Live updates: DOJ releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit
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Via: jbb • 2 years ago • 27 commentsBy: Adrienne Vogt, Aditi Sangal and Elise Hammond (CNN)
The Justice Department has released a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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The DOJ says Trump hid, "The Fruits Of His Crimes".
I'd love to see the video of who actually looked at those top secret and classified documents!!!!
This gives evidence where the investigation is going!
It's gonna be 50 black pages.
No doubt.
Which will be worthless.
It does have a lot of black on it.
A lot of black but substantially less than what you expected:
Looks pretty black to me.
Especially the potentially most substantive portions.
That was to be expected. I would love to have seen the unredacted affidavit but I never expected to see that before any indictment. In the 15 boxes of documents that NARA received in Feb, there were a large number of classified documents. So Trump will need to answer for those. But because so much of the pertinent information is blacked out we don't know how the FBI concluded that there was probably cause that there was more to be found, we have to take their word for it. Because some of the FBI leadership has shown a partisan nature in their dealings, I find it difficult to allow for blind trust here. Add to this that the warrant was very broad allowing them to take just about any document they wanted to and this continues to look like they are hunting for crimes. It's already been confirmed that anything that is found in the documents they seized that can be used in other legal cases can be handed over. Add to this the recent revelation from Zuckerberg about the FBI before the 2020 election and we have a federal agency that has a lot of self-cleanup to perform in order to regain the level of trust they once had.
"But because so much of the pertinent information is blacked out we don't know how the FBI concluded that there was probably cause that there was more to be found, we have to take their word for it. Because some of the FBI leadership has shown a partisan nature in their dealings, I find it difficult to allow for blind trust here. Add to this that the warrant was very broad allowing them to take just about any document they wanted to and this continues to look like they are hunting for crimes. It's already been confirmed that anything that is found in the documents they seized that can be used in other legal cases can be handed over. Add to this the recent revelation from Zuckerberg about the FBI before the 2020 election and we have a federal agency that has a lot of self-cleanup to perform in order to regain the level of trust they once had."
Just because they refused to lick dirty Donald's shoes doesn't mean they have shown a "partisan nature". The sycophants continued deflection and defense of the Mango Mussolini is weaker than a spineless invertebrate.
Do you know anymore about Mussolini than you know about invertebrates?
Fuck Off
Probably not but he does have the party line down.
So....three weeks out and still no perp walk for 45?
A whole weekend to wash, rinse and spin at the very least twice as many squirrels as previously proffered by Donald's apologists!
TDS driven idiots expect everyone to believe the highly partisan AG and DOJ based off of this?
Talk to us when charges are brought against Trump, there is a trial, and evidence for both sides is revealed.
Then there might be some credibility. But given the whole Russian collusion debacle; two impeachments; and the Jan 6th committee- expecting this to be nothing more than airing dirty laundry in an effort to tarnish Trump and Republicans before midterms. If a trial comes it will be a 3rd world kangaroo court circus.
Until then fuck Garland, the DOJ, and the upper echelon of the FBI that has allowed the agency to be turned into a tool for the Democrats.
Midterms are coming. Hopefully Democrats will suffer the election losses they deserve for what they are doing to this country.
True enough, but if you think women will vote R over a rise in the price of a carton of milk and ignore losing control of their bodies you may have a rude awakening come November.
You don't seem to understand women very well, and now you collectively insult them by implying they all think alike.
Perhaps not, but then I have not received many complaints from them. What I do understand is the fact that women are registering to vote at twice the rate that men are.
Thanks to TiG for linking me to the doc itself.
Seems like it's not a small (like 1 or 2) amount of documents, and Trump or his people will have to answer as to each one of them. From the affadavit,
Mind you, that's before the big raid. This is just part of establishing probable cause. So it started with 184 and I'm sure it's safe to assume the FBI found more.
Now this is a little bit interesting:
So, for at least some of these records, Trump or his people may not have known they possessed classified records. On the other hand, there is this:
So for some of these records, if they were actually marked before NARA found them, then Trump and his gang should have reasonably known they had classified material.
Regardless, it looks like this will be his defense:
and
So basically, nothing retrieved from Mar-a-lago was classified because Trump sez so. That may actually fly, but I would hope there is some procedure associated with declassification - like the president is supposed to actually tell somebody and the telling should be specific. I really hope the president can't just say "everything in that room that was classified is now not classified."
Here is an interesting document that I came across when researching Trump declassifying documents:
Trump-Declassify-2020-10-20.pdf (documentcloud.org)
There is a quite substantial process and rules for declassification including, of course, the official recording of the declassification: