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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNat'l Review: 'Raid': It's about the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information
Andrew McCarthy: Theres a game prosecutors play. Lets say I suspect X committed an armed robbery, but I know X is dealing drugs. So, I write a search-warrant application laying out my overwhelming probable cause that X has been selling small amounts of cocaine from his apartment. I dont say a word in the warrant about the robbery, but I dont have to. If the court grants me the warrant for the comparatively minor crime of cocaine distribution, the agents are then authorized to search the whole apartment.
If they find robbery tools, a mask, and a gun, the law allows them to seize those items. As long as agents are conducting a legitimate search, they are authorized to seize any obviously incriminating evidence they come across. Even though the warrant was ostensibly about drug offenses, the prosecutors can use the evidence seized to charge robbery.
I believe that principle is key to understanding the FBIs search of former president Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday. The ostensible justification for the search of Trumps compound is his potentially unlawful retention of government records and mishandling of classified information. The real reason is the Capitol riot.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/08/the-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid-its-about-the-capitol-riot-not-the-mishandling-of-classified-information/amp/
https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/09/the-fbi-raid-wasnt-just-about-classified-documents/
underpants
(182,830 posts)Trump will never trust the bottles of ketchup. Hell have to buy all new ones.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,575 posts)Thank you for your input.
usonian
(9,815 posts)You know where this is coming from.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(11,029 posts)Solomon
(12,311 posts)but with this privileged asshole I can see them carefully circumscribing the search to stay within bounds of the warrant. This is in fact what is worrying me about the whole thing. If its about classified documents and they find them, then it might be a nothing to see here let's move on thing and we will be hearing about yet another "hoax" when it comes to Trump.
I'm still wait and see about this whole thing.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)A guy who flushes daily briefings down the toilet doesn't keep records that could send him to prison.
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)My mind flashed on Alex Jones phone.
Not that the two were related, necessarily; but, more about the impact the contents of the safe might provide.
triron
(22,007 posts)MissMillie
(38,562 posts)TFG committed so many crimes I don't think even HE can keep them all in order.