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Aug. 13, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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A 33-Year Veteran of the FBI Reacts to the Mar-A-Lago Raid
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Anonymous Citizen Press 00:15:29
Hey everybody, a special treat for you today.
Citizens Free Press, an amazing website.
Believe it or not, it's one of the largest websites on the planet with almost no promotion, just word of mouth.
The man behind it just goes by Kane.
He's an anonymous person.
I don't even know his full name.
Talks about news, information, and his website.
It's an extraordinary story.
Then we're joined by a FBI agent who's been in the Bureau for 33 years talking about why the current FBI is a disgrace.
And then finally, we talk about some breaking news on this program about the warrant that is now being made public.
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I'm sure many of you have noticed in the last couple of years how Drudge Report has just become a left-wing rag.
It's unreadable.
I used to go to Drudge all the time.
I don't go anymore.
There's a new website, though, that is surging in traffic.
They do a wonderful job of aggregation and staying on top of the news.
It is citizenfreepress.com.
I have to tell you, their traffic is unbelievable lately.
And the man behind Citizen Free Press is someone just called Kane.
You could call him Citizen Kane.
He stays anonymous so that the left doesn't screw with him and that he's able to continue to operate the website freely.
To give you an idea, Citizen Free Press had 169 million page views in the month of July.
That is more than Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, NBC News, TMZ, CBS News, Daily Beast, ABC News, and more.
And the man behind Citizen Free Press, who's just called Kane, he lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and will remain anonymous for many reasons, of which I fully support, joins us right now.
Citizen Kane, who runs Citizen Free Press.
How are you?
Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Thanks, Charlie.
Glad to be here.
And yeah, I'll touch on that a little bit.
Look, from day one, I wanted to avoid any interaction with David Brock in Media Matter.
And it's only grown in the last five years since I've been running the site.
So it helps to stay anonymous.
And somehow I've been able to do it for five and a half years.
No one listening has ever recognized that photo.
Those are the colonnades of Thomas Jefferson's lawn in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia.
So that's actually a reunion photo.
So I'm a graduate of the University of Virginia and used to be a proud grad, but the new woke UVA, not so proud.
Well, be careful.
They'll find you.
They'll go through graduation records and artificial intelligence and facial analysis.
These people are sinister.
But enjoy the anonymity while you have it.
So Kane, you run an amazing website.
I visit it often, Citizen Free Press.
I saw the traffic come out and it blew me away, honestly, largely because of social media suppression and all of that.
So you are the new drudge.
You are the drumbeat.
I mean, your web traffic, I mean, you're punching right against BuzzFeed.
You're still at the top.
It's actually, it's totally incredible.
So let me ask you, Kane, what is really the conservative base right now focusing on in the last week?
Uptick of traffic.
What are you monitoring?
Because you monitor trends.
You monitor what clicks are getting.
What right now are people focusing on?
This is kind of an interesting, by the way, for our audience, a non-legacy media way of tracking public opinion.
Kane, what are people focusing on right now?
All right.
Well, yeah, that's a good question.
CFP Nation has been fired up about what happened in Mar-a-Lago, obviously.
And I'll get into some of the specifics of that, but I wanted to talk a little bit about that traffic chart that you put up.
It's insane.
You talk about it in the days of the woke left.
So from the beginning, part of the point of CFP was never to be able to be canceled, which meant I didn't develop social media at all.
There's no Facebook page.
We do have a rock and Twitter feed now that Spencer Neal is running.
He's one of the guys who works for me.
He used to work for Washington Examiner, was a political reporter, and he has that feed rocking.
But we never, we practically never linked to stories on Citizen Free Press.
So there was no sort of social media brand.
And part of why the traffic blows people away is there's a huge number of conservatives who have still never heard of the site.
They all know Breitbart, they all know Gateway, they all know Daily Wire.
They all know a huge number of these sites just because they have large social media presences.
Another thing about that chart, so Drudge has been doing that for, I'm going to say 12 or 13 months now.
He's been putting that giant blue chart up.
And Citizen Free Press would have fit in it about a year ago.
We first would have cracked his top 25 down near the bottom at 70 million.
And for about 10 months, he never put the site on the list.
We were above 100 million.
We passed Breitbart and he wouldn't do it.
And then just sort of out of the blue, for whatever reason, in May, he finally started including us.
Because that's sort of the interesting thing about that chart.
That isn't every top media company.
For example, for whatever reason, he leaves out Bloomberg, which came in at about $155 million last month.
