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Tonight the FBI raided former President Trump’s Florida residence unannounced. This is an historical and unprecedented action which has horrible portents for our republic. I’ll have more to say about this, and so will RR readers who need a place to record their sentiments as this story develops over the next days. If there is no smoking gun produced by the DoJ in this case, then we have definitely transitioned into a political thugocracy.
Joke of the day
“If you want me to consider answering your question you first must provide documentation.”
If bullfrogs could fly they would not bump their rump on a stump.
Who would want Paulsy Emery to consider any question. Best thing about Punch Emery ran down his mama’s…
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Punch-E 501p
The ultimate authority for classification is the President, Paul… I Thought You Knew That.
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Posted by: Donny Jr. | 11 August 2022 at 04:38 PM
Remember, NO FATSO WIVES!
Still……it is hard to argue with this!
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Jig Wiggly still hunting for his rocks, I see. And here I thought that, besides Obama, only Jewish men had mother issues. Not only mother issues, he has daddy issues big time.
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Gee Paul – are the “walls closing in”?
How many times have we heard this from you?
Ah – that’s right – you have zero recollections of anything you’ve said in the past.
It works for Biden and other senile old farts.
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G @506 the ponytail of ignorance may well not have known that fact or its another dope on a rope. Ya some dangerous classified or formerly classified stuff there ROFLOL –
Classified material that was reportedly confiscated by the FBI during the raid Monday included a letter to Trump from former President Barack Obama, a letter from Kim Jong Un, a birthday dinner menu and a cocktail napkin.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reported-trump-fbi-informant-irrelevant-source-close-former-president-says
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 11 August 2022 at 05:14 PM
Classified material that was reportedly confiscated by the FBI during the raid Monday included a letter to Trump from former President Barack Obama, a letter from Kim Jong Un, a birthday dinner menu and a cocktail napkin.
Vital documents crucial to American posterity Don!
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Perhaps its all a glittery object to distract from –
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-75-dissatisfied-nations-direction
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Attorney General Garland says he personally approved Trump search, will release warrant
Garland is the highest-ranking DOJ official to speak since the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/attorney-general-merrick-garland-speaks-after-mar-lago-raid
Told ya that Garland had to sign off on it. Plus their top lawyer. By the book. By the book. More will be slowly be revealed.
DOJ breaks is own rule book and does not remain mum on a active investigation in this particular case. Odd. Could it be political blowback? Could it be Wally (RIP)? Could it?
Well, it is more than apparent that the DOJ has reversed protocol, regulations, procedures, requirements, do’s and don’ts and best practices because of the FACT they are politicized.
The Dems NEVER seek Justice. They seek only convictions. Justice seeks only the truth.
We have crossed the Rubicon. Death of a Nation.
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Breaking news from the Conservative Washington Post. I’ll keep you posted.
FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/
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That’s a pretty weak stab to put of a warrant by Garland. I am sure their are a few things of questionable validity on the warrant. Just got to have the warrant pass mustard. After the Fed’s got the documents in the storage shed that they were after, the rest is a fishing expedition….the search for a crime.
Garland says, ROFLMOA. And doing the leaking to as well. The CIA prefers the Wa Po, Hillary preferred CNN, and others in the top cable preferred the Times. It’s a new day.
Meanwhile, The FBI is investigation the Penn State House republicans (Fed’s, not the State LE) for saying only the State legislature can change election law and have seized a U.S. Congressman’s personal cell phone from his person and we’re not interested in his business/commerical cell phone in the least.
Garland sez…good one.
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All of this is a direct result of this –
‘I feel like socialists are taking over. They’re marching through the institutions. They’re … taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military. And it’s just continuing.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/whole-foods-ceo-says-socialists-are-taking-over-american-institutions/ar-AA10zhGW?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ae6b8576eaed46deb3c416a3c0a91693
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Posted by: Paul Gullible | 11 August 2022 at 05:38 PM
FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say
Jesus these morons are bad at damage control. Nuclear secrets on the loose at Mara Lago and they wait an extra two months and lie on the application for a search warrant (The National Archives wouldn’t be involved if nuclear secrets/documentation was what they were looking for). Enjoying greatly watching the internet pick apart Merrick Garlands Spintacular Bullshit Roadshow!
