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FBI Executed a Warrant at Mar a Lago; the Investigation Continues

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by duchen, Aug 8, 2022.

  1. gatorchamps960608

    gatorchamps960608 GC Hall of Fame

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    The government doesn't usually charge people for possessing classified documents unless they give them to other people.

    Pay attention to these names going forward: Kash Patel and John Solomon.
     
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  2. Gatorrick22

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    He needs no pardon from the past... just from protection from illegal searches and fishing expeditions.
     
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  3. gatorchamps960608

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    It's not an illegal search if it comes with an approved search warrant.

    Your replies are getting dumber. Care to go for strike 3?
     
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  4. dynogator

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    It's the legal-est search and seizure in the history of such things.
     
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  5. AzCatFan

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    Trump is facing potential Federal charges. The only person who can pardon someone facing Fed charges is the President. Any pardon from the DeSantis would only cover charges from the state of Florida.

    Trump is going to fight the release of the warrant. If Trump and his lawyers thought the warrant was a nothing-burger, they would have released it already. But it's likely, given all the information we do have, the warrant lays out that the information the DOJ and FBI was looking for was classified, regarded national security, and the FBI/DOJ was worried about security breaches. Why else have the counter-intelligence person in on the warrant? And why else put Mar a Lago under surveillance looking for who might have access to the files?

    Trump was also given every opportunity to cooperate. The Archives requested all documents be returned. A subpoena was later issued. And when the documents were still not returned, the last resort was a legal warrant, signed by a Federal Judge, that laid out why it was necessary to get these documents out of Mar a Lago. Nothing illegal about this.
     
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  6. MelBeachGator

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    Oooof. Stop. There's this annoying thing called jurisdiction....
     
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  7. mdgator05

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  8. WarDamnGator

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    Desantis is the one who called it in….
     
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  9. enviroGator

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  10. GatorNorth

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    Tell us you don’t have the slightest clue how the law works w/o saying you don’t have the slightest clue how the law works.

    Plus, Ronnie D would throw a bar mitzvah sized shindig if Trump got indicted for anything. Who do you think has the most to gain from that? (Hint:it’s not anyone with a D next to their name).
     
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  11. MelBeachGator

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    I swear, Caesars needs to have a running book on who the CI was.

    Melania
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  12. Trickster

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    I suspect because of the nature of the information contained in the the documents to be seized. I had read they involve information so sensitive and secret that only, literally, a handful of people had seen them. Although I don't think his base cares about national security, Trump nonetheless didn't want them to know he had refused to turn over such documents, which is why he bitched in Trumpian fashion about the search, but never revealed what was seized. DOJ, in a brilliant move, has asked that the complaint affidavit - probably many pages long - be unsealed, and that Trump respond if he has any objections.

    I suspect Trump will push back, and his base support him, and that it will be a while before we know what's in the affidavit, though perhaps only generally in some cases because of the nature of the information.

    I don't think some people realize the damage Trump has done.
    1. He's demonized the press.
    2. He sought to overturn a valid election.
    3. He's demonizing two of our most venerable institutions.
    These are the very things tyrants do to consolidate all power in themselves.

    That's why he and his supporters are traitors in the colloquial sense.
     
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  13. Trickster

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    How about a hint in advance.
     
  14. danmanne65

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    It’s posts like this that make me think that you are a master of sarcasm and I just don’t get it.
     
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  15. Trickster

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    You are so obviously bright and your post so accurate that it's going to zoom right over Rick's head. It certainly isn't going in it.
     
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  16. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You do realize how pompous you’re coming off?
     
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  17. duchen

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    Trump wanted the search.
     
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  18. VAg8r1

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    Fortunately, he hasn't been subjected to either.
     
  19. gatorjnyc

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    Maybe because the security there is lax and as Politico calls it "heaven - for spies"

    Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is heaven — for spies
     
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