Posted on 08/10/2022 9:47:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Update (1700ET): According to Newsweek, the FBI had a 'confidential human source' (a mole) inside Mar-a-Lago, who was "able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents."
đź‘€ The FBI is AGAIN sending undercover informants to target President Trump?
It’s the Crossfire Hurricane debacle, all over again.
This time, likely, at the behest of the Attorney General.
https://t.co/f8FXr74qer — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 10, 2022
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The Trumps have revealed more about Monday's FBI raid of their Mar-a-Lago property.
For starters, Eric Trump told the Daily Mail that "the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off – and to kick their lawyer off the property, but they refused."
"They told our lawyer… you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras."
Eric also said "They would not give her the search warrant," adding "So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant."
He also said that the FBI brought safe crackers in to break into his father's safe, and that agents rummaged through Melania Trump's wardrobe.
"It's all a coordinated attack with the FBI," said the former president's son, insisting that President Biden approved the raid.
"Do you think that the FBI director is going to raid the former president's house, especially a house as you know, kind of world renowned as Mar Lago is in a place as public as Mar Lago is without getting the approval of President [Biden]?"
By not turning off the security cameras, Eric said they saw the FBI raiding areas of the property that they 'shouldn't have been.'
Donald Trump lamented Wednesday that the FBI blocked his lawyers from the property during the raid at his Palm Beach, Florida residence and suggested that agents may have 'planted' evidence. -Daily Mail
Donald Trump, meanwhile, suggested in a Wednesday post to his Truth Social page that the FBI may have planted evidence.
"The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago," he wrote. "Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting,'" he added.
As the Epoch Times notes, About two dozen FBI agents entered the Trump-owned resort at 9 a.m. Monday and left with “a handful of boxes of documents,” Trump spokeswoman Christina Bobb told The Epoch Times on Tuesday. “I didn’t actually get to oversee the search, they wouldn’t let anybody see what they were doing,” she said, adding that she was present when the FBI entered the premises.
FBI agents were looking for “what they deemed to be presidential records,” Bobb continued. “I don’t think there was anything of substance.”
Bruce Reinhart, a Florida federal magistrate judge, signed off on a warrant to search the former president’s Florida property.
Reinhart worked as a federal prosecutor until 2008 when he became a defense attorney representing employees of convicted sex trafficker and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Employees included Epstein’s pilots, a scheduler, and others
The Mar-a-Lago raid warrant was issued on Aug. 5, a day after FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee and was asked about whistleblower reports on whether his agency was becoming increasingly politicized. Wray had to cut the questioning short because he needed to travel, although flight records indicated that he used an FBI jet to travel to a vacation retreat in Upstate New York, according to the New York Post.
In mid-January, the National Archives and Records Administration arranged for the transport from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives 15 boxes that the archives said contained presidential records. Under the Presidential Records Act, the records should have been transferred in January 2021 as Trump left office, and some of the boxes contained classified information, the institution said in a statement at the time.
Agents initially resisted showing Bobb the warrant but ultimately did. But the agents would not allow any representatives of the former president to oversee the search, Bobb said. The justification for the search also remains under seal. Trump’s legal team plans on asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal the search warrant affidavit, which would outline why authorities asked for the warrant.
The Epoch Times contacted the FBI for comment. Neither the bureau nor Attorney General Merrick Garland have offered public comments about the raid, drawing even questions and condemnation from Democrat politicians.
The Department of Justice “must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,” wrote former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a longtime critic of Trump, said on Twitter Tuesday.
“DOJ must disclose the bona fide nature of the August 8 action or else the republicans will use it to Discredit the Jan 6 investigation, which would be a terrible disservice to the good work of the house committee in exposing The Trump administration violations,” the former Democrat governor of New York added. Cuomo last year resigned amid allegations he engaged in misconduct with staffers, which Cuomo has categorically denied.
And Republicans similarly said they were concerned with the raid.
“Last night’s raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote Tuesday in reference to the Monday search.
“I reiterated these concerns to Director Wray today,” he continued. “If the FBI isn’t extraordinarily transparent about its justification for yesterday’s actions and committed to rooting out political bias that has infected their most sensitive investigations, they will have sealed their own fate. The FBI’s mission and the many patriotic agents who work hard to carry it out will be forever overshadowed by the distrust the bureau has sown.”
I agree with you but not going back to Mar-a-lago is a big mistake because this gives the FIB a victory over Trump. We mustn’t let them win!
That is more likely. On a side note, the FBI knows if Trump is re-elected the FBI will cease to exist, at least in the form it exists today. It’s a battle for survival.
None of us did. None of us.
I’m not buying that. The evil of the FBI has been revealed for years. If WACO and Ruby Ridge weren’t enough years ago, then the Ed Deegan murder and subsequent trial sending six innocent men to jail for life back in the sixties should help.
The FBI not to mention their boss J. Edgar have been having their way with freedom and the American people since their beginning in 1935. The history of the unconstitutional beginnings of Federal law enforcement go clear back to 1908.
“Post 911 we became a federal security state. “
I’m thinking blindness is no excuse but the handwriting on the wall was evident long before 911. Just look at the blatant violations of the United States Constitution from the date of ratification.
Frankly 1913 is a pretty bad year as a reference just in the twentieth Century. Graduated Income Tax, Federal Reserve, and top it off with the Seventeenth Amendment which deballed and dehorned Sovereign States of the Union.
States, in the form of Governors Legislatures and elected County Sheriffs are the only legal form of government that stands between “We the People” and out of control Federal Government. When those three allow themselves to be blackmailed and bought off by the Fed, it is “We the People” who are paying for it in more ways than one.
Actually, that statement was by “central_va” that I was responding to, so will include her/him in this.
My preferred pronouns are “macho man” or “He man the magnificent”.
Yep that’s true. I just worry for Trump and his family.
LOL! How about Magnificent Man?
I haven’t figured out mine yet. Gotta get on that. You never know when you’ll be asked and you have to spit it out quickly.
I think the preferred pronoun “She who must be obeyed” is still available.
Maybe agents took “crime scene souvenirs” to sniff.
Biden would say “Darn, why did I go into corrupt politics when those guys get all the fun these days?”
Maybe someone else has mentioned this, but suppose the papers FBI is seeking are those which would incriminate THEM.
For instance, more conversations among the agents who were involved with the Russia witch hunt.
Maybe the sniff items are for the big guy.
You hit that nail right on the head!
The negartivwe public reaction haad Garland making a singular public statement about the virtous FBI and The virtuous DOJ for damage control.
This is rich from the Dem left who have been defunding and raging about the racis’ police for over 2 years now!
THE FBI and the DOJ has been weaponized against the People.And America is awakening to that fact.
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