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"They just left," one source said.

Not sure what the search warrant was about.

https://substack.com/redirect/4ed4c1d6-1f87-41c9-88f8-3fe4259e5409?r=wtfmi

According to the New York Times:

The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.

Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action being taken to retrieve them.

The politics of the search can’t be ignored. If the New York Times is to be believed, Trump’s purported crime - the delay of returning materials - could have been resolved in another manner not involving raiding his home and breaking open a personal safe.

No doubt the search is an escalation by a desperate Regime confronted by their own failures at home and abroad.

This doesn’t necessarily mean there wasn’t another reason for the search. Could it have to do with the DOJ”s ongoing January 6 probe (although, given the politicization of Biden’s DOJ, that is no guarantee)? Maybe not, but it might be too soon to tell. Last week there was reporting that a federal grand jury investigating January 6 had issued subpoenas to the Trump White House Counsel,

Pat Cipollone, and his top deputy, Patrick Philbin.

Perhaps the roadmap for the DOJ comes from the January 6 Committee, which has poured out the thin gruel of purported criminal charges against Trump, alleging he and others, including attorney John Eastman, could be charged with:

Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (18 USC 1512(c)(2)); and

Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 USC 371).

Each of these counts , and really the DOJ’s pursuit of Trump and his attorneys and advisors, amounts to the criminalization of politics.

Arguments of law that might fail in the courts are now prosecutable offenses. Attempts to delay a vote count based on novel, and not corrupt, interpretations of the law can put you in prison. Issues surrounding the counting of state results

or whether the Vice President can refuse to count electoral votes is a matter to be decided through the civil or political process, not through charges brought by vindictive opponents.

More to come as the story develops.

https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-fbi-has-raided-president-trumps?r=wtfmi&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email