A federal judge in South Florida—yes, a Trump judge—preliminarily intends to appoint a special master to look into the raid. Thanks for reading Meaning In History! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. From Fox via TGP: A federal judge on Saturday announced its “preliminary intent to appoint a special master” to review records seized by the FBI during its unprecedented raid of [Trump’s] Mar-a-Lago home
The outcome of this all depends on whether we are still a nation under law or not. Somehow, I don't think the ghouls behind this are booking their bug out flights to Paraguay quite yet. They intend to get Trump by any means, fair or foul. Let's hope sanity - and the Law - prevails.
A very significant problem with this affidavit -- that everybody has overlooked -- is that it’s based on hearsay, which is not proper.
In fact, this affidavit is deceptively worded, because with this very carefully worded statement in paragraph 7, it gives the false impression that it’s based on the personal knowledge of the author of the affidavit: “The facts set forth in this affidavit are based on my personal knowledge . . . AND information obtained from other FBI and U.S. Government personnel.” (Emphasis of "and" added.)
Thus, by stating that some of the unspecified alleged “facts” set forth in this affidavit are based on “information obtained from other FBI and US Government personnel,” a Judge is left to guess which alleged "facts" may be based on the personal knowledge of the author of this affidavit and which alleged "facts" may be based on the impermissible hearsay “information obtained from other" unnamed and unidentified “FBI and US Government personnel.”
Therefore, 99.9% of this affidavit could be based on speculative, unverifiable gossip and contrived or imaginary “facts” allegedly provided by unnamed and unidentified “FBI and US Government personnel.”
In other words, this affidavit is rank hearsay!
Such a blatantly defective, hearsay affidavit should have been rejected by the Judge.
The outcome of this all depends on whether we are still a nation under law or not. Somehow, I don't think the ghouls behind this are booking their bug out flights to Paraguay quite yet. They intend to get Trump by any means, fair or foul. Let's hope sanity - and the Law - prevails.
JC had some informed coverage of the redacted Affidavit this morning:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-saturday-august-c18
Very interesting, indeed! Glad to hear this!
A very significant problem with this affidavit -- that everybody has overlooked -- is that it’s based on hearsay, which is not proper.
In fact, this affidavit is deceptively worded, because with this very carefully worded statement in paragraph 7, it gives the false impression that it’s based on the personal knowledge of the author of the affidavit: “The facts set forth in this affidavit are based on my personal knowledge . . . AND information obtained from other FBI and U.S. Government personnel.” (Emphasis of "and" added.)
Thus, by stating that some of the unspecified alleged “facts” set forth in this affidavit are based on “information obtained from other FBI and US Government personnel,” a Judge is left to guess which alleged "facts" may be based on the personal knowledge of the author of this affidavit and which alleged "facts" may be based on the impermissible hearsay “information obtained from other" unnamed and unidentified “FBI and US Government personnel.”
Therefore, 99.9% of this affidavit could be based on speculative, unverifiable gossip and contrived or imaginary “facts” allegedly provided by unnamed and unidentified “FBI and US Government personnel.”
In other words, this affidavit is rank hearsay!
Such a blatantly defective, hearsay affidavit should have been rejected by the Judge.