According to a new poll from Convention of States and Trafalgar Group, the majority of Independents, 53.9%, believe Trump’s political enemies are behind the FBI Raid. They join 76.7% of Republicans who hold the same view. The two groups are also aligned on enthusiasm to vote based on the FBI raid. The spectacle increased the motivation to vote for 83.3% of Republicans and 71.7% of Independents.
Nearly three-quarters of Trump-Deranged Democrats believe the raid was the impartial justice system at work. The raid did not create as much enthusiasm to vote among Democrats, with only 55.2% saying it made a difference.
“Independent and Republican voters are united in their outrage about this unprecedented and tragic event in American history. It’s clear to voters that the FBI raid is designed to punish the primary political enemy of the regime in power,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States. “This gestapo-style injustice has created a voting surge that is so significant, the polling doesn’t even begin to reflect what is coming from grassroots voters in November,”
Recent polling from the groups showed that nearly 80% of voters already believed we have a two-tiered justice system. Watching the raid may have reinforced that view for many on the political right. Another shows significant majorities believe that federal agencies are too big and too political. Yet another indicated growing support for a Convention of States.
Make no mistake. The DOJ had plenty of options here. But just as they have chosen to forcefully take phones from Republican elected officials and stage massive raids to arrest Trump associates (generally alerting the media beforehand) - they had to make a political stunt out of it. The problem is that these are all people who could have been issued subpoenas or would have turned themselves in. The Roger Stone fiasco was a mind-boggling show of hubris, but still was not as stupid as the Trump raid with 30 agents armed with assault rifles to apparently collect something that they had searched through before and knew was under lock and key.
The idea here is to continue to provide the fodder for their faithful to continue to believe that Trump is a criminal. The concept is simple. Act so outrageous that the argument will be that they simply must have something big or they never would have done this. But this has come after the country was put through the largest gas-lighting in our entire nation's history. The convincing of many that Trump was a Russian spy who conspired with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
They have been pushing this Trump is a criminal narrative for over six years with countless investigations and countless allegations, only to have fallen short again and again and again when the time comes to pull the trigger. But they need to continue to push these envelopes lest their faithful loses interest. Much like a drug addict, you develop a tolerance for the regular stuff and need something bigger (30 agents storming Trump's residence) to get that high.
I also tend to believe that the current crop of Democrats in charge have a false sense of security as to just how far the media will go to cover for them on these sorts of things. All it takes is a few chinks in the armor (some prominent Democrats and prominent liberal journalists to take issue with it) and the narrative can quickly implode. Right now there are still the normal shills shilling, but there are quite a few Democrats and liberal media members who are questioning this.
All I know is that Merrick Garland did not look to be a confident man. He looked and acted like a man who knows he fucked up but has little choice but to keep a stiff upper lip and stand behind his mistake. Hard to imagine that he would not have expected the sort of beatdown he has gotten from the right, but I wonder if he is surprised by how many of his own have taken issue with this.
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You are Trump-Deranged.
Have a great vacation 😀
Using a valid subpoena the FBI agents were looking for secret documents about nuclear weapons among other classified material when they searched Donald Trump’s home on Monday.
Nuclear information is highly secret information. If he had some it looks irresponsible.
Better go to politicalwire.com and the mainstream midea, folks. You ain't gonna get honesty here.
https://youtu.be/TMBZY11Zp38
The FBI and its media allies scramble to justify the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid
By Rajan Laad
After considerable public pressure, missing-in-action U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland finally addressed the media yesterday, saying he "personally approved the decision" for the FBI to execute a search warrant at President Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago. Garland declined to provide details about the investigation, such as what the documents retrieved by the FBI were.
Reading from his text, Garland piously intoned:
Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.
Following claims of honor, morality, and legal egalitarianism, Garland's FBI then leaked information to the Washington Post, a notorious Democrat mouthpiece, proving in itself that the agency had been politicized and compromised, and not for the first time.
He is actually under investigation about
Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, 18 U.S.C. § 793, is a portion of the Espionage Act of 1917 and prohibits a broad range of actions regarding sensitive government records. It carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
That's the most likely and most difficult to provide reasonable doubt.
They have a warrant for the paperwork. It will take a few days to go through it. Then they have to make a decision, whether to prosecute the Former President Trump on Espionage Act of 1917.
It has a ten year penalty and a $10,000 fine. In 1917,ten thousand dollars would be a fortune.
Here is your tactic against the Deep State. From 2015.
Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.
Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?
All of these toxic ingredients were on full display yesterday as the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts, and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it.
