So now it seems the FBI search and seizure of Huma Abadin’s cell phone and records was warrantless.
This is not just illegal.
This is not just unconstitutional.
This is major.
Turning point in history major.
It’s already known that the FBI -particularly the NY office- had a preponderance of sympathy for Trump and dislike of Clinton. We already know FBI Director James Comey -a Republican- issued two unprecedented public statements regarding the Abedin cell phone and its Clinton e-mail records that injured Clinton at critical moments in her bid for the Presidency. If an investigation were to show that there was coordination in the FBI to conduct an illegal search and seizure specifically to upend the election, that’s criminal conspiracy. If there was communication and/or coordination with the Trump campaign or Trump himself, as suggested by Rudy Guiliani three days prior to the Comey announcement (when Guiliani said they had a couple of “early surprises” left regarding thClinton e-mails), that’s a coup -and treason by all concerned.
If there is anyone left in government in a position and with the will to perform an investigation, and if it proves the presidency was taken by such a coup, that would establish the illegitimacy of the Trump victory, subject Trump (and Pence) to impeachment, and make Paul Ryan president.
It is obvious our republic is far more fragile than ever we imagined. This ever more apparent when we realize that within a month we will have in place a government that might have come to power through a coup engineered between its most trusted security agency and a corporate oligarch, with the probability no one in government who is in a position to undertake an investigation will have the will to do so. The weakness in our system is obvious.
Once Trump names a Supreme Court Justice, his victory will be complete.
We are all ****ed.