December 17, 2025
The Mar-A-Lago raid: always a fraud
By Mike McDaniel
During my police career, I obtained many search warrants. The standard was always probable cause—PC--which is facts and circumstances—evidence—that would convince a reasonable police officer a crime had been committed and a specific person committed it. PC for a search warrant consists of that, and evidence that the fruits of a crime—stolen goods, money, drugs, classified documents, etc.—can be found at a specific place related to that specific person. The things one expects to find can’t be vague or general, but must be very specifically described. That PC must be timely; it can’t be days or weeks old. It also must be convincing.
That’s because of the Fourth Amendment, which requires any warrant to specifically describe the persons or things to be seized and the place to be searched.
Gaining all that information, I wrote an affidavit explaining those details and exactly how I came by them. I signed the affidavit, swearing everything in it was true, ran it by a prosecutor, and then took it to a judge who carefully reviewed it and authorized the warrant, which strictly limited for what I could search and where I could search for it. If I was looking for a ladder, I couldn’t search anywhere a ladder couldn’t reasonably be hidden. If I found what I sought, the search was over.
If I felt for a moment I didn’t have enough PC, I would have never written the affidavit, and prosecutors and judges would never have seen it. I never met a judge who would sign off on a warrant without assuring himself there was adequate PC.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_mar_a_lago_raid_always_a_fraud.html
