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    This is a DOJ set up. The DOJ and FBI want to go after Maga and for them to get angry over the raid and to use it as a way to legitimize monitoring of conservatives & Maga supporters. Greg Gutfeld does a great job explaining this very interesting possibility at the 16:minute mark, and is worth a watch. It very true that Trumps supporters are upset so you can see the value that DOJ wants to capitalize on.


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    Quote Posted by pyrangello (here)
    I'm going to pivot in a different direction , Trump seems very collective thru this . As tactical as he is , do you think that all the stuff they got means absolutely nothing just like all the tax returns and everything else they have been searching for these past 7 years. Do you think he is way ahead of these clowns on a witch hunt? My gut says yes .
    Sure, but what's to stop them from planting or "discovering" anything they want? Especially if nothing's there?

    There is absolutely nothing legitimate about this government--er, tyranny--whatsoever.
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    Quote Posted by T Smith (here)
    Quote Posted by pyrangello (here)
    I'm going to pivot in a different direction , Trump seems very collective thru this . As tactical as he is , do you think that all the stuff they got means absolutely nothing just like all the tax returns and everything else they have been searching for these past 7 years. Do you think he is way ahead of these clowns on a witch hunt? My gut says yes .
    Sure, but what's to stop them from planting or "discovering" anything they want? Especially if nothing's there?

    There is absolutely nothing legitimate about this government--er, tyranny--whatsoever.
    They were watched closely by Eric Trump and the secret service all there as well as private security. Not to forget everything is recorded and documented by the Trump security team! IF the FBI planted anything they'd catch them in the act on their own security you can bet. FACE BOOK is full of posts like this right now from pasters across the country,"last week a young blonde pastor, Julie Green, said an event was coming, for us not to fear the FBI. They will be their own undoing and are about to be no more!" I've seen several posts on other places like Twitter of pasters and revs all saying prophecy and advising their congregation not to fear a big event coming. MY own neighbor told me something similar about a week ago that his rev. at church told the church he saw in a vision something big coming and not to be afraid. I think the FBI is on thin ice.
    The genius consistently stands out from the masses in that he unconsciously anticipates truths of which the population as a whole only later becomes conscious! Speech-circa 1937

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    Even practical good common sense american citizens who are voting democrats have to be scratching their heads going WTF. This keeps up will have a 10 year party with investigations on President Trump with nothing found and at a cost of how much. The mueller investigation was what 40 million, got a ton of lawyers rich and I mean a bunch, they were probably in the charging range of $2500.00 an hour. . Stormy Daniels attorney landed himself in jail he was so corrupt and produced nothing. I remember when Trump was first running, all the new media anchors laughing saying no way is this a joke? Then when he started getting momentum they just laughed a little. Then as the election got closer they produced a video 11 years prior, thats when I said , they have to go back that far and it was a big zero. President trump has secret service assigned to him, has his own security team and god knows what else. I'm sure they were sweeping everything down after the FBI left for bugs. This is a very dirty game that is being played , very dirty where there are no rules .

    George Washington rode a white horse and never got shot, think about that , he was a moving target and yet even his own men thought they were protected by his presence as they thought God had a hand in his safety for this country being created. After 7 years of vilification on himself , his family, his business, the first lady. He's still out there saying how great America is. And even during his presidency President trump donated all his salary to charity, mostly veterans organizations. I'd say there's something going on with his protection as well and God has a hand in it. Continue to pray for his safety like the pastors around the country in the post above. Oh and remember the day all the witches got together and tried to put a spell of Trump, even that didn't work. Prayer is a powerful thing isn't it! And the big guy upstairs is even more powerful. keep the faith.

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    EXCLUSIVE: Eric Trump reveals what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President's son says agents REFUSED to hand over warrant, kicked lawyer off property, searched Melania's clothes - and ordered security cameras to be turned
    • Eric Trump recounted the Monday raid of his father's Mar-a-Lago residence in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com
    • He said that they kicked Donald Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb off the property and made her wait at the end of a driveway during the raid
    • Also said that FBI agents refused to provide a copy of the search warrant
    • The former president's son said contrary to FBI direction, they refused to turn off security cameras at the Palm Beach estate

    Eric Trump revealed FBI agents refused to hand over the search warrant for their raid on Mar-a-Lago and kicked an attorney off the property in a new, incisive account of the Monday operation at the Florida estate.

    Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, the former president's son said the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off – but they refused.

    The bureau, he said, also brought safe crackers in to break into his father's safe, and he slammed the investigators for rummaging former first lady Melania's wardrobe and searching through clothing.

    He called the raid another 'coordinated attack' on his father Donald Trump and insisted there is no way President Joe Biden was kept in the dark about the search.

    The latest explosive account comes with the Department of Justice facing mounting pressure to explain what grounds they had for the search.

    Eric said that his father's lawyer Christina Bobb was forced to stand at the end of the Mar-a-Lago driveway throughout the raid.

    'There's 30 agents there,' he recalled of the Monday search in a phone call with DailyMail.com. 'They told our lawyer… you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras.'

    'They would not give her the search warrant,' he claimed. 'So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant.'



    Eric said lawyer Christina Bobb was forced to wait at the end of a driveway during the search. Pictured: Armed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, late Monday, August 8 in Palm Beach, Florida

    He said that Bobb was confused why a lawyer for the person's home being raided by the FBI was not able to see or obtain a copy of the search warrant.

    Eric said he would be 'thrilled' to find out if there was a valid search warrant.

    'It's all a coordinated attack with the FBI,' the former president's son added, insisting the raid was approved by President Biden.

    'Do you think that the FBI director is going to raid the former president's house, especially a house as you know, kind of world renowned as Mar Lago is in a place as public as Mar Lago is without getting the approval of President [Biden]?' Eric questioned.


    The above timeline highlights just some of former President Donald Trump's battles with the National Archives since leaving office, including an unrelated court fight with the January 6 committee

    By not turning off the security cameras, Eric said they saw the FBI raiding areas of the property that they 'shouldn't have been.'

    Donald Trump lamented Wednesday that the FBI blocked his lawyers from the property during the raid at his Palm Beach, Florida residence and suggested that agents may have 'planted' evidence.

    The fallout from the raid comes as Trump confirmed on his alternative social media site Tuesday evening that he will be deposed Wednesday in questioning part of the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his family's real estate business.

    The New York probe is just one of many the former president is facing, including the one that led to the raid on Monday involving the reported removal of official documents from the White House when he left office last year.

    'The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago,' Trump posted to his Truth Social page on Wednesday morning.

    'Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting,'' he continued while placing doubt that the raid was conducted properly.

    Trump, 76, questioned: 'Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never 'raided,' despite big disputes!'

    Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer, told Real America's Voice on Tuesday that the raid was a 'weird flex' and repeated Trump's suspicions that the RBI might have planted something during the search.

    'No, there is no security that something wasn't planted,' the 37-year-old lawyer said. 'I'm not saying that's what they did.'

    'This was a completely unnecessary power flex. It was a weird flex,' Bobb added. 'It's quite honestly sad to see what they have done to our country.'

    Even though Palm Beach reached a sweltering 91 degrees with high humidity on Monday, Trump's lawyers were left outside near a parking lot and were not allowed inside the air conditioned building where the raid was happening.

    The former president was spotted arriving back at his Manhattan residence in Trump Tower on Tuesday night.

    The raid on his Florida home the previous day saw investigators ransack his office for several hours – and even included a search through former first lady Melania Trump's wardrobe.

    Trump continued to vent his fury on Tuesday at the raid - which is believed to have been carried out to retrieve documents the former president took from the White House when he left.

    By law, all presidential correspondence and documentation must be handed over to the National Archives, and since February it has been clear that Trump did not comply. Some documents were returned to the National Archives at the beginning of this year, but apparently not all.

    FBI agents were inside the 128-room Florida estate for nine hours on Monday, with 30 agents roaming through the entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters.

    The investigators searched the master bedroom, known as the Versailles Room, which Melania Trump renovated two years ago.

    Their rummaging through Melania's wardrobe was not explained by the paper.

    The agents also searched a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored, the paper said.

    The Justice Department has not commented on the raid, which analysts said would have needed to be approved at the highest level.

    Sources told the Post that Trump's attorneys, led by Evan Corcoran, were 'cooperating fully' with federal authorities to arrange the return of the documents, with the process beginning in May 2021 when it was noticed that some records were missing.

