Go figure. If you read between the lines of the Washington Post’s current description of the “classified” documents, as noted by anonymous federal officials connected to the investigation, the ‘classified‘ documents in context were personal correspondence between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un about the need to chill out on the nuclear stuff.
President Trump considered these types of papers personal mementos, while the administrative state -seeking to weaponize the DOJ/FBI for maximum political damage and narrative engineering- considered them top secret national security documents.
The election is over, so the narrative is no longer needed. Narrative dropped…
(Via WaPo) – Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.
As part of the investigation, federal authorities reviewed the classified documents that were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club, looking to see if the types of information contained in them pointed to any kind of pattern or similarities, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.
[…] Other documents described highly sensitive intelligence work aimed at China, they said. The Post has also reported that some of the material focuses on the defense systems of a foreign country, including its nuclear capabilities. (read more)
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The people in/around Governor Ron DeSantis look even more stupid now for going along with the DC construct.
FRD
Roger? That you?😱😎✌️
be nice
Is that you, Mittens?
no, that won’t work. we need to co-opt fellow conservatives not ostracized them.
“Can’t we all just get along?” ~Rodney “Rove” King~
RD is allowing himself to be used by the RINOS financing him – to go after Trump … he deserved to be ostracized.
True ^^^^^
FRDS
Also yesterday, Allen Weisselberg testified in his trial that neither Trump nor his son knew anything about his tax fraud scheme, so this was another lie exposed.
why doesn’t trump just come out and say that and show the letters. it’s so simple
??? Have you been listening to President Trump at all? He has declared his innocence over and over again, he has stated it’s a “witch hunt” – is anyone listening?
Or, do they see and read what the criminal media and criminal FBI say and assume they wouldn’t lie, when the evidence shows that all the media and government agencies do is lie.
Even President Trump has said that in numerous speeches; they lie, lie and lie some more.
Even if he declassified them (by saying they are now declassified), it’s entirely up to him what – if anything – should be made public. And, what may be placed in the National Archives. And what, within that trove of documents, would become “public.”
I think it very likely that he reserved some materials in order to be able to prove the witch-hunts against him – what his accusers actually knew and when they knew it. He could then provide those materials, possibly “under seal,” to a criminal prosecution against them. (And he would have the prerogative to say what should be “under seal,” overruling the judge if necessary.)
“Knowledge Is Power,™” and not everything that is known must be revealed.
I hope President Trump has a set of duplicates stored on his own cloud that will be found at the right time. It’s really sickening the degree of loathing there is for such a great man. A solver of problems, not an initiator.
So … your strategy is for President Trump to tip his hand – so the RINORATS can reframe their lie – instead of President Trump proving them to be the liars they are ?
Damned right DeSantis’ donors look stupid, but it won’t matter – they keep making money off the narratives.
“We make more money when our guys lose.” – Justin Riemer, Chief Legal Counsel, RNC when talking to Jenna Ellis in Dec. 2020.
I was hoping the documents would prove Trump was setup…proof that Russia Gate investigation was a deep state False Flag event…and everyone involved held accountable!
And they may well be so. But it is solely Trump’s decision what to do, and when to do it, with any documents that he declassified – which he had the power to do just by his word. The fact that a document is now declassified does not automatically make it “public.” It simply widens the scope of who is allowed to see it. Some secrets should still not be made public.
If s u ch documents existed in the cache, the msm would not have shared that. So, we’ll never know.
Amen. I saw a comment on another post saying Satan won. Satan lost at the cross. But we still live in a broken world. The sooner Christians understand that Satan lost, these battles will seem much less intense. The other day in Bible study a former pastor a discussion came up over a C S Lewis book about evil and a broken world, the pastor didn’t think the Earth was broken because of sin. I countered that once Adam & Eve were banished from the garden the world/earth changed. He said the earth has always been the way it is today…. So if this man a pastor cannot read God’s word and understand some very simple truths God tells us, how is he or others going to see evil?
Satan biggest lie is he is not real.
Ephesians 6:10-18 NKJV
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. [11] Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. [12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. [13] Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. [14] Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, [15] and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; [16] above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. [17] And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; [18] praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints-
Thank you “Dude Man” for the wonderful scriptural reference to what we need to do as believer’s in Jesus Christ!
I sometimes think about the disappointment God will have when He sends Jesus back here and how many folks don’t know His son or the Father himself. I believe we are very close and are presently in the “end times”.
