By Nick Arama
The left was coming after President Donald Trump, daring him to release the warrant regarding the FBI raid on his home.
Trump isn’t blinking. He’s not acting like someone who thinks he has a lot to fear from this. He announced he was all for releasing the warrant, and he now he’s commented on how the raid was completely unnecessary. He had been in talks with the National Archives for a while and had already turned over several boxes of documents in June. So that’s why the raid isn’t making logical sense.
We wrote about the warrant being unsealed and some of the documents that were allegedly seized. But we also reported how they got the warrant on August 5 but didn’t serve it until August 8. So if there was some big national security concern about the documents, why did they wait three days? They didn’t exactly make it seem like there was anything urgent by doing that.
As Trump commented on Friday, all they had to do is ask.
TRUMP: "ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK" pic.twitter.com/RGfjbbmVTD
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 12, 2022
That’s the big question here — why they just didn’t ask? Trump had already been turning over documents cooperatively, as evidenced by his turning over boxes in June. The DOJ has not explained that it wasn’t possible to ask or even issue a subpoena to get what they wanted. According to Fox, it isn’t even like Trump had packed the boxes — the GSA packed them. So Trump didn’t even remove them, they were sent to him. So if there’s something funny in there, ask the GSA. But if the FBI had asked, then they wouldn’t get the big headlines and the controversy that someone might hope would hurt the chances of Trump and the Republicans in the future elections. As we noted, if someone had that thought, that seems to have backfired on them, with it increasing Trump’s support and him still topping the betting odds to win in 2024.
Trump also questioned why the FBI wouldn’t let his lawyers watch the search. His lawyers had raised concerns that leave open the possibility that things could be planted.
But then here’s another problem with the warrant: talk about being overbroad, it said they were seeking any document created the whole time that Trump was in office. This is just ridiculous.
Tell me without telling me the Trump raid was a fishing expedition. pic.twitter.com/zIH1gejQcP
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) August 12, 2022
It also extended to any room in the home that could contain documents. There were reports that they even searched the bedroom and Melania’s closet. That screams fishing expedition too.
The comparison between how Trump is being treated by the FBI versus how Hillary Clinton was treated is stark. There was no raid on her home.
Hmmm… so what if someone within the GSA planted some documents in the boxes that got shipped to Trump? What if the prior FBI meetings was to confirm the documents were indeed in place? Then, the FBI launched their raid to “find” them.
So he “declassified” boxes without knowing what was in them, and then kept them for over a year without inventorying the contents?
The idea that a president can declassify whatever material he wants in order to take personal possession of it upon leaving office seems highly questionable to begin with.
@Greg
What gives you the idea Trump declassified a box of documents? He declassifies them one at a time. Note that he didn’t destroy them as soon as someone showed an interest in them, as Hillary did.
That’s TOTAL NONSENSE. It would mean–literally–that any outgoing president could pack off any and all classified material he wished on his way out of the Oval Office, nullifying all legal constraints on its unrestricted distribution in the process.
@Greg
Oh… you mean like Obama did?
Obama did no such thing. Trump DID. Deflection, distraction, and denial don’t work forever. At some point insisting truth is a lie and lies are the truth becomes too obvious to continue working. I think for most people we’re now there.
@ Greg,
Yes he can says the Supreme court look it up he can declassify it simply by taking it, nothing tr FBI took or that was handed over previously was classified.
@ Greg,
Yes he can says the Supreme court look it up he can declassify it simply by taking it Egan 1988 ruling, nothing the FBI took or that was handed over previously was classified.
But of course, it was ok when obama did the same thing keeping 33 million pages of documents. Seems highly questionable to begin with.
@TrumpWon
Cmon, man! That was different. The Russians, Chinese, N.Koreans and Iranians already HAD all those documents. Obama took national security so seriously that he commuted Manning’s sentence.
Wow, I can just see Obama sitting on the floor of the Oval Office, packing those boxes that the National Archives would send to Chicago, putting one document in the box at a time so he could make sure that nothing put in that batch of 33 million documents was classified.
We were always told that Obama was the miracle worker. Guess that proves it.
The funny thing is, some one else packed the boxes, I guess just anyone can get access to nuclear secrets that are on presidential security level, play with the football.
Oh look the launch codes! he will want those! and this napkin and this dinner menu.
How moronic anyone believing that shit must be. To print it or put it out on the boobtube, they really believe the populus is dumb, well there is Greg but dopes like him are, thank goodness, few and far between.
This isnt going to slow down Trump not even break his stride.
We have work to do to watch the elections, keep an eagle eye on these commies hell bent on the destruction of the Republic.