FBI Returns Seized Trump Passports

Remember how we just told you that the FBI had wrongfully confiscated documents from Mar-a-Lago that were attorney-client privileged? Now we’ve learned that among the items taken were the former President’s passports. Now today, after being called out, we’ve been told the FBI will be returning the passports.

The DOJ claims to have had “filter” agents on the scene, but then how did they miss passports, which did not fall under the scope of their warrant? And if they willfully took them anyway, what else did they grab?  

The FBI didn’t even have the decency to deliver the passports back to President Trump’s team. They sent a letter saying the items could be picked up at their Washington Field Office. So they took them, wrongfully, from his home in Florida, but President Trump has to go to Washington D.C. to get them back, or send someone in his place? This is more political gameplay by the Biden Administration.

The radical Left is thrilled to see President Trump continually harassed. They loved the raid on his home. They want to see him dragged through the mud even more. They’d love to see him in handcuffs, but they can’t seem to point out ANY crimes. It doesn’t stop them from twisting the law to attack him.

ACLJ Senior Counsel Andy Ekonomou pointed out that there is simply no justification for the FBI agents taking President Trump’s passports:

This did turn out to be a general search warrant. There’s no excuse for that, whatsoever. An FBI agent, filter or otherwise, knows what a United States passport is. And they know that it is not evidence of any of the crimes alleged to have been committed as a basis of the search warrant, which deals with presidential classified documents allegedly, mutilation or destruction of documents, secreting documents, hiding them. How in the world is a passport in court going to be evidence of any of the commission of any of those  criminal offenses? It’s not. It’s overreaching and it’s the nature of a general search warrant which is prohibited by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and yes the agents knew better and should have known better. This is overreaching and nothing less.

As Andy pointed out, the FBI used a general search warrant to conduct the raid on Mar-a-Lago, meaning essentially “just go in and look through whatever you find.” General search warrants are little more than a license to harass citizens, which is why they are prohibited in the United States under the law.

As Andy Ekonomou reiterated:

This did turn out to be a general search warrant. They just spent the day there going through the documents that the President has or had in his house as well as his safe and everything else, seeing what they would like and pick and choose. That’s exactly what was abhorrent to the founders of the United States, the drafters of the Constitution. We know what general search warrants are from English law, and we knew that the King did not have the right to come into the house. And that in order for the King to come to the house, he had to go to the judge and get a reason for coming in, and it had to be very proscribed, and limited in nature, and not just a general let’s go through and see what we can find and what we like, and if we don’t like it or we shouldn’t have taken it, meh, we’ll give it back.

So even an old English King had to follow more procedures than King Biden and his socialist court. I can’t wait to find out what else they took that they had no right to in the first place.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more discussion of the ongoing investigation into the raid on President Trump’s personal residence and why it’s a major red flag to all future leaders, as well as all Americans.

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