Saturday, August 27, 2022

On the Trump raid affidavit

Just finished reading the entire 38 pages Affidavit!

This Affidavit only confirms that what the swamp (Dimocratic Party and government operatives) have done to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for President is much worse and much more sophisticated than Watergate ever was.

Here are a few of my thoughts:
  1. Judge Reinhardt should reject this Affidavit as it is too much redacted and ask for a new one with less redactions! We do not know the content of the redactions, but based on the unredacted parts Judge Reinhardt should have dismissed this search warrant!
  2. The unnamed FBI agent, in whose name this Affidavit is signed, comes across as another Peter Strzok or Lisa Page. Perhaps, he or she is even from the same FBI unit!
  3. The former President Trump is treated as a serious criminal in this affidavit. It is shocking! No respect, nothing! You find language like "Based upon the following facts, there is probable cause to believe that the locations to be searched at the PREMISES contain evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(e), 1519,or 2071."
  4. The whole Affidavit is about 15 boxes of government documents that the former president returned to the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on 1/18/2022. However, the FBI insinuates or speculates there must be more, because e.g. CBS news reported moving trucks on January 18th, 2021 at the residence of the former president. This is really laughable!
  5. There are reports that the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is also a hotbed of employees with Trump Derangement Syndrome! It was NARA, which referred this case to the FBI.
  6. The unredacted parts of the Affidavit contain no explanation whatsoever as to why the search was necessary and urgent at this time. It is totally mute about this! It does also not list or mention any other efforts to resolve the issue without a search warrant!
  7. The Affidavit actually confirms that Trump cooperated regarding document requests: "On February 18, 2022, the Archivist of the United States, chief administrator for NARA, stated in a letter to Congress's Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman The Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney, "NARA had ongoing communications with the representatives of former President Trump throughout 2021, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes to NARA in January 2022"
  8. The Affidavit also curiously quotes an article by Breitbart, because according to this article Kash Patel claimed the president had declassified some documents. You got to be kidding!
  9. Who in the U.S. government has the ultimate constitutional authority to classify or declassify documents? Perhaps, it is none other than the president. If so, then by taking these documents to his residence he implicitly declassified them.
  10. We also know that the FBI and/or other government agencies e.g. lied to the FISA Court to obtain warrants against Trump or his associates. I believe, nobody was yet sanctioned for this grievous offense! Who can assure us that it is different this time? This Affidavit is not reassuring!
  11. Who can rule out that perhaps highly classified documents were intentionally planted with the documents that Trump retained after office or planted while the raid was going on etc.
  12. The whole Affidavit smells a lot like trumped up charges (pardon my pun)!
Attached you find the PDF file as provided by PBS:
gov.uscourts.flsd_.617854.102.1-2.pdf

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