Posted on 08/15/2022 9:40:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As RedState reported on Monday, Donald Trump accused the FBI of taking his passports during the unprecedented raid of his Florida residence. According to the former president, three passports were taken during the search, which apparently went far beyond just recovering supposedly classified documents that threatened “national security.”
Predictably, after Trump made the claim, the press quickly jumped into the fray to call him a liar. Norah O’Donnell of CBS News claimed via a source that the FBI was “not in possession of former President Trump’s passports.”
NEW: According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump's passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home.
— Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) August 15, 2022
When I saw that report from O’Donnell, I put out my own post questioning the phrasing. “Not in possession of” is very specific wording that could have simply meant the FBI had passed them on to another agency. Why not just say “we didn’t take the passports” if they didn’t take the passports?
Well, as it turns out, Trump’s team was ready and waiting with the receipts that showed the press narrative was a falsehood.
This is how Fake News works, folks. Biden admin actively feeds half truths & lies that the media willingly amplifies—advancing a partisan narrative to attack Trump.@NorahODonnell, did your “source” read you this email? Did you bother asking if they indeed seized the passports? https://t.co/DlzkagN0ie pic.twitter.com/VwCU7DPCvg
— Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) August 15, 2022
Incredibly (or perhaps not so), instead of admitting their mistake, members of the press rushed out to somehow make the revelation about…Trump’s supposed dishonesty.
So Trump team now publicizing this email, which shows:
1) DOJ obtained three passports (two expired, not one, as Trump said) and alerted Trump lawyers
2) They were recovered by a filter team, which weeds out privileged info.
3) Trump publicized this after DOJ offered them back
pic.twitter.com/lz8wneIQ0a— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 15, 2022
So let me get this straight. The FBI did indeed seize Trump’s passports, which seems incredibly improper given what was legally allowed to be taken by the warrant, and that’s somehow his fault? A passport is not something you just accidentally grab, thinking it’s a presidential record. It’s the kind of thing that an agent purposely took and knew exactly what they were taking. Yet, the big gotcha here is that Trump was wrong about the expiration date on one of the passports. It’s absurd.
The big story here is that the FBI took the passports in the first place. It is not that Trump shared an email that ended up embarrassing the bureau’s leadership, who were apparently content to keep lying about the matter via leaks until the former president exposed them. Now, the mainstream media wants to pretend like the seizure was just an honest mistake that shouldn’t be held against the FBI. Yeah, that’s not how any of this works.
Trump: “They stole my passport.”
Liberals: “Trump is lying.”
FBI: “We took his passports and are returning them.”
Liberals: “See? Trump always lies.”
WHAT?
— Bob Weave (@lowkeyrbe) August 16, 2022
The press and the DOJ working together to push a false narrative isn’t surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less improper and corrupt. There need to be answers provided for how the FBI ended up with Trump’s passports when they obviously weren’t part of what was sought and allowed to be taken in the warrant. O’Donnell and the rest of the press who ran with that lie that the FBI didn’t have the passports also need to answer for why they swallowed a statement from the DOJ without even bothering to get any corroborating details.
With every passing day, the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago looks worse and worse. We are living under a regime that prides itself in operating like a banana republic. The dishonesty of those always out to get the orange man knows no bounds.
We are still waiting for the damage assessments of Clinton and Obama... while paying for the damage Carter did 40+ years ago.
I like the way you think.
Here’s a twist…
“Former president Trump is not without resources and recourse in all this. Though the news media does not follow it, the Trump v Clinton lawsuit trial continues, and it might not go so well for Mrs. Clinton and her friends….
It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was an attempt to seize evidence likely to be used in former President Donald Trump’s civil lawsuit in the Southern Florida Federal District Court against Hillary Clinton and associated defendants in and out of government for the defamation and racketeering operation known as RussiaGate — AND in any future criminal proceedings that might grow out of congressional investigations-to-come against officials past and present in the DOJ and FBI. The idea is to tie up all those documents in a legal dispute about declassification so they can’t be entered in any proceeding.”
More at Kunstler.com
Norah is a disgusting human being, dishonest personn at her core. One of Satan’s better tools in the media..fools at alot of people
Obviously they needed the passports to establish the dates Trump went to Russia to organize the theft of the 2016 election and the Hunter Biden disinformation campaign. The walls are closing in on Trump. This is the tipping point. It’s over.
My prediction:
Gloves are off. This is going to be the single most vicious presidential campaign in American history.
The communist party has kicked it off by raiding a candidates home to gather evidence to fabricate a crime.
Any democrat rally will now be ground zero. No democrat will be able to show their face in public without being verbally excoriated.
I suggest hammer and sickle placards front and center at all Biden public events, including the first communist lady.
Norah repeats all the communist talking points that she is fed.
You are correct, she is disgusting.
No it is not.
Obama took whatever documents he pleased from his time in the White House. No questions asked. Same with all of his predecessors.
That's all you needed to say. The rest is prolix.
I think it helps Trumps base more than the Democrats. Generally speaking Trump comes out vindicated in these affairs. His base loves when he wins. I mean how many times has the we got em football been pulled away from these charlie brown democrats at the last minute. I think at some point , rational democrats will realize none of this is helping their bottom lines. You will always have the dead enders , who will follow Biden into the bowels of poverty.... but I cant see this latest incarnation of the witch hunt doing much more for ramping up the left.
I think its important to remember the two least trusted entities in the USA are the media and congress. Nothing theyve done in the last 6 years have helped them to repair this self inflcted damage.
What a weak, sad, and useless comment.
Just hope they don't end up like so many of the Tea Party candidates of a decade ago
What? There is no defense here, especially in light of Obama, Clinton, and Hunter Biden. There is now a fourth branch of government: the Intelligence branch. That is what you’re defending.
Except it backfired and his poll numbers rose.
I think you were right previously to this incident, but all the middle of the road people are turning against the FBI and corrupt prosecutors now. You can see it in polling already.
Indeed... If the R’s take the House / Senate and keep McConnell and McCathry in leadership positions it’s a hollow victory that will likely result in a Do-Nothing congress that will refrain from undoing the damage the Democrats have done in just these past 2 years.
Bump
Obama's folk most certainly packed up and spirited away with all sorts of stuff that the FBI claims Trump wasn't supposed to have, but they did it under the guise of a Presidential library, which makes it seem as if there is some sort of noble and official purpose behind it. Because Trump was concerned with reelection, not legacy building, he never set up that front organinaction of a presidential library and since he used Mar a Lago as both residence and offices, the regime decided that his storage was somehow bad while Obama's was somehow good. Yes, it stinks to high heaven.
Hillary's situation, some day we will get more of a story about it but probably not until after she is dead, was profoundly corrupt. So many people involved, so many other people aware and silenced. There was a deliberate strategy pursued to tie up every loose end making it look like they were going to indict her, then at the end Comey fell on his sword and said no. For all the positive things Trump did, making the conscious choice not to "lock her up" by reopening that investigation was perhaps the dumbest.
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