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Breaking: FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by larsv8, Aug 8, 2022.

  1. DonnyMost

    DonnyMost be kind. be brave.
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    Lol. A wild new excuse appears!

    And if I did it, it shouldn't have been classified in the first place!
     
  2. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Would be more believable if this was written during the Hillary email kerfuffle.
     
  3. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    It's all over the news right now - some of the documents were considered of critical national security secrets. Incredible he was holding onto them.

    Trump needs to answer for what he did here. Not just legally but to the entire country.
     
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    We are entitled to know our governments secrets.

    There’s no danger in that! Zero! Trump was doing us a favor!
     
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    Trump's people also claimed he won the election. Trump's people saying anything is suspect to me. I'll wait to hear it from the source that initiated the search.
     
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    The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents from its search, including some materials marked as "top secret/SCI" — one of the highest levels of classification, according to documents from the search warrant that were released Friday.

    U keep posting that nonsense that a lot of sht can b classified when it doesn't have to b. Sure that's tru, but there's degree of classification and it seems like he hoard some top secret documents.

    In general private civilians shouldn't b holding any classified stuff even the nonsense stuff that u keep referring to.


    Top Secret: This is the highest level of classification. Information is classified as Top Secret if it "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security," according to a 2009 executive order that describes the classification system.


    We don't know what it was but if there are documents labeled top secret, pretty safe to conclude it's not about Kennedy assassination or a merry Christmas letter
     
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    m'kay
     
  8. Os Trigonum

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    US Election Betting Odds: FBI Search Warrant Does Little to Hurt Trump's Odds
    Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was searched by the FBI in recent days, but that hardly made an impact on the 45th president's election odds. We bring you 2024 election odds for dozens of potential candidates, including Kamala Harris and The Rock.

    https://www.covers.com/politics/us-election-betting-odds

    excerpt:

    Odds to win the 2024 US presidential election

    Election Winner Odds to win 2024 US election Implied probability
    Donald Trump +275 26.67%
    Ron DeSantis +300 25.00%
    Joe Biden +600 14.29%
    more at the link
     
  9. durvasa

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    Wow, this cartoon is dated 4/3/22. Precient.
     
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    Meanwhile, Trump's little QAnon kook compadre and White Nationalist wacko MTG filed articles of impeachment today against Merrick Garland. Go figure. Patriots my ass!!!!
     
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    Five Lingering Questions In the Wake of the Mar-a-Lago Raid

    https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/...as-controversy-comes-to-a-head-at-mar-a-lago/

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    1. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the DOJ would have used other less intrusive means if they were possible. Yet, it would seem that such options were not just possible but obvious, including the use of a second subpoena. Moreover, even if a raid was necessary, it is not clear why the DOJ would descend upon Mar-a-Lago with such a massive show of force rather than send a few agents over with the warrant.
    2. If the FBI believed that there was nuclear-related information in the resort, it certainly did not seem to move with dispatch. The last communication, according to the Trump team, was in June. Even after securing a warrant, there was reportedly a delay in executing the warrant. Why?
    3. If the FBI suspected that high-level material was retained at the resort, did they identify the material to the Trump team and demand its return? It is hard to imagine the Trump Team telling the FBI to pound sand if such a demand was made. Yet, such a denial would readily support a showing of probable cause. Moreover, adding a lock to the door of a storage room would not be viewed as sufficient for material at the apex of classification levels.
    4. Did the warrant specifically identify the material or the classification level? If the warrant sought the recovery of any possible classified evidence, it would again raise what was stated in the affidavit and the reason why such material was not acquired in the June subpoena despite the reported cooperation of the Trump team.
    5. There remains the role of the confidential informant and what the person shared with the DOJ. Was there evidence of active concealment of the material or merely a statement of additional documents being stored at the resort?
    more at the link
     
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  12. DonnyMost

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    I believe they call this posting style JAQing (just asking questions) off.
     
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    Not enough time to declassify lmfao.
     
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    clever
     
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    We've seen what a busy schedule Trump kept
     
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  17. Amiga

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    it’s no big deal
     
  18. DatRocketFan

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    Os trig taking it next level.

    Simple posters like MOJOman and commodore post tweets or cartoon to relay their message.

    This man uses walls of text without any context. He does pick out the excerpt of words that he deem important. But it would b nice for him to just type out his thoughts and refer us to the article with a link. He's acting like folks can interpret his intent with these long ass wall of words
     
  19. Os Trigonum

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    [​IMG]
     
  20. FranchiseBlade

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    Irrelevant. The search and document recovery wasn't done to harm Trump in the polls or at the ballot. It was done to secure documents that didn't belong to him and were classified.

    If that's okay with some voters, then it's on them. But that isn't relevant to the warrant or what Trump has done.
     
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