News Trump: Mar-a-Lago just raided by FBI

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cytg111

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I'm starting to wonder if DoJ has evidence that some of these papers have been found in other countries hands already.
While I have no proof, I am suspecting that too. Again just a feeling, I think some classified stuff was making it around some shithole places and was intercepted, thus the raid.
To be clear I have no proof just a suspicion.
 

trenchfoot

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It's totally plausible to me that Trump, having no love for our security services monitoring his every move, including his dangerous habit of mishandling sensitive data that directly affects the security of the nation, was exploiting the classified files for any number of nefarious reasons that include plots that would hurt his enemies, gain favor for himself or keep him from being sent to the hoosegow.

He's just that kind of guy, of which have been proven beyond all doubt by his past performance as an abuser of his authority and being an arrogant scofflaw way too many times to refute with any measure of creditability.
 
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Donald Trump sues justice department over Mar-a-Lago search


ahahahahaha
Keep digging.

“Self-inflicted wound”: Trump's release of “damning” National Archives letter blows up in his face | Salon.com

Oh, but there's more...

“Lawyers are giggling”: Legal experts scratch their heads at Trump’s “very strange” new DOJ lawsuit | Salon.com

Former President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit demanding the return of documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, arguing that the feds did not have sufficient reason for the raid even though they found 300 classified documents at Trump's home, according to The New York Times.

Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team, called the report "incredibly damning" for Trump, noting that the report suggests the former president personally reviewed the documents to decide what to return.

"If you are a prosecutor, you really look for evidence of what the former president did personally," he told MSNBC. "If the DOJ either knows about or is soon to interview those people who were sources for the New York Times, they're going to have a substantial criminal case."
 
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Keep digging.

“Self-inflicted wound”: Trump's release of “damning” National Archives letter blows up in his face | Salon.com

Oh, but there's more...

“Lawyers are giggling”: Legal experts scratch their heads at Trump’s “very strange” new DOJ lawsuit | Salon.com

Former President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit demanding the return of documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, arguing that the feds did not have sufficient reason for the raid even though they found 300 classified documents at Trump's home, according to The New York Times.

Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team, called the report "incredibly damning" for Trump, noting that the report suggests the former president personally reviewed the documents to decide what to return.

"If you are a prosecutor, you really look for evidence of what the former president did personally," he told MSNBC. "If the DOJ either knows about or is soon to interview those people who were sources for the New York Times, they're going to have a substantial criminal case."


From the second article:

Weissmann, the former federal prosecutor, said Trump's filing has a "fatal flaw" because it doesn't reckon with the fact that the documents legally belong to the National Archives, not the president.

"Nothing needs to be sifted because none of the documents are actually the former president's. These all belong, whether classified or not classified, to the national archives," he told MSNBC. He went on to describe the court filing as a "press release masquerading (tenuously) as a legal brief."

I think that hits the nail on the head. Trump is planning on litigating this just like he has everything else: in the court of public opinion, where he only need convince about half the general population.
 
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From what I heard. They picked up 3 of them

2 expired and a “red” one might be a diplomat one
Per what I heard on the news(?) the FBI didn’t mean to take them and they were returned.
Maybe they were in a box stored with the secret stuff, maybe an agent misunderstood and took them but whatever the reason the passports were taken in error and returned.