Posted on 08/24/2022 10:44:52 AM PDT by bitt
President Trump’s team has revealed a highly suspicious comment made by an FBI agent during a meeting at Mar-A-Lago two months before the raid that may very well prove Trump was being set up for a raid.
The unprecedented raid on the Florida home of former President Trump continues to bring factors to light concerning all the players including the FBI.
This week has already seen matters unfold, starting on Monday with a ruling concerning the warrant used by the FBI to conduct the search.
Early on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart, the judge who approved the FBI’s search warrant, rejected an argument from the Department of Justice and admitted the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was “unprecedented.”
In a Monday morning filing, Reinhart rejected the Justice Department’s argument to keep the affidavit “sealed,” citing the “intense public and historical interest.”
Reinhart wrote that he rejects “the Government’s argument that the present record justifies keeping the entire Affidavit under seal.”
“The Government argues that even requiring it to redact portions of the Affidavit that could not reveal agent identities or investigative sources and methods imposes an undue burden on its resources and sets a precedent that could be disruptive and burdensome in future cases,” Reinhart wrote. “I do not need to reach the question of whether, in some other case, these concerns could justify denying public access; they very well might.”
He added: “Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing.”
Reinhart said he has given the Justice Department an “opportunity to propose redactions if I declined to seal the entire Affidavit,” something he granted last week, giving the government a deadline of Thursday, Aug. 25 at noon.
“Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that by the deadline, the Government shall file under seal a submission addressing possible redactions and providing any additional evidence or legal argument that the Government believes relevant to the pending Motions to Unseal,” the motion states.
During the highly anticipated hearing in the West Palm Beach Division of Florida last Thursday, Reinhart said he will unseal some of the procedural filings currently under seal on the search warrant docket.
Later that same day and in response to the raid, former President Trump filed a motion asking a federal court for an independent third-party review of documents taken from his Palm Beach residence by the FBI in the raid.
According to the motion, after retrieving said documents on June 3, one FBI agent present made an odd exclamation to Trump’s team: “Now it all makes sense,” the agent said, according to the legal motion.
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Call me dense but I’m not sure I follow.
Like most of the bureaucracy’s interactions with Trump, this one gets muddier and muddier...
So what was the statement??
How about getting the damn “statement” out of the way, and then allow the reader unfold the related details if interested?
near the end of the excerpt
“Now it all makes sense” was the click-bait statement.
Bratt and three FBI agents came to Mar-a-Lago.
“Whatever you need, just let us know,” Trump told the agents prior to the search, the motion said.
After Trump handed over some documents Bratt had requested, the DOJ official asked for and was given permission to search a storage room.
It was then that one of the FBI agents made an odd statement, Conservative Brief reports.
“Thank you. You did not need to show us the storage room, but we appreciate it. Now it all makes sense,” the agent said.
Bratt later asked Trump to secure the storage room, which the former president did by adding additional locks and security measure
Two months later, on Aug. 8, FBI agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago to conduct their unannounced raid and proceeded to “search” for items they had already observed stored in the home.
Questions arise as to the strange comment and even stranger actions.
Bitt
You posted this, do you have any clue what the “Damning Statement” that the FBI agent made?
“Now it all makes sense”…… NOT!
to those of us paying attention its just a re-hash
how about putting the statement in the first comment?
See post 10.
Turns out I exaggerated. The story is 850 words long. The damning statement does not appear, tho, until word 765, three grafs from the bottom. The agent asked to see the storage room for docs. The damning statement? Trump showed him the room, and agent told PDJT, you didn’t have to do that.
The buried lede, I think, is that the FBI agent was showed the storage room and thus qualifies as the so-called mole or “Insider.” If so, imagine how ridiculously cartoonish it is that Trump invited the FBI in one day and later the FBI used that information as basis for a warrant. I’ll bet the agent appeared in the warrant as a “Confidential Informant.”
After Trump handed over some documents Bratt had requested, the DOJ official asked for and was given permission to search a storage room.It was then that one of the FBI agents made an odd statement, Conservative Brief reports.
“Thank you. You did not need to show us the storage room, but we appreciate it. Now it all makes sense,” the agent said.
Bratt later asked Trump to secure the storage room, which the former president did by adding additional locks and security measure
Two months later, on Aug. 8, FBI agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago to conduct their unannounced raid and proceeded to “search” for items they had already observed stored in the home.
Questions arise as to the strange comment and even stranger actions.
A lot of words preceded that snippet.
In the original ‘visit’ by FBI in June - they sent Jay Bratt, who is “Chief at Counterintelligence and Export Control Section?”
I wonder who this guy is?
They’ll claim they had no knowledge that secret files were in a measly storage room until President Trump noted it for them to search. And, since it wasn’t secure enough to suit them, the suspicion that President Trump was handling Top Secrets improperly made sense.
I am trying to understand the author’s theory of why “Now it all makes sense” proves anything. We don’t know what the FBI agent was thinking. “Now it all makes sense. Trump had a good reason for keeping this papers here” would have proved something.
Whoever wrote the article which is a bad retelling of other articles, didn’t make it easy.
The meat of it is that Trump was allowing archives people to come to the storage room and retrieve items that were “inadvertently” transferred to Mar a Lago, presumably by the GSA during the move from the White house. The Trump team were cooperative and even on one occasion allowed DOJ Security Division Chief Jay Bratt into his home to retrieve the documents.
The innuendo is thst Bratt looked at the documents and said to someone on the Trump team. Thank you, you didn’t have to do that, now it all makes sense. The “now it all makes sense” bit is strongly hinted as Bratt knowing something about this forthcoming raid and the chance to see the storage room helped answer questions he had about why it was necessary. This would, I presume, make Bratt a source of the affidavit justification and since he was an invited guest by Trump, revealing his name would be somehow bad.
I have no idea why it couldn’t have been written nice and clear like that.
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