The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis

The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis

A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.

22 Aug 2022 ~~ By David B. Rivkin Jr. & Lee A. Casey

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Was the Federal Bureau of Investigation justified in searching Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago? The judge who issued the warrant for Mar-a-Lago has signaled that he is likely to release a redacted version of the affidavit supporting it. But the warrant itself suggests the answer is likely no—the FBI had no legally valid cause for the raid.
The warrant authorized the FBI to seize “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§793, 2071, or 1519” (emphasis added). These three criminal statutes all address the possession and handling of materials that contain national-security information, public records or material relevant to an investigation or other matters properly before a federal agency or the courts.
The materials to be seized included “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021”—i.e., during Mr. Trump’s term of office. Virtually all the materials at Mar-a-Lago are likely to fall within this category. Federal law gives Mr. Trump a right of access to them. His possession of them is entirely consistent with that right, and therefore lawful, regardless of the statutes the FBI cites in its warrant.
The materials to be seized included “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021”—i.e., during Mr. Trump’s term of office. Virtually all the materials at Mar-a-Lago are likely to fall within this category. Federal law gives Mr. Trump a right of access to them. His possession of them is entirely consistent with that right, and therefore lawful, regardless of the statutes the FBI cites in its warrant.
Those statutes are general in their text and application. But Mr. Trump’s documents are covered by a specific statute, the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It has long been the Supreme Court position, as stated in Morton v. Mancari (1974), that “where there is no clear intention otherwise, a specific statute will not be controlled or nullified by a general one, regardless of the priority of enactment.” The former president’s rights under the PRA trump any application of the laws the FBI warrant cites.

Commentary:
The overreach of both Garland and Wray is astounding.
If this were done by the DOJ during the Trump administration to Obama, or VP Joe Biden this would have been reversed long ago. Instead, this is going to be milked through the midterms.
It has in effect hurt the DOJ, Merrick Garland, the FBI, Christpher Wray, Democrats overall, and especially Joe Biden.
Well, we do know that unlike Bill Clinton the Nuke Codes were not lost, nor did DJT abscond with $28,000 worth of White House furniture neither did he leave with over 3 million documents as Obama did
Obviously, the Maoist Democrats in power have gone from being merely lawless to conceiving that their interests are the very bounds in which all law must operate.
It's become that using the word ‘legal’ with anything involving Democrats produces nothing.
For them, there are no rules, regulations, laws or statutes. All of those terms are for ‘others.’
Biden should be impeached for this.
He clearly violated Trump's 4th amendment rights.
 
Trump filed his own demand Today.

While the demand is very straight forward, he does cite constitutional issues and conflict of interest issues with the warrant.


“We are further demanding that the DOJ be forced to turn over a REAL, without ‘plants,’ inventory of my property that was taken and disclose where that property is now located,” he wrote. “We are demanding that all items wrongfully taken from my home be IMMEDIATELY returned.”

“The wrongful, overbroad warrant was signed by a Magistrate Judge who recused himself just two months ago, from a MAJOR civil suit that I filed, because of his bias and animus toward me,” Trump wrote.


This thing is blowing up and Trump has raised both constitutional issues and conflict of interest.
The problem with justice is that this country needs to pass a law saying that "if The House speaker excludes even one more Republican from looking into her shadowy government, the House Speaker will be hung by the neck until it is red, red, red." And if she ever does so much as thinking about excluding Republicans from being on any committee, then "the dead body of the House Speaker so excluding Republicans shall be dug up and spanked, spanked, spanked."