So they were right about where, right about where Politico was.
So anyway, now let's get to what's going, you know, what do my viewers think the pulse?
Yeah.
CFP Nation, for people who don't know, 97% of my traffic comes to the homepage direct because I don't really push it on social media.
So these are regular readers.
It's about 600,000 of them.
And they are incense.
They are furious.
You know, all the anecdotes that you've heard about Trump fence sitters, people who are leaning more towards DeSantis, perhaps, or whatever.
These people are fired up, pissed off, and they're backing Trump much in a much stronger way than they were before.
And it's kind of surprised me.
Outside of that story, you know, it's sort of, we do 100 stories a day.
So the app and the site gets 20, about 20,000 comments a day.
That's amazing.
It's an unbelievable amount.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
Now, is that 100 unique stories or that you link to?
So meaning the one.
Yeah, it's a very good question.
We try to do it 50-50 each day.
So out of 100, 50 of them will be our own stories, and 50 will be direct outbound links to, you know, it's funny to be talking to you.
I've probably posted Charlie Kirk videos 15, 20 times in the past 12 months.
I linked to TP USA.
You're welcome.
It's a look, it's good content.
I only post good content, good video, and inspiring stories.
But so yeah, it's 100 stories a day.
So the 50 that are our own stories that have comments, they do an average of 300 to 400 a day, which brings you to the 20,000.
So yeah, I do sort of have a, just by reading, I have a pulse.
And CFP Nation is, you know, it's a super MAGA crowd.
It's America first all the way.
So it's a great group of people.
So, everybody, if you go to citizenfreepress.com, I love it because it reminds me what Drudge used to be.
And it's all the aggregated.
You could check it how you want it.
And you could look at the comments, they are amazing.
So, really quick, Kane, let me ask you, what happened to Drudge?
I mean, it's been a great thing for your business, obviously, for you to fill the void, but a lot of people are wondering what the heck happened to my Drudge report.
Yeah, no kidding.
And I actually have some inside scoop here that you're unaware of.
So, I'll say this really quick.
When I launched in May 1st of 2017, that was right when Drudge turned.
If you remember, that was when Comey got sacked.
Mueller was appointed as a special prosecutor.
And that's when Drudge sort of started to turn against him.
I've got details on some sort of, they started making fun of Drudge, apparently.
There was a nickname in the White House that they would use to refer to him, and he heard about it and it pissed him off.
And it was personal.
But I'll also add another thing because everyone wants to speculate.
Drudge sold Drudge is not running the site.
That is all completely wrong.
Wow.
Drudge is still running the site every single day.
He has a couple of editors who help him.
But one of the ways that I know that is, you know, Matt Drudge still uses his original email.
I'm not going to give it out on the air, but it's a pretty basic email.
And someone who is a journalist contacted Matt, asked him, Hey, can I quote you on this?
Matt said no.
I think he felt guilty about it.
And the very next day, like the fourth story in Drudge's stack at the top was from this journalist's website.
So it's an example of, you know, knowing that Drudge is at least still in charge of posting the top, you know, the links on the top half of his site every day.
As for what happened to him, that's, you know, because it can't just be the switch of him getting pissed off about a nickname that made fun of him because he's embraced a lot of these leftist things.
Drudge used to be incredibly pro-life, for example.
And now he promotes, yeah, and now he promotes pro-choice.
Let me also say this: Drudge also used to be, they used to post links from scattered websites all across the website internet.
It was fringe sites, it was blogs, and now it's just so corporate.
Like everything links to Politico or Washington Post.
I mean, and look, I'm highly suspicious of one thing: one time there was a Washington Post article written about us.
It was totally fraudulent.
Within seconds, it was on the front page of Drudge.
And I was like, man, there is no way that's not coordinated.
Again, totally speculation.
We're talking to Kane, who will remain anonymous for the time being.
I just love that he's anonymous because it drives the left crazy.
It gives them something to focus on that they'll never figure out.
CitizenFreePress.com is one of my new favorite websites.
I've been following them for a little while, but just the last couple of months, I've just been going there more and more.
You can get the aggregation of what's happening in the conservative movement, and it reminds me of what Drudge used to be.
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So, Kane, can you just talk about the general dissemination of information?
I find it remarkable the web traffic you're getting, despite the censorship.
Do you think that the people are now finding ways to circumvent the gatekeepers to almost work around them?
What are your thoughts on this as we try to continue to get information out as the gatekeepers don't want us to get to the truth?
