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Written by Techno Fog. Originally published by The Reactionary (emphasis by ZeroHedge)
The DOJ just released the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
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As expected, the judge allowed the Government to heavily redact the affidavit before it went public. In yesterday’s order, the judge found that parts of the affidavit must remain sealed because:
disclosure would reveal (1) the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, (2) the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and (3) grand jury information protected by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e).
This aligns with the DOJ representations that (1) information in the affidavit “could be used to identify many, if not all” of the witnesses; (2) the affidavit would provide a “roadmap for anyone intent on obstructive the investigation.”
Affidavit allegations:
- Classified materials and “evidence of obstruction”
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- The contents of the boxes reviewed by the FBI
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- Discussions of declassification.
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- Allegations of improper storage of materials.
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- Details regarding the search of Trump’s office.
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Other thoughts.
Some aren’t so convinced. According to The Wall Street Journal, Kash Patel, one of the foremost experts on Russiagate, has stated he didn’t know what was in the boxes taken from Mar-A-Lago by the FBI. The New York Times also has doubts about whether the documents included Russiagate materials:
None of those documents or any other materials pertaining to the Russia investigation were believed to be in the cache of documents recovered by the F.B.I. during the search of Mar-a-Lago, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
In fact, many of the Russiagate documents declassified by Trump may already be in possession of the National Archives. According to June 2022 reporting from Politico:
Former President Donald Trump has told the National Archives to grant journalist John Solomon access to non-public administration records, according to Solomon and a spokesperson for the former president.
Solomon said Trump specifically directed the Archives to give him access to documents related to the Russia probe that were declassified in the final days of his administration. And he said the Archives have been cooperative and accommodating.
Then there’s the issue of classification. Does it matter if the documents at Mar-A-Lago were classified or unclassified?
As we stated when the warrant was released, the statutes in question do not necessarily require the documents to be classified. One of the statutes mentioned in the warrant – 18 USC § 2071 – prohibits the removal of “any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office. . .” Prosecution under § 2071 does not depend on the classification of the document.
The Espionage Act (18 USC § 793) is also referenced in the warrant. Over at Lawfare they guessed that “the part of the Espionage Act that is likely most relevant in this case is § 793(d).” They ended up being wrong. The affidavit cites to 793(e), which prohibits the unauthorized possession and retention of documents “relating to the national defense.”
The Espionage Act does not contain the term “classified.” And although the law’s application considers the status of classification, there’s a question of whether the documents must be classified for charges to be brought. See US v. Morison, 844 F.2d 1057, 1076 (4th Cir. 1988) (discussing the narrowing of the definition of documents “relating to the national defense” to those documents “which had been ‘closely held’ by the government and was ‘not available to the general public’”). This leads us to ask whether the government can consider a document to be “closely held” if it isn’t classified.
The affidavit answers that question, stating “information related to the national defense” has been construed broadly by the courts.
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Make no mistake: the Garland DOJ would see no issue with prosecuting for the retention of unclassified documents. But maybe they don’t need to go that far, as they’re alleging the materials at Mar-a-Lago were classified. From the DOJ’s April 29, 2022 letter to Trump’s attorneys: “among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages.” And back in May 2022, NARA stated it had “identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.” And now we have the affidavit’s allegations that the materials were classified.
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[ZH: Some hot takes from The Federalist‘s Sean Davis and others]
And a Breitbart article pic.twitter.com/EJHjQrh5WB
— Jeff Cunningham (@jeffrygc) August 26, 2022
According to the government’s own affidavit demanding authority to raid Trump’s home, the unprecedented raid was necessary because a bureaucrat at the National Archives was mad that Trump had “newspapers, magazines, [and] printed news articles.” https://t.co/RwcfYi8ADP pic.twitter.com/OSpDrc1KeJ
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 26, 2022
Transparency is one of DOJ’s and FBI’s passions. pic.twitter.com/1friuvyTyG
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 26, 2022
In the affidavit, the Justice Department acknowledged that Trump’s lawyers and former officials pointed to his “absolute authority to declassify documents” as president.
If the DOJ explains why they ignored that point, their rationale is completely redacted. pic.twitter.com/5sqyNVMioD
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) August 26, 2022
Trump and Putin have a few things in common. Both talk a good game, but then the oligarchs step in.
Russia needs to weed out those Zionist Jewish oligarchs for the sake of Russia
A new movie coming out about the pedo Biden family called HUNTER MY SON.
In the biographical movie Hunter Biden hates his dad – dude video taped himself doing crack, sex with minors, butt naked pool “play”. Talks about making millions from Ukraine shady ponzi deals.
