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Political Corruption The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 5/9/22 by WALTER784; 101948 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jun-10
MORE GASLIGHTING: Federal Indictment Shows Boxes of Documents Stored in Mar-a-Lago Bathroom
By Cristina Laila
Jun. 9, 2023 2:45 pm
The Trump indictment was released on Friday.
President Trump was hit with 37 federal counts – 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, maximum: 10 years in prison, $250,000 fine. Counts: 32, conspiracy to obstruct justice, max 20 yrs, $250K; 33, withholding a document or record, max 20 yrs, $250K; 34, corruptly concealing a document or record, max 20 yrs, $250K; 35, concealing a document in a federal investigation, max 20 yrs, $250K; 36, scheme to conceal, max 5 yrs, $250K; and 37, false statements and representations, max 5yrs, $250K.
Trump’s aide and valet driver Walt Nauta was charged along with Trump in counts 32, 33, 43, 35, and 36.
The federal indictment showed photos of boxes of documents stored in a bathroom inside of Mar-a-Lago.
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The media is going apocalyptic over the boxes full of personal records and mementos stored in the shower in a Secret Service guarded compound at Mar-a-Lago.
The indictment claims “Trump stored his boxes containing classified documents in various locations at The Mar-a-Lago Club — including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.”
There is also a photograph of boxes in Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom.
The indictment revealed some of the text messages exchanged with Trump aides regarding the boxes stored at Mar-a-Lago.
“Woah!! Ok so potus specifically asked Walt for those boxes to be in the business center because they are his ‘papers,’” a Trump employee texted to another, referring to Walt Nauta.
“There is still a little room in the shower where his other stuff is,” one employee texted. “Is it only his papers he cares about? Theres some other stuff in there that are not papers. Could that go to storage? Or does he want everything in there on property.”
“Yes,” another aide responded. “Anything that’s not the beautiful mind paper boxes can definitely go to storage.”
Meanwhile Joe Biden stored classified information in his Delaware garage where his son Hunter had access to the materials.
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Staff
From: WALTER784
Jun-10
Jack Smith Makes Statement on Trump Indictment; Praises FBI and Says, “We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone” (VIDEO)
By Kristinn Taylor
Jun. 9, 2023 4:10 pm
Special Counsel Jack Smith praised the FBI and his team of anonymous prosecutors in a statement on the indictment of President Trump Friday at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.
Trump blasted Smith on Truth Social minutes before Smith spoke, “This is the man who caused the Lois Lerner catastrophe with the IRS. He went after Evangelicals and Great Americans of Faith. The United States had to apologize, and pay major damages for what this deranged lunatic did. He had a unanimous loss in the Supreme Court. His wife is a Trump Hater, just as he is a Trump Hater—a deranged “psycho” that shouldn’t be involved in any case having to do with “Justice,” other than to look at Biden as a criminal, which he is!”
As Americans watch the politicized double standard of justice in the steamrolling of Trump and the stonewalling of the Biden investigations, Smith boasted, “We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone,” and praised the FBI which has spent the past seven years going after Trump and protecting the Biden and Clinton crime families, saying, “I’m deeply proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them.”
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Smith also praised the Justice Department prosecutors on his team, even as they face corruption allegations and Smith is fighting Judicial Watch to keep their names and records secret from public scrutiny.
A lawyer for Trump’s co-defendant Waltine Nauta has formally accused one of Smith’s prosecutors of improperly bringing up his pending application for a federal judgeship while trying to get him to flip his client against Trump.
Good afternoon. Today an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J Trump with felony violations of our national security laws, as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct Justice.
This indictment was voted by a grand jury of citizens in the Southern District of Florida and I invite everyone to read it in full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged.
The men and women of the United States intelligence community and our Armed Forces dedicate their lives to protecting our nation and its people. Out=r laws that protect National Defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced. Violations of those laws put our country at risk.
Adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the Department of Justice and our nation’s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone. Applying those laws, collecting facts, that’s what determines the outcome of an investigation. Nothing more and nothing less.
The prosecutors in my office are among the most talented and experienced in the Department of Justice. They have investigated this case hewing to the highest ethical standards and they will continue to do so as this case proceeds.
It’s very important for me to note that the defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. To that end my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter consistent with the public interest and the rights of the
accused.