Without a doubt, and we posted a story in the last 24 hours about a new midterm policy from Twitter to keep quote-unquote misinformation off the site.
So, it's insane.
We've got 95% of the media aligned against us.
So, how do we succeed?
For us, it was to avoid social media completely, but I understand that most sites can't do that, right?
So, how do those sites navigate and get the word out and get the honest truth out, the message out without being censored?
And it's not simple.
You know, guys like you and this show are probably a huge part of what saves us.
You're able to spend hours a day publicizing this stuff, bringing attention to it.
You've got fantastic lawyers like Harmi who are willing to fight for the First Amendment that are part of, you know, sort of part of the team that you've built.
And that's incredibly important.
It's brought, you know, I hadn't really thought about it, but it's sort of like you're the inspector general of the media and other sources like you.
And so, you're the Horowitz.
You're the Horowitz of the Media Inspector Canal.
We're actually going to do our job and not just issue meaningless reports.
I'm curious, though, Kane, how did you build the traffic without the social media apparatus?
Word of mouth, it's one of the most remarkable viral growths I've ever seen.
Yeah, it really was just word of mouth.
It was CFP Nation.
I'll give you, I'll let you know, this is how ridiculous it was.
So, it was me in my office, in my home office in Bloomington, Indiana, the Marxist Republican home of IU.
Home of IU.
That's right.
45,000 students.
But literally, on May 1st of 2017, I just started posting headlines.
I didn't reach out to any media before I launched the site.
So, there were no articles.
Like when Bongino launched, he got articles.
You know, he had five million page views his first month because he got so much press.
I think I had 5,000 or maybe 10,000 page views my first month.
There were no more than 100 readers.
I tried to spread the word on Twitter a little bit, but literally it was nothing.
And I would still work 14, 16 hours a day at the beginning posting headlines.
And honest to God, you know, a month later, I had a thousand readers and I asked people to share it.
There's even messages on the site about sharing it because we don't run any advertisements, as you know.
So, how is that possible?
How do you not monetize it?
I mean, this is-I haven't, I don't, I haven't needed the money.
I hate ads as much as anyone.
If I see a takeover, I want to spit.
If I see a pop-up video in the right-hand corner, I want to kill someone.
These are things that have been infuriating me.
I'm a news junkie who's been using the web for 30 years and I can't stand this crap.
So, I've been able to pay for it.
It's not expensive on the server-wise.
And I did two fundraisers finally after five and a half years, each of the last two years.
And my readers donated a lot of money.
And that is how I'm able to pay my employees.
I have two employees.
That's how I'm able to pay them.
But I am going to start doing ads at some point, but there will never be a video.
There will never be a takeover.
It will be boring text ads at the very top.
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But yeah, it's incredible.
It's one of the most amazing stories.
So, in closing, Kane, you remain anonymous, which I just want to say for some people out there.
Some people said, Charlie, I'm afraid to fight because people will discover me.
So, therefore, I won't fight.
No, no, no, you could still fight anonymously.
It's very important.
So, can you just talk really quick on that about a minute and how could people support you, Kane?
Yeah, I think, you know, I don't want to be anonymous.
Eventually, my name will be out there probably in a few years, and I'll be doing more TV.
But for this job, look, people have to understand, I'm sitting in an office 18 hours a day.
I have no time for distractions.
I cannot have the police at my door because David Brock and his denizen of freaks decided to send the SWAT team to my house.
I cannot have any interruptions.
Otherwise, no new headlines at the top of the site.
Yes.
So it's just been, I've been forced to be anonymous because of that.
How can people find it?
CitizenFreePress.com.
It's that simple.
Look, we post new headlines 18 hours a day from 10 a.m. in the morning, and I don't log off until 3.30 a.m. at night.
So 18 hours a day.
And all the new headlines are going to be at the top always.
That's what I always hated about Drudge.
Once you visited once in the day, then you had to scour the three columns, right, to find any new stories he adds.
So everything new is at the top.
It's simple.
It loads incredibly quickly because there are no ads.
And that's it.
And I want to thank you, Charlie.
You do a fantastic job.
I've had this at the live link at the top of the site.
I'm now going to start posting, watch live, Charlie Kirk show every single day on CFP in the stack, just like I do with Bannon's War Room.
Thank you.
You guys are going to be the only two.
So the whole three hours, I don't even know how long your show runs.
There you go.
So I'm going to have the live link of every day.
You're going to see it in the stack from now on.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Have a fantastic day.
