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The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis. A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.

Was the Federal Bureau of Investigation justified in searching Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago? The judge who issued the warrant for Mar-a-Lago has signaled that he is likely to release a redacted version of the affidavit supporting it. But the warrant itself suggests the answer is likely no—the FBI had no legally valid cause for the raid.

The warrant authorized the FBI to seize “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§793, 2071, or 1519” (emphasis added). These three criminal statutes all address the possession and handling of materials that contain national-security information, public records or material relevant to an investigation or other matters properly before a federal agency or the courts.

The materials to be seized included “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021”—i.e., during Mr. Trump’s term of office. Virtually all the materials at Mar-a-Lago are likely to fall within this category. Federal law gives Mr. Trump a right of access to them. His possession of them is entirely consistent with that right, and therefore lawful, regardless of the statutes the FBI cites in its warrant.

Those statutes are general in their text and application. But Mr. Trump’s documents are covered by a specific statute, the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It has long been the Supreme Court position, as stated in Morton v. Mancari (1974), that “where there is no clear intention otherwise, a specific statute will not be controlled or nullified by a general one, regardless of the priority of enactment.” The former president’s rights under the PRA trump any application of the laws the FBI warrant cites.

The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis - WSJ
What I'm hearing is that they wanted to recover documents Trump had with very damaging info about Russiagate or other hoaxes, so if they have them they can say we can't release documents of an ongoing investigation. No doubt they would never see the light of day, maybe the info is so bad they don't give a shit how bad this looks for the FBI or DOJ as long as the info doesn't get out.
 

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^^^ You just don't get it, do you? They're supposed to go to the non-existent public charging stations at night, sleep in the car because of the long lines and then, hopefully, be able to charge the car before they have to go to work again. The money saved on housing that way easily pays for the car. Jessh, man!
 

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Hire more hot teachers…that should do the trick…aah good times

Yeah...I am not seeing an issue of hiring 1st grade teachers without a bachelors degree. Hell, most elementary school teachers now have a Masters or doctorates degree.......to teach kids not to eat crayons and how to stay seated in their chairs. These teachers are career students, who have never held down a job in their lives, just went to school on daddys trust fund until they had enough paper on the wall that said they could teach kindergarten. So, you have immature adults with absolutely no life skills, attempting to teach kids how to become adults. Anybody see an issue here? No wonder our public education system is so fucked up.
 

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More whistleblowers come forward against 'out of control' FBI

Prior to the FBI's raid on Trump's estate, a string of whistleblowers had come forward with accusations of political bias

Another slew of whistleblowers have come forward with misconduct claims against the FBI following the Bureau's raid on former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.

FBI field offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo and Newark face accusations that their upper management coerced agents to sign false affidavits, inflated terrorism caseloads to improve their apparent performance, engaged in illicit sexual activities, or concealed those of others, according to the Washington Times.

“The FBI is completely out of control and its culture and structure needs to change. Not only is the political bias completely out of control and disgustingly obvious, the FBI knows they will not be held accountable for their illegal behavior and misconduct,” said one Whistleblower in a letter to Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tx) of the House Judiciary Committee. This whistleblower alleged that FBI Director Christopher Wray ignored her allegations of sexual misconduct.

Prior to the FBI's raid on Trump's estate, a string of whistleblowers had come forward with accusations of political bias against senior FBI officials. The Washington Field Office, which sent the agents to Florida to raid Trump's estate, was facing its own set of allegations.

Following the raid, Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson put out a call for FBI whistleblowers to come forward with misconduct concerns. Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said that 14 whistleblowers had contacted his office following the raid.

One whistleblower said that the senior agents running the field offices face pressure to increase the number of case loads each year due to the way the Bureau evaluates their performance and that this has lead to illicit practices.

More whistleblowers come forward against 'out of control' FBI | Just The News
 

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The left’s mask slips on brazen Trump bias

Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist...has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: Once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was “warranted.”

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It has progressed to the next stage, of stigmatizing and dehumanizing Trump’s supporters.... The dozens of Trump supporters held in a DC jail without trial for months and even years over Jan. 6 offenses, many nonviolent, would be recognized immediately as political prisoners by Amnesty International if they were detained in a country like Russia.

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In this conversation, he has nailed the warped noblesse oblige of our modern liberal aristocracy, who believe that they are intellectually and morally superior to other Americans, and must protect them from their own unwise choices, like voting for Donald Trump, or driving real cars, or eating fast food.

Having absorbed the snooty European critique of America, they denounce their fellow citizens to prove their own virtue. Every time they denounce Trump and his supporters as subhuman threats to democracy, they demonstrate that they are a refined species of American unfortunately forced to inhabit this vast land with a bunch of white supremacists and nascent domestic terrorists with bad teeth and dangerous ideas.

The propaganda media of the left amplifies and twists this attitude in hateful ways. Watch MSNBC for a day with its increasingly extreme defamations of Trump and his supporters, and you can’t help but recall the radio station in Rwanda that blared out regular denunciations of the minority Tutsi as “cockroaches” in the prelude to the 1994 genocide.

The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias (nypost.com)
 

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^^^ You just don't get it, do you? They're supposed to go to the non-existent public charging stations at night, sleep in the car because of the long lines and then, hopefully, be able to charge the car before they have to go to work again. The money saved on housing that way easily pays for the car. Jessh, man!
It takes all freakin night to charge the batteries right, so they'd have to have MILLIONS of overnight charging stations where the car owner can sleep in the car while it is charging. Sounds like a perfect fit for California, As it tackles the housing crisis at the same time and the streets are already covered in feces because there are not enough portable outhouses for the homeless :lmao: :rofl: :lmao: :rofl:
 

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