Some guesses as to what the FBI Mar-a-Lago
raid was really about
American Thinker,
by
Arnold Cusmariu
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
8/13/2022 6:25:12 AM
It is helpful to think of political developments as moves on the chessboard made to advance an objective. In chess, the objective is to win the game, chess being zero-sum. Politics is like that, too, though participants often claim it's not, that they're acting for the greater good, principles at the foundation of democracy, motherhood and apple pie and all that — which is true in some cases but never if Democrats are in the game. This brings me to Attorney General Garland's claim that the Mar-a-Lago home invasion wasn't a raid at all.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/13/2022 6:30:22 AM (No. 1246821)
Of course the "Raid" was political. The Democrats have to slay the King, 45. The Raid is another attempt to find the magic potion to terminate 45 from the political environment. But they have failed, and they are failing again. Long live the King, 45.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NancyD 8/13/2022 7:12:15 AM (No. 1246852)
I think the raid was done try to turn his supporters against him but it had the opposite effect
I also think the raid was done as a way to plant BUGS all over MaraLago to spy on everything he says
He better get MaraLago swept asap
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
homefry 8/13/2022 7:18:36 AM (No. 1246859)
Fishing expedition, looking for ANYTHING to use against Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Krause 8/13/2022 7:19:55 AM (No. 1246860)
Someone should ask Garland and/or Wray if they are using their position to damage Trump enough so that he’ll be prohibited from running for President again. They will, of course, say ‘no.’ The follow-up question would be ‘because that would be a terrible abuse of power and could lead to impeachment, and even a possible prison sentence, correct? Would love to hear their answers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/13/2022 7:30:59 AM (No. 1246867)
Don’t know about the reasons. But I can try to predict (unplanned) results. + 50 in the House, 7 in the Senate and a couple of governorships. Not to mention end of discussion about who will be the Republican nominee.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/13/2022 7:54:48 AM (No. 1246882)
President Trump’s attorney said the President and his family watched the raid on security footage. I would like President Trump to release the videotape so Americans can see the Gestapo tactics.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra 8/13/2022 7:54:54 AM (No. 1246883)
My greatest fear is that Garland will come up with something minor, make a big stink about it and charge Trump with a felony criminal offense. A DC grand jury would buy anything Merrick says and the jury in a trial would be 12-0 for conviction regardless of the evidence. Presto, he's then ineligible to become president.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/13/2022 7:54:56 AM (No. 1246885)
Yes to all of Arnold’s guesses. As to a split in the GOP, there already is one and has been for quite some time. But it won’t matter - on election days in 2022 and 2024 the voters will still be suffering from all of Fidel TaliBiden’s policies, will remember the great Trump years and will vote accordingly. Goodbye RINOs.
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Crossfire Hurricane Google it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mobyclik 8/13/2022 8:31:34 AM (No. 1246917)
I heard the Gestapo found 10 packages of those 12-pack rolls of toilet paper in a hallway closet. They're going to attack him with depriving the poor and minorities of this product.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/13/2022 8:36:21 AM (No. 1246925)
Like the fake Steele dossier, sex in a Russia hotel, this narrative is about top-secret nuclear docs or planted docs. What do you think was in those backpacks? There was the added frat house panty raid on Melania's undergarments for spice plus bugs planted there too. This will never stop until the threat is extinguished forever the left is desperate but just keep failing. This also means the Jan 6 clown show trial kangaroo court is on life support also they need more substantial evidence which was planted during the Mar-A-Largo raid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Joni Gal 8/13/2022 9:06:21 AM (No. 1246955)
Former President Donald Trump has filed a sweeping RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others, alleging that they "maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that [Trump] was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty [Russia]" to try and rig the 2016 election.
"The Defendants, blinded by political ambition, orchestrated a malicious conspiracy to disseminate patently false and injurious information about Donald J. Trump and his campaign, all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Election in favor of Hillary Clinton," Trump's lawyers say in a 108-page lawsuit filed in Florida. "When their gambit failed, and Donald J. Trump was elected, the Defendants' efforts continued unabated, merely shifting their focus to undermining his presidential administration."
The lawsuit, which contains debunked claims, seeks a jury trial and compensatory damages. It says Trump, as a result of defendants' actions, has sustained losses of at least $24 million "and continuing to accrue, as well as the loss of existing and future business opportunities."
The lawsuit comes nearly three years after the Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
This was filed in March. They wanted the records. Period
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/13/2022 9:09:35 AM (No. 1246959)
Arnold, if you had read the four-part expose' that Sundance published earlier this week and posted here on L.Com, you would better understand what and who was behind the raid.
Bottom line - the raid was another expression of obsessional fear of Donald J. Trump who is seen as an existential threat to the deep state and the Great Reset crowd. But as we saw, the raid backfired on the dims. And much to the disappointment of a select group of rino pubbies. Pencester, Pierre Delecto, and Lizzard, your thoughts?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/13/2022 9:12:59 AM (No. 1246965)
And, yes, #2. The President, Melania, and Barron had better check all clothing items for listening devices.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
padiva 8/13/2022 9:30:24 AM (No. 1246984)
The left fears PDT.
If PDT becomes Potus 47, he will be unfurled.