Color me unimpressed psul.
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Bill
Are you saying it’s legal for Trump to have classified documents in his personal house after he is no longer President?
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I should have stopped at ‘from the Conservative Washington Post’.
Yep, and Nick Sandmann is a racist, Trump Tower was NOT being spied on, The Greaser did this, Michael Cohen went to Prague to make the transition….that conservation Wa Compost.
Well, it’s the preferred place to leak if you want to get it out. Oh yeah, In college, the serial gang rapist Brent Kavanaugh tossed the ice from his glass at some idiot across the bar in the college watering hole. Hot on the trail. That Conservative Wa Post.
Whatever you say, Slappy, what ever you say. Ain’t worth even bitch slapping you, dear poor fellow.
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“FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents…”
Sounds like a great reason to search anyone’s home.
Since they had already handed over documents, why hadn’t they asked for “nuke-lar documents” before?
I’m sure once back at the shack, they’ll suddenly “find” launch codes and stuff.
Remember -they made sure all the cameras were off and no one could verify what was found at the house and what was ‘found’ later. The Fibbies are totally honest – just ask Clinesmith.
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Trump as president had the total discretion to de-classify anything he wanted period. The ponytail of ignorance just cannot wrap his mush head around that simple fact. OOOOOOH bugga bugga nuclear document, like the cocktail napkin!? LOL
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Slappy happy.
Letter from Obama! That’s government property! Off to Devils Island. Wait, off to a leper colony. It will be a more painful slow death. Perfect.
Declassified docs or not, it’s all property of the US government. It’d not Hillary’s stuff, not Comey’s personal notes in his safe to give to the NYT via his attorney (who was granted attorney-client no peekie privilege, lol) it’s property of the US Government if it on the clock conducting government business. Heck, Biden’s Senate records are sealed and not even Uncle Sam can get them.
It did shock me that when Comey went over to meet Trump in the WH for dinner (with agents waiting in the car to whisk the FBI Director back to HQ typing down is notes as quick as his fingers could type (so they would be admitted in court (non-extraneous) and…..and…….
when he spun the story of a FBI Director sitting down with the President of the United States in the White House, Comey called it a personal private dinner so he could call the notes his personal property and the Left believed him. Beam me up Scottie!
It’s the Left’s hope that will destroy them. Always does. Which brings us to today. Enjoy your Biden dead cat bounce.
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Don – David Brooks is a person who knows that leftys are stupid but he also wants desperately to get laid by a lefty babe. Actually, any babe – but he knows that no conservative babe will consider him, so he has to settle for a brain-dead lefty one.
Hence – the appearance of Brooks on left wing media while he claims to be conservative.
Anyone out there remember just why Brooks is considered a conservative?
Anyone?
That’s another reason Brooks will never get any conservative woman in bed. He’s way too scared and nervous.
What’s he afraid of? Too many non-white men gainfully employed?
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TDS and the Trump haters.
https://fb.watch/eR_I3Lv4pT/
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Useful idiot on Tump’s provable criminal acts. Bizzy, bizzy, bizzy, will get back to you. 🙂
https://twitter.com/wlctv_ca/status/1557485039541071873?
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My speculation and at this point is only speculation.
At the end of Trump’s term, President Trump declassified the file on the FBI-Obama Administration’s Russian Hoax and SPYGATE. Trump has that complete thick file.
While the Biden Administration’s DOJ and FBI has slow walked the release of those declassified docs for almost two years (including under Trump) it’s the smoking gun that could bring down the FBI, DOJ, NSA, CIA, media, etc…if they are capable of shame.
