BEWARE! IRS Makes Major New Announcement That Will Leave You Terrified!

REPORT BY LISA HAVEN:

EXCERPT FROM: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-several-key-executive-changes-as-agency-gears-up-to-implement-the-taxpayer-first-act

Nikole Flax will take over as Commissioner of LB&I after serving as Deputy Commissioner of the division since 2017. She has held many key roles at the IRS including IRS Chief of Staff and Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, among others.

"I am excited to lead the agency's monumental task of overseeing the most complicated noncompliance tax issues, both domestic and international, and continuing to work with employees and taxpayers to improve tax administration," Flax said.

SEE ALSO: https://www.weaselzippers.us/190764-smoking-gun-irs-official-whose-emails-are-lost-met-repeatedly-in-wh-with-top-assistant-to-obama/

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NIKOLE FLAX, IRS Official Whose Emails "Vanished" Visited OBAMA White House 35 Times

NIKOLE FLAX "THE CONDUIT TO THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE"!

FROM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql15_XT96H8:

"These incredible documents reveal an email from Lois Lerner to then IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller's chief of staff Nikole Flax. In that email Flax inquired how to go about prosecuting and imprisoning applicants who 'lied' on their IRS 1024 forms stating they weren't planning on participating in any political activity, and then turning around and making large visible political expenditures. But rather than giving the correct response, like, "Lois, are you out of your ever living mind? You can't use the IRS for selective enforcement against Obama's political opposition. That would flagrantly thwart the U.S. Constitution and it could trigger the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States! Instead, Flax responded: "I think we should do it -- also need to include CI (which stands for Criminal Investigation Division), which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it separate?""

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The Armed IRS Training Video You Have to See to Believe

Biden admin. arming bureaucrats at an alarming rate

The IRS has stockpiled 45,000 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years. This includes 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles, and 15 submachine guns. One America's Daniel Baldwin has more.

IRS Official Nikole Flax Who Was Involved in the IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal — Is Picked to Lead the “Centralized Office” for the New 87,000 Employees

BY JIM HOFT

SEE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/irs-hack-nikole-flax-involved-irs-conservative-targeting-scandal-picked-lead-centralized-office-new-87000-employees/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal involved:

in 2014 The Gateway Pundit reported —

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform on March 26, 2014. Koskinen told Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) during the hearing that Loise Lerner’s emails were archived and it would take a long time to retrieve them.

Following his testimony, the IRS told Congress Lois Lerner’s emails were lost in a computer crash.

The Obama IRS later said it could not find emails from six other top employees involved in the conservative targeting scandal.
National Review reported:

It’s not just Lois Lerner’s e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according to two Republicans investigating the scandal.

The IRS recently informed Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp and subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany that computer crashes resulted in additional lost e-mails, including from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal.

The revelation about Lerner’s e-mails rekindled the targeting scandal and today’s news has further inflamed Republicans. Camp and Boustany are now demanding a special prosecutor to investigate “every angle” of the events that led to Lois Lerner’s revelation in May 2013 that the agency had used inappropriate criteria to review the applications for tax exemption.

The lawmakers expressed particular outrage that the agency has known since February that it would not be able to produce the e-mails requested by the committee yet did not apprise the committee of that fact, and they charged in a statement that the IRS is attempting to “cover up the fact that it convenient lost key documents in the investigation.”

Nikole Flax was the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal.

The IRS lost Nicole’s emails.

This week the Biden regime appointed Nikole Flax to lead the IRS “Centralized Office” for the 87,000 new agents.

Nikole is the perfect pick for the government to target and destroy any conservative voter in America.

 

And, of course, the Republicans will DO NOTHING once again as the government continues to target, harass and destroy their supporters.

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: University of Pennsylvania eliminates MCAT requirement for non-White medical students

Image: INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: University of Pennsylvania eliminates MCAT requirement for non-White medical students

The campus of the University of Pennsyvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ALSO:

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-26-institutional-racism-upenn-eliminates-mcat-nonwhites-medical.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) Because non-Whites are apparently not smart enough to face the full rigors of medical school, the University of Pennsylvania has decided to dumb down its admissions requirements – but only for people with dark skin.

