Posted on 08/26/2022 2:18:49 PM PDT by conservative98
Like the Russia collusion FISA warrants before it, the FBI search warrant for Donald Trump's Florida estate relied on multiple news media reports from outlets such as Breitbart and CBS to justify its unprecedented request to raid a former president's home.
For instance, the bureau relied on a local CBS report to establish that Trump had moved boxes suspected to contain documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in mid-January 2021, just before he left office, according to the partially redacted FBI affidavit made public by a court Friday.
"According to a CBS Miami article titled 'Moving Tucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago,' published Monday, January 18, 2021, at least two moving trucks were observed at the PREMISES on January 18, 2021," the memo related.
Another citation referred to a Breitbart article from May in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel was quoted as saying he did not believe documents found at Mar-a-Lago and returned to the National Archives and Records Administration were classified. The citation refers to Trump as "FPOTUS," meaning former president.
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The use of news articles to support a search warrant is allowed in some circumstances, but the FBI's use of news stories in seeking the Russia FISA, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page was sharply criticized by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.
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they lie/leak to the press
then use the articles as “evidence”
when are these criminals going to be arrested
Truly incredible.
“Did Rudolph eat the other 11 in “reindeer games”?”
Never. The game is rigged.
This type of B.S. will continue because no one went to Prison for all of the other criminal activity.
I mean, is anyone in DOJ concerned about being put on trial?
Wrong paste, sorry.
In the former case it was media reports made up and provoked by the fbi. No fbi, no reports.
Someone saw moving trucks near Mar-a-Lago. Smoking gun evidence, right? Maybe SeeBS can confirm.
Imagine taking documents when you move!
What next? Using a truck to move?
This is getting to be a warn-out scheme that should be investigated as a scandal....scalps to follow (real ones, not a wrist-slap with a hefty pension, a going away party, and a new role on CNN.)
They did what they did. The wrote what they wrote. They lied, again. And unless President Trump gets sent back to DC in 2025, this only gets worse.
But, why did they bring someone to get in the safe? Someone told them something. No other explanation for it.
The affiant, like a moron, may have used articles as part of the affidavit(which is absolutely unbelievable but par for the course, I guess), but someone provided information about the “contents” of the safe.
And, whaddaya know, safe is empty and they start tossing the whole house.
I can’t believe a judge accepts a warrant using media reports. I can’t understand how media reports would even be reliable as only supporting information. So basically, federal agency sit around and watch CNN, and MSNBC, and then write warrants.
This is an effing fishing expedition ordered by The Demented President of the Weaponized Banana Republic USA. Question is when will the Trump Family be arrested? Who will oppose this dangerous, powerful corrupt Deep State?
They saw something on CNN and raided his home? What next, MAD Magazine?
Wasn’t there supposed to be some coming bursting-seam steaming pile of Trump-eradicating stuff coming out of an investigation into a phone call from PDJT to someone in Georgia on election night?
Where’d that go?
Same circus. Same clowns. They aren't even good at anything original.
Pelosi admits to using “wrap up smear?” - YouTube
cause somebody moving to FL should be able to pack everything in their carry-on’s... right?
Typical prosecutorial misconduct at the Fed level. Nothing more than using the local heroin snitch as the anonymous source to kick your door down in the wee hours to look up your ass with a microscope.
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