What led to the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago and how does it affect you?

From spying on the Trump campaign, to Russia Collusion, Ukraine phone call, two failed impeachments, the Jan 6 Committee, alleged tax fraud investigation and now an FBI raid. What is the break down?

As we sit back and try to think about the events that took place a couple weeks ago (August 8th, 2022), with the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, we try to understand how something so ridiculous could have happened. We try and remember a time in history where a Former President of the United States (FPOTUS) got raided by the FBI. You start to look online, searching history to find something, only to realize you come up empty handed. As stunned as you are, so am I.

We would begin to think that we live in a third world country, using and weaponizing law enforcement to eliminate the opposition. Currently, we have that going on in Pakistan, where former PM Imran Khan was issued an arrest complaint, where he supposedly made threats to judges and other government bodies over what they call “baseless” election fraud accusations. Sound familiar with the January 6th committee fiasco?? Then we have the multiple Trump campaign officials the government targeted and got convictions out of like Paul Manafort. Manafort is an example of someone that worked in government serving as an advisor to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. He also was a lobbyist for foreign leaders such as the former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. Why was this not an issue before? Years Manafort has been a foreign lobbyist and part of US government. Three months into his position with the 2016 Trump campaign, there becomes an investigating assault against him? It’s clear that Paul Manafort’s association with Donald Trump sparked a concern, as Trump’s whole campaign is the opposition to the government establishment. And let’s not get started in the case of Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, where the FBI threatened to go after his family if he didn’t take a plea deal.

Some arrest were justified such as Michael Cohen and George Nader. Michael Cohen did it to himself by lying, and then trying to save himself by fabricating stories and lying again to the government. George Nader who is basically a Clinton operative, was placed into the 2016 Trump Campaign. The DOJ and Robert Mueller failed to mention in the Russia Collusion hoax, that Nader was illegally funneling millions of dollars from foreign countries into the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, while supposedly working for the success of the Trump campaign. It’s ironic that he is getting convicted considering government does this all the time, even in the case of the Clinton family and Al Gore with their coffee table meetings at the White House.

Another issue we run into with our government is the placement of operatives in political campaigns. Former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page is a prime example of this behavior where a mole is sent to try and get them to commit a crime or spill information on something, while pretending to try and help you or be an ally.

Then we have the former Trump advisor and attorney Peter Navarro, who was recently arrested in June at the airport in Washington DC. He potentially was followed all the way there, just to wait until he was in public view, so they could embarrassingly arrest him and even go as far as putting him in shackles. Navarro is among several witnesses who have sued the committee in federal court, claiming that it is violating the separation of powers by performing a law enforcement function, and that it has violated the terms of its own enabling resolution. Where does this kind of behavior sound familiar to?? The best example currently is China.

In 2021, China arrested at least 53 Hong Kong residents, who were former lawmakers and activists that were the opposition party. They got their homes and offices raided as they were supposedly a national security threat under the new law of Beijing. China also has a long history of making individuals disappear, and our country is one step short of that, besides the speculation of individuals like Jeffrey Epstein or anti-virus creator John McAfee, which would mean we are already there.

With China arresting at least 53 Hong Kong residents, we must understand that China and Hong Kong had a two policy system. Hong Kong has democracy and proper court procedure. China, well… does not. Because of China and their one party rule, they are crumbling Hong Kong's democracy as they reduce the amount of Hong Kong related individuals from getting elected and arresting the CCP (China Communist Party) opposition.

With the improper use of FISA courts on American citizens, especially candidates, use of illegal blanket warrants on FPOTUS, and illegal spying on campaigns, this only exuberates the concern of the communist regime becoming law in the United States. To properly address how devastating this is for our country, we have to review the timeline that lead up to the raid at FPOTUS home. We have to start from the beginning of Donald Trump’s campaign, throughout his presidency, and post presidency to get an accurate depiction.

Throughout Trump’s campaign and first two years of his presidency, all we heard about was Russian Collusion. After this failure of a hoax, they persisted to move towards their next story piece, the failed Ukraine phone call impeachment. Considering this failure was exposed when Trump provided a transcript to prove he did nothing wrong, they created an attempt of a second impeachment over inciting Jan.6 Capitol riot, which became another hoax and failed effort to get rid of Trump. Now that Trump is potentially going to make the effort to run again, they created what they call, the January 6 partisan Committee. This committee is designed to smear Donald Trump, in the hopes it will steer away individuals from voting for him in the 2024 election. It is a committee filled with lies and deception, with no opportunity of anyone to counter the allegations and defend themselves. Currently, outside of the FBI investigation, there is another investigation happening in New York which is trying to go after the Trump Organization for alleged tax fraud.

We want to establish that there is a history of hateful and deceiving behavior from the government body towards Donald Trump. Not to mention the constant lies used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. John Durham continues to investigate the origins of the false Russia Collusion scandal , with a current conviction of an FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith and a current indictment of Igor Danchenko.

