This is supposedly the information that justified the storming of Mar-a-Lago.
This is supposedly the information that justified the storming of Mar-a-Lago. The WSJ even asks “Is that all there is”? “The search on Mar-a-Lago was disproportionate to the likely offense”. I would love to hear Merrick Garland compare the Hillary Clinton and Sandy Berger cases with Trump. Sandy Berger plead guilty and Hillary was no prosecuted but neither one of their homes got raided?
The final sentence of this article reminds the reader if you’re going to indict of a former President you should have him “dead to rights”. Whatever approach the DOJ had when interacting with Hillary and Berger, is completely thrown out the window in their hate fueled rage for Donald Trump.
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It’s possible the redactions in the 38-page document release contain some undisclosed bombshell. But given the contours of what the affidavit and attachments reveal, this really does seem to boil down to a fight over the handling of classified documents.
The affidavit also contains references to comments by Mr. Trump and his associates that didn’t tell the truth about what was classified or what he had turned over to the National Archives before the search. This appears to have frustrated the bureau enough that it felt he might be guilty of obstruction of justice by his lack of cooperation. To put it another way, the FBI thought Mr. Trump was behaving badly, as he so often does.
Instead they could have gone to a district court and sought an order for the proper handling and storage of documents. It surely would have been executed. If Mr. Trump then failed to comply, he could have been held in contempt. On the evidence in the warrant and the affidavit, and even based on the leaks to the press so far which all focus on the demand for documents, the search on Mar-a-Lago was disproportionate to the likely offense.
Attorney General Merrick Garland would have to explain to the public why Mr. Trump’s behavior was so much more nefarious than other cases of mishandled classified documents. That includes former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. And Hillary Clinton, who got off with a sanctimonious lecture from then FBI director James Comey.
If you’re going to indict a former President, you’d better have him dead to rights on something bigger than mishandling documents.
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