Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba shredded the Department of Justice (DOJ) saying that there was no ‘legal basis’ to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home because he was cooperating. Habba joined the masses in calling the raid fruitless theatrics.
ALINA HABBA: I don’t think that they did get him on any legal issue here. And that was the headline on the Wall Street Journal yesterday, which was dead on accurate. You have to have a legal basis.
This is not theatrics. This is our country. This is the Constitution. So what we saw was the trail, as in with the Mueller report that you just discussed, that is that they’re hiding DOJ memos.
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They like to conceal them. They like to redact them. And then when push comes to shove, they pretend that they’re doing us a favor when it’s not a favor, it’s his constitutional right to say that these documents are declassified. He has that right. He doesn’t need to ask anybody else. So what is the basis? He was cooperating.
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Trump and his legal team filed a motion Monday evening seeking an independent review of the records seized by the FBI during its “unprecedented” and “unnecessary” raid of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, saying the decision to search his private residence just months before the 2022 midterm elections “involved political calculations aimed at diminishing the leading voice in the Republican Party, President Trump.”
Trump almost immediately demanded transparency following the raid which has further strengthened public resolve.
“Not only will I not oppose the release of documents,” Trump wrote on his social media platform and in an email release.
“I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me.”
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.