FBI agents raid Trump's Florida home

[Satori]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Dave Paulides. (He's a former police officer. He knows all about search warrants.)

The Search Warrant at Mar-A-Lago

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SKPUotXRk_Y

Paulides is spot on to point out the function and importance of the affidavit(s) tendered in support of the search warrant, as well as the role and importance of the judge to act as a gatekeeper and protector of liberty and constitutionally recognized freedoms.

A judge must not, ever, under any circumstances, rubber stamp a request for an arrest or search warrant. A judge is duty-bound to exercise independent judgement and determine, independently of representations of the law enforcement agency involved, here the FBI, that there is a factual and legal reasonable basis, and probable cause, to support the affidavit. A warrant must be approved, if at all, only after the gatekeeper function is genuinely fulfilled. If the affidavit does not provide the requisite legal and factual basis for the warrant, the warrant must be denied.

The search warrant against Trump was politically motivated, driven by the desperate urgency of the traitorous criminals behind it, to protect their sorry asses from detection, arrest, prosecution and the consequences they will face commensurate with their crimes.

The penalty must fit the crime. But they want to avoid any penalty at all and instead project their crimes on to We The People and Trump. Hence, we see one unconstitutional, criminal act after another, while all the while they point the finger at the innocent.

Remember, when you point a finger there are three more pointing back at you.

Ps. What we need to see ASAP is the affidavit(s) in support of the warrant, not the warrant alone. And then, we must drill down on the veracity, or not, of the factual and legal basis for the warrant.

[ExomatrixTV]

• Megyn Kelly Reacts to the FBI Raiding Trump's Mar-a-Lago House:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hG1R60ARKHE

Political commentator Megyn Kelly launched into an incisive tirade over the FBI’s naked political persecution of former President Donald Trump with their pre-dawn raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

“The Megyn Kelly Show” host did not buy the FBI’s official story that they obtained a search warrant for Trump’s Palm Beach resort on Monday to retrieve classified documents wanted by the National Archives and Records Administration.

“My response to that is: BULLSHxT! BULLSHxT. There is no way that’s what they were searching for. There’s no way,” Kelly exclaimed.

“This is about January 6. If you believe this is about classified documents having to do with bull**** Trump took with him when he left office, your head is in the sky.”
Kelly explained that the Democrats’ past efforts to derail Trump’s 2016 campaign, his presidency, and beyond have all failed as his political power grows, and so they’re resorting to desperate measures.

Kelly continued:

This is about January 6 and the never-ending desire to get Trump on something. They don’t want him to run for election again. They’re mad he did not get convicted on the first or the second impeachment. They’re mad that he did not get pursued criminally by the New York DA. They’re mad that RussiaGate fell apart. And they are mad that he’s leading in the polls, he’s crushing [Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis, his candidates of choice all made it into office – virtually all of them last week – and they’re prepared to unleash hell.

Kelly also said that Attorney General Merrick Garland has been “very clearly willing” to politically target Trump and his top advisers over the last several weeks.

“The Democrats play dirty. And Merrick Garland is very clearly willing to go along with that. He’s been moving in the concentric circles toward Donald Trump over the past several weeks, going after his top advisers, subpoenaing them,” she said. “We’ve seen close Trump advisers in handcuffs dragged away as if they’re mobsters.”

“This is getting really alarming and the American public deserves answers,” she concluded.

Watch Megyn Kelly’s full show breaking it all down:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lpuejhb7CTc

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[norman]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Dave Paulides. He's a former police officer, and knows all about search warrants.

He's very very empassioned, and I don't think I've ever seen him this emphatic.

The Search Warrant at Mar-A-Lago

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SKPUotXRk_Y

Even otherwise very smart guys like him make we want to scream when they wag a their finger of blame at the 'left'.

Really, he knows better than that, but he can't help himself.

That is a weakness we can no longer afford, on the battle field.