I am sadden, because I think you are correct,
Matthew 25:12 CSB
“He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you!’ This is the parable of the 10 virgins.
I grew up in a Lutheran. Every Sunday, off to church and at some point, I was bored to tears. Then, I was pushed away by heretic pastor, long story I found Christ again via the Bible and then saw that Christianity is missing the part where we need to battle evil, not in a conventional way, but to see the evil and call it what it is, then act. (I still remember the song: Onward Christian Solders)
Satan has captured many. He knows if he unleashes his true self, everyone would be repulsed.
How far do you want to test God? Jesus?
Romans 1:24-32 CSB
Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. [25] They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. [26] For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. [27] The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. [28] And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. [29] They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, [30] slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, [31] senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. [32] Although they know God’s just sentence-that those who practice such things deserve to die-they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
I believe God has given many to their debased mind, this day.
Many pastors’ true religion is psychology these days.
Rudy had an interview the other day re his FBI raid and his case being dropped. I never knew this, but Rudy won an FBI lifetime achievement award when he was in DOJ. He said when the Agents raided him, they felt bad about it. Problem is why didn’t one of them say no to the raid.? FBI SWAT Supervisor constantly lets his unit be misused for political reasons. Every time a unit like that gears up you are risking injury unnecessarily. SWAT Supervisor is one of the guiltiest in FBI.
Apparently nobody “felt bad about it” enough to do the right thing. -Dirt bags!
Yeah, people want to tell us that there are a lot of good people at the FBI. If this is true, why are they not refusing to go along with these politically motivated raids?
Trump should push to sue or take whatever action he can legally against the FBI for the raid. Don’t let it go away now that they can’t use it against him….use it against them! No mercy…and no forgiveness. Not for this, not for the plandemic or mandates and not for for whatbthey are doing to our kids behind our back…etc…
No frickin forgiveness for the evil they have in their hearts and have unleashed on the people. And on Trump.
The liberals think they are entitled, because they are entitled they are above the law…now that they are entitled give them what they deserve. A one way ticket to GITMO.
Suing requires an honest judge and jury to prevail, and those do not exist in America at the moment. Losing a suit, even because of a blatantly biased judge and/or jury, gives oppnents a stick to beat you with. It’s frustrating, but there is enough ambiguity that the FBI would never lose such a case.
“The Conclusion was no Collusion”
That should have mattered.
I worry that the FBI spent all those hours inside Mar-a-Lago without any Trump employees allowed inside – just how many bugs and other listening/recording devices did they illegally plant while they were ‘searching for documents’? I noticed neither Trump nor his family spent much time at Mar-a-Lago for months after the raid. I hope that time was spent having surveillance experts finding and removing all of that equipment.
We will know the FBI did plant bugs when Wray tells Congress they didn’t.
As the Supreme Court ruled in Navy v. Eagan, the President’s plenary authority concerning classification and declassification of information flows directly from Article 2 of the US Constitution. He alone does not have to “play by any rules.” Furthermore, upon leaving office, he retains his highest level of security clearance forever, and is entitled to daily national intelligence briefings, also forever. Upon leaving office, he can take with him whatever he likes. While still in office, he can declassify anything simply by saying that he did – and he did “say.” He also left various written directives. These still have the force of law.
In short, it is impossible for the President or a Former President to “break the law” concerning whatever classified information he may have in his possession. Even if you speculate that he is “doing a Pelosi” by taking advantage of classified secrets, that’s just idle speculation.
The only people who might have broken the law are the FBI agents who pored through these documents and took them out of a secure facility (Mar-a-Lago …), even though they themselves did not have the appropriate levels of clearance to do so – namely, “the very highest.”
Mar-a-Lago has a “SCIF” secure conference room for the handling of classified information. Trump used it many times while in office and it’s still there. If some documents were locked in a storage room, instead of the SCIF, it implies that they had been declassified. But in any case, Mar-a-Lago, which is continuously protected by Secret Service, is “a secure facility” in its entirety: even a storage room is “secure” for classified information handling purposes. Even the hallway. All of the prescribed procedures were followed – except by those agents.
Thanks for this info. I assumed that this was the way things would be done in the American System of Politics, Religion, & Family Values. After all it is the most successful Country in the World because of the Way it was set-up over 200 yrs. ago.
This is why people from the World over are “tripping-over themselves” to come to America, BUT Trump saw that a “lot of undesirables” were being “Shipped to America” & decided that something must be done about this & that offended a lot of his Washington DC enemies!
