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The extensive redactions on the affidavit the FBI used to get a warrant to raid Trump’s home are akin to the excessive redactions on the application that the FBI showed a secret court in 2016, to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
What was true for the original Russiagate holds here, too: The redactions are not to hide "state secrets", but government corruption instead.
The story of the Mar-a-Lago raid begins at the end of Trump’s presidency, when he declassified documents related to Russiagate.
Those records contain evidence of how the FBI spied on Trump’s campaign, presidential transition team, and administration. The documents reportedly include transcripts of FBI intercepts of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to collect the electronic communications, and reports regarding Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the two main confidential human sources used by the Obama FBI to spy on Trump’s circle.
With hours left in Trump’s presidency, the DOJ raised “privacy concerns” about Trump’s declassification, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows agreed to submit the documents for a final review. “I am returning the bulk of the binder of declassified documents to the Department of Justice,” Meadows wrote in a memo, “with the instruction that the Department must expeditiously conduct a Privacy Act review under the standards that the Department of Justice would normally apply, redact material appropriately, and release the remaining material with redactions applied.”
The effect of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is therefore to obscure the real scandal: U.S. spies committed a series of crimes in their effort to unseat a U.S. president, and then ignored the lawful orders of that president in order to keep their crimes hidden from the American public.
What's preserving the present stability of the United States is something like a Mexican standoff.
Does Trump actually have the documents? If so, will he put them before the public?
Will Garland indict him, and risk finding out?
Given the Biden administration’s tendency to instrumentalize the violence of its rhetoric and turn federal bureaucracies loose on its political opponents, it is likely that the standoff will not hold for long.
originally posted by: 727Sky
You have to wonder how much better America would be today if Trump had not been stabbed in the back repeatedly by the NWO deep state
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: vNex92
Sounds like the "Journalist" on MSNBC was drinking from the same cup as Biden.
Joe Biden said on Tuesday that "We've Beaten Big Pharma".
That phrase didn't/doesn't make any sense either.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: vNex92
Sounds like the "Journalist" on MSNBC was drinking from the same cup as Biden.
Joe Biden said on Tuesday that "We've Beaten Big Pharma".
That phrase didn't/doesn't make any sense either.
It stands to reason that executive privilege can't be legally used to conceal crimes.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: 727Sky
You have to wonder how much better America would be today if Trump had not been stabbed in the back repeatedly by the NWO deep state
We know for sure he'd still be President and gasoline would be under $2.00 @ gallon. The slogan would be MAEG, Make America Even Greater.
Instead we've regressed to high prices, high crime, dropping test scores, just like the Jimmy Carter years.
So we're back once again to MAGA, thanks to Democrat cheaters, or Democrat voters, or both.