After a series of attempts by the Department of Justice to keep the affidavit used in the FBI’s August raid on Mar-a-Lago sealed from the public eyes, the document was finally released on Friday afternoon just before the 12:00 p.m. ET deadline set by federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.
The affidavit was supposed to provide the reasoning for the Mar-a-Lago raid.
As expected the affidavit was heavily redacted.
The following is the gist of the exposed contents of the document:
“A preliminary review of the 15 boxes indicated that they contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, personal and post-presidential records, and ‘a lot of classified records.’”
“The FBI’s investigation has established that documents bearing classification markings, which appear to contain National Defense Information (NDI), were among the materials contained in the FIFTEEN BOXES and were stored at the PREMISES in an unauthorized location.”
“There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified NDI or that are Presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the PREMISES. There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the PREMISES.”
Ironically, the DOJ redacted its reasoning for redacting nearly the entire search warrant affidavit. The only justification not redacted is “agent safety.”
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The DOJ claims the decision was made to protect the witnesses.
So what was the purpose of this redaction?
Barack Obama once said that the only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.
If the FBI has ironclad reasons for the raid, they would have released the entire document with only the names of the agents redacted.
The purpose of this redaction is to allow the cloud of doubt and suspicion to prevail to furnish a narrative.
This narrative began the day President Trump won the 2016 elections by defeating Hillary Clinton.
First, it was baselessly claimed that Trump had won by colluding with the Russians. There were once again no details provided. The accusers couldn’t say if any votes were altered. They couldn’t reveal the specifics of how Trump colluded with the Russians. It was merely a sinister disinformation campaign based on innuendo and insinuations. The media that functions as mouthpieces for the Democrats led the charge on this abominable hoax that the Russians had ‘meddled in the 2016’ elections, the implication being Trump was an illegitimate president.
The cacophonous campaign caused the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. For the next 22 months, at a cost of $40 million, Mueller, whose team comprised of Trump haters carried out an investigation.
The goal in this probe wasn’t to investigate the truth, it was to persecute a political adversary, criminalize political opposition, and push a narrative.
Throughout the ‘investigation,’ the FBI and Justice Department leaked “bombshells” to the media. The media then claimed that the “walls are closing in” and Trump would be removed.
In the end, no evidence of collusion was discovered. Mueller’s team purposefully worded their report to keep the inferences ambiguous. It enabled the Democrats to continue to make bogus claims about collusion, extending the ordeal through much of Trump’s presidency.
When the Trump-Russia collusion narrative began to fade away, they concocted the Ukraine call narrative that Trump was soliciting foreign electoral intervention in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
They claimed Trump ordered the Ukrainian president to concoct damaging narratives about potential Democratic Party presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Ironically, it was they who were fabricating scandals about Trump.
Hunter Biden was a director on the board of Burisma – a Ukrainian-owned private energy company while Joe was Obama’s point man on U.S.-Ukrainian relations. Ukrainian prosecutors were blocked from investigating Burisma Holdings by Biden who pressured the government to fire the head prosecutor.
President Trump had every reason to compel the Ukrainian government to investigate the shady links between Biden and Ukraine, to know if Joe Biden who could be the next president, was compromised by a foreign power.
But that hardly mattered; the Democrats pushed the narrative that Trump asked Ukraine to meddle in the US elections. Once again, with every leak they claimed the ‘walls closing in narrative’ on the president.
In the end, Trump was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate.
Next was the Insurrection narrative.
Trump was impeached by the House again for “incitement of insurrection” but once again acquitted by the Senate.
The ‘insurrection’ was actually a protest that went overboard.
There was footage of one Ray Epps, inciting people to enter the Capitol Building. The DOJ and FBI, have arrested over 900 individuals but strangely overlooked Epps, leading some to conclude that he was a covert government agent who incited violence in order that the Democrats could push their insurrection narrative.
When the second impeachment failed, the Democrats launched the Stalinist January 6 Committee in Congress, comprised of Trump haters who presumed Trump’s guilt before the ‘probe’ began.
There have been a series of televised hearings from the House Select Committee. The main purpose of these hearings has been to build a narrative of Trump’s culpability for the January 6 riot.
If the goal was to learn the truth, Trump’s lawyers would have been allowed to counter witnesses who often made ludicrous claims. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that, when Trump heard the “Hang Mike Pence” chant, he told aides that the vice president “deserves it.” She also claimed Trump tried to seize the steering wheel of his presidential vehicle and lunged toward his security detail when informed that he wouldn’t be taken to the Capitol following his Jan. 6 rally. The Secret Service has denied it ever occurred.
Since the January 6 hearings gained little traction, they conducted a raid and released a redacted document.
