Trump disqualified from holding office? Clinton-linked lawyer points to US Code after FBI raid

[mystery-ak]

Trump disqualified from holding office? Clinton-linked lawyer points to US Code after FBI raid
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
 | August 08, 2022 08:58 PM
 | Updated Aug 09, 2022, 12:39 AM

With news of the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago, buzz quickly bubbled up Monday evening about whether former President Donald Trump could be disqualified from holding office again.

The FBI search of the Florida resort was related to Trump's handling of presidential records, including classified documents, after leaving office, sources told CNN. The search warrant was connected to the National Archives, a senior government official told NBC News.

Such reporting had Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign who has drawn scrutiny for his role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071. "The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics," Elias said in a tweet.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1556794749377454080

The passage that says anyone "having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States," was the one he highlighted.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman argued Elias made a "HUGE POINT" about the records provision the Justice Department appears to be investigating. "So this could be the whole enchilada in terms of DOJ resolution," he said.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-disqualified-holding-office-lawyer-us-code-fbi-raid

[Kamaji]

Why would a politically-motivated witch hunt - even if it results in a technical conviction - necessarily act as a bar to President Trump holding future political office, up to and including the office of president?  If a sufficient number of voters discount the technical conviction because of its politically-motivated provenance, then they can elect Trump to another term in that office if that is what they decide to do.

I would vote for him under those circumstances, if for no other reason than to show that a politically-motivated abuse of power will not prevent the will of the people from being heard.

[mystery-ak]

August 9, 2022
Marc Elias boasts about the real motive behind the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid
By Andrea Widburg

Marc Elias is a very smart man who hooked his wagon to the Hillary Clinton star and has been involved in almost all the attacks against Trump.  His allegiances are clear, and he's incredibly excited about the Justice Department's decision to sic the FBI on Trump, a former and possibly future president.  The main purpose is to keep Trump from being able to run again.  That's it.

Since the day Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in November 2016, the Clinton camp, the Democrat establishment, the administrative agencies (AKA the Deep State), the NeverTrumps, and the media — collectively, the "anti-Trump coalition" — have had a single unified purpose: get Trump out of office and keep him out of office.  They've had some success, but they haven't sealed the deal.

The Russia Hoax occupied much of Trump's energy during his first two years in office, leaving him unable to turn all his efforts to carrying out his campaign promise.  The hoax eventually fell apart, but only after revealing, thanks to practically daily political colonoscopies, that Trump is probably the most honest man in both business and politics.

When the Russia Hoax failed, the anti-Trump coalition moved on to the Ukraine Hoax, from which it was able to wring an impeachment.  Despite Adam Schiff's theatrics, though, that episode also revealed to most Americans that Trump was as clean as a whistle.

Throughout both the above hoaxes, the anti-Trump coalition kept alive the "fine people hoax," pursuant to which it claimed that Trump had called neo-Nazis "fine people."  Of course, he hadn't.  Instead, he'd condemned them, as well as observing presciently that the leftist war on American institutions wouldn't stop with Confederates but would, instead, extend to America's Founding Fathers.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/marc_elias_boasts_about_the_real_motive_behind_the_fbis_maralago_raid.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

Only if Hillary is formally disqualified from holding office.  She, too, allegedly mishandled sensitive official State Department information.

[GtHawk]

So does this Clintoon corruption linked lawyer know for a fact that there was any evidence or that Trump will be found guilty, or is this just the same bullshit we have gotten from the left for the last six plus years?