If the raid at Mar-a-Lago and the Jan. 6th “committee” turn out nothing,

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/08/trump-mar-a-lago-search-fbi/

If the raid at Mar-a-Lago and the Jan. 6th “committee” turn out nothing, Donald Trump will be the most vetted politician ever. Totally agree Trump should not have classified documents but can we apply the laws equally? This article says that it would require approval at the top levels of the Justice Department, so I have a lot of trouble believing Joe Biden was not aware of this.

I’m guessing it’s possible but I’m interested in finding out how personal passports, cocktail napkins and a birthday dinner menu is “highly classified” material and can cause “great national security harm”. Does a sitting president with top classification authority have more leeway then the secretary of state? Let’s just say a secretary of state had highly classified documents on a private server, would their house have been raided? If Trump’s only crime is not declassifying documents then this is a wild goose chase. Nixon was treated better than this.

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Former president Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI had raided his Mar-a-Lago Club and searched his safe — activity related to an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the probe.

a long-running investigation of whether documents — some of them top-secret — were taken to the former president’s private golf club and residence instead of sent to the National Archives when Trump left office. That could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties.

Searching a former president’s property to look for possible evidence of a crime is highly unusual and would require approval at the top levels of the Justice Department.

Many Republican lawmakers and political candidates also reacted with outrage Monday night, declaring the search of Mar-a-Lago a politically motivated attack intended to impede Trump’s chances if he runs for president again.

“The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” he said on Twitter. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

Trump’s team was given no heads-up about the search, several advisers said. There was no indication the FBI had searched any of Trump’s other properties, and advisers said law enforcement had not.

In January, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from Mar-a-Lago that Archives officials said should have been turned over when Trump left the White House.

The inventory of unclassified items in the boxes that were recovered earlier this year from Mar-a-Lago is roughly 100 pages long, according to a person familiar with that document. Descriptions of items that were improperly taken to Mar-a-Lago include a cocktail napkin, a phone list, charts, slide decks, letters, memos, maps, talking points, a birthday dinner menu, schedules and more, this person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the ongoing investigation.

the person added. “But just one page — or one portion of highly sensitive information — being improperly released can cause great national security harm.”

A sitting president is the top classification authority in the government, giving that person far more leeway than most government employees in deciding what is and isn’t classified.

The search of Trump’s home is the most aggressive to date by federal agents and prosecutors examining the conduct of the president and his inner circle of advisers.

n June 1975, Richard M. Nixon did meet behind closed doors with Watergate prosecutors and two grand jurors near his home in San Clemente, Calif. — 10 months after leaving the White House and after he was pardoned by his successor, President Gerald Ford.

Following lengthy negotiations, Nixon spent 11 hours over two days providing testimony to a federal grand jury investigating the Watergate break-in and coverup.

#USA #TheChubbyCaucasianChristianClosetedConservative #FBI #Maralago #DOJ

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