{"id":52569,"date":"2022-08-12T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52569"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:13:23","slug":"it-wasnt-a-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52569","title":{"rendered":"It wasn’t a ‘raid’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One man’s “raid” is another man’s “search,” which of course depends on which side of the great divide you stand.<\/p>\n

As I listen to the commentary after the FBI search of Donald Trump’s South Florida digs earlier this week, I am left to presume that the right-wing media have bought wholly and fully into The Donald’s description of the event as a “raid.”<\/p>\n

It was nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department sought a search warrant from a federal judge. DOJ officials cited “probable cause” to believe a crime might have been committed. The judge agreed. The FBI entered the glitzy palace … in the presence of one of Trump’s legal advisers.<\/p>\n

They left Mar-a-Lago with about a dozen boxes of documents.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a “raid.” Trump’s home was not “under siege,” as the former POTUS said initially. It was all done legally in accordance with federal law and, oh yeah, the U.S. Constitution<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I will not refer to the event as a “raid.”<\/p>\n

I now will wait — along with the rest of the nation — to learn what the FBI found. That ol’ trick knee of mine tells me they recovered even more evidence that is going to put Donald John Trump into more trouble.<\/p>\n

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