[TargeT]

Posted by Ratszinger (here)
They have it all! Trump has it all as we all have heard time and time again! This has to be a set up by Trump to finally nail them to the wall with their own dirt! He likely has copies of whatever they took and perhaps back ups of back ups! I am betting Trump and his circle were ready for this and the FBI, like everyone else that has tried to take him down will now suffer for it.

or... its Ron paul 2.0................

how long did he seem like that guy, 30 years?

Posted by norman (here)
wag a their finger of blame at the 'left'.

Dichotomy is, well; basically addictive.

It's a form of tribalism and we basically don't have many good outlets for that drive currently.

it's at the same time fascinating and disturbing.

but what can be done? I've tried for decades, at this point; I dunno... eat popcorn and watch the show? (that's my plan)

[mountain_jim]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...p-raid-warrant

DOJ ordered to respond after requests to unseal FBI's Trump raid warrant

by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter & Andrew Kerr, Investigative Reporter | | August 10, 2022 04:00 PM

The Department of Justice must respond to motions to unseal the warrant behind the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, the magistrate judge who approved the unprecedented search ordered Thursday.

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who is believed to have signed the still-sealed FBI warrant approving the bureau’s Trump raid, said the DOJ must now “file a Response to the Motion to Unseal” following efforts by Albany-based news outlet the Times Union and the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch requesting the DOJ make the warrant public.

Reinhart said the DOJ’s response may be filed “ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal,” meaning that the full response may be secret but that “the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record” too.

PRESSURE BUILDS ON TRUMP AND BIDEN TO RELEASE MAR-A-LAGO SEARCH WARRANT

The Times Union lawyer wrote that FBI agents “applied for and received a search warrant in connection with an investigation that involved the residence of Donald J. Trump in Palm Beach” and that “I am filing this request seeking the unsealing request of these court records.”

Judicial Watch wrote that it is “investigating the potential politicization” of the FBI and the DOJ and whether they are “abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden” and that “if the Court were to unseal the materials, Judicial Watch would obtain the materials, analyze them, and make them available to the public.”

Reinhart said that the “Government may file a consolidated Response to all Motions to Seal” and that the DOJ will have until Monday to respond.

The magistrate judge's name came under considerable scrutiny Tuesday after multiple news outlets reported that he was the one who signed off on the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago. In particular, his connection to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was highlighted.

Reinhart left his job as an assistant U.S. attorney on Jan. 1, 2008. The next day, he began representing some of Epstein's employees. He was accused in a lawsuit filed by two of Epstein's victims of leaving the DOJ to provide Epstein inside information, allegations Reinhart denied, the Miami Herald reported in 2018.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida removed Reinhart's page from its website on Tuesday afternoon after his connection to Epstein went viral on social media.

"Access denied," Reinhart's page now reads. "You are not authorized to access this page."

Reinhart was appointed by district judges to his current position as a magistrate judge in 2018.

The judge recused himself from a civil lawsuit involving Trump and his 2016 presidential opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump sued Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and numerous political entities and figures in March for promoting stories that alleged Trump was colluding with Russia during the 2016 election.

Reinhart recused himself from the case on June 22, citing a portion of the U.S. code that requires any magistrate judges to disqualify themselves if they have a "personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding."

Reinhart did not specify in his recusal if the party he had a personal bias or prejudice toward was Trump, Clinton, or one or more of the dozens of other defendants in the lawsuit.

(more at link)




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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...-trump-warrant

Judge Orders DOJ To Respond To Requests To Unseal FBI’s Trump Warrant
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BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, AUG 10, 2022 - 08:20 PM
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times

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ANY redactions in the response indicate criminal and political motivation. We also need to see unredacted documents used in the Jan 6 "investigation" and show trial.

[Bill Ryan]

A clear and powerful statement from Lindsey Halligan, Trump's attorney, published a couple of hours ago.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VrNrQviSTUM

[ExomatrixTV]

• FBI Corruption EVERYWHERE! From Trump to Whitmer:

• source

[mountain_jim]

https://justthenews.com/politics-pol...ooperated-home


Questions grow about Trump raid after revelation of grand jury subpoena, extensive cooperation

Trump got spring grand jury subpoena, gathered documents, turned them over and allowed agents to search storage locker the FBI later raided.

