re: Newsweek: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where

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Having someone with little to no tangential involvement with Trump or accusations against him would probably have been a better choice.

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My experience in federal court is that you get whatever Magistrate the clerk sends you to see when you walk in the door with a request.

Because it would have drawn a crowd while the agents were there. No doubt the crowd would have included at least paid agitators if not worse elements.

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But you can’t tell us that you don’t see the obvious/willful political intent of things DOJ in 2022 … right?

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I can tell you that you don't seem to know much about how requests for ex parte orders are handled in federal court.

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Both senior government officials say the raid was scheduled with no political motive, the FBI solely intent on recovering highly classified documents that were illegally removed from the White House.

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do you think that’s how a warrant to raid a US president’s personal residence would be handled by DOJ?

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Can't say I've ever requested anything like that.

But my experience is that court staff generally don't give a damn how important you think you or your client might be. They follow their procedures like automatons.

January 21, 2025, Grady Judd is named new FBI Director with orders to bring the heat. Firings, loss of retirements, prosecutions

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My experience in federal court is that you get whatever Magistrate the clerk sends you to see when you walk in the door with a request.

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True, but you usually know who the order signing magistrate is that day. Absolutely zero chance they didn’t know which magistrate they would get.

That being said I am amazed nobody else caught the most important piece. According to the government official in the Newsweek piece, the warrant was obtained based upon false information. How isn’t that a huge deal?

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I can tell you that you don't seem to know much about how requests for ex parte orders are handled in federal court.

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And I can tell you I don’t give a frick about that. I don’t pretend to be a lawyer. But I have a brain as big as yours, am rational, have my eyes/ears open, and it doesn’t take being a lawyer to see full well what’s going on anymore than it takes an economist to see inflation abound.

Are you seriously going to argue that DOJ applies justice with a blind eye? Liberals have been subject to the exact same treatment conservatives have the last several years?

How did this source know specific documents were in a specific place... the safe?

Apparently their source was wrong because the safe was empty ..so they decided to look around?

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he affidavit to obtain the search warrant, the intelligence source says, contained abundant and persuasive detail that Trump continued to possess the relevant records in violation of federal law, and that investigators had sufficient information to prove that those records were located at Mar-a-Lago—including the detail that they were contained in a specific safe in a specific room.

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Let’s play this out to a logical conclusion. First, exactly how many people do you think have access to Trumps personal safe? I’d put the number at maybe 5 likely less. More than likely those people would be Trump and his children and you know they didn’t call. So that leaves someone without access to the safe claiming they know what’s in the safe they didn’t have access too. Furthermore, if the informant did have access to the safe they could have provided the access code negating the need for the FBI to crack into it.