It is the FBI that wants those files with the goods on them , more than anything else. Trump has seen it, knows exactly what is in the file(s) and it is Trump who holds the smoking gun on the entire Russian Collusion Hoax and more importantly, Spygate. A former Administration spying on and planting false narratives on a political rival using a weaponized DOJ to do there dirty deeds. That is what the raid is all about. Pure speculation on my part. Better put, that was a component of the motivation to raid a former President’s residence. The other component is to find something that Trump planned an insurrection to set himself up to be Dictator For Life, lol
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American Stasi
re: current thread, National Archives, and the weaponization of our Justice Department. BTW, I am the one who said ‘weaponization’, not ‘politicalization’ of the Corrupt Cable
https://www.jewishworldreview.com/0822/hammer081222.php3
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Im so glad you are all coming to Daddys defense. Daddy only wanted those Top Secret nuclear documents so that he could make a perfect, non quid pro quo trade for those pesky Pee Pee Tapes that his good pal Putin has stored away for safety in Russia. Its the perfect trade... Daddy gets to trade away something that has no interest to him and he gets something that he really wants for free! A perfect trade for Daddy. Now, if youll just send Daddy all your hard earned money…
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‘FBI Director Calls Legit Criticism Of Corrupt FBI ‘Violence,’ But We Weren’t Born’Yesterday
Why is Christopher Wray more concerned about criticism than Americans’ complete distrust of his corrupt agency?
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/12/fbi-director-calls-legit-criticism-of-corrupt-fbi-violence-but-we-werent-born-yesterday/
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Somebody has daddy issues….someone very sick.
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Holy Guano, Batman.
BREAKING: FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure Of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/12/breaking-fbi-raid-warrant-demanded-seizure-of-literally-any-record-trump-ever-saw-during-4-year-presidential-term/
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The flaw in the whole thing, he could declassify anything he wanted. It was all they could think of looking at their bench, creepy grampa joe, the kakkler, alfered e newman, aoc LOL –
Donald Trump: All Documents Seized by FBI Were ‘Declassified’ and ‘All They Had to Do Was Ask’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/12/donald-trump-all-documents-seized-fbi-declassified-all-they-had-do-was-ask/
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There is no record Trump declassified the documents Don. If I’m wrong Don show me evidence to the contrary. He’s in deep shit because some of the documents were top secret.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-merrick-garland-government-and-politics-f63c018b600e1539ff3660a896a132d0
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Posted by: psul Emery | 12 August 2022 at 03:53 PM
Buck up little soldier, someday you’ll catch your Bad Orange Man.
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Why would you believe anything my Daddy sez, Cousin Don? You know he has lied thousands of times during his brief visit to Washington. I know he lies all the time, especially when he sez he`s proud of me.
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Foolish is as foolish does @353 A president can declassify without exception so prove he didnt oh great ponytail of ignorance. LOL
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Trump Raid Warrant, Receipts Make No Mention Of ‘Nuclear Weapons’
Politico hedged in its flagship newsletter, Playbook, on Friday morning, while blurbing the WaPo report. The outlet noted that anonymously sourced reports on the former president are often exaggerated or false. “There were few other nuke details in the piece, and we’ve seen enough Trump scandals in the last seven years to know that sometimes potentially explosive allegations from anonymous sources fail to detonate. But Trump himself was conspicuously quiet about the story,” Playbook..”
(Trump’s silence is proof he has thermal nuclear war documents anskd is guilty!)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-raid-warrant-receipts-make-no-mention-of-nuclear-weapons
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And to your 1:18 PM comment, Dunce Cap Billie… I certainly do have real bad Daddy issues. That`s plain for all to see to see…all you have to do is look at my abject failure of a Daddy to know why. Be a good sucker, er, patriot, and send my Daddy your money, OK? He needs it…
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Trump is no longer President Don. Thought you knew that. What record is there that he de-classified those documents while he was President? Let me know if you find anything.
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punchy 353p
Criminal prosecutions go the other way… the guvmint will have to prove Trump didn’t declassify the documents in question, and apparently the Presidential Records Act has a carve out for former presidents and their documents.
The walls are probably not closing in. Sorry.
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Gregory. Don lets leave it up to the investigators. This is according to the Conservative National Review:
“Law enforcement is investigating former president Donald Trump for removal or destruction of records, obstruction of an investigation, and violating the Espionage Act, according to the search warrant for the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago that took place on Monday.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-removed-eleven-sets-of-classified-documents-during-mar-a-lago-search-report/
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Gregoory
Can you provide a link documentating the the apparent “carve out” you refer to? 5:00 post
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punch 514p
From your link:
“Trump issued a statement on Friday saying: “Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request. They could have had it anytime they wanted — and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK.”
It’s unclear what Melania’s undies had to do with the investigation.
