Posted on 08/16/2022 7:47:38 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
According to the New York Times, the FBI interviewed Trump’s White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy counsel Patrick Philbin about the so-called ‘classified documents’ stored at Mar-a-Lago.
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According to the Times, Cipollone and Philbin were interviewed by the FBI over the documents retrieved by the National Archives.
“Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin are the most senior people who worked for Mr. Trump who are known to have been interviewed by investigators after the National Archives referred the matter to the Justice Department this year.” the New York Times reported.
“Mr. Philbin was interviewed in the spring, according to two of the people familiar with the matter, as investigators reached out to members of Mr. Trump’s circle to find out how 15 boxes of material — some of it marked as classified — made its way to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. It was unclear when Mr. Cipollone was interviewed.” the paper said.
Whenever President Trump has wanted to view/store classified material at Mar-a-Lago, he would do so in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility).
Furthermore, Trump declassified the documents seized by the FBI under a “standing order” while he was president.
According to the anonymous leak to The Wall Street Journal the items included:
** 20 boxes of items ** 11 sets of classified documents ** Top secret documents ** Sensitive Compartmented documents ** Binders of photos ** Clemency order for Roger Stone ** Information about the “President of France” ** A handwritten note
“Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to “seize” anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request…” Trump said.
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What offer did the FBI make that they couldn’t refuse?
Here are some of the communists' successes:
Soon to come:
That was my first thought. They blabbed too much.
Yes, they should have kept the law of omerta just like they would for any other former president.
** Binders of photos **
Reminds me of Mittens “binders of women” LOL
“...he basically said he was going to drain the swamp and make it easier to fire incompetent employees.”
Never tell the enemy your plans.
Reminds me of almost every low-budget crime thriller.
The person who finds out the identity of the serial killer, when alone with him, always says, “I know you are the killer, I have proof, and I’m going to tell the police!”
We know what happens next.
Cipollone was always a backstabbing slime.
This is all just BS to stir up the hornet’s nest.
GEEZ! John Bolton was on TV last night stating he never saw Trump declassify those documents. SO DANG WHAT?!?!
I was not aware Trump had to get John Bolton’s approval before THE PRESIDENT could declassify a document!
They are throwing everything they can at the wall PRAYING something or anything will stick!
Self important fools do that, ya know
They didn’t need a mole they knew they could do what ever they wanted and nobody could do a damned thing about it.
Have swamp will rule is the deal so far.
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