Hohmann: FBI Attack On Mar-A-Lago = Cuba 1959

CNN Legal Analyst Says FBI Raid of Mar-a-Lago Not Warranted, ‘Daring and Dangerous Move by Department of Justice’ (VIDEO)

Cristina Laila 

You know it’s bad when even CNN is admitting the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago was not warranted.

Trump was not at his Mar-a-Lago residence at the time of the raid on Monday.

A machine gun-toting agent camped out in front of Trump’s compound as agents raided the residence.

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.” Trump said in a statement on Monday.

According to the Associated Press, FBI agents were looking for classified documents that Trump may have taken from the White House while he was president.

Every recent presidential administration has had some Presidential Records Act violations, but the FBI has never conducted a raid like this.

Even far-left CNN commentators know Monday’s raid was nothing more than a third world intimidation tactic.

“If this becomes a presidential records act violation, not more, do you think it is enough to warrant all of this?” CNN’s Kate Bolduan asked legal analyst Paul Callan.

“No, it’s not enough to warrant all of this and this is a daring and dangerous move by the Department of Justice to serve a warrant on a former president,” Paul Callan said.

Judge Bruce E. Reinhart from the Southern District of Florida reportedly signed off on the warrant to raid President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago on Monday night.

Reinhart previously represented several of Jeffrey Epstein’s employees in connection with the sex trafficking probe against the convicted pedophile.

Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley also argued on Tuesday that the Presidential Records Act is not a heavily enforced law and is rarely used for criminal prosecution.

“You had the Sandy Berger case where you had the former National Security Advisor who removed material in his socks – it was clearly intentional – he dropped it at a spot where he could recover it later,” Turley said.

“And Berger didn’t serve any jail. He didn’t even have his clearance permanently removed. He was allowed to plea to a misdemeanor,” he added.

Hohmann: FBI Attack on Mar-A-Lago Reminds Immigrant of Cuba 1959

Guest post by Leo Hohmann

A lot of Americans are saying they woke up this morning, August 9, and did not recognize the country in which they have lived their entire lives.

I received a text from one friend whose family escaped Cuba before the communist revolution there. The text was very short:

“Cuba 1959.”

I believe there’s a lot of truth to the comparison.

But revolutions and coup plots do not happen overnight. They take months and even years of planning, with most of the heavy lifting of infiltrating and taking over the institutions performed while the masses are sound asleep, busy making money, raising families, enjoying the good times that a free society offers them.

Then when the coup plotters have all their pieces in place, they lower the boom. And everyone is gripped by feelings of confusion, physical and emotional paralysis. But most of all, they feel shock.

We should not have been shocked.

What went down last night, on August 8, 2022, with the brazen raid on Donald Trump’s personal home in Florida, was the natural result of a coup plot that has been decades in the making.

The voices warning that this day would come have been largely ignored, or set aside in a box with the label “conspiracy theorist” on it.

I am one of those writers who have been brushed aside, and I get it, my views and opinions have been quite different from the voices heard in mainstream corporate media.

I have been telling people for years now that we already live in a fully taken over, communist country. Even if the coup that made us into a communist country has been so subtle as to be unrecognizable by the masses, it’s still a coup.

What we saw go down in Mar-A-Lago last night, the raiding of a former president’s personal home by the very administration that feels politically threatened by said former president, is but one more confirmation that we no longer live in a free republic.

We see those with the biggest audiences coming under attack. Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, Project Veritas, etc. They’ve all been raided and violated by the Gestapo. All are faced with rising legal tabs. All of us will eventually be the subject of persecution, especially if we answer to a power higher than the state.

This type of persecution of those holding dissident views only happens in dictatorships, where the party in power moves aggressively against its political opposition before that opposition can mobilize its voters.

Many conservative sites are saying this morning that last night’s FBI operation in Florida signaled that a coup was taking place.

In my opinion, the coup started in the aftermath of 9/11. That’s when the government started telling us that long-established, bedrock American freedoms had to be reined in if we were going to be kept “safe” from the evil terrorists. We the people believed them and handed over the requested freedoms on a silver platter, notably those related to the Fourth Amendment, which says the government has no business conducting searches and seizures of anyone’s personal possessions, papers, articles and effects without a warrant showing probable cause that a crime was committed. Some at the time said this was at least a partial coup pulled off by deep-state operatives, and the American dream was being killed. Few listened.

Then, when March 2020 rolled around, the government told us that more freedoms had to be curtailed in order to keep us safe. This time the boogie man was not an Islamic terrorist but an invisible “virus.” We believed them again. The freedoms sacrificed on the altar of public safety this time were even more comprehensive than those we surrendered after 9/11. Now we believed and obeyed when the government told us it had to regulate our freedom of movement, our right to assemble in churches, our right to earn a living as a “non-essential” business, our ability to inhale critically needed oxygen unencumbered by a mask, our right to criticize the government’s response to the virus, even our right to decide what we put in our bodies. All these rights were handed over, wholesale, as we bowed and submitted to the system. Some voices warned that this was a coup and if we didn’t resist, it would be lights out on the American dream. Few listened.

Then came the election of 2020 when it was clear that the man with the most votes was not the one inaugurated on Inauguration Day. Some said this was a coup. If we didn’t stand up and resist on January 7th, the American dream was over. Few listened.

Now, a sitting president has sicced his national police force on the home of his likely opponent in the next election. Another coup?

No, the coup took place years ago, at least as far back as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when a federal agency that should have never been created made a show of power and took out a sitting president.

Since then, that agency has only become bigger and more powerful, and new agencies have been created and expanded. The people who run these agencies are of the same ilk now as they were in November 1963, only now there’s more of them.

What happened last night is just the latest shot fired across the bow by these power-hungry sociopaths.

With every new shot, their coup plot becomes more brazen, more in your face.

It’s almost like the coup plotters are daring us at this point to stand up and call them out. They made this one so obvious that only a fool could miss the point of their operation.

This was a naked power grab so outrageously brazen that it was designed to send a message.

This isn’t just a move against a former president, something that has never been done in American history.

This was an attempt to provoke civil war.

They need us to take up arms against them so they can fully crack down, call martial law and suspend the elections.

They know they are so unpopular now that even their computer algorithms cannot shift enough votes their way to change the outcome of the November elections.

So, by sending their Gestapo agents into his house with machine guns, they are sending a message to us all. If you oppose this regime, you have no future in this country. You will go from law-abiding citizen to wanted felon. That’s what dictatorships do. They criminalize their opposition.

The ball is now in our court.