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Breaking: FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago

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  1. Reeko

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    he either took them out of their folders to hide somewhere else or some maid spy went to his desk and nabbed them and these documents already in Russia or China
     
  2. Reeko

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    just L after L

    every time his lawyers speak or file a motion I get excited because we’re about to be privy to even more damning evidence…it’s happened every single time
     
  3. ROCKSS

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    Because trump is all in on the lie so he has to keep moving forward as if no one can see what the end result is. My question is, is it worse that the documents are not there OR will he say they just kept the folders as a memento? I thik this is worse then them actually being there, after all that time and going back and forth I can see him him stashing them away, but if the chain of custody shows they did not come back then what.....we have all these documents just floating around trump`s other houses? will they have to get warrants for every house, I don't see that happening but at some point he has to tell the DOJ where they are................this whole thing kind of freaks me out that we may have classified material being hidden and he will not tell anyone and continue to lie, this dude just shows his true colors time after time, just when I think he cant get any worse BOOM, he surprises me
     
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  4. basso

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    Why Did the FBI Raid Mar-a-Lago?
    Trump’s ‘stash of nuclear secrets’ is this summer’s Kremlin collusion conspiracy. But the latest chapter of Russiagate may end with a bang.
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    LEE SMITH

    SEPTEMBER 01, 2022

    The Mar-a-Lago raid feels like Russiagate because, well, it is Russiagate: a conspiracy theory weaponized by the country’s courtier class to serve the interests of a delirious and deracinated oligarchy, spawning daily prophesies of doom fed by an endless supply of national security “leaks” asserting that the former commander-in-chief really was and is a secret Russian agent. And proof of the president’s treachery, chant the priestly keepers of the “collusion” mysteries, will soon be revealed to the public. It is their blanket justification for every past crime and every new banana republic-style abuse of power, accompanied by a drumbeat of ever more outlandish and violent threats.

    It is in this context that the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago should be understood: Government records and reports from political and media operatives and bureaucrats who previously starred in Russiagate I give evidence that the FBI raided Trump’s home to seize documents exposing the crimes that the FBI and Justice Department have been committing since 2016. The fact that Russiagate shows no signs of ending anytime soon is bad news for the republic, betrayed from within by a performative elite whose ability to project power outside its gilded bubble requires a steady supply of paranoia, fear, and hysteria.

    The story of the Mar-a-Lago raid begins at the end of Trump’s presidency, when he declassified documents related to Russiagate. Those records contain evidence of how the FBI spied on Trump’s campaign, presidential transition team, and administration. The documents reportedly include transcripts of FBI intercepts of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to collect the electronic communications of Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, and reports regarding Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the two main confidential human sources used by the FBI to spy on Trump’s circle.

    Kash Patel, who served in a variety of Pentagon roles and as a principal deputy in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, has said that 60% of the documents related to Russiagate are already in public view. As lead investigator for the House Intelligence Committee’s probe of the FBI’s illegal investigation of the Trump campaign, Patel helped get vital Russiagate records declassified. When Trump named Patel to the ODNI post, he and acting Director Richard Grenell put more Russiagate documents before the U.S. public in 2020. Patel has told the press that what Trump declassified on Jan. 19, 2021, constitutes the remainder of the Russiagate records—which is what the FBI was apparently after.

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    Yet if what the FBI was after were the Russiagate documents that it imagined were hidden somewhere at Mar-a-Lago, it’s not clear if the agents found them. According to the Times story, the safe in Trump’s closet “did not contain the materials investigators sought.” Maybe the materials were somewhere else. Perhaps Trump never had them. Trump allies I’ve spoken with don’t think he has the documents.

    Garland’s dilemma now is whether to risk finding out the truth. Press reports suggest that he is undecided about indicting Trump. That makes sense—it would likely sow chaos across the country and, Garland must worry, perhaps force Trump’s hand. For if the former president does have the documents, in whatever form, and posts them, it might bring the house down on the U.S. national security apparatus and the Democratic administration that it shields.

    The effect of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is therefore to obscure the real scandal: U.S. spies committed a series of crimes in their effort to unseat a U.S. president, and then ignored the lawful orders of that president in order to keep their crimes hidden from the American public.

    What is preserving the stability of the United States at present is therefore something like a Mexican standoff. Does Trump actually have the documents? If so, will he put them before the public? Will Garland indict him, and risk finding out? Given the Biden administration’s tendency to instrumentalize the violence of its rhetoric and turn federal bureaucracies loose on its political opponents, it is likely that the standoff will not hold for long.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-trump-russiagate-lee-smith
     
  5. Amiga

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    conspiracy theory
     
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  6. Reeko

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    they’re gonna have to account for where those documents are one way or another

    Who knows, whoever’s been snitching on him might already be telling the FBI where he likely has them. Or they were legit stolen by spies. His own lawyer said on national TV that people were going in and out of the storage room, and he had many files just laying around.
     
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    What? This article makes little sense. All of the documents there including those that weren't classified are illegal for him to have.

    That isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a crime.

    The only conspiracy theory in this piece is the idea that they are trying to cover up their own illegal activity. That isn't based on anything in the way of evidence pertaining to the justified raid on MAL.

    But if they want to go down that road, then do it.

    Knowing Trump's reactions and public crying about imagined persecution, does anyone really think anything that would clear him of more collusion charges would be kept secret? If he could publicize something that would implicate the FBI, wouldn't he already do it? Has Trump showed the ability to keep his mouth shut?

    We know that claims of Russian collusion have already been proven true and, in fact, admitted to by Trump's team.

    So even the world of conspiracy theories the one presented in this article is a pretty lame one.
     
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    Again…. Trump campaign did share and receive information from Kremlin backed associates.
     
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    Sometimes, snitches get medals.

    ...then they get stitches.
     
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    This is pretty funny, even for you...
     
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    That’s a ******* lie and you know it. He reads books. How do you explain this.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/don...ook-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?amp

     
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    Strange time for @basso to come out of hiding.
     
  16. Xerobull

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    LOL. Even Barr is piling on--and in front of a Fox News audience too.
     
  19. basso

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    so Barr is good now?
     
  20. Reeko

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    Is Barr a RINO?

    funny seeing all u mindless drones squirming since last night
     
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