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Trump attorney Alina Habba appeared on Fox News with Jesse Watters. She said that they had been cooperating with the National Archives over the records and that this was completely “unconstitutional.” “Our country should be terrified—I am terrified,” Habba exclaimed. She said the FBI went in when he wasn’t even there, and then told his attorneys to leave, that they couldn’t watch or be there. “That doesn’t sound good to me,” she declared.
Habba said the agents came in wearing backpacks, and she was concerned that they could have planted things since they were trying to get the attorneys out of there. Habba said she believed this was all part of the effort to try to take Trump down, and that people were “working in tandem” with other efforts.
“There is more than people know that you’ll be hearing,” Habba explained. “If he wasn’t ahead in the polls, this wouldn’t be happening.” It’s “100 percent” politically motivated, she declared. “I don’t trust the government, and that’s a very frightening thing as an American,” she said. “This is third-world stuff, this is Cuba. This is not our country.”
Watters asked about the warrant, and Habba said the attorneys on the ground weren’t given the warrant during the raid — they were only allowed to look at it.
Habba said the agents came in wearing backpacks, and she was concerned that they could have planted things since they were trying to get the attorneys out of there. Habba said she believed this was all part of the effort to try to take Trump down, and that people were “working in tandem” with other efforts.
“There is more than people know that you’ll be hearing,” Habba explained. “If he wasn’t ahead in the polls, this wouldn’t be happening.” It’s “100 percent” politically motivated, she declared. “I don’t trust the government, and that’s a very frightening thing as an American,” she said. “This is third-world stuff, this is Cuba. This is not our country.”
Watters asked about the warrant, and Habba said the attorneys on the ground weren’t given the warrant during the raid — they were only allowed to look at it.
Uh Oh: ABC, CBS Warn of No 'Transparency,' 'Overreach' in FBI’s Trump Raid
However, the liberal networks were surprisingly not ready to celebrate with ABC and CBS noting there’s been very little “transparency from the Justice Department or the FBI” and, if they had only sought boxes of presidential records, it would be correctly viewed as “overreach” by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
ABC’s Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos called the raid “stunning” in a tease while chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl was even more direct: “This may be the most politically explosive raid ever undertaken by the FBI. It's a stunning development.”
Speaking after Karl’s lead-off report to chief legal analyst (and NewsNation host) Dan Abrams, Stephanopoulos said viewers need to “kinda take a breath,” inviting him to walk everyone through the process so they understand what would have to happen for that FBI search to take place.”
After explaining how law enforcement (at any level) would go about getting a warrant, Stephanopoulos opened the door to skepticism:
Schumer Warned In 2017 The FBI Would Have ‘Six Ways’ Of Getting Back At Trump
“You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this,” Schumer said to Rachel Maddow while speaking on MSNBC.
“What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?” Maddow asked.
“I don’t know,” Schumer said. “But from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them. And we need the intelligence community. Look at the Russian hacking. Without the intelligence community we wouldn’t have discovered it.”
“Do we think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean this form of taunting hostility.”
“Let me tell you,” Schumer chimed in. “Whether you’re a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.”
Deep State Burns Its Bridges to Get Trump—and Now It's Fighting for Its Life
What are we to make of 30 or so FBI agents raiding President Trump’s Florida home to collect maybe 35 boxes of records for what is perhaps the Deep State’s 7th or 8th impeachment attempt? First, why no raids on the Democrats who took the jet to Epstein’s pedophile island with its readily available sex with underage girls? Why no raids on Hunter Biden and the apparent crimes documented on the laptop? Why no raids on Hilary Clinton after she destroyed evidence?
The good news, and I think it is great news, is that at least a third of the country no longer believes they can expect justice from the federal department that bears that name. They see that federal law enforcement serves those in power and their own “interagency” agenda. Knowing that truth will keep you sane when the things that go on in Washington make no sense. It is all about power. And since you don’t have power, the message being sent to you is to keep your head down and your mouth shut. This is the ultimate brush-back pitch on the American public, which is clearly in the mood to clean house in Washington.
Oh, but they will say it’s just about federal record retention law and classified documents. Hmmm… where are the prosecutions of the Muller team? Federal record retention law required them to have kept their cell phone records intact. Instead, when they turned them in, the inspector general reported that some managed to “forget” their passwords, and geez, they made too many wrong attempts, so their cell phones are all now permanently locked. “Hypocrites is too mild a word.” These are the same fake, phony frauds who want to enforce federal records rules on Trump?
Wait—Those 'Classified’ Docs FBI Sought in Trump Raid Were Already Declassified
If that is the case, then this further proves that the raid was an abuse of power, because we’ve known for months now that the documents in question were already declassified by then-President Trump.
“Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official, told Breitbart News in a phone interview in May. According to Patel, the classification markings just had not been updated.
“The White House counsel failed to generate the paperwork to change the classification markings, but that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t declassified,” Patel added. “I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information.’”
Patel served as the Pentagon chief of staff as well as principal deputy to the acting director of national intelligence. He is also a former National Security Council aide, former top House Intelligence Committee staffer, and former federal prosecutor and public defender.