PDT knows too much....and the left wants to cover their tracks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/13/2022 10:00:15 AM (No. 1247004)
This raid was more than a shot across the bow. It has the potential to result in what one would expect as the "commie Dems" (joined by useful idiot Republicans to form the UNIPARTY) see J6 going nowhere and Napoleon teasing his return from Elbe...felony indictment for "espionage", complete with a public perp walk out of Mar-a-Lago.
That will be the latest of several silver bullets and wooden stakes administered FPDT...and will likely be as effective as the previous. But the public message will clearly be whether Americans then want an accused felon in the White House...and will accept four more years of this sort of drama.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/13/2022 10:14:49 AM (No. 1247016)
The raid was all about jan 6th munchkins on a fishing trip ...if they can't find anything to indict President Trump on...then they'll plant it...I would tell anyone at Mar A Lago to have the whole place swept for listening and tracking devices....even President Trump's private bedroom and bathroom...these desperate democrats are just that...DESPERATE....the fact that Americans have turned on the FBI and AG is rather ironic...since they were trying to turn President Trump's followers against him...they accomplished the opposite...out here in MAGA country people are furious....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/13/2022 10:16:26 AM (No. 1247017)
#16 Sorry. Most of Trump supporters know this is spiritual warfare, not just political warfare. And American patriots do not back down from a fight. Our parents and grandparents fought WWII, the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians. So now, you think because President Trump is being attacked, we shouldn't stand behind him and fight the forces of evil? Who do you think we are? Wimps? I believe in American Greatness! Americans will rise up and fight this Communist take over and WIN!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/13/2022 10:43:21 AM (No. 1247039)
Simple. It was all political in the “Banana Republic” sense of the word! Can you imagine the liberal political and media response if a wimpy Republican Attorney General had authorized the FBI to raid Obama’s personal residence and FBI Agents with “white privilege” were seen checking out Michelle Obama’s knickers?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/13/2022 11:00:04 AM (No. 1247058)
#7, the Presidential Records Act contains the penalty for mishandling of documents as disqualification for serving in office in the future.
In the closest U.S. Supreme Court decision creating, among other things, term limits for U.S.House and U.S.Senate members. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that a state could not create term limits for federal offices, because the U.S. Constitution already created qualifications for the offices, and it would take an amendment of the U.S. Constitution to impose term limits.
Those voting for the winning side in the case were Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer, and Ginsburg.
The legal reasoning in the Arkansas case would, I believe, apply to the Presidential Records Act.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/13/2022 11:05:32 AM (No. 1247063)
#18 - Au Contraire. Frankly, I don't know from where you divined "(I) think because President Trump is being attacked, we shouldn't stand behind him and fight the forces of evil." You may recall just days ago, when this raid occurred and "real conservative" pundits were parroting "this is a trap" and "Keep your powder dry", I was advocating even mild action...and getting hammered by more than a few posters around here for doing so.
Now, there are more than a few blustering "broken glass" summer soldiers out there who have cats to bathe whenever asked to actually do anything...unless it's to keep their powder dry. If there is truly public outrage, it is hard to find actual evidence. So, when will these great Americans actually "rise up and fight this Communist take over"? In November, depending on the "rigged elections" to elevate heroes?
Remember the Tea Party!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 8/13/2022 11:12:34 AM (No. 1247070)
The rank and file of the FBI is being led down a very dark path by its leadership
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/13/2022 11:14:13 AM (No. 1247073)
I wondered why NOW? This was a classic government setup from the get go.
The goal of the Left has always been to indict Trump. But to do this, prosecutors would have to prove Trump's criminal intent. Proving what someone was thinking when they allegedly commit a crime is not easy.
The Left had already used the media to claim that Trump was a power-crazy mad man who would go to any lengths to remain in office---including trying to overturn an election. But how were they going to prove their claims? That was the purpose of the J6 hearings, which the Left thinks "proved" that Trump is a very nasty, very corrupt person.
Although Garland knew that an allegedly crazed Trump was in possession of top secret nuclear documents at MAL, he apparently felt comfortable with that situation for 18 months. WHY didn't he act sooner? What a coincidence that the J6 hearings just happened to provide the REASON and impetus for Garland to finally order the raid!
What's an Attorney General to do when he "learns" from the J6 hearings that Trump is a dangerously unstable former President and Garland himself knows that this crazed person is in possession of unprotected nuclear documents at MAL? This is a classic set up. The Left pre-planned the raid, but couldn't do it without a very clear reason. They had to wait for the J6 hearings to provide the "clear and present danger" reason so that Garland could act to accomplish their mission.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 8/13/2022 11:55:54 AM (No. 1247107)
The Deep State treasonous thugs are desperate to do ANYTHING to try to stop Trump from coming back to power, because they know that he was a total political novice and outsider the first time, and he naively believed that all "Republicans" were good guys and would honestly support him. He discovered that a LOT of folks who call them selves "Rs" are actually Deep State RINOs, and were put in place specifically to undermine his every move, on top of the out-in-the-open Demonrat opposition and the criminal DoJ, FBI, CIA and other intel treasoncrats working to cripple him.
Now, he has learned many lessons, and when he comes back he will not be so easily misled, lied to, sabotaged and underminded.
They know this and they are scared spitless that their cushy criminal deals are at risk.
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