The redacted document provides the Democrats with a platform to fabricate and push their ‘walls are closing in’ narrative. They may claim that a ‘source’ told them that Trump was planning to dispatch former New York Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to Moscow to sell nuclear secrets to the highest bidder.
They have already pushed this narrative without any basis.
Following the raid, a presidential ‘historian’ invoked the Rosenberg spies who were convicted of leaking U.S. nuclear secrets to the KGB and were executed in June 1953.
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General Michael Hayden, retired USAF four-star general, and former Director of CIA and Director of NSA seemed to endorse that idea of execution.
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Thus various investigative agencies at the behest of the Democrats have been baselessly probing Trump for over six years. The leadership of these agencies are blatantly partisan and no longer even attempt to appear fair. Consequently, trust in the government and its agencies drastically eroded. The news media relies on innuendo and insinuations instead of evidence. A nation fed on lies is likely to implode someday.
It is said, that if you want to know what is good for your nation, look at what the powers that be are saying and do the exact opposite.
Trump has been the target of the most significant and prolonged disinformation campaigns in US history. The fact that the establishment is using all its might to prevent Trump from running again makes a strong case for electing him president in 2024.
Just to be clear about the motivations behind Judge Napolitano’s opinion. For some unknown reason he had expectations of being named to the Supreme Court (:( , and was quite miffed that he was passed over by Trump three times, LOL, despite the fact that the highest office he had held was when he had been named to the state superior court of NJ. He was also reported to have asked Trump for a pardon for a fellow NJ judge, for which he was left stewing in his own juices once more when his request was yet again denied. He has since become a recurrent member of the never Trump crowd, and was later fired from Fox News due to claims of sexual harassment. In any case, he has made Trump the true North of his legal interpretations regarding any legal matter which the Left or their Rino allies might care to lodge against Trump. Napolitano’s legal interpretations and adept predictions have consequently been seen to be quite untethered beginning sometime after Trump became president, and he has held some fairly bizarre opinions during that time. Honestly, he should find something more useful to do with his life than to act as a legal baritone for the Lincoln Project, but vengeance has a lasting influence for some.
Judge Napolitano’s older article on the issue:
Here is an opinion from a judge about the raid and what awaits Trump [the note is mine]:
From Tracy Beanz:
Judge Raymond J. Dearie, a Reagan appointee, has been named as Special Master, and he was Trump’s requested choice.
Finally!!
FBI Special Agent Who Opened Trump Investigation Has Been Escorted out of Bureau Headquarters
Consequence of previously reported FBI whistleblower(s) to congress. Thibault was in charge of investigating political corruption in Washington, but has demonstrated over the years a unique ability to actually protect political corruption while investigating stories which held no basis beyond a political benefit from Hillarygate to Laptop from Hell. Here is the comment from Kash Patel:
https://t.me/Patri0tsareinContr0l/3056
The termination of Thibault is most certainly the effort to balance off the effect of a multitude of bad press exposing the FBI/DOJ as the political servants of the Deep State to those less willing to accept this long ago. His culpability and corrupt activity has been known for some time now and should have been terminated well before this point.
As memory serves, I believe he was also involved in turning the tables on Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht when they presented the FBI with knowledge of detailed information surrounding key elements of US elections by a Chinese company in Wuhan China, of all places. Rather than investigating the Chinese corruption in the US, the FBI began an investigation of Phillips and Engelbrect.
While this is an important step in the process, this is just the beginning of what needs to be a cleaning out of the FBI and DOJ, neither of which will likely take place unless Trump returns to office.
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“The White House stated strongly that they were NOT INVOLVED, and knew absolutely nothing about, the political Witch Hunt going on with me, & that they didn’t know anything at all about the Break-In of Mar-a-Lago. This was strongly reiterated again & again…”
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Until those who are persecuting former president Trump, his family, and his team members are stopped and ultimately brought to justice, our country cannot heal.
Hi, Shmuel
Are you proofreading? Yes, it was the DOJ that approved the redactions on the papers forwarded to the magistrate, for what it matters. The important matter is that the FBI, DOJ, magistrate, Biden, and perhaps others, all approved an unconstitutional, illegal raid to advance the interests of a criminal cabal.
The purpose of the raid, judging by the redactions, was probably to transfer the documents to the custody of the Witch Hunt Cabal. They contain information that implicates THEM in multiple crimes, centered around the RussiaRussiaRussia hoax and probably other matters, so they can withhold them from the American people under the cover of their being part of an “ongoing investigation”.
I expect that a growing majority of Americans are getting sick and tired of a cabal that specializes in taxing them to the hilt, destroying our economy, despising our country and making us the laughing stock of the world — and that has spent over six years and billions of dollars of taxpayer money conducting witch hunts against the most popular leader in the country.
The doj eructed the item, not the fbi.
It was expected much as it is expected that the Pbama chaps will try other ways… as well.