Just a “Layman’s” observation, looking from the outside in.
Great info M R ! I bet that’s why the rats are saying “ never mind , Trump did nothing wrong “. FIB really stepped in it this time.
Exactly
Thanks. I’ve been trying to tell everyone since the raid that Mar-a-Lago has a secure SCIF.
Still no explanation for why President Trumps private property,e.g. passports, contracts, Will, etc. were stolen by the FBI.
“Witch hunt.”
Passports were stolen to manufacture a narrative PDJT was a flight risk. Loud “suggestion” for the media to run with.
Can you imagine ANYONE in the press saying Obama didn’t do anything illegal he just kept documents as trophies for his ego? Every President keeps the same things and no one ever called them “trophies” (like the things serial killers keep) before Trump. I hate WaPo and all of their ilk.
Because they can.
The DeSantis people don’t look stupid to me; they look like amoral opportunists.
One is forced to conclude that DeSantis knew about the raid and did nothing to stop it. I think the same can be said of the Secret Service. Very troubling behavior by both parties.
LOL! As if everyone on both sides didn’t already know this latest “failed impeachemt” of Trump was all just nonsense!
Never has any human being been more falsely accused and antagonized with the exception of our Savior.
True.
The left has been going over his entire life since the day he announced he was running for President the first time. They have been using all means, fair and foul, to find some dirt that will stick. They have had the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS and every federal agency helping them along with the New York DA and the New York AG. They have failed miserably
For 7 years Fake News has been lying about Donald Trump to create an atmosphere that people don’t want to listen to again.
This is designed to get people to vote him out of Fake News just so they don’t have to listen to it anymore.
This information was inevitably going to come to light. It appears that the FBI has now been implicated in interfering with 2 national election cycles in this country, with it’s political persecution of Donald Trump. The FBI propagated the Russia Collusion hoax, and raided the home of an ex President on the context of espionage. The DOJ, and the Bureau’s leadership have politically weaponized the FBI, and the entire Agency has been turned into the American version of the Soviet KGB.
I just don’t understand how anybody can be fooled by these media narratives. It’s just so obvious that they’re all shilling for the DNC that a 12yr old child should be able to figure it out.
It would be nice if the FBI and the DOJ would spend more time or at least equal time investigating Bushes , Clinton’s , Obama’s , BLM , ANTIFA , WEF , NWO , DNC , CCP involvements in the US and now the FTX money laundering crypto scam thru Ukraine, oh and the CDC , NIH and their ties to Big Pharma and the CCP lab that developed Covid and Pharma that developed the deadly vaccines rather than screw around with Trump !
Oh and the Treasonous Liars on the J6 kangaroo committee and the Hate monger assistant Warden lesbian controlling the imprisoned J6 protestors that makes her hate for all republicans especially Trump supporters as she uses her position to impose harsh treatment for those the J6 are railroading !
FORGET ME NOT
Wonder how many of those types of exchanges can be found in the voluminous number of papers Obama exited the WHite House with…….
👊👊👊👊 MAGA 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The DOJ/FBI must be disbanded.
“The Dumbing Down of America” continues.
The MSM is as, if not more, complicit. The selling of souls must be a very lucrative business these days. Whatever happened to “just the facts ma’m?”
For what a man soweth that shall he also reap. No worries WaPo may not be today or tomorrow, but you will reap what you have sown.
A good reminder of why the FBI and DOJ redacted the affidavit…it was bogus from inception.
I am sure there are more than a few of us – 80+ millions of us, perhaps – that in some deep dark recess of the soul have always believed PDT had a Secret Plan to take down and, yes, incarcerate, the Deep State criminals who’ve been eagerly obeying Satan’s orders. I think, finally, we are at the point where we all have to admit that, no, there is no Secret Plan, and there never has been. Stoicism, Patience, Hopium – we are now turning the corner on all that.
Practical measures with which to break the Uniparty Crime Syndicate’s stranglehold on Power are all that matters now. For two and a half years – 2 1/2 YEARS!!!!!!! – we’ve heard NOTHING, from any corner, on how that is to be accomplished. Here’s 1 out of 80+ million who has had enough of waiting.
The FBI invaded a private home – riffled through their private belongings and bedrooms of an innocent Family – and stole thousands of LEGALLY held items … and shrug it off as nothing.
And DeSantis was silent … Pay attention Ron – they’ll do it to you too.
FRDS
He’s not MAGA, a pretender to the throne. He’s shown his true colors.