“Minority” and “underrepresented” applicants to Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine now receive “special criteria” for admissions that include a waiving of the Medical College Admission Test requirement, also known as the MCAT.

Normally, a student must pass the MCAT in order to get admitted to medical school – but not at Penn. A special program, which recently “broadened” to include more transfer schools, was created to cater to non-White students who are not cut out for medical school but who are being admitted anyway in order to create “equality.”

Instead of having to take and pass the MCAT, non-White applicants to Perelman will instead be allowed to simply complete “three semesters of a roster of rigorous science courses,” as well as complete an AP (advanced placement) credit in at least one STEM field, or provide “evidence of strong ability on timed, multiple-choice tests in STEM courses.”

“Students must also have a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA, with 3.2 by graduation, according to the website,” adds The College Fix. “PASS students are not required to take the MCAT, according to the guidelines.” (Related: In order to graduate from an American medical school, a student must now acknowledge hatred for Whites as a prerequisite.)

Be careful to never let a doctor or surgeon who graduated from Penn touch your body

According to the Perelman School of Medicine Admissions website, this special PASS program exists solely for students who are “underrepresented in medicine,” which we are told means exclusively non-Whites.

“PASS students who meet PSOM’s academic and professional requirements, are offered linkage admission to the medical school, without an MCAT requirement, and upon review and approval by PSOM’s admissions committee,” the site adds.

When pressed for answers about how these special exemptions will affect the quality of doctors and surgeons who come out of Penn, school media representative Hannah Messinger simply deferred to the news release without answering the question.

What this suggests, of course, is that Penn knows it will now be churning out piss-poor quality medical “experts” who will botch surgeries, give patients the wrong medicine, and ultimately make a mockery of the medical system – as if modern health care was not already a joke in and of itself.

The PASS program was first created back in 2008, and at that time only included a handful of transfer schools. Since that time, the program has continued to expand as Penn churns out increasingly more unqualified medical “professionals” who skipped the MCAT and coasted right through the program due to their non-White skin color.

According to Dr. Diana Blum, a neurologist who works in a private practice, this lowering of standards is unacceptable, especially for something like medicine that requires utmost care and knowledge to ensure patient safety.

“The stakes are too high (life and death) to start lowering standards or taking shortcuts with basic fundamental scientific knowledge necessary for developing critical thinking skills to diagnose and properly treat diseases,” Dr. Blum is quoted as saying.

“If the school wants to improve diversity in the applicant/acceptance candidate pool, it would be better to focus on providing resources (perhaps free MCAT prep classes?) to lift the caliber of diverse candidates up and get them better prepared for the challenges of medical school instead of lowering the standards (which indirectly insinuates that these students are somehow not as capable).”

The latest news about the total destruction of the medical system at the hands of “woke progressives” can be found at Collapse.news.

Sources for this article include:

TheCollegeFix.com

NaturalNews.com

Smith & Wesson CEO Fires Back Against Anti-gun Democrats

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/smith-wesson-ceo-fires-back-against-anti-gun-democrats;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Mark Smith, the CEO of Smith & Wesson, the 170-year-old iconic firearms manufacturer, finally had enough. After being bullied, harassed, and excoriated by the anti-gun Democrat-laden House Committee on Oversight and Reform over his unwillingness to be subjected to the committee’s intended effort to sully the gun maker’s reputation, his company published a letter in response.

Smith did not hold back:

A number of politicians and their lobbying partners in the media have recently sought to disparage Smith & Wesson.

Some have had the audacity to suggest that after they have vilified, undermined and defunded law enforcement for years, supported prosecutors who refuse to hold criminals accountable for their actions, overseen the decay of our country’s mental health infrastructure, and generally promoted a culture of lawlessness, Smith & Wesson and other firearm manufacturers are somehow responsible for the crime wave that has predictably resulted from these destructive policies.

But they are the ones to blame for the surge in violence and lawlessness, and they seek to avoid any responsibility for the crisis of violence they have created by attempting to shift the blame to Smith & Wesson, other firearm manufacturers and law-abiding gun owners.

It is no surprise that the cities suffering most from violent crime are the very same cities that have promoted irresponsible, soft-on-crime policies that often treat criminals as victims and victims as criminals.