“This story is just another disinformation campaign designed to break the public trust in a president that lived on transparency. It’s yet another way to attack Trump and say he took classified information when he did not,” he added.
“The story says the National Archives found the documents had classification markings on them. That doesn’t mean that they were not declassified. All previously classified documents have classification markings on them, it shows they used to be classified. It’s petty bureaucracy at its finest, government simpletons not following a president’s orders to have them marked ‘declassified.’ The president has unilateral authority to declassify documents — anything in government. He exercised it here in full,” Patel explained.
FBI’s Trump Home Raid Improperly Intrusive, Circumstances Indicate
“I’m stunned and dismayed,” commented Marc Ruskin, 27-year FBI veteran and former federal prosecutor.
“The disregard for traditional norms and apparent lack of concern with the appearance of impropriety is indicative of an abandonment of even a veneer of independence and objectivity,” he told The Epoch Times.
Former federal prosecutor Mike Davis went even further, saying the raid may have been illegally invasive.
“Under the case law, you can’t do a home raid if you can secure the documents through less intrusive means,” he told “Bannon War Room” on Aug. 9.
The FBI had to first determine that requests for the documents or even subpoenas wouldn’t be sufficient, said Davis, who formerly advised Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on judicial nominations and now heads The Article III Project.
“There’s zero evidence” that Trump wouldn’t have cooperated, he said.
“There was no allegation or evidence that he [Trump] was destroying any of this evidence or putting it into the wrong hands. This is banana republic-level tactics from the Biden Justice Department.”
Even if Trump took classified documents, he took possession of them when he was still chief executive and had the authority to declassify them, Davis said.
Bobb suggested that the invocation of classified documents was a disingenuous attempt of “shrouding this in a national security blanket.”
“They don’t want to disclose what they’re doing, because what they’re doing is wrong. And so they want to hide it behind the premise of ‘Oh, it’s a matter of national security and classified documents, so we can’t disclose to you what we’re doing or why we’re doing it. But just trust us. We’re not lying to you,’” she said.
“Well, no, the American people aren’t going to stand for that anymore.”
Even if the DOJ tried to charge Trump with withholding documents, it wouldn’t hold up, Bobb said, because the statute in question requires a “willful” violation and Trump would have had to have “some malicious intent” to take specific documents.
“They would have to lay the foundation that Donald Trump actually packed up his own office” or ordered somebody what specifically to take, she said.
It Was a Trap
Let’s look at the facts as of now. The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, looking for alleged classified documents, while Donald Trump was not present. The FBI reportedly did not find the alleged “classified” documents they were looking for, but they did take 15 boxes of documents from Trump’s home. The FBI did not reveal the reasonable cause to Trump’s legal team, Trump must sue for the right to see that apparently.
Most importantly, Eric Trump was present on the property and facilitated the situation. He reported that the Mar-a-Lago staff did NOT turn off security cameras, despite instructions from FBI. So for those who are concerned about the FBI planting anything, Trump had that base covered. And for those who are concerned they will “plant evidence” back at FBI HQ, thats not how that works, they have to take photos and document everything at the scene. They won’t be able to successfully plant anything while under surveillance. Eric event went so far as to say that they have already “captured FBI acting improperly”.
Eric Trump Says Security Cameras Captured FBI Acting Improperly During Raid
Staff working at Mar-a-Lago said they refused to turn off the surveillance cameras on the property during Monday's FBI raid.www.newsweek.com
At first, this event enraged the overwhelming majority of the Trump base. But after the facts unfolded and the media narratives were established, we can see this event has not only caused ZERO net damage to Trump, its benefitting him immensely.
This blatant Gestapo-like act of fascism by the Biden DOJ/FBI, has done nothing but prove Trump’s entire overarching narrative since the beginning; that the Deep State exist and the DNC are deranged totalitarian psychopaths who will abuse government by any means necessary to achieve their nefarious agenda. That there’s a two-tiered “Justice” system. Just look at how the FBI slapped Hillary on the wrist for her egregious handling of classified material that threatened NATSEC; as compared to the alleged mystery documents that the Biden admin didn’t care about until America First candidates started sweeping primaries.
Indiana Republican Who Was Born In The USSR Blasts FBI Trump Raid As ‘KGB-Style Tactics’
Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz blasted the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home this week, calling the move “KGB-style tactics.”
Spartz was not just saying that either, she grew up in the former Soviet Union before emigrating to the United States.
Her comments ring true because that’s just the way it came off to millions of Americans. It looked like something that happens in other countries, not America.
What makes that utterly absurd, and shows that the rifling through Melania’s clothes part of the Stasi operation was nothing more than an attempt to humiliate and/or intimidate the former president and his family was that the warrant related to the seizing of documents.
What, did the FBI expect to find some incriminating, printed out text message taped to the bottom of one of the former first lady’s high heels or sewn inside one of her suptuous gowns? Of course not; that would be ridiculous. But they wanted to make their statement and did so, getting their grubby hands on Melania’s beautiful clothes and private warddrobe while alone and free from legal interference.
