Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort
The warning in our SCRAP petition that’s aimed at
terminating the illegally-appointed Special Counsel has happened, as exposed in
the below article published today in the Washington Post.
In spite of full and voluntary cooperation with Congress
and the Special Counsel, Paul Manafort, a private citizen who has committed no
crime, was subjected to a pre-dawn raid of his Alexandria home by the FBI.
This is outrageous!!
Here are the operative sentences in the article:
“Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without
advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met
voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.”
“The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing
documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in
the 2016 presidential election.”
Note how, in the article, the liberal WaPo journalists call
our Fourth Amendment rights “legal courtesies.”
We live in dangerous times and must fight back!
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FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign
chairman Manafort’s home
By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S.
Helderman
FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President
Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to
seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the
special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without
advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met
voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents
working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with
various records.
The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing
documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in
the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may
have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be
trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.
It could also have been intended to send a message to
President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle
treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.
The documents included materials Manafort had already
provided to Congress, said people familiar with the search.
“If the FBI wanted the documents, they could just ask
[Manafort] and he would have turned them over,” said one adviser close to the
White House.
Josh Stueve, spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment,
as did Reginald Brown, an attorney for Manafort.
The search came as Mueller has increased legal pressure
on Manafort, consolidating under his authority a series of unrelated
investigations into various aspects of Manafort’s professional and personal
life.
Manafort’s allies fear that Mueller hopes to build a case
against Manafort unrelated to the 2016 campaign, in hopes that the former
campaign operative would provide information against others in Trump’s inner
circle in exchange for lessening his own legal exposure.
The significance of the records seized from Manafort’s
apartment is unclear.
Manafort has provided documents to both the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the Senate and House intelligence committees. The
documents are said to include notes Manafort took while attending a meeting
with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.
Emails show Trump Jr. took the meeting and invited
Manafort after he was promised the lawyer would deliver damaging information
about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to assist his
father’s campaign.
Philip
Rucker contributed to this report.
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