World Affairs Brief, August 26, 2022 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Joel Skousen writes:
The Epoch Times has done a great work in ferreting out the hidden motives behind the raid on Mar-a-Lago. They found they are a direct result of Trump’s RICO lawsuit against the Clintons and the FBI agents involved in the Russia Hoax—operation Crossfire Hurricane. It confirms what I had previously speculated, that the FBI was trying to retrieve the documents exposing the FBI’s illegal acts that they already knew were in Trump’s possession—the same ones he declassified and which the DOJ refused to formalize.
…the FBI already knew Trump had these documents at Mar-a-Lago. They went to get them to deny Trump their use. Everything else said about the case is just a cover.
The DOJ’s coordinated FBI raid of Trump was likely related to the potential unsealing and public presentation of this information—particularly in relation to Trump’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) suit against Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and former FBI officials like former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page—and his amended RICO suit, which added more defendants… An Aug. 17 article from Newsweek included some remarkable statements from two sources within the Intelligence Community.
One of these sources noted that “agents went into Trump’s residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents…but the true target was this private stash” of documents amassed by Trump, “which Justice Department officials feared Trump might weaponize.”
Both sources note that the “sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest” to Trump—“including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges.” In other words, documents that Trump had collected and held within his possession that proved the RussiaGate hoax was exactly that—a hoax. One that was led by officials from within our nation’s highest institutions—including, but not limited to, the FBI and the DOJ.
In particular, the RICO suit brought by Trump in 2022 presented a potential vehicle for these documents to make their way into the public realm [and courtroom]. On Jan. 19, 2021, then-President Trump declassified “a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation” although he also accepted some “redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI.”
Importantly, Trump also stated that “at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.” In other words, the DOJ was aware—and had at some point reviewed—all the documents contained in the binder that Trump declassified. As we know, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s DOJ has “failed to declassify a single page” of those documents. …