{"id":1597823,"date":"2022-08-09T19:16:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597823"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:39:16","slug":"classified-docs-fbi-sought-in-mar-a-lago-raid-were-already-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/classified-docs-fbi-sought-in-mar-a-lago-raid-were-already-declassified\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Classified&#8221; Docs FBI Sought in Mar-a-Lago Raid Were Already Declassified"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclassified-docs-fbi-sought-in-mar-a-lago-raid-were-already-declassified%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, the FBI executed a search warrant of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home that was approved by a magistrate judge <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2022\/08\/09\/judge-who-approved-mar-a-lago-raid-was-obama-donor-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-n1619563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who is not only linked to Jeffrey Epstein but was also an Obama donor<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/08\/politics\/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to CNN<\/a>, the raid was \u201cpart of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been brought there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that is the case, then this further proves that the raid was an abuse of power, because we\u2019ve known for months now that the documents in question were <strong>already declassified<\/strong> by then-President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,\u201d Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/05\/documents-mar-a-lago-marked-classified-were-already-declassified-kash-patel-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Breitbart News in a phone interview in May<\/a>. According to Patel, the\u00a0classification markings just had not been updated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House counsel failed to generate the paperwork to change the classification markings, but that doesn\u2019t mean the information wasn\u2019t declassified,\u201d Patel added. \u201cI was there with President Trump when he said \u2018We are declassifying this information.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/stacey-lennox\/2022\/08\/09\/must-watch-new-trump-video-nails-what-every-patriot-feels-this-morning-n1619207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MUST WATCH: New Trump Video Nails What Every Patriot Feels This Morning<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Patel served as the Pentagon chief of staff as well as principal deputy to the acting director of national intelligence. He is also a former National Security Council aide, former top House Intelligence Committee staffer, and former federal prosecutor and public defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story is just another disinformation campaign designed to break the public trust in a president that lived on transparency. It\u2019s yet another way to attack Trump and say he took classified information when he did not,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story says the National Archives found the documents had classification markings on them. That doesn\u2019t mean that they were not declassified. All previously classified documents have classification markings on them, it shows they used to be classified. It\u2019s petty bureaucracy at its finest, government simpletons not following a president\u2019s orders to have them marked \u2018declassified.\u2019 The president has unilateral authority to declassify documents \u2014 anything in government. He exercised it here in full,\u201d Patel explained.<\/p>\n<p>Patel accused Democrats of playing politics by making the bogus claim that Trump took classified material and pointed out that they haven\u2019t even addressed what is <em>in<\/em> the material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irony is that he didn\u2019t try to hide any of it. He declassified all of it so there\u2019s nothing to hide,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>So, was the raid based on a false pretext and then approved by an anti-Trump magistrate judge?<\/p>\n<p>It sure looks like it.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, this whole thing stinks just like Russiagate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the FBI executed a search warrant of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home that was approved by a magistrate judge who is not only linked to Jeffrey Epstein but was also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}