    In January 2022, some of the documents were returned, and in February this year the news became public.

    In early June, four top DOJ officials traveled to Mar-a-Lago to speak with the former president's attorneys about the documents.

    The DOJ's counterintelligence and export control section chief Jay Bratt was reportedly among the group who sat down with Trump's lawyers.

    Trump's team showed the government officials where Trump was storing documents - in a basement room. Investigators reportedly observed that some of the files there were marked as classified.

    At one point the former president himself reportedly stopped in to say hello and 'make small talk' before leaving again, CNN reported.

    Days after the investigators' visit, they reportedly sent a letter to Trump's staff asking them to secure the room where they observed the documents being stored.

    Aides then padlocked the area, according to CNN.

    It is unclear what transpired between June and this week to make the FBI decide to forcibly claim the documents.

    But a former FBI agent told DailyMail.com that Monday's raid was likely sparked by new information from an 'informant' and a breakdown in cooperation between the agency and former president.

    Retired FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Tabman, who served the agency for 24 years, said a raid of this level of sensitivity would need to be approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

    'I think somebody gave them information indicating that these documents are there,' Tabman said, adding two hypothetical 'insider' revelations: 'You have not been told the truth about their existence. You're not getting them unless you come get them.'

    'I think there was inside information – call it an informant if you want,' he told DailyMail.com. 'I believe either someone told them something or some other information was stumbled upon, which was kind of conclusive in their minds that they had to go now to get that or they're not getting it.'

    Tabman claimed while there was cooperation between Trump and the FBI at one point, the agency may have gotten a sense that the former president and his team were 'telling you what they want to tell you with limited information.'

    FBI protocol, according to Tabman, is to move forward with seizing information once they feel that 'voluntarily' obtaining it is no longer viable.

    'You know, everything could disappear,' Tabman said. 'You got evidence that you need to get before it disappears or it moves and you can't see it anymore.'

    In order to obtain the warrant for a raid, the FBI would need to prove probable cause and conduct the search in a timely manner. Agents can't just 'poke around' someone's home in a case like this, Tabman said.

    He also claimed the FBI could have gotten the sense that Trump was just no longer being 'fully cooperative' with the investigation – leading them to see the raid approval.

    Tabman said that while it doesn't appear any protocols were broken in conducting the raid, it's still an 'unprecedented' move in the sense that the FBI has never raided a former president's home before.

    'I can't think of this having happened to a former president,' Tabman noted.

    'I don't see any protocols that were broken in any way,' the retired FBI special agent added. 'They must have obviously had probable cause.'

    The ex-president was at Trump Tower in New York City when the FBI raided his Florida estate. Eric Trump told Fox News he informed his father of the raid.

    Trump and his allies quickly sought to cast the search as a weaponization of the criminal justice system and a Democratic-driven effort to keep him from winning another term in 2024 - though the Biden White House said it had no prior knowledge and current FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump five years ago.

    Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement late Monday, asserted that agents had opened a safe at his home, and he described their work as an 'unannounced raid' that he likened to 'prosecutorial misconduct.'

    'These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,' Trump said through his Save America PAC,' he said.

    'I stood up to America's bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before.

    'The establishment hated it.

    'Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more.

    'The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.'



    Retired FBI Special Agent Michael Tabman told DailyMail.com it's likely an 'informant' revealed information to the FBI that led to the raid of Trump's home on Monday

    Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including whether Garland had personally authorized it.

    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the West Wing first learned of the search from public media reports and the White House had not been briefed in the run-up or aftermath.

    'The Justice Department conducts investigations independently and we leave any law enforcement matters to them,' she said. 'We are not involved.'

    About two dozen Trump supporters stood in protest at midmorning Tuesday in the Florida summer heat and sporadic light rain on a bridge near the former president's residence. One held a sign reading 'Democrats are Fascists' while others carried flags saying '2020 Was Rigged,' 'Trump 2024' and Biden's name with an obscenity. Some cars honked in support as they passed.

    Trump's Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, said Tuesday that he was concerned about the FBI 's raid - despite their 20-month estrangement.

    'I share the deep concern of millions of Americans over the unprecedented search of the personal residence of President Trump,' Pence tweeted Tuesday afternoon. 'No former President of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history.'

