[ April 17, 2024 ]
Out of incandescent hatred, furious partisanship, and a deep fear that he will expose and end their corrupt practices, the FBI and its colleagues are treating a former president of the United States and possible future presidential candidate as a criminal. Yet he has not been convicted of any crime, and has been subjected to more scrutiny, more spurious and baseless investigations, and more false charges than anyone in American history. This is a prosecution (and a persecution) in search of a crime. To seize Trump’s passports is to treat him as if he were a flight risk, which is in accord with the most hysterical voices on the Left, but should not be the basis on which a supposedly respectable law enforcement agency is operating. The FBI has gone way beyond all reasonable bounds. #DefundtheFBI
“BREAKING NEWS: Trump now claims FBI agents seized three of his PASSPORTS during the Mar-a-Lago raid,” by Emily Goodin, DailyMail.com, August 15, 2022:
Donald Trump claimed his passports were ‘stolen’ in the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago last week
Story continues below advertisementIf true, without a legal passport, Trump would not be able to travel outside of the United States.
He likely has a regular blue passport issued to U.S. citizens and a red ‘diplomatic’ passport issued for official government travel. He would have received a diplomatic passport as president.
Trump and his family have accused President Joe Biden of having ordered the raid.
The White House said the president found out about the raid from public reports.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he ‘personally approved’ the raid.
And the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Sunday that President Biden hasn’t been briefed on it at all.
‘Not been briefed. We have not interfered,’ she said on ABC’s This Week.
During Monday’s raid of Trump’s Florida home, FBI agents took 11 sets of classified documents, photographs and other files marked ‘top secret’ among boxes of items.
In all, FBI agents took 27 boxes of documents, according to the federal warrant.
The inventory of items taken by the agents includes some specific items, including an ‘Executive Grant of Clemency: Re Roger Jason Stone Jr’ – a former Trump adviser who was pardoned in the last days of Trump’s presidency – and ‘info re: President of France.’
The list also includes more generic labels like ‘Various classified/TS/SCI documents.’ In the national security world, the ‘TS/SCI’ abbreviation generally refers to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information – available only to those with the highest level of clearance.
Also listed are four sets of ‘top secret’ documents, three of ‘secret’ documents and three sets of ‘confidential’ documents, but the receipt offers no further information about what they contained.
Lawyers for Trump insist that as president he had the power to declassify the documents before leaving office.
Trump also has accused the FBI of taking documents that fall under attorney-client priviledge [sic] and demanding their return.
‘Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,’ Trump said Sunday on Truth Social.
He said that the FBI should consider his post on the alternative social media site his formal request that the documents be returned to his Palm Beach estate.
‘By copy of this TRUTH,’ Trump wrote on Sunday, ‘I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!’…
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