Two months before his Florida home was raided by the FBI, former President Donald Trump secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives, and voluntarily cooperated by turning over responsive evidence, surrendering security surveillance footage and allowing federal agents and a senior Justice Department lawyer to tour his private storage locker, according to a half dozen people familiar with the incident.

While the cooperation was mostly arranged by his lawyers, Trump personally surprised the DOJ National Security Division prosecutor and three FBI agents who came to his Mar-a-Lago compound on June 3, greeting them as they came to pick up a small number of documents compliant with the subpoena, the sources told Just the News, speaking only on condition of anonymity because the visit was covered by grand jury secrecy.

The subpoena requested any remaining documents Trump possessed with any classification markings, even if they involved photos of foreign leaders, correspondence or mementos from his presidency.

Secret Service agents were also present and facilitated the visit, officials said.

Trump signaled his full cooperation, telling the agents and prosecutor, "Look, whatever you need let us know," according to two eyewitnesses. The federal team was surprised by the president's invitation and asked for an immediate favor: to see the 6-foot-by-10-foot storage locker where his clothes, shoes, documents and mementos from his presidency were stored at the compound.

Given Trump's instruction, the president's lawyers complied and allowed the search by the FBI before the entourage left cordially. Five days later, DOJ officials sent a letter to Trump's lawyers asking them to secure the storage locker with more than the lock they had seen. The Secret Service installed a more robust security lock to comply.

Around the same time, the Trump Organization, which owns Mar-a-Lago, received a request for surveillance video footage covering the locker and volunteered the footage to federal authorities, sources disclosed.

The disclosure Wednesday to Just the News raised immediate new questions in legal and congressional circles about the necessity for the subsequent raid, including whether the judge who approved the warrant new of the earlier cooperation.

“The more we learn, the more confusing this gets,” George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News program Hannity. “….Did they relay this history to the magistrate? That, according to these sources, that the president had cooperated.

”I mean, the idea that he was subject to a subpoena, complied with a subpoena, didn't challenge it, voluntarily showed the storage room to the agents, followed their advice, secured it to meet their demands. All of that is hardly a basis for saying now we need to send in 40 FBI agents on a on a raid,” he added. “I mean, if the subpoena worked the first time, then presumably a second subpoena would work the second time if there were remaining documents.”

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told Just the News that Trump mentioned to her Tuesday night the prior cooperation, and that she viewed the raid as an effort at nullifying his future run for the presidency in 2024 if he chooses.

“Look, this is exactly what people, the public is seeing: a two-tiered justice system. This is impeachment 4,” she said, citing Trump‘s prior two impeachments and the January 6 hearings that preceded the raid.

The flurry of cooperation in June came months after Trump had already returned about 15 boxes of documents, many of them classified, at the request of the National Archives. Government officials have said the documents were mistakenly boxed up by the General Services Administration along with Trump's personal possessions from the White House and shipped to Mar-a -Lago.

After the subpoena was delivered in late May, federal authorities said they suspected there were more classified materials still left at Mar-a-Lago, and arranged the June 3 visit.

After mid-June, the government had no other official contacts with the president's lawyers until agents showed up unannounced on Monday and executed the search warrant, ousting the president's lawyers and staff and spending nine hours collecting evidence. Sources told Just the News they collected about 12 boxes of evidence.

U.S. officials who confirmed the June 3 voluntary visit and subpoena compliance, refused to say whether U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart was apprised of the full extent of Trump's compliance when he was asked to sign the unprecedented search warrant last Friday.

The FBI then waited three days after getting the judge's approval before executing the warrant, one of many oddities in the timetable.

Some officials said the extra time was used to assemble a team to raid Mar-a-Lago in the most incognito manner so the public wouldn't be alerted and while the former president was out of town.

The officials told Just the News the search warrant was sought after the FBI obtained some witness information and other evidence suggesting some classified documents may have still remained on the property after June, stored in locations such as a private safe Trump had in his residence, and that some of the storage locations may have been accessed in 2022.