    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell echoed Pence, saying: 'Attorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately.'

    'The FBI director was appointed by Donald Trump,' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., when asked about GOP allegations that the raid showed the politicization of the Justice Department. She added, 'Facts and truth, facts and law, that's what it's about.'

    Trump was meeting late Tuesday at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club with members of the Republican Study Committee, a group headed by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana that says it is committed to putting forth his priorities in Congress.

    The FBI reached out to the Secret Service shortly before serving a warrant, a third person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Secret Service agents contacted the Justice Department and were able to validate the warrant before facilitating access to the estate, the person said.

    The Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information since the National Archives and Records Administration said it had received from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House records, including documents containing classified information, earlier this year. The National Archives said Trump should have turned over that material upon leaving office, and it asked the Justice Department to investigate.

    Bobb said in her interview with Real America's Voice on Tuesday that investigators said they were 'looking for classified information that they think should not have been removed from the White House, as well as presidential records.'

    There are multiple federal laws governing the handling of classified records and sensitive government documents, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material and retain it at an unauthorized location. Though a search warrant does not necessarily mean criminal charges are near or even expected, federal officials looking to obtain one must first demonstrate to a judge that they have probable cause that a crime occurred.

    Two people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the search Monday was related to the records probe. Agents were also looking to see if Trump had additional presidential records or any classified documents at the estate.

    Trump has previously maintained that presidential records were turned over 'in an ordinary and routine process.' His son Eric said on Fox News on Monday night that he had spent the day with his father and that the search happened because 'the National Archives wanted to corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession.'

    Trump himself, in a social media post Monday night, called the search a 'weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024.'

    The probe is hardly the only legal headache confronting Trump. A separate investigation related to efforts by him and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election - which led to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol - has also been intensifying in Washington. Several former White House officials have received grand jury subpoenas.

    And a district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, is investigating whether Trump and his close associates sought to interfere in that state's election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.
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    https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/0...e/#more-192350

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    “The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim the Mar-a-Lago Raid Could Disqualify Trump from Future Office

    The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has unleashed a familiar euphoria among critics who have longed for–agents descending upon the President’s residence in a criminal operation. One MSNBC pundit declared that day of the “orange jumpsuit” may finally be at hand while another simply exclaimed “hallelujah.” It was a tad premature since we do not even know if classified material was found and, if so, whether there is a criminal case to be made from such a discovery.

    I previously testified in Congress on the earlier seizure of the boxes at Mar-a-Lago under the Presidential Records Act and how criminal prosecutions have been rare under the law. Nevertheless, criminal charges are possible, including under Section 2071 which states that anyone can be prosecuted who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited … in any public office.” That crime, however, requires a showing of not just negligence but that “an act is … done voluntarily and intentionally and with the specific intent to do something the law forbids.”

    Notably, even the most serious cases of mishandling classified records have not resulted in major charges. One example is that of former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger who was found to have secretly stuffed classified material into his pants and socks to remove them from a secure facility. He then hid them in a spot to be retrieved later. It was a flagrant and premeditated violation of federal law and put national security secrets at risk. Yet, Berger was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and did not have to serve any jail time. Indeed, his security clearance was suspended for only three years.

    However, critics were not particularly interested in whether Trump might have some suspended misdemeanor sentence. Rather, even before learning if any evidence of criminal conduct was found, critics turned to the ability to use the charge to disqualify Trump from future office. Section 2071 has excited the imagination of such critics because of a line that states that a convicted party can “be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”

    That was the enticing possibility highlighted by Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer who was a critical player in pushing the false Russian collusion claims in the Steele dossier. In addition to accusations that he may have lied about the funding of the Steele dossier, Elias has been sanctioned in court for his conduct.

    Elias was not alone citing the possible use of a Section 2071 charge to block Trump’s expected presidential run in 2024. Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman even suggested that this could be the actual plan of the Justice Department to end Trump’s political career: “So this could be the whole enchilada in terms of DOJ resolution.”

