Posted on 08/18/2022 5:37:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not wanting to put too much credibility behind any Newsweek report; however, the claims within the article mirror what we have suspected all along.
Essentially, the nub of the article states the DOJ claim to “retrieve federal documents” was a cover story so the FBI could retrieve evidence Trump took from DC showing his Russiagate targeting. This is called “throwing a bag over it.”
Newsweek – The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump’s personal “stash” of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek.
To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump’s private hoard, agents went into Trump’s residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.
“They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration,” says the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
The sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest to the former president, the officials suggest—including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges. (read more)
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-sought-documents-trump-hoarded-years-including-about-russiagate-1734280
In a lengthy four-part series, what is described in the Newsweek article essentially tracks with our own review.
In Part One we outlined the background of the modern Deep State
{Go Deep: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-1-why-did-the-doj-and-fbi-execute-the-raid-on-trump-the-story-behind-the-documents/}.
In Part Two we outlined the specifics of how President Trump was targeted by political operatives using tools created by the DC system
{Go Deep: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-2-why-did-the-doj-and-fbi-execute-the-raid-on-trump-the-evidence-within-the-documents/}.
In Part Three we outlined how and why President Trump was blocked from releasing documents
{Go Deep:https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-3-why-did-the-doj-and-fbi-execute-the-raid-on-trump-a-culmination-of-four-years-of-threats-and-betrayals/}.
In Part Four we outlined the specifics of what documents likely existed in Mar-a-Lago
{Go Deep: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-4-what-was-in-the-trump-documents-creating-such-fear-in-doj-and-fbi/}
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Take out the leftist slant intended to make President Trump look like he did something wrong, and the Newsweek article sounds mostly accurate.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-4-what-was-in-the-trump-documents-creating-such-fear-in-doj-and-fbi/
I’ll be gobsmacked...Newsweek published this? Do I see pigs flying?
Expect to see more of this. Good times are ahead. [Cheshire cat grin]
I don’t think he even thought about making copies. In my opinion i think he thought Hoax was dead and gone where nobody did nothing nobody or were held accountable etc. etc. So his staff threw all that material into boxes and just stored them away. It’s impossible to make copies of thousands and thousands declassified papers. If Trump does not show that tape of the raid it only tells me one thing he doesn’t have diddly squat. Don’t know if he’s just bluffing to force the FBI to return everything! I don’t know what the game plan is but I do know that the FBI and the DOJ are vicious POS out to get him!! Like some of his advisors are saying next step is assassination. Their hatred and their TDS MADNESS has completely overpowered their sense of control. Hell they got John F Kennedy that’s all the proof we need!
Yikes! When the commies lose Newsweek, the party’s over. Time for Garland to do the perp walk.
And I don’t suppose President Trump or his staff would have had the good sense to copy everything and put the copies in a safe place?
But I thot Russia, Russia, Russia was a proven hoax? Trumps team of lawyers has all that crap. A few juicy words from Kushner and the Feds are salivating like rabid dogs to get into that safe to find a copy of Hunter’s laptop.
They’re running cover.
I still believe it was a molehunt and Trump suckered them hook, line & sinker.
I seriously doubt they found a SINGLE document that they desired.
The DNC’s “Mainstream Media” pissed and moaned all night when Trump won the presidency. All the DNC toadies talked about all night was how upset and angry Obammie’s “seventeen intelligence communities” were that Trump beat Clintoon. They’ve been seeking revenge on Trump ever since for winning.
I recall seeing such speculation here the day of the raid. It sounds very logical, Trump has sued a number of FBI agents as well as Clinton, and the DNC. The FBI is probably just covering their own asses as well as those of their masters.
Suspect there are a few failing media entities that see an opportunity to potentially be on the right side and regain a viable reputation in the near future.
This could be an example
I don’t think that they’ll assassinate. If they did he’d be a martyr, DeSantos would run and win in a landslide.
Agreed.
Per the couched, ambivalent language, this is a classic “getting ahead of the news” story.
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