Many of these same cities also maintain the strictest gun laws in the nation. But rather than confront the failure of their policies, certain politicians have sought more laws restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, while simultaneously continuing to undermine our institutions of law and order.

And to suppress the truth, some now seek to prohibit firearm manufacturers and supporters of the Second Amendment from advertising products in a manner designed to remind law-abiding citizens that they have a Constitutional right to bear arms in defense of themselves and their families.

A firearm, adds, Smith, never committed a crime:

To be clear, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never broken into a home, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never assaulted a woman out for a late-night run in the city, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never carjacked an unsuspecting driver stopped at a traffic light.

Without saying as much, it’s clear he isn’t going to appear before the committee to be attacked, intimidated, and sullied. On that heavily weighted Democrat committee are such notorious anti-gunners as Carolyn Maloney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush.

That committee successfully attacked the CEOs of two other gun makers who agreed to submit to its harassment. Smith originally agreed to join them, but when it was clear that their motives were strictly political, he told them he wouldn’t “be available” to be subjected to their inquisition.

In response, Maloney, who for the moment (she just lost her primary) chairs the committee, notified Smith that her committee has issued a subpoena to obtain various documents that the committee would use to build a case for more infringements on rightful gun owners.

In her committee’s initial demand for his attendance, she made clear exactly how the inquisition would operate:

As the chief executive officer of a major firearms manufacturer that sells millions of assault weapons, your testimony is crucial to understand why your company continues to sell and market these weapons to civilians, what steps your company plans to take to protect the public, and what additional reforms are needed to prevent further deaths from your products.

In other words, Maloney and her anti-gun majority had already declared Smith & Wesson guilty, and Smith would be given the privilege of attempting to defend himself and his company.

He saw the ruse and politely bowed out.

The committee tried to reschedule, and again Smith refused.

Maloney ran out of patience, and on August 1 announced that her committee is issuing a subpoena:

I am writing to notify you that I have issued a subpoena to Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (“Smith & Wesson”) for documents related to your company’s manufacture and sale of AR-15- style firearms.

Your company collects hundreds of millions of dollars selling assault weapons that are used in mass shootings, including the horrific murder of seven Americans and the wounding of dozens more during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

This subpoena was necessitated by your unwillingness to voluntarily comply with the Committee’s investigation, including your refusal to testify about your company’s troubling business practices at the Committee’s July 27, 2022, hearing, and your refusal to voluntarily produce key information about your company’s sale of assault weapons to civilians.

Time is working against Maloney and her anti-gun committee, and both she and Smith know it. Come January she will no longer chair the committee or even be in the 118th Congress.

The momentum for the private ownership of firearms continues to build. On April 1, the National Rifle Association celebrated the 25th state — Georgia — to pass constitutional-carry laws. As the NRA noted:

The NRA paved the way for constitutional carry by first leading the charge for right-to-carry nearly 40 years ago.

Today, every state, and the District of Columbia, provides for the carrying of a firearm for self-defense outside the home in some form, and half the nation recognizes [that] the Second Amendment protects law-abiding citizens’ right to self-defense as an inherent and inalienable right.

So, Smith ended his letter by making clear that he would be happy to participate in future discussions with honest and honorable members of Congress seeking information, and not harassment and humiliation:

We will continue to work alongside law enforcement, community leaders and lawmakers who are genuinely interested in creating safe neighborhoods. We will engage those who genuinely seek productive discussions, not a means of scoring political points.

As for his company’s customers, Smith added:

We will continue informing law-abiding citizens that they have a Constitutionally-protected right to defend themselves and their families. We will never back down in our defense of the 2nd Amendment.

Crimes against humanity: Mary Holland of Children’s Health Defense says everyone who violated Nuremberg Code during covid needs to be prosecuted

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-26-mary-holland-prosecute-covid-tyrants-crimes-humanity.html;

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(Natural News) At a recent Action Alliance event in Nuremberg, Germany, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) President Mary Holland issued a call to action about not letting those behind the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) plandemic off the hook for their crimes against humanity.

Holland spoke about the importance of the Nuremberg Code, which was codified after World War II to prevent atrocities like the Holocaust from ever happening again.

