Last Updated on 08/14/2022 by てんしょく飯
The FBI carried out a forced search of Trump’s villa “Mar-a-Lago” in Florida without issuing a subpoena to former President Trump. They also destroyed the safe without seizing it.
Unusual move by the DOJ and FBI
The FBI’s investigation is related to violations in the handling of classified documents, and while news reports have made it sound as if former President Trump took the top secret documents without permission, this is apparently not the case.
There was correspondence between the National Archives and former President Trump regarding the documents taken out, and in January of this year, a large number of documents were given to the archives by Trump.
It is true that some of these documents were marked as classified, but according to former National Security Council aide Patel, who was present at the declassification, these documents had already been declassified but simply had not been marked as such and did not contain classified documents.
As one-sided reports heat up, Patel reiterates that all documents in Mar-a-Lago have been declassified.
Congresswoman Lauren Beauvat tweeted an apt description of the serious implications of this forced investigation.
‘Biden’s FBI conducted a forced raid on the home of the man most likely to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. This is in addition to all the false investigations that have been conducted on every possible falsehood about President Trump. Stop weaponizing federal investigative agencies to distract from your own failed policies!”
In other words, Congressman Beaubert sees this as a political plot to set up a political conspiracy to keep Trump from winning the next presidential election, which is what caused this incident.
Also, Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted.
‘Executing warrants against former presidents is dangerous. The blatant political weaponization of the DOJ/FBI is shameful. The Attorney General must explain why 250 years of practice has been overturned. In the case of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, eastern Libya, in which four people were killed, including the ambassador, the Trump administration proved that Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, had classified information, but did nothing to raid her home.”
In other words, the basic rule is that investigations of political opponents should be handled with restraint so as not to be perceived as an improper exercise of power, a principle that has been followed since the founding of the U.S. This time, however, the DOJ and FBI have overstepped this rule. Sen.
Senator Marco Rubio said, “The FBI does nothing to groups that destroy Catholic churches, throw Molotov cocktails at anti-abortion groups, or threaten Supreme Court justices. Yet they find the time to forcefully investigate Mar-a-Lago,” he accused. When one is aware of these contrasts, the anomalies between the DOJ and the FBI are probably already clear.
The response varies 180 degrees depending on the subject of the investigation.
This anomaly has been criticized even from within the Democratic Party. Andrew Yang, a second-generation immigrant from Taiwan and a Democrat who once ran in the Democratic primary for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, tweeted his discomfort about the incident.
‘I am not a Trump fan etc. at all. I want to keep Trump out of the White House as much as possible. But a fundamental part of his appeal is that Trump is the one against the corrupt political Establishment. There will be countless Americans who will see this raid as unjustified persecution, but the fact that he actually did it will reinforce these people’s belief that it was unjustified persecution.”
Trump’s watchword is “do the swamp ditching,” which means that the political Establishment must stop distorting the political system to protect its vested interests and correct politics the way it should be done.
However, this time, it appears that the political establishment has come to thoroughly slam Trump, who is earnestly trying to do a ditch-sweeping. Such a situation should have been thoroughly avoided, but it was done. That is why it is a big problem. This is similar to what former Secretary of State Pompeo has said.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat), who was forced to resign over sexual harassment, also said, “The Justice Department must immediately explain the reasons for this raid, and it must be more than a search of insignificant past documents. Otherwise, it will be seen as a political maneuver and will undermine the credibility of future investigations and the legitimacy of the Congressional raid investigation,” he tweeted.
The anomalous nature of this case becomes even clearer when compared to the email incident when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
At the time she was Secretary of State, all emails were supposed to be sent and received under government supervision, but Hillary had a server at her home where she worked on emails without government checks without her permission. It is certain that Hillary was handling classified material there, and there is no doubt that she moved to delete the problematic e-mails after the situation was discovered, but neither the FBI nor the Department of Justice moved to even seize the server, which was absolutely necessary to obtain the evidence.
In other words, depending on whether the target of the investigation was on the side of the Democrats or on the side of Trump, the FBI and the DOJ have responded in such different ways that it could be said that they have made 180-degree different moves.
Furthermore, there was not even any advance notice to Trump’s legal advisors in conducting the raid. The three lawyers who rushed to the scene after the raid began were denied access to the scene of the search, which is unbelievable.
Moreover, when the FBI was asked by the lawyers to show them the warrant, they did not even hand it to them so that they could check it thoroughly, but only showed it to them from a distance of three meters. They only showed it to us from a distance of 3 meters away.
