The Mar-a-Lago Raid Is the Desperate Act of a Corrupt Establishment

via Newsmax

“These are dark times for our nation,” former President Donald Trump declared in response to the FBI‘s Monday morning raid on his Mar-a-Lago club and private residence in Palm Beach, Florida. He compared the event to “an assault” that “could only take place in broken, Third-World countries.”

Startled during the slow summer season, when Mar-a-Lago is closed and Trump resides at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the staff complied with a search warrant. Ostensibly, the warrant applied to documents that Trump is alleged to have improperly removed from the White House in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires official records to be transferred to the National Archives. Trump also claims that the feds cracked his personal safe. Further reports suggest that unrelated documents were removed, in some cases without review. To many, the raid appeared to be a clear fishing expedition for potentially incriminating documents about Trump’s alleged role in the January 6, 2021 demonstration at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump claims to have been complying with the FBI. In January, he turned over 15 boxes containing such vitally important records as a birthday party menu, a cocktail napkin, and a list of telephone numbers, among other items best described as memorabilia from his administration. Unconfirmed reports suggest that he may have removed classified material, though as president he had ultimate authority for the declassification of any and all White House documents.

Normally, a raid by federal law enforcement is the last resort when all other options for obtaining evidence have failed. It is typically used against drug dealers, mafia bosses, and other dangerous criminals—not people suspected of failing to properly deposit documents with the National Archives. Despite a court order authorizing the raid, there is no indication that any seized material had been subpoenaed, the proper intermediary step before dozens of heavily armed FBI shock troops storm one’s home. Even Richard Nixon had the courtesy of a subpoena for his infamous Watergate tapes. When Bill and Hillary Clinton improperly took gifts and government-owned furniture from the White House, no legal action was forthcoming. As secretary of state, Hillary notoriously exported to her home internet server over 33,000 government emails, which she then deleted and scrubbed in what appeared to be an attempt to avoid an FBI subpoena. The FBI did not raid her house, however, and accepted her and the propagandistic regime media’s characterization of the incident as a peccadillo unworthy of law enforcement’s attention.

Leftists are crowing that FBI Director Christopher Wray is a Trump appointee, but the imprimatur for the Mar-a-Lago raid almost certainly came from Wray’s boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland was appointed by President Joe Biden, who will likely face Trump in a rematch in 2024. When asked, the Justice Department, FBI, and White House all fueled suspicion by neither confirming nor denying Garland’s personal involvement in authorizing the raid.

By NC ScoutPublished On: August 11, 2022Categories: Uncategorized6 Comments

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

6 Comments

Vincent Foster August 11, 2022 at 08:18

Hillary didn’t kill herself.
Just Me August 11, 2022 at 11:32

The arrogance and dismissive attitude of these miscreants is shocking to those who foolishly believed that .gov is their friend. Welcome to the real world
Oughtsix August 11, 2022 at 15:34

Comments below this article in “News”weak are stark and stunning reminders of the result of decades of commie propaganda and control of “education,” pardon the redundancy.

The inertia of the benighted true believers/realitydeniers baked into our disloyal opposition is a huge problem if we are to reclaim the country. More evidence that there will be a kinetic solution.
- NC Scout August 11, 2022 at 16:02
  
  Amen.
Überdeplorable Psychedelic Cat Grass August 11, 2022 at 15:42

Since this tangentially touches my professional life, there are plenty of ways, if he did in fact have any classified information that he had not used his OCA to declassify, to have obtained The documents without resorting to an FBI raid. Anyone who cannot see this for what it is, looking at you Karl Denninger, is blind. The FBI crossed the Rubicon with this one boys.
Not So Free August 11, 2022 at 21:47

Funny thing is I had commented about the potential of “planted evidence” even before President Trump had spoken out about it.
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Would it really surprise anyone if they did?