Built on the medical and legal ethics established in Germany before the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg Code also laid the groundwork for how to deal with anyone who might try to impose another mass genocide, which is exactly what those behind the plandemic set out to do.

“For more than 75 years, the Nuremberg Code has been a beacon of light – all medical and legal norms have been based on it since 1947,” Holland said. “The Nuremberg Code is the foundation for modern medical ethics.”

“The code has been incorporated into U.S. federal and state law, and U.S. courts have recognized the Nuremberg Code as a universal, international legal standard – like the norms prohibiting slavery and piracy.”

Forcing people to mask in solitary confinement and submit to experimental “vaccines” violates the Nuremberg Code

Even if entire nations or continents decide to scrap the Nuremberg Code in practice – which is what most of them did by imposing wide-scale medical fascism – this does not nullify its tenets.

Every individual has the right to just say no to drugs, in this case, Fauci Flu shots, regardless of what the government says. Every individual also has the right to just say no to masks, which are an unproven and dangerous medical device.

“Tragically, in the last two-and-a-half years, we have witnessed a global assault on the Nuremberg Code,” Holland lamented. “Governments, medical establishments, universities, and the media have violated the very first principle and every other principle of the code’s 10 points.”

“They have coerced people into being human guinea pigs.”

Holland is committed to seeing every last person responsible for destroying people’s lives and livelihoods with plandemic tyranny brought to justice. It starts with calling them out, followed by actions such as lawsuits.

“We must stop this,” Holland said. “And we must ensure this does not happen again.”

Unfortunately for those who already took the jabs, no amount of justice will give them back their natural, healthy immune systems. Many of them will face a lifetime of illness or premature death as a result of their compliance.

“We live in dangerous times. If world governments and their collaborators continue to flout the Nuremberg Code and censor those of us who criticize ‘The Big Lie’ – we know where this leads,” Holland warned.

“It leads to atrocities. It leads to a legacy of ashes.”

Throughout the plandemic, these atrocities included children and teenagers becoming disabled or dying due to the jabs; adults and elderly people being denied life-saving treatments, and families being separated from one another in “quarantine camps.”

These crimes against humanity must stop. And people must take a stand and just say no to medical fascism whenever, and wherever, it rears its ugly head.

“It is in our power to say, ‘No more! Respect and uphold this code!'” Holland explained. “And let’s not forget: we are winning.”

“The narrative that these injections work is over. The narrative that we must lockdown is over. The narrative that we must test asymptomatic people is over. The narrative that our ‘leaders’ know what they’re doing is over. Let us let that sink in.”

More of the latest about efforts to hold those behind the plandemic accountable for their crimes against humanity can be found at Pandemic.news.

Sources for this article include:

TheEpochTimes.com

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The War on Farmers and Food | Beyond the Cover

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the “green” global elites are aiming for total food control and that their power grab, which is now most evident in Holland, threatens the entire planet, including the United States. In this episode of “Beyond the Cover,” host Gary Benoit interviews senior editor William F. Jasper about this power grab and what can be done to stop it. Bill wrote two articles on the subject, “No Farmers, No Food” and “Biden’s War on Farmers,” that appears in the September 12, 2002 “The War on Farmers and Food” issue of The New American.

New York City Now Using 14 Hotels to House Illegals

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/26/new-york-city-now-using-14-hotels-to-house-illegals-n1624450;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

According to the New York Post, more than 6,000 illegal aliens have arrived in New York City seeking shelter since May. This has caused an overflow in city shelters, leading the government to requisition hundreds of hotel rooms to house the asylum seekers.

New York officials, including Mayor Eric Adams, have been complaining about the buses of illegals from Texas arriving in New York for the past several weeks. But the number of illegals arriving by bus was just 750 — a fraction of the number of new arrivals.

Much smaller Texas cities are receiving thousands of illegals every day. What is Adams complaining about?

Apparently, Adams is complaining that Texas Governor Greg Abbott isn’t informing him of the particulars of how many illegals are being bused to the Big Apple — how many children, pregnant women, etc.

Abbott is giving Adams exactly the same amount of information on the new arrivals that Biden is giving the mayors of Texas border towns.