The Ba*tard* have a new attack already lined up. If you’re FBI, you’re the layer of scum on a dead pond. There must be no forgiveness for your deeds.
New narrative:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/attorney-general-merrick-garland-to-name-special-counsel-in-trump-criminal-probe-report-says.html
This is all to keep Merrick Garland himself from being impeached. What a weasel. I think the House should impeach Garland and throw in Wray for good measure.
Wonder if Gargoyle and Winken are even in the United States?
At this point the only reasonable conclusion a sentient being can arrive at is that the majority of the American electorate are dumb as a dirt clod and twice as useless. How could anyone believe any of the nonsense peddled by the Deep State/ Media cabal.
It pains me to say this but most of our fellow Americans don’t deserve truth, liberty or any of the blessings that pertain thereto.
Well, Sundance, are you prepared for two more years of an another Mueller like probe?
No matter what you say about narratives and constructs, Democrats are aggressive, are going full throttle on stopping Trump, and will stop at nothing to destroy Trump. They are not concerned about abusing their power and it starts again today.
Meanwhile, are we to think McCarthy and McConnell come to Trump’s defense?
In the minds of progressives, Trump committed the sin of election denialism.
McConnell and McCarthy will help the FBI and DOJ and whatever Democrat loon Garland names as special counsel.
Jack Smith
Will this be the same Special Counsel he appointed to investigate Hunter Biden and his lap….huh?….he hasn’t even considered investigating Hunter Biden and his thousands of photos, documents, and videos CHRONICLING the crimes of the entire Biden Crime Family?
Criminal Politicized Weaponized Out of Control Unhinged TDS Stage IV Lawfare Fascist AG Merrick Garland Announcement Live…MERRICK GARLAND APPOINTS TRUMP SPECIAL COUNSEL…here we go again… But NOTHING about Hunter Biden or the DOZENS of other CRIMINALS walking free…
SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR TRUMP CASE…
Merrick Garland set to announce later today… Developing…
Will oversee both Trump criminal probes…
Just more proof that the criminal left is NOT in control.
“(Via WaPo) –BBC Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.”
So why did all the other Presidents hold on to personal papers? They only assign EGO to Donald Trump. Even when clearing up their lies they smear him. Are there no democrats reading the paper who see it?
Confusion and conspiracy? Why did Garland just appoint a special counsel to investigate if criminal charges should be filed against Trump stemming from the Mar a Lago raid and the J6 rally? Craziest political witch-hunt ever witnessed?
Setting the stage for the DOJ/lawfare process to obstruct PDJT 3.0 was precisely the reason for the Mar-A-Lago FKGBI raid and for its timing (q.v. JAN06). The cultural objective was to publicly demonstrate DC/DOJ contempt and aggression against political opponent(s) of The Left: Exactly the same point made when a gang member touches you in a crowd, North Korean rocket ‘testing’, etc, etc. The MAL raid was a classic Stalinist, political intimidation technique, including splashy, pre-planned coverage and all that.
I still contend that classified content of the presidential papers was never the real issue, but a distraction to make journalists feel intelligent as they debate and ‘investigate’ what they hope is key gotchya information. Everybody who has ever been trained to handle US classified info knows that the President -is- and always was the ultimate declassifying authority; this issue was a Big Bag of Nothing from the get-go.
Doom On Them
Bunch of damn liberal clowns……..
Make sure your friends see this. You know, the ones who were screaming “NUCLEAR SECRETS” at the top of their lungs!
Then today Garland announces a Special Counsel to investigate weather Trump should be indicted.
Um, ok.
The publication of this article, and the findable sources behind it, kills any route for charges and conviction, short of Trump confessing. Comey insisted that proof of malign intent is required even for a charge of negligent handling of classified information. The FBI states here that Trump believed he had declassified the documents, kept them as mementos to butter his ego, and did nothing to exploit them. A prosecutor has to believe a case has some reasonable chance of success before proceeding. This one has zero chance of a conviction since the “crimes” would have occured in Florida. If they can contrive to file a case in DC, the feds could convict Trump of kidnappong the Lindberg baby fourteen years before his own birth.
So why did the FBI instruct Devlin to publish it? At present, I can only guess that the Dems have decided that they WANT to run against Trump in 2024, or at least make sure that the Republican nominating process exhausts and cripples any Republican candidate, lending a veneer of credibility to the result of the ballot collection farce. That said, I’ll be on the lookout for new information to drop soon that makes the feds look so bad that they are trying to get out ahead of it.