After understanding the continuance of attempts to get rid of the FPOTUS, we can review the FBI timeline to the recent raid:

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January 20th, 2021

Donald Trump leaves office roughly 4 hours before Joe Biden gets sworn-in. Dozens of documents leave prior to his departure to his post-presidential home and former office conducting foreign meetings, Mar-a-Lago.

For the remainder of 2021

The National Archives communicates with Trump representatives in regards to missing documents.

January 2022

National Archives receive 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago.

February 18, 2022

National Archivist David Ferriero wrote a letter informing the House Oversight Committee that they found classified material in the 15 boxes transferred from Mar-a-Lago and that the Justice Department has been contacted about potential violations of the Presidential Records Act.

Spring of 2022

Investigators begin to interview Trump aides that were either involved in the removal of documents to Mar-a-Lago or were familiar with their storage at the resort. CNN reported that the staffers of Donald Trump that were interviewed were executive assistant Molly Michael, operations coordinator Beau Harrison, former White House staff secretary Derek Lyons, and former White House valet Walt Nauta.

June 3rd, 2022

The DOJ and FBI officials arrived to Mar-a-Lago with a grand jury subpoena, which are shown a basement storage room where additional boxes containing White House documents and other materials are kept. Trump attorneys handed over documents marked as “top secret,” according to CNN.

June 8th, 2022

The Justice Department counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt reportedly requested that a stronger lock be put on the storage room door and that the boxes “be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice” in Mar-a-Lago.

June 22, 2022

The Trump Organization received a subpoena requesting surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, to which they complied. This comes from the Wall Street Journal.

August 5th, 2022

Former Epstein employees lawyer and Obama donor US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart issued a sealed search warrant for the FPOTUS Mar-a-Lago home.

August 8th, 2022

FBI agents arrive to Mar-a-Lago in plain clothes, searching Trump’s home for more than 9 hours, even going through Melania Trump’s wardrobe. They removed the remaining boxes in the locked storage room.

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As you can see, there was much correspondence between Donald Trump’s representatives and the National Archives, as well as the FBI. With proper review, there were different court orders to which the FPOTUS followed the request and complied. If there is record of compliance, why was the raid necessary? The truth of the matter, it wasn’t.

Two lawyers, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey wrote an OP-ED for the WSJ detailing the legal restrictions that the FBI and DOJ have with Presidential records and the control the President has over them. At the beginning of the article it is argued and states:

The warrant authorized the FBI to seize “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§793, 2071, or 1519” (emphasis added). These three criminal statutes all address the possession and handling of materials that contain national-security information, public records or material relevant to an investigation or other matters properly before a federal agency or the courts. The materials to be seized included “any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021”—i.e., during Mr. Trump’s term of office. Virtually all the materials at Mar-a-Lago are likely to fall within this category. Federal law gives Mr. Trump a right of access to them. His possession of them is entirely consistent with that right, and therefore lawful, regardless of the statutes the FBI cites in its warrant.

Those statutes are general in their text and application. But Mr. Trump’s documents are covered by a specific statute, the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It has long been the Supreme Court position, as stated in Morton v. Mancari (1974), that “where there is no clear intention otherwise, a specific statute will not be controlled or nullified by a general one, regardless of the priority of enactment.” The former president’s rights under the PRA trump any application of the laws the FBI warrant cites.

It is clear the the FBI and DOJ did an overreach of power. Regardless of how they conducted their reasoning, it was insufficient and lacked merit.

We take a review into the FBI warrant, which turns out it doesn’t tell us much of anything. This was expected before hand as warrants typically don’t give much of a detailed description of the probable causes associated with the warrant, just a short summary. However, they didn’t even really have that. What they had is called a ‘blanket warrant’. A blanket warrant is illegal in the United States and has been labeled as unconstitutional. It was the case of Stanford v Texas where the constitutionality of a blanket warrant was determined. Trump legal team has filed to the court a 4th amendment right violation, which they rightfully should. We can determine that it is a blanket warrant not only due to the fact of reviewing the warrant itself and the lack of probable cause, but we can by review of the affidavit, and the fault of the FBI taking Donald Trump’s passports and a bunch of personal and attorney-client-privilege documents, which was not part of the warrant and what they were to confiscate. Just to add to the clown show, the DOJ admitted that the FBI took personal documents from Mar-a-Lago.

The Affidavit should have provided us with the reason why they decided to go through the extensive measures they chose to, and raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. However, as we read through it, we discover that roughly 20 pages of total redactions are made out of the 38 page affidavit. Below is an example of what most of the affidavit looks like.

There can be an argument that there is classified information, material that can threaten the ongoing investigation, as well as many other things. The fact of the matter is, it’s nothing but a bunch of nonsense. This should have never happened. They chose to make the affidavit look as negative as possible towards Donald Trump, while also covering up enough, that we don’t know the factual grounds that warrant the raid.

