Posted on 08/08/2022 8:45:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier this evening, Donald Trump announced via email that his residence at Mar-a-Lago was being raided by the FBI. “These are dark times for our Nation,” he wrote, “as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
Initially, it was unclear what the FBI was looking for, but the New York Times has a new report out signaling it may have to do with classified material removed from the White House.
The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.
Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action being taken to retrieve them.
Mr. Trump was known throughout his term to rip up official material that was intended to be held for government archives.
This includes, according to Trump’s email, the FBI opening a safe at the residence. According to sources for POLITICO, the raid took “hours.”
Two sources familiar with the search said it was related to allegations that Trump allies improperly removed boxes of presidential records from the White House after leaving office — including some that may have included classified information. One of those sources said the raid took “hours.”
The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s offices in Washington D.C and for the Southern District of Florida didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Spokespeople at Justice Department headquarters in Washington declined to comment. The Secret Service and Palm Beach Police Department deferred comment to the FBI. Two sources familiar with the matter said top Biden White House officials were not given advance notice of the raid.
This is all coming at a time when prosecutors are looking into multiple ways to come after the former president, according to the Times.
The reported search came at a time when the Justice Department has also been stepping up questioning of former Trump aides who had been witnesses to discussion and planning in the White House of Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in office after his loss in the 2020 election.
Mr. Trump has been the focus of questions asked by federal prosecutors in connection with a scheme to send “fake” electors to Congress for the certification of the Electoral College.
As of right now, it does not appear that this search is directly tied to the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, although the Justice Department has recently stepped up its rhetoric on the subject of Trump and the events surrounding the violent events that took place that day.
(This is a breaking story, and will be updated as more information becomes available.)
Time’s up. Trump needs to announce now. He knows it. He knows we know it too.
P
Raid has nothing to do with any of this crap. It’s just a tactic to dirty Trump up, to diminish his chances of being influential in the midterms and a pretext to indict him for something or other in order to keep him from running in 2024.
THAT is all that is important to the left. Everything else is a means to that end.
It’s been there for two yrs and now they are outraged lol I heard about this crap a year ago trump has kept it in his basement of mar a largo for almost two yrs now they could have come anytime and taken it if they were so concerned
The raid was said to be court authorized and the FBI gave US Secret Service agents at Mar-a-Lago advance notice and they cooperated letting them into the property, NBC News reported. Donald Trump and his son were both spotted leaving Trump Tower in New York on Monday night."
From:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11093893/Horde-Trump-supporters-descends-Mar-Lago-hours-following-shock-FBI-raid
WELL I HOPE THEY HAD A FREAKIN WARRENT.
Shall I stay awake all night expecting monsters from the FBI to raid my house????
In the era of Richard Nixon, the White House had typewriters and produced physical documents. At the end of an administration, boatloads of paper documents went to the National Archives or to presidential libraries.
Today, and probably since the Clinton Administration, no documents are created on paper using typewriters. There is always a digital document created from which some number of printed copies is made. The ginned-up brouhaha over this issue presumes that there is no digital original.
Trump should announce that there will be no physical Trump Presidential Library - instead there will be a virtual Presidential library, maintained online, to save the taxpayers a lot of money. While Obama is getting ready to inaugurate his monument to himself in Chicago, Trump should show that he does need that kind of ego stroke. It would call attention to the fact that in the modern era - we do not need paper copies. I find it impossible to believe in 2022 that the National Archive does not have digital copies of all the documents created in the Trump administration.
Converstiin between 2 fblie agents at maralargo:
Isnt playing stasi fun
Make the switchboard glow and smoke.
U.S. House of Representatives:
* Telephone: 202-225-3121
U.S. Senate:
* Telephone: 202-224-3121
Make the switchboard glow and smoke.
U.S. House of Representatives:
* Telephone: 202-225-3121
U.S. Senate:
* Telephone: 202-224-3121
And Pray our President’s residence has not been booby trapped or poisoned.
I don’t care what their stated reason is. It’s political declaration of war - criminal, weaponized agencies (DOJ and FBI) used for whatever trumped up reason they can concoct.
They will pay for this. Dearly.
The regime is weaponizing the FBI against political opponents like Biden’s old boss did with the the IRS, the FBI, the intelligence community, etc. And all the #Democrats support it. Every. Single. One.
One more reason to be glad we kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court. He’s dangerous enough as Attorney General.
This is what they’re going to try next to keep Trump out.
If this fails, they will try to kill him.
Of course it does.
They are using the raid to fish for other evidence they can use against President Trump.
Why else cart of boxes of stuff, when a warrant is supposed to name the thing being searched for and the location to be searched?
This raid sounds like they either had wide latitude in what to search or they just took anything they could find and will sift through it for evidence of any kind later.
This reminds me of when Venezuela's Maduro arrested opposition leader Juan Guaido prior to their election. How long will it be before that happens here?
-PJ
F the FBI.
The classification of documents is under the absolute authority of the president. It is legally impossible for the president to mishandle classified documents.
Notice the anonymous quotes? NY SLIMES sez: “many pages of classified docs....” whereas POLLUTICO sez “may have contained classified docs...”
Garbage kangaroo court third world crap.
Wasn’t it the Church committee back in the 70s that led to the IC agencies being chopped up, with authority taken away?
Maybe we need that again.
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