In an effort to protect the “swamp dwellers”
This is not the first time Trump has taken out such documents. Obama, for example, removed more than 30 million pages of documents, yet not a single page has been digitized and released to the public at the National Archives and Records Administration. We also know that White House lawyers during the Obama years frequently delayed the release of documents from the Bill Clinton presidency.
Given the extraordinary nature of the situation, it is naturally inconceivable that this was done without the approval of President Biden and the rest of the White House. However, Presidential Press Secretary Jean-Pierre said that Biden was not briefed in advance by the FBI, was unaware of the raid, and only learned of it through public reports. He is probably trying to play it completely off the table.
Even at this stage, if he understood the dangers and peculiarities of this case, he would have condemned the FBI and the Department of Justice and called for their suspension, but the White House made no such move. This is the very endorsement that the Biden administration gave the go-ahead to have this done.
Surprisingly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “You need a warrant to make such a visit, and you need probable cause to get a warrant. No one can be above the law. It’s the same whether it’s a current or former president of the United States,” she said, justifying the raid by calling it a “visit” (visit).
In her view, there is no restraint in searching political opponents, as long as the FBI asks for a warrant and a judge grants it, the FBI is free to conduct whatever search it wants.
But the judge who granted the warrant was Judge Bruce Reinhart, a hardcore Trump hater who donated $2,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign and is known to have donated $500 to Jeff Bush, who ran against Trump in the Republican Party.
We also learned that Judge Reinhart had defended the Epstein campaign before he was hired as a judge in 2018. Epstein, who is suspected of owning an island and attracting many young (and juvenile) men and women to the island for the sexual comfort of the politicians, is also known to have somehow committed suicide while in custody.
In other words, it was Epstein who held the key to the “swamp residents” who should be drowned, but his “suicide” stopped this pursuit. And it was Judge Reinhardt who was on the side of defending his staff.
If this is the case, it is highly doubtful that Judge Reinhart gave the green light to Trump’s ouster in favor of protecting the “swamp dwellers” over legal fairness.
The “land of the free and democratic” is on the verge of collapse
U.S. law (Title 18 USC §2071) provides that a person responsible for keeping records will be punished if he or she deliberately and unlawfully engages in concealment, and some of those punishments include being barred from holding public office. It has been suggested by some that this provision could stop Trump from running for president in 2024.
Attorney Mark Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm, which supports the Democratic National Committee, also seems to be pursuing the possibility of using this provision to stop Trump from running.
But if this were adaptable, it would clearly be inconsistent with Hillary Clinton being allowed to run in 2016.
The Democratic camp is thinking along the lines of suing Trump for treason (Title 18 USC §2383) and barring him from running for president; they are pursuing a scenario in which the seizure of the materials would reveal evidence of a conspiracy on Trump’s part regarding the so-called “attack on Congress” of January 6, 2021. The scenario may be that the seizure of the documents reveals evidence of a conspiracy on Trump’s part regarding the so-called “attack on Congress” of January 6, 2021.
Former U.S. Attorney Glenn Kershner has predicted that Mark Meadows, who served as Chief of Staff to the President in the Trump administration, will betray Trump. It is almost certain that there was an inside man with detailed knowledge of the inner workings of “Mar-a-Lago” in this raid as well, and it is believed that this may be Meadows. It is possible that he may have turned to an informant to the FBI because of a personal weakness.
Also, the day after this raid, the FBI seized the cell phone of Trumpist Congressman Scott Pelley. In this seizure, the FBI did not even contact Perry’s attorney.
According to Perry’s counsel, the DOJ has told him that Perry is not a target of the investigation, but it is worth noting that they may be trying to use this as some kind of ploy to bring Trump to conviction.
As for the “Steele dossier,” the investigative report accusing Trump of being in a position to collude with Russia due to Putin’s weakness, the ridiculousness of its contents has already become fairly well known, but it has also already been discovered that the source of the funds for its creation was the Democratic National Committee.
The upcoming trial of Igor Danchenko, the informant of the Steele dossier, for making false statements to the FBI, may also be connected to the Democratic camp’s impatience with these developments.
We have a tendency to think of the U.S. as a “land of freedom and democracy,” but the U.S. is now a “land of liberty and democracy. However, the basic principles of democracy are being undermined by the growing power of “liberals” in the United States. We must be vigilant in this regard.
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