Marc Elias Explains What the Raid on Mar-A-Lago Was About

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Hillary’s attorney, who tries to defeat Republican candidates with legal challenges, explained today’s raid. He told the media that they are “missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics.”

The FBI raided Donald Trump’s residence and the club today to look for documents the government says are confidential. Until now, they’ve been dealing with Donald Trump’s lawyers for the return of the materials, which include letters, gifts, and mementos.

According to the New York Times, “The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence when he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to an [anonymous] person familiar with their contents.

“Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action to retrieve them.”

Elias suggests they were looking for those materials and will use that to claim he violated 18 US Code 2071.

Kash Patel said that while he served in a National Archives role, Donald Trump declassified the items in the boxes.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1556794749377454080?s=20&t=cjHLJZCdFcpatVNaySvgjA

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“Criminal codes, which carry jail time, target anyone who “willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States” and anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys” government documents.

“Samuel R. Berger, a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, pleaded guilty in 2015 to a misdemeanor charge for removing classified material from a government archive. In 2007, Donald Keyser, an Asia expert and former senior State Department official, was sentenced to prison after he confessed to keeping more than 3,000 sensitive documents — ranging from the classified to the top secret — in his basement.

“In 1999, the C.I.A. announced it had suspended the security clearance of its former director, John M. Deutch, after concluding that he had improperly handled national secrets on a desktop computer at his home.

“In January of this year, the archives retrieved 15 boxes that Mr. Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago from the White House residence when his term ended. The boxes included material subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all documents and records pertaining to official business be turned over to the archives.”

 

 


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Nabi
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Nabi
1 year ago

If his followers weren’t such a bunch of disorganized sucks they wouldn’t dare do this.

Demsarenuckinfuts
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Demsarenuckinfuts
1 year ago
Reply to  Nabi

Oh…wait..you cant define a man or woman……little trap.

D3F1ANT
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D3F1ANT
1 year ago

I thought this article was going to explain what the raid on Mar a Lago was about. Then the author explained a lot of nonsense about records and secret documents. The raid was about stopping Trump from running again. That’s it. Nothing else. Now that they’ve taken his property, they can claim to have found ANYTHING they like!

FedUpInNY
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FedUpInNY
1 year ago
Reply to  D3F1ANT

It’s always about J6 and getting Trump, but this explains another avenue they can pursue to arrest Donald Trump.

Zigmont
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Zigmont
1 year ago

 Someone in the FBI managed to get a Judge to believe that he had things he had no right to, and they were at Mar-a-Largo. We’ll see.My theory is they will plant evidence in what they seized, and then they will be screaming “we got him now”

jack johnson
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jack johnson
1 year ago
Reply to  Zigmont

It was said they were just grabbing everything and filling boxes, not culling through the stuff first. It’s a fishing expedition for sure…..I’m also sure Pres. Trump was more than prepared for this.

Democrats basically threw away the Nov. elections and possibly 2024. Trump was just declared the overwhelming choice at CPAC…..surely Democrats can’t be this stupid.

Fred Ward
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Fred Ward
1 year ago
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Assuming there was a warrant in the first place.

D3F1ANT
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D3F1ANT
1 year ago
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They didn’t need to “convince” a judge. There are plenty of crooked Leftists on the bench. They likely found a willing Democrat political activist judge.

Mark
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Mark
1 year ago

Was this something Marc Elias cooked up? Seems a little too much “in the know”.

The Prisoner
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The Prisoner
1 year ago

The USA effectively ended 1/6/2021.