Anonymous ID: 27e639 Aug. 26, 2022, 2:36 p.m. No.17447073   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7120 >>7122 >>7338 >>7498 >>7544

So what’s in the affidavit? While the redactions cover most of that up, there is enough revealed that exposes just how blatantly political the FBI’s move was. For example, the pursuit partially originated not from any hard evidence of criminal activity, but from a CBS News article.

Who could have guessed that there would be moving trucks at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was in the middle of moving from the White House to Mar-a-Lago? Just incredible stuff, but it was apparently enough for the National Archives and the FBI to join forces to break all precedent to target a former president.

The other part of this centers on documents already returned to the NARA. Yes, you heard that right, part of the basis for the search warrant was that Trump had already returned boxes that had been requested. The NARA then identified some of the returned documents as still having classified markings and used it as a pretense to go after whatever else might be at Mar-a-Lago.

The boxes being referred to by Maggie Haberman were returned in January of 2022 after the typical negotiation that goes on between former presidents and the National Archives. Also of note is that Haberman is very careful to use the phrase “unchanged classified markings” instead of “classified documents.” That’s a nod to the fact that they were declassified before being copied and taken.

That notion is furthered by the fact that the affidavit makes clear the classification of the documents is not what is at issue under the Espionage Act. This was an incredibly broad fishing expedition based on no legitimate probable cause.

Another media narrative also bit the dust within the affidavit. Many claimed that Trump had retroactively made up the story of declassifying the documents as a way to cover himself after the fact. Nope. According to the affidavit, he told the FBI and NARA that same thing prior to the raid. They appear to have simply ignored the fact that Trump declassified the documents in question before taking them under his authority as president. If there is an explanation given for that in the affidavit, it’s redacted.

What’s this come down to? If you believe the affidavit’s justification, it’s not really about the possession of classified materials, and there’s no real indication that there will be criminal charges coming. Instead, it appears the grand disagreement was over what constituted a “secure” location at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, they raided a former president’s home because they felt a double-locked storage room protected by Secret Service wasn’t enough, even as Trump had tried to accommodate their concerns.

What was shown today in this affidavit is a gross abuse of power by an out-of-control federal bureaucracy that is targeting Trump based purely on politics. The NARA never treated Barack Obama like this despite him taking millions of documents, many sensitive, and not following through on his commitment to scan and upload them. The fact that Trump was cooperative over what turned out to be a relatively mundane issue only makes things worse.

The NARA is run by a democrat hack and the partisan FBI has been trying to get the bad orange man from the moment he announced his first presidential run. Both institutions used their power to gin up bad headlines for Trump via the raid and coordinated leaks knowing full well there was no reason to treat this as a criminal matter. It’s more evidence on top of the already existing mountain that the bureaucracy must be torn down brick by brick. Any Republican still arguing for the “rank-and-file” doesn’t know what time it is.

 

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/08/26/trump-affidavit-points-to-absolutely-insane-justification-for-the-fbi-raid-n618264

 

*SAME TACTICS THEY USED FOR THE RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX, RELYING ON CABAL/DEEP STATE MEDIA HEADLINES TO USE AS JUSTIFICATION…DEEP STATE SPIES AND CABAL MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS***

Anonymous ID: 27e639 Aug. 26, 2022, 2:44 p.m. No.17447098   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7111 >>7120

Washington and Massachusetts are following a policy from California to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

Rules from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) require 35% of new vehicles to produce zero emissions by 2026 before rising to a 68% benchmark by 2030 and a 100% level by 2035. Both Washington and Massachusetts had enacted legislation conforming the states to recommendations from CARB as of 2019, according to the agency.

“This is a critical milestone in our climate fight,” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) said on social media, setting the goal of “all new car sales to be zero emissions by 2030.”

California accounts for 11.7% of new light-duty vehicle sales in the United States, according to CARB, while Massachusetts and Washington account for 2.1% and 1.8% of sales, respectively. The road to electric vehicle adoption, however, may be steep — California has 563,070 registered electric vehicles while Washington and Massachusetts have 66,810 and 30,470, respectively, according to the Department of Energy.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-more-states-follow-californias-ban-on-new-gas-cars

Anonymous ID: 27e639 Aug. 26, 2022, 2:53 p.m. No.17447122   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7138 >>7338 >>7498 >>7544

>>17447073

By John Solomon

Updated: August 26, 2022 - 3:06pm

Like the Russia collusion FISA warrants before it, the FBI search warrant for Donald Trump's Florida estate relied on multiple news media reports from outlets such as Breitbart and CBS to justify its unprecedented request to raid a former president's home.

For instance, the bureau relied on a local CBS report to establish that Trump had moved boxes suspected to contain documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in mid-January 2021, just before he left office, according to the partially redacted FBI affidavit made public by a court Friday.

"According to a CBS Miami article titled 'Moving Tucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago,' published Monday, January 18, 2021, at least two moving trucks were observed at the PREMISES on January 18, 2021," the memo related.

Another citation referred to a Breitbart article from May in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel was quoted as saying he did not believe documents found at Mar-a-Lago and returned to the National Archives and Records Administration were classified. The citation refers to Trump as "FPOTUS," meaning former president.

"I am aware of an article published in Breitbart on May 5, 2022, available at https://www.breitbart.comvoliticsi2022i05/05/documents-mar-a-lago-marked-classified-wereah-eadv-declassifi.ed-kash-patel-savs/, which states that Kash Patel, who is described as a former top FPOTUS administration official, characterized as 'misleading' reports in other news organizations that NARA had followed classified materials among records that FPOTUS provided to NARA from Mar-a-Lago. Patel alleged that such reports were misleading because FPOTUS had declassified the materials at issue," an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit supporting the search.

The next few paragraphs are redacted so it is not readily apparent why that reference is relevant.

The affidavit states that a total of 184 documents with classification markings had been found when Trump returned documents to the Archives in 15 boxes early in 2022, and that was among the reasons the FBI believed it had "probable cause" to search Trump's home on Aug. 8.

Patel played a major role as chief investigative counsel for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in discredited the bungled Russia collusion probe, including abuses in seeking the FISA warrant.

The former federal prosecutor also was considered for a time by Trump to be named deputy director of the FBI, a move that was blocked by other aides.

The use of news articles to support a search warrant is allowed in some circumstances, but the FBI's use of news stories in seeking the Russia FISA, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page was sharply criticized by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.

For example, the DOJ inspector general noted the FBI used a Yahoo News article to support claims in the Christopher Steele dossier even though Steele was a source for the article and failed to reveal the circular reporting to the intelligence court that had approved the warrant and three renewals.

The FBI "failed to correct the assertion in the first FISA application that the FBI did not believe that Steele directly provided information to the reporter who wrote the September 23 Yahoo News article, even though there was no information in the Woods File to support this claim and even after certain Crossfire Hurricane officials learned in 2017, before the third renewal application, of an admission that Steele made in a court filing about his interactions with the news media in the late summer and early fall of 2016," Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in a scathing 2019 report that highlighted widespread failures and abuses in the Russia probe.

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/fbi-warrant-trump-search-relied-media-reports-bungled-russia-fisa

 

DEEP STATE SPIES LEAKING ONSUBSTANTIATED INFO TO CABAL MEDIA WHO REPORTS IT, THEN NEWS REPORTS USED TO JUSTIFY SEARCH WARRANT