We very much look forward to presenting our case to a jury of citizens in the Southern District of Florida.
In conclusion I would like to thank the dedicated public servants of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with whom my office is conducting this investigation and who worked tirelessly every day upholding the rule of law in our country. I’m deeply proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
Thank you very much.
The Trump campaign issued a lengthy takedown of Smith Thursday night after Smith’s office informed Trump he had been indicted (excerpt):
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From: WALTER784
Jun-10
And don't forget that the raid on Mar a Lago was unnecessary, improper and didn't even follow the FBI's own standards of a raid!!!
Trump raid conducted 'so sloppily,' it violated FBI-manual mandates
Many items and papers taken that FBI lack authority to confiscate
By Bob Unruh
Published September 7, 2022 at 4:30pm
Besides the evidence of sloppiness in the FBI's search warrant raid on President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home over the custody of documents from his first term as president, the situation has revealed a bias on the part of legal experts across the country.
That's according to Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and avowed Democrat, who said the judge's ruling cited "the sort of FBI failures that in the past would have enraged liberals who have gone silent about such concerns in the Trump era," according to a report from Just the News.
"Many faculty on the left continue the curious objections to a court seeking review of the FBI or not accepting its overbroad claims of authority," he wrote. "It is a bizarre shift that we have seen in other Trump investigations where liberals suddenly express shock that a court would override sweeping national security claims or seek to review the Justice Department's review of material for privilege."
At issue is the validity of a search warrant allowing the FBI to send dozens of agents to raid Trump's home, inspect the property of Melania and Barron Trump, and take virtually anything they wanted.
In fact, reports now confirm that the FBI likely took hundreds of documents to which agents were not entitled – even to see.
Those included papers protect by attorney-client privilege, financial records, health records and more.
Turley pointed out the apparent "mistakes" by investigators, the "privileged material (as well as an assortment of private material from medical records to tax records) were seized."
Just the News documented that the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide requires agents to use the "least intrusive" means of collecting evidence, especially in cases where the First Amendment likely is prominent.
The article cited the evidence of carelessness: "A criminal probe 'requested by the incumbent president.' The seizure of clothing, medical records, tax records and 500 pages of attorney-client privileged documents not covered by a warrant. The sharing of privileged documents with investigators."
That's all evident after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that a special master needs to be appointed to handle those documents. Her ruling also exposed how the raid was conducted "so sloppily" that it violated FBI agents' manual mandates.
Cannon, in fact, found that the government's failures put Trump "at risk of suffering injury from the government's retention and potential use of privileged materials."
Just the News explained, "But one thing is clear. The FBI and its overseers at the Biden Justice Department bumbled on what was certain to be one of the most scrutinized search warrant executions in modern American history. And that's according to one of the bureau's own former and highly respected executives."
The report quoted former assistant FBI Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock saying, "The more that's revealed, the more it looks like a kind of sloppy government overreach is in play. It seems more than a bit 'loose' to those of us who have executed numerous search warrants."
He earlier suggested it is possible that a court eventually will throw out the search warrant entirely.
Among the FBI failures now evident: The confiscation of more than 500 pages of documents protected by attorney-client privilege, the taking of personal medical and financial records, even clothing.
Brock told Just the News, "I don't care if it was a drug trafficker, or a child exploiter, or whatever, you go into a home, you set up a system where those things that you seize are assiduously documented. They're given a specific tracking number, barcodes, if you will, and each piece is gone through meticulously before you leave the premises to make sure that it's within the scope of the document."
The judge's ruling even revealed that the DOJ's teams – assigned to separate evidence from private documents – failed
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From: Showtalk
Jun-10
They claim he had documents strewn around all over the floor, but if we remember at the time, those photos were all faked.
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From: WALTER784
Jun-10
Forget all the Russia Collusion mayhem the Democrats are attempting to re-create...
They have a very flimsy case a best... no case at worst. Trump has been dealing with them for the past 7.5 years and thus knows their dirty tricks and is prepared to meet them head on...
Trump attorney: This is frightening for Democrats
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From: Showtalk
Jun-10
So far nothing they have done has stopped them. There is a very real possibility the Florida case will be laid to rest, although he will be fingerprinted and booked first.
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