Furthermore, when evaluating the Judge that approved the warrant, we discover that Judge Bruce Reinhart was part of a lawsuit Trump v. Clinton, where he recused himself citing a conflict of interest. However, Judge Reinhart doesn’t believe that his conflict of interest pertains to the matter in the FBI investigation. Due to this issue, Tea Party Patriots Action filed an ethics complaint against Judge Reinhart. Portions of the 35 page complaint state:

In June 2022, Judge Reinhart recused himself from a lawsuit involving President Trump in his suit against Hillary Clinton, citing a “conflict of interest.” The case involves litigation by President Trump against Hillary Clinton related to the false accusations against the former President by Clinton and prominent Democrats in the Russia collusion hoax; yet, six weeks after that recusal, Judge Reinhart signed the warrant authorizing the FBI’s search of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Judge Reinhart has a history of ethical issues, the most noteworthy being his resignation from the US Attorney’s office in Miami on January 1, 2008, and the very next day representing as counsel for employees of the late Jeffrey Epstein, who was under investigation by that same prosecutor’s office at the time of Reinhart’s employment and departure. An ethics complaint/lawsuit was filed against Judge Reinhart for his unethical conduct. Former colleagues at the US Attorney’s office stated their belief that Judge Reinhart was privy to confidential information regarding the prosecution’s case against Epstein.

In the 35 page ethics complaint, Judge Reinhart has publicly posted on social media, letting the world know his dislike towards Trump. one example in the complaint, Reinhart says in a post “Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis’s feet” in response to Trump criticizing John Lewis in a tweet.

What we also have discovered is the FBI unit leading this investigation against Trump over classified documents, are the same FBI agents that lead the Russia Collusion hoax and January 6 investigations. FBI agent Jeremy Linton, led the raid into Mar-a-Lago, while also issuing affidavits with January 6 arrest. We also have Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, who remains involved in politically sensitive investigations was a key member in the Russiagate team. Auten has been under internal investigation since 2019 and Inspector Michael Horowitz stated Auten was “cutting a number of corners in the verification process and even allowing information he knew to be incorrect slip into warrant affidavits and mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court”.

We also have Jay Bratt, who is the top counterintelligence official at the Justice Department, who went to Mar-a-Lago in June with three FBI agents. In an article by the NYPost, it states :

According to Federal Election Commission records, Bratt has given exclusively to Democrats, including at least $800 to the Democratic National Committee. The sources said he is close to David Laufman, whom he replaced as the top counterintelligence official at Justice. An Obama donor, Laufman helped oversee the Russiagate probe, as well as the Clinton email case, which also involved classified information.

Further in the affidavit, we learn that the FBI used the same fraudulent tactic of media reports as probable cause, just like they did in the Russia Hoax. John Solomon of Just The News, pointed out that the affidavit appears to have relied on media reports from a local CBS outlet and Breitbart, just as the FISA warrant application relied on reports from Yahoo News.

On August 22, 2022, Donald Trump and his legal team filed a motion seeking an independent review of the documents taken by the FBI. Judge Aileen Cannon who is U.S. District Judge in Florida responded to the motion Saturday August 27th "Pursuant to Rule 53(b) (1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Court’s inherent authority, and without prejudice to the parties’ objections, the Court hereby provides notice of its preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case".

We also have new information on August 29th, that the lead FBI agent orchestrating the investigation against Donald Trump and getting his home raided is Tim Thibault. What we learned is that he has resigned and was escorted out of the FBI headquarters. This explosive event happened due to FBI whistleblowers. They explained that the events of Thibault opening an investigation and raiding Trump’s home was politically motivated. The whistleblowers also explained that the evidence was political partisan in nature and Thibault concealed that fact. Earlier this year, whistleblowers of the FBI went to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and informed him that Tim Thibault was working to destroy the investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop. Facebook (Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out recently on Joe Rogan podcast and admitted that the FBI contacted him about a bunch of information that was going to come out and be Russian propaganda, and that he needed to watch out. Hunter Biden laptop information released shortly after, which Mark stated matched the description from the FBI of Russian propaganda. With agent Thibault having ties with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, posting anti-Trump tweets, and politically motivated investigations, it’s a no brainer why nothing happened with the 2020 election fraud claims as he is the one who was in charge of that as well.

In conclusion, we have a history of attacking Trump since 2015. But we have to make this clear. They were jokesters. they wanted to keep him as a joke candidate. When they realized he was a serious candidate winning, it became a war against Trump. Everyone loved Donald Trump before he ran. He funded Republican campaigns and Democrat campaigns. He was friends with anti-Trumpsters like Al Sharpton. That is something to think about.

Now, the current issues we have is a blanket warrant that was approved illegally. We have a Judge that should have recused himself in this case, the same way he did in the Trump v Clinton case six weeks prior. We have the lead FBI agent in the investigation running it with political motivation. We have other FBI agents tied to the fraudulent Russia Collusion hoax involved in the raid. This investigation will more than likely take its time on providing us with all the information - however, that doesn’t mean we can’t see what is going on. Our rights, freedoms, and liberties are being burned up as we speak. What they are doing to him and people around him, they can and will do to you.