Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act, warrant reveals

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  1. The Mello Guy

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    the young can’t be trusted to show up on Election Day if there’s no presidential election.
     
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    What "faith based" comments?
     
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    See the post I was responding to when I first mentioned religion. This ain't rocket surgery.
     
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    Liberals throwing **** at walls hoping something sticks.
     
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    Nothing I posted was "faith based." Yes, it's not rocket science.
     
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    Ex-Gorsuch Law Clerk Takes a Blowtorch to the Imaginary Law
    the FBI Cited in Trump Raid.

    "In the aftermath of the unlawful August 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Nation in revolted by the "unprecedented ransacking of a former president" and the current president's primary political opponent in the upcoming election. "The legal justification doesn’t pass constitutional muster. There seems to be no crime committed, only that the National Archives grew impatient over record retrieval. That’s not a crime."
    1. "President Trump had the constitutional power to declassify any record he wanted, per Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Navy v. Egan.
    2. And he had the sole statutory authority to determine what was presidential v. personal record, per 2012 DC District Court ruling.
    Game over."

    Remember how the Dems claimed to just adore precedent?

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    I wonder what those so badly infected with TDS thinks "such a decision would not be reviewable in any event" means?

    This guts the case the government made for the illegal raid. "FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland should be removed from office." And now we know why Dirtbag "Garland did not seek the opinion of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel about signing off on the search warrant," because they would have told him that he needed is deeply infected with TDS head examined.

    "All presidents take mementos and other records when they leave office. They don't pack their own boxes. The National Archives takes the position that almost everything is a "presidential record." And the federal government, in general, over-classifies almost everything."

    "Even if Trump took classified records, that isn't a crime. The president has the inherent constitutional power to declassify any record he wants, in any manner he wants, regardless of any otherwise-pertinent statute or regulation that applies to everyone else. The president does not need to obtain Congress' or a bureaucrat's permission—or jump through their regulatory or statutory hoops—to declassify anything. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this in the 1988 case, Department of the Navy v. Egan : "The President, after all, is the 'Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.' U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security...flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."'

    "Thus, if Trump left the White House with classified records, then those records are necessarily declassified by his very actions. He doesn't need to label that decision for, or report that decision to, any bureaucrat who works for him. It is pretextual legal nonsense for the Biden Justice Department to pretend Trump broke any criminal statute. Indeed, it is noteworthy that Attorney General Garland apparently did not seek an opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)—the de facto general counsel for the executive branch—before ordering this home raid of his boss's chief political enemy. Perhaps Garland knew OLC wouldn't give him the answer he wanted."

    Damn right that's why he didn't ask.

    "All former presidents also get a federally funded office, called the Office of the Former President. They get lawyers and other staff, security clearances, Secret Service protection, and secure facilities (SCIFs) for the maintenance of classified records. Even if Trump had classified records, then, they were protected and secure."

    "FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified that the FBI was too busy to stop dangerous and illegal intimidation campaigns outside Supreme Court justices' homes. This was after an attempted assassin was thankfully arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home. The FBI apparently didn't have the time to investigate actual threats to the lives of constitutional officers, but it had plenty of time to raid the home of a former president over an 18-month-old records dispute—with which Trump publicly stated he was fully cooperating."

    That's because Wray is a complete crook, conspiring with Garland, other crook, lamely trying to fix the 2024 election.

    "House Republicans must impeach Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray for their unprecedented and destructive politicization of the Justice Department, when they reclaim power in January. And over the long term, House and Senate Republicans must dismantle and rebuild the FBI, so political raids like this never happen again. We cannot allow our law enforcement agencies to become third-world political hit squads."

    Damn Right.

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    Just 81 days and we start to restore The Rule of Law to these Rogue Federal Agencies!
     
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    They never do. Besides, would you trust his lawyers in there?
     
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    I've asked before, now I'll ask again, what did Jared do for the Saudi's for $2 billion?
    Others have their suspicions as well.
    https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-theories-saudi-money-donald-trump-mole-fbi-raid-1733474
     
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    You still haven't shown where I posted any "faith based" comment. I can only believe that you are just trolling.
     
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