And that's what I think about the creepy way in which the other Democrat threats and exclusions of Republicans are long, long, long overdue for a good abusing upon said Speaker of the House. :whipg:The founders never in their wildest dreams could have envisioned such a perdition as the current House Speaker has imposed to divide this nation so the Goddamned Communists in the Democrat Party don't have to answer up to the 1954 Law against Communists and communist practitioners in the USA. I just wonder how the hell Bernie Sanders weasled his way out of bringing communism to darken the House Floor and Door for that matter. I'm sick of communism, of which we've had to inhale an alarming stench of odiferous rot from the commies on the left who think they can get away with malpractice of the Constitution on a constant basis because nobody can prove nothin' against their mafia leanings to commit omeurta in all their miserable dealings to enslave the middle class to tax payments that would make the founders faint. :cranky:
 
SCOTUS... clear your calendar this shit needs to stop.....
Before or after the 300 classified documents were recovered at his house, some in his closet, while Trump reviewed them all? You know, the one's that were illegally stashed in his house that he and his lawyers lied about on paper?

Is that the warrant you are telling us the government had no legal basis for? Explain how that is?
 
Some of the best lawyers in the USA say the Justice Department broke with the Constitution with an illegal invasion of a former President.



How much did Trump pay those lawyers?
 
WTF does that have to do with Trump not being on any campaign for office?
Because Donald Trump has the balls to stop the Socio-communistic influence shadow-player Rodham "Alinsky Method" Clinton has inflicted on this nation with omeurta, illegally obtained FBI information in personal files of the influential people in this and other countries. She can immediately find out who's got the money, how they can be bribed to save their marriages and reputations with any bad sexual behaviors they have indulged themselves in, etc. She uses calumny against good people and social misconduct against the rest. Her behaviors, if acknowledged, would place her into jail for years on end if she were not protected by her dirty dossiers, which sound true to a number of naive people who wouldn't care to be treated in that manner, so they just don't stray away from this demonic creepy woman some call Rodham "Jezebel" because she's the worst criminally-bent person of influence in this nation, and she belongs in an isolated place in the middle of a sweltering jungle of neither comfort nor escape for her shadowy crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America. She's had desks in 3 administrations, having vacated the Biden one due to public scrutiny of her heinous deeds of a malodorous shadow government takeover by sociocommunists. The Democrat party is setting up the middle class Americans to become their moneymaking source through the IRS, which they are doubling right now with their "President" authorizing the hiring of 87,000 more IRS agents, to be fully armed during the execution of their duties to collect taxes. They're the nightmares some of the founders worried about if people in America dumped Christianity, so that is the first thing communists did--removing prayer from public schools using the Judicial Branch to make changes that should have been made by Congress before the great voting hoaxes for Democrats started to put whoever they damn chose to run Congress, without benefit of being fairly elected by the votes of the majority of Americans. When 20,000 mules are recruited to do dirty work for the Democrat voting machine, they have to agree to add multiple numbers of votes to Democrats using under-the-table means of cheating the American people out of their ONE voice. And nobody can catch them, because by the time they become mules, they operate like real criminals who are afraid of the boss for their very future existence in the criminal world. The mafia has less power with their version of omeurta than Democrats in Congress who patterned their authority after said criminal mafiaosos. And I don't care for this crap one bit.
 
Dumbest post ever.

Trump hired multiple convicted felons.

If any private citizen in the nation had multiple convicted felons working for them, any investigator worth her or his salt would investigate them. The FBI raid (after subpoenas didn't work) was 100% justified. If anything, they were too cautious.
CC sez: "Trump hired multiple convicted felons."


