a national security threat.



Eric Trump's Accidental Confession About His Father Has Twitter Users Howling

Ed Mazza
Wed, August 10, 2022 at 2:57 AM·3 min read



Eric Trump may have revealed just a little too much about how the White House operated under his father.

One day after the FBI executed a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the son of the former president claimed that President Joe Biden must have approved the action. His reasoning: That’s how it worked when Trump was in office.








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Eric Trump: I know the white house as well anyone. I know the system. This did not happen without Joe Biden's explicit approval.











5:19 PM · Aug 9, 2022

Most modern presidents have taken pains to distance themselves from Justice Department operations with political implications. In this case, the White House said Biden found out about the search warrant the same way as everyone else: from the news.

But as Twitter users were quick to point out, Eric Trump’s comments appeared to admit that wasn’t the case in the Trump White House:


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This actually may be a confession that Donald Trump attempted to wield power over the Department of Justice in inappropriate ways. Eric is making things a whole lot worse for his family every time he opens his mouth.









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Eric Trump: I know the white house as well anyone. I know the system. This did not happen without Joe Biden's explicit approval.




5:38 PM · Aug 9, 2022



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I mean that might be how it worked in the trump White House but that’s not supposed to be how it works









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Eric Trump: I know the white house as well anyone. I know the system. This did not happen without Joe Biden's explicit approval.




5:36 PM · Aug 9, 2022

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eric-trumps-accidental-confession-father-085759577.html

 

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.”

 

Gone Fishing

 

Trump raid could warrant AG Garland's impeachment, Rand Paul says: 'This is beyond the pale'.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., demanded an investigation Wednesday into the Department of Justice and the FBI over the raid on President Trump's Florida home.
On "Fox & Friends," Paul argued Attorney General Merrick Garland could face impeachment if an investigation finds him guilty of misusing his office.

 

What did Shooter say?
If the raid didn't produce something really good, the blowback will be truly awesome, eh?

 

Well, every cloud has a silver lining.....


Most Americans Say FBI Raid on Trump Motivates Them to Vote in the Midterms

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HANNAH BLEAU10 Aug 2022
Most Americans say the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has motivated them to vote in the midterm election, a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found.

“Does the FBI raid on President Trump increase your motivation to vote in the 2022 election?” the survey asked.

The overwhelming majority, 70.4 percent, said the FBI’s raid of Trump’s residence will increase their motivation to vote in the 2022 election, compared to 21.6 percent who said it will not. Another 8.1 percent remain unsure.

Over half of Democrats, 55.2 percent, said it will increase their motivation to vote, but an even greater number of Republicans, 83.3 percent, said it will motivate them to head the polls in November. Seven in ten independents, 71.7 percent, of said it will motivate them to vote in November as well.

Additionally, the survey found that. 47.9 percent, overall, believe “Trump’s political enemies” are behind the raid, compared to 39.7 percent who said the “impartial justice system” is behind it. Over-three quarters of Republicans, 76.7 percent, believe Trump’s political enemies are behind the raid.

The survey was taken August 8-10, 2022, among 1,095 likely general election voters and has a +/- 2.9 percent margin of error.

It comes days after the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, which former President Trump described as a “prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024”: https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/statu...trump-motivates-them-to-vote-in-the-midterms/

Top Republicans have called for an investigation following the raid, which has ignited the conservative base. According to Eric Trump, his father is now seeing record fundraising numbers.

“DonaldJTrump.com is shattering all fundraising records and I’m told has raised more money in the past 24 hours than ever before in recent history!” he said. “The American people are pissed!”

 

MAGA is not America. MAGA thinks they are above the law!