ANNOUNCING: Rally Against Stasi-FBI Sunday, August 14, at 1 PM, 2222 Market Street in Downtown St. Louis

PLEASE join Jim Hoft and Bill Hennessey on Sunday to protest the dirty FBI in St. Louis, Missouri.

A Democrat Attorney General under a dirty, pedo Democrat president ordered a raid on the home of a former Republican president who is the number one contender to dethrone the current Democrat president.

If you can’t see the Venezuela-level of banana republic bullshit, you can’t be helped. If you can see what’s going on, you MUST join our F the FBI rally at

Venue: 2222 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63103 at 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 14, 2022

This is the Tea Party 2.0, and it will revive the spirit of Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.

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rfatoday · 61-69, M

Might not be the right topic but apparently the seized classified documents were de-classified. I wonder if the real motive for the raid was to confiscate information adverse to the current administration or the Democrats in general. Aside from a pure political motive for weaponizing a federal agency, seems to me that could be an explanation. Pure speculation on my part. I have no evidence to suggest that is why. But in the dirty world of politics it could make sense.

JackMasters · 51-55, M

@rfatoday Actually, the documents were NOT properly declassified. President Trump, through his lawyer, said that he had a standing order that whenever he removed documents from the Oval Office, those documents should be considered by default Declassified. In other words, the act itself of him taking the document MADE it Declassified.

But that's not how it is supposed to work, and Trump did not have the authority to bypass the proper process. There are stringent procedures in place to declassify documents, and none of the documents in question went through those procedures. It's still not clear why the president felt he needed to take them. But we'll find out. In time.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@JackMasters i wonder many of the millions of docs odumbo took that were classified. 30 million is what i heard

stratosranger · M

And I’m sure Hillary’s 30,000 emails were all declassified. 👍 @akindheart

akindheart · 61-69, F

@stratosranger best answer!

JackMasters · 51-55, M

@akindheart Actually, Obama didn't take them. Although the 30 million pages are located in Chicago, they're at a National Archives facility, where the NARA has legal and physical custody. After everything has been digitized, the records will eventually be housed at the Obama presidential library. In any event, Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration.

But in answer to your question, the records in Chicago are not classified. The classified records are still in Washington DC.

In the words of Elon Musk, this is a total nothing burger.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@JackMasters obama or whoever takes 30 million and it is a nothing burger??? or Hillary deleting the 30,000 classified emails and bleached her server? that is a nothing burger?? me thinks you protest too much.

JackMasters · 51-55, M

@akindheart Respectfully, me thinks I protest just the right amount.

It's simply a matter of verifiable facts. Obama doesn't have possession of his administration's documents. He didn't take them. Since they'll eventually be stored at the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago, the NARA decided to house them near that location and then transfer them after they've been digitized. Over 30 million pages is a lot to scan, so the task will probably take a while. Crucially, it was the NARA who decided to do the process closer to the eventual permanent storage site this time, which is the Obama Presidential Library. NOT Obama.

As far as Hillary Clinton and her email server, she screwed up. She shouldn't have done it. The FBI decided it wasn't a crime, she simply made a mistake. Of course, many have argued that her "mistake" is more egregious than the justice department characterized. I'm old school and tend to trust the FBI.

Regardless, Hillary Clinton's actions regarding her email server have absolutely nothing to do with President Trump seizing, transporting and then holding these documents. There's no equivalence. The same holds true for Obama's presidential records. Both are totally irrelevant. The only thing that matters in this instance is what former President Trump did and why he did it. Everything else is superfluous what-aboutism.