On 8/11/2022 6:28 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
"Garland Moves to Release Details on Search of Trump’s Home
The attorney general said he had personally approved the search after
“less intrusive” attempts to retrieve potentially classified documents had failed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/politics/trump-fbi-subpoena.html
Better still, we have more conspiracy theory material.
"Mar-A-Lago search reveals a screw-up by same Trump lawyer who repped
Bannon at recent trial: legal experts"
https://www.rawstory.com/mar-a-lago-search-reveals-massive-screw-up-by-same-trump-lawyer-who-repped-bannon-at-recent-trial/
TB
Certainly, an FBI search of a former president’s home appears
unprecedented and the FBI isn’t without blemish, having applied the law questionably and even unjustly in the past. In this case, though, the agency’s director, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump. Garland,
who directly signed off on the search, remains highly respected by
members of both parties and has appeared to handle any probes involving
Trump discreetly and professionally.
We’re inclined to give Garland the benefit of the doubt mostly because
he hasn’t given us any reason not to. We can’t say the same for the twice-impeached former president who is currently under multiple
criminal, civil and congressional investigations and stands credibly
accused of plotting a coup against American democracy.
Trump has every right to defend himself, in a court of law and in the
court of public opinion. But rampant assertions of Trump’s victimhood
appear baseless.
In fact, 15 boxes worth of documents had already been found at his home
months prior to this week’s search. Trump’s lawyers claim that he had declassified some of the documents before he left office but whether he followed proper procedure to do so is another matter. He has also
reportedly been known to destroy documents, just ripping them up in
plain sight of staff. Remember the White House toilets that just
wouldn’t flush right? And though Trump tried to claim the search came
“out of nowhere and with no warning,” Garland said it was conducted only after “less intrusive” efforts to secure more documents failed.
So, yes, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Trump’s claim
that the search was “prosecutorial misconduct” and “the weaponization of the Justice Department.” But now there’s also, perhaps, a reason to be scared.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Trump-had-nothing-to-hide-from-FBI-17370143.php
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