Roger...
Spot on! Great comment!
Updated Aug. 13, 2022 12:13 am EDT
The search, while Mr. Trump was in New York, stoked a political firestorm with Republican lawmakers demanding an explanation for the unprecedented search of a former president’s home. The showdown began after the National Archives in January retrieved more than a dozen boxes of White House documents from the resort earlier this year, some of which officials deemed classified national-security information.
Mr. Garland and FBI officials deliberated for days about whether to respond to the criticism of the search and how much to say, people familiar with discussions said. The attorney general ultimately decided to let the Justice Department’s work speak for itself and directed the agency to request the warrant be unsealed.
Millions of people in the U.S. hold some level of clearance that grants them access to classified documents, though far fewer have access to the highest levels. While intelligence agencies can declassify information and release it to the public, the process for doing so is often slow and may require multiple intelligence agencies to sign off.
A list of documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., cites 20 boxes of items, binders of photos and a handwritten note.
A sitting president generally has the authority to unilaterally declassify any material of his or her choosing, but such a privilege is rarely used. Mr. Trump at times did disclose classified information during his time in office, including when he tweeted a surveillance satellite image showing damage at an Iranian space facility.
While a president has the power to declassify documents, federal regulations lay out a process for doing so. Those rules must be followed for a declassification to become legally effective, said Dan Meyer, a national-security lawyer at Tully Rinckey in Washington.
Once Mr. Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021, he became bound by the same rules as other private citizens, Mr. Meyer said.
Updated Aug. 13, 2022 12:13 am EDT
FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities, according to a search warrant released by a Florida court Friday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Mr. Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows. Also included in the list was information about the “President of France,” according to the three-page list. The list is contained in a seven-page document that also includes the warrant to search the premises which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in Florida.
The list includes references to one set of documents marked as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” an abbreviation that refers to top-secret/sensitive compartmented information. It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. The list didn’t provide any more details about the substance of the documents.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers argue that the former president used his authority to declassify the material before he left office. While a president has the power to declassify documents, there are federal regulations that lay out a process for doing so.
Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents “raided” his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday and broke into a safe. The search was part of an investigation into his handling of classified information, said people familiar with the matter.
“They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes long ago. All they had to do was ask,” Mr. Trump said in a statement issued Friday.
On Friday afternoon, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart issued an order making the warrant and inventory list public, after the Justice Department said in a court filing that Mr. Trump’s lawyers told federal prosecutors they didn’t object to the government’s request to unseal the information.
The search and seizure warrant, signed by Judge Reinhart, shows that FBI agents sought to search “the 45 Office,” as well as “all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by [the former president] and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”
Trump received a federal grand jury subpoena this past spring for sensitive documents the government believed he retained after his departure from the White House, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News on Thursday.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the subpoena was related to documents that Trump’s legal team discussed with Justice Department officials at a previously reported meeting on June
A separate source a snich?confirmed an earlier Wall Street Journal report, telling NBC News that “someone familiar” with documents inside Mar-a-Lago told investigators there may have been more classified documents at the club than were initially turned over, leading in part to the search on Monday.
David Brooks, last night::
...when I first heard about [the FBI raid], I have to confess my stomach sank.
And my reaction was, does the FBI understand the political firestorm they're about to set off? As the days have gone by, the gravity of what the FBI did and the justification for what they did have grown.
And so, first, we learned this was not a rash thing, that it has been months in the making. They did issue a subpoena. They walked through this step by step. And then, even in the last few hours, we have learned that, as Jonathan said, if these documents are top-secret documents, the people who know more about this than I, they say that's a really big deal.
And the — one of the acts the president is being investigated for is the Espionage Act. This is a serious act, which could be a decade in prison for a normal human being. And there are other acts, the potential falsification and mutilation of documents. That's also years in prison.
And so these are — these are not small crimes. These are major, major criminal, if they get to it, accusations. And if you have that kind of crime, and you're a law enforcement officer, you have got to do something.
Unfortunately you and millions of others believe this.
IRS Annual Report Shows Training of Heavily Armed Agents Raiding Suburban Homes (PHOTOS)
IRS Criminal Investigation special agents can be seen in the 2021 annual report of the Internal Revenue Service conducting a variety of deadly force exercises. The agents are trained to shoot and kill you over your government taxes. The training exercises include building entry, the use of weapons, defensive tactics, and others.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the IRS is looking for new agents — including armed and fit federal tax agents who are “willing to use deadly force” according to the job posting.
The duties also include “willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.”
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