When there is probable cause to suspect that evidence of a crime is in somebody’s home or business, a prosecutor can go to a judge with sufficient showing that the search it wants to conduct will probably result in recovery of that evidence. The warrant the judge signs, after finding probable cause, is based on a detailed, sworn statement, something like this:
On or about (date) suspect took top secret documents from a secure government facility. He promised to return all of these documents to the National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] on (date). Suspect is still illegally in possession of these documents, per attached affidavit (sworn statements by NARA and other witnesses). Suspect promised to produce all documents in his possession and has produced none (see affidavit of FBI negotiator). Five other attached witness affidavits attest that they saw boxes of these documents at suspect’s residence, the place to be searched. See also two affiants who have stated they were shown several of these documents by the suspect.
With this kind of detailed showing of probable cause, the specific place to be searched, and reasons they will likely find the evidence in that place, a judge will sign a search warrant to allow the prosecutor to recover evidence of a crime.
These are the kind of specifics, required by the US Constitution, included in the request for an FBI search warrant in US v. Trump: The Espionage Act Witch hunt hoax. Everything contained in that warrant happened to be true and evidence of violation of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice was recovered from the ex-president’s resort/membership club/home.
In other words (Trump’s), an illegal RAID on a private residence conducted by a weaponized and SICK DOJ viciously persecuting a future president who was ROBBED of his rightful three terms by massive bipartisan fraud in the rigged 2020 election (the only presidential election held while he was president — there’s your proof right there!). That the FBI coordinated this illegal raid with Mar-a-Lago staff to be done at a time when the president was out of state is only further proof that the ILLEGAL RAID was a baseless, completely partisan, Deep State, Hunter Biden revenge witch hunt.
That’s why his most loyal federal trial judge eventually dismissed the case, and sealed the final report the Special Counsel was legally required to write, on a novel (and idiotic) legal “theory” pulled directly out of a Black Ku Klux Klansman’s lowest sphincter. If not for Trump’s candidacy, an appeal of Cannon’s dismissal of the case on the grounds of an “improperly appointed Special Counsel” would have had a good likelihood of success.
Because when it’s a witch hunt, you’re allowed to fight by very different rules, and you fight like hell, as Mr. Trump has known and insisted on since his apprenticeship with Roy Cohn.
Contrast the witch hunt conducted against Trump, for merely lying about retaining some classified and top secret documents he illegally took with him, and unclassified with his mind, to the 4:30 a.m. DHS raid on Congress member Ilhan Omar’s home, three weeks before Election Day. The crime Omar is alleged to have committed that necessitated this EMERGENCY RAID is extremely vague, and the search warrant is, conveniently (if you’re a Nazi acting illegally) classified. Everything Trump demands is justified as an EMERGENCY, in the manner of his hero, the madman who ruled unchallenged for 12 years under Emergency powers.
What is not in dispute is that Ilhan Omar’s laptops, boxes of files and her passport were taken by armed agents of the Department of Homeland Investigations pursuant to a secret warrant allegedly giving probable cause for a dragnet search, the proverbial fishing expedition that Trump (P. Diddy, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Mike “Lock Her UP” Flynn and everyone else similarly accused always claim) accused the FBI of conducting when they searched Mar-A-Lago and found, to absolutely noone’s surprise, ample evidence of his undisputable crime.
The probable cause search warrant for the baseless emergency raid of Omar’s home, before dawn, is classified, as are the exact crimes charged, because there is almost certainly no actual fucking crime alleged — outside of her now deceased father supposedly misstating something on immigration documents in the 1990s, when when Ilhan was in Elementary or Junior High School.
This is from the NY Times:
The three people who described the execution of the search warrant spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.
The search warrant, executed 22 days before Election Day, lists a series of potential immigration crimes under investigation, including false statements and fraud in immigration paperwork, as well as a general conspiracy charge, according to a person familiar with the document.
An internet search yields no result showing any details of the application for the search warrant, except that it was rejected at least once prior to a magistrate signing off on it. Search warrants are usually sealed until charges are filed against the party who was searched, if evidence of crime was found. In Trumpworld, the sensational story and explosive, if vague, even idiotic, charges be guilt of the person they just searched pursuant to a very serious EMERGENCY search warrant for extremely serious crimes committed that cannot yet be made public — for National Security reasons.
Never mind the DOJ’s policy of not conducting any investigation of a candidate within 60 days of an election, or in Trump’s case, two years prior to the election when he declared his candidacy and starting screaming like a stuck pig about election interference. Why was Homeland Security Investigations the agency doing the search instead of the FBI? To avoid the DOJ rule? Because Kashyap Patel is deep in enough other scandals? Because Article II means the president can do whatever he wants, even commit serious crimes? The main thing for radicalized reactionaries, is to move fast, break norms, make examples of and financially destroy people who pose any threat to your right to Fuhrerwortes haben Gesetzeskraft ASAP, play to your cult, throw them bloody meat and exhort them to fight like hell, dirty or otherwise, or we will never have a Fourth Reich here, as Jesus Christ, gun in hand, demands!
Nazis got to Nazi. This also from the NY Times article:
In March, Vice President JD Vance reiterated that claim, which he said he had discussed with the White House senior aide Stephen Miller. [link not from NY Times article, but check it out!]
“We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud,” Mr. Vance told a conservative podcaster. The next step, he said, was to figure out how to “build a case necessary to get some justice for the American people.”
What further proof does MAGA nation need? She’s a pro-democracy woman with a big mouth, she’s Black, she’s a Muslim, she comes from AFRICA, she eats the dogs, she eats the cats, SHE’S EATING THE PETS! HOW SICK IS THAT?!!!
For everyone else reading this:
Make sure you’re still registered to vote, and check that your polling place hasn’t been changed — vote.org. Vote early, and in person.
