The raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home by the FBI is causing a lot of outrage that the former president has been so targeted. Constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz blasted the action, saying such a raid should be the last resort, and that if they didn’t have more, this was “improper” and “misconduct.” Even former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was concerned at the Biden FBI’s politicization of the action.
Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY made clear that Democrats would use this move in order to defeat Republicans.
But if you were wondering what the reason for the raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Clinton and DNC lawyer flunky Marc Elias may have just spilled the beans. Elias just can’t help himself and gave away the game with what he tweeted.
It is not being reported by the media that the raid of today could be a major blockbuster in American politics.👇 pic.twitter.com/3BdI9NA9Az
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 9, 2022
Here’s the statute he was tweeting about.
(a). Anyone who unlawfully hides, removes from the United States any map, record, process, book, document or another thing or with the intent of doing so will be punished under this title.
(b) Any person who has custody of such record, proceeding or map, book or document, or any other thing willfully and illegally conceals or removes them, obliterates or falsifies the same or is imprisoned for not more than 3 years or both. He shall also be expelled from any United States office. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
That’s what he suggests they’re trying to do — say that he “unlawfully” removed records to prevent him from running again for president. This is a preemptive attempt to remove Trump.
All their prior efforts to get him have failed — the Russia collusion hoax, the impeachments, the Jan. 6 Committee biased action — this may be all they have left at this point. It’s all been about preventing him from holding office.
This may not be a good idea, but it could still work.
Yes, it is a legal problem that would be presented to the president by applying this law (since qualification are defined in Constitution). But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a “blockbuster in American politics.”
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 9, 2022
What they don’t realize is how much they have galvanized people now against this and behind Trump.
It is a complete irony that Elias raised this issue, considering Hillary Clinton has a private server with documents from the government on it.
Comme nous l’avons déjà mentionné:
Clinton received or sent more than 60,000. While the FBI and James Comey found that she had in fact sent and/or received classified information, including top secret information, among those emails, he declined to prosecute her, instead simply calling her “extremely careless.”
Trump hasn’t done anything even approaching that, but Hillary suffered no raid and got a complete pass when anyone else would have been held to account.
This was enough for me to be upset when Comey gave up. It was horrible to see Comey lay out the entire case, then say nothing. I had no idea that the FBI was absent at the time. We are in the midst of banana republic territory now with this unacceptable action.
So Hillary shouldn’t have been able to run in 2016.
Trump is now being targeted politically for this. https://t.co/79Hxl8PCT1
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) August 9, 2022
The truth is that they are trying to stop Trump from retaking office. It is because they know they can’t defeat him in a fair fight. They FEAR Trump https://t.co/tfKyp2nNeY
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) August 9, 2022
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