On that point, while the jackbooted thugs enforcing Team Brandon’s agenda were tearing through Trump’s residence and sniffing his wife’s drawers, Trump’s lawyers were forbidden to even enter the air conditioned lobby of the building, much less accompny the plain-clothes goons that were tossing apart his house for hours on end.
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If the FBI had an informer onsite who told the FBI where the ' stolen ' documents were stored, why are the Fibbies going through Melania's Closet
What, did the FBI expect to find some incriminating, printed out text message taped to the bottom of one of the former first lady’s high heels or sewn inside one of her suptuous gowns? Of course not; that would be ridiculous. But they wanted to make their statement and did so, getting their grubby hands on Melania’s beautiful clothes and private warddrobe while alone and free from legal interference.
On that point, while the jackbooted thugs enforcing Team Brandon’s agenda were tearing through Trump’s residence and sniffing his wife’s drawers, Trump’s lawyers were forbidden to even enter the air conditioned lobby of the building, much less accompny the plain-clothes goons that were tossing apart his house for hours on end.
Horrific Humiliation: What The FBI Did to Melania's Clothes Is Disgusting and Shows Massive Overreach
When the FBI raided Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, it didn’t just senselessly root through the former President’s files, crack open his safe, and snatch up boxes of documents to confiscate for whatever anti-Trump investigation they have going on. Though all that seems to have happened during the...
If the FBI had an informer onsite who told the FBI where the ' stolen ' documents were stored, why are the Fibbies going through Melania's Closet
The FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, and I Have Questions
An FBI application for a search warrant requires an affidavit from an agent swearing under oath to the need and circumstances for a warrant. According to Alan Dershowitz, to get a warrant, there should be no less intrusive means to obtain the evidence — like asking for it from a subject who is already cooperating with the investigation. Alternatively, there could be an immediate danger of evidence being destroyed — while being reviewed by other federal employees. Sure. But when working with a magistrate who was formerly employed by Jeffery Epstein, the FBI may have ways to get around those little formalities.
In other words, there was no rational reason to execute a search warrant on Trump's home. This also means that the FBI most certainly lied on the affidavit for the warrant — as they have a history of doing. Kevin Clinesmith has forever tainted the FBI's credibility on such matters.
I suspect that when the search warrant is reviewed by congressional investigators — and it will be — we will see proof of what we already suspect. The raid was an outrageous act, by a rogue federal agency, in service to a corrupt administration.
Putting aside the legality of the whole thing, I have a bunch of questions.
- Did President "Return to Normalcy" approve this, or is America now run by a shadow government? Biden claims he didn't know about the raid. If true, that's even scarier than the raid.
- Has Merrick Garland erased any doubt that the Deep State is a genuine threat to our republic?
- Is there any need for more evidence to fire Chris Wray and impeach Merrick Garland?
- Has anyone made a stronger argument than Merrick Garland for limited government?
- Does this raid undermine or reinforce the notion that we now have a two-tiered justice system?
- If searches of ex-presidents are now accepted practice, who has the most to hide: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe "Ten Percent for the Big Guy" Biden? It's a valid question because they're all fair game now.
- Is it just a coincidence that Director Wray cut his Senate testimony short, and skedaddled out of Washington just days before the raid? Might he have been worried about a leak concerning the raid while he was still seated before Senator Grassley?
- Do we have enough now to at least start talking seriously about disbanding the FBI?
- Is this the "return to normalcy" that the Democrats promised us?
- Has this action "red-pilled" any traditional Democrat voters? Has this action shamed any of them, similar to how the FBI has shamed former agents?
- Will this raid encourage or discourage Democrat voters from going to the polls in November?
- Has this action gotten any independent voters off of the fence? If so, are they likely to fall left or right after news of the raid?
- Are people suffering through stagflation getting sick of the Democrat party's obsession with the last election?
- Will this raid enhance or poison future legislative cooperation?
- Will this be the "crossing of the Rubicon" that actually forces RINOs to take a side?
- Did the NeverTrumps not see the character of the people they were climbing into bed with? Do they see now that they should have used protection?
- Is this the kind of banana republic b------- that the NeverTrumps meant to unleash on America when they sided with the Dems?
- Where do the NeverTrumps stand on the raid? Are they against or in support of the action? Do they have any principles left, or has hatred burned their consciences to ashes?
- What is Liz Cheney's position on the raid? Does her hatred of Trump outweigh her love of country? I have the same question for Kevin "Real Man" Costner and Senator Pierre Delecto.
- Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood that The Donald will run again? I'm sure the Dems have contemplated this question a lot.
- Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood of The Donald being re-elected? I'm pretty sure the Dems didn't spend much time thinking this one out.
- Did the Dems consider that this action might actually help to rehabilitate Trump's image? They created an America in which victimhood is admired — and they just made Trump public victim number one.
- Has Merrick Garland converted Trump from a mean-tweeting ogre to a sympathetic martyr yet?
- Could the Biden administration have possibly done anything more potent to maximize Republican turnout in November?
- Has this angered average Americans? If so, how are they likely to respond? Did the Dems devote even one brain cell to that question?