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Posted by: Gregory | 12 August 2022 at 05:00 PM
Going to be interesting to watch this unfold. If they were classified there is a chain of custody and a custodian. Who is responsible for these items? National Archives has some classified materials but the interesting stuff rarely leaves the organization that generates them. I’d be interested to know who is showing missing items concerning top secret nuclear information in their repository.
Somebody else is probably in a lot more trouble than Trump!
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Gregory
Do you believe Trumps statements to be true? Sounds like a clumsy squirm to me.
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Punchy, what besides repeating three times “unclassified” does a President need to do to declare a document unclassified?
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When did he state that Gregory and what specific documents were unclassified? Did he say something like “I have a bunch of documents stashed away in my house. About 12 boxes worth. I declare all the material unclassified.”? Is it on the public record. If it’s unclassified than anyone has access to it.
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Paul 5:14 – “Don lets leave it up to the investigators.”
Yeah – like the investigators of the Russia hoax or the “experts” that said that Hunter’s laptop was phony.
This has all the hallmarks of just a lot more of the same. A total stitch-up.
They made sure no neutral party saw what they hauled away, so they can claim they found anything they want to fools like Paul.
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“Bad news for the Dems… The feds are closing in on Trump and raided his crib. He’s probably done as a candidate therefore the Dems won’t be running against the biggest political loser in modern history who just keeps on losing,”
“Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.”
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Note to the ponytail of ignorance, the supreme court said so and he does not have do anything but say it to declassify. Sucks to be you with your rancid russian dressing rotted brain. –
One of the members of Congress who commented after the newspaper’s revelations was Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho. According to CNN, he told reporters, “The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process.
The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.
“The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’” according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. “His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security … flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.”
Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”
In fact, Robert F. Turner, associate director of the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law, said that “if Congress were to enact a statute seeking to limit the president’s authority to classify or declassify national security information, or to prohibit him from sharing certain kinds of information with Russia, it would raise serious separation of powers constitutional issues.”
The official documents governing classification and declassification stem from executive orders. But even these executive orders aren’t necessarily binding on the president. The president is not “obliged to follow any procedures other than those that he himself has prescribed,” Aftergood said. “And he can change those.”
Indeed, the controlling executive order has been rewritten by multiple presidents. The current version of the order was issued by President Barack Obama in 2009.
The national-security experts at the blog Lawfare wrote in the wake of the Post’s revelation that the “infamous comment” by President Richard Nixon — that “when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal” — “is actually true about some things. Classified information is one of them. The nature of the system is that the president gets to disclose what he wants.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/
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“Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.”
Nahh …the other “most important thing”. psul asks the doctor for a Viagra prescription. When he goes to get prescription filled he asks the pharmacist to cut the Viagra into quarters. Pharmacist says “that won’t help you have successful sexual relations”. psul says, “It’s OK I’m just tired of peeing on my shoes”.
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‘NewsGuard Advisor Seems to Agree Trump Should Be Executed for Allegedly Having Nuke Docs’
“NBD just a former NSA & CIA Director (who also was among the dozens of ex-intel officials who signed the infamous October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter) out here suggesting that Trump should be executed,”
“The former CIA director has a history of spouting insanity. Hayden went on emotional rants on CNN in October 2020 against then-President Donald Trump. In 2018, Hayden compared the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy regarding illegal immigration to the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2022/08/12/newsguard-advisor-seems-agree-trump-should-be
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‘Morning Joe’ Hypocrites Accuse Right-Leaning Media of Whipping the Public ‘Into a Frenzy’
“To end her scene, Mika Brzezinski reached out to her “colleagues in this business” because “right-wing extremists and far-right websites are going to do what they are going to do, and they’re not going to hear this.”
(We have heard plenty.)
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/margaret-buckley/2022/08/12/morning-joe-hypocrites-accuse-right-leaning-media-whipping
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 12 August 2022 at 07:28 PM
I’m not sure who menopause has hit harder…..Mika or her wife?
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So they seize a document that is available on the doj website???? –
Roger Stone grant of clemency seized from Mar-a-Lago. What to know about pardon document.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/roger-stone-grant-clemency-seized-215314071.html
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Emery? Emery? Emery? LOL
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