And thanks for reaching out to me and having me on.
It's awesome.
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There is a new book coming out called The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy.
The author is Thomas J. Baker, and he joins us right now to help us unpack what the heck happened to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And he himself has over 33 years of investigative and management experience as an FBI special agent.
And he has an incredible Wall Street Journal op-ed, which says whistles start to blow at the FBI.
I have so much to ask him.
I'm so glad he's with us right now.
Thomas Baker, welcome to the program.
Charlie, good to be with you.
Thank you, and congratulations on the book.
So let's just start here.
I'll be very plain and blunt.
I've lost total and complete faith in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I believe it's become politicized and that bad actors are not removed.
In fact, some people believe, rightfully so, and I agree with them, the FBI is actually being used against citizens.
Is that a bridge too far as someone who's served in the Bureau for 33 years?
No, it's not a bridge too far.
And a lot of people share those sentiments.
My take is a little more precise or slightly different than what you just expressed.
I think what's happened, the root of what's happened, is a change in culture at the Bureau that began under Director Mueller, Bob Mueller.
And a lot of these bad actors is the term you just used, have been removed.
The bad actors, you can name them all, McCabe and Comey, et cetera, from before, and even more recently with the Jimness case and other, they keep getting fired.
They keep getting dismissed.
And unfortunately, current Director Ray and others around him keep pointing to that and say, well, we're getting rid of the bad apples.
We got rid of the bad apples.
And my contention is they're not looking at the underlying program problem, excuse me, the cultural change that took place beginning under Robert Mueller's leadership.
Yeah, and I will say, though, Annie McCabe is still getting his pension, right?
And that even though they might be fired, I think these people should be imprisoned for what they did.
So talk about what the Bureau used to be, because you argue in your book, it actually used to be something that had a commitment to the Constitution and how it, and then it fell from there.
Explain more how and why the Bureau slipped from a trustworthy agency to one now that has no faith, the American people has no faith in.
Okay, well, it is simply this: uniquely in the United States of America, and it's always been a good thing, our national security agency, domestic security, domestic intelligence agency, was a law enforcement agency.
The FBI, the FBI, always had been fundamentally a law enforcement agency.
And in a law enforcement agency, the individuals, the agents, you work every day towards the day when you're going to have to stand up in court or before a judge and raise your right hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
That's the essence of a law enforcement agency.
An intelligence agency deals in deception, deceit, and they and they give estimates, they call them estimates.
We would call them best guesses.
It's a whole different mindset.
But the Bureau was always dominated by the law enforcement mindset.
That's so intense.
September 11th happened, and Robert Mueller, who had only been director a few days when the September 11th attack happened, was called.
The attack was on Tuesday on Saturday morning.
He was called to Camp David.
President George W. Bush wanted to see him.
He went to Camp David with the Bureau's report.
And Charlie, in three and a half days, and this is quite an accomplishment, the FBI investigation had identified all 19 hijackers, their associates, their money trail, their autos, their credit cards, their connections back to al-Qaeda, everything in three and a half days.
The Bureau did what it does best: investigate.
And Robert Mueller presented that report to George Bush with the rest of his security counsel around him in Camp David that Saturday morning.
And when he was done, and he expected praise and thanks.
And by the way, he's told us this, he's told me this on several occasions.
And George W. Bush just turned to him and said, I don't care about that.
I want to know how you're going to prevent the next one.
And later that morning, George Tennant, then the director of the CIA, gave his plan of action going forward.
George W. Bush, when he was done hearing that, turned to Mueller and said, That's what I'd like to hear.
Mueller was humiliated.
So, for reasons that seemed justified at the time, he set out, he said this, to change the FBI into an intelligence agency.
And a lot of bad things flowed from that.
So, changing it from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence agency.
Now, some people would say the FBI, though, in the 70s and 80s was still doing that kind of intelligence.
I don't want to go too deep into that, but can you talk about just a little bit how the 1980 or 1990 FBI was probably a lot better than what it is today?
Would you agree at that?
Yes, absolutely.
And we had great leadership in Judge Webster and then in Judge Louis Free, without a doubt.
They did handle counterintelligence matters.
It was part of their mission to catch spies, but they approached it as a law enforcement agency working within the law.
Muller changed this around.
So he had Mueller make the cultural change.
And then after Mueller, you had the poor leadership of James Comey, which just made matters worse.
So earlier this week, I mean, as you well know, on Monday, Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI, an extraordinary intervention on behalf of the Bureau.
