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>I'm concerned that Westerners are going to mass murder each other before too long at the rate we're going.
Inhale deeply, and...
I'm not a lawyer, and this is not my job. This is a journalist's job, and I'm supposed to better than them, because I acknowledge what I'm writing is fiction.
And fiction is what you should take this as. If you find any particular point interesting, do your own research into the topic! It's good for you.
The FBI was issued a warrant to search an area that included [the entire premises of Mar a Lago], in search of [anything incriminating] that was [as small as a single document]. This is called a "general warrant", and they're expressly illegal under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Founding Fathers made them illegal because they recognized that they were one of the precipitating factors that lead to them SHOOTING THE KING'S SOLDIERS AND MAGISTRATES.
The warrant was issued by a Magistrate Judge who should not be signing warrants. Magistrate Judges are not Judges, they handle routine daily duties that actual Judges hand off to them because they are too busy with more important judicial tasks.
Said Magistrate Judge used to be a Judge, but quit his position in order to work as defense council for confederates of Jeffrey Epstein. He also had to recuse himself some weeks ago from a suit between Trump and the Clintons, citing a conflict of interest, meaning he's either in bed with Trump or in bed with Trump's political enemies, and in either case that makes said unconstitutional general warrant also a conflict of interest on his part, which was issued on August 5.
On August 8, the FBI served the warrant in a raid on Mar a Lago, not under Color of Law - they were in plain clothes - that was justified by the Urgent Threat that Trump was Destroying Documents of Top Secret / Classified / Specially Compartmentalized Information. Which explains why they sat on the warrant for three days and did not serve it until Trump had left Mar a Lago. Also, they're planning to charge Trump under the Espionage Act.
Because the raid was illegal due to the unconstitutional warrant, Constitutional Amendments 5 and 14 were also violated, possibly more depending on what, exactly, was "legally seized", all of which needs to be contained on the exhaustive "Inventory List" that all law enforcement seizures have to generate to be legal and establish chain of custody of evidence of absolutely everything they take.
During the raid, Trump's lawyers, who WERE present, were not allowed to observe the search and seizure, and made to stand in the corner and look at the walls by the armed men who were in no fashion formally identified as law enforcement. The FBI also demanded the surveillance cameras be shut off, and they were apparently made to believe they had been. They weren't, but to my knowledge Trump hasn't released anything regarding that.
What he DID do, is accuse the FBI of stealing three passports, one expired. Publicly, on Twitter.
The FBI countered, publicly, on Twitter, that they did not possess any of Trump's passports, and leaked internal comms show this to be true, because they'd already handed them off to DHS, and it was actually two expired passports, and one active diplomatic passport.
Active diplomatic passport.
Would you care to guess how many passports were listed on the exhaustive inventory list of everything "legally" siezed by the FBI?
If you guessed zero, GOOD JOB.
The FBI had stolen an active diplomatic passport, even if everything that previously invalidated the legality actually held up in court.
Later, Jay Bratt, Head of the Counterintelligence Division of the DOJ, contacted Trump's people to arrange the return of the passports, meaning a stolen active diplomatic passport had passed through a minimum of three federal agencies with precisely zero legal chain of evidence for any of it.
I'm not sure if they're intending to piss off the right so much that someone starts shooting, or actually levy ridiculously heavy-handed charges that will immediately fall apart in court, triggering the left so hard that ALL of them start shooting.
Regardless, my question is, where's the trick? Because this three ring circus is obviously the distraction, the hand of the magician the audience is meant to follow, while the other hand tries to pull off some even more heinous horseshit.
I've actually been up for two days, so I'm not gonna bother doing an editing pass.*
*: I lied, the archival process has taken so long that I managed a full editing pass waiting for it to finish. And it's not done yet. I'm getting some bourbon.
There's a probably totally unrelated warrant and inventory list embedded in a PDF here.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/fbi-seized-11-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/
And I'm not actually sure it will work in an archive, but here:
Strike that, it's been over fifteen minutes, it's restarted at least three times that I've noticed, and you're getting the WIP link that may eventually have a finished archive you can reach by cleverly editing out the "wip/". I think.
https://archive.ph/wip/lkftl