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Government Corruption
Trump warns 'terrible things are going to happen' US after 'sneak attack' FBI raid
2022-08-16
[NYPOST] Former President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
claimed Monday that he was willing to do "whatever I can to help the country" before accusing the FBI of a "sneak attack" raid on his Florida estate last week.

"The country is in a very dangerous position," Trump told Fox News Digital in his first interview since the Aug. 8 search. "There is tremendous anger, like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and this new one — years of scams and witch hunts, and now this."

"If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people, would certainly be willing to do that," he continued.

Federal agents seized more than two dozen boxes of items, including 11 sets of classified documents, from the 45th president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

According to an inventory that was unsealed by a federal judge Friday, four sets of documents were marked "Top Secret," the highest level of classification the government can give information; three were marked "Secret," the second-highest level, while the remaining three were marked "Confidential," the lowest classification level.

Another set was marked "Various classified/TS/SCI documents," which is the abbreviation for "top secret/sensitive compartmented information," a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets.

Posted by:Fred

#12  ^ #3 - Anybody else remember the vast right-wing conspiracy" that upset Hillary several years ago?
Posted by: Bobby   2022-08-16 23:50  

#11  It seems like this action by the DOJ/FBI violates the 4th Amendment, i.e. an illegal search and seizure. Anything gathered from such a search and seizure probably cannot be used in any court as evidence. It also would seem that that Trump is entitled to a copy of the affidavit which was the basis for the warrant in order to defend himself. Just a layman's common sense view of things. The raid seems more like a fishing (fisting?) expedition.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-08-16 18:37  

#10  https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-different-sort-of-warrant/

A fascinating take on the idea that a civil suit by Trump, in the Florida courts, that could use the seized "classified/declassified" documents that appear to be the focus of the raid to prove culpability for the Russia Hoax and spying against Trump by the Clinton Campaign, Obama Admin et al.
Its a Florida court, and a civil suit, so the jury pool would be Floridians, not DC sympathizers and the verdict majority, not unanimous. Such a trial would be successful if what we have been told about the documents is true, and it would inevitably also lead to many, many criminal referrals against the heart of the Obama/Puppet Show players.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-08-16 12:40  

#9  ..well, the IRS 'agents' are still in training.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-16 11:48  

#8  Why does an FBI office need local police protection?
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-16 11:32  

#7  What is to keep the Democrats from looking for a Grassy Knoll? They have political operatives and control in just about every agency and dept.
Posted by:     2022-08-16 11:13  

#6  Currently with the judge connected to Epstien I have to wonder if Trump had the client list or something and they were desperate to recover it, even at the cost of a bit of political blow-back.

Either that or the left are power-hungry and stupid. Both seem reasonable explanations.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-08-16 10:27  

#5  As I was taking my evening walk I couldn't help but notice the local police guarding the FBI station in the neighborhood

You think anyone on a jury, outside the 6 counties around DC, are going to believe the testimony of an FBI agent? They've squandered any credibility.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-16 10:23  

#4  Dunno. Seems everything about the Witchmore abduction had everyone going HUH? except the media and those who wanted to believe.

What has me a bit concerned about that, though, is that for some 6 months NYC has been advising what to do if nuked? campaign, media has been banging the nuke gong since this raid, then the deal yesterday about a nuke attack in NYC being a Trump conspiracy.

That is a lot of pump priming which I do not believe is happening in other cities.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-16 10:15  

#3  ^ Who knows? Maybe the FBEye will stage a fake attack on themselves in order to foist the blame on the vast rightwing conservatives. They're actually pretty good at staging fake insurrections.
Posted by: Warthog   2022-08-16 09:58  

#2  As I was taking my evening walk I couldn't help but notice the local police guarding the FBI station in the neighborhood. As far as I know it's a first. Last week the staff were eating lunch at the picnic table.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-08-16 09:15  

#1  I don’t believe the classified material allegation, but I don’t get the documents angle even if there was stuff in there. Trump and Melanie did not pack up the WH documents as they shared tearful memories of their favorite classified briefings. Nor will you find an email from Trump instructing someone to save all the nuclear codes because they could be the basis of a really strong password to his Truth Social account. This is just going to crash like all the other times Trump “was painted onto a corner.”
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-16 09:01  

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