Posted on 08/17/2022 9:35:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, confirmed that FBI agents searched former First Lady Melania Trump’s closet during its raid of Mar-a-Lago last week.
Bobb, who suggested that Melania wasn’t there, told Newsmax that she “wasn’t allowed to observe what they were doing or see really any part of the raid” when the agents went into her close.
The agents “told me I have no legal standing to be there,” Bobb claimed. “Those were the words they gave to me. We argued over whether that was true or not, and I explained to them … it’s better for you to allow me to observe because then I can’t say, ‘They kept me out and wouldn’t let me observe.’”
“I don’t think anybody just takes the word of the FBI anymore,” she continued. “But they seem to be OK with that risk.”
Last week, former President Trump wrote on Truth Social that agents entered and rummaged through Melania’s closet, appearing to confirm prior reports from the New York Post.
The FBI and Department of Justice have not issued public statements on the claims that agents went into her closet. The Epoch Times has contacted the agencies for comment.
The FBI told Bobb “that they did take some attorney-client privileged information and possibly other privileged documents,” she added to Newsmax on Tuesday. Regarding those documents, Bobb said she is still “waiting for an explanation.”
“If [the federal government] actually had something, at the very least, they would have held a press conference resolving a lot of these questions in Americans’ minds, and they haven’t even done that,” she said. “I don’t think they have anything.”
Battle Over Affidavit
On Monday, the Department of Justice issued a motion that sought to block the affidavit in the case from being released to the public—even in its redacted form. Lawyers for the department said that releasing those documents to the public would harm the agency’s investigation.
A judge in the case, Bruce Reinhart, set a Thursday at 1 p.m. hearing on whether the affidavit should be released. Several third-party groups, watchdogs, and media outlets have made court filings asking for the affidavit to be unsealed, while Trump and other Republicans have called on the government to release it.
The affidavit could potentially reveal what the FBI is trying to investigate and would provide a reason why the Department of Justice sought an FBI search warrant targeting Mar-a-Lago.
“We need the affidavit, show your cards, Merrick Garland can’t have it both ways, he can’t give us the inventory of the warrant without telling us why it was necessary … without the affidavit, we’re flying blind in the dark,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News before adding, “The American people are going through too much pain, too much heartache on this endless effort to destroy Donald Trump.”
Reinhart last week issued an order unsealing the warrant and property receipt, suggesting Trump could be under investigation for possible Espionage Act and obstruction of justice violations.
Several boxes of allegedly classified and top secret documents were taken from the Florida residence, although Trump and his team argued that while he was president, he had a standing order to declassify materials leaving the Oval Office.
The FBI are a bunch of panty sniffing creeps.
Now the FBI knows former President Trump’s biggest secret: Does he wear boxers, briefs, or commando? And they will try to figure a way to charge him for wearing/not wearing one or the other.
That’s not all they did to her wardrobe. She should burn every article of clothing.
Her closet is probably where the passports were...I doubt they would be in any of the doc boxes from the White House.
Probably should get all new jewelry though...if any of it was out and could have been handled. And, sleep elsewhere.
“I don’t think anybody just takes the word of the FBI anymore,” she continued. “But they seem to be OK with that risk.”
Neither the Stasi, the NKVD nor the Gestapo gave a rat’s patoot if anyone “took their word”.
That is one of the perks of being a member of the State
Political Enforcement Police. Completely above the law.
Welcome to Post Constitutional America.
It’s time for all good men to buy a gun safe for the wife to store her garments in.
This woman is a BOOB. Why does Trump hire these idiots. She never answers a direct question and just equivocates. Suggests???? Melania wasn’t there? Why wouldn’t this idiot who is the public face for Trump know?
I'm really tired of that phrase. It's just a way to say that Orange Man Bad and he has no rights of any kind.
I hope there is something in writing to corroborate this. Not that I don’t trust President Trump but without something to back it up it looks very weak and self serving.
I thought that Trump and his people were watching everything on security cameras? Shouldn’t they have seen the FBI taking clothing from the closet?
FTA: “ The FBI and Department of Justice have not issued public statements on the claims that agents went into her closet.” Because Trump has publicly said he watched the home invasion and has the video. Trump is holding that close and waiting to see what lie the DOJ will leak next.
The “closet” is probably huge with a dressing room, not a great place for a camera.
Which male agent tried on one of Melania’s dresses?
J. Edgar Hoover would be
‘Queen for a Day’ had he
Been there!
“The FBI are a bunch of panty sniffing creeps.”
I bet they went for the unwashed panties first.
It depends on where the security cameras were located.
Better not wear white after Labor Day!........................
I agree!
They could have infected it with something!
I would not put it past them!
I really am furious about that!
I am not a “womens libber” or anything like that
but she did NOT deserve to be treated like that!
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