You have to hate your corrupt senile politician dad to video tape yourself doing such things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvb6TfBXFk
Deepstate in full swing anticipating a rogue figure retuning back to WH.
“We got to destroy Trump early to disable his plan to expose us”
US is more of an oligarchy than Russia as the Princeton University study pointed out. The Bilderberg Jew corporate mafia controls every aspect of US life under the guise of “democracy”.
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The real issue is the imploding nature of racist, fascist Americunt police state under Zionist domination. Trump is one dimensional loudmouth self serving ponzi scammer also beholden to the Kushner faggot family of crooks. Jared is his buttboy and spokesfaggot for Zionists. All Americunt system is corrupt and rotten to the core. No wonder US failed state banana republic is creating more homeless and poverty than all of Europe combined, while peaceful China has lifted ONE BILLION people into middle class.
it’s pretty obvious that those who concocted and those who knew the Steele dossier was a fake yet used it anyway as of an integral part of “regime change” in the US are behind this Mar-A- Largo fiasco. This shows how paranoid the Anglo-American élites are at a time where it is their system 2hich is bankrupt and they are willing to destroy humanity rather than to submit to their collapse
US is more under Zionist control than Anglo. Blinken and his soulless ilk control the US. Biden is 80 years old, demented, corrupt and can barely walk, so he is their perfect patsy.
They ain’t anglo, and they ain’t American either… Decendents of Zio-Nazi Fake Jews of the fake-ass third Reich. The sore losers of a war they planned and lost on purpose like the Judas goats they are, leading the German people to ruin to make Zionist Rothschild happy in his blood lust revenge on anyone not paying tribute to his counterfieting fraud scam.
Trump challenged the deep state military industrial complex and war lobby and paid the price. US is a totalitarian Zionist controlled banana republic.
Trump is a Judas goat, vaccine warp speed, 5G acceleration, nanoweapons by executive order to be used on the population, Jan 6th…wake up bro, this fake ass Zio-plant needs no sympathy.
You got that right, Trump is Zionist buffoon and his Jew boyfriend Kushner has caused more Zionist crimes in Palestine by promoting the fake “Abraham Accords” with Wahhabi puppet regimes that are pouring billions into Zionist expansionism and causing a misery for Palestinians.
Trump was a Mason, wether he’s still alive or just a couple of MI6 body doubles since his ill fated helicopter assassination by the pedo mayor of New York back in 1986 is anyone’s guess. Regardless, this FBI search is just circus fluff and no one in their right mind will vote for this puppet “nothing burger” ever again. In any central bank occupied country, if you’re not voting with bullets, your vote doesn’t count for shit.
Russiagate my ass it’s Ziongate. This whole thing is to stop Trump from running again, no one else can win against Trump, the CIA and FBI know and don’t want him to run.
Trump as we all saw isn’t different – BUT he CAN’T STFU. The military-industrial complex is okay with him and “the most the rich people”.
Speaking about Russiagate, Mark Zuckerberg was on the Joe Rogan podcast, he fuked up.
“That FB algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden laptop story for 7 days based on a general request from the FBI to restrict election misinformation.”
Now was it really Russian misinformation? No – Would that story change the mind of the voters? Yes.
Who stops the truth again so they get their puppet in power?
I should mention that the FBI didn’t really say to censor that story but they said to watch out for “misinformation” from Russia. FB and Twitter then took the matter into their own hand and censored it. It is still foggy…
I laughed when Zuckerberg said, “I trust the FBI”.
Blatantly political interference just confirmed by Zuckerbergs revelations, the FBI serve the deepstate and are highly partisan…..
FBI is corrupt instrument of Americunt totalitarian banana republic since its inception by the faggot J.Edgar Hoover who dressed up in tranny clothes for S&M. FBI has killed hundreds of blacks, union leaders, banned actors under McCarthyism and even presidents and politicians if they cross the Zionist deep state. US is a real shithole police state..
Democrats fearful of losing, are clutching at straws. Another American civil war is on its way.
Oh yeah ? Mr.trump .
Persians f…k you like this.
Everything will change After ghasem soleimany.
Its only beginning.!
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Proving once again that democracy does not exist in the US. Trump is a loose cannon , his own man , not part of the establishment , as such , he is a threat to their control of the country . The deep state/ establishment , Hillary Clinton and the greasy rats in the democrat party have been attacking him since the day he was sworn in as President , desperate to prevent him from running again .
Bullshit-Trump is just a role with his sorry Q