What is your take on that?
As someone who is trying to explain this in your book, I just want to reiterate it for everyone.
They can get it at pre-order.
It's not coming up for a little while.
The fall of the FBI, how a once-great agency became a threat to democracy.
You call what happened Monday a dark day for the Bureau.
Expand on that for us.
Well, most likely we're going to find out.
We're going to find out shortly when the warrant and probably the underlying affidavit is made public.
We're probably going to find out that legally, technically, the warrant was justified.
It was a legal search.
But being legal doesn't make something necessarily right.
There's a lot of things that could have been done short of searching, raiding the home of a former president and potentially a presidential candidate.
So it's an abuse of authority.
And we saw that throughout the Russian collusion thing with the unmasking, with the General Flynn aspect, with the Stone aspect.
A lot of these things were technically legal, but they weren't right.
They were an abuse of authority.
Well, I totally agree.
So let me ask you: in the rank and file of the Bureau, are there rumblings of people that are very uncomfortable with the direction that it's heading?
I can't imagine that every single FBI special agent is comfortable with the rating of James O'Keefe's apartment or the rating of Rudy Giuliani's apartment or the raiding of Mar-a-Lago.
I mean, what are you hearing rank and file by some of the people that are not in the suits but in the boots of the FBI?
No, there's definitely, I mean, and I heard, and I'm in contact with several individuals who are very upset about this.
The other thing, Charlie, that the culture of the FBI, it was somewhat a collegial organization.
I mean, people who, once you were an agent, you could speak to someone who was an assistant director or an agent in charge, and you would have frank discussions.
And sometimes things happened in the past, and a supervisor or an SAC would say to the director, you know, maybe we shouldn't go down this road.
Maybe we shouldn't do it this way.
Unfortunately, either those voices didn't speak up this time or they were discounted.
But the underlying problem is the culture has to be turned around.
Getting rid of the bad apples is not enough.
So, yeah, so let's game plan this.
How do we fix this?
We have a national law enforcement agency that is more like an intelligence service than a law enforcement service.
I believe a vast majority of Americans have lost total and complete faith.
What is the roadmap towards a restoration, or is it just time to dismantle it?
No, I don't think it should be dismantled.
I think one of the strengths in the past of the FBI, a lot of people have proposed that, and I totally disagree with that.
A blessing, a blessing for our country was, unlike other Western democracies and certainly other countries around the world, is our domestic intelligence service was and is a law enforcement agency.
So the FBI had to work within certain parameters of the law to do things.
And that was a blessing.
What's happened now with the intelligence side being dominant and the leadership all coming up on that intelligence side of things, I fear what we may have now, and that's why I use the subtitle of my book.
We may now have a domestic intelligence service with police powers.
Yes.
Instead of a blessing, it's a curse.
And that has to be flipped and turned around.
And to change culture in any organization, and there's been books written just about this, you have to do a lot of things, big and small, and you have to do them consistently.
But the first thing you have to do is recognize the problem.
And as long as Ray and others hang their hat on, well, we're getting rid of the bad apples, they're not recognizing the fundamental underlying problem.
Well, if I may be share my opinion, they are the problem, okay?
I mean, Ray and all them are part of the culture that is continuing in this.
So I want to reiterate the book again for our audience.
It's super interesting.
Again, Thomas J. Baker has over 33 years of investigative and management experience as an FBI special agent.
The fall of the FBI, how a once-great agency became a threat to democracy.
And let me just say this: I want to live in a country where I trust our national law enforcement.
I want to live in that country.
It pains me greatly that I look at the FBI as a modern version of the Gestapo.
It really does.
I don't want that.
It doesn't make me happy.
It doesn't make me joyful.
Closing thoughts.
Well, I share your sentiment.
And for me and dozens and dozens of other former agents I know and a few in the Bureau that I'm still talking to, it breaks our heart.
We devoted our life to this.
We're proud of it.
It's our identity.
And we want it to turn around.
Well, again, thank you, Thomas, for joining us.
I just want to encourage people to check out the book.
We need more people that served in the Bureau and did a good job going after terrorists and gun smugglers and child sex traffickers and narco-criminals to speak out.
We have to do that.
It's so important.
And we just can't, we can't play around with this.
I'm afraid that if the FBI keeps on going in this direction, I think it's already there.
We're going to be in a really tough spot.
The fall of the FBI, how a once great agency became a threat to democracy.
Thomas Baker, thank you so much.
Thank you, Charlie.
