Eric Trump reveals HE told Donald FBI raided Mar-a-Lago: Ex-President's son claims agents 'ransacked

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  1. kriman

    kriman Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He didn't even do that. He bragged about the accomplishments he did not accomplish.
     
  2. JonK22

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    Many think Comey gave it to him yes. You know 11 days before the election?

    The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

    Not even counting Russia

    As it turns out, there really was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia

    Republican-chaired Senate Intelligence Committee released a report with damning details of the extent of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence operatives.

    The Post reports: “The long-awaited report from the Senate Intelligence Committee contains dozens of new findings that appear to show more direct links between Trump associates and Russian intelligence, and pierces the president’s long-standing attempts to dismiss the Kremlin’s intervention on his behalf as a hoax.” These include a determination “that a longtime partner of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was, in fact, a Russian intelligence officer.”

    The report also for the first time cites evidence that that alleged operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, may have been directly involved in the Russian plot to break into a Democratic Party computer network and provide plundered files to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. . . .

    It offers new proof that former national security adviser Michael Flynn lied about his conversations with the Russia’s ambassador to the United States, raises troubling questions about Manafort’s decision to squander a plea agreement with prosecutors by lying to Mueller’s team, and accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of ‘deceptive’ accounts of his meetings with a Russian oligarch in the Seychelles weeks before Trump was sworn into office.

    ...“Indeed, it was clear to anyone with eyes from the moment Trump asked, ‘Russia, if you’re listening.’ ” Eisen added, “The Senate report is a valuable contribution advancing our understanding, including explaining former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s nexus to Russian intelligence. The report further elucidates our understanding of collusion via WikiLeaks, which acted as a Russian cut-out.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/19/yes-there-was-collusion/


     
  3. Overitall

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    That's considered exculpatory evidence and might be a legal reason to invalidate the warrant.
     
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    It's always a troll thread when you see the words "Trump" followed by "CNN reported". I was correct.
     
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    So far Biden's team has not served him well, but that can change. IMO, the RP should not count on inflation or a defeat in Ukraine to bring them victory in the next election.
     
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    The National Archives had been negotiating the return of the missing boxes for over 8 months.

    There is a limit to how far you can flout the law.
     
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    I hadn't noticed you were that impatient!
     
  8. Bearack

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    You conveniently bold the wrong part of the issue.

    § 1924. Unauthorized removal and retention of
    classified documents or material
    (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor,
    or consultant of the United States, and,
    by virtue of his office, employment, position, or
    contract, becomes possessed of documents or
    materials containing classified information of
    the United States, knowingly removes such documents
    or materials without authority and with
    the intent to retain such documents or materials
    at an unauthorized location
    shall be fined
    under this title or imprisoned for not more than
    one year, or both.

    She had unauthorized documents on her personal server which is a big, bad no, no as the potential for outside forces to access her personal server. Personal servers do not go through the same scrutiny as government servers.
     
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  9. Overitall

    Overitall Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Comey also put a lie to the claim that the FBI can't/won't talk about ongoing investigations. Here's the thing about the warrant to search Trump's residence. The details of it in no way jeopardizes an ongoing investigation. Neither would revealing an investigation is under way. Most people assume Trump is being investigated. You tell me how acknowledging that jeopardizes it.
     
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    Cue the anonymous sourced propaganda pieces from the left wing media.
     
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    Hey, if none of the Trump staff were allowed inside during the search, how do they know that Melania's wardrobe was searched?

    My guess: This is just another lie from the trump propaganda machine to discredit the search for political gain.

    I have to say, the judge who issued the warrant is very brave. He must have known he would become instant target for character assassination from the RW and MAGA camp,. i.e. about 30% of the population.
     
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    The FBI agents left with only what they came for.

    15 boxes of classified documents that Trump had in his illegal possession.

    The National Archives has been negotiating with Trump for almost a year to return these boxes.

    There are limits to mocking the law.
     
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    Yea, I read about it in the MSM (LOL). He made some available, and hid the rest, and flushed some down the toilet.

    POLITICS - PUBLISHED MON, FEB 7 2022
    National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago
    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/nat...mp-white-house-documents-from-mar-a-lago.html



      • The National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of White House records that had been sent to former President Donald Trump’s resort-home Mar-a-Lago.
      • All of those records should have been handed over to the National Archives directly from the White House once Trump left office, as required by the Presidential Records Act, NARA said.
      • The documents include a letter to Trump from President Barack Obama, as well as Trump’s self-described “love letters” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, according to The Washington Post.
     
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    The Department of Justice functions independently, of course.

