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Feds Swear Trump Investigation Was in 'EARLY STAGES'
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It may answer the question of why the FBI combed through Melania Trump’s under lovelies and hired a safecracker. They didn’t seem to know what they were looking for.
This is why it appears this was a raid in search of a crime.
As I wrote at PJ Media shortly after the raid:
The warrant demands that agents remove binders of photographs, documents with classification markings on them, and, the coups de grâce, “any physical documents with classification markings, along with anycontainers/boxes (including any other contents) in which such documents are located, as well as any other containers/boxes that are collectively stored or found together with the aforementioned documents and containers/boxes.”
The warrant covers any documents that Trump touched between his first day and last day in office. This included, “information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material, any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021.”
Later, anti-Trump prosecutors showed atypical humility and admitted that, yes, they’d “over collected” documents such as Trump’s passports and privileged documents between Trump and his attorneys.This is no small thing. This is enough to get evidence and possibly the whole case thrown out by a judge. Fruits of the poisonous tree and all that. If agents had an appropriately tailored search warrant and had the judge bothered to look at the underlying documents, then privileged documents that were clearly out of the scope of the warrant wouldn’t have been confiscated. That is unless Trump and his attorneys were scoring crack, smoking meth, doing deals to get raw materials to make lithium batteries for the Chi-coms, and getting payoffs from the Ukrainians and Russkies. Wait, sorry, that’s Hunter Biden and The Big Guy…
Moving on.
Immediately following the raid, the media reported the Feds had hoped to keep the sacking of Mar-a-Lago under wraps, hoping no one would notice–least of all Trump since they knew he was out of town. This is important because it supports the speculation –- and educated speculation is all we’ve got on this point — that the raid was a Hoover special, vacuuming up as many documents, photos, and underpants they could in the hope that they’d find something.
And here are a couple more data points. Why was Monday, August 8, 2022, chosen for the raid?
The warrant was signed by Judge Reinhart on Friday, August 5, 2022. The FBI waited until the following Monday to execute the warrant. You might well be thinking that it takes a bit of planning to stand up a raid like this. True. You have to organize muscle, get the suits to sign on, get a babysitter, tell the spouse you’ll be late, and get the right people with the right clearances lined up to read all these evil, super-secret nuclear secrets that Trump had according to DOJ media leaks. Please read more about this at PJ Media.
We are also told that Attorney General Merrick Garland agonized for weeks or months over raiding a former president’s home. Well, we certainly hope so. But how long has this “early stages” investigation been going on, anyway? Law professor Margot Cleveland, writing for The Federalist,thinks it’s been at least since January, 2022. Newsweek puts the inflection point during the presidential transition in January of 2021, when a news story reported that the head of the National Archives (NARA), David S. Ferriero, noticed someone with Trump carrying a bankers box to Marine One and said, “What the hell’s in that box?’” Thereafter, he made it his mission to get the box and apparently get Trump too.
So what drove the timing of the raid?
This is another important data point. Was this an emergency? What were the exigent circumstances forcing the move on Trump? If Trump had nuclear secrets that they were afraid he’d give over to Joe Biden’s buddies in the PRC or Hillary’s Russkie spy friends who helped write her fake Steele dossier, then why wait till August to do the raid? Isn’t this an emergency?
Why get a search warrant on Friday and serve it on a Monday under such fraught circumstances concerning documents having to do with nuclear issues, which is what the the Washington Post reported, quoting anonymous sources from some government agency?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/08/18/feds-swear-trump-investigation-was-in-early-stages-when-fbi-stormed-mar-a-lago-oh-really-n1622220