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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the question is, why NOW??
We know that TFG took boxes of documents when he left the White House, and we know that many were marked 'Top Secret'. And we know that he returned most documents, but that he didn't return ALL of them.
What made the DOJ act now? And with a very high-profile RAID?
What may have happened recently, to make the DOJ suddenly fear for the safety of those Top Secret documents?
One recent event was the Saudi-Backed LIV Golf tournament. Was Treasonous Bastard overheard making a sales pitch?
Sure, just conjecture.
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)Once it gets the go, hes got his case pretty much made.
intrepidity
(7,307 posts)and dot all those Is in order to have a judge sign off on it?
Justice matters.
(6,933 posts)usonian
(9,816 posts)Saudi, as you mention. Orbàn. Others?
FalloutShelter
(11,870 posts)no action within 90 days of an election.... famously violated by Comey.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)No reason required for why now?. Garland and his team have been working for a long time on this. It has to be done perfectly, there is no room for error. There was no sudden rush, just the culmination of a very tough investigation. They likely planned it around trump being away, though. May have picked the 8th symbolically, but that seems improbable.
Beastly Boy
(9,376 posts)Garland has been patiently collecting pieces of the puzzle for months until he had enough to get the damn place searched.
Novara
(5,844 posts)That's what the legal talking heads are saying. There's no specific planning or strategy here. They are saying that new evidence of an ongoing crime precipitated this.
For this to go through Wray, who was appointed by the orange fuck, and a federal judge who was appointed by the orange fuck, means it was a pretty important and urgent request, not just a matter of returning documents he wasn't going to return.
And no, it wasn't a raid. A raid is when they bust the door down and put everyone in handcuffs while they search. Besides, when you call it a raid, you're using the orange fuck's words. It was a well-executed search with a warrant signed off by the highest levels of justice in this country, the FBI and the DOJ.
It's way more than just stealing classified documents, and THAT is bad enough!
msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)I'm very relieved to learn this is related to a current On-Going Crime, that a search at Magot lardo would yield relaed evidnece.
The notion it was about the stolen documents and that it would still be stashed there, triggered skepticism.
I hope this search did yield evidence for his current treasonous and fraudulaent activities.
But once again, I also suspect that the henchmen with all parties would have seen to it, that nothing would be brought to or left in his floridian porn palace. He might be stupid, but these other people I would suppose are much smarter.
LakeArenal
(28,823 posts)Now? Because this is when it happened.
SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)I suspect like you say, the possible sale of sensitive documents (which I wouldn't put past tRUMP, who is so hot and heavy on money, getting it (the money) etc., that he'll compromise anyone and everybody, sell everything he can, to get yet more money.