    The FBI, under Republican Director Wray, appointed by Trump, would have authorized the search after a affidavit had been submitted to a federal judge and the warrant approved.

    Trump or his lawyers can release the warrant if he thinks it is in his interests to do so.
     
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    Historically, leaders and agents of secret police/spy agencies are frequently involved in attempts to overthrow governments, so Comey should be a prime suspect in any serious investigation.
     
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    Honestly, Golem, your mental 'gymnastics' are somewhat clumsy in your reply. You make a BIG deal out of Comey being a REPUBLICAN while the whole, slipshod, sordid Hillary "investigation" was going on... and then when I blithely point out to you that Comey finally 'outed' himself in 2016 as some kind of "Unaffiliated", you try do dance away now by saying you "fail to see the relevance". Trump didn't fire this Democrat-'mole' until 2017! Don't you know by now that this kind of evasion isn't going to work on many people, including me...? At least you didn't try to further advance the inane idea that Loretta Lynch was anything other than a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Surely even your allies here in the Forum would have to choke on THAT....

    BTW, you should always remember that "NAZI IS AS NAZI DOES!" But today's radical, deceitful Democrat Party is less like anything that is "Nazi", but it is turning the United States more and more into a "BANANA REPUBLIC", where yesterday's rulers are always accused of crimes and ultimately thrown in prison on specious, unproven charges....

    [​IMG]. "Now be quiet, or I'll have the FBI raid your house, too!"
     
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    Dishonesty, it's a hallmark of the right :(

    Yes after 2 years of Covid shutting down the world, Corp profiteering and supply chain issues, Biden is responable for US inflation *shaking head*


    The big contributors to inflation you’re not hearing about: profiteering corporations

    ....From the first quarter of 2020 through the end of 2021, corporate labor costs increased by about 7%, but corporate after-tax profits by nearly 14%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

    Konczal and Lusiani found that whereas average corporate markups, a fair proxy for profits, averaged about
    26% above marginal costs from 1960 through 1980 and about 56% during the 2010s, they shot up to 72% in 2021.

    “In other words,” they wrote, “in 2021, we see a sharp increase in ... firms in the aggregate decoupling their prices from their underlying costs.”



    Higher markups “don’t necessarily have to translate to higher profits,” they added, “but they did in 2021.” Net profit margins, or profits divided by revenues, averaged 6% during the 2010s; in 2021 the figure jumped to 9.5%, “its highest value on record.”
    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-06-29/how-corporations-contribute-to-inflation


    MAYBE WE COULD GET RID OF "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" passed under TFG so we can get more revenue and lower the deficit faster? Since Corps seem to be doing ok?

    Oil comp profits tripled year over year, expected $800+ billion this year, yes I can see how Biden was trying to shut them down
     
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    I have a feeling his team doesn't even listen to the team leader. He's a puppet of the team.
     
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    Overitall Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The swamp hides a lot of critters.
     
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    LOL! Sure and if the FBI is keeping it under wraps they want everyone to keep it under wraps.

    This is an extraordinary circumstance. The DOJ doesn't have to go strictly by policy.
     
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    Don’t forget he also didn’t get inflation down to 0% MoM
     
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    Former FBI Director James Comey was a registered Republican for most of his life, but now he believes "the Republican Party has left me and many others."

    It's because of nutjobs that support a criminal like TFG in the face of all the facts shown the past 5 years
     
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    I do not know the Law in the USA, but down here, there is no right to receipts, none are issued, and there is no right to have attorneys present during the execution of a search warrant. My guess is that the Law is the same over there. Those who were in any way involved with this Warrant from beginning to end would have gone to great lengths to stay within all boundaries simply because everyone would have known there was going to be these anguished cries of witch hunts etc from Humpty et al. I cannot imagine any other circumstance where there was greater need for every i to be dotted and every t crossed given the target of the warrant. There is no point making anything whatsoever about 'armed FBI and Secret service' as I guess it is par for the course that when a Federal search warrant is executed, those doing the job are ordinarily armed and there is nothing special or extraordinary about that in this case. Ya see, you have to look at it that way. Humpty gets no special treatment when it comes to search warrants. He is just a Joe Blow now so far as the Law is concerned but sure, very high profile which is why, as I say...the i's would have been scrupulously dotted and t's similarly crossed.

    What do you mean, in this case, about no 'harm being probable?' Isn't that a very long way from the point? It seems there is probable cause to conclude an offence has been committed (harm or no harm) and there is probable cause to issue a warrant to search Humpty's house. No big deal when considered from Rule of Law point of view.

    I have zero quarrel with any of that.

    I am not sure what you are saying there.
     
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    Brave is not how you spell corrupt.
     
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    No you really can't.
     
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