    Consider that culinary-legal analysis for a second. The claim is that the Justice Department may be actively seeking to use a charge to block Trump as the real motivation for this raid and possible charge. There is not a hint of concern over the FBI being used to achieve such a political purpose. That is putting aside the fact that, unless there is evidence of a “willful and unlawful” effort to conceal or retain such material, the FBI could end up an enchilada short of a combination plate for prosecution.

    There is also a significant constitutional hurdle facing this latest means of barring Trump from office.

    This is not the first time that this disqualification argument has been made and scholars like Seth Tillman have previously raised constitutional objections to it. (Professor Josh Blackmun also has a column on this issue)

    The problem is that the law would add a qualification or condition that is not stated in the Constitution. There are constitutional ways to impeach a president or to bar a former president from future office. The mishandling of official records is not one of them. In analogous cases like Powell v. McCormack and U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the Supreme Court rejected the authority of states to impose new qualifications for congressional seats under Article I. The same is presumably true under Article II when it comes to the chief executive.

    There is ample reason to doubt that the presidency would be deemed barred by statute in this fashion. What would not be in doubt is how such novel claim of disqualification would be received by millions of citizens already skeptical of the motivations of both the Biden Administration and specifically the FBI.

    The basis and even the motivation of this raid will become clear in time, including whether there is evidence of willful and unlawful conduct by the former president. However, whatever this raid produces, this “enchilada” will likely be hard for most judges to swallow as a way to keeping Trump off the ballot in 2024.

    This column also appeared on Fox.com
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    I'm going to pivot in a different direction , Trump seems very collective thru this . As tactical as he is , do you think that all the stuff they got means absolutely nothing just like all the tax returns and everything else they have been searching for these past 7 years. Do you think he is way ahead of these clowns on a witch hunt? My gut says yes .
    Sure, but what's to stop them from planting or "discovering" anything they want? Especially if nothing's there?

    There is absolutely nothing legitimate about this government--er, tyranny--whatsoever.
    They were watched closely by Eric Trump and the secret service all there as well as private security. Not to forget everything is recorded and documented by the Trump security team! IF the FBI planted anything they'd catch them in the act on their own security you can bet. FACE BOOK is full of posts like this right now from pasters across the country,"last week a young blonde pastor, Julie Green, said an event was coming, for us not to fear the FBI. They will be their own undoing and are about to be no more!" I've seen several posts on other places like Twitter of pasters and revs all saying prophecy and advising their congregation not to fear a big event coming. MY own neighbor told me something similar about a week ago that his rev. at church told the church he saw in a vision something big coming and not to be afraid. I think the FBI is on thin ice.
    I appreciate the take, but I'm not so sure... I'm hearing reports this morning that the FBI made Trump's lawyer wait at the end of the driveway, and also Trump himself is saying they kicked everybody out and nobody was allowed to see what they were doing or taking...

    In any case, the infamous words of Stalin's secret service keep haunting as I deliberate on this, "...show me the man and I will find you the crime."

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    Quote I'm hearing reports this morning that the FBI made Trump's lawyer wait at the end of the driveway, and also Trump himself is saying they kicked everybody out and nobody was allowed to see what they were doing or taking...
    as posted above from Daily Mail article
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    • It is deeply concerning how politicized the DOJ and the FBI have become under President Biden. They cannot continue to be a partisan attack dog for Democrats!

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    • Regardless of how you feel about Trump, this FBI raid throws fuel on that fire of distrust and sets a dangerous precedent that reduces our government to being no better than a banana republic, where dictators see federal law enforcement as their own personal goon squad.

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    https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/..._EwCyKKMNfavBg




    adding this from a post I saw at
    https://paulfurber.net/cia/

    (no clue if true but would not surprise me)

    Quote 7/15/22(Fri)21:03
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    Ray Epps is a CIA Glow ******who worked in Iran and Syria, he has been involved in domestic operations in the U.S. for twenty years. Remember a certain cadre of FBI/CIA folks regularly migrate between the agencies so Epps can hide under the CIA Logo for now. Like Peter Strozk he is a chameleon that has been at the center or many cancerous deep state activities for years. If the deep state does not protect him he takes a lot of them down. He maintains files in several safety deposit boxes across the country that will be placed on the internet in case he goes down. He has the goods on Obama and has threatened to use them. Such as where Obama was born. The deep state will turn on Biden in a heartbeat before turning on Epps.