The ongoing surge of migrants to the Big Apple has forced the city to strike emergency deals with 14 hotels because the shelter system is overloaded amid President Biden’s border crisis.

Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro revealed the eye-popping total during a news conference at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, where five buses arrived Thursday carrying migrants relocated by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — matching Wednesday’s record number of buses.

City Hall pressed the 14th hotel into service on Thursday, up from 11 about two weeks ago, an official familiar with the matter told The Post.

In another stunning acknowledgment of the city’s inability to deal with the situation, Castro said Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have appealed to officials in other states for help housing migrants.

The illegals have to stay somewhere, and if the citizens of New York don’t mind picking up the cost of rooms, room service, laundry, and other amenities for the illegals, why should we?

City officials have lashed out at Abbott for the standard practice of giving bar-coded bracelets to the bus passengers to keep track of them.

On Wednesday, workers on one bus were seen scanning barcodes on bracelets worn by the migrants and then cutting them off their wrists as they disembarked, leading city officials to question the purpose.

An Abbott spokesperson on Thursday called the bracelets “standard protocol for voluntary transport by the Texas Division of Emergency Management” and said they’ve “been used during times of natural disasters like hurricanes when needing to transport people to safety.”

“This process also helps ensure we are only transporting migrants who have been processed and released by the federal government with federal documentation that allows them to move about the country,” press secretary Renae Eze said.

But if you’re a Democrat looking to show how “inhumane” Abbott is, the bracelets are proof that Abbott is treating the illegals as “less than human beings.”

“Gov. Abbott is bar-coding people and treating them as less than human as if they were cattle,”  Manuel Castro, the city’s commissioner of immigrant affairs, told CBS News. “I was incredibly shocked when I saw children with bracelets and bar codes and security personnel treating them as less than human beings.”

Related: Federal Judge Rules Many Biden Immigration Policies Illegal

The fact is, the state of Texas is responsible for seeing that each and every illegal who volunteered to travel to New York arrives safely and on the same bus they boarded in Texas. It should also be pointed out — quietly and gently because we don’t want New York officials’ heads to explode — that Texas was transporting people who, no matter why they came to the U.S., entered the country illegally. Bar-coding passengers says nothing about the “inhumanity” of the Texas government, but complaining about it says a lot about the cynical politics of open-borders Democrats.

FBI Releases Docs on Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home. Read It Here.~FBI Affidavit Behind Trump Raid Says Classified Info and Disorganized Docs Prompted Search and Seizure

BY VICTORIA TAFT

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/08/26/breaking-doj-website-crashes-as-fbi-releases-docs-on-raid-on-trumps-mar-a-lago-home-n1624477;

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The FBI’s affidavit supporting the raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home appears to be based on the president possessing classified materials and messy record-keeping.

The raid on Trump’s home on August 8, 2022, was the first time the home of a president of the United States had ever been tossed by the feds.

According to the redacted document, the FBI believed that Trump had in his possession a variety of classified materials including materials marked with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) labels, perhaps supporting the notion that the former president was looking at documents concerning the Russia collusion hoax.

The documents the FBI claims support their raid of Mar-a-Lago will probably look ugly for former President Donald Trump. After all, these are documents used to convince a judge to approve a never-before-tried search on a former president in what looks by all appearances to be in contravention of the U.S. Constitution.

A couple of things to mention here as we read through the documents and update this story. In a memorandum explaining the search warrant affidavit, the FBI outlined that the redacted portions would remain sealed, in an apparent deal with the judge.

Here are some of the accommodations made for the FBI with Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart:

  • The redacted material remains under seal
  • Witness identities will remain secret
  • Minor information which may out law enforcement will remain secret
  • Outing certain information would allow Trump to “frustrate” their investigation

Reporters trying to get a look at the documents crashed the DOJ’s  PACER website (but you can read it below).

Both law professor Jonathan Turley and Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton reported the crash.

Turley observed that the speed with which these documents were released shows that the judge just went along with all recommended FBI redactions. He called it “concerning.”

We understand that the affidavit itself is heavily redacted, as expected. And, considering that the memo introducing the affidavit was itself redacted, we don’t doubt the final product will look like a blacked-out crossword puzzle.

We’ll update this breaking story as we get information.