The Wall Street Journal has obtained documents that have not yet been public about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
And so we're going to get into this right now.
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So the new narrative is that Donald Trump had nuclear codes, and that's why they raided him.
It's a brilliant PR tactic, by the way, to try to get people to think it's necessary to go invade and occupy a political dissident's home.
By the way, if Donald Trump had nuclear codes, why didn't the FBI visit him, I don't know, sooner and be like, hey, you got to bring him back?
Why couldn't they use a subpoena?
Really supposed to believe that Donald Trump had nuclear information, and that's the reason for raiding it.
That is nonsense.
It's a brilliant PR tactic.
It's a total smokescreen operation, garbage.
By the way, if he really did have that, you're trying to tell me Donald Trump wouldn't hand them back.
Like, oh, yeah, no, actually, I want to have the nuclear code still.
And by the way, there's no even evidence that he had nuclear codes.
They are just using the term nuclear.
So, for example, the Rachel Maddow program published last night.
I haven't had a chance to listen to this.
But yeah, this is, yeah, so this is how this is how sneaky they get.
And Maddow is being so sneaky when she does this.
Documents relating to nuclear weapons.
Oh, documents relating to nuclear weapons?
Oh, okay, wait.
So is it documents relating to nuclear weapons or is it nuclear codes?
Which is it?
So breaking news shows that 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note, an executive grant of clemency for Mr. Trump's ally, Roger Stone.
I know what you're all wondering, which is, did the FBI take Melania Trump's dresses?
Was that on the list?
FBI searched Trump's home to look for nuclear documents and other items.
Sources say this is right after, by the way, Merrick Garland comes out and says, I'm going to defend the integrity of the FBI.
And immediately they leak that it's all about nuclear codes.
Again, we are calling this entire thing Operation Cross-Dresser Hurricane in the tradition of the Federal Bureau.
They might as well follow J. Edgar Hoover's tradition of cross-dressing.
The list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified TSSCI documents, an abbreviation for top-secret sensitive compartmented information.
It also says agents collected four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.
The list didn't provide any more detail.
Trump's lawyers argue the former president used the authority to declassify the material before he left office.
While a president has the power to declassify documents, there are federal regulations that lay out a process to do so.
So here's just a question.
We now raid people's homes, former presidents' homes.
We now raid sacred political institutions, as Mar-a-Lago, institution is not the right word, but let's just say places for paperwork crimes.
You notice how they worded it?
This is a process crime.
It's not even a crime.
Let me rephrase that.
It's wrong.
It's a process issue.
Like, oh, you took paperwork.
You wouldn't.
Now, it'd be one thing if Donald Trump was live streaming, like, hey, I got all these documents here.
And then the FBI comes on June 3rd very cooperatively, Department of Justice does, and they talk about these documents.
Every single president leaves the White House with boxes of stuff.
The Clintons left with, I don't know, $28,000 worth of furniture.
Some people say as much as $200,000 worth of furniture.
Barack Hussein Obama has boxes of documents.
Now, here's the other thing.
You do know that former president still gets a security clearance.
The former president and his team don't have the affidavit.
The affidavit is everything, by the way, which would provide more detail about the FBI's investigation, according to people familiar with the process.
His lawyers have asked for a more specific account of what was removed from Mar-a-Lago.
Mr. Trump said on social media, his representatives have been cooperating fully, and the government could have whatever they wanted if they wanted it, if we had it.
So why rate it?
Shock and awe to make you afraid and to bend the knee.
Now, remember, Trump went on Truth Social and said he would release the documents.
So why is it necessary to come in with 30 FBI agents for 270 man hours?
And after Garland said he's moving to release the affidavit, what is the affidavit?
The affidavit is the same thing as the quote, it is the equivalent of, but not the same technical thing as a FISA warrant application.
Judge, here is why we're going to raid.
Now, this is really important.
In order to get a raid authorization by a judge, the FBI just can't go decide to raid somebody.
They have to go to a judge, but it's judge shopping and they know what they're doing.
They have to explain to the judge why a subpoena would not suffice.
Why a document request for a subpoena would not suffice, of which there is imminent harm to the population, an imminent crime being committed, an act of crime being committed, or evidence being destroyed.
What evidence could you show that Magistrate Judge Reinhold and the DOJ would agree that you have to go guns drawn for 270 man hours to go into a president's home to do that?
According to Pam Bondi, the warrant was signed on Friday.
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So why wait until Monday if nuclear codes are a threat to the nation?
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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