Mattyfisk wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 1:48pm:



It's disgraceful - what about her honor?  -

that can never be repaired or washed away with laundry detergent.

John Smith wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 12:27pm:


Bobby follows his nose, JS. Like all brave knights.

He obeys his Master and Dear Leader.

You?

Back to their old tricks

In my considered judgment, the raid on Trump’s home is the worst abuse of FBI power since Director J. Edgar Hoover set out to destroy civil rights leader Martin Luther King with wiretaps and blackmail in the 1960s (closely followed by the Ruby Ridge siege in 1992 and Waco siege in 1993 – if one is keeping score).

From the March on Washington in 1963 until his assassination in 1968, the bureau, with the complicity of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, engaged in an intense campaign to discredit Dr King and his legacy, mainly for his anti-Vietnam War position.

The FBI campaign against the civil rights leader began with wiretaps and went from there.

What goes around, comes around

America, like a lot of troubled places on planet Earth, has become a place where politicians seek to have the opposition jailed, while their followers are labelled and hunted.

It matters not who started it, it only matters how it finishes.

Republicans require only 218 seats in the House to open their own impeachment proceedings – America’s latest blood sport – and begin the process of criminalising the opposition.

Democratic ringleaders who have pursued Trump through two impeachments, the Mueller Report, and the January 6 hearing can look forward to being hoisted on their own petard.

Half of America believes the attempt to discredit Trump is a political hack job, and that the raid is a last desperate effort to disqualify Trump from seeking re-election.

Instead, the raid has given Trump not only a once-in-lifetime election promo but also a golden campaign fund raiser.

Next to the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms), Americans worship their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches or seizure of their property.

The image of the FBI breaking down the door to a man’s home and castle – and with a safe cracker in tow – is not good optics.

What the fuss is about

The FBI reportedly recovered documents labelled "top secret" and "sensitive compartmentalised information" from Trump’s estate – 11 sets of classified records in all.

Justice’s greatest, purported concern was that allowing highly-classified materials, whether extremely sensitive operations or closely-held technologies or capabilities, to remain in Trump’s possession, could leave them vulnerable to efforts by foreign adversaries to acquire them.

That's the cover story.
The search warrant reveals something far more sinister.

Agents were also authorised to seize – and here is the rub - "any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20,2021".

This is what the January 6 hearing was fishing for.

Since only one to three per cent of Presidential documents and materials are deemed historical enough to be preserved forever by the National Archives, it’s important to get in early.

And even then, scholars and the public may have to wait for 20-25 years to gain access before they are "declassified".

Joe Biden’s Attorney General knew exactly what he was doing when he ordered the FBI to raid Trump’s home.

Professor Joseph Siracusa is Professor of Political History and International Diplomacy at Curtin University.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/trump-raid-sunk-the-fbi-to-a-historic-low-las...

The Bidden Pelosi Schumer gerontocracy got sucked in. So laff.

Johnnie wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 4:27pm:


They didn't really say that but it is the worst case scenario. However if it were true they would have him in a cell today so it isn't.

Never mind the reality of what he has done is more than enough, you likely already know this.

Apparently they have his passports so he is going nowhere.

Johnnie wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 4:56pm:


They found stolen government documents and piles of them. He was asked to return then and Trump didn't They negotiated and Trump didn't return the stolen documents they subpoenaed them and Trump returned 15 boxes of Documents.

Trumps Lawyer signed a document saying that there were no more documents.

The FBI discovered that there were many more documents involved and asked for them - they were not returned.

The FBI subpoenaed the documents and didn't have them returned so they got a court order to go and recover the stolen government property.

Donald should do a significant amount of time for this.

If the FBI are to be criticised it would be the other way around. Any normal citizen holding onto such a stash of government documents would have been raided on day 1. This is heading for 2 years with no action taken on a criminal national security compromise till last week.

Dnarever wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 5:04pm:

So this could could go on for 10yrs or so before it goes to court, in the meantime after Nancy's Pigs raided Trumps home and violated the 4th Amendment everybody can see by now it's a political WITCH HUNT

scope wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 5:27pm:

Tis written Scope, seek and ye shall find.