The new revelations came the same day that new questions arose about Reinhart, the judge in the case.

Just the News obtained a court document showing that Reinhart — just six weeks before signing the warrant — recused himself from Trump's lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats in the Russia collusion scandal, citing concerns he couldn't be impartial.

Reinhart, appointed in 2018 as a federal magistrate in West Palm Beach, Fla., filed the recusal document on June 22, a few weeks after presiding over the start of the civil litigation.

"The undersigned Magistrate Judge, to whom the above-styled cause has been assigned, hereby recuses himself and refers the case to the Clerk of Court for reassignment pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455," Reinhart wrote in his order of recusal in the Trump v. Clinton case.

You can read the document here:

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The statute that the magistrate cited for his recusal states in part that a judge "shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned" and then describes the various circumstances that could trigger such concerns.

They include "a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts" or prior work as a lawyer for a party involved in the case.

Reinhart's order did not specify the conflict or source of the concern prompting his recusal.

Trump's lawsuit accuses Clinton, Democrat allies and current and former government officials of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy to falsely portray Trump as colluding with Russia during the 2016 election. The sweeping nature of the suit involves numerous parties and public figures.

The recusal filing emerges as numerous media reports have surfaced about the magistrate's prior work, including donations before he was judge to President Barack Obama and Jeb Bush and work for figures associated with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Daily Wire also raised questions about Reinhart's impartiality toward Trump, reporting that in a 2017 Facebook social post — a year before he was named a magistrate — he challenged the 45th president's moral character after Trump attacked the late Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon.

"I generally ignore the President-elect's tweets, but not this one," Reinhart posted, according to the Daily Wire. "John Lewis arguably has done more to 'make America great' than any living citizen. Last August, I took my son to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma so he could understand the kind of courage and sacrifice required to live in a democratic society. John Lewis embodies that spirit. Although I've never met him, he is one of my heroes.

"Thank you, Robert Reich, for saying what many of us feel, 'John Lewis is the conscience of America. Donald Trump doesn't have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis's feet.'

"Or, as Joseph Welch said to Joseph McCarthy, 'At long last, have you left no sense of decency?'"

[TomKat]

New bumper sticker:
Make America America Again

[mountain_jim]

quality minute and a half.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...3Z2wLpsXCzfo3g

[mojo]

FBI Director Christopher Wray 'concerned' about threats after unprecedented Mar-a-Lago search

Headline Fox News....

It truly seems they wanted this narrative all along. They want to come after us.

[T Smith]

Posted by TomKat (here)
New bumper sticker:
Make America America Again

Maybe a slight twist?

Make Amerika America Again?

[ExomatrixTV]

• Trump FBI Raid Saga: Phone Seized & Report Says He Had Classified Documents!:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=irba2lMJdiQ

[ExomatrixTV]

• FBI Raid : Does Trump Have Epstein's Client List?:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OtS9qWjkjkU

[mountain_jim]

[ExomatrixTV]

• ‘Disturbing’ To See America ‘Going Down The Drain’:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sguuw-g0pDU

[thepainterdoug]

JOHN/

Nigel on Trump, Excellent. sums it up.

[mountain_jim]

live at 3:05 EDT (and over at 3:09 )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6juFdjaCko

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...ing-trump-raid

Watch Live (Eventually): AG Merrick Garland Makes Statement Following Trump Raid
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BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, AUG 11, 2022 - 02:25 PM
US Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement to the media at 2:30 pm ET on Thursday, following the FBI's Monday raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Garland has found himself in the crosshairs of conservatives, who claim that the establishment has once again 'weaponized' the DOJ against Donald Trump.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...FNM1mEVEkN5mXQ

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...aYAAxUTb-iBp_Q

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...aYAAxUTb-iBp_Q

memes..




https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet7/st...X_84ZwnkI1JiGw

[TargeT]

Oh boy... this just keeps getting better.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kHyb0de5gtg

[mountain_jim]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...mSRzCcQBUo2CBg

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...tgOrbWXfPgJxGQ

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/sta...mSRzCcQBUo2CBg