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This image was leaked to the media following the RAID of Mar a Lago, the first 
time such a dramatic action was taken against a former president. But it turns 
out those "classified" cover sheets were paper clipped on top of documents by 
the FBI.

But it gets worse.

In their haste to paint Trump as a criminal, the Special counsel now concedes 
that some "top secret" cover sheets do not even match the relevant document!

In other words they created a photo op, and it's not even accurate. They lied. 
They leaked. They smeared. Just like with the Russia Hoax. Just like with the 
impeachment hoax. Just like with every other case against Trump. What an 
absolute dumpster fire.

Investigate Jack Smith! 

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The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid

New disclosures in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage case against Donald 
Trump reveal the FBI tampered with evidence to create the infamous photo--and 
DOJ has lied about it for nearly two years.

It is the picture that launched a thousand pearl-clutching articles.

A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the 
Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged 
contraband seized from Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate that day; the image 
showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to 
files purportedly discovered in Trump's private office.

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Included as a government exhibit to oppose Trump's lawsuit requesting a special 
master to vet the 13,000 items taken from his residence, the crime scene pic 
immediately went viral-just as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who authorized 
the unprecedented raid, intended. 

At the time, even regime-friendly mouthpieces questioned the need and optics of 
the raid; the photo helped juice the DOJ's justification for the storming of 
Trump's castle.

"[The] question of whether Trump had classified material with him at his Mar-a-
Lago resort has captured the public's attention. The photo published by the 
government appears to answer that question quite affirmatively," Washington 
Post resident fact checker Philip Bump wrote on August 31, 2022.

Some of Bump's colleagues were more hyperbolic. An ex-CIA officer told ABC News 
the cover sheets indicated the highest level of secrecy, which in the wrong 
hands could have resulted in murder. "People's lives are truly at stake. 
Without being melodramatic, anything that helps an adversary identify a human 
source means life and death," intelligence expert Douglas London 
melodramatically warned in reaction to the photo.

The New York Times insisted the photo was consistent with how the FBI handles 
criminal investigations. "[It] is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take 
evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items 
are properly cataloged and accounted for. Files or documents are not tossed 
around randomly, even though they might appear that way; they are usually 
splayed out so they can be separately identified by their markings," reporters 
Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman wrote on August 31, 2022.

Except...that is not what happened.
A Stunt with Potentially Case-Killing Consequences for DOJ

New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage and obstruction 
case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the 
government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. 
The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.

Jay Bratt, who was the lead DOJ prosecutor on the investigation at the time and 
now is assigned to Smith's team, described the photo this way in his August 30, 
2022 response to Trump's special master lawsuit:

"[Thirteen] boxes or containers contained documents with classification 
markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification 
markings...were seized. Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets 
indicating their classification status. (Emphasis added.) See, e.g., Attachment 
F (redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets 
recovered from a container in the '45 office')."

The DOJ's clever wordsmithing, however, did not accurately describe the origin 
of the cover sheets. In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring 
evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former 
president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the 
raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.

Classified cover sheets were not "recovered" in the container, contrary to 
Bratt's declaration to the court. In fact, after being busted recently by 
defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up 
about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents. 

Here is Bratt's new version of the story, where he finally admits a critical 
detail that he failed to disclose in his August 2022 filing:

"[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it 
removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. 
The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose."

But before the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents 
apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip 
the sheets to documents-something evident given the uniform nature of how each 
cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo-laid them on the floor, and 
snapped a picture for political posterity.

That raises many troubling questions, to say the least, about the FBI's 
handling of the alleged incriminating documents.

For example, who made the on-site determination as to the classification level 
appropriate for each document? Did agents have security clearance and expertise 
related to classification? Did the agents know whether the document had been 
declassified by Trump while still in office?

The hasty assessment also appears to contradict Bratt's statements in court 
about the classification status of the seized documents. Bratt told Judge 
Aileen Cannon during a hearing last year that the records were undergoing a 
classification review, presumably conducted by the intelligence community, to 
determine the correct level of secrecy. 

Did the final analysis confirm or dispute the assessments by the field FBI 
agents who conducted the raid?
Missing Paper Trial and Messy Boxes

But Jack Smith might have bigger problems. During the raid, agents took a box 
in its entirety if it contained papers with classified markings; the box 
usually contained other items, which is how the FBI ended up with so many of 
Trump's personal belongings.

So, in order to flag the location of the alleged classified record in the box, 
agents, as Bratt noted, used the cover sheets as placeholders. (The classified 
records were then placed in a separate secure file.)

But now defense attorneys claim, and the special counsel concedes, that some 
placeholders do not match the relevant document. "Following defense counsel's 
review of the physical boxes...and the documents produced in classified 
discovery, defense counsel has learned that the cross-reference provided by the 
Special Counsel's Office does not contain accurate information," attorneys 
representing Trump's co-defendant Waltine Nauta wrote in a May 1 motion.

The motion forced the special counsel to admit the error. "In many but not all 
instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification 
markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet," Bratt wrote.

In other words, in their zeal to stage a phony photo using official classified 
cover sheets, FBI agents might have failed to accurately match the placeholder 
sheet with the appropriate document. This is a potentially case-blowing 
mistake, particularly if the document in question is one of the 34 records that 
represents the basis of espionage charges against Trump.

And there is another issue in connection with the cover sheets. Defense 
attorneys also noted that in at least one instance, the location of the cover 
sheet in the physical box didn't match the FBI's accounting. "[The] 
sheet...does not appear for several hundreds of pages later than the FBI Index 
indicated it would. Defense counsel's review of these materials calls into 
question the likelihood that the contents of the physical boxes remains (sic) 
the same as when they were seized by the FBI on August 8, 2022."

Which Bratt also admitted is an issue. After the boxes were transported from 
Florida to the hopelessly corrupt Washington FBI field office (another 
scandalous aspect of the case since the investigation should have been 
conducted in southern Florida not in another jurisdiction), a private company 
took scans of the inside of the boxes. But according to the defense team, the 
current condition of the boxes does not match the scans taken in August 2022. 

Bratt explained that "there are some boxes where the order of items within that 
box is not the same as in the associated scans." He then offered a list of 
excuses including how some "boxes contain items smaller than standard paper 
such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes 
are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full."

It is safe to assume Judge Cannon will not take these new revelations 
lightlyparticularly since Bratt also had to admit in the same filing that he 
did not tell her the truth when she asked about the condition of the boxes 
during a hearing last month. On April 12, Cannon directly asked Bratt, "are the 
boxes in their original, intact form as seized?" Bratt replied yes, but "with 
one exception, and that is that the classified documents have been removed and 
placeholders have been put in the documents [place.]"

Oof.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Jack Smith's team might need several 
thousand words to weasel their way out of this mess. 

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THIS is Joe Biden when not on drugs or stimulants and acts like himself:

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https://youtu.be/KuhR-Nqv6Wg

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Ladies and Gentlemen... I give you the Democrats' best: Old-Rich-White-
Religious Freak, Joe Biden

Or As Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Would Say: "Labadies and 
Gntlmn... I gve yu the Dmcrts' bst."

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Truinnerashuvvaduprezure!

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https://youtu.be/SdfvIvYPPRo?t=32

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https://youtu.be/vt7WPjsYl44


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