SmartHER Take: FBI Raid at Pres. Trump's Estate?
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a personal residence of former President Donald Trump. Why? And why now? Here's a SmartHER Take recorded only hours after the news broke of this unprecedented incident – what we know, what we don't, and the context that matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Hope you're after a great day. I'm certain that you've already seen the |
| 0:09.5 | headlines about what's been described as an FBI raid of the personal residence, former |
| 0:16.3 | President Trump. I have to admit, it makes me a little uncomfortable talking about this story at this particular |
| 0:22.9 | point because so much of the reporting really over the last, well, less than 24 hours at this |
| 0:28.1 | point, has been based on reports or anonymous sources or people familiar with the matter. |
| 0:33.6 | And as I look to give you a little bit of a backstory, a foundation for why a raid could |
| 0:38.9 | potentially even happen here, a lot of those stories are also built upon people familiar with |
| 0:44.6 | the matter, anonymous sources and reports. So I want to go into our conversation today, |
| 0:48.7 | just acknowledging that, which is part of the problem with this story and why this story has become so controversial. |
| 0:55.7 | So I'm going to take a big step back and talk to you a little bit about what has transpired |
| 1:01.3 | over the last year and a half, really over the last six or seven months, that could potentially |
| 1:07.8 | be part of what's been described as an ongoing investigation into |
| 1:13.4 | President Trump's personal records or his records from the presidency that actually belong to the |
| 1:21.3 | public. So let's just talk a little bit about that. We don't have anything from the FBI, |
| 1:27.2 | which is really, really critical. So we don't have anything from the FBI, which is really, really |
| 1:28.4 | critical. So we don't have a warrant. In order to get a warrant, you actually need to make an |
| 1:33.4 | argument. Law enforcement needs to make an argument to a judge about why I'm going to be able to go |
| 1:39.5 | into your house and look for something. That's part of the American justice system. So you have to have |
| 1:45.9 | something for a judge to approve that. It doesn't necessarily mean it's going to go anywhere. |
| 1:52.2 | Doesn't mean you're going to find something, but you have to make an argument to a judge to do that. |
| 1:58.0 | Without knowing the warrant here, we're in a huge black hole in this story, |
| 2:02.9 | because we need to see the warrant. We need to understand, well, why would the Justice |
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