FOX Business host Larry Kudlow has questions about the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home at Kudlow.
Two main topics tonight. First, the day after “Where’s the Beef?” of AG Merrick Garland. press conference, ex President Trump’s search warrant is printed. The president himself said he never had a problem showing all the documents to anyone who wanted to see them.
As we noted last night, the search warrant and redacted inventory are of no use. The only thing that really matters is the warrant application, which will contain affidavits of probable cause for proof of federal crimes.
The only way this will see the light of day is if an actual case is filed in court and the affidavits are shared by the prosecution with the defendant. We’re a long way from that, but that’s where the real “beef” will be found.
I see one of the search warrant leak stories from my friend Betsy Woodruff Swan of Politico reports that federal law enforcement is investigating Mr. Trump for removing or destroying records, obstructing an investigation, and violating the Espionage Act.
LARRY KUDLOW ON TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO ATTACK: WE NEED THE WARRANT APPLICATION
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
I find these allegations completely implausible, completely and utterly implausible because the former president was fully cooperating with the FBI last spring. The idea of an immediate risk of document destruction or concealment seems completely far-fetched, as reported by John Solomon.
Moreover, if the FBI was so crazy about destroying or hiding documents, why did they wait three days from the time they got the warrant until they actually raided Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach? Maybe they’ve played a few rounds of golf at the beautiful Mar-a-Lago course with one of their insiders.
As for the documents marked “confidential” or “secret” or “top secret” or “TS/SCI” – this is sensitive classified information: I can tell you from my own experience in the White House that most of that stuff, really most of that stuff, is unnecessarily classified because you can get most of it from your local paper.
As the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote several decades ago in his book Secrecy: The American Experience, the federal government’s obsession with unclassified secrecy is insane.
Now, if the nuclear football secret codes were hanging around that would be a problem, but I kind of doubt it, how about you?
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Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reacts to the release of President Donald Trump’s Kudlow search warrant.
Frankly, I still view this outrageous DOJ/FBI invasion of Mar-a-Lago as a January 6 fishing expedition aimed at arming law enforcement for the simple political motive of keeping Mr. Trump out until the 2024 vote. d. Show me some real beef to the contrary and I’ll change my mind.
Meanwhile, our second big topic tonight is the impending passage of the so-called “deflation bill,” which neither reduces inflation nor the budget deficit in the short term, nor does it provide any economic growth stimulus to fight the recession.
This bill is another massive attack in the war on fossil fuels and a huge handout to special interest groups and wealthy individuals in the name of global warming.
Meanwhile, middle-class families will face a significant tax increase, with those earning less than $100,000 a year facing a 77 percent chance of higher taxes. There’s a new EPA slush fund government bank.
There are 87,000 IRS agents armed to the teeth going after so-called underreported income from middle and lower income earners, Uber drivers, the gig economy, waitresses and unincorporated small businesses. Retirees and retirees will face a new tax on their savings, as will small transit businesses.
An estimated $750 billion in new spending, combined with nearly $300 billion in the CHIPS-plus corporate welfare bill, threatens higher, not lower, inflation.
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Drug price controls will make life-saving drugs more expensive, not cheaper. This is a sorry piece of legislation. It’s the wrong bill at the wrong time for the wrong country. We tried very hard to save America and kill the bill.
We should also try to stop these crazy scams perpetrated against the ex President Trump.
This article was adapted from Larry Kudlow’s introductory commentary for the August 12, 2022, issue of Kudlow.
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