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FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate
Newsweek ^ | 8/17/22 AT 5:00 AM EDT | William M. Arkin

Posted on 08/17/2022 10:18:37 PM PDT by TBP

The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump's personal "stash" of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek.

To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president's residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump's private hoard, agents went into Trump's residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.

"They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration," says the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collusionhoax; desantisknew; documents; fbi; fbiakastasi; maralago; maralagoraid; newsweak; newsweek; russiagate; trump; weaknews; williammarkin
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As we said right from the beginning. The whole "nuclear secrets" thing was always a pretext, like the dirty Democrat disinformation dossier. They were there for documents (perhaps secret) that implicated them -- ones Trump had said he would declassify.
1 posted on 08/17/2022 10:18:37 PM PDT by TBP
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Newsweek had at least one incorrect story on this case.

Last week.


2 posted on 08/17/2022 10:20:18 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: TBP

All this proves deep state. Elected Chief Executive is not in charge or final authority.

Machine is.


3 posted on 08/17/2022 10:22:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The story may be right.

I’m just moving with caution.

Like the fraudulent FISA Apps, then only wanted to get in
there and confiscate everything.

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4 posted on 08/17/2022 10:23:05 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: TBP

Will the Trump-hating judge order the release of the affidavit tomorrow? Maybe even quarantine everything seized? Is it all too late?


5 posted on 08/17/2022 10:26:33 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: TBP

BTTT


6 posted on 08/17/2022 10:29:55 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: TBP
trump-safe-04


7 posted on 08/17/2022 10:31:39 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Reno89519

We shall see! Tomorrow.....well actually today is the date.


8 posted on 08/17/2022 10:33:52 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (No!)
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To: TBP

Bump


9 posted on 08/17/2022 10:33:55 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ifinnegan

What is shows is that there is an unseen hand, a group of people who use the power of government and the law to selectively go after their enemies. The DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA and sometimes even foreign intelligence agencies do farmed out work.

They have become bold and unafraid of insane, low-value searches for political “gain” and appeasing the Communist/NWO Dems.

Who comprises the unseen hand?


10 posted on 08/17/2022 10:34:34 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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“Trump ‘hoarded’”

That is such a pejorative word suggesting Trump had no legitimate reason to keep the documents other than being a “hoarder.”

They went after him tooth and nail for six dreadful years to completely destroy him and his family. He was acting rationally to keep those documents to 1) defend himself and 2) take them down.

This is another pathetic hit piece in a long train of such crap.


11 posted on 08/17/2022 10:36:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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Trump should have made them public, now theyll never see the light of day.


12 posted on 08/17/2022 10:37:45 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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is newsweak just on-line or still in pamphlet form?


13 posted on 08/17/2022 10:40:48 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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isn’t this story an indictment of the DOJ and FBI?


14 posted on 08/17/2022 10:42:44 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

And maybe he’ll recuse himself? Why hasn’t he been asked to do so?


15 posted on 08/17/2022 10:43:56 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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“hoarded”?

They are poisoning the well with rhetoric right out of the gate.


16 posted on 08/17/2022 10:44:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Williams

isn’t this story an indictment of the DOJ and FBI?
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Yes, but I think Newsweak is too dumb to realize that.


17 posted on 08/17/2022 10:47:30 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate
Anything Trump had/has about "Russiagate" would have to be evidence.

Since everyone knows "Russiagate" was/is fraud, the evidence would not be against him. The evidence would be against others...

The FBI, DOJ, DNC, Biden, Hillary, Schumer and too many others want to destroy any evidence he has against everyone else.

18 posted on 08/17/2022 10:47:39 PM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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This reads like a confession by the DOJ.
I don’t believe the stated grounds for a search warrant can be a “pretext” for a hidden purpose.

The article is saying they went in to get documents that implicate them and that would help Trump get elected in 2024.

This is pretty wild stuff.


19 posted on 08/17/2022 10:49:02 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Is it not Human Nature after one is falsely accused to maintain evidence of innocence and be fearful of another similar false accusation / prosecution?

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20 posted on 08/17/2022 10:50:44 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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