Read the redacted document below:

Mar-a-Lago Affidavit by PJ Media on Scribd

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FBI Affidavit Behind Trump Raid Says Classified Info and Disorganized Docs Prompted Search and Seizure 

BY VICTORIA TAFT

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/08/26/breaking-fbi-affidavit-behind-trump-raid-says-classified-info-and-disorganized-docs-prompted-search-and-seizure-2-n1624566;

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The FBI’s affidavit supporting the raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, otherwise known in the affidavit as the “TARGET PREMISES,” appears to be based on the president possessing classified materials,  his messy record-keeping, and the assumptions of an FBI agent.

The raid on Aug. 8, 2022, was the first time a president’s home had ever been tossed by the Feds.

According to the 38-page affidavit, the probable cause to raid the former president’s Florida home stems from the 15 boxes of documents he turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that “contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes, presidential correspondence, personal and post- presidential records, and ‘a lot of classified records.’ Of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly [sic] identified.”

Agents reported that there were documents with a variety of classified markings, including, they claim, things “which appear” to be defense-related. “The FBI’s investigation has established that documents bearing classification markings, which appear to contain National Defense Information (NDI), were among the materials contained in the FIFTEEN BOXES and were stored at the PREMISES.”

The affidavit claims that in May FBI agents going through the boxes discovered “184 unique documents [sic] bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET. Fm1her [sic], the FBI agents observed markings reflecting the following compa11ments [sic]/dissemination controls: HCS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORN, and SI.” The agent wrote that he assumed that some of the documents possibly contained NDI, saying, “based on my training and experience, I know that documents classified at these levels typically contain NDI. Several of the documents also contained what appears to be FPOTUS’s handwritten notes.”

Under the Presidential Records Act, even presidents may not hold defense information.

Former President Trump has filed a lawsuit demanding a “special master,” usually a retired judge, to go through documents and other materials seized from his home.

NARA, which referred the records battle to the FBI, was especially concerned that after Trump left the White House “moving trucks were spotted at Mar-a-Lago.” The affidavit used local news sources to support that Trump had absconded with documents because “at least two moving trucks were observed at the PREMISES on January 18, 2021.”

The General Services Administration (GSA) is generally responsible for packing up official materials, but it’s unknown if government employees were responsible for packing what was in the moving trucks on the date specified by NARA. NARA also seem miffed that, though the meetings with the president to claw back materials were contentious, he issued a statement saying that he gladly gave back the materials.

The affidavit features 17 blacked out or nearly blacked out pages.

As I reported at PJ Media, the redactions were made for several reasons in agreement with the magistrate.

Here are some of the accommodations made for the FBI with Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart:

  • The redacted material remains under seal
  • Witness identities will remain secret
  • Minor information which may out law enforcement will remain secret
  • Outing certain information would allow Trump to “frustrate” their investigation

According to the redacted document the FBI believed that Trump had in his possession a variety of classified materials including materials marked with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which may support the claim from Kash Patel, the former chief investigator on the Russia Collusion hoax for the House Intelligence Committee, that Trump was reading through the FBI Crossfire Hurricane documents.

At PJ Media, we believe it’s important to treat classified documents in a serious and respectful way. Balanced against the Fourth Amendment raid of Trump’s home before an election, however, there’s more going on here than just ticking off NARA.

Besides Trump suing to force a special master to go through the documents in question and not the FBI, the former president has a formidable task ahead of him to defend his ability to possess the documents. The president has wide latitude to classify and declassify the documents in his possession, which he did, as we’ve reported at PJ Media. The task will be to counter the fight the DOJ and FBI will put up. And if you don’t think they will, you aren’t paying attention.

It’s hard to forget the statement by disgraced former FBI Director James Comey. Comey laughed over sending agents during the busy Trump transition to have a chat with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

I sent them — something we, I probably wouldn’t have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation — a more organized administration. The FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official. You would work through the White House counsel and there were discussions and approvals and it would be there and I thought, it’s early enough. Let’s just send a couple of guys over.

The agreement with President Obama over millions of pages of documents took years to settle with NARA.

Trump is a difficult man. Name me one president who hasn’t been. It’s clear there are different standards for Trump than for other presidents.