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The heavily redacted thirty-eight page affidavit that supported a finding of probable cause for a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago was released today. As we already know, it presented more than enough probable cause that crimes were being committed at the resort, including obstruction of justice, for the federal magistrate to allow the search to take place, despite the frantic railings of the Perp-In-Chief.What US wants to know--and the affidavit will not help here--is why he was deliberately holding on to classified government papers he knew belonged in the National Archives. How? Because his White House Counsel told him so. Was his deliberate withholding a symptom of his sociopathic personality disorder? Archivists and the DOJ wrangled for months to get him to return the classified material. The reasons, no doubt related to his relentlessly exploitive personality, are of course legally irrelevant. What is relevant is that he was in actual possession of national defense information that he could not legally possess or alter. He even went through the trove himself when requested to return the papers he took out of the White House.
Three salient points are now public knowledge after the big reveal: Il Douche was in actual possession of protected national defense information (25 out of 184 where classified as Top Secret); he was on notice from the government to return the documents for safekeeping; and, he attempted to conceal them in various places throughout his insecure resort compound up until the FBI executed the warrant. But ask yourself this important question: Which is the bigger crime: subverting American democracy by an attempting a coup and inciting a violent insurrection, or keeping love letters from the Rocket Man (also classified)? The latter crime is admittedly easier to prove in court. If the Danger Man is not indicted soon, we will also all know another important thing: our federal government is hopelessly corrupt.
Bottom line: LOCK HIM UP!