^^^^^What total bullcrap looks like in print.^^^^^
 
Because Donald Trump has the balls to stop the Socio-communistic influence shadow-player Rodham "Alinsky Method" Clinton has inflicted on this nation with omeurta, illegally obtained FBI information in personal files of the influential people in this and other countries. She can immediately find out who's got the money, how they can be bribed to save their marriages and reputations with any bad sexual behaviors they have indulged themselves in, etc. She uses calumny against good people and social misconduct against the rest. Her behaviors, if acknowledged, would place her into jail for years on end if she were not protected by her dirty dossiers, which sound true to a number of naive people who wouldn't care to be treated in that manner, so they just don't stray away from this demonic creepy woman some call Rodham "Jezebel" because she's the worst criminally-bent person of influence in this nation, and she belongs in an isolated place in the middle of a sweltering jungle of neither comfort nor escape for her shadowy crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America. She's had desks in 3 administrations, having vacated the Biden one due to public scrutiny of her heinous deeds of a malodorous shadow government takeover by sociocommunists. The Democrat party is setting up the middle class Americans to become their moneymaking source through the IRS, which they are doubling right now with their "President" authorizing the hiring of 87,000 more IRS agents, to be fully armed during the execution of their duties to collect taxes. They're the nightmares some of the founders worried about if people in America dumped Christianity, so that is the first thing communists did--removing prayer from public schools using the Judicial Branch to make changes that should have been made by Congress before the great voting hoaxes for Democrats started to put whoever they damn chose to run Congress, without benefit of being fairly elected by the votes of the majority of Americans. When 20,000 mules are recruited to do dirty work for the Democrat voting machine, they have to agree to add multiple numbers of votes to Democrats using under-the-table means of cheating the American people out of their ONE voice. And nobody can catch them, because by the time they become mules, they operate like real criminals who are afraid of the boss for their very future existence in the criminal world. The mafia has less power with their version of omeurta than Democrats in Congress who patterned their authority after said criminal mafiaosos. And I don't care for this crap one bit.


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Former Republican presidents can't catch a break...in fact, since this country is so historically racist against whites -- former Republican presidents are probably the most oppressed and persecuted people in US history...

Trump will finally stop all of that when he is back in office...and finally, the persecution of white republican ex presidents will be be no more.....
 
Well, well, well! " Way Too Long , Didn't Read."

That's what the prevailing sociocommunists believe. So much so, Nancy Pelosi developed a criminal approach to passing laws. Fill the bill with a thousand pages of wishful spending, place a few kick Republican and the Constitution fair equality laws in the middle somewhere, and nobody will read what the ultimate takeover laws will do for the exclusive enjoyment of Democrats and the complete ruin of worker ant Republicans! And I only wrote 3 or 4 paragraphs. You can't stand it because I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and that would make the Constitution fair again, and trust me, the Democrat think that means "Constitution is fair play to destroy." We Conservatives think NOT!!!! Why do you think the Democrats are shilling to put Trump Supporters in their political trash can? Okay, I'll answer that in one sentence: The Democrats want criminal takeover of the Free World that puts a dent in fairness and places power in the hands of monarchs, totalitarians, military takeovers, criminal takeovers, all concentrated in the hands of Democrats and their apparatchik kissups. Why do you think they made rich the 20,000 omeurta mules who took away Donald Trump's win and gave it to BASEMENT DWELLER JOE BIDEN.

Edit: errors.
 
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The materials to be seized included “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021”—i.e., during Mr. Trump’s term of office. Virtually all the materials at Mar-a-Lago are likely to fall within this category. Federal law gives Mr. Trump a right of access to them. His possession of them is entirely consistent with that right, and therefore lawful, regardless of the statutes the FBI cites in its warrant.
One, it’s stupid to claim “virtually all the materials” fall in that category. It’s not like every document Trump possesses is a government record.

Second, Trump doesn’t have a right to anything. If the law allows him to access something, that doesn’t mean it gives him permission to be it’s sole possessor.
 
Before or after the 300 classified documents were recovered at his house, some in his closet, while Trump reviewed them all? You know, the one's that were illegally stashed in his house that he and his lawyers lied about on paper?

Is that the warrant you are telling us the government had no legal basis for? Explain how that is?
The Fourth Amendment made that FBI Raid illegal.

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The FBI fell short of the Constitution by raiding a former President and removing everything including his Passports.​
 
Right, this is all about Biden; :auiqs.jpg: :laughing0301: :abgg2q.jpg: :spinner: :aargh: :banana2: 🤪

Biden took orders from the band of Oligarch crooks to order the FBI to break with their Oaths of Duty to uphold the Constitution, and not criminal bosses who ignore the Constitution!!!!!!! Everiything about their little panty raid was illegal and smacks of Third World Rule, which is the aim of Communist countries whose greedy leaders pick a pocket or two. And you well know that's the truth if you have even a quarter of your cerebellum in good order.
 

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