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    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...mp-raid-tweets

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    Twitter Suspends Journalist Paul Sperry After FBI Trump-Raid Tweets


    BY TYLER DURDEN
    WEDNESDAY, AUG 10, 2022 - 12:05 PM

    Twitter has suspended journalist Paul Sperry after he made several tweets about this week's FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, where they spent up to 9 hours rifling through the former president's private office, Melania Trump's wardrobe, and eventually took 12 boxes of material. According to the Wall Street Journal, the records included a letter from former President Barack Obama, and correspondence between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

    The boxes contained some documents subject to a federal law requiring official records to be turned over when a president leaves office as well as some material archives officials described only as “classified national security information,” prompting them to refer the matter to the Justice Department for investigation. -WSJ

    Sperry, meanwhile, tweeted several hot-takes on the raid, which appear to have gotten him suspended.

    "DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill FBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal."

    Sperry also tweeted a list of "conflicted" DOJ officials who were "briefed on the Mar-a-Lago raid", and noted that "CNN is admonishing reporters not to call the FBI raid of Trump's home a "raid," but instead to term it as a "judge-approved search."



    He also tweeted: "Funny, don't remember the FBI raiding Chappaqua or Whitehaven to find the 33,000 potentially classified documents Hillary Clinton deleted," adding "And she was just a former secretary of state, not a former president."

    Seems the regime isn't having any of Sperry's hot takes...
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    • The deep state’s next move is to come after Trump supporters and label them “extremists”. The fake news media is declaring war on patriots for criticizing the FBI raid. Don’t give them an excuse to knock down your door.

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    OK file this under extreme conspiracy theory / conspiratainment stuff - as paul furber also kept the BigDickanon archive as well as this one

    Quote Paul Furber
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    Inb4source posts a link to a story on ZeroHedge that the GOP has had enough of the politicization of the DOJ. CIA man is in the thread:

    https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...467/#390386403

    "The CIA planted top secret information at the Trump estate and then alerted the FBI that Trump had taken the material with him when he left office. This goes all the way to the top of both agencies and the White House. They did not realize Trump had the storage areas under surveillance and he has the tapes."

    Heh. This is Trump double dog daring the FBI to go ahead and reveal what they supposedly found.

    https://paulfurber.net/cia/
    BigDickAnon's CIA Fren Posts Archive (of posts from https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threads - links at posts)

    8/10/22(Wed)9:45
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    It was the CIA that planted the evidence it was the FBI who retrieved it. And at the top of theses agencies there are no difference. Strozk rotated between the agencies and he was used were his sick skills could serve the deep state. Strozk did **** them too though he was and is an Iranian spy. And he has a pathetic sexual history. Anyone who would **** Page is a real pig. Check his background it is right there. Trump is going to skull **** the Democrats on this.

    8/9/22(Tue)12:49
    390386403
    The CIA planted top secret information at the Trump estate and then alerted the FBI that Trump had taken the material with him when he left office. This goes all the way to the top of both agencies and the White House. They did not realize Trump had the storage areas under surveillance and he has the tapes.
    8/8/22(Mon)23:53

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    What the CIA planted.


    ////

    a commenter

    Quote @paulf Hope this is true, feels Q-ey though. Almost certain Trump would have video security, like 99.999%, but wouldn't the CIA know this also? First, the CIA is not supposed to operate domestically, I heard someplace, so they would use contractors. If they didn't, make me the head of the CIA 'cause those *******are retarded. So, the direct link to the CIA I just debunked. Again, praying this is true, but it doesn't meet basic common sense requirements.

    an interesting one from earlier

    7/15/22(Fri)21:03
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    Ray Epps is a CIA Glow ******who worked in Iran and Syria, he has been involved in domestic operations in the U.S. for twenty years. Remember a certain cadre of FBI/CIA folks regularly migrate between the agencies so Epps can hide under the CIA Logo for now. Like Peter Strozk he is a chameleon that has been at the center or many cancerous deep state activities for years. If the deep state does not protect him he takes a lot of them down. He maintains files in several safety deposit boxes across the country that will be placed on the internet in case he goes down. He has the goods on Obama and has threatened to use them. Such as where Obama was born. The deep state will turn on Biden in a heartbeat before turning on Epps.



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